International Journal of Literature and Arts

Volume 12, Issue 2, April 2024

  • Research Article

    Romanticism and Nonviolence: Percy Bysshe Shelley Exhumed

    George Ewane Ngide*

    Issue: Volume 12, Issue 2, April 2024
    Pages: 16-26
    Received: 15 February 2024
    Accepted: 6 March 2024
    Published: 11 April 2024
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    Abstract: This paper posits that in his prose and poetry, Percy Bysshe Shelley (an English poet of the Romantic period) articulates both the philosophy and methodology of nonviolence as a response to oppression, repression and marginalisation. It also contends that although his theory significantly impacted the formation of the philosophies and socio-politic... Show More
  • Research Article

    Dual Narrative Progression and Metaphors for Noise in Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time

    Shengjie Zhao*

    Issue: Volume 12, Issue 2, April 2024
    Pages: 27-33
    Received: 3 April 2024
    Accepted: 22 April 2024
    Published: 8 May 2024
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ijla.20241202.12
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    Abstract: In The Noise of Time, Julian Barnes once again turns to the writing of biography after Arthur & George (2005), and this time he experiments by tactfully setting dual narrative progression which is the combination of the overt plot and the covert progression. Also, the word “noise” in the title The Noise of Time has double metaphorical meanings, whi... Show More