Literary Theory

Character as a Dynamic System: Desire, Flaw, and Transformation in Narrative

Erotic Literature

The Gravity of Shadows: Why Great Villains Aren't Evil, They're Inevitable

The Pragmatic Body and the Lost World: Mapping Imperial Masculinity in King Solomon's Mines

A Tale of Two Bodies

The Associative Mind: Laurence Sterne's Critique of the Linear Self

The Hedgehog's Dilemma: Tolstoy's War Against His Own Art

The Writer's Great Task: Samuel Johnson and the Discipline of Fiction

From Whitman to Instapoetry: The Democratization of Verse

The Poetics of Precision: Craft in Contemporary Lyric Poetry

The Evolving Form of Fiction: From Realism to Digital Literature

Trust No One: A Guide to the Unreliable Narrator