Literary Journal
The science fiction genre has struggled with its own definition since its beginning. It encompasses everything from intergalactic space battles to horrifying dystopias, and even science fiction writers themselves disagree on exactly what it means to write sci-fi.
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As a student, the end of August seems much more of a beginning than the first of January. When summer’s end is around the bend and September rolls around, I suffer a severe melancholy that can only be cured by the acutely erudite and affecting prose of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History; I’m on my sixth read.
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ong presents his audience with an important question through his juxtaposition-heavy filmmaking style in Parasite: which class needs the other more?
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The ethnically—and, often, racially—divided genres we know today were essentially constructed to divide literature and art into white and non-white categories, often done in a misguided attempt to celebrate these works. However, these genres built upon ethnicity hurt the creators of these works.
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This spooky season, we asked our website staff members to come up with their own Gothic styles! Like Southern Gothic before us, each staff member took a place or experience that seems harmless—that is, until you look a little closer.
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Written by Alyssa Jingling In college, I have found that if a book isn’t by a dead white man or hasn’t been critiqued by James Wood, it’s typically not read. Young adult novels on the class syllabus? No way.
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We might be inclined to separate these tragic Victorian heroines from the protagonists of our modern literature, but a closer look at one novel suggests that this social suffocation has simply shifted into a new form — a feline form.
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