Modernism (tagged articles)The Everyday as Empowering: Violence and Suburban Monotony in the Interwar Writing of George OrwellFlorence Ward - In the opening of J. M. Richards’s post-war account of suburbia, The Castles on the Ground, the author's commentary is unusually sympathetic to a phenomenon that throughout the twentieth-century had either been critically neglected or judged as monotonous, conservative... Keep Reading »
Challenging the Gender Dichotomy in the Victorian Era: Reading Hemingway's Up in Michigan and Mansfield's Frau Brechenmacher TogetherKimberly Taylor - Sexual violence and coercion became hot topics in 2017, with endless headlines. However, these problems and issues are not new, nor are they confined to a single segment of society. Rather, they have longstanding roots within patriarchal society viewing the sexes as... Keep Reading »
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Consumption as Postmodern Ideology in ChinaChristopher E. Barnett - Jean Baudrillard makes the argument that in a postmodern globalized world, in which competing utopian metanarratives from both sides of the political spectrum have been exposed as failures, society is no longer constructed or ordered through common political ideology... Keep Reading »
Appellate Attorney as Storyteller: A Postmodern Analysis of Narrative in Appellate BriefsMichelle Villanueva - The idea that narrative has an important role to play in the legal process is not a particularly radical one, at least since the rise of the scripted courtroom drama as entertainment. After all, this is a common genre in television and movies. The courtroom drama is... Keep Reading »
The Drama and Romance of Suicide in "Mrs. Dalloway" and "Madame Bovary"Jessica N. Laird - Is it noble to take your own life? Across the ages there have been many different interpretations of the morality of suicide, leading many novels to portray and examine the act. In Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, a traumatized veteran Septimus takes his life rather... Keep Reading »
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