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The sea settled yesterday.
I had gotten so dependent on your rulessness, each day the moon shifted slightly to the left. my salt-slapped cheek chilled by your blistering brutality, a blow I once waited each patient minute to experience. Wishing and waiting, a sweltering silence only tempted by this misery, you rained on my parade when I was in
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How did artists in the twentieth century reflect the shifting issues important to queer individuals in their work? Answer with reference to at least TWO examples.
In the twentieth century, queer individuals faced a diverse array of social, legal, and cultural challenges. Homosexuality remained criminalized well into the century—in the UK until 1967—and queer representation in public discourse was often met with censorship or moral panic. The 1970s and ’80s saw the emergence of radical LGBTQ+ activism, such as the Gay
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Conduct a critical reading of Marie Darrieussecq’s Pig Tales (1996) in light of Animal and Gender Studies. How might these two theories be used together to reach a deeper understanding of the text?
In Pig Tales (Truismes),[1] Marie Darrieussecq crafts a deeply provocative and unsettling allegory challenging the hegemonic narratives constructing gender, sexuality, and the boundaries of the human. The novel traces an unknown, unnamed woman through her surreal transformation into a ‘sow’, a female pig. [2] Her metamorphosis starkly reveals the mechanisms of patriarchal culture that reduce
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With reference to at least TWO specific examples, discuss and critically evaluate the role and function of representations of women in Surrealist art.
The 1920s saw the emergence of the avant-garde Surrealist movement. The Surrealists, as outlined in the Manifesto of Surrealism written by Andre Breton in 1924, sought to explore the unconscious mind through dreamlike imagery. Women played a central yet complex role in the Surrealist art movement. The women featured were often reduced down to a
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Common People: Cosplaying Poor at University
You want to live like common people? Well, the 3 or 4 year period of university has become a gateway for the children of the upper class into the “average” British experience. Before settling into their pre-established nepo job at JP Morgan (or wherever in Canary Wharf they have easy access to through mummy and
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An exploration into the ways J.R.R Tolkien presents hegemonic masculine and feminine qualities in his male characters in The Lord of the Rings
Tolkien: When, Who and Why? John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE was a multifarious man with an elusive identity: a scholar; an academic; a soldier; a father, but the immediate connotation of his name that prevails now, almost fifty years after his death in 1973, is of Tolkien being the ‘father of modern fantasy’[1]. J.R.R. Tolkien
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Inferno inferni
with reason so reduced not to raise revelation, such revelation so revered to renounce thou, bow to thy conformity or join these souls singing such a simple song of salvation, tis’ a damn-ed-nation you carved from cruelty caused by your goodness for following in faith-sake founded in fiction is unfathomable to blindly bite on beliefs
Swan Soul Stories 