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Education, The Arts & Literature

The Imponderable Bloom: E.M. Forster’s ‘The Machine Stops’ on Isolation, Social Distancing, and Online Lecturing

Francesca Pierini is an Adjunct Lecturer at University of Basel. In this short article, she proposes a reading of The Machine Stops (1909), a sci-fi short story E.M. Forster wrote in 1909, in order to reflect on several specific aspects of the narrative that closely resonate with our most recent experiences in a time of COVID-19 pandemic, from social isolation to distance lecturing.

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The Neverending Story Saul Andreetti THINK IAFOR
Media, Film & Journalism, The Arts & Literature

The Neverending Story: Power, Imagination and Reality

The protagonist of Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story is endowed with the ability to create and destroy the world of imagination as he sees fit. Is this the ultimate power? By Dr. Saul Andreetti.
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Death Note Japanese Popular Culture THINK IAFOR 1
Cultural & Area Studies, Media, Film & Journalism

Lingering Images in Japanese Popular Culture (17/20)

In Part 17 of Professor Stuart D.B. Picken’s “Death in the Japanese Tradition” monograph, he looks at the ways in which Japanese popular culture reflects the nation’s traditional values, and influences those of today.
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Hmonh women what does it mean to be knowledgable? THINK IAFOR
Cultural & Area Studies, Education, The Arts & Literature

The Gift of Certainty: What Does it Mean to be Knowledgeable?

Using two excerpts by contemporary authors, Francesca Pierini examines our perception of knowledge, and the ways in which it can both empower and limit a society.

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Day of the Dead mural Malcolm Lowry Under the Volcano THINK IAFOR
Cultural & Area Studies, Ethics, Religion & Philosophy, The Arts & Literature

Psychogeographic Impact on Malcolm Lowry’s Consciousness: From the Zapotec and Aztec Civilizations to Taoism

Nigel H. Foxcroft analyses the influence of cultures and civilizations upon literature and national identity by investigating the evolution of the cosmic consciousness of the English Modernist novelist and poet, Malcolm Lowry (1909-57) after his experience of the Mexican Day of the Dead Hispanic festival.
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Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Japanese literary classics THINK 2
Cultural & Area Studies, The Arts & Literature

Death and the Dead in Japan’s Literary Classics (3/20)

Professor Stuart D. B. Picken uses two great classics of Japanese literature, the Manyoshu and the Nihonshoki, to glean invaluable insights into the ancient Japanese understanding of the nature of human life and the origins of death in Part 3 of his “Death in the Japanese Tradition” series.
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