PHILOLOGY

A site known as HotforWords.com is burning up the video channels online. The reason for the site's popularity? It could be philology or the study of words -- or it could be sexy Marina Orlova.

A brief explanation of some major terms you will find in the study of language.

This paper discusses censorship in literature used in high school curriculum's and how it affects students negatively.

Through the examples of Webster's characters, he displays the injustice of the common treatment of women, and shows that strength and pride are not purely male characteristics.

After September 11th, Americans found themselves completely shocked, and disoriented. This same occurrence can be found in ancient Rome, when a pirate attack shifted a Republic to an Empire.

This article describes the life of Freidrich Nietzsche.

YouTube in 2008 remains a video powerhouse, entertaining millions and producing a few breakout stars in the process.

A poem about the English language.

In this hefty research document, Faustus' opening soliloquy is scrutinized for congruency both structurally, in terms of the play's construction, and psychologically, in terms of Faustus' spiritual and intellectual monstrosity,

Magna Mater, a goddess brought over from Anatolia to Rome during the Second Punic War, is elusive but fascinating. Some of her devotees castrated themselves in service to the goddess, and many of their ritual activities caused great distress to the rulers of Rome.

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

Study of the relationship between Emanuel Swedenborg and William Blake through their religion , philosophy, art, and writing.

Careful study of various Roman art and artifacts help reveal the role of women in the realm of Roman society.

A study of Milton's technical signalling of the thematic and moral destabilization of his Paradise.

This annotated bibliography points out the main trends in current literary criticism of The Epic of Gilgamesh including evidence of homosexuality and the inclusion of Tablet Twelve in the epic.

Whether Beowulf and Sir Gawain are fabled heroes possessing characteristics valued by the societies from which they came or two roles created to parallel certain biblical characters, they both conveyed two utterly different concepts of what a hero can be.

An analysis of the cryptic, yet fascinating, final stanzas of T.S. Eliot's famous poem, The Waste Land.

During the Victorian Age, new developments in astronomy, geology and biology began to undermine the religious, social, and political heritage inherited from previous generations, many artists searched for new ones to fill the gap.

In Victorian England, the line between fiction and autobiography had little to do with the truthful representation of fact. For the Victorians, the autobiography (a term they themselves coined during the 19th century) was first and foremost, a purposeful narration.

In this paper, I will examine three poems in detail ("To Penshurst", "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey", and "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry") to compare and contrast how the topographical poem has been modified over the course of three hundred years.

The Country Wife is no exception to the general rules of Satire of its age, exhibiting wit, rhetorical finesse, typed characters, and religious language. In is in this last that there seems to be a difference of opinion in modern criticism.

The cultural, economic and military impacts of the Seleucid Empire on western and centeral Asia.

A brief overview of the linguistics theories of Ferdinand de Saussure as outlined in his Course in General Linguistics.

A study of how English historiography developed after the American and French Revolutions.

Long before the narrator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight placed the pentangle on the shield of "that peerless prince," it was an object of importance, and has enjoyed a place in the philosophical and theological forums of many cultures.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance presents the story of Miles Coverdale, Hollingsworth, Zenobia, and Priscilla. Throughout the novel Coverdale narrates his obsession with these characters.

The derivative of several choices that JRR Tolkien made when creating the Lord of the Rings universe. Ranging from the Anglo Saxon diction to the Scandinavian.

Dickens' attitude toward and presentation of wilderness reflects the common thought of Victorian England. This perception of wilderness, which lends to the destruction of American wilds, is based on the negative connotation instilled by Christianity.