Ideas in depth
Original criticism and close analysis across books, screen culture, writing, and authorship.
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The corporeal politics of Dickens’s revolution
A close reading of bodily imagery in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, using Bakhtin’s grotesque body and Foucault’s spectacle of punishment as interpretive lenses.
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Mapping consciousness in a fractured world
A critical analysis of Virginia Woolf’s literary modernism, arguing her narrative innovations were a form of cognitive cartography designed to map the fractured, interiorized self of the 20th century.
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Surrealism, consumption, and the search for self in late capitalism
A critical analysis of Haruki Murakami’s fiction, arguing that his signature blend of surrealism, Western pop culture, and mundane ritual functions as a map of alienation in a globalized, late-capitalist world.