Jane Clark Scharl

Academic Questions View all


September 30, 2020

A Broken Vessel: Identity Theory and the Fragmentation of Poetry

Jane Clark Scharl

Identity theory insists that human beings experience the world as members of the identity group to which they belong. This idea is a “revolt against the concept of poetry,” which seeks to......

Continue Reading

March 23, 2020

Lonely and Scared: College Students’ Culture of Immaturity

Jane Clark Scharl

Today’s college students are more fragile than their counterparts of previous generations, less able to cope with challenges, less prepared to adapt to disagreeable living situations, less resou......

Continue Reading