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Issue 1 | Spring 2026
CONTENTS
● ‘Waz Ist Minne?’ Walther von der Vogelweide, Jacques Lacan, and the Perverse Potentials of Courtly Love
Paulina Gaşiorowska | Brown University ’27
● Dark Humor and Carnivalesque Spectacle: A Comparison Between Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and Julie Taymor’s Titus
Xinke Huang | Brown University ’27
● Marlow, The Awakened Modernist: Placing Georg Lukács’ ‘The Ideology of Modernism’ In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Ryan Gumlia | Yale University ’26
● The Evolution of Venetian Color
Arushi Chokshi | Brandeis ’27
● A Recontextualized Avant-Garde: Ideological Subversion in the Third AG Exhibition
Sydney Suh | University of California, Los Angeles ’27