Abstract In Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory (1998) and Jamaica Kincaid’s Autobiography of My Mother (1995), cooking and eating are acts that describe for us the conflicts and confusions of forming a national,...
Abstract Some works call out to readers with an invitation to play an active role in the construction of the text’s meaning. Following the insights of Roland Barthes, who deems such texts “writerly,”...
Abstract There is no doubt that the defining religious, political, and economic framework of seventeenth-century England had its influences on the Angler. Walton’s character Piscator alludes to this social framework directly when he...
Abstract The frame of Kipling’s short story “To Be Filed For Reference” is a question of belonging, of homeland, and of cultural identity. Emphasizing parallels between Kipling and Jellaludin, the Anglo-Indian protagonist, this...
Abstract Pablo Neruda began his career as an apolitical love poet and ended it as an outspoken advocate for engaged art and the Communist cause. With an analysis of crucial points in his...
Abstract This article examines the types and uses of rhetoric in Sir Philip Sidney’s sonnet sequence “Astrophil and Stella.” Astrophil’s rhetoric is informed by his roles as a courtier and lover, the two...
Abstract In Salome, Oscar Wilde expresses a dangerous relationship between sight and sexual desire that leads to death. Throughout the play, the male characters look upon the females with a sense of voyeurism,...
Abstract In his examination of art in human form, Oscar Wilde ultimately concludes that art is not a means of striving for Absolute Truth, as Plato describes Form to be. Wilde’s choice of...
Abstract Some mysteries weren’t meant to be solved, but that doesn’t stop literary critics from trying to dissect Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener.” Saber argues that Melville intentionally prevents concrete interpretation of his...
Abstract Art, as an expression of feelings, worldviews, and personal beliefs, is a reflection of our environment and how we interact with it. In this way, urban art such as rap music and...
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