Jul
2011

Children and War in the Works of Lewis and Tolkien.

by Teri Camilleri

It is said that the fetal ape looks more human than a mature one, and some have suggested that humanity arose through a process of arrested development.[1] -The Parallel World of Narnia, Chad Walsh. The early twentieth century saw the rise of real and troubling issues, giving Eric Hobsbawm good reason to name the period [...]




Sep
2010

Shellshock, Suicide and Septimus: Illness as a Metaphor in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

by Katherine Rossy

It can be said that Modernity emerged from British society’s repulsion of four years of brutal trench warfare on the Western front during the First World War. New innovations such as mustard gas, tanks, and heavy artillery fuelled a maelstrom of death and destruction on massive scales, leading to hundreds of thousands of casualties on [...]