Pub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2247687
Nozipho Noble
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Pub Date : 2023-08-21DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2241810
Rosanna Masiola
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Pub Date : 2023-08-16DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2246290
J. Pridmore
Abstract J. R. R. Tolkien has not been viewed as an author who found the Arthurian cycle of tales to be particularly pertinent to his wider legendarium. Although he preferred “English” to “British” mythology, his unfinished poem, “The Fall of Arthur”, written in the early 1930s and edited by Christopher Tolkien for publication by HarperCollins in 2013, is inspired by medieval Arthurian sources. At the same time, it is constructed in the Old English metre, which indicates Tolkien’s love of all things “Anglo-Saxon”. This article aims to show how the poem had an influence on Tolkien’s major work The Lord of the Rings, first published in 1954 to 1955. In both texts Tolkien is concerned with the issue of timelessness as a major theme, but there are also parallel ideas in the two works which show that his ideas on Arthurian legend did influence his major work of fiction. In recent years scholars have examined Arthurian themes in Tolkien’s writing, and this article includes an analysis of some of these authors in relation to both The Fall of Arthur and The Lord of the Rings. I conclude by suggesting that Tolkien’s use of themes from The Fall of Arthur in The Lord of the Rings has kept his Arthurian themes in circulation, and I agree with other scholars that even though The Fall of Arthur is an unfinished poem, it is a valuable contribution to the collection of Tolkien’s works.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2230747
Rahul Vijayan
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Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2235810
Afroj Jahan, Sarbani Banerjee
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Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2230748
Gazal Khan, Sarbani Banerjee
{"title":"Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent, by Priyamvada Gopal","authors":"Gazal Khan, Sarbani Banerjee","doi":"10.1080/10131752.2023.2230748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2023.2230748","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41471,"journal":{"name":"English Academy Review-Southern African Journal of English Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82507142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2231757
Syukron Fajriansyah, N. Azizah
{"title":"African Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of English in Higher Education, edited by Alexandra Esimaje, Bertus van Rooy, ’Demola Jolayemi, Daniel Nkemleke, and Ernest Klu","authors":"Syukron Fajriansyah, N. Azizah","doi":"10.1080/10131752.2023.2231757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2023.2231757","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41471,"journal":{"name":"English Academy Review-Southern African Journal of English Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84906564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2230745
Niyi Akingbe
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Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2232231
A. Vijayashanthi, R. Saranya, M. Hamsalatha, J. Mariyam Nancy
Abstract As a woman writer, Manju Kapur discusses women-centric issues in all her novels. The present article focuses on Kapur’s novel Difficult Daughters (London: Faber & Faber, 1998), and specifically the issue of women seeking a space of their own in a male-dominated society. Women in this patriarchal society are not allowed to speak out, protest against injustice, or challenge accepted customs, superstitious beliefs, or rituals. They are merely held captive by the patriarchal system, which demands that women be meek, obedient, and passive, not asserting their rights as women or as human beings. In order to depict this stereotypical pattern of life in India, Kapur creates her female characters to be fighters against taboos, conventional norms, and family constraints forced on them by patriarchal society. Her female characters speak out against male chauvinism to assert their rights. The portrayal of women’s inner lives and delicate relationships has been a prominent focus in recent Indian women’s writing. In contrast to marital bliss and the duty of women in the home, finding one’s identity and dissent are new ideas in this literature. This article tries to highlight these fascinating aspects of Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters through an analysis of the female characters in the novel and how the patriarchal system oppresses and stifles them.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-31DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2232233
Anupama Bandopadhyay
Abstract Nationalism as a concept gives rise to dogmatic notions of loyalty and allegiance to one’s nation. Ever since the consolidation of the idea of nation-states, the issue of allegiance to the nation has played out differently for men and women. Traditionally, men are responsible for defending the borders of the nation, while women look after the home and the hearth and propagate the prescribed ideals of the nation-state. Consequently, the importance placed on going out to war and the sacrifices made for the sovereignty of the nation and nationhood frames the discourse surrounding the conditions and effects on masculinity and the idea of manhood in general. However, a study of this nexus of religion, nationhood, and identity in allegiance to one’s nation-state from the perspective of femininity and its effects on womanhood in general could showcase how women living in a contested land suffer both direct and indirect effects of the conflict. The autobiographical text by Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring (New Delhi: Fourth Estate, 2021), showcases the strategies and tools through which women navigate such restrictive spaces. This coming-of-age story in the conflict-torn sociocultural fabric of Kashmir negotiates with varying definitions of nation-states, lending the narrator the scope to negotiate the multiple threads of gender, religion, and identity sewn into the fabric of the macrocosmic nation.
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