In the short story “A Rose for Emily” written by William Faulkner, the title mentions a rose; although it does not seem that the rose plays an important role in this story superficially. The word “rose” appears twice at the end of the story: when the town’...
Comparing Sherlock Holmes with a real wizard in literature must be the interesting attempt, because their similar attributes clarify the wizardly aspect of Holmes. I would like to pick up Merlin, a famous wizard in Arthurian legend, who seems to be a suitable ...
In this chapter we will look at how the English writer JG Ballard wrote about Shanghai in his autobiography novel-Empire of the Sun. Ballard was born and grew up to sixteen in Shanghai during the Second War. This is an account of JG Ballard's childhood in Shan...
Folk Songと聞くと、私はなんだかソフトで緩やかなものを想像してしまう。しかし実際に曲を聴いてみたところ、サウンドとしてはそれほど攻撃性を感じないものの、歌詞には強いメッセージが込められているのが感じられた。以前にテレビでPete Seegerの反戦歌Where Have all the flo...
In the Chapter?, we defined what ‘Britpop’ phenomenon was to think about its birth from internal and external factors. The economic policy of the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the rise of ‘rave culture’ were internal factors. It was external factor ...
So far, we examined Ishiguro’s short stories and first three novels. The first and the second novels were set in Japan that Ishiguro had not seen for almost 30 years and mainly deal with Japanese. Then, why did Ishiguro try to write the third novel, The Remai...