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This Week’s Features: Nature and Arts
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 ›
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Expressionist Aesthetics in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie: A Fictional Recreation of Paris out of the Pastiche and the Cinéma du look
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 ›
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Mythical or Metaphorical: Realism in Greek Mythology
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 ›
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The Abyss of Semiosis in Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose: The Mise en abyme of Signs
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 ›
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This Week’s Features: Aesthetics of Dreams
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 ›
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The Surrealist Representation of Everyday Life: The Philosophy of Existentialism in David Lynch’s Rabbits
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 ›
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Humans and Nature in The History of Bees: 250 years of Destruct and Construct
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 ›
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The Cinematography of Chaos: Literature Reinvented by the Reader in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Jealousy
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 ›
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This Week’s Features: The Enigma of Human History
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 ›
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A Brain Made Out of Straight Lines: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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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Modernism and Postmodernism ›
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Art Nouveau in Metacomics: The Autonomy of the Artist in Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland
September 2, 2019
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When Politics Confronts Aesthetics in Post-War Japanese Tea Culture: The Decay of Arts in Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes
August 26, 2019
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My Body and My Mind: Discovery of Sexuality in Jenny by Sigrid Undset
August 21, 2019
Fantasy and Sci-fi ›
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The Conspiracy Theory of Artificial History as a Political Tool in Authoritarian Regimes: The Manipulation of Social Orders in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities
August 19, 2019
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Mythical or Metaphorical: Realism in Greek Mythology
August 14, 2019
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Humans and Nature in The History of Bees: 250 years of Destruct and Construct
August 7, 2019
Movies and TV Shows ›
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From Pain to Glory to Pain: What It Takes to be an Artist
August 23, 2019
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Expressionist Aesthetics in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie: A Fictional Recreation of Paris out of the Pastiche and the Cinéma du look
August 16, 2019
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The Surrealist Representation of Everyday Life: The Philosophy of Existentialism in David Lynch’s Rabbits
August 9, 2019