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Absurdism in Post-Modern Art: Examining the Interplay between "Waiting for...

By Elizabeth L. Bolick - Post-modern art is permeated by Absurdism. The Post-World War II Absurdist movement centered on the idea that life is irrational, illogical, incongruous, and without reason...

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Virginia Woolf on the Role of the Artist in the Modern World

By Natasha L. Richter - Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse follows the development of the painter, Lily Briscoe, as she strives to create a meaningful space for her artwork in an increasingly critical...

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Islamic Modernism: Responses to Western Modernization in the Middle East

By Yevgeniya Baraz - By the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, a large part of the Muslim world had begun to lose much of its cultural and political sovereignty to Christian occupiers from...

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Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!" and the Mysterious Rosa Coldfield

By Alicia D. Costello - William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! begins in the year 1833, when the stranger, Thomas Stupen, rides into Jefferson, Mississippi, and promptly begins building himself an...

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Rebecca West's "The Return of the Soldier": Analyzing the Interrelationship...

By Emily R. Hershman - Rebecca West’s 1918 novel The Return of the Soldier dissects the socioeconomic and psychological tensions wrought by the upheaval of the First World War. In a nuanced reiteration...

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Postmodernism in Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle"

By Derek D. Miller - “No damn cat, and no damn cradle.” (Vonnegut 66). This quote encompasses the satiric postmodern themes of absolute truth in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle. There are several significantly...

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Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried": Postmodern Fiction for a Postmodern War

By Laurence R. Kowalewski - In the western history of human existence the event, idea, and act of war stands totemic in the landscape. Borders both physical and mental have been defined by its threat...

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"The Glass House" as Gay Space: Exploring the Intersection of Homosexuality...

By Mark J. Stern - Philip Johnson is, without a doubt, one of the most famous architects of the 20th century. He was also gay, a fact known to some in his intimate social circle but certainly not to...

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Dialogic Conflict and Speech Identity in Jean Rhys'"Let Them Call it Jazz"

By Grace E. Afsari-Mamagani - The books at her disposal, about murder and ghosts, speak to society’s understanding of crime, punishment, and the afterlife. But, for Selina, it is not “at all like those...

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The Drama and Romance of Suicide in "Mrs. Dalloway" and "Madame Bovary"

By Jessica N. Laird - Is it noble to take your own life? Across the ages there have been many different interpretations of the morality of suicide, leading many novels to portray and examine the act....

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Appellate Attorney as Storyteller: A Postmodern Analysis of "Narrative" in...

By Michelle Villanueva - The appellate process, on the other hand, has a completely different set of priorities. Rarely do television courtroom dramas depict the proceedings of an appellate court, and...

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Absurdism in Post-Modern Art: Examining the Interplay between "Waiting for...

By Elizabeth L. Bolick - Post-modern art is permeated by Absurdism. The Post-World War II Absurdist movement centered on the idea that life is irrational, illogical, incongruous, and without reason...

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Virginia Woolf on the Role of the Artist in the Modern World

By Natasha L. Richter - Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse follows the development of the painter, Lily Briscoe, as she strives to create a meaningful space for her artwork in an increasingly critical...

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Islamic Modernism: Responses to Western Modernization in the Middle East

By Yevgeniya Baraz - By the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, a large part of the Muslim world had begun to lose much of its cultural and political sovereignty to Christian occupiers from...

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Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!" and the Mysterious Rosa Coldfield

By Alicia D. Costello - William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! begins in the year 1833, when the stranger, Thomas Stupen, rides into Jefferson, Mississippi, and promptly begins building himself an...

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Rebecca West's "The Return of the Soldier": Analyzing the Interrelationship...

By Emily R. Hershman - Rebecca West’s 1918 novel The Return of the Soldier dissects the socioeconomic and psychological tensions wrought by the upheaval of the First World War. In a nuanced reiteration...

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Postmodernism in Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle"

By Derek D. Miller - “No damn cat, and no damn cradle.” (Vonnegut 66). This quote encompasses the satiric postmodern themes of absolute truth in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle. There are several significantly...

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Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried": Postmodern Fiction for a Postmodern War

By Laurence R. Kowalewski - In the western history of human existence the event, idea, and act of war stands totemic in the landscape. Borders both physical and mental have been defined by its threat...

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"The Glass House" as Gay Space: Exploring the Intersection of Homosexuality...

By Mark J. Stern - Philip Johnson is, without a doubt, one of the most famous architects of the 20th century. He was also gay, a fact known to some in his intimate social circle but certainly not to...

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Dialogic Conflict and Speech Identity in Jean Rhys'"Let Them Call it Jazz"

By Grace E. Afsari-Mamagani - The books at her disposal, about murder and ghosts, speak to society’s understanding of crime, punishment, and the afterlife. But, for Selina, it is not “at all like those...

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