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Laboured Breathing… Then Comes the Release: Musical Screaming in MacLaverty’s Grace Notes

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.

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Male Bonding and Female Binding in Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Merchant of Venice

The relationship between the titular characters of The Two Gentlemen of Verona perfectly displays the nascent homosocial bond which recurs in Shakespeare’s work.

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Conspiracy, Cynicism, Depletion: The Depressive Style in Year of the Gun

Like the depressive person recounting a story with withering self-deprecation but betraying an underlying narcissism, Year of the Gun confesses to having lost its resolve in the face of narratively impenetrable systems of power and having blindly relied on an Italo-American relationship that can no longer support the Hollywood dreams of the fifties and sixties.

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Reflections of Homeland: Violence, Identity, and the Black Diasporic Artist 

The notion of homeland and the use of violence in Césaire and Walker’s works are central to their critiques of oppression, ultimately shaping how their audiences engage with themes of resistance and liberation.

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The Death of the Mall: The Internet as Setting in Easy A (2010) and Eighth Grade (2018) 

Beyond merely representing the internet, both Easy A and Eighth Grade use it as a device to communicate key elements of the narrative, highlighting its importance as a site that organizes the teenage social system.

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Reading Jane Austen Into (and out of) Parentheses in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence 

Wharton’s subversive use of typically feminine forms both aligns with and deviates from Austen, which reveals the extent to which Wharton draws on the inherited literary forms of female authors and rejects these conventions to create the social world of the novel.

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