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They Shall Be As Fetching As They Are Deadly: A Reader Responds to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
anthropology, books, choose your own adventure, comp lit, comparative literature, cultural preservation, cultural production, English lit, English literature, English teacher, fan studies, game studies, Henry Jenkins, historical device, History, horror, horror writing, if, interactive fiction, Jane Austen, literary critic, literary criticism, literary device, literary scholar, mash-up fiction, mashup, mashup fiction, meaning making, place making, pride and prejudice, reader-response theory, reading, reading list, role-playing, romance novels, romance writing, rpg, teaching literature, zeitgeist, zombie, zombie fiction, zombies
Oh, The Mash-Up Novel and the tedious relationship between Cultural Production and Cultural Preservation. Pride and prejudice and Zombies… is as important as Pride and Prejudice itself? Let the discussions begin!
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The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States
Academia, Adventure, anime, Anthropology, Art, asia, asian studies, Author, Authors, Backpacking, Blogging, Book Blog, books, bookstagram, columbia missouri, comparative literature, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, Culture, education, English, essay, writingAdventure, Art, かみ, Backpacking, book review, book reviews, critical theory, culture, folklore, haruki murakami, japan, japanese, jungian, literary, literary agent, literary criticism, literary fiction, literary theory, literature, memoir, murakami, Mythology, nihongo, nippon, travel, Writing, 四回, 文化, 文我高, 日本, 日本語, 村神, 余暇い
Oh, Murakami, you sly fox, you mercurial and fluid, thread a web between East and west that we at once desperately need and can’t quite comprehend. And yet we return, thirsty and increasingly drunk of the elixir that is the product of your craft.
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What. A. Time. It. Is. As we continue to wrap our heads around our first officiated pandemic, not that we aren’t the victims of other, more abstract pandemics such as racism, colonialism, and free-market capitalism, but hey, morality/philosophy will have to take a backburner today. No, today we’re dealing with a vicious strain of flu…
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The Way Things Are
The Way Things Are – Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. #taoism #taoteching #mindfulness
Nicholas Andriani Rankin, the Wandering Scholar 