http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/319/jeremy-s-page 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 Sun, 24 May 2026 07:01:01 -0400 Sun, 24 May 2026 07:01:01 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/358/retelling-the-stories-of-the-holocaust-in-shoah-and-maus-distorted-images-of-a-monstrous-past By Jeremy S. Page - An artist, especially one who works with the visual media, is bound to come across obstacles in his creation of a work that represents or recollects images of the Shoah (i.e., the Holocaust). Precisely how does one represent an almost industrial genocide on such an enormous scale? Shoah and Maus take two very different approaches in their attempt to represent the experience of the death camps, and Maus in particular is a deliberate distortion of the image, but in retelling the stories, the testimonies, experienced by survivors of the camps using such deliberate artifice, both texts are capable... Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:46 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/358/retelling-the-stories-of-the-holocaust-in-shoah-and-maus-distorted-images-of-a-monstrous-past http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/355/fangbangers-tin-soldiers-and-living-toys-fictional-creatures-becoming-real By Jeremy S. Page - The divide between human and non-human, real and not-real, is a problem frequently explored in texts about toys and undead creatures. Even the term ‘undead’ is problematic, for while the undead are not ‘dead’ in the truest sense, they are still not ‘alive' (Perhaps ‘not not dead’ would be a more appropriate term!). The three texts for discussion in this paper, Robin McKinley’s novel Sunshine, Hans Christian Anderson’s perennial short story The Steadfast Tin Soldier, and Margery Williams' The Velveteen Rabbit all delineate between the real or... Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:08 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/355/fangbangers-tin-soldiers-and-living-toys-fictional-creatures-becoming-real http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/350/in-what-sense-are-short-poetic-texts-a-narrative By Jeremy S. Page - We can categorize poetic texts into three distinct types: the narrative poem, or poem that tells a story; the epic poem, or a long narrative poem on heroic subjects; and the lyric, in which a poet or speaker expresses an emotional state. (Schweibert: 166)1 However, if we follow Abbott’s view that narrative occurs ‘as soon as we follow a subject with a verb...’ then it makes sense that indeed every poetic text is a form of narrative. It is thus the focus of this essay to show, using examples from Hughes, Heaney and Glück, that elements of narrative are contained in all poetic... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/350/in-what-sense-are-short-poetic-texts-a-narrative http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/345/review-of-john-bernards-theatricality-and-textuality-the-example-of-othello By Jeremy S. Page - Bernard begins his article by identifying the friction that exists between the performed text and that which appears in print, or more precisely, the opposing scholarly positions that such a division creates; he indicates that the affinity between these two approaches to reading dramatic texts, that is the “text-centred and stage-centred” (931), is not often recognised. While it stands to reason that a text designed for playing upon the stage will contain elements of meaning that are not present in its written form, Bernard is nevertheless confronted with the problem of theoretically... Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:32 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/345/review-of-john-bernards-theatricality-and-textuality-the-example-of-othello http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/343/all-the-worlds-a-stage-shakespeares-theatrum-mundi-of-romance By Jeremy S. Page - Most famously soliloquized by the melancholy Jacques in As You Like It, the sentiment behind Theatrum Mundi was not invented by Shakespeare; there are accounts of Henry V possessing a tapestry depicting the seven ages of man, and in 1544 German artist Hans Baldung painted Die sieben Lebensalter des Weibes (The Seven Ages of Women) . Nevertheless, it is clear from the dramatic texts that Shakespeare was highly aware of the predominating weltanschauung, and perhaps combined it with his extensive knowledge of the theatrical conventions of the time to explore his view of human existence. Shakespeare... Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:27 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/343/all-the-worlds-a-stage-shakespeares-theatrum-mundi-of-romance http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/340/cyborgs-and-robots-a-logically-ordered-existence By Jeremy S. Page - Ilene Serlin's statement does not simply establish an opposition between the 'logically ordered' state and the state of 'spirit and soul,’ but creates expectations of the latter. A society based on order and logic defends its citizens from the ‘darkness to be contained’ (145) which, for Serlin, seems to be an integral part of a natural (human) existence - the je ne sais quoi that separates humanity from hybridised 'Cyborg' creatures. This paper applies Serlin's analysis to the logic/spirit dichotomy portrayed in the Dr. Who episode Dalek and Beckett's young adult novel Genesis... Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:56 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/340/cyborgs-and-robots-a-logically-ordered-existence http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/338/memoirs-and-confessions-the-hybrid-form-of-decadent-texts By Jeremy S. Page - Decadent texts are a subclass of literature paradoxically characterised by both creation and decay, and are thus texts that resist a standard classification of genre. That is to say, Decadent texts are always operating with a dual purpose: the literary movement itself critiques and deconstructs the reigning moral and cultural assumptions, while simultaneously creating a collection of works that are to become what they have moments ago destroyed; the Decadent lifestyle is destructive to the undertaking body, yet simultaneously opens up a world of hitherto unobtainable experience. In Oscar Wilde... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:46 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/338/memoirs-and-confessions-the-hybrid-form-of-decadent-texts http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/335/inventing-their-own-plots-and#8232;the-agency-and-ambition-of-cromwell-and-macbeth By Jeremy S. Page - Most criticisms of Macbeth and An Horatian Ode focus on the differences between the two central figures.  Macbeth is the ‘abhorred tyrant,' the man who kills his sovereign for ‘o’erleaping’ ambition, while An Horatian Ode paints Cromwell in a less sinister light, rewarding him for his military and political victories both.  Treason pervades Macbeth from the first act (the traitorous Cawdor does not survive past the fourth scene), and while Charles I is hung as a traitor to his country, there is no whisper of treason for Cromwell who deposed him.  This paper... Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:33 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/335/inventing-their-own-plots-and#8232;the-agency-and-ambition-of-cromwell-and-macbeth http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/332/freudian-theories-present-in-lerouxs-the-phantom-of-the-opera By Jeremy S. Page - Contemporary adaptations of The Phantom engage with several key Freudian concepts in order to explain and justify the development and motivation of the protagonist. These concepts, while present in Leroux’s original text, have been extended and emphasised by these post-Freudian adaptations. Freud’s integration as part of contemporary popular culture allows these modern texts to make psychoanalytical assumptions about the characters in the text. For the purposes of this analysis, this essay is focused on two key Freudian ideas which are found in the... Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:36 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/332/freudian-theories-present-in-lerouxs-the-phantom-of-the-opera http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/330/challenges-faced-by-gifted-learners-in-school-and-beyond By Jeremy S. Page - Gifted learners, although possessing higher levels of intelligence than their peers, are disadvantaged in the sense that they frequently do not, or are not given the opportunity, to reach their full potential (Farmer, 1993). Krause, Bochner and Duchesne (2003:212) report that gifted learners are labeled, along with ‘gifted’, ‘talented’ or ‘creative’, as ‘underachievers’, ‘educationally disadvantaged’ or ‘special needs.’ This is primarily because schools and teachers are unaware of how to appropriately cater to these learners... Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:23 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/330/challenges-faced-by-gifted-learners-in-school-and-beyond