"I sit between Gilles de Retz and the Marquis de Sade," Oscar Wilde writes to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas, known affectionately as "Bosie," from the solitude of his prison cell (54). The letter – given the title De ...
The subject of this thesis paper is the construction of a feral child character in late 19th - early twentieth century juvenile literature. In the late 19th century, a convergence of imperialist mentality and progressive ...
"They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through ...
Piri Thomas’ autobiography Down These Mean Streets grapples with the difficulty of selffashioning an identity against a national neglect of Puerto Rican heritage and the pressures of the impoverished street culture of ...
This paper explores Indra Sinha's novel Animal's People, a fictional representation of a real-world ecological disaster, and its imaginative implications through the theory of the posthuman. The narrator and protagonist—a ...
In Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the romantic failures of an overweight Dominican nerd are attributed to an all-encompassing curse that is passed through generations and across national borders. ...
Jane Austen's final novel poses the question of an analogy between bodily and mental frames and this essay explores the extent and nature of the connection between mind and body as rendered by the text. Recent critical ...
Tiepolo's Hound is a poem about contradiction, confusion, and conflation; of the unreliability of memory, the sudden moment of epiphany and its immediate loss, and the privileging of the parergal. This essay explores the ...
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald presents Jay Gatsby, the eponymous hero of his novel, through images framed by the narrator, Nick Carraway. Gatsby appears as the exotic ‘other’ in the first image and a wannabe ...