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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)…