Category: Literary Studies
Posts of studies, opinions, and reviews on English literature and authors.
Walt Whitman Probably Wasn’t Gay: A Title Unrelated to the Blog
We’re like 48 months into this semester and I do not have the mental capacity to continue writing 600 words every week. I almost completely forgot how to spell continue. […]
Lukewarm Living
Julia Joyce Not only did Herman Melville write the exciting story of Moby Dick, he also wrote “Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story Of Wall-street.” Now I have never read Moby […]
The Science and Ethics of “Bartleby the Scrivener”
Lyssa Henry After reading Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener,” I became stuck on one concept that is nearly irrelevant to the story itself but gave me both a scientific and […]
Preferences and Priorities
Rebecca Reese At the beginning of this week, Dr. Schleifer opened his discussion on Walt Whitman by saying, “I’m just going to put this out there. I do not like […]
Darth Vader as the Raven
Julia Joyce I have discovered that the voice a piece of writing is read in has a drastic effect on its mood and how it is received. If you have […]
A Book for the Ages
Dynestee Fields What images come to mind when you think of the word “timeless?” Is it sunrise climbing over a mountaintop? Is it Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa? Is it Meghan […]
What?! Poe Wasn’t Always Depressed?!
Rebecca Reese Edgar Allan Poe has long been remembered as a depressed man who wrote dark tales. Well, this is true, but there are many other things that are not […]
Why Age Matters—Frederick Douglass and Childhood Birthday Parties
Rebecca Reese “Age is nothing but a number.” “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” “Age is matter of feeling, not years.” […]
Make a Choice
Julia Joyce Slavery is usually talked about from the perspective of the slave, and for good reason. It is an awful cruelty, and the story of the slave was often […]
Why Frederick Douglass Didn’t Need His Appendix Removed
Lyssa Henry At the end of the autobiographical Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the writer included an appendix to explain his view on Christianity. Douglass was not like […]
Poelloons
Kit Schleifer Dear Poe, you wanted to write about one thousand years in the future and balloons were the best you could do. I’m incredibly disappointed. Also, the only balloon […]
A life in Writing
David Stephens Edgar Allan Poe was a person that had a hard life to say the least. He lost both of his parents and he became an orphan by the […]