Common readings of Tom Stoppard’s 1993 play Arcadia take Hannah’s line “It’s wanting to know that makes us matter” as an unqualified affirmation of the quest for knowledge, even in the face of disorder and epistemic ...

In my thesis, I examine how Birdie’s existence, action, and environment all make the case that any kind of racial utopia will not erase race but embrace it. Specifically, it will embrace blackness, the essential “mixed” ...

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 ...

A technologically-dependant village in a fantasy land use magic to summon new technicians. Unfortunately, there was a mistake in the spell and two people from “our” world were transported, instead of people from the fantasy ...

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 ...

While Thomas Malory borrows most of the plot of the final division of Le Morte Darthur from La Mort le Roi Artu and the stanzaic Morte Arthur, he displays originality by deepening the thoughts, feelings, and internal ...

“Through the Wardrobe: A Comparative Analysis of C.S. Lewis’s Common-Man Christianity in Radio Talks and Fairy Tales” is an essay looking at two different works of C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia, a children’s fantasy ...

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 ...

This paper explores Ian McEwan’s novel Saturday using affect theory and a postcognitivist lens. The novel follows a neurosurgeon named Henry Perowne carrying out weekend activities around London against the backdrop of the ...

This essay presents an analysis of Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel White Noise that investigates the metaphysical and psychological ramifications of information saturation within the context of late capitalism. Through an exploration ...