Edmund Burke – Between The Purple Passages

Between The Purple Passages

by Ashley Zimunya

The Texts from my Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Non-Fiction

1. The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault (Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge (1976) 2nd year “Briefly, my aim is to examine the case of a society which has been loudly castigating itself for its hypocrisy for more than a century, which speaks verbosely of its own silence, takes… Continue reading

Prose and Poetry

Edmund Burke, French Revolution, Friedrich Engels, Gender, Judith Butler, Karl Marx, Mary Wollstonecraft, Michel Foucault
Frankenstein and Early 19th Century English Political Thought

Now more commonly associated with the stand-alone Gothic genre, the 1818 version of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was written during the Romantic Era and a period of social unrest in Europe, making it a work of Gothic or Dark Romanticism. Still shadowed by the influence of the French Revolution, revolutionary and… Continue reading

Past Essays, Prose and Poetry

Edmund Burke, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, Thomas Paine