| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| Religion and Reality: Literature and Prophecy in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor |
2015 |
1882 |
In 1960 Flannery O’Connor published her second and final novel, The Violent Bear it Away. Like O’Connor’s other works, the novel is steeped in religious themes and symbolism. It centers around Francis Tarwater, a young man who struggles between two c... |
| “The Reluctant Masquerade”: Constructing the Closet in Yukio Mishima’s Confessions of a Mask |
2016 |
6583 |
Enigmatic, extraordinary, and erotic are just a few of the words that have been used to describe the late Japanese author Yukio Mishima and his debut novel, Confessions of a Mask (1949). The novel paints a peculiar and sometimes disturbing picture of... |
| The Anti-Social Network |
2016 |
1006 |
Original short story... |
| Hera: A Record of the End of Masculinity |
2016 |
504 |
Original story... |
| "Mad to be Saved": On the Borderline of Expectation and Desire in Joyce Johnson's Come and Join the Dance |
2016 |
2482 |
1950s America was an America wrought with strict stereotypical gender roles, leading to an increase in the diagnoses for anxiety and depression in women. In 1980, Borderline Personality Disorder, a diagnosis which focusses more on the absence of iden... |
| Breathless Expectations: A Spiritual Autobiography |
2020 |
606949 |
A collection of short stories highlighting religion, with a specific focus on Christianity, personal relationships with God, and the intersectionality of these themes with coming of age, gender, race, and ethnicity.... |
| Modern Savage: A Collection of Lies and Exaggerations |
2020 |
606949 |
A series of short stories exploring what it was like as a soldier in Afghanistan and Iraq, and how the coming of age in a combat setting can be a unique and heart-wrenching experience.... |