How Anorexia Nervosa Is Expressed in Sylvia Plath’s Poetry
Modernity in the Western world has certainly provided humanity with new valuable means and improvements in almost all spheres of…
Escaping Paranoia with Drugs and Alcohol in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49
Reading a text that is intentionally full of paranoid patterning and over-patterning by its author could instill the characters’ feeling…
The Contrasting Journeys of Odysseus and Candide
Almost since the rosy-fingered dawn of Western literature, many literary works have revolved around a journey of a hero. Throughout…
Countering Pornography with Poetry
In her constitutive essay from 1989, “Pornography: On Morality and Politics,” Catharine MacKinnon censures the legal stance of pornography harshly…
The Divine Comedy’s Reverberations in Mad Men and The Sopranos
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is one of the most iconic and famous texts ever written, which has been influencing other…
Girdle Power – Subjecting the Female Body through Poetry
In the chapter “Docile Bodies” from Discipline and Punish, the French philosopher Michel Foucault explains his theory that since the 17th…
Xenophobia and Immigration Anxieties in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the unmistakable villain is Count Dracula, a powerful vampire from Transylvania who endeavors to pervade Victorian London…
King Arthur’s Death in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur and Tennyson’s Idylls of the King
The legend of King Arthur is one of the most famous medieval stories ever known that still resonates even with…
Michel Foucault and the Silenced Female Voice in Hollywood
In the twentieth century, a few very impactful literary theories regarding voice and silence in the Western discourse were developed…
Connected: House and Character in A Rose for Emily
In the short story by William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily, there is a significant connection between the character of Emily and…
Dream Visions: Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess vs. de Machaut’s Fountain of Love
In his poem, the Book of the Duchess, Geoffrey Chaucer reworks some of the themes and events from Guillaume de Machaut’s Fountain…
The Sultan’s Mother in Trevet, Gower and Chaucer’s Stories
In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Man of Law tells the story of a Roman woman called Constance, who undergoes great travails…
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night in Anne Sexton and Don McLean’s Works
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night is one of the most famous paintings in the history of art, inspiring and influencing multitudinous…
Feminism in Mary de Morgan’s “A Toy Princess”
Mary de Morgan’s “A Toy Princess” is a fairy tale that revolves around the social norms and expectations of women…
Ekphrastic Beheadings – Analysis of Alicia Ostriker’s “Caravaggio” Poem
In her poem, “Caravaggio: The Painting of Force and Violence” (2005), Alicia Ostriker offers a vivid ekphrastic account of the…