University of Wollongong Malaysia

Narrative Parallelism and Character Recurrence in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights has traditionally been examined through the critical frameworks of Gothic fiction, Romanticism, psychoanalysis, feminism, and class relations. While these approaches have illuminated the novel's emotional intensity and symbolic complexity, compara...

Who Calls the Bird "Minor"? Naming and Ethical Self-Correction in Robert Frost's A Minor Bird

This commentary offers a fresh reading of Robert Frost's A Minor Bird by arguing that the poem's ethical force resides not only in the speaker's final act of self-correction but also in the significance of its title. Rather than treating "minor" as an objective description of the...