In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying …
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi'…
CONTENTS William Makepeace Thackeray 1. Jonathan Swift John Henry Newman 1. The Idea of a University a. What is a University? b. Site of a University c. University Life at Athens Matthew Arnold 1. The Study of Poetry John Ruskin 1. Sesame and Lilies a. Lecture I. – Sesame : Of Kings’ Treasuries b. Lecture II. – Lilies: Of Queens’ Gardens Walter Bagehot 1. John Mil…
Kumpulan prosa dan puisi pada masa renaissance yang kemudian diterjemahkan dalam Bahasa Inggris. Berikut beberapa penulis aslinya: 1. Francis Petrarch 2. Giovanni Boccaccio 3. Niccolo Machiavelli 4. Baldassare Castiglione 5. Ludovico Ariosto 6. Desiderius Erasmus 7. Francois Rabelais 8. Pierre De Ronsard 9. Michel de Montaigne 10. Torquato Tasso 11. Miguel de Cevantes Saavedra
Tujuan skripsi ini adalah untuk mengkaji bentuk dan faktor kecemasan yang dialami tokoh utama novel The Goldfinch, bentuk pertahanan diri yang dilakukan dalam menghadapi kecemasannya, serta dari kecemasan tersebut. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode analisis deskritif berdasarkan pendekatan psikoanalisis dengan teknik library research. Tokoh utama yang bernama Theodore Deker ini mengalami ftiga …
This novel presents a thick and intimate nature and the social cultural background of Kerala. But at the same time, this novel plunges a sharp humanitarian suit against the values held by the people of Kerala. This novel shows that communism and religion which teach human equality apparently did not change the discriminatory and patriarchal system of human differentiation, which for centu…
The Mimic Men is a work of fiction about a man who grew up on a Caribbean island called Isabella (not a real island). As an adult he moved to England for a while, came back to Isabella, trying to help reconstruct it after it stopped being an English colony and ultimately failing. The story has its moments. When he describes his life on the island, his family and relatives, I see glances of a v…
Buku Chairil Anwar Pelopor Angkatan 45 ini merupakan hasil penelitian Jassin secara tunta dan menyeluruh mengenai "Sang Pelopor". Di dalamnya kita temui pula karya Chairil yang masih tersebar : sajaknya, prosanya, eseinya, dan terjemahannya. -- Sebuah buku berbobot yang pantas dimiliki setiap peminat, pencinta, dan peneliti sastra Indonesia
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