Owl Intermedia: 13 books

Edgar Allan Poe: Beyond Mourning, by Holly Zynda, discusses Poe's life and works as they relate to the deaths of his loved ones and expressions of possible post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It attempts to academically prove that one of his greatest artistic influences was the effect that...

In this short story, a true account of the life and suicide of a loved friend, the author chronicles the development of the individuals' relationship, the death of one of them, and the grief of the other, including the complexities intrinsic in a chaotic friendship.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s love of nature and incorporation of related themes in his poems could stem from his years of imprisonment and being cut off from the outside, natural world and the freedom and connectedness that that represents to him. Faiz also uses nature as a tool to describe the feelings associated...

In this adult-themed short story, two people meet up for a late-night rendezvous to express their love. Taking their time, they let the suspense build before engaging in an explicit encounter. Content Warning: Given that this work was written by the notoriously blunt and shameless Ronin Slaughter,...

This work discusses the association of women and nature, parallels the oppression of women and nature, shows how the subjugation of nature effects women, and discusses a few of the options for combating this oppression.

In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe shows how the Igbo people react to the transition from a culture rich with storytelling, folklore, and oral traditions to a culture heavily influenced by Western Christian values and the resulting loss of magic, logic, and identity.

Men's Fear of Women as Vampires in Dracula connects the themes in vampire novels, particularly Dracula, to men's fear of women's bodies and sexuality.

In Lessons in Taxidermy, Bee Lavender recounts a tale of a modern woman that was innately ill due to a series of cancers, diseases, infections, and injuries that cause her recurring pain and required countless surgeries, manifesting the old idea of the hysteric woman requiring constant medical attention...

While many critics and scholars consider the mistaken identity in gothic literature to be clichéd and, therefore, silly or ineffectual, I would like to argue that Horace Walpole’s use of false identity effectively serves his work in a number of ways. His utilization of this theme allowed him to...

There appear to be three ways in which people of one culture respond to immersion in another culture, a evidenced by the works of multicultural authors.

The main characters in James Joyce’s “The Dead,” Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta, react to death in very different ways. Gabriel Conroy’s death drive results from anxiety due to his low self-esteem and fear of rejection, and Gretta Conroy reacts to death through repression, regression, and a fear of intimacy.

“The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock” centers on the theme of the speaker’s desire for an act of lovemaking, a subject of discussion that was forbidden at the time when the poem was written. In the poem, Prufrock’s desire is undermined by his own self-consciousness and subsequent inaction and embracing of fantasy.

In this adult-themed short story, two people meet after conversing online. Exposing their innermost thoughts and desires, the two collide in a fluid poolside encounter. Content Warning: Given that this work was written by the notoriously blunt and shameless Ronin Slaughter, it contains many...