"Divine William" and The Master: The Influence of Shakespeare on the Novels of Henry James

Yehoash (the pen name for Solomon Bloomgarden, 1870-1927) was a revered Yiddish poet during the interwar period, the Holocaust, and the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust.1 This essay establishes a critical methodology for recovering the work of this important Jewish poet. Before Yiddish poetry became closely identified with modernism, Yehoash’s inclusive and comprehensive aesthetic received ...

Malloy, Amanda, "Scout's daughters : race and creative development in contemporary adolescent literature" (2011). Honors Theses. Paper 117. At the heart of what Roberta S. Trites titles ―adolescent literature‖ – works written both for and about young adults—is a question of agency (Disturbing 7). In Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature, Trites asserts that adol...

Amma Darko follows in the tracks of the two leading Ghanaian women writers, Efua Sutherland and Ama Ata Aidoo. However, as a writer, Darko differs in her approach to social, political and cultural issues. Her first three novels, Beyond the Horizon (1995), The Housemaid (1998) and Faceless (2003), all present and contest the culture of patriarchy. In her works, women are victims of rape, battery...

My inquiry examines art's institutional arrangements through the present character of modern and contemporary art museums. This examination is positioned initially with the postmodernist theoretical evaluation of the art museum which argues the rupture of the modernist art episteme signaled the end of the museum and the project of constructing art's history. I limited my inquiry to museums loca...

       By the 1920s, Conrad was considered a leading modernist writer. Modernism an experimental artistic movement that took place from late 19th to mid-20th century. The main theme of Joseph Conrad’s novels is alienation. depicts cultural, political, and aesthetic dimensions modernism not only by questioning past but drawing as well on wealth cultural material pre...