Please take a moment to complete this survey below
Library's collection Library's IT development Cancel| Creativity, psychoanalysis and Eugene O?Neill?s creative process | O'Neill is undisputedly one of the most autobiographical artists in modern literature. His creativity consistently moves around subjective exploration and autobiographical representation in his art. Therefore drama for him involves primarily dramatization of self and close relations such as mother, father and brother, and this association between life and art goes ...
|
| The Influence of Anton Chekhov on Samuel Beckett: Inaction and investment of hope into Godot-like figures in three sisters and waiting for Godot | Anton Chekhov has been very much influential on modern drama, especially on the Theatre of the Absurd; however, not much work has been done on his influence on the absurdist playwrights. Considering Harold Bloom`s definition of 'influence` writing 'much like' someone in the past'the seminal influence of Chekhov on Beckett is ...
|
| Signs and stage props in Tennessee Williams' Camino real | Humans from the early times have used signs to facilitate the communication in the early societies. Semiotics is an approach wherein howness is dominant; it is the investigation of how meaning is created and communicated through systems of signs. In the dramatic texts meanings are conveyed by two different forms of ...
|
| A Comparative study: Self-realization in twentieth-century Western thought, Ibn e Arabi's idea, and theatre of the absurd | Following humans' struggles to achieve a better under-standing of the self throughout major historical periods, the idea of the quest for a whole self is once more rekindled in the anxiety-laden atmosphere of the twentieth century. However, unlike the previous approaches, the twentieth century reflection of the notion of the quest ...
|
| From the mouths of babes: Children in recent Indonesian film and fiction | A noticeable trend in recent Indonesian fiction and film has been the use of children as protagonists. This paper examines the role of children in Andrea Hirata?s 2005 novel Laskar Pelangi (Rainbow Warriors) and the 2006 film Denias, directed by John de Rantau. I argue that, like the German Bildungsromane, these ...
|
| Paradise lost dressed in the costume of history: John Martin?s rendition of paradise lost | The story of the loss of paradise has been read and interpreted in different ages. Commentary on Milton's Paradise Lost is not limited to verbal texts; painters and illustrators have contributed greatly to the poem by presenting their own time-bound readings and interpretations of the poem through their illustrations that are ...
|
| Identifying Indonesian-core vocabulary for teaching English to Indonesian preschool children: a corpus-based research | This corpus-based research focuses on building a corpus of Indonesian children?s storybooks to find the frequent content words in order to identify Indonesian-core vocabulary for teaching English to Indonesian preschool children. The data was gathered from 131 Indo-nesian children?s storybooks, which resulted in a corpus of 134,320 words. These data were ...
|
| Formation of youth identity in Indonesian Islamic chick lit | This paper is to argue that literature studies may help reveal the formation of young Indonesian female Muslim identity by looking at the books they read and write. It will particularly discuss two popular Islamic Chick Lit Santri Semelekete [Funky Islamic Boarding School Girl] (2005) by Ma?rifatun Baroroh and Jilbab Britney Spears: Catatan Harian Sabrina [Britney ...
|
| Investigation of scalar implicatures of Binus university students | Scalar implicatures are based on a range of quantifiers ordered in terms of informational strength, for example in quantity: some, most, all; in frequency: sometimes, often, and always. This study measures the scalar implicatures among university students who learn English as a foreign language. The participants for this study are fourth semester English Department students at ...
|
| Archetypal anxieties in Stanley Kubrick?s the shining | The study intends to study the archetypal anxieties in Stanley Kubrick?s (1980) The Shining, which can be interpreted as Danny?s journey for the completion of his individualization process. In his individualization process, Danny has to go through the anxieties often seen in fairytales, such as separation anxieties, authoritarian anxieties, Oedipal rivalry anxieties, and sexual anxieties, in ...
|
| The Washback effect of the English Natio Examination (ENE) on English teachers? classroom teaching and students? learning | Since 2005, Indonesia has administered the National Examination (NE), from which the result is used as a basis to decide the students? exit from secondary schools. As a high stake testing, the NE has caused various washback effects, both positive and negative. Consequently, the existence of the NE has been accompanied by heated debates and controversies. ...
|
| Analysis of misunderstanding caused by different interpretations of speech act labels in Tintin and Asterix comic series | This paper presents analysis of misunderstanding occurred in a conversation which is caused by different interpretation of speech act labels between the speaker and the hearer. Misunderstanding occurred in these comic series causes various emotional effects to the hearer involved in the conversation. The hearer might feel happy, impressed, embarrassed, or even proud of what the ...
|
| An English teacher struggle to establish voice in the periphery | This paper explores my identity formation and the struggle to establish voice as a non-native teacher working in the periphery. While publication on non-native speakers? struggle into academia has been growing in the West, such publication is rare in the periphery where I have been working as an English language teacher for the last seven years. ...
|
| Reading the Death in Literary Works (A Comparison between ?Dokter dan Maut? and A Christmas Carol) | This paper compares two literary works written by an Indonesian and a British author. There are some different points of views regarding the phenomenon of death in these literary works. In contrary, there are also similarities between the two texts. Social, cultural and religious backgrounds influence the way of looking at and discussing the theme and ...
|
| A Semiotic analysis of cyber emoticons (a case study of Kaskus emoticons in the lounge forum at Kaskus-the largest Indonesian community) | Kaskus emoticons have been used widely in cyber, whether in Kaskus forum or blogs and other Instant Messengers (IMs). The use of emoticon in the forum is believed to be the latest way in communication among members. The use of emoticons is necessary to overcome the constraints of online communication, the need of being expressive and ...
|
| Salinger and Holden: Silent heroes of modern times | Among the great writers of the tumultuous decade of 1950s America, J. D. Salinger acquires a peculiar stance. His popularity rests precisely on two bases: that he was the writer of one literary bible of the young generations to come, The Catcher in the Rye, and that he was, ironically enough, resentful toward the publicity ...
|
| Coleridge?s orientalist view of Mahomet | From an Orientalist viewpoint, Coleridge and his poems were shaped by the discursive web of the 18th century culture, and he was not free from the worldliness of historical forces. However, it is not difficult to see resistance towards dominant ideologies in his poems. One example is Coleridge?s sentiment towards the systematicallymisrepresented Islam and its prophet. ...
|
| The Meaning of nature for Santiago in his efforts to find the real happiness in the alchemist | Santiago, the main character in the novel The Alchemist, is trying to find the real happiness in his life. Having dreamt of exactly the same thing twice, he wants to have his dreams come true. He is eager to find the hidden treasure that was shown in the Egyptian Pyramids in ...
|
| Reading from the margin: Examining Nahum Tate?s vs. Shakespeare?s King lear as cultural products | Nahum Tate?s adaptation of Shakespeare?s King Lear was so successful in Restoration theatre. Modern critics, however, regard Tate?s work as a second class drama which deserves mockery and dismiss it from master narratives of the history of English theatre. Therefore, we examine the `fields of cultural production? of Shakespeare?s and Nahum ...
|
| Daddy issues in J. M. Coetzee?s in the heart of the country | In this article, we try to explore the psychological problems of Magda, the main female character in J.M. Coetzee?s In the Heart of the Country, and the causes of the disorders. Using the theories of Oedipus Complex in females, we try to prove that Magda suffers from neurosis, which later develops ...
|