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Literature 22	To the Lighthouse: Isolation, Mourning, and the Need for Sympathy Two years after publishing Mrs. Dalloway in 1925, Virginia Woolf wrote To the Lighthouse—yet another memorable work to become included among Woolf's impressive repertoire of... CriticalOtaku May 9, 2014
Literature 28	Mrs. Dalloway: A Society Brooding in the Aftermath One of the most influential people of the modernist period, Virginia Woolf's writing style and portrayal of characters are unlike any... CriticalOtaku May 6, 2014
Literature 19	Jacob’s Room: A Retrospective Look at Society Leading up to World War I When I first read a work by Virginia Woolf, it felt like one, long, tedious experience—how interesting can it be to read... CriticalOtaku May 6, 2014
Literature 16	The Great Gatsby: The Human Being a Moral Agent Ideas about what makes up a human being in terms of moral agency has existed for centuries and continues to... Elaina Chastain May 4, 2014
Literature 18	A Scanner Darkly: Drug Culture, and American Paranoia While you may be familiar with Philip K. Dick’s work as the inspiration for movies like Minority Report or Blade Runner, you... Nick May 4, 2014
Literature 14	Panopticons in Literature: Psychological Effects and Societal Allegories Social theorist Jeremy Bentham's original projection for a panoptic prison, made it so a prisoner never knew if he was... Kristin Ronzi May 3, 2014
Literature 11	Distorted Class in John Fowles’s The Collector While many people assume that today’s world places a higher value on equality, there’s one system of inequality that remains—class.... PerkAlert May 2, 2014
Literature 43	Captain Underpants as a Critique of the Public School System In a wild time, a gallant hero once fought mutant toilets, a Medusa lookalike that gave wedgies, and bionic boogers.... Austin Apr 30, 2014
Literature 49	Joanne Rowling’s Works and How They’re Connected People dressed up as their favorite fictional characters camping in front of book stores, ready to buy the shelves empty... Mette Marie Kowalski Apr 30, 2014
Literature 31	Woolf versus Kafka: A Look at the Different Methods of Literary Modernism Literary modernism is an experimental method of writing that rejects conventional elements and structures and by doing so, challenges realism’s... Siobhan Calafiore Apr 27, 2014
Literature 7	Looking at Art in Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward What becomes of fine art in the ideal democratic society where citizens have equal rights and equal access to wealth?... ceglio Apr 26, 2014
Literature 30	The Making of Middle Earth and its Mythos: Subcreation vs Allegory Subcreation, a term coined by J. R. R. Tolkien, is at its core built on philosophical ideas of perception and... Christina Cady Apr 21, 2014