This paper examines the impact of the Oprah Book Club™ on the literary field. Using Bourdieu's concepts of cultural, social and symbolic capital, I analyze how Oprah has altered and affected the consumption of 'high' and 'low' art.
Does censorship rise when the Republicans are running the show? Does it fall when we have a Democratic president? You'd be surprised. Read this paper to find out more about trends in art censorship.
I submitted this paper for my Master's thesis at the University of Chicago. It explores the postmodern mindset in the age of global commercialism and ‘universal community’ through the relation of kitsch and shit in Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Vladimir Nabokov was a master of wordplay. One can find puns in all of his novels, though in Despair they are especially prevalent. This paper examines why he employs this technique and how it adds to the complexity of his works.
Balancing on Buses
Urban(e) Existence
Ray Biehlman's Sneeze
© Katherine Parrick 2006
