Literature

When you’re at the top, what else do you have left to experience but a great falling, a descent into the depths of madness ...

Trickster figures often appear in Native American narratives and mythology, ranging from ancient oral tradition to contemporary fiction. The use of the trickster figure ...

Like many Philip Roth novels, The Humbling explores human sexuality and presents a wide array of relationships throughout the tale. As one of his ...

The nineteenth century was a time of tremendous and fast-paced change in the United States—social, political, cultural, and technological upheaval and innovation swept the ...

What if the world was perfect and we were all made equal? Kurt Vonnegut’s October 1961 short story, Harrison Bergeron, humorously poses this very ...

Many of William Shakespeare’s plays were based on the idea of a woman’s role in marriage and her duty to her husband. He drew ...

Walt Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” and Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" both end with a narrator overcome by a new and deep understanding ...

The mix of modern and period music in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby quite effectively makes the themes of the story relevant to modern ...

Almost every culture has the rite of marriage, but the balance of relationship depends on the society in which the individuals live. In Henrik ...

In Nick Flynn’s memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, we meet Emily, a love interest of the story’s protagonist, Nick.  From the time ...