Striking through the pasteboard mask: a stylistics analysis of the works of Herman Melville

Specter of the past and vision of the future: the long shadow of Bram Stoker's Dracula

"The Arsenal of grace": understanding the role of violence and redemption in Flannery O'Connor's The Violent bear it away

Imperialism, neo-colonialism and international politics in Aldous Huxley's Island

The Nineteenth-century woman's modern reflection: female ego formation in Charlotte Brontë's Villette

Sexual slavery and the hope for the future in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet letter

Check and mate: Chaucer's clerical tale of oppression, submission, and obligation

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and nineteenth-century Christianity

"Against either scale": analyzing Jesuitical equivocation in the porter scene in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

The Role of Tiresias in T. S. Eliot's The Waste land

Style, rhetoric, and ambiguity in Henry James's The Turn of the screw

Perspective made visible: the intellectual relationship of Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke

Aesthetic humanism: the radical romantic vision of Blake and Byron

The Politics of cultural trauma and violence in Junot Díaz's The Brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao

Violence begetting reverence: natural evil as "the pulsebeat of the world" in Cormac McCarthy's Blood meridian

Performance and grief: an analysis of Djuna Barnes's Nightwood

The Great Gatsby and the struggle for wealth, purity, and the pursuit of identity

Chaucer's criticism of the church in The Canterbury tales

Context: reading and writing in today's world