Toward an Aesthetics of Sports
Benjy Malings I’m frequently asked why I feel compelled and connected to the culture surrounding most of America’s professional sports leagues. As a lifelong fan of most major professional sports...
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Cathedral at dawn. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico By: Nancy Hanna “Where I am from” I am from cobble stone roads, forgotten dialect, paletas de leche, burning sun of Guerrero, my mother’s strong hand...
View Article“What is Comparative Literature?”
By: Rachel Park Whenever I tell anyone that I am majoring in Comparative Literature, I inevitably get the question: “You mean English? What’s Comparative Literature? Do you just, like, compare stuff?”...
View Article“Not the Criticism of the Literary”
By: Andrew Reyes Some think that writing a paper on literature must be easy because there is not an insane amount of problem sets to do with a definitive standard of quality determined by a...
View ArticleChallenging the Discipline, One Code at a Time: Comparative Literature and...
By: Lydia Tuan Last July, I had a conversation with a British customs officer that went something like this: “Oh, so you’re a student? What do you study?” “Comparative Literature.” “What is that?”...
View ArticleMeet Tony Soyka: Traveler, Writer, and Comparative Literature’s Newest...
By: Rachel Park One of the first things you notice upon entering 4118 Dwinelle is the colorful array of maps that cover the majority of one entire wall, turning its boring, grey uniformity into, quite...
View ArticleSwordfights and Kazoos: A Look at the Humor of Shakespeare and Calderón
By: Lauren Cooper Women dressed as men, feuds fueled by honor, a power struggle for a foreign throne, and a swordfight to the death. This plot summary could describe any Shakespearean drama that the...
View Article“Shelfie”: Rachel Park
This is my “shelfie” aka what I’ve been reading (or re-reading) the past few weeks, both for school and for fun. On Revolution by Hannah Arendt Hannah Arendt will always be, in my opinion, one of the...
View ArticleLet’s Get Lost: Mystery and Truth in Walden
By: Anthony Miller In a peculiar journal entry from 1841, Henry David Thoreau recalls the myth of the Sphinx and its riddle, commenting “our Sphinx is so wise as to put no riddle that...
View ArticleFellini’s Satyricon, and The Sexual Revolution of the Hippie Counterculture
By David R. Gayton When speaking of counter cultures and “sexual revolutions” it is important to note that sexual mores and societal codes of conduct belong to a realm of ethics and social politics...
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