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A House is Not a Home: Searching for Home in the works of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, and Gish Jen
(2005-01-01)America, long considered the melting pot of global cultures and people, has evolved from a refuge for the once displaced and abandoned to a diverse and pluralistic community. As America remains a country of immigrants, it ... -
Agonistic Metaphysics: The Homeric Origin of Nietzsche's Philosophy of Active Dionysian Joy
(2004-01-01)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 ... -
Allergy, Tolerance, and the Problem of Hospitality
(2010-01-01)The problem of hospitality which remains central to the modern discourse and which touches our reality in very concrete ways, remains unrecognized by name. The ancient notion of hospitality, stemming from a rich philosophical ... -
An Anti-Existentialist Interpretation of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit .
(2001-01-01)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, ... -
An Application of Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folktale to Korean Folktales
(1999-01-01)Vladimir Propp's formula for identifying the structure of the Russian folktale is applicable to a formal analysis of the Korean folktale. Proppian analysis showed that in the Russian folktale there are identifiable basic ... -
"And they will differ, if they do, As Syllable from Sound-": Synaesthesia, Text, and the Poems of Emily Dickinson
(2009-01-01)Synaethesia, both a neurological condition and literary trope, occurs when two of the traditional five senses are yoked together in a single sensory occurrence. In the strictest sense, synaesthesia in poetics, ?is a ... -
Being-with: A Heideggerian Reading of Sociality and Becoming in The Odyssey
(2006-01-01)In his recent work on Homer?s Iliad, Professor Damian Stocking suggests that the sorrow of Achilles stems from his inability to effectively and consistently ?be? in the world as a res agens , an effect-producing agent. ... -
Between Two Ecstacies - Two Senses of Love in Post-Modern Philosophy
(2009-01-01)This essay addresses the issue of the experiences of love in post-modern philosophy, and the potential differences and similarities of the topic in the works of prominent Continental philosophers Freidrich Nietzsche and ... -
Bitter Wine: Old Comedy and Satyr As Tools of Civic Religion
(2008-01-01)5<sup>th</sup> century Athens was the site of the golden age of Tragedy. Since Aristotle and the scholiasts of Rome, Greek Tragedy has been wreathed by academics as the most noble and worthy of creations from the Attic ... -
China in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
(2011-01-01)Towards the middle of Chapter VIII in The Wealth of Nations , Adam Smith?s typically unadorned writing undergoes a brief but startling stylistic shift. This stylistic shift occurs with respect to Smith?s conception of ... -
Climbing Mount Olympus: The Moral, Intellectual, and Spiritual Dimensions of the Heroic Dream
(2003-01-01)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 ... -
Colonized Unconscious: A Post-Colonial Exploration of the Incest Narrative in Edna O?Brien?s Down by the River
(2003-01-01)Edna O?Brien?s 1997 Down by the River tells the story of 14-year-old Mary MacNamara, a victim of repeated paternal rapes. Based on the infamous 1995 ?X? case (in which a pregnant teenager was prevented from seeking an ... -
Costume in Sex and the City : Outfitting Ideas of Femininity
(2004-01-01)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 ... -
Creative Dissent: A Multidisciplinary Study of the Activist Art of Mexican Women in the Context of Gender Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border
(2005-01-01)In response to the recent gender violence along the U.S. ? Mexico Border, the women of the surrounding communities have campaigned for an end to the violence. Over the course of the last decade, these protests have developed ... -
Dante's Purgatorio: A Community of Love
(2008-01-01)Though most people are familiar with Dante?s Inferno, relatively little scholarly work has been done on the second canticle of the Divine Comedy, the Purgatorio. Of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, only Purgatory is a temporal ... -
"Desolate Exclamations": Women as the Embodiment of Nature in Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
(2001-01-01)Since its first publication in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness has been extensively analyzed by scholars. Until recently, however, there has been little critical discussion of the novel's ... -
Ecce Homo: A Theory of Nietzsche as Comedian
(2010-01-01)In 1886, Nietzsche began the project of writing new introductions for 4 of his works, and continued to write prefaces in the same manner until his descent into madness. In this paper, I propose a new viewpoint from which ... -
Evading Culpability in Postmodernist Second Person Fiction: To Whom Does the ?You? Refer?
(2006-01-01)In second person fiction, the narrator addresses another character as ?you.? The ?you? categorizes the narratee, or the imaginary person to whom the narration is directed, as a protagonist in the fictional world and a ... -
Foucault's Externalized Interiors: The Concept of the Limit in The History of Madness
(2009-01-01)Michel Foucault's History of Madness is extensive but far from complete in its analysis of madness. In fact, it has become one of the most problematic texts in Foucault's bibliography. In the 1970s, Foucault attempted ... -
From Joy to Grief: the Community of Ancient Greek 'Charis'
(2010-01-01)?Charis? is an ancient Greek concept that roughly translates as ?grace.? However, its implications extend far beyond the confines of the word itself. It played a crucial role in the canon of Greek literature, appearing at ...