Abstract This paper explains that the argument of Ann Laura Stoler's "Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power" is that the relationships between colonizers and the colonizer were actually very complicated. The author points out that the relationship between colonizers and the colonized has traditionally been seen as a relatively straightforward relationship; however, recent investigations into the relationships between colonizers and the colonized indicate that these relationships were far more complicated then ever imagined. The paper relates that these boundaries between the groups were often blurred due to sexual relationships.
From the Paper "Colonialism has always been a topic of interest to historians, anthropologists and sociologists. The relationship between colonizers and the colonized has traditionally been seen as a relatively straightforward relationship. However, recent investigations into the relationships between colonizers and the colonized indicate that these relationships were far more complicated then ever imagined. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power by Ann Laura Stoler explores the relationships that developed between colonizes and the colonized. Stoler suggests that the relationships between colonizers and the colonized were actually far more complicated then were originally thought."
Abstract This paper reviews the book "Carnal Knowledge", by T.C. Boyle in which he uses the main character's voice, to tell the story. The paper provides a good character description and explains how readers feel they are voyeurs of Jim's thoughts.
From the Paper "Jim doesn't seem to be such a complex character at first sight. He comes across as being a weak man, gullible and apathetic; we feel as if all Jim really cares about is romance (or his idea of what romance is: obsession); it seems to be on his mind all the time. Jim is so unaware of who he is, and so taken with Alena, that he pretends to be interested in animal rights just so that he can be close to her. Alena is so beautiful that Jim has a hard time thinking about anything else when she is around. One day, Alf, Alena's dog, urinates on Jim; he gets so angry, narrating, "a sudden rage seized me" (p.252), yet once Alena shows up, Jim's anger vanishes because she, and her beauty, leaves Jim feeling nothing but amorous feelings."
Abstract Nick Adams is a man displaced in time. There is evidence throughout the Nick Adams stories that illustrate his character. As a young man, Nick seems to lose sight of the love of hunting and fishing instilled in him by his father, focusing on desires of a carnal nature. In the "Three Day Blow", Nick's friend Bill congratulates him for breaking up with Marge, who is not nick's social equal. Nick listens to his heart, not an antiquated, bigoted, macho social consciousness. Nick is always uneasy in confrontational situations. If not for Bug's intervention in "The Battler", Ad Francis would surely have harmed Nick. On the European battlefields, Nick comes to realize his true nature. Nick has come to forgive his father, now dead, his shortcomings, as he is grateful to his father for instilling in him the love of gaming and fishing, which served as Nick's salvation.
From the Paper "Nick Adams is a man displaced in time. His stories (as written by Hemingway) are set in the late dawn of the Industrial Age, a time dominated by rugged individualists that spread across America, changing its face to suit them by consuming vast amounts of natural resources. Nick has all the tools necessary to thrive in this new era; he is a young, white male, an educated doctor's son, and set to make his own mark on the world. It took the fortuitous survival of his adventurism and wanderlust, plus a bout with madness, for Nick to come to terms with himself; to know that he could be happy living in balance with nature."
Tags: Nick, Adams, Ernest, Hemingway, short, stories, European, battlefields, character
Abstract The thesis this work sets to prove is: "Literature that addresses courtly love evolved from the concept that man has a dual identity of conflicting impulses towards carnal and transcendent love." This essay explores the origination of courtly love and follows it throughout medieval times. It explains "the code of manners", the morality and immorality, behavior of characters and sexual implications. Examples to explain the thesis statement are extracted from "Morte d'Arthur" by Sir Thomas Malory, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'" (author unknown) and "The Fairie Queene" by Edmund Spenser.
From the Paper "Once upon a time and many years ago there lived a tradition in European literature termed courtly love that characterized the behavior of all knights in shining armor. In a sense, knights were brave, courteous, loyal warriors in the War of Love. Whether it be Sir Gawain, Sir Lancelot, or the Redcross Knight, each patterns his behavior on the standards of courtly conduct. Courtly conduct causes Sir Gawain to be courteous towards the Green Knight's wife. It causes him to yield to her wish to be kissed. However, courtly conduct also causes him to reject her sexual advances."
An analysis of the use of poetry to exalt nature, with reference to poets Stevie Smith, Margaret Walker, Alexander Pope, 'Abd Allah ibn al-Simak and Pat Lowther.
Abstract This paper contends that poets vary in their views on nature. The paper discusses how Stevie Smith in the poem "Alone in the Woods" uses anger to convey man's destruction of nature and how Margaret Walker in her piece "My Mississippi Spring" conveys nature as if it were the most beautiful thing they have ever experienced or beyond carnal experience. The paper explains how other poets choose to personify it or give it some type of unimaginable quality or symbolic meaning. The poets discussed in the paper (Stevie Smith, Margaret Walker, Alexander Pope, 'Abd Allah ibn al-Simak and Pat Lowther) tend to all mean for the better of nature but all use different techniques. The paper explores how the poets use different themes such as anger and different techniques such as diction or personification, but all arrive at the main idea of exalting nature.
From the Paper "Stevie Smith in the poem Alone in the Woods personifies the woods "Nature has taught her creatures to hate" (line 3). By personifying the woods she can now illustrate anger or "bitter hostility with words using the woods as the one angry at the human race. "As the sap paints the trees a violent green so rises the wrath of Natures creatures At man" (lines 4, 5, & 6). Further along Smith continues fortifying the his technique and idea on lines eleven through eighteen "Nature is sick at man, Sick at his fuss and fume, Sick at his agonies, Sick at his gaudy mind, That drives his body, Ever more quickly, More and more, in the wrong direction" (lines 11-18). Smith uses short lines and repetition which reaffirms his angry view on mans destruction of nature. On the other hand poets like Alexander Pope in his work An Essay on Man (epistle 1) display or convey anger but not from nature, he puts comes out and openly and describes man. Pope gives the idea that man is very possessive, Pope uses six possessive pronouns such as "Tis for mine...for me"(Pope 1-10). "
Abstract This paper explains that Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself "is divided into 52 parts and it is evident from the beginning that, as far as structure is concerned, no apparent logic holds the body of the work together. The author points out that the first section of the poem begins with "I celebrate myself" and that is what the whole piece is about, not the celebration of Walt Whitman, the persona or the poet but of the concept of the universal "self", which the poet seeks to embody. The paper relates that, in the second part, the image of "Nature" is awe-inspiring, all-powerful and full of dangerous beauty, certainly a rather carnal beauty capable of attracting its progeny to their natural state.
From the Paper "The poem is based on rhythm, not the normal rhythm of speech but one organized in a more or less regular pattern. The cadence has extreme freedom. Broadly, the poem is composed in iambic feet but modifications are made very quickly. Song of Myself is a poem of movement and change, and all its parts are driven by the force of gradual and fluid interconnection of opposites ("fragrance" vs. "odorless", "respiration" vs. "inspiration"), by the constant repetition("myself", "assume", "perfume") and Whitman's long lists of nouns and adjectives of which we have the first example in the second part of the poem (lines 22 - 23). The "-ing" forms ("beating", "passing") change dynamically, which gives the poetic movement its smoothness. Movements within the poem occur gradually and cautiously with the help of the numerous blanks Whitman creates."
Abstract This paper explains that John Donne's poem "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is a string of metaphors and comparisons, which invoke the metaphysical and spiritual nature of love in an attempt to make the parting of husband and wife easier. The author points out that Donne makes constant use of the sphere and the circle as symbols of perfection and eternity. The paper relates that a theme of erotic carnality, typical of Donne's writings, is not present in this poem but rather it expresses only the deepest and purest feelings for the wife. The author suggests that the husband demonstrates his sentiments by professing his devotion to a spiritual love, which has transcended itself above the merely physical and into the celestial heavens. The paper includes the complete poem and many quotations.
From the Paper "John Donne opens up with a metaphysical comparison of dying, "virtuous men" who "whisper to their souls to go" and two lovers saying goodbye before a journey. Death, in this sense, should not be seen as an ending but as the beginning of a journey. It seems very strange to compare their departure to the passing away of a virtuous man, but it's actually a very powerful comparison. When a virtuous man begins to die, he knows that when he dies he will enter into Heaven. In knowing this, he is able to remain calm and peaceful. In the same way, when two "refined" lovers part, there is no sadness or pain, "No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move," because they know each will remain true to the other, even though they are apart (l. 17; l. 6)."
Tags: metaphors, parting, quatrain, ptolemaic, love
Abstract This paper discusses how "28 Days Later" (Danny Boyle, 2003), is much more than a zombie or horror movie. It looks at how the film explores questions about the definition of human nature and what makes us civilized and not just instinctual creatures. It looks at how, through the use of the film's lighting, editing, soundtrack, and mise-en-scene, it shows that in reality human nature is not very different than that of the "infected," or other creatures ruled by carnal instinct, and that in life threatening situations humans are violent, merciless and instinctual beings.
From the Paper "The film opens in an animal testing laboratory, where several apes are locked in glass containers. Three animal activists (Alex Palmer, Bindu De Stoppani and Jukka Hiltunen) break in though, attempting to free the apes. Despite the warnings of a scientist (David Schneider) that the chimps have been infected with "rage," the activists open the cages and are attacked by the apes. The next shots are of Jim (Cillian Murphy), who awakens in a hospital bed only to find the hospital has been completely abandoned. He soon realizes that all of London is empty and has been evacuated. After meeting two survivors, Selena (Naomie Harris) and Mark (Noah Huntley), he learns that much of England has been destroyed by people infected by a virus that makes them incredibly aggressive and violent. "
Abstract This paper explains that a close reading is a subtle and complex process, which entails reading and understanding the meaning of the literary piece and looking at its linguistic nuances and connotations. A close reading of the poem "Goblin Market" by Christina Georgina Rossetti shows how the author was emotionally torn between a sacred and pious life or a sensual and carnal one--or, in terms of the poem, whether to live a fruitful or fruitless existence. The author looks at Rossetti's life to shed light on the underlying meaning of this poem. The paper illustrates the many different poetic devices, which Rossetti used to convey her extremely corporeal poem that includes all the human senses.
From the Paper "Symbolically, the poem is a remembrance of what took place at the Garden of Eden. Here was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that God had warned Adam and Eve not to touch. They disregard his heed, eat from the forbidden fruit and, as a result, lose their innocence. In "Goblin Market," Laura has tasted this succulent morsel and Lizzie wishes to know the flavor, but refrains. She is caught in an approach/avoidance situation.
"Thus, going deeper into this poem based on Rossetti's background is her own similar approach/avoidance with the opposite sex."
Abstract This paper looks at the theme of sexual progression in the short story, "Araby" written by Irish author James Joyce. The author describes Joyce's style as a manipulation of sexuality that has an innocent and almost Catholic-like element. The paper traces the theme of sexual progression in the unnamed protagonist of the book who does not ever engage in the carnal act of sex but rather swims amongst the emotions surrounding sexual desire and attraction. The author gives quotes from the books and includes personal notes on the symbolism of the language used. The author also praises the poetic style that Joyce engaged, allowing the reader inside the emotional and sexual struggle of an emerging adolescence with sexual imagery tinged with innocence and Catholicism.
From the Paper "One of my favourite elements of Joyce's Araby is how poetic some of the language is. Even though Joyce progresses this story through the description of the young man's sexual feelings he does not necessarily make the reader think about the physicality of sex. Joyce manages to portray the innocence of youth without undermining the young man's emotions. The most poetic line in Araby is also one that depicts the increasingly strong longing the young man has for the girl."
Tags: book review, literature, adolescence, puberty
Abstract The author of this paper examines the poem "About Face" by Alice Fulton. The poem appears in the Fulton's volume of poetry entitled "Sensual Math", first published in 1995. The paper analyzes the poem from three different viewpoints. Firstly the paper looks at the poem from a formalistic viewpoint. Following that, the paper analyzes the poem from a psychoanalytical viewpoint. Lastly, the paper examines the poem from a Marxist standpoint.
From the Paper "Alice Fulton's poem, "About Face," although subtle, is filled with the Marxist philosophy about people being in their proper places in the power hierarchy. The subject is immediately aware of the economic power and the structure in place to keep the powerful on top. She appears to take her cue from a distorted perception indicating she doesn't need the property or the control of the bourgeoisie; however, she is merely fooling herself. The poem represents the possessions and power of control that she really wants in her own life, but deep down inside realizes she is a part of the proletariat, or common people, and probably will never achieve those goals and rise any higher in that hierarchy."
