Literature

Revenant Narratives and the Representation of Demonic Lovers in English Gothic Ballads

Maggie E. Sadler - The Demon-Lover functions as a significant motif in English Gothic ballad tradition, which scholar Hugh Shields articulates as a “supernatural intrusion into a narrative which is of this world” (Shields p. 107). While this intrusion implies the violent... Keep Reading »

16th-Century Clapback: The Manipulation of Poetic Devices in Sir Philip Sidney's An Apology for Poetry

Adeola P. Egbeyemi - Often thought to be a recent development of pop culture, writers have been using biting clapbacks in response to criticism since antiquity. This essay will explore how poet and scholar Sir Philip Sidney effectively manipulated poetic devices in An Apology For Poetry... Keep Reading »

The Eumenides, Antigone and the Nature of Objective Justice

Patrick F. Sheils - Justice in The Eumenides is established as an objective entity and it is in The Eumenides that it is solidified as a concept which has causal power over the material world. This metaphysical abstraction seeks to gain purchase through interpersonal relationships and... Keep Reading »

Foreignness and Freedom in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

Abigail Slater - In recent years, questions of racial, religious, and sexual inequalities across classic literature have left many educators and students wondering if the canon of Western works are sufficient in portraying the many diverse peoples that existed during these time periods... Keep Reading »

Reconstructing Ruin as Future: Rethinking the Spatiotemporality of Race and Gender in Glissant and Spillers' Middle Passage

Yiyang Chen - Intersecting Edouard Glissant’s poetics with Hortense Spillers’ theory of race, gender, and sexuality alchemizes a new conception of the Middle Passage’s spatiotemporality. With the slave trade haunting the living, this paper attempts to orient a... Keep Reading »
 
 

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Gothic Literature
2021, Vol. 13 No. 04
Revenant Narratives and the Representation of Demonic Lovers in English Gothic Ballads
By Maggie E. Sadler
The Demon-Lover functions as a significant motif in English Gothic ballad tradition, which scholar Hugh Shields articulates as a “supernatural intrusion into a narrative which is of this world” (Shields p. 107). While this intrusion... Read Article »
British Romantic Literature Gothic Literature Folktales English Literature
Poetry
2021, Vol. 13 No. 04
16th-Century Clapback: The Manipulation of Poetic Devices in Sir Philip Sidney's An Apology for Poetry
By Adeola P. Egbeyemi
Often thought to be a recent development of pop culture, writers have been using biting clapbacks in response to criticism since antiquity. This essay will explore how poet and scholar Sir Philip Sidney effectively manipulated poetic devices in... Read Article »
Poetry Poetic Devices English Literature Philosophical Poetry
Ancient Greek Literature
2021, Vol. 13 No. 03
The Eumenides, Antigone and the Nature of Objective Justice
By Patrick F. Sheils
Justice in The Eumenides is established as an objective entity and it is in The Eumenides that it is solidified as a concept which has causal power over the material world. This metaphysical abstraction seeks to gain purchase through interpersonal... Read Article »
Justice Objectivity Morality Ancient Greek Literature Sophocles
English Literature
2021, Vol. 13 No. 03
Foreignness and Freedom in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe
By Abigail Slater
In recent years, questions of racial, religious, and sexual inequalities across classic literature have left many educators and students wondering if the canon of Western works are sufficient in portraying the many diverse peoples that existed during... Read Article »
Christopher Marlowe Shakespeare British Literature English Literature
Comparative Literature
2021, Vol. 13 No. 03
Reconstructing Ruin as Future: Rethinking the Spatiotemporality of Race and Gender in Glissant and Spillers' Middle Passage
By Yiyang Chen
Intersecting Edouard Glissant’s poetics with Hortense Spillers’ theory of race, gender, and sexuality alchemizes a new conception of the Middle Passage’s spatiotemporality. With the slave trade haunting the living, this paper attempts... Read Article »
Comparative Literature Comparative Philosophy Queer Theory Black Feminism Postcolonial Literature Poetry Feminist Theory Middle Passage Slave Trade
Classics
2021, Vol. 13 No. 02
Penelope, Helen, and the Ancient Greek Spectrum of Femininity: Observations of Womanhood in the Homeric Epics
By Jenn Beardsley
Although most Ancient Greek literature focused on male characters, a literary analysis of Homeric poetry reveals an inquisition of femininity, motherhood, and what it meant to be a woman in Ancient Greece. Throughout the epic The Iliad and its sequel... Read Article »
Homer Ancient Greece Ancient Greek Literature Classics Epic Poetry
Poetry
2021, Vol. 13 No. 02
Death in John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" and "The Eve of St. Agnes"
By Anne R. Hill
This paper explores Keats’ depiction of death in “Ode to a Nightingale” and “The Eve of St. Agnes.” “Ode to a Nightingale” juxtaposes two types of death. The first kind of death is a drowsy union with nature... Read Article »
Romanticism John Keats Death English Poetry
American Literature
2021, Vol. 13 No. 02
Sensationalism of Trauma in American Film and Literature
By Clare M. Nee
The Virgin Suicides written by Jeffrey Eugenides, as well as Sofia Coppola’s film adaptation, utilize the literary and cinematic tropes of suicide to explore female suicides as romantic notions and assertions of agency within the teenage world... Read Article »
Trauma Suicide American Literature Popular Culture Film Studies
African-american Literature
2021, Vol. 13 No. 02
The Graphic Novel as Argument: Visual Representation Strategy In Kyle Baker's Nat Turner
By Jacqueline Rodriguez
Traditional slave narratives follow a set of conventions that helped abolitionists recognize them as factual and trustworthy stories. Previously enslaved authors subverted those conventions to take control of their narratives and expose white abolitionists... Read Article »
Nat Turner Slave Narrative Graphic Novels African-American Literature American Literature
Gothic Literature
2021, Vol. 13 No. 01
Edgar Allan Poe and Race: Analyzing the "Absent Negro" Trope in Gothic Literature
By Jennifer Celeste
Edgar Allan Poe is known for writing about a wide variety of controversial topics, such as death, murder, and addiction. However, one topic that his work tends to avoid is race and/or racism. Instead, he often chooses to include marginalized groups... Read Article »
Edgar Allan Poe Gothic Literature Race Thing Theory American Literature
Classic Literature
2021, Vol. 13 No. 01
Material Nostalgia in Classical and Early Modern Drama
By Marnie J. Monogue
The inescapability and influence of the past becomes most discernable with homecoming. A particularly powerful sense of nostalgia concentrates in textiles, especially when these objects purposefully invoke the past. More often than not, theatre... Read Article »
Drama Classics Shakespeare Ancient Greek Literature Nostalgia
English Literature
2021, Vol. 13 No. 01
The Development of the Modern Author in Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto and Strawberry Hill
By Megan E. Ritchie
Much contemporary literary criticism has been devoted to Horace Walpole’s novel, The Castle of Otranto; so, too, has much criticism been directed toward the author’s villa, Strawberry Hill. And yet the conversations surrounding... Read Article »
English Literature Gothic Literature Architecture Authorship Authorial Presence Horace Walpole
American Literature
2021, Vol. 13 No. 01
Reading Religion in Literature: Toni Morrison, Luisah Teish, and Postsecular Theory
By Kayla R. Drummond
The postsecular turn of the late 1990’s refers to the emergence of a critical theory which challenges an important modern assumption: that secular ideologies are inherently more valid and truthful than religious ideologies. Other developments... Read Article »
American Literature Toni Morrison Postsecular Theory African-American Literature Secularism
English Literature
2020, Vol. 12 No. 12
Courtly Love in Chaucer: Characters as Commentary in "The Franklin's Tale," Troilus and Criseyde, and "Parliament of Fowls"
By Noelle E. Equi
Through major works including “The Franklin’s Tale,” Troilus and Criseyde, and “Parliament of Fowls,” Chaucer illuminates the complexity of the popular writing trope of courtly love. His accounts of courtly love border... Read Article »
Geoffrey Chaucer Courtly Love English Literature Canterbury Tales
Comparative Literature
2020, Vol. 12 No. 12
The Subversion of Conventional Charisma in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: Part One
By Ching Yan Clarissa Lee
This paper focuses on the manifestation of an unorthodox charisma in the devil figures of John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust: Part One. Using the respective connotations of ‘charisma’ with... Read Article »
John Milton Goethe Comparative Literature English Literature German Literature Devil Charisma Drama
 
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