The shapes of storiesframe-breakframe-shiftingstorytelling pedagogytimes of environmental sensitivity.We all know that a lamp belongs to the category of objects. Sometimes, however, our perception of a lamp does not resist the feeling that we owe something to it. Our perception does not resist ...
The Rule of Three Truth and Beauty: The Two Faces of Science Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, and other lies of physics 27 Responses to the Question “What is Art?” The Science of Patterns Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories ...
John Scott wrote of his visit to the Palais-Royal in 1814: “It is a square enclosure, formed of the buildings of the Orleans Palace; piazzas make a covered walk along three of its sides, and the centre is an open gravelled space, with a few straight lines of slim trees running alon...
Charles Clary says he wants his constructions to appear ever-expanding — overwhelming exhibition spaces like replicating viruses or reverberating sound waves. Inspired by microorganisms, anthills, and auditory phenomena, he layers colored paper to build up the variegated textures and sinewy shapes [.....
Still, there was a sense of community in most of Oliver’s short stories. We see it in the beginning of “Health Service” when Libby stops at the Esso station with her brood to take a break and is comforted by an old grade-school boyfriend, Matt, who is also her estranged husband’...
s especially true when an actor’s race doesn’t take a lead in the story as if it’s a character of its own. Americans come in all colors, shapes and sizes… so why not just let that simmer into a delicious stew instead of pointing a big flaming arrow at it to say “See! we ...
A graphic novel? A murder mystery wrapped in philosophy? A parable about geometric shapes? Vonnegut? These books will give your brain a workout in more ways than one. 47.A Severed Headby Iris Murdoch (1961) 46.The Awakeningby Kate Chopin (1899) ...
a stretch to say that our interaction with the deep archetypes of story itself and the characters who populate it is what shapes our very existence. Story is not just communication; it is communion—with ourselves, with each other, and with the infinitude that lies beyond immediate understanding...
the scene of the opening of Murakami’s novel “After Dark” — and eavesdropped on Tokyoites over French toast and bubble tea. I became hyperaware, as I wandered around, of the things Murakami novels are hyperaware of: incidental music, ascents and descents, the shapes of people’s ...
Summary Of Under The Influence Scott Sanders Prominent essayist and novelist, Scott Russell Sanders, in his essay, “Under the Influence” (1989), describes how having an alcoholic parent shapes a person. Sanders’s purpose is to reflect on his bleak youth and its lasting effects on his adult...