This paper examines Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy, focusing on the ways in which the novel mirrors the parallels between writing and the attempted obliteration of cultural, linguistic, and religious difference in India after...
For this thesis, I study the novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. The novel is large in its affective and intellectual scope. On Earth weaves multiple competing and interlocking spheres of violence, trauma,...
Although fantasy novelist J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973) and modernist poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) lived and wrote concomitantly, no one calls them contemporaries. By comparing the works of these two writers, this paper reveals...
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...