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 ...
William Gaddis’ 1955 novel The Recognitions concerns a young painter, Wyatt Gwyon, and his involvement in a forgery ring in New York City. The characters of Gaddis’ New York, alongside Wyatt’s forged artworks, are observed ...
This thesis explores Poe's representations and understandings of race in Pym. After grounding the reader in racial understanding of Poe's time (1830's), the thesis explores binary theory in the context of race, where the ...
Although Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis is primarily concerned with questions of science, the text subtly questions the politics of identity through the liminality of the artificially created Michi. As an artificial being, Michi ...
This thesis discusses how the poet Christina Rossetti uses the body and mind as a poetic merger to better access and understand her spirit. Through her devotional poetry, Rossetti reclaims the body's role in Biblical ...
Film genres, as seen from the traditionally structuralist perspective in film and genre studies, are necessarily defined by convention, and film noir is not an exception—in fact, it often exemplifies the rule. This paper ...
Each text has a unique depiction of time and space, a particular way it leads its readers through narrative reality. This sensation of movement through time and space — referred to as a text’s chronotope — is often a product ...