Janneker Lawrence

Historically, novels played a significant role in shaping people’s lives. However, in the contemporary era, media has largely taken over this role, offering various benefits, while also producing negative influence. This paper focuses on Don DeLillo’s Mao II, a postmodern novel that critiques the diminishing condition of the novelist in the...

This paper explores trauma, memory, and reconstruction in Anuradha Roy’s All the Lives We Never Lived.

Myths and folklore are living records of tradition, culture, and beliefs transmitted from one generation to the next. The prologue of Colson Whitehead’s John Henry Days (2001) presents fourteen variations of the myth of John Henry.

The fiction of Franz Kafka is widely recognized for its intense portrayal of anxiety, alienation, absurdity, and existential despair. His protagonists often find themselves trapped within incomprehensible systems of authority, burdened by obscure accusations, and subjected to oppressive bureaucratic structures, that seem both impersonal and omnipotent.

This paper examines the human mind in Beloved, written by Toni Morrison. The novel shows how past trauma affects a person's thoughts, emotions, and identity.

This crime narrative is examined through trauma and psychoanalytic perspectives in Cruel and Unusual (1993) by Patricia Cornwell, the fourth novel in the Kay Scarpetta forensic crime series. Through the protagonist of Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Chief Medical Examiner exposes how reality is sometimes buried by political pressure and human error.

Life is a journey that moves toward an inevitable end, and this awareness gives meaning to human choices andactions. This paper explores how Don’t Leave Anything for Later: Stop Waiting, Start Living encourages readers to reflect on life,mortality, and personal growth.

This paper explores how video game storytelling reshapes the connection between the human psyche and narrative by bringing immersion and moral choice together.

This paper explores psychological conflict and the formation of subjectivity through the psychoanalytic concept of the divided self, drawing on the theoretical frameworks of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. 

The Beat Generation is known for their quest for spontaneous expression and altered forms of spiritual consciousness. Known for using psychedelics and other illicit substances, Beatniks revered deviancy not only in their lives but also in their craft. Their works often featured these substances as a thematic concern, or were...