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Another Approach to Serenity: An Analysis of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis
By Nicholas Lénart For the course Introduction to College English-Liberal Arts Instructor: Liana Bellon Another Approach to Serenity: An Analysis of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis Much like the Romantics who idealized the act of deliberately withdrawing oneself from society, Kafka, in his novella entitled The Metamorphosis (1915), stresses the remedial benefits of alienation. Throughout the course of the novella, Gregor Samsa, a middle class traveling salesman, having ostensibly been transformed into a “gigantic insect” (Kafka 414), experiences the great tribulations…
Analysis of “August” by Christopher Dewdney
By Rachelle Zipper for the course The Green Fuse Instructor: Prof. B. Sentes Analysis of “August” by Christopher Dewdney In Christopher Dewdney’s “August”, the author looks back at the title month from the end of October. In doing so, he is reminded of the brevity of life, thus evoking melancholy. This emotion is evoked both by depicting atemporal aspects of life, as well as contrasting the atemporal with descriptions of temporary entities. Dewdney explores the concept of atemporality by…
Is Hockey a “low culture” Event?
By Alessandro Rea for the course English 101 Instructor: Gina Granter Is Hockey a “low culture” Event? The essay, ‘‘Hockey Etiquette for the Beginner”, written by Albert Koehl, discusses how hockey is a legitimate cultural event with its own social rules. According to Albert Koehl, hockey deserves to be considered as a “high culture” rather than “low culture” activity (91). In his essay he compares opera and hockey, and Koehl tries to attract people unacquainted with hockey to look…
Challenging the Exterior
By Max Pancer for the course Rhetoric Instructor: Roy Cartlidge Challenging the Exterior The view out of the fogged window was worse than I had anticipated. The sky was a mixture of white and ash grey, with not a strand of blue nor a streak of sunshine in sight. Below stood drooping trees, which appeared to have had their lives drained. Although it was April, the wailing trees contained not a single green leaf, or a leaf of any…
The True Wildean Dandy: An Analysis of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
By Shannon Maroutian for the course Introduction to College English Instructor: Liana Bellon The True Wildean Dandy: An Analysis of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) incorporates the unconventional philosophies of the Wildean dandy, which are divided among the three main characters: Dorian Gray, Basil Hallward, and Lord Henry. By creating a true dandy out of specific aspects of various characters rather than making one character entirely a dandy, Wilde…
It is Never Too Late . . .
By Alanna Nussbaum for the course The Castaway Narrative Instructor: Rebecca Million It is Never Too Late . . . “’He is exalted a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance, and to give remission’” (Defoe 98). In the novel Robinson Crusoe, the author, Daniel Defoe, expresses the idea that repentance is possible – it is never too late to return to G-d. The author effectively brings out this idea by using logos and rhetorical questions, examples, and allusion….
Feminism in “The Boarding House”
By Bridget Butler For the course Literary Criticism Instructor: Prof. Neil Hartlen Feminism in “The Boarding House” While feminist criticism does, as its name suggests, concern itself with women and women’s issues, it also encompasses a much broader area of study. Not only does it deal with works by female authors and consider feminist points of view, it also examines the ways in which male authors portray women in their works. An example of this is James Joyce’s “The…