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• Symbolism and Fact of Matter: History, Politics, Journalism, and Waste in James Joyce's Ulysses 

  Gamsby, Kirby (2015)

  Joyce uses excrement in Ulysses (1922) not only to bridge the gap between literature and reality, but as a gateway to history as waste, journalism as irrelevant, and the politics that influences them both. Critic Valérie ...

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• Audience Vicarious Desire for Revenge: William Shakespeare's Hamlet 

  Boccelli, Bryan (2015)

  Revenge tragedy rose to prominence during the mid-16th century and blossomed over the course of the next few of decades. Audiences of the era returned to watch revenge tragedies almost religiously—a genre which had previously ...

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• Super Power, Power Struggle: Captain America, Authority, and the Atomic Bomb 

  Nostwick, Angela (2015)

  Jack Kirby was one of the most influential and innovative American comic book creators of the 21st century. Kirby’s body of work reflects the evolution of comic books as the medium shifted toward more complicated narratives ...

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• The Invisible (S)eld: Identity in House Elves and Harry Potter 

  Montesinos, Gary (2015)

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a French phenomenological philosopher, argues in The Phenomenology of Perception (1945) for the creation of identity through the use of the body. Subjects are born into a world with coded rules and ...

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• There's No Place Like Home: Orwell and a Return to the Domestic Sphere 

  Flisk, Melissa (2015)

  In his novels Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) and Coming Up for Air (1939), George Orwell depicts the world of the lower-middle class in the English suburbs during the Interwar period in the 1930s. Through the eyes of ...

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