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Great Expectations and the Bildungsroman Genre

Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (1861) charts the growth of its protagonist Pip from childhood to adulthood. The narrative mode Dickens has adopted aligns his novel with the Bildungsroman genre of literature. The term Bildungsroman is a German word meaning ‘novel of formation’ or ‘education novel’. The following analysis explores some of the episodes within Great […]

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The Wedding-Guest Frame Story in Coleridge’s "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

One thing we learned about literature while completing the PhD is that the frame story matters. You know what I’m talking about even though you probably haven’t thought of it. It’s the story that comes at the beginning and end of the narrative itself. It frames it. Like in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness when […]

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Everyday Use, Alice Malsenior Walker, and the Influence of Constance Nabwire of Uganda

Social worker and home economist Constance R. Nabwire is best known for her heavily illustrated books on African cooking and recipes and the cultural connections. “Nabwire” is a feminine name that is of southeastern Ugandan and southwestern Kenyan ethnic origin and is traditionally associated with one who was born at night. “Bwire” is the male […]

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The Phosphoglucose Isomerase (Pgi) Locus in Butterfly Population

  Modelling the evolution of the phosphoglucose isomerase (Pgi) locus in butterfly metapopulations: project proposal. Background: Metapopulation theory, as developed by R. Levins in 1969, concerns the dynamics of metapopulations, which consist of several distinct local populations that exhibit some degree of interaction and occupy isolated areas of suitable habitat, referred to as patches. Each local […]

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