In the play of Othello, Shakespeare perfectly explores the issue of racial tension that existed in the Elizabethan era. Othello, a loyal soldier and the protagonist of the play, appears as an outsider in Venice because of his dark skin; he is repeated . . .

Late in Jane Austen’s "Emma," a peculiar scene of harrowing adventure disrupts an otherwise realistic novel. On an early morning walk, Harriet Smith takes a wrong turn into the woods outside the posh village of Highbury. A “gang” of young “gypsies,” p . . .

Milton was without a doubt the seventeenth century's most intelligent and prolific artist. He was also the most ambitious counting himself among the most learned and talented men of the era. Idealistic and ambitious he appeared to have personified eve . . .

Late in Jane Austen’s "Emma," a peculiar scene of harrowing adventure disrupts an otherwise realistic novel. On an early morning walk, Harriet Smith takes a wrong turn into the woods outside the posh village of Highbury. A “gang” of young “gypsies,” p . . .

In the fantasy world of South Park, Colorado, the town named in the popular Comedy Central show, everything is not always as it seems. Eruptions of chaos and melodramatic human relations play out in scores of situations that at times seem fantastic, a . . .

Little criticism exists on Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves due in part to the limited research of animal studies in novel form and science fiction. This paper encourages environmental and humane scholars to consider how nonhu . . .

In Zoo and Voices in the Park, Anthony Browne deploys postmodern metafictive devices to diffuse the meaning of the ideologies that give cultural, political, and social significance to the public, institutional spaces in England. However, in 2003, Brow . . .

My article uses Smith's theory of ecological ethics to explain how face-to-face experiences with animals cause T. to recognize animal Others as ethically significant persons. Furthermore, experiencing animals' subjectivities and taking them seriously . . .

This collection of poetry grew not only out of my time at CSULA, but also the journey and paths I have personally walked in life. As the poetry developed, themes of war and battle began to emerge, not only in the literal sense but also within deeper, . . .