https://authz.ca/essays/books-literature/Recent content in Books & Literature on AuthZHugoen-CAhttps://authz.ca/essays/dickens-tale-of-two-bodies/Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0700https://authz.ca/essays/dickens-tale-of-two-bodies/This article proposes that A Tale of Two Cities contrasts the collective body of the crowd, the condemned body on the scaffold, and the family imagined as a fragile domestic refuge.https://authz.ca/essays/virginia-woolf-the-architect-of-consciousness/Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700https://authz.ca/essays/virginia-woolf-the-architect-of-consciousness/This article argues that Virginia Woolf’s formal innovations, feminist critiques, and psychological realism were not separate endeavours, but an integrated project to build a new literary architecture for the modern self—a consciousness shaped by the trauma of war, urbanization, and the collapse of Victorian certainty.https://authz.ca/essays/haruki-murakami/Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0700https://authz.ca/essays/haruki-murakami/This article analyzes how Haruki Murakami uses surrealism, Western cultural motifs, and meticulous daily rituals to explore alienation. By framing his narratives as responses to the pressures of globalization and late capitalism, it argues that Murakami’s characters seek refuge from a de-centred world in personal, symbolic labyrinths.