The current received wisdom on the internet is that AEW is falling apart with various rumours of backstage fallings out and a lack of discipline filling news pages and occupying YouTube videos. Fans and journalists alike have been left trying to determine what is real and what is fake, what is shoot and what isContinue reading “Best in the World: Understanding the CM Punk Controversy from a Narratological Perspective”
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Return of the Jedi or The Godfather III: The Christian Bible as Unfinished Trilogy
It’s called the good book, and that might be true, but it’s not a satisfying read. The Christian Bible needs some work to be thematically complete. Let’s have a look at why. The two instalments of the duology, The Old Testament and its sequel The New Testament work quite well together. The Old Testament focusesContinue reading “Return of the Jedi or The Godfather III: The Christian Bible as Unfinished Trilogy”
‘Yet Tell of the Manner of the Wrestling’: Shakespeare as Professional Wrestling Angle
The work of Shakespeare is unique in that four hundred years after being written, his plays still resonate with audiences and are adapted into new artforms as they appear. Ballet, opera, cinema, television, comic books. Every artistic medium as its fair lot of Shakespeare adaptations. Except professional wrestling. For that reason I have hastily cobbledContinue reading “‘Yet Tell of the Manner of the Wrestling’: Shakespeare as Professional Wrestling Angle”
Castration Anxiety in Jonathan Swift 5: The Satiric Focus
Locating the voice of the author in a piece of satire can be difficult as there can be numerous levels of discourse. The initial assumption when looking at Swift’s work is that the author is suffering from the anxieties towards women which he is displaying in his male characters. In attempting to locate Swift’s voiceContinue reading “Castration Anxiety in Jonathan Swift 5: The Satiric Focus”
Castration Anxiety in Jonathan Swift 4: The Anxious Swift
Jonathan Swift joined in with the commentary on female independence in a series of poems which demonstrate male anxiety towards feminine privacy, ‘The poems ‘A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed’ and ‘The Progress of Beauty’ use dressing room scenes to debunk the concept of beauty foregrounded in their titles and to offer narratives ofContinue reading “Castration Anxiety in Jonathan Swift 4: The Anxious Swift”
Castration Anxiety in Jonathan Swift 3: The Psychological Context
Epicurus. Epicurus proposed that the universe was made up of two states of being; forms and voids. These two states make up everything and are opposites but equal. The form is solid and the void is the gaps which solids move into. The void is not the absence of form and it is not nothing,Continue reading “Castration Anxiety in Jonathan Swift 3: The Psychological Context”
Castration Anxiety in Jonathan Swift 2: The Cultural Context
Privacy was a highly valued commodity in eighteenth-century England and was normally invested in a locked cabinet or private closetin the house to which only the male head of the household had access. Samuel Johnson defined the cabinet in his Dictionary of the English Language as a ‘private box’ in which valuable things are hiddenContinue reading “Castration Anxiety in Jonathan Swift 2: The Cultural Context”
Castration Anxiety in Jonathan Swift 1: The Progress of Privacy
Women in England in the eighteenth century experienced a degree of privacy and independence they had not had before. This independence was explored in contemporary literature, especially in the works of Jonathan Swift. Swift’s attitudes towards women have been the subject of much debate, with his personal correspondence and poetry analysed and evaluated in detailContinue reading “Castration Anxiety in Jonathan Swift 1: The Progress of Privacy”
Using Strain Theory to Provide New Perspectives on the Response to Anomie in Charles Bukowski’s Novels: 4. Conclusion
Charles Bukowski has long been considered to be a writer who embodied the rebellion inherent in American literature. His creation of the Bukowski-myth in which fame and success are eschewed and poverty and failure are celebrated cemented Bukowski as a rebel who set himself against the norms of American society. While there is noContinue reading “Using Strain Theory to Provide New Perspectives on the Response to Anomie in Charles Bukowski’s Novels: 4. Conclusion”
Using Strain Theory to Provide New Perspectives on the Response to Anomie in Charles Bukowski’s Novels: 3. Success: Celebrity and Conformity
Published in 1988, Hollywood is the last of the novels about Bukowski’s alter-ego Henry Chinaski. The novel functions as both a coda to the Chinaski cycle, and also as a brief retrospective of the author’s life, with the movie-making process providing the author and narrator with a means to access memories. In the novel, ChinaskiContinue reading “Using Strain Theory to Provide New Perspectives on the Response to Anomie in Charles Bukowski’s Novels: 3. Success: Celebrity and Conformity”
Beyond the Underground 