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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2012 - Articles
    Images of Hair Throughout John Donne's Work
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    True Monstrosity and the Uncanny in Beowulf and Paradise Lost
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2012 - Articles
    The Power to Love: Heterosexual and Homoerotic Relationships in Lady Audley’s Secret
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    Forming Unity in Modernity: The Use of Collage in Tender Buttons and The Waste Land
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    The Postmodern Detective: Incommensurability in Paul Auster’s City of Glass
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    Breaking into the Boys-Only Treehouse: Feminist Revisions to the Romantic Literary Canon
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    Situated Authorship: Feminist Critical Engagement with Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author”
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    The New Tale: Locating the Fairy Tale in New Media Narrative
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    “An English version of an Italian adaptation of a Spanish translation of a Latin version of a Hebrew translation of an Arabic translation of an Indian original”: Cinderella, Feminism, and Re-vision.
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    This Tangled, Tangled Translation: Akiko Yosano’s Midaregami
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    Editorial Socialization of the Text and the Reader’s Experience in the case of Bertram Brooker’s “Nudes and Prudes”
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    Between Tongues: The Discourses of Decolonization in M. Nourbese Philip’s “Discourse on the Logic of Language” and Rita Wong’s “write around the absence”
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2011 - Articles
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    The Man is Made Machine: The Human (and Humanoid) Subject in Philip K. Dick's Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep?
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2011 - Articles
    Insufficient Data for a Meaningful Answer: The Use of Language in Isaac Asimov's "The Last Question"
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2011 - Articles
    The Author-God is Dead, and Roland Barthes has Killed Him
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    Corpses and the Collapse of Meaning: Chaos, Death and the Abject in David Milch's Deadwood
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2011 - Articles
    Turning Racism on its Head: Multicultural Readings of The Real McCoy and Goodness Gracious Me
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    Working Girls: The Commodific of Female Sexuality in Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's
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    Maggie's Nature: The Influence of Darwin in Mill on the Floss
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2010 - Articles
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    Real Phonies: Performativity in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Mad Men
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2010 - Articles
    An Collins' Divine Songs and Meditacions as a Pain Narrative: Exploring the Relationship between Early Modern Writing and Pain
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2010 - Articles
    The Writer’s Atonement
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    Chaucer, Gower, and What Medieval Women Want
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    Simulation and Sartorial Subversion in 19th and 21st Century Sensation Fiction
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2010 - Articles
    Language as a Cultural Barrier In South African Literature Post-2000
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2010 - Articles
    Being and Stein: The Temporal Insistence of Existence in Gertrude Stein's Early Portraits
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2009 - Articles
    Romantics and Their Delusions: A Waste of Time or Worthwhile?
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2009 - Articles
    Constructing a New Stage: The Re-Formation of the Romantic in Wallace Steven's "Of Modern Poetry" and T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2009 - Articles
    The Cub, the Parson, the Doctor: James Boswell, Laurence Sterne, and Samuel Johnson in London
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    Salvation/Damnation: The Ambiguous Faust in Melville's Moby-Dick
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2009 - Articles
    Ironist vs. Empiricist: The Polical Battle Royale in Percival Everett's Cutting Lisa and Erasure
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2009 - Articles
    Essentials of Beat Storytelling: Images of Documentation in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and William S. Burrough's The Wild Boys
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2009 - Articles
    By Air, Earth, and Sea: The Constitution of Identity in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2013 - Articles
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2013 - Articles
    The Poetic Voice in George Elliott Clarke‘s “Blank Sonnet”
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2013 - Articles
    “mangiD. kcirtaP.”: The Printed Word in “Aeolus”
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2013 - Articles
    A Plethora of Literary Voices in Wharton‘s The Age of Innocence
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2013 - Articles
    “Mad Comrades Singing”: Dramatizations of Madness in Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2013 - Articles
    Morality and Ethics: The Economics of Mice in Barbauld and Burns
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2013 - Articles
    The Sins of David: Forgiveness and Surrender in J. M. Coetzee‘s Disgrace and the Story of King David and Bathsheba
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2013 - Articles
    Charlie‘s Angels: The Female Characters of Great Expectations in Comparison to Mary Wollstonecraft‘s Idea of Women in A Vindication of the Rights of Women
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2013 - Articles
    Marriage Needs Sex and Some: Desire in The Mill on the Floss and The Odd Women
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    Grammatical Subordination in Orwell‘s Nineteen Eighty-Four
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    The Human–Animal Relationship in Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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    Humanity and the Animal Other: A Derridean Analysis of Waiting for the Barbarians
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2013 - Articles
    Parody in Chaucer‘s “The Tale of Sir Thopas”
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2013 - Articles
    Don‘t Knock the Boat: Feminine Characters in Conrad‘s “Heart of Darkness”
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2014 - Articles
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    How to Create Inhumanity: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
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    Only So Much Is Certain: Selective Rhyme in Dickinson
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    Shattering the Illusion: Self-Preservation, Reality, and Meaning through Images in White Noise and "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror"
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2014 - Articles
    Broken Speech: A Nietzschean Perspective of Shakespeare's Othello
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    "Severity must cure it": Sin, Morality, and Politics in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2014 - Articles
    From Marginalized Subject to Sovereign Self: Autobiography as a Means of Talking Back in James Tyman's Inside Out
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2014 - Articles
    Reinterpreting Saracen Alterity as a Proto-Christian Community
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    Profane, Steal, or Usurp: Kingship, Divine Right, and Regicide in Shakespeare's Macbeth and Richard II
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2014 - Articles
    Breaking the Crux of Solitude: Sexual Violence in 100 Year's of Solitude
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    With Time Comes Agency: The Evolving Role of Women over Time as Seen in Much Ado About Nothing, "Of Beren and Làºthien," and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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    The Landscape as Voice in Albert Camus's The Outsider
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    Creator and Creature: Criminality in Great Expectations and Frankenstein
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    Read it and Laugh: Humour and Mistake-Making in Green Grass, Running Water
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    The Homosexual Pardoner and Chaucer's Social Tolerance
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    Metamemoir in Wayne Johnston's Baltimore's Mansion
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2015 - Articles
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    "Fishing the Swamp": Trauma and Narrative in Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted River'
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    Deluded Perfection and the Realities of Motherhood: Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child
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    "My Mother Is a Fish": All-Encompassing Inadequacy in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
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    "High Flying Liberty of Conceit" in the Poetry of Sir Philip Sidney and John Donne
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    Fate and Metatheatre in The Spanish Tragedy and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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    Some Regimented Evening: The Relationship between Commentary and Representation in "The Dead" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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    A Matter of Perspective: An Examination of the Patient-Physician Relationship
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    Carrot Cake
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    "To please his mother": A Re-evaluation of Psychoanalytic Characterization in Coriolanus
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2016 - Articles
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    Confessional Realism versus Gothic Fiction in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Silvia Path's "Daddy"
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    "Two Blossoms," on a "Thistle-Stalk"
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    Immigration, Glorification, and Forgetting in The Great Gatsby
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    Sexual Sanguinity
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    The Men We Love to Hate
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    "But what will come out of it?"
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    Falling Ill: The [First] Book of Urizen and Romantic Medical Theory
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    Mermaids, Multiculturalism, and Misogyny in Vladimir Nabokov‘s Lolita
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    Conforming to Destructive Values
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2017 - Articles
    The Old and the New: The Relationship Between Intertextuality and Originality in Writing
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    EBB and J.S. Mill vs. The Separate Spheres
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    “We account the whale immortal in his species, however perishable in his individuality” An Exploration of Social Knowledge in Herman Melville‘s Moby Dick
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    Bridging Critical Race Theory and Lockean Social Contract Theory: Derrick Bell‘s “The Space Traders” as Proto-Racial Contract Theory
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    Changing Janes: “The Yellow Wallpaper” as a Case of Dual Consciousness
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    Searching Between the Lines: Ambiguity, Paralysis and Revisionist Readings of Joyce‘s “Eveline”
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    Mediation Through the Dead in White Noise and the Poetry of Robert Lowell
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    See No Evil: The Bedside Spectatorship of Vivian Bearing
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    A Life That‘s Good: Metaphor and Greatness in Eliot and Ishiguro
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    Love Thine Enemy: A Psychoanalytic Examination of Ethics and Politics in Beowulf
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    A Critical Analysis of Violence as a Symptom of Mental Illness in Orange is the New Black
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    Humour and the Journey to Hell
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    Destroyed from Within: Othello and Mariam Reveal Contradictions in Oppressive Views
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    Rooms with a View in Middlemarch and The Remains of the Day
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    A Short Adaptation: Absence and Erasure in Chaucer‘s The Wife of Bath
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    The Cyclical Nature of People in “Ithica”
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    Naked Self Down on Paper: Celebration and Criticism in Ginsberg‘s Howl
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    “It isn‘t fair, it isn‘t right”: The Affective Politics of Fear in Shirley Jackson‘s “The Lottery”
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    Let There Be Language: Words and Worlds in William Burroughs‘ The Wild Boys
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  • Verso: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism 2019: Verso 2019 - Articles
    Of Guy, of his Felice, and of his Guilt: Problematic Love in the Auchinleck Guy of Warwick
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    The Denial of Dissent in John Clellon Holmes‘ GO
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    Of Paradigmatic Suffering and its Place in Humanity
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    Nationality, Socialism, and Great Depression Era Politics in This Time A Better Earth
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    The Aestheticized Male Gaze in The Woman in White
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    Historical Fiction and the Male-Imposed Identity:The Deconstruction of Metatexuality and “Leda and the Swan” in Angela Carter‘s Nights at the Circus
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    Play with a Purpose:The Moral, Philosophical, and Societal Value of Child‘s Play in John Newbery‘s A Little Pretty Pocket-Book
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    The Fallibility of Interpretation and the Worth of Intent in “The Clerk‘s Tale”
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    “Why do I collude in this mis-use of language?”:Language and the Implication of the Reader in the Creation of the Gendered Subject in Jeanette Winterson‘s Written on the Body
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    Measured Steps: Recovery in “Big Two-Hearted River”
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    Am I Not Fallen Away: Surrogate Fathers in Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1 and Romeo and Juliet
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    Flaws are only Parchment Deep: How Form and Biographical Features Shape Anne Bradstreet‘s “The Author to Her Book"
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    Flaws are only Parchment Deep: How Form and Biographical Features Shape Anne Bradstreet‘s “The Author to Her Book"
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    I Wanted to Vanish: Grief, Loss, and Disappearance in Helen MacDonald‘s H is for Hawk
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