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Jasmine and the Star of Persia
Princess Jasmine shows she is wise and fair and kind, proving herself worthy of the beautiful jewel, the Star of Persia.
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The Jewels of Indra's Net: Sublime Cosmologies and Juan Miguel Aguilera
Juan Miguel Aguilera's story “Todo lo que un hombre puede imaginar” [All That a Man Can Imagine, 2005] serves as a powerful conclusion for his novel La red de Indra [Indra's Net, 2009], although it was originally published separately. The infinite vastness of a universe-spanning network of artificial singularities (“geodes” or jewels in Indra's net) and the cosmic scale of a project to curate the entirety of the universe's consciousness and intelligence finds microcosmic reflection in the human experiences of a scientific/military team hurled 236 million years into Earth's future, for each individual's consciousness also bejewels Indra's net. “Todo lo que un hombre puede imaginar” recounts the mission of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to rescue the aged and embittered Jules Verne from self-imposed exile in Amiens. Teilhard's question—“What do you think of eternity?”—begins a sublime technoscientific odyssey for Verne, who ultimately discovers he and every other intelligent being have been informationally resurrected to live eternally in Teilhard's Omega Point, the moment of maximal intelligence in our universe. Verne's new life in this constructed world mirrors the secret revealed in the novel, that our universe is but a micro-universe created by and for the “geodes.”
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The cave that shouldn't collapse
On a science class trip to a local cave, Edward \"Egg\" Garrison and his friends are confronted by the mystery of a faked cave-in.
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Form Things: Looking at Genre through Victorian Diamonds
The collision of neoformalism and thing theory pushes questions of genre to the surface. In mid-Victorian writing, such questions emerge in diamond form. As diamonds were discovered in and imported from the colonies, unprecedented interest in and self-consciousness about the gems developed. In the period's literature they serve as generic touchstones, allowing writers to consider issues of form and encoding aspects of lyric and narrative practice. Tracing diamonds' generic function through brief readings of texts in different genres-history, lyric, the novel, and narrative verse-this essay suggests that the stones operate as signs of wider generic disturbance, as writers pushed against facets of the forms in which they worked in ways that would lead to modernism's more obvious formal fractures.
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The search for treasure : the sixth adventure in the Kingdom of Fantasy
Once again Geronimo Stilton's pulled into the Kingdom of Fantasy, where he's needed to fulfill the ancient Gemstone Prophecy and prevent Scorcher, the evil Empress of Witches, from obtaining the Royal Sapphire which will give her immense power.
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Acquisitive Imitation and the Gift-Economy: Escaping Reciprocity in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit
Hren examines the origins of Bilbo Baggins' desire to burgle and his reason for becoming a thief in the film series The Hobbit. In order to examine this, it is first necessary to determine whether dwarves themselves are primarily motivated by reciprocity or something else entirely. In \"The Ambivalence of Scarcity,\" Paul Dumouchel develops a Girardian critique of modern economics and contends that desire precedes the object of desire. However, Bilbo's initial hesitance concerning the dwarves' arrival and aims give way when Thorin strikes up music that is \"so sudden and so sweet that Bilbo forgot everything else, and was swept away into dark lands under strange moons\". In To Double Business Bound, Rene Girard argues that \"desire chooses its objects through the mediation of a model, which designates the desirable while at the same time desiring it. In the beginning, Bilbo had no desire to depart from Bag End, let alone to obtain the \"pale enchanted gold.\"
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‘HIS FACE WAS LIVID, DREADFUL, WITH A FOAM AT THE CORNERS OF HIS MOUTH’: A TYPOLOGY OF VILLAINS IN CLASSIC DETECTIVE STORIES
This article presents atypologyofvillainsand theircrimesin theclassic detective story. A wide range of stories by authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Morrison, Baroness Orczy, Ernest Brahmah, and R. Austin Freeman are examined. It is argued that villains represent various sources of anxiety in late Victorian and Edwardian British society, such as fear ofdegeneracy, foreign influences, and the increased opportunities for deception arising from moneyed wealth. The success of the classic detective story thus depends as much on the exploitation of contemporarysocial fearsas on the deployment of literary stereotypes.
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About a Kaddish
It wasn't easy for them to send their little boy away, but Esther and Harry were willing to make the sacrifice so that Eddy would learn some Yiddishkeit. Eddy, a year younger than my boy Ben, moved into his cousin's room and became what you'd call his sidekick. With Benjamin busy studying for college entrance exams, you'd think Eddy would start thinking about his own future.
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Paul Scott's Later Novels: The Unknown Indian
The Raj Quartet is a novel in which Scott has transmuted contemporary history into fiction—the many forces at work in India over a period of five years, from the ‘Quit India’ motion of the Congress Committee in 1942 to the eve of Independence and Partition. Deeper than Scott's interest in history and politics, however, is his aim to probe the nature of human destiny, conveying a philosophy of life that shows man's destiny and moral sense sometimes at variance. He also focuses an ordinary human point of view on the world around him, valuing integrity and decency. Staying On is not a political or historical novel, although its background has political implications. It focuses mainly on problems relating to personal destiny. Scott's later novels constitute a major achievement in colonial, indeed, all, literature.
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