THE MAP IN ELIZABETH BISHOP’S ‘THE MAP’ AND MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ’S THE MAP AND THE TERRITORY

“This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.” - Bob Dylan, 1971

 

THE LETTER AS A CATALYST FOR REMEMBRANCE IN ELIZABETH BOWEN’S ‘THE DEMON LOVER’ AND A WORLD OF LOVE

“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried. He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.” - Walter Benjamin, 1938

 

‘I WAS BECOMING A SIGN, I WAS LOSING MYSELF’: CLICHÉS AS PORTALS FOR INNOVATION IN JONATHAN FRANZEN’S PURITY

An unconventional exploration of much-disliked novelist Jonathan Franzen’s use of clichés in Purity.

 

DRIVEN BY DESIRE: REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMALE CHARACTERS IN DAVID CRONENBERG’S CRASH

A comparison of female sexuality in the original text by J.G. Ballard and Cronenberg’s film adaptation.

 

THE LANGUAGE OF ILLNESS IN D.H. LAWRENCE’S LIFE, PHILOSOPHY & LITERATURE

A closer look at the perpetually ill author’s treatment of illness, with particular attention to Women in Love.

 

INDIVIDUALITY AND INSTINCT: D.H. LAWRENCE’S TORTOISE SERIES

A shortened version of my original undergraduate thesis exploring a little-known series of poems by D.H. Lawrence.

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Additional writing available upon request.