"The English Common Reader" の第四章The Social Background(社会的背景)の冒頭部には次のように書かれている。(19世紀イギリスでは、大きな社会変化を背景に、大衆の人々の読書が広まっていった。)"The mass reading publiic developed in nineteenth-century England again...
1. Problem: Some earthquake survivors claim that they observed abnormal animal behaviors prior to the earthquakes. Do animals have a special ability to predict earthquake? If they do, how can we use it to develop a new prediction method? 3. Hypothesis 1.Long...
Comparing Sherlock Holmes with a real wizard in literature must be the interesting attempt, because their similar attributes clarify the wizardly aspect of Holmes. I would like to pick up Merlin, a famous wizard in Arthurian legend, who seems to be a suitable ...
In this chapter we will look at how the English writer JG Ballard wrote about Shanghai in his autobiography novel-Empire of the Sun. Ballard was born and grew up to sixteen in Shanghai during the Second War. This is an account of JG Ballard's childhood in Shan...
“The Eve of St. Agnes” can be said as a boundary work when focusing on the colour purple. This essay will discuss about Keats’s usage of colour purple as the symbolization of mortality, and discover the reason why it started from “The Eve of St. Agnes”. I...
In this term’s lecture I learned new way of thinking from three people, they are Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman. Emerson was a philosopher, Thoreau a writer and Whitman a poet. I think they have same kind of idea but their way of expressing it was different. Th...
On discussing Balin’s weapons, I would like to introduce Balin’s tale at first. Balin is a member of the Knights of the Round Table. After the first Lady of the Lake gave Excalibur to Arthur, another lady came with a beautiful sword. She says only “a passin...