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Chaos and Consensus in Victorian Comic Literature
Read the full article here: In this essay I will be discussing the statement that ‘the dominant movement in Victorian Comedy is from...
Chloe Jane Mansola
Sep 4, 20222 min read


Exploring the City through Kōbō Abe’s The Ruined Map and Yutaka Takanashi’s Toshi-e
Read the full article here: In this essay I will discuss how the city is explored in Kōbō Abe’s novel, The Ruined Map (1967) (hereafter...
Eleonora Soteriou
Sep 4, 20221 min read


The Performance of Femininity in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September
Read the full article here: Many of the best-known texts of the Irish Literary Revival deal with a crisis of masculinity. John Millington...
Ana Orbegozo Desdentado
Sep 4, 20222 min read


“Spell-bound”: Queer Futurity and Material Transfiguration in the Sketchbooks of Derek Jarman
Read the full article here: Expansive, palimpsestic, the many sketchbooks crafted and compiled by Derek Jarman throughout his creative...
Jakob N. Tynan
Sep 4, 20221 min read


Sexuality as Degeneration within Modernist Writing of Empire
Read the full article here: The modernist writing of Empire appears to encapsulate an obsession with sexuality; a preoccupation which is...
Rosaleen Keehan
Sep 4, 20221 min read


The Power of Political Persuasion
Read the full article here: Both Tony Kushner’s play Angels in America and Muriel Spark’s novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie are...
Ella Ross Russell
Sep 4, 20221 min read


Embracing Limit and Extravagance in the Elegies of Mark Doty
Read the full article here: In The Poetry of Mourning, Jahan Ramazani argues that the best modern elegies offer “not a guide to...
Max Lister
Sep 4, 20221 min read


Alchemy, Natural Cycles, and Discomposure: The Representation of Love in the Renaissance Sonnet
Read the full article here: As a period defined by tremendous cultural upheaval, the Renaissance encouraged the reimagining of the...
Roman Ashurbekov
Sep 4, 20221 min read


The Removal of the Female Characters from the Plot of The Iliad
Read the full article here: Across Homeric writing, female characters are passively presented to maintain their role as natural victims....
Aanya Mitra
Sep 4, 20221 min read


‘Goblin Market’ - A Close Reading
Read the full article here: ‘Goblin Market’ by Christina Rossetti explores the commodification of sexuality and virtue, and acknowledges...
Tatun Harrison-Turnbull
Sep 4, 20221 min read


The Futility of Anger in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger
Read the full article here: John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger depicts the disorientation of the post-war British generation. With the...
Willow Courtauld
Sep 4, 20221 min read


Development of the Self in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey
Read the full article here: Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey are both Romantic texts that focus on nascent...
Toby Appleyard
Sep 4, 20221 min read


Chinua Achebe’s Ethnographic Response to Imperial Romance
Read the full article here: Literary critics have long interpreted Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart as a conscious retelling of African...
Moomal Ahmed
Sep 4, 20221 min read
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