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Guy McEntarffer It was this hysterical, out-of-the-ordinary, bizarre form of evil… So what you did instead was laugh at him, at the absurdity, at the monumental crudeness of it. – Toni Morrison Toni Morrison‘s literary impact cannot be overstated, and this is reflected in the plethora of secondary literature regarding her writing. Nearly every aspect…

Jubilee Close In 1934, the Hollywood film industry was slapped in the face when Joseph Breen was appointed to enforce the Hays Code. The original intent of the Code was to keep the hands of government censorship off of cinema, but after being campaigned by the Catholic Legion of Decency, it became a way for…

Zeytin Ercan Throughout the course of art history, the female nude has frequently appeared as an important subject for artists from a variety of backgrounds and artistic disciplines. Certain details of these portrayals of the nude female body, such as the identity of the subject, the composition of the piece, and the positioning of the…

Hazel Carroll The Otherworld features at the center of both Immram Brain and Echtrae Chonnla, as is customary of both Immram and Echtrae tales. Both have also been the center of much scholarly debate over their Christian elements, in particular how they seem to deviate from other Immram and Echtrae tales around this topic. Immram…

Gwynn Maitlen “19th Century European Art” is a simple term for a broad subject. The 1800’s contained many art movements that explored vastly different stylistic traits and meanings, such as Classicism and its emphasis on rational thought, or Romantic Landscape painting and its emphasis on the divinity of nature. Despite their differences, though, there is…

Kai Woitalla On December 7, 1941, Japan launched a military attack on Pearl Harbor. Two months later, Executive Order 9066 was issued, and launched the relocation of approximately 112,000 Japanese Americans (“Japanese-American Incarceration during World War II”). The topic of this relocation has been largely discarded by the public, resulting in a lack of education…

Zoe Tedesco The Modernist movement, described by Maurice Beebe in the Journal of Modern Literature as an “international revolution in literature and the arts” (Bebee 1066), demonstrated the importance of poetic imagery and established free verse, with its appealing unrestrictiveness, as a dominating form of poetry. Importantly, Modernist art and poetry became nearly inseparable during…

Max Russell O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.  She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes  In shape no bigger than an agate stone  On the forefinger of an alderman,  Drawn with a team of little atomi  Over men’s noses as they lie asleep.  Mercutio’s “Queen Mab” speech in Romeo and…

Brandon Roberts In twenty-first century America, it is common to conflate American religiosity with American nationalism. The “Protestant Ethic” and the “American Dream” are historically intertwined to such an extent that they may seem inseparable—Christianity appears everywhere in American life, from foreign policy to household structures, and every American president in recent memory has been…

Hazel Carroll Over the centuries, the general meaning of the word mother as a female parent has remained largely the same. Despite this, the connotations of the term have shifted clearly over time. Throughout the Middle Ages into the early period of the English Renaissance, we see the word mother appear particularly in two connotations:…