In the short story “A Rose for Emily” written by William Faulkner, the title mentions a rose; although it does not seem that the rose plays an important role in this story superficially. The word “rose” appears twice at the end of the story: when the town’...
Folk Songと聞くと、私はなんだかソフトで緩やかなものを想像してしまう。しかし実際に曲を聴いてみたところ、サウンドとしてはそれほど攻撃性を感じないものの、歌詞には強いメッセージが込められているのが感じられた。以前にテレビでPete Seegerの反戦歌Where Have all the flo...
Comparing Sherlock Holmes with a real wizard in literature must be the interesting attempt, because their similar attributes clarify the wizardly aspect of Holmes. I would like to pick up Merlin, a famous wizard in Arthurian legend, who seems to be a suitable ...
"The English Common Reader" の第四章The Social Background(社会的背景)の冒頭部には次のように書かれている。(19世紀イギリスでは、大きな社会変化を背景に、大衆の人々の読書が広まっていった。)"The mass reading publiic developed in nineteenth-century England again...
In this chapter we will look at how the English writer JG Ballard wrote about Shanghai in his autobiography novel-Empire of the Sun. Ballard was born and grew up to sixteen in Shanghai during the Second War. This is an account of JG Ballard's childhood in Shan...