Nature writing is historically a place for poets and thinkers to come to terms with what nature asks of them and society demands of them. Wendell Berry is among many writers who wrote from this fraught place, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and others. Wendell Berry used poetryContinue reading “The Queer Nature of Wendell Berry’s“The Peace of Wild Things””
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An Exploration of Fools, Gender, and Madness in Twelfth Night
In this essay I am going to show how the character of Feste in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (Or What You Will) performs the fool neurotype, and how this neurotype gives him the social position and power to bring audience attention to the gap between gender identity and gender performativity that many the characters in Feste’sContinue reading “An Exploration of Fools, Gender, and Madness in Twelfth Night”
Rural vs. Urban: Pastoralism in Thomas Cole’s The Course of Empire
Thomas Cole was an artist who cared a great deal about the environment—about landscapes—and also, the Pastoral. Born in industrial England and immigrating to the United States in 1818, his feelings toward the bustling and industrialized Europe greatly influenced his art…
Is AI Art Really ‘Art?’
Recent breakthroughs in how humans teach artificial intelligence have allowed generative AI models to become highly prevalent and easily accessible in our current day and age. In the training process, machine learning models are often fed data, then human trainers will categorize this data and ‘teach’ AI how to replicate similar responses through system guidelinesContinue reading “Is AI Art Really ‘Art?’”
Is “Anne of Green Gables” feminist?
Here’s the link to my video essay!
Cottagecore and its Connection to the Pastoral
By: Ryleigh Simmons You’re sitting on your couch, where you’ve been for the last few weeks. All of your classes are online and all non-essential stores are closed, not that you would risk going out anyways. You’re bored out of your mind, and you miss when things were normal. Your only solace is your phoneContinue reading “Cottagecore and its Connection to the Pastoral”
Japanese Theater Relating to Modern Anime
The past influences the present—the literature and art of the past influence the media we create and consume today. Today, anime is a popular media format and several aspects of anime can be linked back to kabuki and bunraku theater. Bunraku and kabuki are two styles of theater that originated in Japan, both of which areContinue reading “Japanese Theater Relating to Modern Anime”
The Masculine Urge to Become a Samurai
The Authority of Power for women in Japan
Throughout the history of Japan, many nations and cultures have strived to topple one another alot like other countries over the world. However, one thing that I believe sticks out to Japan is the idea of “Man”. To go into more depth Japan has a deep belief in the idea of the samurai. Being thatContinue reading “The Authority of Power for women in Japan”
Spirits as Visual Representation of Inner Conflict in Throne of Blood and The Ghost Stories at Yotsuya on the Tokaido
Revenge stories have been a common trope in literature spanning across all cultures, times, contexts, and date back to some of the earliest literary works—and rightfully so. Revenge tales are interesting, they are an easy outline for structuring a story, setting up a clear protagonist and antagonist, and is malleable for the author, allowingContinue reading “Spirits as Visual Representation of Inner Conflict in Throne of Blood and The Ghost Stories at Yotsuya on the Tokaido”
Sprockets and Springes 