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Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing: Erasing
by Karin Hrošová In the novel Surfacing, Margaret Atwood perceptively conjures Canadian wildlife by simultaneously highlighting the over-consuming and destructive postmodern society with its frivolous dilemmas and vain endeavours. This research paper analyses the piece of fiction by focusing on an independent video recording provided by the appearing camera, generating a somewhat outsider’s point of…
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Overcoming the “Muddle”: Repression and Authenticity in E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View
by Dana Mena Cueto During the climax of Forster’s celebrated novel A Room with a View, its main character Lucy Honeychurch excuses her actions and dishonesty towards her own family by explaining to Mr. Emerson, “please not, Mr. Emerson—they trust me” to which he replies: “But why should they, when you have deceived them?” (Chapter…
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Scott Joplin’s A Guest of Honor as Legacy of Sorrow Songs
by Samuel Chalupka In February 1903, the US Copyright Office in St. Louis received this letter: Dear Sir, please find enclosed with this letter one dollar and application for coppyright [sic]. The title of the musical composition is in type writing in the blanck [sic] space on the application. Yours truly, Scott Joplin (Berlin 119)…
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At a Cultural Crossroads: Elizabeth Siddal and Japonisme
by Paula Joneková It is somewhat surprising not to encounter the name Elizabeth Siddal while exploring the art of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. As a sought-after model captured in works such as John Everett Millais’s Ophelia and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Beata Beatrix, she became one of the most prominent faces of the movement. Moreover, her turbulent…
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How Art Reimagines Factory Farming
by Monika Večeřová In 2014, street artist Dan Witz placed 30 arresting pieces of pig and cow heads, chicken claws and monkeys behind bars in different locations around London’s area of Shoreditch. In the street exhibition called “Empty the Cages” Witz aimed at raising awareness about animal agriculture and abuse that animals endure in factory…
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Kahan as a Neo-Kerouac: A Study of the American Condition with Kahan’s Music Through Eliot’s Objective Correlative
by Hannah Berger In a country of immigrants, the feeling of not belonging and the search for roots permeates the culture and manifests itself in correlatives imbedded within art. The American spirit was a condition glorified by Whitman, critiqued by the Beats and is now embraced by the folk artist Noah Kahan. Hailing from New…
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United in Adversity: An Analysis of Donald Trump’s Discourse
by Erik Szabó The study was conducted before the assassination attempt against Donald Trump; therefore, this act of violence did not influence the outcome of the study. The writer condemns any act of violence committed from political or ideological deliberation. It is safe to say that the 2016 U.S. presidential elections marked a turning point…
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Just a Small-Town Girl in a Land of Feminist Opportunities
by Jana Záhoráková I guess I should have done my homework before applying to this university, but I probably would not comprehend its importance without having a first-hand experience there. The truth is that Lund is something like a Swedish Harvard or Yale. It is a university town near bigger cities, Malmo and Copenhagen, and historically, the university is one of…
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The Prague Orgy:
An American Writer’s Take on Communist Czechoslovakiaby Bryan Felber “What good is socialism if when I want to nobody will fuck me?” (Prague Orgy 37). Biting one-liners like this are packed tight into the novella, The Prague Orgy, penned by the irreverent yet reputable Jewish American writer, Philip Roth. The book, which has recently been adapted for the screen by Czech…
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The Real-Life Prison Break: Saving Evangelina Cisneros
by Samuel Chalupka It was late night on Tuesday, October 5, 1897, in Havana – the city finally seemed to be fast asleep in a serene slumber, perhaps only perturbed by the lingering specter of the Cuban-Spanish war. The sky was clear and incandescent, lulling the ambiance and lighting up every nook and cranny of…