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Johnson, Larry. 2013. Yukio Mishima, the Unambiguous, and Myself: Living Through a Writer’s Legacy. Advances in Literary Study. October. Vol 1/4. Pg: 50-53.
The author recalls his first discovery of Mishima’s existence shortly after his famous suicide in 1970, reading and responding to his literary output, and prodding famous authors such as Tennessee Williams and Cormac McCarthy for their thoughts on Mishima’s influence. The recent release by Criterion on DVD of Paul Schrader’s film Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) and Mishima’s own film Patriotism (1965) has caused the author of this essay to reconsider his relationship with the late Japanese writers’ books and literary legacy. The researcher found that Yukio Mishima is a poetic, persuasive writer, one steeped in ideas unambiguously vivified, thought and word made flesh.
Source: http://www.scirp.org/journal/als
2nd Summary - Khurnike Ria Brilliantari
Zhang, Mingai. The Motif of Betrayal in Philip Roth’s “American Trilogy” . Advances in Literary Study, 2016, 4, Pp 41-47
In Philip Roth’s “American Trilogy”, he portrays various acts of betrayal. Therefore, the researcher use Philip Roth’s novels which are American Pastoral (1997), I Married a Communist (1998) and The Human Stain (2005). The writer of this study use descriptive qualitative method. The author of the trilogy reveals the causes and effects of the betrayal in the books, and by the portrays of betrayal Roth shows a clear picture of American social life.
2nd JOURNAL
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Cline, Kurt. 2015. Journey to the Land of No Return: Alice Notley’s The Descent of Alette and the Sumerian “Descent of Inanna” . Advances in Literary Study. July. Vol 3. Pg: 89-93.
The researcher of this study tried to find the ideas and images of the experimental poetics, that the author has been articulating draw from the same experiential base as the Gnostic writers (Notley has studied Gnoticism), and that the two share a base of understanding with shamanic observation. The author uses Alice Notley’s The Descent of Alette and Sumerian Descent of Inanna. The researcher found that Notley’s post-modern epic placed alongside the extremely ancient Inanna myth-cycle reveals the shaman’s perennial theme of the Otherworldly Journey ever reconfigured according to the artist/healer’s relationship to a specific culture, and that culture’s relationship to the shamanic paradigm.
Source: http://www.scirp.org/journal/als
2nd Summary - Mitha Dwi Kurnia Putri
Sabra,Nour Elhoda A.E.2016. Dare you rocking it: Contemporary women and the trap of the glass ceiling in chick lit. International Journal of English and Literature.Vol.7 No.10.Oktober.Pp: 159-166.
This study oppose that multiple truths can coexist, and beyond the romance and the pink flowery cover, Chick lit examines new areas in the modern women’s lives that feminists have not touched yet such as the impact of female in power on the advancement of female subordinate’s employees, and the reason that keeps contemporary women away from the glass ceiling. The writer used the illustration of Lauren Weisberger’s novels The Devil Wears Prada, Everyone Worth Knowing and Revenge Wears Prada as examples of Chick lit. Qualitative method used in this paper. The significance of this paper comes from its attempt to open up a dialogue between Chick lit and women’s movement in order to cover some of the gaps in feminist analyses of Chick lit.
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Han, Qi. 2015. New Discussion about “Cannot Be Defeated” – Read The Old Man and the Sea from the Perspective of Ecocritism. Open Journal of Social Sciences. December. Vol 3. Pg: 196-199.
This paper is discussing about the relationship between the literature and the natural environment was born, that the author use Hemingway’s representative work The Old Man and the Sea. The researcher use Hemingway’s representative work The Old Man and the Sea, because it is a milestone great work in the history of literature, and the typical works successfully describing the relationship between man and nature. And lastly, the author of this study found that the symbolic novel mainly describing the nature not only has countless achievements in the past, but also is energetic today.
Source: http://www.scirp.org/journal/jss
2nd Summary - Siti Maimuna
M, Moslehi.2016. A Study of Gender Performativity in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Mocking Biography.Vol.18.No.7 (1-7)
The paper aims at concentrating on Judith Butler‘s theory of gender as performance and how Virginia Woolf challenges the assumptions of heterosexuality in Virginia Woolf‘s Orlando (1992). Woolf rebels against the traditional view of gender as two separate categories by presenting Orlando as an androgynous and bisexual character. This paper use qualitative method. The paper shows that Woolf criticizes the heterosexual society by presenting Orlando as a bisexual and androgynous character. Moreover, Woolf shows the cross-dressing is a signifier of the social construction of gender and through flouting this convention by using cross dressing she mocks at the rule of clothing as a presentation of gender ideality. She proclaims that clothe is only the appearance and every person has the capacity of both sexes.
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