From Cultural Third-Worldism to the Literary World-System

Literary Allusion and Cultural Poetics in Vergil's Third "Eclogue"

Among the rich variety of approaches to the study of Vergil's arte allusiva one finds at least one, quite understandable, common element-namely, an overriding concern with the text itself as the dominant locus of meaning. This is true of Professor Conte's earlier work, at any rate, as well as of those who stress the philological Alexandrian attitude towards poetic composition,2 and even of the ...

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from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

third world intellectuals in v. s. naipaul’s fiction: the mimic men, a bend in the river, magic seeds

this thesis attempts to study the representations of the third-world intellectuals in three fictional works by the british-educated trinidadian nobel-winner v. s. naipaul: the mimic men, a bend in the river, and magic seeds. the first one recounts the story of ralph singh’s sense of alienation, his experiences as a colonial politician, and his struggle to give order to his disorderly world thro...

Different approaches and cultural considerations in third world prosthetics.

The major objective of prosthetics the world over is the same, i.e. to restore the amputee to as functional a capacity as possible in his cultural environment, whilst attaining as good a cosmetic result as can be achieved. At first glance it would seem that this would mean there would be very little difference in approach to the subject in western and in third world countries. Availability of m...