Analysis of how Jo creates her own femininity, apart from her mother’s, through effectively earning the trust and interest of increasingly impressive paternal imagos.

Using Philip Sidney’s understanding of perfect poesy to examine the poetic worth of More’s “Utopia.”

Exploration of how Elizabeth Gaskell uses her textual creation, “Cranford,” to insert a male “bomb” into memories of her pre-adult life, thereby effecting displaced matricide.

Exploration of how Mary Shelley uses her textual creation “Frankenstein” to engage with crippling feelings of growth panic that arose out of her recent adult self-actualization.

Exploration of how Aphra Behn uses her textual creation “Oronnoko” to engage in a guiltless sexual affair that bypasses all societal and inner-psychic censors.

Collection of essays written during my undergraduate and graduate studies in literature.

A supplement to the Carnegie-Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary (http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict) for words that occur in “The Lord of the Rings”. Includes contractions, archaic words, British spellings, and words from Tolkien’s invented languages.

This is a list of all the character strings in The Lord of the Rings that are flagged as misspelled by the Unix spell checker. [International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.6.1)]. It includes archaic words, British spelling, words in Tolkien’s invented languages, and onomatopoeia. It errs on the side of inclusion – varying cases and…[Read more]