Keats’s poetry on Classical relics invokes the tradition of ekphrasis, a rhetorical device that indicates a verbal representation of an artwork. While critics have explored the symbolic, often gendered, implications of these...
Killing over 50 million people worldwide in the aftermath of World War I, the 1918 influenza epidemic followed soldiers home to all corners of the globe. In New Zealand, almost 8,600 people died, approximately half the number...
In order to sustain dictatorship, achieve totalitarian governance, and actualize massive demographic and imperialist goals such as a population increase of twenty million people and the creation of a new Roman Empire,...
Japanese American Incarceration during World War II, often referred to as “internment,” remains a dark part of United States history. This paper explores three memoirs by Nisei, or second-generation Japanese Americans: I Call...
This thesis explores the constant negotiation between cultures for Mexican migrant workers in the United States. To examine this negotiation between the American and Mexican cultures, Tomás Rivera’s novel …y no se lo tragó la...