English Language, Literature & Culture

Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2017

  • Virginia Woolf’s Ecological Writing in Her Novels

    Wei Ding, Xiaoli Wang, Chengxing Li

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2017
    Pages: 1-4
    Received: 31 October 2016
    Accepted: 9 March 2017
    Published: 18 March 2017
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    Abstract: Virginia Woolf’s novels focus on the truth of life and present the real form of life, and she has a deep sympathy towards human beings and a strong sense of social responsibility. Her works belong to ecological writing. To explore her novel in the light of eco-criticism, this paper aims at analyzing her harmonious ecological concept as anti-anthrop... Show More
  • Integration of Art and Morality in Oscar Wilde's the Happy Prince

    Ali Hafudh Humaish

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2017
    Pages: 5-11
    Received: 3 March 2017
    Accepted: 14 March 2017
    Published: 28 March 2017
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    Abstract: Oscar Wilde is associated with the doctrine Art for Art's sake. He is believed to be a pure aesthete who thought of morality as being independent of art. Critics often describe the decadence literature to which Wilde belongs as being immoral, morbid, sordid, and perverse. Some critics find his story The Happy Prince an example of his homosexuality.... Show More