This project explores the ways in which Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter enacts a sort of generational trauma, as defined by Marianne Hirsch, as Hawthorne attempts to separate himself from his Puritan ancestors and ...
This paper examines the cultural dislocation/relocation of the hyphenated space in the term “Chinese-American” by looking at humor in relation to themes of multiplicity, transition, and instability in Gish Jen’s collection ...
In the recent history of literary studies, audience-oriented criticism emerges as a dominant trope for understanding the relationships between texts, authors, and readers. Barthes’s reclassification of the reader as a ...
In confronting the influence of the railroad on literature and film, John Dos Passos’ 'U.S.A.' trilogy [...] is worth scrutiny. Written across the 1930s, 'U.S.A.' spans the first three decades of the new century and navigates ...
Humbert’s passing phrase—“photographic memory”—may appear to be a playful, yet eager attempt to credit his self-centered narrative focus and persuasive control of language with photography’s apparent believability. But for ...
Behind its mask, the problem this paper pursues is the problem of drama in narrative. Often when discussing narrative, describing the text's work in dramatic terms becomes a compelling, though largely metaphorical mode of ...
I argue, two of the primary frameworks by which the academy currently conceives of the human subject fundamentally intertwine, as the Nietzschean thought which has dominated postmodernity conceives of itself on the most ...