This paper examines the feminist insights of the female individuality K. S. Maniam’s “Mala.” Fema... more This paper examines the feminist insights of the female individuality K. S. Maniam’s “Mala.” Female individuals, in psychoanalysis visions of delirium, have to cope with their needs and aspirations as their males counterparts. Women have to prove their ability stand and ask for their equality even in patriarchal dominated societies. They are a position that renders their human potential to do their affairs independently in the light of humanistic premises. Moreover, females could improve their status by asserting their given human ability to obtain equality and right position in whatever community. Yet, women may face obstacles and hindrances which might belittle their ability to assert their rights and potential thoughts. In this regard, females could be fruitful and active in society. The male conceptualization of females, on the other hand would lead women to be different and progress towards goodness. Therefore, it will apply Carl Yung’s concept of projection mechanism to explor...
This article explores the interdisciplinary ecocriticism in John Burnside’s novel The Locust Room... more This article explores the interdisciplinary ecocriticism in John Burnside’s novel The Locust Room (2001). The article’s main focus will be on ecocriticism and psychoanalysis as a conceptual framework. Using ecocriticism, the concepts of dwelling and ecoconsciousness will be applied as ecocritical concepts to analyse the environmental nature depicted in the novel. On the other hand, the concept of anxiety will be utilized to explore the psychological anxious feelings of the novel’s protagonist, Paul. The protagonist’s psychological anxiety develops throughout the plot. The cause of his anxious sufferings is the male-rape phenomenon which is common at his university campus. To get rid of his anxiety, the protagonist tends to live in alienation to escape rape, and he decides to live in natural settings alone with animals and insects. Accordingly, the study follows a textual analysis of the environmental settings to argue nature as an exit for the protagonist’s anxiety. The interdiscipl...
This thesis studied children exploitation, rape, and paranoia from an interdisciplinary perspecti... more This thesis studied children exploitation, rape, and paranoia from an interdisciplinary perspective, namely, ecocriticism and psychoanalysis.The concepts of ecoconsciousness and dwelling were applied to analyze the selected works’ environmental places, such as gardens, forests, landscapes and so forth. On the other hand, psychoanalysis was specified to Freud’s concept of anxiety to analyze the protagonists’ anxious feelings caused by children exploitation, rape, and paranoia.By utilizing these concepts, the study unraveled the selected works’ natural settings as being therapeutic exits for the protagonists’ anxiety. Thus, the selected works’ the protagonists in the selected works are studied as seeking solace and peace of mind in nature. Therefore, the dissertation aimed to examine nature and anxiety in John Burnside’s novels The Dumb House (1997), The Locust Room (2001), and A Summer of Drowning (2011). The study achieved three objectives. The first objective examined the selected ...
This article explores the interdisciplinary ecocriticism in John Burnside's novel The Locust Room... more This article explores the interdisciplinary ecocriticism in John Burnside's novel The Locust Room (2001). The article's main focus will be on ecocriticism and psychoanalysis as a conceptual framework. Using ecocriticism, the concepts of dwelling and ecoconsciousness will be applied as ecocritical concepts to analyse the environmental nature depicted in the novel. On the other hand, the concept of anxiety will be utilized to explore the psychological anxious feelings of the novel's protagonist, Paul. The protagonist's psychological anxiety develops throughout the plot. The cause of his anxious sufferings is the male-rape phenomenon which is common at his university campus. To get rid of his anxiety, the protagonist tends to live in alienation to escape rape, and he decides to live in natural settings alone with animals and insects. Accordingly, the study follows a textual analysis of the environmental settings to argue nature as an exit for the protagonist's anxiety. The interdisciplinary interconnection between ecocriticism and psychoanalysis will be elaborated by citing Cheryll Glotfelty's concept of ecoconsciousness, Greg Garrard's concept of dwelling, and Sigmund Freud's concept of anxiety.
This article examines the development of paranoia in John Burnside's A Summer of Drowning. The st... more This article examines the development of paranoia in John Burnside's A Summer of Drowning. The study will mainly focus on anxiety as the main cause of the protagonist's anxious feelings. The protagonist, Liv, suffers from paranoid feelings as a result of drowning her schoolmates. Consequently, she becomes psychically anxious.Her anxiety intensifies when she meets people whom she suspects of complicity in murdering her schoolmates.The study, in this respect, will follow a textual analysis of the protagonist's paranoia which constitutes her anxiety.It will provide a close reading of the protagonist's behaviors, feelings, and suspicion of other people.These behavioral attributes will be scrutinized as lucid indications of her psychic disorder. As such, Sigmund Freud's concept of anxiety is going to be applied in order to analyze the latent causes of the protagonist's anxiety, and paranoia thereof. The application of Freud's concept of anxiety will be detailed by discussing the psychoanalytical critical insights suitable to interpret anxiety and its negative effects upon the protagonist's behavior. She is triggered by her mother's predilection to nature, and she decides to resort to wild landscapes as exits for her paranoia.She prefers being away of people.Just so,she becomes aware of her natural surroundings, such as landscapes and meadows. Accordingly, Cheryll Glotfelty's concept of eco-consciousness and Greg Garrard's concept of dwelling will be utilized to analyze the novel's natural settings as exits for the protagonist's anxiety.Together, these concepts are going to be the interdisciplinary approach to explore the protagonist seeking of solace and peace of mind in nature.
This article examines the interdisciplinary ecocriticism in John Burnside’s The Dumb House (1997)... more This article examines the interdisciplinary ecocriticism in John Burnside’s The Dumb House (1997). The study focuses on two critical perspectives. The first of these is ecocriticism. The main focus will be on two ecocritical concepts, dwelling and eco-consciousness. The concept of dwelling will be mainly addressed by referring to Greg Garrard’s postulation of dwelling and using it to analyze natural settings in fictional works. Dwelling, therefore, will be applied to analyze the novel’s setting. Second, using eco-consciousness, the analysis will draw on Cheryll Glotfelty’s formulation of eco-consciousness and its critical interface with other interdisciplinary approaches. Psychoanalysis will be the interdisciplinary method used, along with dwelling and eco-consciousness. Sigmund Freud’s concept of anxiety is the sole psychoanalytical concept that will be used in this study. Considering anxiety reveals the novel’s protagonist’s inner feelings, caused by repression and remembering the past. Thus the novel’s natural setting is a remedial exit for the protagonist’s anxiety.
This paper examines the feminist insights of the female individuality K. S. Maniam’s “Mala.” Fema... more This paper examines the feminist insights of the female individuality K. S. Maniam’s “Mala.” Female individuals, in psychoanalysis visions of delirium, have to cope with their needs and aspirations as their males counterparts. Women have to prove their ability stand and ask for their equality even in patriarchal dominated societies. They are a position that renders their human potential to do their affairs independently in the light of humanistic premises. Moreover, females could improve their status by asserting their given human ability to obtain equality and right position in whatever community. Yet, women may face obstacles and hindrances which might belittle their ability to assert their rights and potential thoughts. In this regard, females could be fruitful and active in society. The male conceptualization of females, on the other hand would lead women to be different and progress towards goodness. Therefore, it will apply Carl Yung’s concept of projection mechanism to explor...
This article explores the interdisciplinary ecocriticism in John Burnside’s novel The Locust Room... more This article explores the interdisciplinary ecocriticism in John Burnside’s novel The Locust Room (2001). The article’s main focus will be on ecocriticism and psychoanalysis as a conceptual framework. Using ecocriticism, the concepts of dwelling and ecoconsciousness will be applied as ecocritical concepts to analyse the environmental nature depicted in the novel. On the other hand, the concept of anxiety will be utilized to explore the psychological anxious feelings of the novel’s protagonist, Paul. The protagonist’s psychological anxiety develops throughout the plot. The cause of his anxious sufferings is the male-rape phenomenon which is common at his university campus. To get rid of his anxiety, the protagonist tends to live in alienation to escape rape, and he decides to live in natural settings alone with animals and insects. Accordingly, the study follows a textual analysis of the environmental settings to argue nature as an exit for the protagonist’s anxiety. The interdiscipl...
This thesis studied children exploitation, rape, and paranoia from an interdisciplinary perspecti... more This thesis studied children exploitation, rape, and paranoia from an interdisciplinary perspective, namely, ecocriticism and psychoanalysis.The concepts of ecoconsciousness and dwelling were applied to analyze the selected works’ environmental places, such as gardens, forests, landscapes and so forth. On the other hand, psychoanalysis was specified to Freud’s concept of anxiety to analyze the protagonists’ anxious feelings caused by children exploitation, rape, and paranoia.By utilizing these concepts, the study unraveled the selected works’ natural settings as being therapeutic exits for the protagonists’ anxiety. Thus, the selected works’ the protagonists in the selected works are studied as seeking solace and peace of mind in nature. Therefore, the dissertation aimed to examine nature and anxiety in John Burnside’s novels The Dumb House (1997), The Locust Room (2001), and A Summer of Drowning (2011). The study achieved three objectives. The first objective examined the selected ...
This article explores the interdisciplinary ecocriticism in John Burnside's novel The Locust Room... more This article explores the interdisciplinary ecocriticism in John Burnside's novel The Locust Room (2001). The article's main focus will be on ecocriticism and psychoanalysis as a conceptual framework. Using ecocriticism, the concepts of dwelling and ecoconsciousness will be applied as ecocritical concepts to analyse the environmental nature depicted in the novel. On the other hand, the concept of anxiety will be utilized to explore the psychological anxious feelings of the novel's protagonist, Paul. The protagonist's psychological anxiety develops throughout the plot. The cause of his anxious sufferings is the male-rape phenomenon which is common at his university campus. To get rid of his anxiety, the protagonist tends to live in alienation to escape rape, and he decides to live in natural settings alone with animals and insects. Accordingly, the study follows a textual analysis of the environmental settings to argue nature as an exit for the protagonist's anxiety. The interdisciplinary interconnection between ecocriticism and psychoanalysis will be elaborated by citing Cheryll Glotfelty's concept of ecoconsciousness, Greg Garrard's concept of dwelling, and Sigmund Freud's concept of anxiety.
This article examines the development of paranoia in John Burnside's A Summer of Drowning. The st... more This article examines the development of paranoia in John Burnside's A Summer of Drowning. The study will mainly focus on anxiety as the main cause of the protagonist's anxious feelings. The protagonist, Liv, suffers from paranoid feelings as a result of drowning her schoolmates. Consequently, she becomes psychically anxious.Her anxiety intensifies when she meets people whom she suspects of complicity in murdering her schoolmates.The study, in this respect, will follow a textual analysis of the protagonist's paranoia which constitutes her anxiety.It will provide a close reading of the protagonist's behaviors, feelings, and suspicion of other people.These behavioral attributes will be scrutinized as lucid indications of her psychic disorder. As such, Sigmund Freud's concept of anxiety is going to be applied in order to analyze the latent causes of the protagonist's anxiety, and paranoia thereof. The application of Freud's concept of anxiety will be detailed by discussing the psychoanalytical critical insights suitable to interpret anxiety and its negative effects upon the protagonist's behavior. She is triggered by her mother's predilection to nature, and she decides to resort to wild landscapes as exits for her paranoia.She prefers being away of people.Just so,she becomes aware of her natural surroundings, such as landscapes and meadows. Accordingly, Cheryll Glotfelty's concept of eco-consciousness and Greg Garrard's concept of dwelling will be utilized to analyze the novel's natural settings as exits for the protagonist's anxiety.Together, these concepts are going to be the interdisciplinary approach to explore the protagonist seeking of solace and peace of mind in nature.
This article examines the interdisciplinary ecocriticism in John Burnside’s The Dumb House (1997)... more This article examines the interdisciplinary ecocriticism in John Burnside’s The Dumb House (1997). The study focuses on two critical perspectives. The first of these is ecocriticism. The main focus will be on two ecocritical concepts, dwelling and eco-consciousness. The concept of dwelling will be mainly addressed by referring to Greg Garrard’s postulation of dwelling and using it to analyze natural settings in fictional works. Dwelling, therefore, will be applied to analyze the novel’s setting. Second, using eco-consciousness, the analysis will draw on Cheryll Glotfelty’s formulation of eco-consciousness and its critical interface with other interdisciplinary approaches. Psychoanalysis will be the interdisciplinary method used, along with dwelling and eco-consciousness. Sigmund Freud’s concept of anxiety is the sole psychoanalytical concept that will be used in this study. Considering anxiety reveals the novel’s protagonist’s inner feelings, caused by repression and remembering the past. Thus the novel’s natural setting is a remedial exit for the protagonist’s anxiety.
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