CRITERION: A Literary Journal is published annually by
the Department of English at Loyola Marymount University.

Volume 41, 2023

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Co-Editors-in-Chief
Taylor Dischinger 
Kyra LaFitte 
Lois Peach 

Editorial Team
Izabel Mah y Busch 
Madeleine Malcolm 
Chester Mlcek 
Hannah Nagle 
Antonio Radic 
Christianne Tubola 
Ian Woo

Advising professor
Sarah Maclay

Design  & Typesetting
Ash Good

 Contents

Editors’ Introduction
Taylor Dischinger, Kyra Lafitte & Lois Peach

The Eco-Sacred—Two Short Takes
Sam Yaziji

The Sublime in the Polar Gothic Narratives: Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Natalia Gonzales

AnOther One: Monsters in a Scientific Era
Taylor Dischinger

The Host: A Monstrous Humanity
Antonio Radic

How We Got Here: Conservative Media Outlets Have Been Getting Increasingly Hyper-Partisan and Here’s Why It Matters
Lacey Argus

Examining the Kindling of Maureen Alsop’s Pyre
Hannah Nagle

Color and the Self in Bluets and Self-Portrait with Crayon
Olivia Trachtenberg

Moments of Emotional Evolution in the Post-Secular Search for Meaning
Emanuelle Lagree

Tracking Liminal Identity in Zitkála-Šá’s American Indian Stories: Decolonizing Indigenous Spirituality and the Borderless Home
Leah Whang

“Minor Feelings” and Grief in Victoria Chang’s Obit
Christianne Tubola

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