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Ulysses

There are a variety of cues which encourage us to take Stephen Dedalus’s performance of his theory of Hamlet as sophistry, and to cast Stephen as a sophist. Stephen has been compared to Gorgias in “Aeolus”: Socrates and Plato make a number of...

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Thelma and Louise

In 1991, well-known sci-fi director Ridley Scott directed a revolutionary film, Thelma & Louise. Focused on two women, the film explores their unconventional road trip and their relationships with men. Written by a woman, Callie Khouri (who...

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Montana 1948

It’s something every politically-inclined person has heard, a phrase always spoken dripping with condescension: You shouldn’t let your political opinions affect with whom you’re friends. Reasonably, this may have some truth. To go around assessing...

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Macbeth

While history has us assume that the idea of masculinity is equated with strength, Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy in Shakespeare’s Macbeth epitomizes the play’s understanding of masculinity in relation to power. When Lady Macbeth commands the spirits, “...

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Debbie: An Epic

For a text that so confidently declares itself “an epic,” Lisa Robertson’s Debbie: An Epic demonstrates a peculiar preoccupation with the lyric ‘I.’ Few things at this point could be more tired than to remind us yet again that this ‘I’ is no...