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“Lunarian Dreams to Court” By Ivy Tang
This piece is a spoof of traditional courtly presentation. The elites in this culture, anthropomorphic creatures (left), assess the masked boy’s presentation of his “ideal world”, while a masked mother figure looks on (right)[…]
“The St. Leon Wind Farm” By Alex Day
We pulled off the highway / because I didn’t know how to turn / the windshield wipers on in my grandpa’s truck[…]
“Night Terrors and Sinister Daydreams: Oneiric Doubles and Psychologies of Moral Management in Jane Eyre and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” By Mabon Foo
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde both explore instances of duality that negotiate issues of morality and self-control within the Victorian psychological conceptualization of dreams. By exploring popular psychological trends of the era and discussing their influence on dream studies and morality, a framework shall be developed to discuss the mental struggles in the novels[…]
“For Me, It’s My Nose” By Katrina Martin
I recently read an article about why I should get a nose job. It was written by an illustrious Instagram influencer who had recently undergone the knife[…]
“Naming in Tolkien and Williams: Semantics vs. Reference” By Jameson Thomas
This paper seeks to analyze naming strategies employed in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion and Charles Williams’ All Hallows Eve […]
“An Acknowledgement” By Jake Clark
What you don’t know doesn’t hurt you / But what you won’t know always will […]
“A/S/L?” By Esther Chen
tonight i posted in the subreddit community r/ama and called it ‘im stoned and i have a broken heart AMA’ […]
“The Postmodern Sublime: Fredric Jameson’s Bonaventure Hotel” By Claire Geddes Bailey
In 1756, Edmund Burke defined the sublime as “that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror” (49) […]
“Schrodinger’s Gap” By Gabriela Arno
Do you know when you’ve lived with a truth for so long that it ceases to be incredible? Like the “yeah, my dad is Sting” sort, cue gasps and bashful eye roll[…]