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| LITERARY ANALYSES |
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| Title |
Author/Subject |
| Breakfast of Champions |
Kurt Vonnegut |
| All the President's Men |
Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward |
| Tortilla Flat |
John Steinbeck |
| Fahrenheit 451 |
Ray Bradbury |
| Catcher in the Rye |
J.D. Salinger |
| A Separate Peace |
John Knowles |
| Bridge to Terabithia |
Katherine Paterson |
| The Stranger |
Albert Camus |
| Ordinary People |
Judith Guest |
| Julius Caesar |
William Shakespeare |
| Great Expectations |
Charles Dickens |
| Catch-22 |
Joseph Heller |
| The Time Machine |
H.G. Wells |
| Tarnsman of Gor |
John Norman |
| "Finger Man" |
Raymond Chandler |
| A Tale of Two Cities |
Charles Dickens |
| Do Androids Dream fo Electric Sheep? |
Philip K. Dick |
| Macbeth |
William Shakespeare |
| I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream |
Harlan Ellison |
| The Rocky Horror Picture Show |
Richard O'Brien |
| Timequake |
Kurt Vonnegut |
| The Oregon Trail |
Brøderbund Software |
| Atlas Shrugged |
Ayn Rand |
| Assuage the Guilt |
Greenfield McKenna |
| Ask the Dust |
John Fante |
| Katharine Hepburn's Me |
Katharine Hepburn |
| The Dark Tower Volumes I-IV: Where will the Path of the Beam Lead? |
Stephen King |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
Hunter S. Thompsons |
| It |
Stephen King |
| Riding in Cars with Boys |
Beverly D'Onofrio |
| Somewhere in the Night |
Scott & Christy Donovan |
| Portrait of Elizabeth |
Stephen J. Cannell |
| Foundation Series |
Isaac Asimov |
| The Great Gatsby |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Valiant Interests |
Greenfield McKenna |
| Green Mars |
Kim Stanley Robinson |
| Hatchet |
Gary Paulsen |
| When the Legends Die |
Hal Borland |
| The H.G. Wells Conundrum |
The effect of Wells' latter day socialist agenda on his literary works. |
| John Cassavetes' Pro-Corporate Spirit |
Reflections on the pro-corporation themes in such filmes as Faces, Husbands, and especially A Woman Under the Influence |
| Merciful Sartre |
A look at the novels of Sartre (most especially Nausea, The Imaginary, and Being and Nothingness to reflect on the quiet optimism present in the late philosopher's works. |
| Use of Satire in 19th Century British Novels to Effect Social Change |
An in-depth look on Bleak House, Pride and Prejudice, and Rebecca and Rowena, discussing the myriad social issues tackled in each novel and the effectiveness each novel's use of comedy has in illustrating these issues. |
| The Impact of Wagner's "Der Ring Des Nibelungen" on 20th-Century American Literature |
A look at pre- and post-World War II novels like The Catcher in the Rye, Marathon Man, and The Nubian Prince and the impact Wagner's 'Ring' cycle had on each, extrapolated to show the impact Wagner has had on literature in general. |
| Mark Twain: Lazy Bones |
Symbolically ties Twain's late-in-life trip around the world to his great works of literature. |
| How Freudian Analysis Ruined Russian Literature |
An exploration of changes, ultimately for the worse, in Russian literature once Freud's theory of a multi-layered conscious spread. |
| A Body Across the Map: The Father-Son Plays of Sam Shepard |
By focusing on character and conflict, this analysis charts--in precise structural and thematic terms--Shepard's metamohposis from a purely instinctual (and "speed"-driven) young playwright to an iconoclastic storyteller in firm control of his craft. |
| Biblical Wickedness |
A look at Biblical wordplay, mistranslations, and misinterpretations, initially revolving around the arcane definition of "wickedness" as "a homosexual act." |
| Wuthering Heights |
My 783-page senior-year treatise on Emily Brontë's masterwork. |
| Victorian Detective |
A comparative analysis between Victorian detective archetypes and story structuring versus the modern detective story. |
| Slaughterhouse-Dive: Kurt Vonnegut's Impact on Charles Bukowski |
Daring to explore the deep (but seemingly insignificant) influence of Kurt Vonnegut's demented sci-fi satires on Charles Bukowski's gritty stories of social and urban decay. |
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| KARABEKIAN PRESS |
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| Title |
Credits |
| Why the Gods Chose Me: Essays of Empowerment and Hope |
Colby Witherspoon, Editor/Contributor; Dana Kaufman, Editor |
| The Road from Philadelphia |
Colby Witherspoon, Editor/Contributor |
| Charnel House: Essays of Love and Death |
Dana Kaufman, Editor/Contributor; Colby Witherspoon, Contributor |
| The Dying of the Light |
Colby Witherspoon, Editor/Contributor/Foreword |
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| MUSIC ANALYSES |
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| Title |
Subject |
| Guns N' Roses Video Trilogy: An In-Depth Look |
"November Rain," "Don't Cry," and "Estranged" (videos, music, lyrics) |
| Darkside of the Poon: A Freudian Look at Pink Floyd |
Applying Freudian theory to the works of Pink Floyd, notably Animals |
| Radiohead's "OK Computer": A Chilling Look at a Future Dystopia |
Uses literary examples of dystopiac societies (1984, The Handmaid's Tale, The Time Machine, et al) to interpret Radiohead's most complex and interesting work to date (written in 1998) |
| A Sociological Examination of the Beach Boys' Music as It Pertains to the Life Cycle from Adolescence to Adulthood |
Charts the musical progression and lyrical content of the Beach Boys' music as it relates to the cycle of male maturity (i.e., the progression from songs about surfing and fucking around to songs about depression, angst, and concern about the future) |
| Bedded: Phallophobia in the Music of Juliana Hatfield |
Focusing specifically on 1998's Bed, this takes a hard look at Ms. Hatfield's apparent fear of the male organ and all that it represents |
| Fight for Your Right: A Feminist Look at the Beastie Boys |
Unearthing the feminist roots of the Beastie Boys' lyrics |
| An Analysis of Bruce Springsteen's The River |
Interprets The River as a concept album about a male's early 20s; also analyzes lyrics and music for content to provide evidence for this radical interpretation |
| Dirty Deeds Ain't Dirt Cheap: AC/DC Under the Electron Microscope |
An examination of the underlying despair buried beneath AC/DC's misogynistic, sex-'n'-violence-obsessed façade |
| Quadrophenia: Misstep or Masterpiece? |
Is Quadrophenia the most baffling, impenetrable, misfire of all time--or is it an underrated gem of production, composition, and musical "concept album" storytelling? |
| Let It Take You Where It May |
An expanded, 213-page look at "November Rain," "Don't Cry," and "Estranged," incorporating biographical data, analyses of other music by Guns N' Roses, and literary archetypes of this music to add to the interpretation of the lyrics/music/videos. Published commercially in Japan |
| Girth McDürchstein's 'The Hedge' Analysis |
Taking a look at a concept album as obtuse as Quadrophenia but as radio-friendly as Watertown, Abysmal Crucifix's Girth McDürchstein's 'The Hedge' |
Last revised: January 29, 2007
