Shortly after the acclaimed publication of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, critics anticipated the publication of his second novel in the hopes that it would address many of the ambiguities posed by Invisible Man. Critics ...

In the popular media we often find claims that for French philosophers in general, and Michel Foucault in particular, there is no such thing as truth. Foucault's assertion in the 1975 text Discipline and Punish that power ...

Shakespeare's Cymbeline has been criticized for its confusing plot, but also for the unexpected arrival of Jupiter on an eagle in the last act. However, this intrusion from Roman mythology is wholly appropriate within ...

The traditional reading of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit, published in 1943, seeks to identify the various tenets commonly associated with Sartrean existentialism, namely that man is an absolutely autonomous individual, ...

The American novelist Willa Cather, whose career spanned the first four decades of the twentieth century, avidly immersed herself in the public issues of her time. The progression of her novels suggests a thematic shift ...

Throughout the centuries the heroic ideal has changed ? from the Greek Olympians to present day conceptions of the heroic life. My research focuses on the search for a new definition of heroism, based on living a meaningful ...

The role of women in Anglo-Saxon society is a subject that is hotly debated by scholars of the period. While scholars like Gillian Overing argue with feminist perspective that the women of this era were put in positions ...

As a Classical philologist, Friedrich Nietzsche was interested in the study of Homeric epic. In my view, this early philological interest in Homer played a fundamental role in Nietzsche?s later thought. Nietzsche?s philosophy ...

Sex and the City chronicles the lives of four contemporary women and is often touted as a groundbreaking television series for its representation of independent and successful women who defy traditional conventions ...

e.e. cummings is a poet widely recognized as being one of the most inventive and experimental writers in his field. Yet, despite his revolutionary style, critics often dismissed the significance of his poetry as being ...