Sunday, November 25, 2012

The essay I didn't submit

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This is the essay I didn't submit for "Greek and Roman Mythology": a structuralist reading of The Bacchae. Euripides' t...
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Monday, November 5, 2012

Illustrating the Eumenides

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Some of these might be NSFW, if your work is uptight about paintings involving waist-up female nudity (all in the service of Art, of course!...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

You Can't Go Home Again: Exile, duality and disgust in The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Left Hand of Darkness (updated)

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In Gulliver's Travels , Gulliver, after being stranded on an island with the refined Houynhnhnms and the vulgar Yahoos, returns home and...
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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Poe: the first proponent of body horror? (part one)

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Body horror is defined by the ever-useful Wikipedia as "horror fiction in which the horror is principally derived from the graphic des...

Bradbury's bizarre love triangle: Ylla, Yll, York and the battle for the colonised space

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Colonised countries are often "feminised" in the culture of the coloniser: for instance, Orientalist art of the Victorian era conc...
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Monday, September 17, 2012

Dejah vu: John Carter as a coloniser of two worlds

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A Princess of Mars is foremost a novel about colonisation. Barsoom doubles Arizona: they have a similar desert terrain, and both are inhabi...
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Thursday, September 6, 2012

"Learn the Law. Say the words": Discourse and exclusion in The Island of Dr Moreau

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The term discourse is here defined as the shared language of a society. In Foucault’s "Discourse on Language", three methods for ...
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