Review

As opposed to just giving a definitive perspective of things, the works of literature of Zola and Huysmans offered a discussion on different forces in conflict. This meant that artists had to remain between a movement’s own official belief system and the opposing side that “fragilized” it. Comparing the ideas of Huysmans and Zola, the […]

How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth (1993) is a book written by Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart. The authors made an attempt to improve the reader’s experience and facilitate the process of interpreting the Bible. Fee and Stuart state in the introduction of their book that theologists and other professional interpreters […]

Raskolnikov: Surely it is not beginning already! Surely it is not my punishment coming upon me? It is! (Dostoevsky, chapter 2) One of the greatest Russian writers Fyodor Dostoevsky sought to show a way of moral renewal of the human society. A human being is the center of life; the sight of the writer is […]

American literary Modernism is one of the most prominent eras in the development of literature. It emerged as a response to the drastic changes in the society and in the whole world in general. As a result, there emerged new writers who approached literature in the unexpected ways, experimented with it, and gave it interesting […]

The article by Matthew Hutson, Are You Looking at Me, tends to criticize certain practices including beauty fashion as well as pornography. He explains that such actions expose people’s nudity as they pursue to impress other people. He continues to indicate that “naked porn stars are also seen as having less competence…” That is an […]

The Mahabharata and the Ramayana are epic poems in the Hindu religion that are popular among people for their entertainment, philosophical, and moral lessons. The tales in the two epic poems have been passed from one generation to another across different cultures in India and South Asia. Both poems have offered and continue to offer […]

Since ancient time ethos, pathos, and logos have been primary rhetorical categories. Aristotle defined them as basic modes of persuasion adding argumentative force to a speech. Nowadays these devices remain an integral part of any persuasive text. This paper is aimed at the analysis of persuasive techniques implementation in the article I Will Never Know […]

The Craft of Christian Teaching (2000) by Van Dyk provides many religious pedagogical insights. It is a highly informative book that inspires to think of the very process and goals of teaching in a genuinely Christian way. The author is a well-recognized researcher and professor of Sioux Center Dordt College in Pella, Iowa. He lends […]

The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of Black Soldiers in the West is a unique book. The majority of the content can be found in the first version distributed in 1967 under the title The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West. Leckies` first version was a groundbreaker due to certain facts. […]

In Laura Esquivel’s novel “Like Water for Chocolate” the narrator tells about the magnificent life of Tita de la Garza. It continues the tradition of Latin magical realism, the main goal of which is to express the reality using fantastic, magical and mythological elements. The author also uses this style in order to reduce vital […]