Studies in the Humanities articles from June 2005

Studies in the Humanities archives from June 2005

Shusaku Endo's "A Summer in Rouen": a tragicomedy of virtues unhad and goods ungained.(Critical essay)
June 1, 2005... Introduction Western interest in Shusaku Endo's works has grown steadily since the appearance of Silence in its English translation in 1969. (1) That novel established Endo as a writer of great religious insight, someone with noteworthy...

"You know you wanna dance": Buffy the Vampire Slayer as contemporary gothic heroine.(Critical essay)
June 1, 2005... "Good and evil are located within the female self, and identity is both fixed and shifting as the heroine attempts to establish her own identity." Julianne Fleenor The Female Gothic "Did we not put the grrrrrr in girl?" ...

Love and sex in a totalitarian society: an exploration of Ha Jin and George Orwell (1).
June 1, 2005... "Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves" (256). This is the...

Young and dangerous(ly traditional): reading Guangong and the act of obeisance in Hong Kong films since 1986.
June 1, 2005... The cycle of Triad/gangster films that began with John Woo's A Better Tomorrow (1986), a cycle with roots in the literary tradition of the sanguo yanyi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) and the shui hu zhuan (The Water Margins) as well as in the...

Haunted spaces and powerful places: reconfiguring the doppelganger in Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya.(Critical essay)
June 1, 2005... 'The Moor smile--'Your fate, your fortune, fair Signora, will be of your own making: I am but the humble tool, the slave of your wishes; your co-operation with me alone can render me powerful." (Zofloya 168) Charlotte Dacre's novel...