PinnedDalloway and Da-sein: Authenticity of Being Towards Self, Death and OthersVirginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway is a confrontation of Da-sein in the form of a novel before Heidegger even wrote Being and Time; it is a…Feb 1, 2022Feb 1, 2022
PinnedThe Theological Complexity of the Will in Marlowe’s Doctor FaustusUnderstanding Marlowe’s concept of the will is central to interpreting the theological complexity of Doctor Faustus. Expanding upon…Nov 28, 2020Nov 28, 2020
PinnedHenry Adams and Existentialism: The Revelatory Entropy of the DynamoThe 1900 World’s Fair featured daring dynamos and great art, but most critically, it fueled the fire of Henry Adams’ Autobiography. This…Apr 7, 2021Apr 7, 2021
PinnedMan is not a Piano Key: Dostoevsky’s Underground in The Brothers Karamazov“He is extraordinarily, diabolically skillful, his thoughts unusually acute, his dialectic terribly powerful… he is an artist of thought…Nov 25, 20201Nov 25, 20201
Antigone’s Underlying Aristotelian FlairThe Greek philosophers were the first to say what we’ve known to be true to ourselves in both literary, physical and visual art: art is…Oct 14, 2022Oct 14, 2022
Borrowed Dreams and the Artifice of Genius in Neil Gaiman’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”Jun 11, 2021Jun 11, 2021
Reformed Revenge Tragedy in The SandmanHow The Sandman by Neil Gaiman and his collaborators belongs to and builds upon the revenge tragedy tradition — particularly in Vol. 9: The…Jun 11, 2021Jun 11, 2021
Gaiman and McKean’s Violent Cases and the Mystification of MemoryMetaphors are our way of interpreting the truth, writes Nietzche in On Truth and Lying in a Nonmoral Sense. With each metaphor, remarks…Apr 7, 2021Apr 7, 2021
A Confession: Reflections from Reading Russian RealismMy classmates laughed. “Now you’re in what class again? Russian Realism? Russian Novel? C’mon, really, what does that even mean?” one…Dec 13, 2020Dec 13, 2020
