Books by Pamessou Walla

This book is a collection of eight academic papers and a synopsis of the Romantic poetry. It accounts for the study of the tragic pattern in Shakespeare¿s tragedies, the study of the uncanny in Shakespeare¿s Macbeth and Hamlet, the study of the relationship between Setting, Human Character, and Destiny in Shakespeare¿s Hamlet, the adventure story and intertextuality in Daniel Defoe¿s The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and Samuel Butler¿s Erewhon, the contrast of formalist and biographical literary theories, the place of materialism in human happiness in Dickens¿ Hard Times, political corruption and intellectual activism in Henrik Ibsen¿s An Enemy of the People, the process of language defamiliarization in T. S. Eliot¿s poem ¿The Journey of the Magi¿, and finally The Synopsis of the English Romantic Poetry with Wordsworth and Coleridge.

This book is a collection of eleven critical essays on English drama from the Renaissance period to the postmodern era opening insights into feminist issues and contrasting traditionalism and modernity.This book is mainly based on the English drama, exploring feminist issues, the struggle between women and men throughout history with women trying hard to subvert and shake off the yoke of male power and domination and men trying hard to maintain the status quo. A selection of plays by William Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Caryl Churchill, W. Somerset Maugham, David Hare, Henrik Ibsen and Edward Bond is thoroughly studied to allow the readership perceive class and gender issues and their relationship with modernism and postmodernism. Specifically, an emphasis is laid on the representation of modern women and the new roles they play against the traditional ones that were in force in the traditional English society heralding the Modern Age. Issues such as women liberation, women emancipation, women fulfilment and women freedom in modern society are studied in relationship with the aesthetics of traditional and modern drama based on the challenges of women emancipation, changes in the society, sexual politics, sexual liberation, obsession of violence, war mania, perversion and subversion of traditional values, etc.

This book peruses human nature and the tragic vision in the light of William Shakespeare¿s tragedies. The three tragedies under my analysis: Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello are domestic tragedies since they raise the issue of racism and call for the conflict between husbands and their wives, between an uncle and a nephew, love and incestuous relations, disloyalty in marriage, and the notion of father and mother. Human nature is therefore striking and entirely embedded in these three Shakespearian dramas through the confrontation of male characters with female ones in a dialectics of power and reciprocal domination. This research work shows that all races and all sexes fall equally in the traps of bad human nature and cruelly endure the consequences of their pranks, their shortcomings, their imperfections, their unreasonable impulses, their excessive ambitions, their immoderate passions, their vengeance and their jealousy. The good or bad human nature then depends neither on the skin color nor on the sex of the human being: whether black or white, man or woman we are all liable to evil. Thus, this book shows that we have to develop the culture of acceptance and tolerance bearing in mind that everybody is fallible and has to feel responsible and stay watchful over his own human nature sometimes misleading, sometimes worth of praise.