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Idealization in the movie Slotherhouse
Slotherhouse is a 2023 comedy horror movie about a killer sloth who goes on a murder spree in a North American college sorority. Taking it seriously removes what makes the movie fun and unique. I think that it is a clear expression of the dangers of idealizing foreign agents to the point where humanity can no…
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Emily Dickinson’s “The Chariot” is an Insult to Death
How much control does a writer have after their work is published? In an example of Emily Dickinson, an editor gave her poem “The Chariot” its title after her Death. This is not uncommon in Dickinson’s oeuvre. Most of her poems were not written for publication purposes. Many later, anthologised poems came from letters to friends and…
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A Traveller Sits by his Fire and Writes about his Times: On Place: South African Literary Journeys by Justin Fox
In Place: South African Literary Journeys, Justin Fox makes the journey himself. His text explores South African written landscapes and recasts them through his authorial eyes.
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Kris Van der Bijl 