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Literature 44	Translating Children Books: Difficulties and Reluctances Babar, Pippi Longstocking, Emil and the Detectives, Heidi, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils and even Asterix and Obelix or Tintin (comic books... REB Feb 18, 2016
Literature 25	Poetry and the Great War Soldiers: Necessity of Emotion In a letter to his mother early in the war, war poet Wilfred Owen says, “Do you know what would... kcecka Feb 3, 2016
Literature 32	Victorian Gender Ideology: Silenced Sexuality and Suffocating Spheres In her novel Affinity (1999), Sarah Waters questions and rejects dominant Victorian gender ideology by giving a voice to the... Morgan R. Muller Nov 4, 2015
Literature 46	The Humbling: Living in the Immaterial World The quandary that has constricted Simon Axler's life is perplexing to the point of intellectual exhaustion. It isn't as simple... ****** Jul 31, 2015
Literature 53	Analyzing Jane Eyre as a Contemporary “Bad Feminist” Jane Eyre is, pretty indisputably, Charlotte Bronte’s most popular novel. This hallmark of Victorian literature, published under the pseudonym Currer... Rachel Watson Jul 4, 2015
Literature 49	To Kill a Mockingbird: Discrimination Against Race, Gender, and Class Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird centers on a young girl named Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. Her father... Amanda Dominguez-Chio Feb 26, 2015
Literature 32	The Philosophical Pitfalls of Utopias in Literature and Film In 1969, influential experimentalist Alvin Lucier recorded himself saying, among other things, “I am sitting in a room, different from... Peek 824545301 Feb 25, 2015
Literature 37	Punk Rock in Allen Ginsberg’s Howl: Kill Your Idols to Make Yourself a God Every social movement meant to liberate humanity is constructed on the premise that humans ought to be free; that we... Matt Phillips Feb 5, 2015
Literature 37	Mahmoud Darwish and Yehuda Amichai in a Web of Opposition and Contradiction The conversation that began in The Artifice article Fear and Loathing in Israel/Palestine continues with two critical poets; Mahmoud Darwish,... Jacque Venus Tobias Jan 31, 2015
Literature 35	Eroticism and Love in Romeo and Juliet The enduring strength of Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet in part stems from a resonant argument over the nature of love between two... Nick Jan 22, 2015
Literature 23	William Wordsworth’s Lucy Poems and the Romantic Nature of Abuse In 2014 several events occurred to provoke conversations into how and why men become abusers. The questions are not new,... K.W. Colyard Jan 20, 2015
Literature 53	Life Stories: Can we handle the truth? In a recent article in the Evening Standard, David Sexton addressed the new surge in biopic films, which trace the... Jessica M Farrugia Jan 14, 2015