Sound is not welcome in Wilkie Collins’ utopic, nameless neighborhood—a “no place,” or more appropriately, a “noiseless place.” Collins’ incredible attention to visual and aural detail in the opening pages of Hide and Seek ...
I am looking at how Antarctic exploration functions as a belated extension of the colonial imagination. This is important because the British nation has attempted to use polar exploration as iconic of their larger enterprise, ...
This paper engages with an alternative mode of examining foundational elements of the academic discourse of videogames; specifically, the concept of “player” and “character” and the relationship between them. The fiction ...
While many think of the database as a culturally-neutral object that exists solely to retrieve data, this paper examines historical and literary examples of the database as an agent of narrative. It is crucial to understand ...
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 ...