Breaking Down Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, Misogyny and All
One of Shakespeare’s earliest plays, The Taming of the Shrew (1594), follows Katherine, an outspoken “shrew,” who is to be “tamed” by her...
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We Shouldn't Be Afraid of Virginia Woolf
In To the Lighthouse , Mrs. Ramsay's self-perception is clear, albeit staggering: “she did not like, even for a second, to feel finer than...
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5 Afro-Caribbean Women Writers
Out of the 12 months in a year, why do we commemorate Black History in February? The historian Carter G. Woodson, who first established...
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Book Recommendations: What to Read
In honor of our Literature Week, we at Her Campus Helsinki asked our writers for book recommendations as a way of bringing the week to its...
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Lesbian Love Sonnets And How To Speak The Unspeakable: Adrienne Rich and Twenty One Love Poems
Edited By- Malavika Suresh The woman Adrienne Rich writes of in Twenty-One Love Poems is as much a dream as the cautiously flitting sonnet...
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Decoding Darcy
Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy will always trump young adult literature supernatural heartthrobs and most other male leads of the romance genre.
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A View into the World of Cognitive Narratology
Cognitive narratology covers the study of the novel in collaboration with cognitive studies, from fields such as Psychology and...
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5 Works of African-American Literature to Read for Black History Month
African-American history is American history.
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Wattpad Woes
Ah yes, 7th grade, the beginning of my decline into toxic relationships and misguided beliefs, at least in literature. Ladies and gentlemen...
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Read More Romance II: Alexis Hall and BDSM Romance
You’ve probably read – or heard of – Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall. It’s a lovely blend of sweet, fluffy romance, truly bizarre...
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Five Famous Literary Women Who Would Reject Valentine's Day
Five Famous Literary Women Who Would Reject Valentine's Day Ah Valentine’s Day…An ambivalent day spent either celebrating your significant...
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My Favorite Places to Get Books
Books are awesome. They can help you escape from reality and at the same time, are entertaining. Growing up, I was a big book kid. I would...
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Why You Should Stop Calling Yourself a Bad Writer
Let me start with a bold blanket statement: Writing can’t be bad. The act of writing, just like the act of speaking, is solely meant to...
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The Aesthetics of a Growing Sense of Self
Kate Chopin’s (1850–1904) “The Story of an Hour” (1894) is a captivating short story that presents a woman’s growing sense of freedom. The...
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The War of Love and Chaos
How literature and art portray the two themes.
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Dear Mr. Darcy: The Duke Has My Heart
Dearest reader, I now have come to the conclusion that after years of wishing I had my own Mr. Darcy and countless reruns of the 2005 Pride...
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The Mask of the Red Death
Don’t become the virus beneath the mask.
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How To Interpret a Piece of Literature When You Don’t Get the Meaning
Learn how to get the meaning out of any text!
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Read More Romance: An Introduction
I’ve always thought romance novels were a bit… well, meh, to be honest. Once, in our teens, my best friend and I read a Harlequin romance...
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Poetry Collection: Stations of Summer, Apart
I: “Sky to Sea, Sea to Sky” Deep indigo, Alit with yesterday's stars. Slowly, the pale azure brushes upward, A breath is held with care…...
