ARTICLES ARCHIVE
The Art of Storytelling: A Fraught Reconstruction of Truth in Spiegelman’s Maus, by Joshua Onichino
Aligned with postmodernism, Spiegelman asserts that a quest for objective “truth” is as fraught as the human condition itself.
Gilgamesh, the First Human to Disfigure Mother Nature, by Paloma Breton-Chang
The two-thirds divine Gilgamesh offers the opportunity to the human network to reflect on their brutal attempts and malpractices to dominate the Nature network.
Framing Magic Through Paradox in Peter Pan and Tuck Everlasting, by Eden Daniels
In both texts, the two paradoxically glamorize and deglamorize eternal youth and eternal life respectively, presenting them simultaneously as a gift and a cruelty that both causes and prevents danger.
Confessing Within the Stories of Others: How the Long Lines in “Howl” Allow the Speaker to Confess, by Hannah Dane
About Hannah Dane: I am in the Literature Profile of the ALC program. I wrote this essay for my Confessional Literature class, which centred on nonfiction works of personal revelation. Amongst the pieces we read, “Howl,” a poem published in 1956, written by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, intrigued me the most. A strenuously long and controversial piece, the length of the lines in “Howl” inspired me to analyze how a specific form choice could play with the central theme of…
Art for Art’s Sake: Decadence in The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Alessia Guarangna
Oscar Wilde, an aesthete, wrote in his preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray that “there is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.”
Facundo and the Funnies: How Wild Tales Reevaluates Civility vs. Barbarity, by Stefanie Capozzo
About the Author: I am currently finishing my first year as a Literature student. This essay was for my Philosophy and Culture class, which focused on comedy, what makes it funny, and the emotions that trigger laughter. Jokes can communicate more than people realize, which is what prompted me to make the connection between the film Wild Tales (2014) and its opposition to the politics expressed in Facundo (1845). I hope this essay encourages readers to think more about how…
The Intruders: Ireland’s Othering of Ethnic Minorities as Demonstrated in “How I Fell in Love with the Well-Documented Life of Alex Whelan” and “Under the Awning,” by Hocine Mektoub
Hocine Mektoub Prof. Alyson Grant English 102: Irish Literature The Intruders: Ireland’s Othering of Ethnic Minorities as Demonstrated in “How I Fell In Love With The Well-Documented Life Of Alex Whelan” and “Under The Awning” Ireland’s complex and tumultuous history has resulted in a cultural identity deeply entrenched in a knowledge and love of country. However, as two Irish immigrant authors, Yan Ge and Melatu Uche Okorie, demonstrate in their harrowing short stories, it might come down to something much…