Symposium: the Great Books Symposium Journal
A Wright College Publication for Community College Students
Professor Joo Lee “Those who acquire [the art of writing] will cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful; they will rely on writing to bring things to their remembrance by external signs instead of […]
Professor Harriet Rosenman The Phi Theta Kappa Honors Topic, The Past as Prologue, is the perfect entry to the current Great Books Program topic, the Search for Identity. We develop our identities not through our […]
Sandra Cruz Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels, depicts a negative image of women. However, following Swift’s life from the beginning, it is easier to understand why he views women as he does. Life’s circumstances have […]
Jonathan Swift in his writing often mentions the female body with repugnance. He very often dwells with exaggerated horror both at the sight of a woman’s body performing its normal bodily functions or and at […]
Robert Jablonsky Although a one of the greatest, if not the greatest comic novel ever written, Don Quixote, by Miguel Cervantes is also a masterpiece of serious ideas. One of them, in fact, concerns the […]
Tracy Wagner This paper will focus on the types of humor used and the role humor plays in Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Specifically, it will analyze Cervantes’ use of parody, satire, irony and slapstick. Cervantes had […]
Carolyn Horn Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines an agnostic as “a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality as God is unknown and probably unknowable” (23). Cicero, Roman statesman, democrat, rhetorician and lawyer […]
Chad Cheatham Analysts of myths and legends such as Joseph Campbell and Carl G. Jung have discovered that there is a definitive structure used in practically every tale concerning a hero. The structural elements,analysts assert, […]