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Fugue
No full textIn this short story, composed for a beginning fiction workshop, a "young" man struggles to reconcile his past and his present, after nearly 140 years of separation from society and shunning by his own family. For additional context, listen to the author's reflection on the piece below
Margo Kitts, Elements of Ritual and Violence
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No full textPrivacy is as complex a concept as it is ubiquitous. But Vanderbilt law and history professor Sarah Igo bravely takes on the challenge of chronicling the history of this mutable, yet fundamental American value. In doing so, she demonstrates the irreconcilable trade-off between privacy and exposure, both of which can be liberating and oppressive in their own right. Readers will be impressed by the depth and the breadth of this tome, as Igo examines privacy’s role in fields as disparate as law, psychometrics, philosophy, and technology. As a result, they will come away with a profound, new consciousness of being “known” to the government and to all facets of society. Despite the feelings of vulnerability this awareness may induce, Igo’s book gives us the knowledge, perspective, and foresight to revisit our own privacy debates with agency and determination. As known citizens, the future of privacy is in our hands
Solipsism and Solitude
No full textWritten for the author's First-Year Writing Seminar, this essay explores the ways in which Teju Cole's contemporary novel Open City evokes an Impressionist painting in both style and content and portrays the protagonist as a modern flâneur.
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Anna Rebecca Solevåg, Negotiating the Disabled Body: Representations of Disability in Early Christian Texts
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Babel Self-Inflicted
No full textThis essay, composed for a first-year writing seminar on literature in WWI, explores Osbert Sitwell's poem "Therefore is the Name of it Called Babel." The author assesses 20th century mentalities in the poet’s terms of biblical era Babel, emphasizing that the shocking peak of humanity is found in the horrors of the Great War. The tragedy is that following a positivist upward trajectory, WWI reveals that progression is broken and Europeans in particular are confounded by the new era of destruction reminiscent of Genesis’ Babel.
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The Conscript of Christ
No full textThis essay, composed for a first-year writing seminar on WWI, extracts detailed meaning from the Italian sonnet "The Conscript" by poet Wilfrid Gibson. The paper argues that war does not kill people, people kill people, and this horror of reality is mirrored in the poem’s setting of a medical examination room. The poet’s language, syntax, and imagery all contribute to paint a picture dehumanizing the conscripted soldiers, sealing their ultimate fate even before they are sent to war.
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