Though not necessarily recognized as a major canonical work of English literature, Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel Brave New World is the paradigm of the modern social satire. The novel, a combination of dystopia, satire, science ...

This thesis examines desire in Nabokov's Lolita in order to explore the nature of representation and to suggest another way to read this controversial text.

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 ...

The novel as organism is about modeling the exchanges that govern organisms (both scientific and physical, conscious and social), that should govern explorations, and that ultimately govern authentic reading. In Fowles’s ...

The narrative of Lolita is designed to incite an oscillation in the reader between feelings of desire and disgust. Humbert conveys his desire for Dolores, the 12‐year‐old girl‐child, and invites the reader to share in his ...

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. ...