GENERAL PRESENTATION OF THE COURSE The purpose of today’s course is to introduce the students to myth criticism (literary criticism seeking relationships between myth and literature) via two books WHOSE THIRD CHAPTERS/THIRD PARTS deal very explicitly with myth: Northrop Frye’s 1957...
The University of Oxford The Glorious Legacy of the Past “The life of England, for some eight centuries, may be traced in the buildings of Oxford” (Lang 2). It is almost impossible for a true Englishman to forget of how many striking events in the development of his country Oxford...
In 1927 when she published To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf had already formulated her own conception on the ‘new’ novel, which was the novel of flowing consciousness, psychological intensity, released from the rule of time-scale and identity. As Erich Auerbach observes in his critical...
1. Introduction 0.0 Freed (1976) defined ‘Aspect’ as ‘a notion of Time, distinct from Tense, that refers to the internal temporal structure of events and activities named by various linguistic forms….. in terms of such things as inception, duration, completion..’ The definition...
What is the American Dream? For more than 300 years, immigrants from all over the world have settled in the U.S. What dreams, hopes and expectations have led them to choose this land? The American Dream is the idea (often associated with the Protestant work ethic) held by many in the...
Among the most significant writers of the twentieth century, who have struggled with the complex dimensions of the problem of American cultural identity, as well as offered a tolerable solution, is Francis Scott Fitzgerald. He did this so memorably in his works because his own life was...
SHORT ISTORY McDonald's Corporation, fast-food restaurant company based in Oak Brook, Illinois. Since the 1950s, McDonald’s family-oriented restaurants have revolutionized the fast-food business and the company has become one of the best known in the world. Thousands of McDonald’s...
1. The Definite Article → the is used: - to refer to something which has already been mentioned: Open the door, please! - when we talk about something or somebody considered unique: the only one, the Earth, the Moon, etc; e.g.: The English like tea. - with plural states and...
Lecture 1 Activity 1: Discussion on the E – SOFTPROD case Description: E – SOFTPROD - American company - develops software for other companies (American & foreign companies; inside & outside the States) - employs offshore teams of engineers in two development centres located in...
When is communication effective? Only when others understand your message and respond to it the way you want them to Effective communication: - manage your work flow - improve business relationships - enhance your professional image - other important benefits: What do employers...
Turning a novel into film involves converting its purely verbal text into a succession of images and sounds out of which only some are human speech. It also requires dramatizing the novel’s narration, eliminating the narrator (in some cases), as well as representing through images the...
The rural romanian mythology, so poor apreciated and renowned is in fact very beautiful and interesting to study thoroughly. I am saying this because, unfortunately, as a consequence of the excessive industrialization of our country, few Romanians know tradition elements and even fewer...
The 1000 Islands Region is an international tourism destination, encompassing communities on both sides of the US and Canada border along the St. Lawrence River and the eastern of Lake Ontario. The region takes its name from the more than 1000 islands that dot the lake and river along...
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd” (1840) is about seeing and reading, but not only. Still, these two actions are dominating in the story. The author describes one’s man efforts to read another man, who happens to be a denizen and therefore a representative of the modern urban...
Ideal vacation PARIS PARIS Paris is the capital of France. The city is located in the central-north of the country, the River Seine, downstream from its confluence with the Marne. Capital, in 987, Paris reprzinta main economic, political and cultural center of France (Medieval...