The new issue of The Delta, IWU’s journal of literary criticism, is out and waiting at the English House for interested students to pick up a copy.

The Spring 2011 issue features six essays written for classes over the past year: “Belonging to the Self: Problems with Identity Formation in Thea Astley’s The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow and Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory,” by Jackie Connelly; “Be a Man, Be a Woman, or Be Silent: Gender Identity in Le Roman de Silence,” by Christy Spees; “Sisterly Redemption in Goblin Market: The Fallen Woman and the Female Christ,” by Korey Williams; “And I Temporary: Novel as Continuum in The Sound and the Fury,” by Casimir Frankiewicz; “Deceit, Revelation, and Collapse in Richard III,” by Brandon Dorn; and “Spreading the Message: Reading and Writing Wittgenstein’s Mistress,” by Nicole Travis.

There has always been a student-run literary magazine at IWU, but the names have changed over the years. This is the sixth year for The Delta, which is edited by students.