Excerpt: In Defense of Ethical Reading: An Analysis of Ursula K. LeGuin’s Hedonistic Utilitarian Uto
Of course, it would seem that “gaining happiness at the expense of the pain of others” is morally wrong and ought to be a rejected...
Excerpt: St. Augustine and the Ethical Reader
In both The Confessions and On Christian Doctrine, St. Augustine considers what it means to live a morally consistent life within the...
Transformation in Louise Erdrich’s The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
“The devil works with a shrewd persistence, Miss DeWitt, and is never known to give up a soul merely because it is a thing willed in...
"No Man Only Needs a Little Salary": A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Analysis of Willy Loman
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman describes the deterioration of salesman Willy Loman. Throughout his life, Willy desperately seeks the...
The "Appalling" Love of Christ in Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on the Miracles at
In his “Sermon to the Snakes,” Father Damien Modeste asks, “What is the whole of our existence but the sound of an appalling love?”...
Deviance in Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima
The sociology of deviance is useful in understanding Antonio Marez in Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me Ultima within the larger context of...
Reconciling the Relationship Between "Literary Fathers" and Their "Literary Daughters
In “Literary Paternity” Sandra Gilbert explores the metaphor of the pen as a phallic symbol in order to examine the hierarchy of male...
Becoming Black: Using W.E.B. DuBois' Concept of Double Consciousness to Explore the Lives and Wo
In his work The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois explores what he considers the greatest problem of the 20th century: “the problem of...
Sins and Ghosts: The Forbidden Strories of Maxine Hong Kingston's "No Name Woman" and
Both Maxine Hong Kingston’s “No Name Woman” and Toni Morrison’s Beloved use story to give a voice to the silenced and forgotten “needy...