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• This Week’s Features: Nature and Arts

  By Audrey Chan on August 19, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Henry David Thoreau stated in Walden (1854) that he had gone to the woods because he had wished to “live deliberately and to front the essential facts of life” to reject socially constructed universal truths. Nature is one of the… Read More ›

• Expressionist Aesthetics in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie: A Fictional Recreation of Paris out of the Pastiche and the Cinéma du look

  By Audrey Chan on August 16, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s French romantic comedy film Amélie (2001) is a lighthearted fiesta of daily pleasures. It narrates the life of a waitress, Amélie Poulain, who spent her childhood isolated from the outer world, and her journey to bring her little… Read More ›

• Mythical or Metaphorical: Realism in Greek Mythology

  By Rachel Sin on August 14, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  In Greek mythology, gods and humans both depend and against each other. These gods are not almighty. They have emotions, community, each of them has their strengths and weaknesses, just like humans. While their godly powers rule over humans, it is… Read More ›

• The Abyss of Semiosis in Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose: The Mise en abyme of Signs

  By Audrey Chan on August 12, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Like many of Umberto Eco’s works, The Name of the Rose (1980) is another postmodern novel that deals with the deceiving nature of language. However, although Eco once again makes use of the technique of intertextuality to mock the search… Read More ›

• This Week’s Features: Aesthetics of Dreams

  By Audrey Chan on August 12, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Fiction itself is an imaginative dimension outside the realm of reality. When authors write about dreams, they remove the ‘ontological distance’ (a term coined by David Mitchell). Because dreams are personal experiences, they often appear in modernist literature to emphasise… Read More ›

• The Surrealist Representation of Everyday Life: The Philosophy of Existentialism in David Lynch’s Rabbits

  By Audrey Chan on August 9, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Famous for his great success with Mulholland Drive (2001), David Lynch has been an icon of surrealist aesthetics in the cinematic world. Popularising surrealist cinematography to the mainstream audience, Lynch projects new interpretations of reality onto the big screen through… Read More ›

• Humans and ​Nature in The History of Bees: 250 years of Destruct and Construct

  By Rachel Sin on August 7, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Norwegian author Maja Lunde introduces us to an emerging genre – Climatic Fiction. It is a form of science fiction that offers eco-criticism. Her recent work, The History of Bees (2015), combines history, contemporary and a dystopian future to remind… Read More ›

• The Cinematography of Chaos: Literature Reinvented by the Reader in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Jealousy

  By Audrey Chan on August 5, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The literary movement, the Nouveau Roman, emerged in the 1950s in France. The New Novelists reject the traditional author-oriented sensorial syncretism. Being one of the most influential pioneers in the movement, Alain Robbe-Grillet, as both an author and filmmaker, writes… Read More ›

• This Week’s Features: The Enigma of Human History

  By Audrey Chan on August 5, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  As many postmodern writers like Umberto Eco claim, the history familiar to us is merely an artificial construction and thus a ‘reality’ made out of falsehoods is crafted. The postmodern notion of history as an accumulated product of multiple falsehoods… Read More ›

• A Brain Made Out of Straight Lines: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

  By Rachel Sin on August 2, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  What would you do if you find your neighbour’s dog dead in front of your doorstep in the middle of the night? Christopher Boone, a 15-year-old boy with “behavioural problems” decided to take the role of the detective himself. In… Read More ›

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