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Simply Mad Genius: The Impact of the Mad Reader on Readers
This essay examines Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote and Bohumil Hrabal’s Too Loud a Solitude to uncover the role of the madman not as the author, but as the protagonist.
The Necessity of Simplicity-Revealing Vulnerability in Love
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera designs the dynamics between characters to demonstrate love as inevitable in the face of simplicity-revealing vulnerability.
The Record of Us All
A post-human dystopia where a dutiful but curious automaton discovers the last remnants of humanity on Earth. A personal favorite work of mine.
Medieval Commentary and the Interactivity of Text
This paper explores medieval reading culture, the materiality of medieval manuscripts, the purpose of glosses, their impact, and how they take shape today.
Metamorphosis in Giovanni's Room
This essay explores the ongoing metamorphosis of David’s behavior and feelings towards his lover, Giovanni, and his fianceé, Hella.
Two-Faced: Duality and Jung’s Psychoanalysis
How do the Jungian ideas of the persona, ego, and shadow emerge in the novellas Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth by Herman Hesse and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson?