The aim of this essay is to identify the key components of Toni Morrison's aesthetics in Sula as well as their cultural and political implications. In the novel, Morrison establishes a new aesthetic paradigm by refocusing ...
Through the lens of J. Hillis Miller's notion of catachresis, this paper examines problematic scenes in Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV and Henry V, particularly concerning the depiction of the national or linguistic Other. ...
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 ...
My Senior Essay explores how power, passion and politics interact with one another in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. I argue that Huxley's novel imagines a dystopian society wherein biopower operates as the primary mode ...
In his long poem Paterson, William Carlos Williams struggles to create inventive and moving poetry without using trite language or accepting “meaning” - incomplete truth conveyed through always inadequate language. This ...
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 ...
This essay examines Shakespeare’s history plays as an exploration of the place of theatricality in politics. Over the course of two tetralogies, Shakespeare enters into the Early Modern theatrical discourse by presenting ...
The purpose of this study is to examine Gerty MacDowell in Nausicaa, Chapter 13 of James Joyces Ulysses, and how her overwhelming femininity affects her disability, and how that conflation of femininity and disability ...