Perry Smith's last words in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and two recent cinematic adaptations of the novel, Capote and Infamous, cumulatively challenge the concept of finality. The content and portrayal of Smith's execution ...
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 ...
In this essay, I explore the fragility of the utopian structure through the lens of Brave New World and The Tempest. The exploration starts with the essential notion that Brave New World is an ironic continuation of The ...
While Thomas Malory borrows most of the plot of the final division of Le Morte Darthur from La Mort le Roi Artu and the stanzaic Morte Arthur, he displays originality by deepening the thoughts, feelings, and internal ...
This project considers the role of discourse in the life-narratives of Dorothy Allison and Eli Clare, two authors who identify as queer authors from rural, white, working-class backgrounds. I argue that Allison and Clare ...
Drives, both literal and metaphorical, come together in The Haunting of Hill House. These drives occur in the car and in the home, two spaces that are symbolically important in terms of women’s independence and freedom, ...
This essay explores the role of the humanist designer in the creation of AI in an academic and social posthuman setting. Set on the cusp of the 21st century, Powers's pseudo-autobiographical Galatea 2.2 reimagines the myth ...
John Banville's "The Book of Evidence" posits a tension between the narrator’s conception of language as that which is incapable of fully conveying the "evidence" of the text and his desire to acquire a unity of subjectivity ...