Metaphysical poets like John Donne use complex, dramatic expressions and a variety of literary devices like extended conceits, paradoxes, and imagery in colloquial and personal language that challenges ideas of morality, traditional love, and carnality; it is intellectually inventive even... Continue Reading →
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- Body of Work
- Essays
- Medieval – Early Modern
- Marlowe’s Faustus Pride through ignorance
- Donne’s Elements of Metaphysical Poetry & Conceits
- Chaucer : What makes Nicholas ‘Hende’ in “The Miller’s Tale”?
- The Exeter book of riddles : Riddle #91
- Chaucer’s double as a shadow voice in “The Prologue”
- Evocation and Catharsis in Shakespeare’s Hamlet Combined Text
- The Importance of Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra
- Romantics – Restoration
- Byron’s “Manfred” and the return to nature
- Polidori’s “The Vampyre” and Byron’s “Fragment”
- Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”
- Equiano & Barbauld : Different analogies of what makes freedom and equal human rights
- Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary
- Byron’s maternal nature Vs Coleridge’s nature as a being
- John Gay’s “The Beggar’s Opera”
- The Romantic Swoon as a Literary Device
- Technology – Media
- Can Lit
- Misc.
- Kanafani : A quest for modernity and identity
- Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” averse to the Classic Hollywood Narrative
- Lamerica: Realities of Migration
- Music speaks louder than words
- What makes a good teacher?
- Evolving Erotic Motion Pictures
- Stag films and modern day pornography
- Fact finding versus fact sharing
- Medieval – Early Modern
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- Gallant
- Nature – Health – Society
- Keystone XL pipeline project June 13 2016
- Identity and community making through space and place
- A review of MMFA’s Mapplethorpe exhibition “Focus : Perfection”
- Evolution of modern day pornography
- “Art Still Matters” – Mapplethorpe in the 21st century
- Kinsey and the Kinsey Institute
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- Poetry and Shorts
- Essays
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