Athanassaki explores Athenian drama’s depiction of the Goddess, Peace, during a period of peace in the Peloponnesian war. The Greek’s personification of peace in the form of a god and subsequential cult worship of her…
A study of Merleau-Ponty89’s phenomenology in his novel ‘All Quiet on the Western Front as a realistic and antiwar portrayal of the horrors of conflict, that instigates in its readers the ever-present threat of…
Sontag carries out a criticism on audience response to 1950’s science fiction films seemingly drawing from the apocalyptic experiences in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She defends the inappropriate nature of public…
This journal article examines the life of writer Aldous Huxley, from his youth to his political opinions as a young man to his fascination with religion in his later years. Semmler connects each of these facets of…
Monk discusses war and peace in two of the interwar novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who fought in World War I and lived and travelled throughout Europe in the 1920s, witnessing firsthand the effects of both war and the…
In this introduction to a literary journal, David Higgins analyzes the political undertones in novels such as Frank Herbert’s Dune and Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, particularly as those political themes…
Bahoora presents a discussion of three Iraqi novels (Luay Hamza Abbas’s Closing His Eyes, Hassan Blasim’s The Reality and the Record, and Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad) written during and after the Arab…
A 1970 commencement speech from Kurt Vonnegut, in which he argues that art restores innocence and optimism in its creators and its consumers alike. He advises students to “skylark,” or shirk duty, when they are young,…
Peter C. Herman argues that Thomas More’s novel Utopia, Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, and Dave Eggers’s novel The Circle each present an ideal reality or utopia which have since drawn criticism from readers…
Gallagher synthesizes the use of humor in narratives of war as well as those of peace, through the lens of famous anti-war novelist Kurt Vonnegut. She argues that Vonnegut’s novel Slaughterhouse-Five in particular uses…