Loving the Enemy
The plight of the tempted man in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
and Shakespeare’s 144th Sonnet
Imaginative Tensions in the Poetry of Robert Frost
The resurgence of the Romantic spirit in “Birches”
The Arts in Chains
Greatness, limitation, and the plight of the artist in the poetry of Robert Browning
A Nice Place to be From: Escaping the Small Town Trap in Updike’s “A&P;”
The Modern Miracle in “Black Rook in Rainy Weather”
Finding the extraordinary in the ordinary
“Oh, to be in Atoms!”: Chaos and Decay in All That Fall
“The Wiser, the Waywarder”: Fear and Performance as the Basis of Gender Relationship in Shakespeare’s As You Like It
Life on the Edge of Society: Mixed Blood and Social Detachment in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
A Mental Patient’s Journal: Resistance and Freedom in “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Feminine Rebellion and the Patriarchal Specter
The omnipresence of male authority in The Winter’s Tale and Antony and Cleopatra
Martial Cause and the Construction of the Masculine
The idea of the male in Troilus and Cressida and Antony and Cleopatra
Role-Playing and the Appearance of Power
Metadramatics in The Taming of the Shrew and The Merchant of Venice
Empathy and Tragedy: The Rhetoric of Subversion in Lord Jim
The Mandate of Human Isolation
Problems of the confessional relationship in Lord Jim
Human Ethics in an Indifferent Cosmos
The problem of the unknowable in A Passage to India
Holocaust Literature and the Transformation of History
Problems of memory in The Last of the Just and The Shawl
Primo Levi and the Transformation of Language
Poetic development from Survival in Auschwitz to The Periodic Table
The Pregnant Word
Childbirth and the concept of the evolving novel in Joyce’s Ulysses
Searching for Penelope
The sexual reconciliation of the artist in Joyce’s Ulysses
Judaism and the Problem of Evil
Night as a chronicle of Jewish faith amidst persecution
In Defense of God’s Image
Dostoevsky’s dialectic of salvation in The Brother’s Karamazov
The Novel and Dialectic Technique
The role of “The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor” in the philosophical trajectory of The Brother’s Karamazov
Love, Fashion, and the Soiree
The social machine and the marriage of convenience in War and Peace
The Perfection of the Soul and the Problem of the Body
Platonic self-actualization as Tolstoy’s heroic ideal in War and Peace
Prince Mushkin on the Veranda
The invalid, the poor knight, and the suffering Christ crash the party
When Worlds Collide
The entropic microcosm of the tormented hero in “Rameau’s Nephew” and “Notes from Underground”
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