These essays were submitted by students who took Arts One in 2015-2016 and selected to be published in this annual journal of Arts One student work, entitled ONE. Please see this page for more information about the journal.
Though the essays are provided here for public reading, they are all still copyrighted to their respective authors (listed on each article) and may not be reused or reposted without express permission of those authors. Of course, paraphrasing or quoting from them with proper citation is encouraged!
Sigmund Tzu and the Dream World
May 30, 2016
On Freud’s Dora and Chuang Tzu’s Zuangzhi
By John Wragg
When examining Freud’s usage of the dream world in his diagnoses, it is fascinating to see the similarities in which he approaches dreams and Chuang Tzu utilizes dreams, as Chuang Tzu is quite famous for his passage in the Zhuangzi, the butterfly dream. Despite a couple of millennia, and drastically different cultures separating the two men, their approach and philosophy regarding dreams as a tool to connect the dream and real world, a tool to discover of oneself, and as a tool to heal is extremely surprising in their similarity.
Anne Frank: The Young Girl and the Writer
May 30, 2016
by Tessa Mouzourakis
Instead of generalizing Anne’s self-awareness as a product of growing-up, her writing presents an image of division, as two versions of her character emerge throughout the novel. It is by reason of the small space the Annex provides and Anne’s own creative tendencies for self-reflection that her character separates between conflicting emotions and identities, that of optimism and realism; the young girl and the writer.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, and Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead
January 13, 2014
Video of lecture by Miranda Burgess for the “Remake/Remodel” and “Explorations and Encounters” themes
Antigone
January 7, 2014
It is not always entirely clear who (if anyone) or what is the tragic hero(ine) in Sophocles’s Antigone, or what exactly is the nature of their tragedy. One might have thought that the tragic figure was the eponymous Antigone herself, … Continue reading →
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Aimé Césaire, The Tragedy of King Christophe, and Derek Walcott, Henri Christophe
November 25, 2013
Video and Powerpoint of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of this World
November 18, 2013
Video and Powerpoint of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
Silence and Speech
November 9, 2013
This week, I’d like to talk about a chant–a little ear-worm, if you will–that has been embedded in my mind for decades. It’s an unpleasant puzzle why, when I’ve forgotten other arguably more useful and less damaging things, somehow I … Continue reading →
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality
November 4, 2013
Video of lecture by Robert Crawford for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
October 28, 2013
Video of lecture by Robert Crawford for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
October 21, 2013
Video of lecture by Miranda Burgess for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
October 15, 2013
Video of lecture by Miranda Burgess for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
Naming the unknown –– Antigone’s Claim by Judith Butler
October 7, 2013
What we have here is The Ambiguous Case of Antigone, where she is “unintelligible and unthinkable”. So… why do people even bother trying to understand her? Here’s why I think so many people have attempted to define and classify Antigone … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Judith Butler, Antigone’s Claim
October 7, 2013
Video of lecture by Jill Fellows for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
Sophocles, Antigone
September 30, 2013
Video of lecture by Robert Crawford for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
I believe you but you don’t know what you’re saying? — Gorgias by Plato
September 23, 2013
I am confused by a very simple point in Plato’s Gorgias. If Gorgias claims that what oratory is is simply being able to persuade a person or crowd without knowledge that he is knowledgable in something he actually isn’t, then what does … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Kant, “Conjectural Beginning of Human History”
September 16, 2013
Video and Powerpoint of lecture by Christina Hendricks for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
Remake/Remodel Intro
September 9, 2013
Powerpoint, Prezi, and video of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray, Miranda Burgess, Robert Crawford, Jill Fellows, and Christina Hendricks for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
Repetition and Sisyphus
September 4, 2013
“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than … Continue reading →
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Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen
March 25, 2013
Video of lecture by Kevin McNeilly for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme
J M Coetzee, Foe
March 18, 2013
Video of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme
Neil Jordan, The Crying Game
March 11, 2013
Powerpoint of lecture by Brian McIlroy for the “Explorations and Encounters” theme
Roberto Arlt, Jorge Luis Borges, Felisberto Hernández, Selected Stories
March 4, 2013
Video of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and Franz Kafka, “The Metamorphosis”
February 25, 2013
Video of lecture by Jill Fellows for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme
T S Eliot, The Waste Land
February 21, 2013
Video of lecture by Kevin McNeilly for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
February 4, 2013
Audio of lecture by Jill Fellows for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
January 28, 2013
Powerpoint of lecture by Deanna Kreisel for the “Explorations and Encounters” theme
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
January 21, 2013
Audio of lecture by Jill Fellows for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme
Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace
January 21, 2013
Powerpoint of lecture by Renisa Mawani for the “Explorations and Encounters” theme
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
January 14, 2013
Video of lecture by Kevin McNeilly for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality
January 14, 2013
Video of lecture by Brandon Konoval for the “Explorations and Encounters” theme
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
November 19, 2012
Video of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
November 13, 2012
Audio of lecture by Rob Crawford for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme
John Banville, Doctor Copernicus
November 12, 2012
Powerpoint of lecture by Brian McIlroy for the “Explorations and Encounters” theme