Essays

Best in the World: Understanding the CM Punk Controversy from a Narratological Perspective

6th September 202223rd September 2022

Return of the Jedi or The Godfather III: The Christian Bible as Unfinished Trilogy

30th August 202231st August 2022

‘Yet Tell of the Manner of the Wrestling’: Shakespeare as Professional Wrestling Angle

20th August 2022

Castration Anxiety in Jonathan Swift 5: The Satiric Focus

12th August 20223rd August 2022

Castration Anxiety in Jonathan Swift 4: The Anxious Swift

11th August 20223rd August 2022

Castration Anxiety in Jonathan Swift 3: The Psychological Context

10th August 20223rd August 2022

Castration Anxiety in Jonathan Swift 2: The Cultural Context

9th August 20223rd August 2022

Castration Anxiety in Jonathan Swift 1: The Progress of Privacy

8th August 20223rd August 2022

Using Strain Theory to Provide New Perspectives on the Response to Anomie in Charles Bukowski’s Novels: 4. Conclusion

5th August 20221st August 2022

Using Strain Theory to Provide New Perspectives on the Response to Anomie in Charles Bukowski’s Novels: 3. Success: Celebrity and Conformity

4th August 20221st August 2022

Using Strain Theory to Provide New Perspectives on the Response to Anomie in Charles Bukowski’s Novels: 2. Failure: Rejection and Retreatism

3rd August 20221st August 2022

Using Strain Theory to Provide New Perspectives on the Response to Anomie in Charles Bukowski’s Novels: 1. Introduction

2nd August 20221st August 2022

Worked Shoots and Smart Marks: Locating the Post-Modern Era in Professional Wrestling

31st May 202228th May 2022

Boundaries: The country/city opposition in eighteenth-century and Romantic literature.

30th May 202229th May 2022

‘You’re a Better Man Than I’: An Eriksonian Analysis of Childhood Identity Construction in Kipling

29th May 202229th May 2022

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Bushman/San narratives and the influence of Western translators.

28th May 2022

Filling in the Gaps: The Homogenous Cowardice of Contemporary Book Publishers

23rd May 2022

The (white) American Experience and the Music of Lana Del Rey

25th March 202221st May 2022

Meta-Modernism and YouTube Ghost Hunters

29th January 20226th August 2022

Shooting From the Hip: Gary Cooper’s Freudian Gun-Cock in High Noon

14th November 202019th March 2022

Violence, Abuse, and Classic Movie Monsters

19th October 202019th March 2022

Full of Shit: The excremental visions of Swift and South Park

12th September 202016th November 2020

Kayfabe and the Hyper-Real: Co-operating narrative strata in professional wrestling

2nd September 202014th September 2020

The Inconstant Gardner: Identity formation in ‘Guy Gardner Reborn’

2nd September 202014th September 2020