12 articles in this issue
Florence Toh Haw Ching,Arbaayah Ali Termizi
Within the master-servant relationships of the hierarchical Renaissance era, loyalty is often assumed as a common and expected attribute. However, the present study reveals this assumption as a misconception. From the evidence gathered, the paper highligh... see more
Hoe Pik Lin,Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya
A Malaysian Journey served as a novel which detailed and recorded Malaysia’s journey as a country from its pre-independence era until the time of the novel’s publication in 1993. But more than that, it was a novel of Rashid’s personal journey as he redisc... see more
Indrani Ramachandran,Rohimmi Noor
Acknowledged as one of the world’s finest writers in the English language, V.S. Naipaul’s cynicism has, over the decades, come to represent his very identity as a writer, so much so that any discussion about Naipaul’s brilliance as a writer almost always ... see more
Iraj Montashery
Virginia Woolf in Mrs Dalloway (1925) primarily focuses on Clarissa Dalloway’s multifaceted identity. In this study I intend to shed more light on the problem of subjectivity from a feminist perspective. The present study draws on Woolf’s own understandin... see more
Mina Abbasiyannejad,Rosli Talif
Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach is the story of conflicts at various levels. In this novella, the author shows how different factors, particularly cultural norms and sexual conflicts can affect people's lives and lead them down a certain path. Using a hermen... see more
Noor Azah C. Abdullah,Rohimmi Noor
Set in Swinging London in the Sixties Doris Lessing’s novel titled The Sweetest Dream1 presents a chaotic environment amidst the moral and psychical rubble of World War I and World War II. The Sixties is a transitional era sandwiched between the aftermath... see more
Patrick Yeoh,Arbaayah Ali Termizi,Shivani Sivagurunathan
This paper explores the major works in the Sarawakian Literature in English (SLIE) corpus of works (both original and contemporary writing in English and folktales translated into English) from a cultural perspective to demonstrate how such ethnic diversi... see more
Pedram Lalbakhsh,Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya
This paper studies the male-dominated world of Doris Lessing’s novel The Good Terrorist. Alice Mellings, the protagonist of the novel, is a political activist whose reliance on male figures in the story—the leaders of a subdivision of a political party—en... see more
Shadi Shakouri,Rosli Talif
There are many interpretations of love and lots of scholars write and talk on love; however, what exactly is the meaning of love? Iris Murdoch’s works are an accumulation of emotional relationships and feelings of love. Her great subject is love, both sex... see more
Zanyar Kareem Abdul,Rohimmi Noor
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad (V.S. Naipaul) was born in Trinidad in 1932. His works have been an enduring focus between rich and poor, colonizer and colonized. In The New York Review of Books, Naipaul has been called '”a master of English prose,” which indic... see more
Hardev Kaur Jujar Singh,Manimangai Mani
“I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any”—Mahatma Gandhi. With these sayings by Gandhij... see more
Farah Ghaderi,Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya
Through a textual scrutiny of Mary Sheil’s Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia, this paper aims to examine the ways she represents the Persian women in her travel narrative. Nineteenth century, as the high noon of British imperialism, saw the eme... see more