Literature

The Perennial Perversion: Idolatrous Self-Worship in Brave New World

Adam H. Post - This literary analysis compares the spiritual landscape of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World against his nonfiction work, The Perennial Philosophy. In Brave New World, Huxley’s World State appears spiritually promising. It embeds self-transcendence and interconnectedness... Keep Reading »

Unity in Virginia Woolf and Hannah Arendt: Creating Reality in the Insensitive and Inaccessible

Esteban A. Sanchez - Woolfian Scholars regularly denote the moments where Woolf’s characters feel inexplicably connected and inseparable from one another as representing the spiritual and mystic beliefs of their author. I want to reframe this notion, considering Woolf's moments of... Keep Reading »

The Relationship Between Gender and Trauma in Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch

Katie K. Strubel - The Goldfinch (2013) by Donna Tartt is a novel that explores the conditions of grief and escalating lengths characters will go to survive the traumas and mysteries of life. This story of guilt and loss—intermixed with love and longing—is far detached from... Keep Reading »

The Past is Female: Exploring the Socio-Sexual Liberation of Historical Women in Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife

Nandini Sood - British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife presents a fresh outlook on myths and fairy tales, by retelling them through sociosexually liberated women. The poems feature many themes such as murder, sexuality and childhood that are presented... Keep Reading »

Fragile Aesthetics: The Problematics Behind Thomas Gainsborough's Landscape Paintings

Connor E. Yen - The 17th and 18th centuries saw a wide proliferation of aesthetic discourse through which the picturesque emerged to capture the type of beauty derived from the exchange of in vivo vigor for the spirit of artistic medium. While the metaphysical project of 18th century... Keep Reading »
 
 

All Literature Articles (by date)

Page 1/20 | Showing results 1 - 16 of 288
Dystopian Literature
2023, Vol. 15 No. 02
The Perennial Perversion: Idolatrous Self-Worship in Brave New World
By Adam H. Post
This literary analysis compares the spiritual landscape of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World against his nonfiction work, The Perennial Philosophy. In Brave New World, Huxley’s World State appears spiritually promising. It embeds self-... Read Article »
English Literature Aldous Huxley Brave New World Individualism Collective Identity
English Literature
2022, Vol. 14 No. 09
Unity in Virginia Woolf and Hannah Arendt: Creating Reality in the Insensitive and Inaccessible
By Esteban A. Sanchez
Woolfian Scholars regularly denote the moments where Woolf’s characters feel inexplicably connected and inseparable from one another as representing the spiritual and mystic beliefs of their author. I want to reframe this notion, considering... Read Article »
Virginia Woolf English Literature Literary Theory Hannah Arendt Plato
American Literature
2022, Vol. 14 No. 09
The Relationship Between Gender and Trauma in Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch
By Katie K. Strubel
The Goldfinch (2013) by Donna Tartt is a novel that explores the conditions of grief and escalating lengths characters will go to survive the traumas and mysteries of life. This story of guilt and loss—intermixed with love and longing&mdash... Read Article »
Literary Criticism American Literature Literary Analysis Literary Theory Queer Studies Donna Tartt
Feminism
2022, Vol. 14 No. 04
The Past is Female: Exploring the Socio-Sexual Liberation of Historical Women in Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife
By Nandini Sood
British Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife presents a fresh outlook on myths and fairy tales, by retelling them through sociosexually liberated women. The poems feature many themes such as murder, sexuality and childhood... Read Article »
Feminism British Poetry Mythology Sexual Liberation Hedonic Theory
Aesthetics
2022, Vol. 14 No. 04
Fragile Aesthetics: The Problematics Behind Thomas Gainsborough's Landscape Paintings
By Connor E. Yen
The 17th and 18th centuries saw a wide proliferation of aesthetic discourse through which the picturesque emerged to capture the type of beauty derived from the exchange of in vivo vigor for the spirit of artistic medium. While the metaphysical... Read Article »
Literary Theory 18th Century Literature Aesthetics Picturesque Art History
Poetry
2022, Vol. 14 No. 03
Love and Imperialism: Reading Whitman's Leaves of Grass Through Edward Carpenter and Maurice Bucke
By William R. Fuller
This paper explores the complexity of Whitman’s nationalism and, with reference to Leaves of Grass (1856), examines the apparent paradox between Whitman’s poetry of love and recognition and his imperialistic impulses. This paper draws... Read Article »
Walt Whitman Nationalism Cosmic Consciousness Evolution Democracy Imperialism Poetry
Gothic Literature
2022, Vol. 14 No. 02
Gothic Romance in The Haunting of Bly Manor: The Modern Transformation of the Victorian Gothic
By Lotte De Boer
This article explores the expression of the Gothic romance genre in the 21st century, by examining Mike Flannagan’s The Haunting of Bly Manor. Very little literature focuses on contemporary expressions of this genre. The Gothic reflects the... Read Article »
Gothic Literature Female Gothic Gothic Romance English Literature Television
Migration
2022, Vol. 14 No. 01
Going in Circles: Temporal Mobility and Migrant Agency in Hamid's Exit West
By Meghana L. Maddali
Escaping from your past is hopeless. However, under circular time, running from anything is completely useless––no matter what it is, it will always catch up to you. While Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West mainly depicts a world where well... Read Article »
Migration Temporal Mobility Mohsin Hamid Migrant Literature
American Political Culture
2021, Vol. 13 No. 12
American Construction, Reconstruction, and Destruction: The Cultural, Historical, and Literary Underpinnings of our Great Divide
By Michael L. Neely
This thesis explores the inherent conflict between liberty and equality—the twin pillars on which the United States and its Constitution are predicated—and the materialization of this conflict in storm center texts, whose subjects cover... Read Article »
American Literature American History American Politics Political Culture Liberty Equality Democracy
Metaphysics
2021, Vol. 13 No. 10
The Structure of Fiction and the Emergence of the Other-Than
By Dani W. Park
In this essay, I will analyze the structure of fiction, arguing that this structure is a duality that rests upon a spirit that defines and propels fiction in reality. This spirit, which I refer to as the Other-than, is the metaphysical embodiment... Read Article »
Fiction Metaphysics Other-than Dualism Imaginative
American Literature
2021, Vol. 13 No. 09
The Legacy of American Transcendentalism in Contemporary Literature: From Thoreau to Krakauer
By Perla Kantarjian
American Transcendentalism (1836-1860), despite having an amorphous and transient lifespan, holds strong importance in American history: religious, philosophical, and literary. Not only did this movement approach societal and spiritual life with... Read Article »
American Literature Transcendentalism Self-Reliance Thoreau Jon Krakauer Individualism
Epistemology
2021, Vol. 13 No. 05
The Holistic Universe: Wisdom as Attention to the Cohesion of Physicality and Immateriality
By Erin Aslami
We are all witnesses. You see and are seen; you step in and step out. You brush your hair out of your face, out of the face of a friend, a lover. Sometimes, you feel that the lock of hair is something more than the strands that compose it, and that... Read Article »
Wisdom Cohesion Physicality Immateriality Epistemology
Gothic Literature
2021, Vol. 13 No. 04
Revenant Narratives and the Representation of Demonic Lovers in English Gothic Ballads
By Maggie E. Sadler
The Demon-Lover functions as a significant motif in English Gothic ballad tradition, which scholar Hugh Shields articulates as a “supernatural intrusion into a narrative which is of this world” (Shields p. 107). While this intrusion... Read Article »
British Romantic Literature Gothic Literature Folktales English Literature
Poetry
2021, Vol. 13 No. 04
16th-Century Clapback: The Manipulation of Poetic Devices in Sir Philip Sidney's An Apology for Poetry
By Adeola P. Egbeyemi
Often thought to be a recent development of pop culture, writers have been using biting clapbacks in response to criticism since antiquity. This essay will explore how poet and scholar Sir Philip Sidney effectively manipulated poetic devices in... Read Article »
Poetry Poetic Devices English Literature Philosophical Poetry
Ancient Greek Literature
2021, Vol. 13 No. 03
The Eumenides, Antigone and the Nature of Objective Justice
By Patrick F. Sheils
Justice in The Eumenides is established as an objective entity and it is in The Eumenides that it is solidified as a concept which has causal power over the material world. This metaphysical abstraction seeks to gain purchase through interpersonal... Read Article »
Justice Objectivity Morality Ancient Greek Literature Sophocles
 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Expedited Article Review

Submit an article and get a decision fast.

If you need a fast decision, INQUIRIES Journal offers expedited processing of your submission for a small fee. Depending on the expedited review option you choose, you can receive a decision in as few as 5-days.

In addition to a shorter review period, the fee supports the journal's continued operation and open-access publishing model. Standard submissions are always free. Submit Now »

- Submit an Article to Inquiries Journal -

Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines.

Representing the work of students from hundreds of institutions around the globe, Inquiries Journal's large database of academic articles is completely free. Learn more | Blog | Submit