As Giambattista Vico argues, we are the only creatures who can interpret history because human beings are historical creatures that “make history”. Therefore, because literary works are ‘humanistic texts’, to understand literary works, we must be able to immerse in… Read More ›
Yesterday marked the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of WWII, one of the most infernal periods in human history ever known to us. Apart from the infamous rule of Nazi, the decline of Communist Eastern European states led to a… Read More ›
Founded more than a century before Communist China was, Hong Kong has a long history. Going through the First Opium War, British colonial period and the Handover, our city has emerged as a complex hybrid of different cultures. Our home… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
50 years ago yesterday, Apollo 11, the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon returned to our planet. Growing up listening to the tales of Artemis and Chang’e, the Moon has been a land of fantasy for us since… Read More ›
Hulu is now airing the third season of its popular show The Handmaid’s Tale, which is inspired by Margaret Atwood’s original novel (1985). June’s (Elizabeth Moss) strong resistance to Gilead, the dystopian political regime, has started a mass fervour for… Read More ›
