The Anatomical Zoom in Kathy Acker’s “Great Expectations” and Great Expectations
Hanieh
Zaltash
Department of English Language and Literature, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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text
article
2021
eng
Kathy Acker’s “Great Expectations” (1982) and its namesake novel, Great Expectations (1982) are saturated with pornographic scenes. By focusing on Jean Baudrillard’s theories of sex and pornographic simulation, the present study aims to highlight the significance of sex scenes. Baudrillard claims that pornography, by adding a dimension to the space of sex, makes it more real than the real. In other words, subsequent to the excess of reality, the real sex is disappeared, or replaced by the hyperreal. This is what Baudrillard calls pornographic simulation of sex and Acker’s portrays this form of simulation in her stories. She represents the scenario of sex through her characters’ psychic mise-en-scѐne. The text, as a representation of that mise-en-scѐne, replete with the signs of sex, including the descriptions of the naked bodies of women and men, the sexual intercourse, and all the details of sexual acts. The signs are the result of the characters’ obsession with sex, its death, and their demand for its survival.
Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies
KARE Publishing, Turkey
Affiliated by
Eurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia
Online ISSN: 2667-6214
2667-6214
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1
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2021
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4
https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_132541_386a779d93b6cadbe557f072f78fee23.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.26655/JELCS.2021.1.1
In the Arms of Canada, the Uncanny Mother: A Freudian Reading of Richard Ford’s Canada
Arash
Khoshsafa
Unit 13, Level 19, Tower B, M suites, Jalan Ampang, 50450 Kuala Lumpur
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text
article
2021
eng
This article intends to explore the potential traces of Freudian Oedipus complex in Richard Ford’s large novel, Canada (2012), with a particular focus on its protagonist, Dell Parsons, and examining the existence of a potential Oedipus complex in him and in the way Dell’s mother, Neeva Kemper, protects him in the absence of a father figure. Although Freud necessitates a certain type of animosity and a particular degree of feasible violence between the father and the son to actualise an expected kind of Oedipus complex, this paper hopes to show the fact that Dell Parsons and his connection with his mother prove to be different from the standard principles and codes of a regular Oedipus complex since not only the mother plays her protective role without a clash between the father and the son, but also she herself is replaced by three to four other mother-figure substitutes which embrace and harbour Dell Parsons just like an actual mother leading to the ultimate, grand, uncanny one: Canada. Therefore, corresponding to the satisfaction of mother figure with phallus desire and reaching a consequently ultimate gratification, this article follows a relatively distinctive, symbolic version of literary example of Freudian Oedipus complex in Ford’s Canada.
Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies
KARE Publishing, Turkey
Affiliated by
Eurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia
Online ISSN: 2667-6214
2667-6214
2
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1
no.
2021
5
12
https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_132547_1f4744b1ced522954bb19d83514fd22f.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.26655/JELCS.2021.1.2
Wilde's Side: Morrissey and the Culture of Queer Distinction
Ryan
Hibbett
426 Northgate Dr
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2021
eng
This article examines the queer legacy of Oscar Wilde as deployed by British popstar Morrissey, and as a model of transforming sexual ambiguity into symbolic capital. This practice of “queer distinction,” the article ventures, introduces into the historical, hegemonic binary of queer vs. straight a sociological politics of taste, sophistication, and individual autonomy. In short, Wilde’s marriage of literary sophistication and sexual deviance are mapped onto the mainstream/alternative split within popular music: against “mainstream” emphases on community, assimilation, and coming out are the quiet operatives of insider knowledge, ambiguity, and subculture; against efforts to unravel static, gendered categories altogether is the nostalgic perseveration of masculine identity and struggle for the authority to define it. Ultimately—certainly in Morrissey’s case—social rejection is transformed into artistic credibility. After examining Morrissey’s lyrical and performative evocations of Wilde, this article 1) revisits the dynamic of the Wilde trials as a clash of competing eccentricities, each invested in the patriarchal ownership of culture and homosocial hierarchies; and 2) looks specifically at A Picture of Dorian Gray in relation to Morrissey’s own homosocial fixations, deployment of the pederastic educational model, and effort to preserve, even as he alters the proofs for, the autonomous male artist.
Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies
KARE Publishing, Turkey
Affiliated by
Eurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia
Online ISSN: 2667-6214
2667-6214
2
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1
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2021
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https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_132548_43366379eac2abeb0f86fa53ccec3262.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.26655/JELCS.2021.1.3
Technology-mediated Second Language Tasks: An Overview
Sanaz
Javanbakhti
Payame Noor University
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article
2021
eng
Experts in computer assisted language learning (CALL) have called for establishing technology-mediated research in foreign and second language classrooms. Research results have displayed the advantages of CALL-mediated assignments as a productive atmosphere wherein pros can improve SLA. As the settings for second and foreign language learning have expanded, specialists have attempted to examine the inventive affordances offered by modern resources, for instance, video-based correspondence, PC created real factors, and game-based participation. The present paper is an overview of some issues on CALL and its role in SLA and EFL settings.
Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies
KARE Publishing, Turkey
Affiliated by
Eurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia
Online ISSN: 2667-6214
2667-6214
2
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1
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2021
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https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_132539_97df82425872e078d41bd95b9e3762b1.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.26655/JELCS.2021.1.4
Reflections and flavours of Indian Culture and Colloquial Humour in Advertisements created by Prasoon Joshi
Ravi
Panicker
CSVTU, Bhilai
author
text
article
2021
eng
AbstractBefore a top poet-lyricist, author, and now the chairman of the board of censors, Prasoon Joshi belonged and still belonged to the world of advertisements. As a creative head and then the most sort after ‘ad-man’ the advertisements, their jingles and most importantly the tag lines created by Prasoon Joshi have a discrete aroma. Thirty seconds of commercial carries a whole story apart from the main message. And the message is delivered with such finesse and is wrapped and served in such a way that the audience savours the flavours of Indian Culture with a dash of colloquial humour. This paper accents the creativity applied by Prasoon Joshi in the taglines of the advertisement using humour as a primary tool and blending it with the typical Indian context. The paper will highlight the use of succinct style and the typical Indian idioms and phrases to create effective jingles that were and are very popular among the public Marketing strategies require making attractive advertisements which are persuasive enough to lead the potential customers to buy their product and in return benefit the sales of the company. The open market policies and the mass access to entertainment through television; made advertisements to become more musical and creative..
Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies
KARE Publishing, Turkey
Affiliated by
Eurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia
Online ISSN: 2667-6214
2667-6214
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1
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2021
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https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_132812_12aa60165b7eabba8887088319be1897.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.26655/JELCS.2021.1.5
Caught Between Two Worlds: The Liminality of Asian Women in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album
Neda
Shekari
Department of Foreign Languages, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
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2021
eng
AbstractThe works of Hanif Kureishi have generally been examined in light of Postcolonial notions especially the notion of “identity” of male figures. However, critics have rarely paid tribute attention to the life and experiences of female migrants in diaspora. Regarding this, this article begins with a discussion of Kureishi’s portrayal of hybrid Asian women in Britain and sheds light on opportunities that liminality and hybridity opens for them in their new country. The discussion then turns to the role played by Asian women as agents of resistance in England. It also examines diasporic life as an empowering element that assists female migrants in opposing both the imperial power and the patriarchal rules of their communities. This research indicates that although Asian women are generally marginalized in the west and their ethnicity makes them voiceless in their adapted country and reinforces their subordination, Kureishi’s works privilege the prominent role of migrant females in diaspora and bring them form margins of their cultures to the center in a way that their voices are heard.
Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies
KARE Publishing, Turkey
Affiliated by
Eurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia
Online ISSN: 2667-6214
2667-6214
2
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1
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2021
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https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_132998_8665a50941a24e3f0e7265b1008651ef.pdf
dx.doi.org/10.26655/JELCS.2021.1.6