No wonder he got despised by others. One day, Mu Yun just finished his practice and lashed out at Luo Feng, the most handsome man in the capital, ?It?s you who tried every means to pursue me. How come I?m the target of ridicule and abuse? It?s so not fair!? ?Calm down. ...
It is as heartbreaking as it’s terrifying, a study in explosive pathos and even, maybe, how the pursuit of community only results in greater loneliness. But the novel, written in 1955 by Patricia Highsmith, offers us a slicker, slimier sociopath. We’ve seen an unfeeling Ripley before, ...
The firstGothicfiction appeared with works likeHorace Walpole’sCastle of Otranto(1765) andMatthew Gregory Lewis’Monk(1796), which countered 18th-century “rationalism” with scenes of mystery, horror, and wonder. Gothic (the spelling “Gothick” better conveys the contemporary flavor) was a design...
MEANING IS A CHOICE:Sometimes life hits the skids. But while there’s no study plan to help kids understand misfortune, YA books can be a way to explore not only tragedy, but also, what can come of it. In Adam Silvera’sThey Both Die At The End, a senselessly unfair event drives th...
Still, reading her rendering of this Argentinian sci-fi/fantasy classic, I can’t help but wonder if translation itself doesn’t have something of the fantastical or speculative about it: a processes that fuses the capabilities of two minds. It sounds like something Le Guin herself might have...
Experiments with electricity around the time that Shelley was writing had made people wonder if reanimating the dead using scientific methods might really be possible. Victor Frankenstein's desire to conquer nature and to advance humanity through science are very firmly rooted in Enlightenment-era ...
aI just wonder why ME didn\'t participate in the sample build, is it correct action ? 我想知道为什么我didn \ ‘t参加样品修造,它是否是正确行动?[translate] aThe biggest problem 最大的问题[translate] aat fishing for termites 在钓鱼为白蚁[translate] ...
the family dog has his or her own set of superpowers, not so flashy as those of their two-legged fictional counterparts, but, in their own way, just as enthralling. If only more people would take the time to wonder, “what is it like to be a dog?” (or, indeed, any other ...
So this week’s lecture is “Poetry: The Whole Package” and the reading is “Dover Beach”—last year it was “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” but that seemed to be too much for most of them, and no wonder. (Still, it was fun to teach “Prufrock,” which I’m not sure...
As our analysis will suggest, the experience examined in this study was a source of learning from wonder and the unexpected. Moreover, it provoked knowledge construction in the reconciliation of ordinary selves with epistemic selves through reflection over lived experience in a way that seems to ha...