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Dame Ragnell combines her sexuality with the grotesque to refigure the text’s male perspective on women, teaching men to prioritize respect over physical beauty and to prize women’s sovereignty. 

For Doctor Faustus, the antithetical quest for a return to an integrated being is irrevocably linked to the soul: the immaterial content of his character, which allows him to determine his fate.

In I’m Not There, Haynes deploys pastiche multifariously and daringly through six iterations of Bob Dylan and their respective stylistic citations of various film genres.

In Milton’s Paradise Lost Adam and Eve are not free; they are actors atop God’s woodie theatre, Paradise.

In Monkey Beach, Robinson reshapes Spam into a food of rebellion: it is a food which speaks of difference, whether it be between parent and child, colonial legacy and Indigenous culture, or past and present. 

Through the lenses of Mrs Dalloway, her 1926 essay “On Being Ill,” and her 1923 short story “Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street,” Woolf interrogates the archive of traumas deemed worthy of heroization and remembrance within the cultural imaginary and acknowledges the unspoken traumas survivors were forced to bear alone.

Through the young girl’s departure and return to her home in Foster, Claire Keegan presents an ironic retelling of the parable of the Prodigal Son, critiquing the traditional authority afforded to the father of the Irish family. 

Cunningham’s simultaneous evocation and minimization of political specificity acts as an exploration of Obama’s cultural iconization, while at the same time producing the conditions for Great Expectations’ success within the literary field.

“Guests of the Nation” distorts boundaries between guest, hostage, and host, as the “guests” of the story are, ultimately, colonial powers, and their ejection comes with the sacrifice of Irish hospitality.

As an externalization of Catherine’s postpartum depression and the emotional struggles she must confront, her symphony issues the cathartic scream Catherine needs to let out in order to escape the cycle of abuse she has been trapped in for years.