Literature in English, North America Commons^™

Nine Photographs, Brad Iverson

Ontario Review

BRAD IVERSON's work has appeared in many group and one-man exhibitions in the Detroit area, and he has published photographs in Afterimage and Camera ("Chair and Door"). His work is also represented in the permanent collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. Married, with two sons, he is currently Assistant Director of the Liberal Arts Honors Program at Wayne State University.

Three Poems: Hamilton; Camel Blue; Chepa Franco, Peter Wild

Ontario Review

PETER WILD teaches creative writing at the University of Arizona. His most recent collections of poems are New and Selected Poems (1973), Cochise (1973), and The Cloning (1974). He has published widely in Poetry, The Denver Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, The Chicago Review, and elsewhere.

Sarto's Last Sketch, John Ower

Ontario Review

JOHN OWER teaches at the University of South Carolina; his poetry has appeared in The Canadian Forum, The Fiddlehead, The Southern Poetry Review, and elsewhere; and his critical essays have been published in such periodicals as Mosaic, Canadian Literature, and Twentieth Century Literature.

Two Poems: Song For A High, Cold Wind; The Better Host, Peter Fellowes

Ontario Review

PETER FELLOWES teaches courses in creative writing and Renaissance literature at North Park College of Chicago, and was recently included in an American Poetry Review feature of outstanding younger poets.

At Auction, Jerome Mazzaro

Ontario Review

JEROME MAZZARO teaches at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he also edits Modem Poetry Studies. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he has published a number of books, including The Poetic Themes of Robert Lowell, a translation of Juvenal's Satires, Changing the Windows (poems), and William Carlos Williams: The Later Poems.

We Begin These Affairs Lightly, M. L. Rosenthal

Ontario Review

M. L. ROSENTHAL's most recent book of poems is The View from the Peacock's Tail (Oxford University Press, 1972); his Poetry and the Common Life was published last fall (Oxford). His earlier books include The Modem Poets: A Critical Introduction; The New Poets : American and British Poetry Since World War II; Blue Boy on Skates (poems); and Beyond Power : New Poems. He teaches at New York University.

To The Etruscan Poets, Richard Wilbur

Ontario Review

RICHARD WILBUR, Professor of English at Wesleyan University, has published a number of books, including The Poems of Richard Wilbur (1963) and Walking to Sleep: New Poems and Translations (1969); his translations of Moliere have been widely and successfully performed in the United States and England. Recently elected president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he lives in· Cummington, Massachusetts.

The Gorge, Ann Kelleher

Ontario Review

ANN KELLEHER, who lives and writes on the coast of Connecticut, has been a student of Richard Howard, Galway Kinnell, and Diane Wakoski. She has just completed a collection of poems called Northeaster.

O Jerusalem, Irving Layton

Ontario Review

IRVING LAYTON has published numerous volumes of poetry, the most recent being The Pole-Vaulter (McClelland and Stewart, 1974). One of the most widely published of North American poets, he teaches at York University, Toronto.

Is Don Juan Alive And Well?, Arnold J. Mandell M.D.

Ontario Review

ARNOLD J. MANDELL, M.D. is Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine. His innumerable publications include such items as "A Psychiatric Personality Typology Replaced by One from the NFL - The Acceptability Rather than the Perfectability of Man" in The Saturday Rev iew/ World (1974); and "Redundant Macromolecular Mechanisms in Central Synaptic Regulation" in New Concepts in Neurotransmitter Regulation (1973) . He has served or is serving on numerous state and national committees, and is on the editorial boards of seven professional journals.

A Fiction Of Masks: Cocteau's Novels Of Youth, George Woodcock

Ontario Review

GEORGE WOODCOCK, editor of Canadian Literature, is the author of Canada and the Canadians, Anarchism, The Crystal Spirit, Hugh MacLennan, Mordecai Richler, and other books. He teaches English at the University of British Columbia. McClelland and Stewart recently added to their Canadian Writers Series a study of his work — George Woodcock by Peter Hughes.

"The Very Milk And Sperm Of Kindness": Democratic Pleasures And Echoes Of Intimacy In Moby-Dick And Absalom, Absalom!, Nicholas Profeta

Theses and Dissertations

This paper examines homosocial relationships in Moby-Dick and Absalom, Absalom! to evaluate the ways male bonds have transformed between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and how these relationships comment on the strength and possibilities of American democracy. I argue that Melville’s novel presents a utopian vision of America defined by democratic bonds developed through labor and homoerotic intimacy that cut across racial lines and melt individual identities, while Faulkner’s novel reflects many of those imagined possibilities, only to see them wither away under the weight of racial divisions. Ishmael and the crew of the Pequod embrace this erasing of self, …

“But I’M Glad I’M Not A Hog!”: The Pig, The Laborer & “Humanity” In Animal Farm (1945) & The Jungle (1905), Madelyn Bell

English Honors Papers

This thesis places The Jungle and Animal Farm in conversation with one another to examine how each text engages, reframes, and complicates Marxist conceptions of labor, class, and (de)individuality through the figure of the pig. Beginning from the pig’s marked similarity to humans – its intelligence, sociality, and symbolic proximity – the analysis considers how this likeness makes the pig a particularly charged symbol for negotiating the moral and conceptual boundary between human and animal, inviting a reading in which human structures are reflected back through the animal form. Attending each novel’s distinct concern with socialism – Sinclair’s investment in …

Helena María Viramontes’ Under The Feet Of Jesus And Sandra Cisneros’ The House On Mango Street: An Exploratory Analysis Of Female Friendship In The Chicana Feminist Bildungsroman, Patrice Donnelly

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

This exploratory analysis examines female friendships presented in two mid-twentieth century Chicana feminist Bildungsroman, each between a Chicana protagonist and a female friend as foil. One friendship in Under the Feet of Jesus, by Helena María Viramontes, is interracial; the other, in The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, is Chicana. Both friendships interrogate the boundaries within mainstream feminism, particularly its monolithic views and complicity with power. Each friendship offers a Chicana feminist perspective centering family and cultural community. The theoretical foundation includes classical and contemporary understandings of Bildungsroman as literary form, Toni Morrison’s American Africanism, …

Hika - 2025-2026

HIKA Literary Magazine

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Just War Theory In The Hunger Games: Suzanne Collins’S Critique Of Violence, Power, And Rebellion, Laila Hannum

Scripps Senior Theses

This thesis applies just war theory to Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games trilogy, arguing that while the districts' rebellion satisfies the principles of jus ad bellum (justice in going to war), it systematically violates jus in bello (justice in the conduct of war) and jus post bellum (justice after war), and ultimately replicates the oppressive structures of the Capitol it sought to overthrow.

Drawing primarily on Michael Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars and on Brian Orend's ideas on post-war justice, this thesis traces the rebellion's moral arc across all three novels. Chapter One shows that the rebellion meets the criteria …

What's That Sound?, Leslie Lemus

Athena: Undergraduate Research and Literary Journal

"What’s That Sound?" is a metaphorical short story that explores racism through the lens of a mysterious, ever-growing sound. The protagonist begins to hear a strange noise, subtle at first, then increasingly deafening as they navigate daily life. Despite their confusion and efforts to understand the source, those around them, particularly white individuals, dismiss or deny the sound’s existence. Only other people of color acknowledge it, sharing a collective understanding. Through symbolism, the story illustrates how racism operates as an ever-present force felt deeply by marginalized communities, yet often ignored or unheard by those not directly affected.

Pecan Grove Review Volume 23, St. Mary's University

Pecan Grove Review

Creative writings by students, faculty, and staff of the St. Mary's University community.

Modernism’S Wild Child: The Interplay Of Modernist And Children’S Literature, Rachel Riffel

All Master's Theses

Within literary criticism, American and British modernism are often characterized by the disillusioned writers and creators who established an elitist literary community during the early 20^th century. This period is also distinguished by the Harlem Renaissance highlighting Black art, culture, and writing. Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps are well-known for contributing core texts to modernism and the Harlem Renaissance that expressed existential themes and developed experimental techniques. What many readers don’t know, however, is that these authors and many other contemporaries wrote stories and poetry for children. In this thesis, I explore the children’s …

The Ache Of Modernism: Death, Affect, And Intersubjectivity In Twentieth-Century American Literature, Alex Gergely

Theses and Dissertations--English

This dissertation suggests that we can locate, describe, and experience death as an aesthetic mood called the ache of modernism. The ache is an atmosphere found in twentieth-century literature that goes beyond simply “positive” or “negative” feeling and encourages audiences to come to an affective and existential relationship with their mortality. As an intersubjective mood deriving from an attunement on death, it illuminates the historical and philosophical moment of many twentieth-century authors while clarifying their texts’ continued resonance today. This project therefore draws on the thought of major philosophers like Emmanuel Levinas, Martin Buber, Gabriel Marcel, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, …