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Articles by Tristan G. Axelrod

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The Red Wheelbarrow: Dissecting the Minimal Masterpiece
June 2, 2011 - 773 words | Literary Criticism » Poetry
William Carlos Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow” contains four two line stanzas in which the first line contains three words and the second contains one word with two syllables; it is also an awesome, awesome poem. With four stanzas the poem describes... Read Article »

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William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry
Creation and Rebellion in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
May 25, 2011 - 2547 words | Literary Criticism » William Faulkner
Perusing famous works of literature, one would be hard pressed to find a volume that does not concern itself with the relationship of a creation to its creator. It is a central concern of most religious texts, as well as much of the narrative literature that the academic... Read Article »

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The Odyssey As I Lay Dying William Faulkner Paradise Lost
Gender and Power in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
May 18, 2011 - 3842 words | Literary Criticism » Lolita
In Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, the overriding force of the narrator, Humbert Humbert, is his need to prove himself master of everything: other people, his own desires, fate, and language itself. Time and time again through Lolita we see Humbert’s most extreme... Read Article »

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Gender Power Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Adorno's Bach-Schoenberg Connection: Frivolity and Expectation
May 11, 2011 - 3444 words | Music » Tonality
Adorno’s case is built on the composers’ treatment of melodic subjects, which he views as ‘pure’ in an intellectual and philosophical sense. He contrasts this to the work of the classical and romantic composers, specifically Beethoven, whose... Read Article »

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Adorno Bach Schoenberg Tonality
Gender and Unity of the Self in Virgina Woolf's Orlando
May 4, 2011 - 2552 words | Literary Criticism » Virginia Woolf
The confluence of biography and fiction in Virginia Woolf's Orlando raises the question, of which the book is highly aware, of which genre facilitates the proper perception of the truth. As Woolf writes, “Life, it has been agreed by everyone whose opinion is... Read Article »

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Gender Orlando Virginia Woolf Hegel
Persuasion and Agency in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
April 27, 2011 - 1863 words | Literary Criticism » Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn’s 1688 novel Oroonoko leaves many questions unanswered.[1] In one of many seeming contradictions within the text, one wonders how Behn, personally victimized by Charles II and an economic system that sought to disenfranchise her,[2] would glorify a... Read Article »

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Aphra Behn Feminism Oroonoko
Custine, Tocqueville, and Intellectual Autonomy in Comparative Politics
April 20, 2011 - 3152 words | Political Science » Comparative Politics
The most obvious and immediate difference between Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and Astolphe de Custine’s Letters from Russia is one of style.[1] Put simply, Tocqueville’s text is an impersonal social-scientific treatise, while Custine... Read Article »

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Comparative Politics Tocqueville Custine
Dramatic Therapy: Stylish Re-enactments in Hitchcock's The Birds and Marnie
April 18, 2011 - 2949 words | Film and Cinema » Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock’s first three films of the 1960s, Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie, feature alliterative blonde bombshell leads with distinctly avian qualities—Marion Crane, Melanie Daniels, and Margaret “Marnie” Edgar, respectively—and... Read Article »

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Alfred Hitchcock The Birds Marnie
Interpreting Gawain: The Hermeneutics of Translation
April 13, 2011 - 1860 words | Literary Criticism » Hermeneutics
In the Broadview Press edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, editor and translator James Winny makes a concerted effort to render the original Middle English text in denotatively correct, non-alliterative modern English. In doing so, he fails to illuminate one... Read Article »

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Gawain Hermeneutics Translation
The Concept of Unity in Elizabeth Gaskell's "North and South"
April 6, 2010 - 2254 words | Literary Criticism » Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South is a novel defined by the resolution of binary conflicts: heroine Margaret Hale is presented with a number of divisions of sympathy, between industrialists and the working class, between conflicting views of Mr. Thornton, and even between her conflicting... Read Article »

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Literature Gaskell North And South Religion Unitarian Elizabeth Gaskell Binary Conflict

Tristan G. Axelrod graduated in 2008 with a concentration in English And Music from Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT.