In the last few decades, literary critics have increasingly drawn insights from cognitive
neuroscience to deepen and clarify our understanding of literary representations of mind …

This article rereads JM Coetzee's Foe (1986) and its intertextual bond with Daniel Defoe's
Robinson Crusoe (1719) in the framework of cognitive poetics to shed light on the complex …

Using Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), we examine JM Coetzee's Foe (1986) to explain
how the conceptual metaphor" ARGUMENT IS WAR" is central to the novel's thematics and …

The 21st century is an era marked by an extensive and explicit interest in gender, identity,
and social media across the world, and China is no exception despite it being labelled as …

The present study pivots on the individual analysis of the antipodean writersnovels Jack
Maggs by Peter Carey and Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones the retellings of Great Expectations by …

This article examines JM Coetzee's use of intuitive and interpretive exchanges within and
across the tripartite structure of Diary of a Bad Year (2007). It argues that Coetzee rejects …

Via the use of 'seeing'strategies (pictographization) rather than just 'telling'strategies
(textualization), Booker-prize shortlister, Stephen Kelman, in Pigeon English, successfully …

Today, for any literary tradition to establish its recognition at the global level, the most
compelling condition is to get translated into English. At present only those literary traditions …

Generic transformation of the castaway novel is made evident by the various ways in which
the narrative boundaries that separate fiction from reality and history, the past from the …

Asserting that Coetzee's representation of the body as subject to dismemberment counters
the colonial representation of the other's body as exotic and erotically-charged, this study …