Literature

The Development of the Modern Author in Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto and Strawberry Hill

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 these two entities... Keep Reading »

Reading Religion in Literature: Toni Morrison, Luisah Teish, and Postsecular Theory

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 in literary... Keep Reading »

Courtly Love in Chaucer: Characters as Commentary in "The Franklin's Tale," Troilus and Criseyde, and "Parliament of Fowls"

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 on satire and criticism... Keep Reading »

The Subversion of Conventional Charisma in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: Part One

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 positive charm, and... Keep Reading »

Resurrecting the Bog Queen: Exploring the Gender Politics of Ireland's Bogs in Postcolonial and Nationalist Literature

Rosie Ryan - Bogs are one of Ireland’s most notable and mysterious landscapes. As explored in the work of Seamus Heaney, the bog’s capacity to preserve memory across generations makes it a melancholic terrain that is uniquely suited to explorations of Ireland’... Keep Reading »
 
 

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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
Irish Literature
2020, Vol. 12 No. 10
Resurrecting the Bog Queen: Exploring the Gender Politics of Ireland's Bogs in Postcolonial and Nationalist Literature
By Rosie Ryan
Bogs are one of Ireland’s most notable and mysterious landscapes. As explored in the work of Seamus Heaney, the bog’s capacity to preserve memory across generations makes it a melancholic terrain that is uniquely suited to explorations... Read Article »
Irish Literature Women's Studies Nationalism Colonialism British Imperialism Gender Politics
Classics
2020, Vol. 2020 No. 1
Exploring the Concept of Time Using Metaphor in The Aeneid
By Ziyang N. Su
Published by Inquiries Journal: Special Editions
Time has always been an abstract concept in human languages. To better understand how this temporal concept is addressed in different languages, it can be explored in the context of classical times through Latin texts. In the well-known piece The... Read Article »
Classics The Aeneid Virgil Time
Medieval Literature
2020, Vol. 12 No. 10
Racialized Discourse and Economies of Female Saracen Bodies in The Sultan of Babylon
By Claire Crow
The fifteenth-century Middle English romance "The Sultan of Babylon" partakes in the Orientalist literary tradition through the poet's linguistic economy of the Other. The paradoxical shortages and surpluses of ethnic descriptors of East female... Read Article »
Saracen Medieval History Middle Ages Islamic Middle Ages Charlemagne Women in Literature Medieval Literature
Comparative Literature
2020, Vol. 12 No. 10
Redemption and Reconciliation in Oedipus at Colonus and Gran Torino: A Comparative Reading
By Lingxiao (Linda) Gao
This paper presents a comparative analysis of Oedipus at Colonus, a play written by the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles, and Gran Torino, an American film directed by Clint Eastwood. The two literary productions, although remote as they seem,... Read Article »
Comparative Literature Sophocles Clint Eastwood Tragedy Reconciliation Atonement
American Literature
2020, Vol. 12 No. 09
Poststructuralism and Female Identity in Sylvia Plath's Ariel
By Lillian G. Robles
Sylvia Plath’s posthumously published collection of poetry, Ariel, is perhaps best defined by the vivid imagery that delves deep into Plath’s psyche. Throughout the collection, Plath explores dimensions of herself: her past, present,... Read Article »
Poststructuralism Identity Sylvia Plath Poetry American Literature
Shakespeare
2020, Vol. 12 No. 09
The Politics of the Spectacular and the Poetics of the Specular in William Shakespeare's Richard II
By Mohamed Anis Ferchichi
When finally, … Richard dashes the mirror to the ground, there shatters not only Richard’s past and present, but every aspect of a super-world … The features as reflected by the looking glass betray that he is stripped of &hellip... Read Article »
Shakespeare Richard II Elizabethan Plays Literary History Tudor England
Shakespeare
2020, Vol. 12 No. 09
Chaos and Dissimulation in Ian McEwan's Modern Retelling of Hamlet
By Margherita Codurelli
This paper analyses Ian McEwan’s reuse of Shakespeare’s material in his retelling of Hamlet from the unusual point of view of an unborn child. By considering its plot, characters, setting and main issues, McEwan’s novel Nutshell... Read Article »
Ian McEwan Shakespeare Hamlet Chaos Murder Revenge
Existentialism
2020, Vol. 12 No. 09
Ergodic Textuality in Egan and Ozeki: The Rhetorical Dialogism of Time Being
By Taylor G. Hein
Human beings decided that time is linear. We continually assert that is made up of the past, present, and future, proceeding infinitely and mercilessly in an exclusively forward motion. Thus, our lives and our relationships are experienced linearly... Read Article »
Rhetoric Fiction Philosophy Existentialism Time Intersubjectivity
Gender Dynamics
2020, Vol. 12 No. 02
Gender Dynamics in The Sheik as Novel and as Film Adaptation
By Sophie Hammond
The 1921 Hollywood film The Sheik tells the story of Lady Diana Mayo, a spirited English peeress who, on a trip to the French Sahara, is kidnapped by and eventually falls in love with the Arab sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan. The film made Rudolph Valentino... Read Article »
Film Studies Colonialism Feminism Racism Gender Roles Stereotypes
English Literature
2020, Vol. 12 No. 02
The Everyday as Empowering: Violence and Suburban Monotony in the Interwar Writing of George Orwell
By Florence 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... Read Article »
George Orwell English Literature Suburbia Interwar Period World War II Suburbia Urban Modernism
American Literature
2019, Vol. 11 No. 10
Trauma and Silence in No-No Boy: An Interdisciplinary Reading
By Yuxin Zheng
Depicting the rugged reintegration of Ichiro Yamada, a no-no boy imprisoned during WWII, Japanese American author John Okada presents a traumatized and conflicted Japanese American community during the mid-1940s in his novel No-No Boy (1957). Applying... Read Article »
American History American Literature Trauma PTSD Japanese Americans Coping
 
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