Months ago, I wrote a short essay on what I saw as some central themes of Death Note. At the time, I promised to maybe eventually get round to a queer reading of the series. Here it is. As with the previous essay, this one is full to the brim with spoilers. It's also badly organised and very Light-centric. I hesitated to write this, because it felt ( Read more... )

When I finished my Master's degree in English in 2005, I sincerely believed I'd never want to do literary analysis, ever again. Then I happened across Death Note, and changed my mind. However, what with one thing and another, I don't have the mental capacity to write a neat and pretty article/essay on it right now, so the following are basically ( Read more... )