Elegy

OH-Knoe-dler! New York’s oldest art gallery, Knoedler & Company, made $80 million selling fake paintings over the course of fifteen years. The fraud consisted of a huge network of individuals to sell their fakes. A shady art dealer named Glafira Rosales provided Knoedler with forged paintings until she was arrested for tax evasion. She commissioned paintings from a man in New York and flipped them to the gallery as original paintings by famous abstract expressionist artists. The Knoedler Gallery…

In the discourse of post colonialism, the centre and the margin maintains a dichotomous relation and India’s Northeast offers a potential space for narrativizing internal colonization and dispossession from a gendered praxis. My paper seeks to address these issues as touched upon in her novel The Collector’s Wife by well known Assamese writer and columnist Mitra Phukan, by making a symptomatic reading of the text through a postcolonial feminist lens. The gendered realities existing amidst…

analysis from the standpoint of phenomenology and structuralism”. This is true in the novel “To the Lighthouse” because Woolf writes about death in such a way that it relates to her experiences with death since she states that the book is like an elegy to her parents. The elements of being and nothingness of the ego and identity of the rupture of time and space inherent in the death moment are resonant in the…

In 2001, the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo allowed three sessions on Tolkien to be presented. That seminal event was the ‘nucleus’ from which this collection sprang. For forty years, editor Jane Chance, Professor Emerita in English of Rice University, has written and taught medieval literature, medieval culture, medieval women and modern medievalism. She has authored or edited five critical studies of Tolkien’s work, as well as numerous…

MENOPAUSE ( POEMS) Azeez Akinwumi SESAN FOREWORD A gloss over a poetry collection titled Menopause by Azeez Akinwumi Sesan could suggest “transvestism”; but a closer study reveals the transsexual trend of feminism as a literary and political movement. The passion with which the poet handles the gender issues raised seems more obsessing than that of many female writers. The discourse on the excruciating experience of the female gender in a chauvinistic based culture like…

In addition to using myth to empower women and to be a witness for their ordeals, Boland has also used myth to explore personal family relationships—an important part of the female experience. In particular, she has used the Ceres myth often in her poetry. She uses it again in her 1990 poem "The Making of an Irish Goddess" to illustrate the complexities of motherhood. She begins her revision of the myth almost as a passive observer: Ceres went to hell with no sense of time. When she looked back…