LITERATURE AND POLITICS

Better understand humanity through philsophy, religion, literature and history in Comparative Literature and Humanities classes offered at CU.

Dutch colonialism as seen through a novel and a film. Demonstrating that the indigenous have trouble maintaining their identities, eventually succumbing to new powers.

Although Richard M. Weaver is well known in academic circles as a rhetorician, his cultural criticism, particularly that found in his National Review writings, reveals a great deal about his political philosophy and his rhetoric.

Mass media has helped in the creation of the beauty myth in America. Specifically, Hollywood and television are the two major forces affecting American's perception on beauty.

An evocative essay on literature

Examination of Romanticism as the adverse reaction to science and the enlightenment using the literature of nineteenth century European writers.

An examination of how Santiago, the protagonist of Hemingway's classic novel, stands apart from other Hemingway characters.

An analysis of the two film versions of Graham Greene's The Quiet American and the original pre-Vietnam War novel. This is not a standard review so much as it is a compare and contrast of the films and book.

The term 'Nazi Music' brings certain images to mind, but was there any real difference between the music that conformed to the Reich's expectations and so called 'degenerate' music?

An overview and examination of the political undertones and agendas of Jelinek's "Wonderful Wonderful Times," Nabokov's "Lolita," and Pamuk's "Snow."

The late nineties saw an increased rise of "End of Times" fiction, literature, documentaries, cult activities and rumor. Once the millennial markers passed and we were all still here, everything seemed to go back to normal...or has it?

An analysis of state sodomy laws and other sex-based regulations in the wake of the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Lawrence v. Texas.

George Combe, brother of Andrew Combe, Scottish physiologist; was a writer on phrenology and education. He was born in Edinburgh, where for some time he practised as a lawyer.

Agnew and Mintz on the changing meanings of market, consumption, and social and political power structures.

Editors of the International Research Confederacy on African Literature and Culture (IRCALC) are currently receiving submissions in existing literatures of Africa.

August Wilson was one of the few, elite playwrights who has had 8 or more Broadway productions. It is no doubt that August Wilson is a playwrighting legend and that he his works have caused profound thought into race relations and equality.

This is a piece that reviews and offers criticism of Toyin Falola and Ann Genova's "The Politics of the Global Oil Industry: An Introduction"

The United States of America is a melting pot for many different people, from many different ethnicities and cultures. In no state is this more true than in California, where the two particular cultures I studied, Asian-Americans and Mexican-Americans.

A literature analysis/comparison of two literary pieces by Alica Walker and William Faulkner.

Postmodernism can be thought of as a product of changes of our times. A look at postmodern poetry helps us to understand postmodernity and vice versa. Through this understanding, we gain another perspective through which to view our current time period

A Clockwork Orange, a book originally published in 1962, written by Anthony Burgess, is about a group of youth who like to beat up old men, rape women, and rob stores.

This paper compares Robert Thurmans work on Buddhist philosophy to the best selling book "Reading Lolita In Tehran." It relates literature to knowledge, philosophy and how it can be a catalyst to change all over the world.

A historic analysis of the development of papermaking in Wisconsin's Fox River Valley, its environmental effects, and in general paper politics in the US and the world.

It is interesting that we explore the notion of leadership in the field of education at this political moment in history.

The literary and artistic explosion that occurred in black America from roughly 1910 to 1940 is often referred to as the "Harlem Renaissance." Creative African American literature and art blossomed from all over the country.