Criticism of the Shakespearean canon through adaptation as a genre has the capacity for liberation and social reparation. As a cluster of complex texts that sustains both past practices and contemporary interpretive conventions, Shakespeare provides fertile ground for training students to listen intently and compassionately to other individuals’ v…[Read more]

Stage and screen adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays raise ethical questions – that is, questions about how human beings should act and treat one another. In which contexts might cross-cultural enterprises be naturalising the values associated with Shakespeare to exploit unequal power relations among artists of different backgrounds? Con…[Read more]

Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy creates a subtle apologia for the “middling sort” by challenging the socially constructed predicates of aristocratic privilege. A scrivener’s son, Kyd undertsood oeconomia, or household management, as both the means for material advancement among the “middling sort” and a potential threat to aristocratic insular…[Read more]

The chapter elucidates the basic concept of cognitive social media, features, and identical semiotics of cognitive social media. While exposition of cognitive social media and literary studies, the author lays emphasis on how both the streams of knowledge require Big Data Analytics. Based on the conceptual background, the author computationally…[Read more]

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This study focuses on neuro-sociological impact of apartheid as depicted in lifestyles and lives of characters in Damon Galgut’s novel The Promise. It studies his sharp portrayal of a white family in post-apartheid South Africa. It chronicles the experiences of a white, affluent family who runs a small farm over the course of several decades. It f…[Read more]