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Recent Posts from Voices

• New paper on long-term salamander population monitoring [Home Page for Rick Lehtinen]
  It took 10+ years, but our long-term monitoring efforts at Wooster Memorial Park have now been published. Thanks to everyone who had a hand in this (especially Derek Calhoun '11, Jacob Gabriel '15 and Hilary Edgington '10)!
• Blog Post 4 (Porphyria's Lover) - W Lindelow [The Gothic Imagination]
  Does Porphyria's lover feel guilt for murdering Porphyria? At first, they show no sign of guilt or regret for what they did, justifying it as fulfilling Porphyria's "utmost will" and even exclaiming that despite their crime, "God has said not a word!," taking a lack of divine intervention as tacit
• Blog Post 4 (Porphyria's Lover) [The Gothic Imagination]
  I would argue that Browning's 'Porphyria's Lover' represents the gothic genre very accurately. The poem captures multiple gothic tropes, but I believe that there is much to examine when we look from a violence/intimacy perspective. Porphyria is in love with this man and obviously feels ver
• Sofi - Porphyria's Lover [The Gothic Imagination]
  Porphyria’s Lover  --> Robert Browning Is there a difference between an all-consuming love and an all-consuming obsession? Can obsession be romantic? Can obsession be love? 'Porphyria's Lover' written by Robert Browning is the epitome of a Gothic poem. The psy