EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................VI

SPIRITUAL HOMELESSNESS AND HOPE FOR THE RENEWED EPIC:..............................................8
LUKÁCS AND TOLSTOY
JENA KNUDSEN

EPISTOLARY CHASTITY.......................................................................................................................18
KRISTA JOHNSON

THE STRANGER FIGURE IN ETEL ADNAN’S SITT MARIE ROSE....................................................29
AND KERSTIN EKMAN’S BLACKWATER
ALI ABDURAHMAN ALMOASSIB MARMADUKE

ANIMALIZATION & INFANTILIZATION:............................................................................................37
COLONIALIST TROPES IN OUTPOST IN MOROCCO AND IN MOROCCO
MAGALI RABASA

RADICAL FEMININITY: FOLLOWING FEMINISTIC TRANSFORMATION IN.....................,,.........41
HASEGAWA AND STRINDBERG’S MODERN PLAYS
TRAVIS JOSEPH

CULTURAL OSTRACISM AND ‘WHITE AMERICA’............................................................................47
EMILY MATTSON

GWENDOLYN BROOKS AND EDITH SÖDERGRAN:..........................................................................54
EXAMINATION OF THE ELEGY
KELSEA FEOLA

SOCIAL V. POETIC COMMENTARY:....................................................................................................61
A COMPARISON OF THE PASTORAL IN THE WORK OF CULLEN AND AKHMATOVA
AMY ZIARI

LANGUAGE, LOVE, AND POOR LITTLE MIKE...................................................................................71
CONCHITA WILCOXSON

AN ARTICHOKAL MOTHER..................................................................................................................77
JULIA CUELLAR

MEMORY AND REPRESSION...............................................................................................................82
ANGELINA VENEZIA

TO EXPLORE THE ‘UNCANNY’...........................................................................................................89
DANIEL WORDEN

THEORY REDOUBLÉ:.............................................................................................................................95
POE’S “THE PURLOINED LETTER” AS A PRECURSOR TO PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM
MICHAEL MCCANN

THE CONFLICT BETWEEN LOGIC AND FAITH...............................................................................104
ALLYSON GOSLING

E.O. WILSON AND S.J. GOULD:..........................................................................................................111
AN ANALYSIS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF CONSILIENCE IN THE STUDY OF ARCHETYPES
MEGAN WALDRAM

MISERY: AN AUTHOR’S EXPERIENCE OF READER-RESPONSE..................................................117
ELIZABETH HENDRICKSON

NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR THE GOTHIC HEROINE..........................................................................124
MEGAN HOLMES

THE FUNCTION OF FICTION.............................................................................................................130
ANTHONY LUCERO

LEDA FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TWO POETS..........................................................................137
CALLAN JANOWIEC