Collection of papers, various writings, and fragments which I wrote at Colorado College

Art

Aesthetics and Poetics

Definition of the Individual within Violent Division and Totalitarian Uniformity of Groups (Urgesic's Fording the Stream of Consciousness and the film "Before the Rain")
The Remains of a Poet (Mandelshtam's poem "Finding a Horseshoe")
"In a Dark Time" by Roethke and the essay: Theodore Roethke's Imagery in the Mystical Progression of "In A Dark Time"
The Development from Innocence to Self-Awareness in the Imagery and Tone of "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter" (Li Po's poem translated by Ezra Pound) and the poem
Love's Relation to the Sun in Sappho's Poetry

Fiction I wrote

Kayak Consummation
Draft Horse Pull
Feeding the Distance
Torrent and Martian
Letter Found in a Buried Bottle
The Model
Myself as a writer
Swarm of Ants

Film

Framing Style and Narrative in Citizen Kane
Imprisonment in The Color Purple
Figure Expression in Kasdan's Body Heat
Division Caused by the Castration Fear in Rear Window

Philosophy

Existentialism Final Exam
The Poet's Invocation of Essence--Heidegger
The Self and Lack (Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre)

Sociology

Various Comparative Literature Themes

Diction: The Palette of Belief (Melville's "Benito Cereno")
Division of Consciousness in Erofeev's Moscow to the End of the Line and Hrabal's Too Loud a Solitude
The Conflict of Knowledge in Faust's Duality and Faust final exam
Destiny of "The Blacks" by Genet
Boccaccio's Decameron brief summary
The Myth of Narcissus in Surrealism and Poetry
Different critical styles of analysis: "A Good Man is Hard to Find
Creation of the External World Through the Imagination (Leopardi's "In Praise of Birds" and Kafka's "Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse Folk")
Psychoanalytic analysis of C. S. Lewis's book The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe

Thesis writings

Words of encouragement


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