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Why The Odyssey?

The Odyssey by Homer is one of the foundational texts of Western literature. You will find two major themes in Western literature…
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Dec 31, 2020
A Double Shadow: An Early Metamodern Sci-Fi Novel

A Double Shadow: An Early Metamodern Sci-Fi Novel

One of the earliest works of Metamodern literature is the sci-fi novel A Double Shadow by Frederick Turner. Published in 1978, Turner was…
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Nov 19, 2020
On Conventions (and Metamodernism)

On Conventions (and Metamodernism)

One of the primary elements of artistic Modernism is the rejection of convention — this is what the avant-garde was and is all about…
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Sep 22, 2020

Kundera’s Continuing Dialogue on Tragedy

IDEAS . My disgust for those who reduce a work to its ideas. My revulsion at being dragged into what they call “discussion of ideas.” My…
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Aug 7, 2020
Severing Our Ties to the Past

Severing Our Ties to the Past

One of the labors of Hercules was to act as the servant to the queen Omphale. After freeing him, she married him. One night, while they…
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Jul 5, 2020

National and Cosmopolitan Art

Richard Wagner wanted to create a distinctly German artwork in The Ring Cycle — and, indeed, in all his works. He raged against the…
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Jun 7, 2020

Chapter 18: Aesthetics, Ritual, Property, and Fish: A Dialectical Approach to the Evolutionary…

The following is part of a colloquium on the book The Dialectics of Liberty, Edited by Roger E. Bissell, Chris Matthew Sciabarra, and…
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May 25, 2020
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Can Beauty Save the World?

Can Beauty Save the World?

“Man can live without science, he can live without bread, but without beauty he could no longer live, because there would no longer be…
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May 16, 2020
Nonfiction and Artistic Aesthetics

Nonfiction and Artistic Aesthetics

If you were to ask a poet about their influences, they would no doubt make a list of poets who and poems which have influenced their…
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May 15, 2020
Postmodernism and the Metamodernist

Postmodernism and the Metamodernist

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy says that postmodernism is
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May 13, 2020
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