by Anastasia Foley
Falling from Fiction – Analysis of Dick Diver’s Degeneration in ‘Tender Is the Night’
by Ben Linder
The Role of Letters in the Production of Knowledge in “The Spanish Tragedy”
by Anastasia Foley
The Great Gatsby Noir
by David Katzman
Jane Austen’s Emma and the Rise of Formal Realism
by Anastasia Foley
Waltzes with Words: Dancing in the Works of Jane Austen
by Julia Fields
Violence and Art in A Clockwork Orange
by Jade Lien “The soul of Art—Art as adventure, Art with its power of illusion, its capacity for negating reality, for setting up an ‘other scene’ in opposition to reality, where things obey a higher set of rules, a transcendent figure in which beings, like line and colour on a canvas, are apt to lose … Continue reading Violence and Art in A Clockwork Orange
Fantastic Tenderness in Beasts of the Southern Wild
by Elizabeth Crawford
Synchronicity and Alignment in Attenberg
by Laura Rubio In Attenberg (Tsangari 2010), scenes where the protagonists, two women, walk down a desolate, grey sidewalk with their arms interlocked, wearing matching dresses in different colors, allow for a keen understanding of symmetry and character in the film. Bella is on the left in black and Marina is on the right in … Continue reading Synchronicity and Alignment in Attenberg
Tongues: Speech as Treason in Richard II
by Jules Talbot The Elizabethan era has been characterized as a cultural moment "peculiarly receptive" to the "patterning of language," where "rhetorical forms … penetrated the vernacular self-expression" (Boyer 21). This sensitivity to language is registered and keenly reflected by Shakespeare in Richard II. First published in 1597 and performed as early as 1595, the … Continue reading Tongues: Speech as Treason in Richard II
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