People in positions of power and authority are often seen as being superior and incapable of making a mistake. However, as literature has so often shown, people who are in important positions tend to have the same flaws and weaknesses as normal people do. The difference, however, lies in how far-reaching the impact would …
Fear is part of the fundamental core of human existence, as connected to the basic functions of survival and the psyche as the survival instinct or the need to mate. Fear and anxiety, therefore, are among the staples of any genre that deems itself fit to entertain the masses, an art form to be …
Mythopoetic textual interpretation as a probable way to adecuate definition of literature appears in russian philology in the 70’s on the crossroads of several paradigms of humanities. Sharing the basic features of poststructuralism, Mythopoetical criticism goes to use practically some methodological orientations of contemporary linguistics, semiotics and the study of culture. This approach to …
For some people art is just something you put on your refrigerator doors. It is something you have to do for schoolwork, or to while your time away. In truth, there truly is something beneath the surface of art that will tantalize every student and teacher. And this is the truth behind art education. …
And “so it goes,” to quote author Kurt Vonnegut, who knew a thing or two about indulgences and vice — but also time travel — and who lived through changes I can only imagine. I’ve been reading — er, listening to, rather — an audiobook of Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five.” Vonnegut uses the phrase, “So …