WR: Journal of the Arts & Sciences Writing Program
Issue 2, 2009–2010
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
Kimberly Gomez
Prize Essay Winners
Protecting Speech or Copyright: A Question of Balance
Benjamin Cohen
Dostoevsky and Gogol’s Acknowledgments of Writers’ Limitations
Georgianne Maroon
Rethinking Humanity: the Chimera Debate
Jielin Yu
WR 100 Essays
Two Sides to Every Story
Micaela Bedell
Darkness Visible: Dante’s Clarification of Hell
Joseph Kameen
Blanche Dubois: An Antihero
Lauren Seigle
Dorian Gray the Escape Artist
Jesse R. Sherman
WR 150 Essays
Fish Farming and the Boundary of Sustainability: How Aquaculture Tests Nature’s Resources
Courtney Carroll
Bulgakov’s “Moonlight Sonata:” The Thematic Functions of Grand Opera and Lieder in
The Master and Margarita
John Collins
Tied By Cords Woven of Heart-Strings: A Study of Manhood in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick
Veronica Faller
Violent Media and the First Amendment
Stacey Goodman
The Portrayal of Despair in Poland after 1989: Stasiuk’s Nine and Klein’s The Shock Doctrine
Gabrielle Migdalski