The present study aims to capture the way in which the Romanian writer Dumitru Țepeneag deconstructs the myth in order to reconstruct it in the mystical atmosphere of reverie which is highly experienced by the main character of the novel Nunțile necesare (The Necessary Marriage). The theoretician of the aesthetic oneirism in Romanian literature proves to be a talented writer who capitalizes on...
This article focuses on the presentation of parallel worlds in the early twentieth century Bengali writer Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s (1894-1950) novel Debjan (1946) [literally, ‘the path of the Gods’]. Bandyopadhyay is known abroad mainly for his novels Song of the Road (in Bengali Pather Panchali, 1929) and Mountain of the Moon (Bengali Chander Pahar, 1937), both of which have been...
James Joyce, a prominent figure in the modernist literary movement, created the character Stephen Dedalus and revealed an example of how consciousness functions when one searches for direction in life. The chaotic nature of human consciousness is revealed through literary devices and techniques that prove the lifelikeness of the character and the way fiction represents not only the reality of a...