Through a postmodern lens focused onto itself, we are grouped in the discarded sacred rites of ancestors, and our bodies stand as haunted corpses who mimic original speech in translating the past from a lofty clouded present overtaken by slippage into an uncertain future. While of course there are moments of Left and Right Sacred …
Dear Reader – My short film, Diabolus Rex – Fleur Du Mal Moving Portrait, is an example of an authoritarian personality in relation to art. I have included in order to show that such a subject believes an attempted isolation of the psyche is not only valid, but also the preferred method in which spirituality …
“The instance of decision is madness.” – Soren Kierkegaard Deconstruction offers a method for reading a text against itself, and in doing so it opens the text to difference while offering a subtraction of what we as the reader bring with us that is not found in the text itself. Such a theoretical base is … Continue reading »
We peer into an unrepresentable history through the pages of Spiegelman’s Maus. Through making unapproachable horror more approachable via comic art, Spiegelman takes us closer into an “impossibility of telling,” as Dori Laub refers to the Holocaust as “[an] event [that] produced no witnesses.” I want to address various things in regard to Maus I … Continue reading »
As I walked home with my groceries from the World Foods, I passed an old man who tipped his ball cap like a gentleman would tip a formal hat. He didn’t look me in the eye, which may be a wounded addition to his politeness. He had the look of being weathered, and in this, … Continue reading »
Identity within Paul Auster’s City of Glass – by Brian Eugene Snipes “Let me call myself, for the present, William Wilson. The fair page now lying before me need not be sullied with my real appellation.” – Edgar Allen Poe, ‘William Wilson’ Within an abnormal detective novel that hyper-focuses on identity, Paul Auster writes a … Continue reading »
Setting Of The Fantasy Space Within Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper “The Yellow Wallpaper rises to a classic level in subtly delineating the madness which crawls over a woman dwelling in the hideously papered room…” (1) – H.P. Lovecraft Charlotte Perkins Gilman had The Yellow Wallpaper published in 1892, shortly after the birth of … Continue reading »
In Edgar Allen Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart, the point of view is from the “I” first person singular. However, this is not an average usage of “I” – the frame of terror regarding the “eye” of the old man is accompanied by the countless mentions of the narrator’s own “I”. Told in such a way, … Continue reading »
In the short story of Brokeback Mountain we are presented with two main characters of very limited internal dialogue; men extremely similar to one another. Herein, I will present my ideas on how the sameness of Jack and Ennis fits nicely under the myth of the cowboy, and how not only does this story and … Continue reading »
