Fiction and Philosophy in Novel Without a Name and the Disappeared

Abstract

While Duong Thu Hung's Novel Without a Name (1995) describes the bloodshed in the jungles of central Vietnam towards the end of Vietnam War (1959-1975), Kim Echlin embarks her narrations in The Disappeared (2009), about a decade after the collapse of Pol Pot's genocide (1975-1979) in Cambodia. Philosophy however, is waved into fiction in order to add layers of depth and meaning to their narrations. Role of ideology and its effect on human life are among the major themes discussed by the authors. This study employs a close study of the above texts to discover the philosophical phrases used by the authors. It also illustrates how philosophy enhances meaning in fiction and contributes to its authenticity.

Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages via System of “Voice over internet protocol” and Language Interactions Case Study: Skype

“…At the case of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), using tasks for communicative exercises has achieved widespreading admission (Jabarouti, Wei, & Mani, 2013;O'Dowd & Ritter, 2006;Richards, 2003) descriptions of what forms of task in CLT are different, but an agreement exists that the concept widely is connected to meaningful tasks, relating to real-life, holding certain consequences (O'Dowd & Waire, 2009;Rosell-Aguilar, 2006). Such activities might be convergent (Duff 1986) and hence strongly formed leading to a special output or vice versa they can be weakly organized, divergent and open-ended.…”