“It was like hearing every goodbye ever said to me - said all at once” (Lang Leav). The last time my father saw me I was fifteen with nothing but skinned knees and smiles. It’s hard for me to talk about - it’s even hard for me to write about. I’m at a loss for words. I don’t even remember saying goodbye. His absence left its mark. The dinner table is much quieter. There is more room in the coat closet. There is less laughter. Some nights I still find myself waiting for him to get home from work
cannot entirely possess.’ It is true that fictional narratives are not always derived from the personal views or experiences of the author who is writing them. But at times, they can perfectly capture trauma so convincingly that we are almost convinced they are drawing off of first-hand experience. Cathy Caruth, a trauma theorist, has summated that trauma exists in the human psyche as a ‘ghost’ that prevents a person or a character from moving forward and maturing. In Anne Whitehead’s book, Trauma
American Review” by Denise Heinze, Heinze beliefs that in “New Essays on Song of Solomon” by Valerie Smith, Smith explaining that Toni Morrison is mainly focus on the theme of race, gender history, and culture that is surrounded by Milkman in the story of song of Solomon. Yet Heinze explains “The essays offer a substantive review of familiar readings of the novel while making accessible new and difficult theoretical applications of narrative and language.”(Heinze 159-160) Heinze thinks that the novel
For my essay I chose to write about The Fog Warning by Winslow Homer. I chose this piece not only because of how much this piece is referenced in the education of art but also while I was looking around for a topic to write about I came across it and it was so captivating. The way everything is placed within allows the eyes to wander as though you discovered something new every time you look at it. This piece is world renowned for its ability of capturing some of the great themes of human and nature
1. INTRODUCTION If we see our passage on earth as a theatrical play, what snapshots of our experiences would we wish to share with our contemporaries? At the core of this class is the desire to go deep within ourselves and explore how we can artistically and critically materialize the intimate relationship between our body/mind and the arts. Some of the situated questions we will raise are, for example: What aesthetic principles underlie and inform our practices? How do we see the boundaries between
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin