Literature

The Captain's Compromise: Political Symbolism in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno

Brian Chen - Until the outbreak of civil war, the United States would continually try and fail to subdue the existential threat of slavery, with each attempt exacerbating the sectional tensions between slave and free states. In 1830, Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster claimed... Keep Reading »

The 'Versipel' Charles Kinbote in Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire

Brenda S. Tolian - Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov is a masterpiece of literature that seems to transform into a remarkably personal experience for anyone who approaches the text. The book reads in many ways like a game full of mysteries and innuendos and has in its postmodern approach... Keep Reading »

Class, Gender and the Anxieties of Meritocracy in Jacobean England

Joshua B. Black - The staged plays of the early Jacobean period are valuable textual products for the literary critic, the cultural researcher and the historian alike. These plays are significant containers of knowledge about the mutually reinforcing social and political tensions of... Keep Reading »

Learning to Love the Absolute Other in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley

Madeleine A. Gallo - Innocent lamb, savage tiger, free-flying eagle – time after time animals interrupt poetry as the ideal, the muse, the hero, or the grotesque operating alongside humanity. In tracking animal imagery throughout contemporary Irish poetry, we may run the risk of... Keep Reading »
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The Poetics of Witnessing in the Works of Seamus Heaney

Dipsikha Thakur - In his poem ‘Punishment’ from the poetry collection North (1975), Seamus Heaney picks up the voice of a witness who is suspended between the possibilities of love, silence, voyeurism, outrage and above all, the understanding of the process of violence that... Keep Reading »
 
 

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American Literature
2019, Vol. 11 No. 01
The Captain's Compromise: Political Symbolism in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno
By Brian Chen
Until the outbreak of civil war, the United States would continually try and fail to subdue the existential threat of slavery, with each attempt exacerbating the sectional tensions between slave and free states. In 1830, Massachusetts Senator Daniel... Read Article »
English Literature American History American Slavery Herman Melville American Civil War
Postmodern Literature
2019, Vol. 11 No. 01
The 'Versipel' Charles Kinbote in Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire
By Brenda S. Tolian
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov is a masterpiece of literature that seems to transform into a remarkably personal experience for anyone who approaches the text. The book reads in many ways like a game full of mysteries and innuendos and has in its... Read Article »
Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire Sexuality Dualism Postmodern Literature Russian Literature
English Literature
2019, Vol. 11 No. 01
Class, Gender and the Anxieties of Meritocracy in Jacobean England
By Joshua B. Black
The staged plays of the early Jacobean period are valuable textual products for the literary critic, the cultural researcher and the historian alike. These plays are significant containers of knowledge about the mutually reinforcing social and political... Read Article »
Social Class Gender Roles Political Culture John Webster Jacobean Literature
Poetry
2018, Vol. 10 No. 10
Learning to Love the Absolute Other in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley
By Madeleine A. Gallo
Innocent lamb, savage tiger, free-flying eagle – time after time animals interrupt poetry as the ideal, the muse, the hero, or the grotesque operating alongside humanity. In tracking animal imagery throughout contemporary Irish poetry, we... Read Article »
Seamus Heaney Poetry Irish Literature Michael Longley Animal Symbolism Naturalism
Poetry
2018, Vol. 10 No. 03
The Poetics of Witnessing in the Works of Seamus Heaney
By Dipsikha Thakur
In his poem ‘Punishment’ from the poetry collection North (1975), Seamus Heaney picks up the voice of a witness who is suspended between the possibilities of love, silence, voyeurism, outrage and above all, the understanding of the process... Read Article »
Seamus Heaney Poetry Irish Literature
Feminist Literature
2018, Vol. 10 No. 03
Challenging the Gender Dichotomy in the Victorian Era: Reading Hemingway's Up in Michigan and Mansfield's Frau Brechenmacher Together
By Kimberly 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... Read Article »
Ernest Hemingway Katherine Mansfield Feminist Literature Modernism American Literature Victorian Literature
Virginia Woolf
2018, Vol. 10 No. 01
The Birth of the Creative Consciousness: Childhood Spaces, Memory, and Psychoanalytic Play in the Memoirs of Vladimir Nabokov and Virginia Woolf
By Salman R. Patwary
Both Vladimir Nabokov and Virginia Woolf detail memories of having intense shocks into consciousness during their early childhoods, where they are suddenly aware that they are beings alive, in a reality governed by temporality and humanistic revelations... Read Article »
Consciousness Vladimir Nabokov Virginia Woolf Childhood Memoir Psychoanalysis
Chinese Literature
2017, Vol. 9 No. 12
Globalization of Chinese Online Literature: Understanding Transnational Reading of Chinese Xuanhuan Novels Among English Readers
By Yuxi Wang
Since its emergence in the 19th century, fantasy fiction has proliferated throughout the world, from the global craze of Lord of the Rings (1954) to Harry Potter (1997). As a sub-genre of fantasy based on Chinese traditional mythology and martial... Read Article »
Chinese Literature China Popular Culture Science Fiction Fan Fiction Xuanhuan
Postcolonial Literature
2017, Vol. 9 No. 11
The Body as a Weapon of Resistance in Postcolonial Short Stories: The Cases of Augusto Monterroso and Zulema de la Rúa Fernández
By Kyle S. McQuillan
The arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the “New World” at the end of the fifteenth century triggered an age of violence, oppression, and colonization that lasted until the United States took the stage as a modern colonial power in 1898... Read Article »
Postcolonial Literature Latin America Caribbean Literature Short Stories Resistance Colonialism Neoliberalism
English Literature
2017, Vol. 9 No. 10
Cognitive Embodiment and Mind Reading in Jane Austen's Persuasion
By Karah L. Smith
Empirical psychology first emerged as a scientific discipline during the eighteenth century when it was launched into the academic realm by being taught in universities, appearing as chapters in philosophy manuals, and debuting as the topic of scientific... Read Article »
English Literature Psychology Theory Of Mind Cognition Jane Austen
English Literature
2017, Vol. 9 No. 05
Aristocratism and Authoritative Politics in Behn's Oroonoko: The Existential and Socio-Political Semiotics of Death and Torture
By Conner R. Hayes
Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko offers a complex representation of the semiotic and socio-political meaning of seventeenth-century torture and death and the intersectional manner in which physical agony coincides with authoritative colonial politics... Read Article »
English Literature Aphra Behn Oroonoko Colonialism Race Death Slavery
Shakespeare
2017, Vol. 9 No. 05
The Psyscholinguistic Semiotics and Metanormative Ethics of Suicide and Death in Shakespeare's King Lear
By Conner R. Hayes
The fascination with death and the sensationalizing of suicide are prevalent metaphysical themes which traverse all Shakespearean tragedy. These brooding themes, despite their ubiquitous portrayal, take on an idiosyncratic ethical meaning in King... Read Article »
Ethics Shakespeare Existentialism Nihilism Semiotics Tragedy
American Literature
2017, Vol. 9 No. 05
Divinity in the Disguise of Mental Illness in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
By Rebecca Berezin
The character of Benjy Compson from William Faulkner’s 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury is a mythic and Christ-like figure with the divine gift of prophecy rather than the retarded man-child that the other characters in the novel view him... Read Article »
William Faulkner American Literature The Sound And the Fury Mental Illness Character Development Ontology Constructivism
African-american Literature
2017, Vol. 9 No. 04
Literary Repetition and Revision as Healing: Harryette Mullen and Suzan-Lori Parks's Collective Solution to Historical Trauma
By Zeena Y. Fuleihan
Music functions as a source of healing in Toni Morrison’s Jazz, both to the bird who is inexplicably sad and for the broken relationship between Violet and Joe, the novel’s two main adult characters. The bird cheers up and regains its... Read Article »
African-American Literature Jazz Toni Morrison Poetry Drama Literary Theory
Critical Rhetoric
2017, Vol. 9 No. 04
A Theory of Vernacular Rhetoric: Reading Dante's De Vulgari Eloquentia
By Joseph P. Zompetti
The relationships between power and rhetoric have been the subject of many recent studies, most notably from the conversation concerning “critical rhetoric” (McKerrow, 1989; Murphy, 1995; Ono & Sloop, 1992; Shugart, 2003; Zompetti... Read Article »
Dante Vernacular Rhetoric Critical Rhetoric Critical Theory Power Language
 
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