http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/21/rebecca-a-demarest Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:35:52 -0400 Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:35:52 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/405/cest-moi-gustave-flauberts-madame-bovary By Rebecca A. Demarest - Emma is in fact pleased at herself for the quality of her mourning, emotions that run only as deep as her skin, as evidenced by the comment about the wrinkles on her brow. She is only concerned with her image, as she openly admits that she continues “out of vanity” to appear the mourning heroine. It is worthwhile to note though that Flaubert’s early work is stereotypical romantic literature. In fact, his work at times becomes so romantic that his friends jeered him and demanded he write something real (Chang). As such, this commentary about Emma’s romanticism becomes much... Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:25 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/405/cest-moi-gustave-flauberts-madame-bovary http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/366/dealing-with-time-in-an-autobiography By Rebecca A. Demarest - It is a push on the part of the author to make sense of the “temporality,” the chaos of time which is their life and recollections. The author is faced with a monumental decision in portraying his past because, as Barrett John Mandel argues, “his present creates his past ‘by inspiring meaningless data with interpretation, direction, suggestiveness – life. But as long as I live, my past is rooted in my present and springs to life with my present’” (Renza 271-272). Because of this connection between the past and present, “Temporal perspectives&hellip... Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:48 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/366/dealing-with-time-in-an-autobiography http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/312/superheroes-superpowers-and-sexuality By Rebecca A. Demarest - Superheroes have a strong influence in our society, and as such we should look at the messages that they  represent. To this end, I have examined the sexuality and gender roles that superheroes suggest through their appearance, the way they are written about, they way that they talk, the distribution of superpowers, and their relationships. I surveyed 63 Willamette University and Skyview Junior High students about their favorite superheroes and their reasons for liking that particular hero to begin my analysis, and branched from there to texts written by the companies who own the superheroes... Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:31 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/312/superheroes-superpowers-and-sexuality http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/309/a-psychoanalytic-deconstruction-of-perspective-in-john-mcgaherns-the-dark By Rebecca A. Demarest - You, he, they, and I. All of these pronouns are used in John McGahern’s The Dark to refer to the central character who, when named, is simply given a surname: Mahoney. Young Mahoney is a troubled youth who is coming of age in the brutal Irish society and culture of the 1950’s, and suffers beatings, sexual abuse, and various other traumas and embarrassments at the hands of his father, his priests, and teachers. He is in turns a care-free Irish youth, going on fishing trips with his family and studying hard for his exams, eventually winning a scholarship. But even this victory is sullied... Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:51 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/309/a-psychoanalytic-deconstruction-of-perspective-in-john-mcgaherns-the-dark http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/302/libido-and-thanatos-in-tobias-wolffs-the-night-in-question By Rebecca A. Demarest - Lucius Annaeus Seneca once said that “All art is but imitation of nature” (Bartlett’s 106) and this has held true for the centuries following him, nature and life reflected in the art and literature of its time. Art shows life in a distilled and refined vision, life perfectly encapsulated in a painting, sculpture, or short story. Tobias Wolff’s The Night in Question follows in this time honored tradition, mimicking humanity’s most basic drives and desires. Sigmund Freud hypothesized that the two most basic drives in all of mankind are the Libido and Thanatos: the... Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:27 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/302/libido-and-thanatos-in-tobias-wolffs-the-night-in-question http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/35/the-relationship-between-stockholm-syndrome-and-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-in-battered-women By Rebecca A. Demarest - The Diagnostic and Statistics Manual IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association, 2000) defines PTSD as the development of several characteristics following a traumatic experience where intense fear, helplessness, or horror is experienced. The symptoms include persistent reexperiencing of the event, persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the event, a numbing of general responsiveness, and persistent increased arousal for more than one month (APA, 2000). Abuse by an intimate partner has been repeatedly shown to increase the abused person’s likelihood of exhibiting PTSD. (Hughes and Jones... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:19 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/35/the-relationship-between-stockholm-syndrome-and-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-in-battered-women http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/29/from-comrades-to-lovers-the-hollow-men-and-the-broken-homosocial-spectrum By Rebecca A. Demarest - In Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, Eve Sedgwick proposes the idea that not only women, but also men, can travel along a social spectrum that ranges from friends to lovers. However, she argues that the male homosocial spectrum is broken up by male homophobia in society. This is illustrated in various literature, from works by openly gay authors to stories and poems by writers who are either straight or of a questionable orientation (Sedgwick). One such work is T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men,” in which the poem’s speaker uses word choice and imagery... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:32 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/29/from-comrades-to-lovers-the-hollow-men-and-the-broken-homosocial-spectrum