Recently added articles from Hecate:
From the violent to the comic through the power of the text: Nogami Yaeko reading Jane Austen in Japan.(Critical essay)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Nogami Yaeko (1885-1985) was one of modern Japan's most revered woman novelists. She was also a great admirer of the writing of Jane Austen. Nogami Yaeko first read Jane Austen as a young woman. However, in 1926, at the age of forty-one, her understanding of the English writer's work ...
Jane Austen and Kanai Mieko: comic sisterhood.(Critical essay)
Nov 01, 2008; ... A number of modern Japanese writers--both men and women--have expressed their strong respect and admiration for Jane Austen's literature. Kanai Mieko (b.1947), (1) in particular, has not only written some insightful comments about the works of the English novelist, but also novels and ...
A cross-cultural approach to Jane Austen's novels.(Critical essay)
Nov 01, 2008; ... How should we teach Jane Austen's novels? This is a question of great concern to many teachers. For example, the series 'Approaches to Teaching World Literature' includes Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Emma, and takes up this question. It shows many interesting approaches, focusing on ...
Karanga for a nuclear free pacific.(Excerpt)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi engari te toa takitini My strength is not that of the individual but that of us all together In 1962, without consultation, France declared Moruroa Atoll and other Tahitian islands as nuclear test sites. Karanga for a Nuclear Free Pacific depicts ...
Even paradise has serpents.(Short story)
Nov 01, 2008; ... I wonder if Maguy knows I am here waiting at the airport, if she's pleased I've been so summarily dealt with by the police and Monsieur Hourrichon. But she's not a malicious person so perhaps not. She's probably with Albert anyway and not thinking about me at all. Albert is all she cares ...