In The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead depicts a high-capitalist society that is focused strictly on generating further profit which creates a normative mode of understanding that is fast-paced, easily co-opted to serve ...
This essay unravels the intricacies of The Lighthouse's psychosexual dynamics as they pertain both to characters in and spectators of the film. The essay demonstrates how The Lighthouse, like other films in the postmodern ...
"They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through ...
It is summer in Massachusetts and Berj, a middle-aged Armenian immigrant from Turkey, has been haunted by recurring dreams about his deceased mother and an inability to remember his family recipes. Disconnected from his ...
Henry James' Daisy Miller follows Frederick Winterbourne's quest to define the true nature of the novella's title character, but James' true interest is the way Winterbourne makes that discernment. James uses third-person ...
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851) is more than a tale of the chase for a white whale: it is a story about how stories are told. Its speaker, Ishmael, curiously arranges his narrative in both incessant digressions from the ...
Black women in Horror continue to build on what we know as Horror. In Zakiya Dalila Harris's "The Other Black Girl," she continues this legacy of giving Horror a fresh outtake on what it means to be a Black woman in writing. ...
From an early age, American schoolchildren are taught that "'Hope' is the thing with feathers," that "Forever – is composed of Nows," that "A word is dead, when it is said, some say – I say it just begins to live that day." ...
Two points for big achievements. A single point for small ones. Five or ten points for exceptional accomplishments. When Peak, an architectural assistant from Bangkok, returns home to Chiang Mai for the New Year, he is ...
A biography charts an individual's life through time, recording important events and details such as birth, education, marriage, and eventually, death. Yet Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography (1928) subverts that expectation ...
This essay presents an analysis of Peter Markoe's 1794 epistolary novel The Algerine Spy in Pennsylvania, paying special attention to the historical context of not only the events surrounding the narrative but the author ...
On the first day of summer in the year 2103, valedictorian of the Excel High graduating class Ola Brewer-Asaju is ready for a weekend of outfits, parties, and fun with her best friend before her summer job starts. ...
This thesis focuses on two children's novels: What Katy Did, by Susan Coolidge, published in 1872, and its 2015 ‘rewrite', Katy by Jacqueline Wilson. Although Susan Coolidge was influenced by social standards of the time, ...
This paper explores Indra Sinha's novel Animal's People, a fictional representation of a real-world ecological disaster, and its imaginative implications through the theory of the posthuman. The narrator and protagonist—a ...
J.D. Salinger stormed Utah Beach as an infantry member of the D-Day invasion. For the rest of his career and life, he grappled with the trauma of the second World War. He sought restoration in many forms of therapy, physical ...
As I Lay Dying is a disorienting, anachronistic novel that depicts a poor family struggling to navigate loss, an environmental crisis, and the modernizing South. The 59 individually-narrated sections of the novel provide ...
This thesis presents the ways in which confessional poet Sylvia Plath traversed literary boundaries through her anti-normative poetics and strove to rupture what psychoanalytic critic Julia Kristeva delineates as the ...
A focus on Claudia Rankine's use of the second person in her self-described lyric Citizen, in which I argue she invites all readers toparticipate in what ends up being a form of "wake work," a term coined by Christina ...
"I sit between Gilles de Retz and the Marquis de Sade," Oscar Wilde writes to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas, known affectionately as "Bosie," from the solitude of his prison cell (54). The letter – given the title De ...
Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist (1999) is latent with racialized metaphors surrounding elevators in the early modernization of the 20th century United States. Through the use of the black box, or perfect elevator, ...