Abstract: The present essay explores J. K. Toole’s The Neon Bible as a Southern Gothic Bildungsroman wherein the teenage protagonist enacts an Oedipal scenario the stark dichotomies of which pervade the narrative at almost every turn: tenderness vs. violence, tolerance…

Abstract : My aim is to touch on the current developments of the debate on 21st century humanities. The actual writing of the field’s practitioners is informative of the wish to rebrand the traditional recording of human experience. Accordingly, I will…