Table of Contents
From the Editor ’ s Desk ............................................................. vii Felicia Campbell
Side 3 , Side 2 : The Beatles in Jhumpa Lahiri ’ s The Namesake ............................................................................... 1 Steven Hamelman
Space at the Con : Conversations About Representation in Popular Culture at Comic Conventions ............................. 29 Debra E . Jenson
What ’ s lit got to do with it ? Deconstructing the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site ......................... 57 Alana N . Seaman
Dating in the Digital Age : A Research Experiment .............. 95 Marci Mazzarotto
Fake News and Failed Friendships : An Analysis of Trump , Pecker , and the National Enquirer ........................... 117 William M . Kirtley and Patricia M . Kirtley
“ We Know the Way ”: Culture – Nature Relationship and Kuleana in Disney ’ s Moana ............................................. 157 Colby Y . Miyose
Has True Romance Disappeared in Consumer Society ? A Morinian and Baudrillardian Reflection of the Acute Crisis of Simulation ...................................................... 183 Keith Moser
Dante , the Gothic , the Abject , and the Grotesque in Mathieu Missoffe ’ s Thriller-Crime Drama Black Spot ....... 209 Richard Logsdon