Nutting (W. Wordsworth)   Wordsworth takes the emotional importance of a childhood memory of a seemingly trivial incident to engage in a dramatic reconstruction of the scene. It has a strangely epic ‘feel’ in comparison with the other poems, as if the experience was a pressing one for him to record. He uses the adult perspective of the person to introduce elements of viole... Téléchargement payant

The Blind Owl (Sadegh Hedayat)   One of the greatest Persian writers of the twentieth century, Sadegh Hedayat, lived a short but fulfilled life. Shortly after writing The Blind Owl, Sadegh Hedayat committed suicide. The Blind Owl is a deeply haunting and irksome work of literature. A young man, decorator of pen cases, attained by a rare disease, which affects both his mental and ... Téléchargement payant

Toni Morrison   Toni Morrison was born in the 18. of February 1931 in Lorain Ohio USA. In 1949, she entered Howard University in Washington, D.C., America's most distinguished black college. She continued her studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Morrison wrote her thesis on suicide in the works of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf, and received her... Téléchargement payant

Commemorative symbols   The remembrance of traumatic past events is a necessity for the pacifistic construction of a community. Society needs to exorcise the traumatic events, like the two world wars, to avoid their repetition, or even the good past events, to have a collective past. However, the ways of remembrance can be diversified, and raise some issues. The principal... Téléchargement payant

Has feminism gone far enough ?   All the statistics lead to the same conclusion: half of the humanity is female. Since centuries and in most of the countries, feminists have struggled for more equality between men and women. Since Joan of Arc until Simone de Beauvoir, they tried to reach a fairer set in the societies they lived in. As the 1970’s feminist movement seems to have run... Téléchargement payant