Papers by Airlie Maria Heung
Mark Roche’s book Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century inspired the idea to relate Ruskin’s... more Mark Roche’s book Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century inspired the idea to relate Ruskin’s social theories to a present-day case study. Hong Kong after a century colonized by the British Empire was handed over back to China. While many things that the British government established such as the legal and economic system stayed the same, China was increasingly involved in the governing of the city and changes soon surfaced. In recent years, Hong Kong has been criticized rightfully as a cultural desert and now a crony capitalist city. This was first brought up during the West Kowloon Cultural Center project’s swift change to become a real estate project manipulated by government officials and tycoons. The controversy now manifested into life, with skyrocketed real estate prices crowning the world charts, also contributed to Hong Kong’s seat as the city with the highest crony capitalism index. As the residents of Hong Kong grow more aware of the governments’ manipulation which subsequently led to the umbrella revolution in 2014, I would also like to lend Ruskin’s theories in Stones of Venice and Political Economy of Arts to look into the declining architecture and cultural values in the West Kowloon Cultural Project. I would also like to look at Unto this Last to investigate the crony capitalism in Hong Kong and demonstrate both the government and the individuals’ moral duty to achieving wholesome happiness.
Before meeting Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath expressed in her journal her deep desire to travel and co... more Before meeting Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath expressed in her journal her deep desire to travel and commented “A brief nomadic existence before plunging into the next great phase” (96). This love for travelling was matched with her and Hughes interest in D.H. Lawrence’s interest in a nomadic way of life as well. What sparked this project was a lecture we had outlining the narrative ellipsis of Plath and Hughes story in the summer of 1959 when they traveled around America. This project hopes to look at a short story penned by Plath inspired by their time in Yellowstone Park and some of Hughes’s poems in response to that. It hopes to demystify Sylvia and Ted’s relationship during that summer and further develop the discussion of this canonical literary couple that was left mute by Plath’s death and Hughes’s thirty years of silence.
This is a presentation write-up for my research and analysis on Ted Hughes's The Blue Flannel Sui... more This is a presentation write-up for my research and analysis on Ted Hughes's The Blue Flannel Suit in his 1998 collection Birthday Letters. It takes a look at it's conception, narrative voices, poetic mechanisms, imagery, themes, relation to A Pink Wool Knitted Dress and canonization.
In Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton and North and South we see protagonists that come from differe... more In Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton and North and South we see protagonists that come from different socioeconomic classes and hence having different approaches towards social issues. The Barton household represents a struggling, less educated working class family, with a reckless father and relatively naive daughter. The Hale household is made up of a southern gentry family, with a parson father and virtuous daughter. While there are many differences in the development of the two novels, perhaps one of the most important is that Mary Barton lacks many meaningful dialogues between classes whereas such dialogue is plentiful in North and South. This paper will focus on North and South, and will claim that the dialogues that takes place between the Hales, the Higgins and the Thorntons allows a mutual education between the interlocutors.
Generations of scholars have analyzed the culminating tale of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury T... more Generations of scholars have analyzed the culminating tale of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales—The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale, asserting the confessional theme, sermon structure, sacramental hermeneutics or reconciliation results of it. While looking at these assertions, it is intriguing to find how these themes and structures reflect our current Roman Catholic Sunday mass. This essay will attempt to piece these approaches together as the sequential components that mirror our Sunday Eucharistic celebration. This essay will suggest the Pardoner’s confession to the other pilgrims in the Prologue mirrors The Penitential Rite. Most importantly this essay will bring forth the idea that the first part of his tale reflects the Liturgy of the Word. And as he tells the tale of the old man and three rioters, it mirrors a Homily or a Sermon. Finally with the help of the Knight, the Pardoner reconciles with the Host which mirrors the Creed bringing unity upon parishioners. This paper will also look into Hans Boersma’s Heavenly Participation, and its discussion on sacramental ontology in tandem with the thesis of The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale mirroring the Roman Catholic mass. I will also reference Norman Harrington’s views on The Pardoner’s Prologue as a confessional link. Before looking at The Pardoner’s Tale as the Liturgy of the Word and a Homily, I will contrast Rodney Delasanta’s theory on the tale having sacramental elements. Although in tandem with my analysis, Delasanta’s theory can be seen as a fragment of a Roman Catholic Eucharist celebration. I will then proceed to incorporate Roger Ellis and Alan Gardiner’s debate on whether The Pardoner’s Tale has sermon elements, as well as Robert P. Merrix analysis of a medieval sermon structure. This essay will also briefly look into the similarities and differences of biblical reference and values The Parson’s Tale and The Pardoner’s Tale have. And with a brief look at Chaucer’s Retractions, the ending of The Canterbury Tales, will be argued as an ever-unfolding Eucharistic feast.
"Dancing" will specifically be the ballroom dances and fold dances that are popular in Austen's e... more "Dancing" will specifically be the ballroom dances and fold dances that are popular in Austen's era in suburb England. The dances are often facilitated with light and happy melodies and comprises is often done in pairs, two pairs or with all attendees of the dance party. Often the dances are in a very organized manner with strict choreography of when to turn, bow, skip or change partner. In a broader sense, "dance" in this paper can be interpreted as not only the activity of dancing itself, but the physical actual location, the atmosphere and the attendees.
Drafts by Airlie Maria Heung
Research Based Findings of Effectively Using Linguistic Jokes to Enhance Students’ Interests and ... more Research Based Findings of Effectively Using Linguistic Jokes to Enhance Students’ Interests and Inspire Them to Write More Creative Papers
Uploads
Papers by Airlie Maria Heung
Drafts by Airlie Maria Heung