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Comparing Class Across Narrative Plot Devices in Wuthering Heights and The Time Machine
Emily Brontë first published the novel Wuthering Heights in 1847. H. G. Wells first published the novella The Time Machine [...]
An Unlyrical Ode to the Bard?
Strophe Although commonly represented as a poem to a man, doing so would misrepresent many of the underlying aspects of [...]
Monsterousness
Rupetta (Sulway, 2013) is a post-modern reinterpretation of the Jewish golem fable. The mechanical “woman” created in the story has [...]
The Great Gatsby: Limits on Social Mobility
Great stories often embed many different perspectives of reality, and contain stories within stories. The Great Gatsby embeds layer upon [...]
Beauty, the Beast, and the Modern Psyche
Madame de Beaumont and Angela Carter each take an age-old story reminiscent of Cupid and Psyche (Apuleius) and change it [...]
Rage, Anger, and the Rationality of the Berserker
The wolverine is portrayed as a “vicious marauder to be feared more than valued or admired” (Shaw and Ford, 115). [...]
Canonical or Not Canonical: That Is the Question
The status of a work as a classic differs from the position as a canonical text (da Silva and Vieira). [...]
Educating the English
Edgeworth set Castle Rackrent in a period where the Irish were under English rule. Unfortunately, most English people failed to [...]
Medieval Latin: Commentary II
Carta Lucie de Brintona de tota terra quam Godwinus filius Leurich Carta Hugonis de Gurnay et Mileseint sponse sue de [...]
Medieval Latin: Commentary I
British Library, Add Charter 19790: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ch_19790_f001r P.H. Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography, Royal Historical Society Guides and [...]
The Rebirth of Anti-Semitism
The conflict between Palestine and Israel has demonstrated the combination of disagreement and agreement over collective action. Baker reported on [...]
The Woke Regression
I would like to say that the “woke” concept that is promoted at universities, including ones in the United Kingdom, [...]