But We Sing it Anyway: Understanding female agency on a textual and metatextual level through Sappho’s fragments, Jane Austen’s Emma, and Anais Mitchell’s Hadestown
Although women play pivotal roles in narratives surrounding love and relationships, as wives, girlfriends, mothers, daughters, and sister, mainstream scholarship agrees that there is a strong tendency toward female characters being denied the agency freely given to male characters, which allow them to propel the narrative and make active choices.
Culture and Consumption: The Importance of Food within Typee and Unfamiliar Fishes
Understanding a culture’s relationship with its food can be one of the best ways of examining how its society functions. Food can be viewed as a necessity to keep humans alive, but it can also be viewed as an integral form of cultural expression, an indicator of economic values, and as a gateway to cultural destruction.
Stop Acting Like a Know-It-All
I do not know everything. Nobody does, and anyone who claims they do actually does not, but they do not know that they actually do not know. Mankind is inherently ignorant, and Friedrich Nietzsche explores this complicated and humbling account of man in On the Genealogy of Morality, exploring how little people know themselves.
Finding Liberation Amidst Laughter: The Misread Matrona in Plautus’ Amphitruo
As bright lights illuminate the stage of the Jericho Arts Center, an elderly woman wearing a pink dress and a pregnant belly emerges from the darkness. No laughter sounds from the audience.
Lower The Masks And Unlock The Cage Door
A Bird In The House by Margaret Laurence is a vibrant collection of short stories which builds on the complexities of fictional characters, while simultaneously utilizing animal symbolism, as a satire of the real relationships and people that they represent.
The Queering of the Self in Herman Melville’s Typee
Herman Melville’s 19th-century novel, “Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life”, is a self-reflection on Western culture, as well as the Western moralities that dominated social culture during Melville’s time. Tommo, the protagonist, is shown throughout the text to both admire and fear islanders’ physical forms and open sexuality.
“Under the Veil,” into “Double-Consciousness”: W. E. B. Du Bois in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric and Kendrick Lamar’s “u” and “i”
On October 7, 2014, American poet Claudia Rankine published her mixed-media book-length poem and series of lyric essays, Citizen: An American Lyric. Five months later, on March 15, 2015, American rapper Kendrick Lamar released his third studio album, To Pimp A Butterfly. Both works explore race-related trauma in the contemporary black American experience through experimentations in form and genre.
Angels: Feminine Salvation and Gendered Damnation in Crime and Punishment
There is no denying the significance of the women who occupy the world of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. It is a work distinguished by its complex, colourful, and memorable female characters.