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River of fire
River of Fire encompasses the fates of four recurring characters over two and a half millennia. Four characters of Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Christian faith, reappear throughout the novel in various reincarnations but interestingly enough, with the same names. These characters become crisscrossed and strangely inseparable over different eras, forming and reforming their relationships in romance and war, in possession and dispossession.
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Reincarnation as a Transcultural Motif in Edgar Allan Poe's \Ligeia\ and Khalil Gibran's \Ashes of Generations and the Eternal Fire\
This paper examines reincarnation as a central motif in Edgar Allan Poe's \"Ligeia\" (1838) and Kahlil Gibran's \"Ashes of Generations and the Eternal Fire\" (1906), analyzing its role in themes of identity, love, and the soul's eternity. Through textual and comparative analysis, the study explores how each author employs reincarnation to interrogate existence and the human condition. Poe's Gothic tale presents reincarnation as a haunting manifestation of psychological turmoil, reflecting his preoccupation with death, loss, and fragmented selfhood. In contrast, Gibran's mystical narrative depicts reincarnation as spiritual renewal, rooted in Eastern philosophy's cosmic harmony. Despite differing tones and cultural frameworks--Poe's Western Gothic versus Gibran's Sufi-inspired lyricism--both texts converge on shared motifs: love's endurance and the metaphysical search for meaning. By centering reincarnation as a comparative lens, this study bridges Eastern and Western literary traditions, addressing a gap in scholarship between English and Arabic texts. It demonstrates how reincarnation serves as a transcultural nexus, linking Poe's psychological depth with Gibran's spiritual transcendence. Ultimately, the paper highlights reincarnation's dual function--as a mirror of inner chaos and a symbol of universal continuity--enriching comparative literature by illuminating its capacity to unite disparate worldviews through the soul's imagined journey. Keywords: Reincarnation, comparative, uncanny, psychology, philosophy
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The catlady
Muriel Ponsonby, the Catlady, lives with dozens of cats, many of whom she believes are reincarnated friends, relatives, and even royalty.
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VASİL BARNOV’UN HİKÂYELERİNDE SEVGİ MOTİFİ: “AŞK - TANRI'NIN SİMGESİDİR!”
The article discusses the philosophical theory of the divinity of love. This theory has been studied according to the stories of Vasil Barnov. We are talking about two interesting studies. The first of these is \"Sweet Whistle\" and the second is \"Flowers\". According to the author, the Creator is infinite goodness and light; manifested in the form of love and beauty. Love is divine and therefore immortal; No one can fight against love because whoever fights it is doomed to fail sooner or later. Generaly beauty is material and it’s earthly but constantly strives for divine and eventually returns to Him. Although the characters in the work at first glance appear as strange people, different from the others, then the truth is understood. It questions the reader with questions such as Do you remember the episodes of your previous lives, have you lived this moment before, do you believe in reincarnation because they have experienced it themselves. For them, the core value in this life is compassion and love. The characters in the stories always attribute God to be love and to God as the birthplace of love. In this context, love, the existence and origin of love, reincarnation theory will be interpreted by Barnov’s stories.
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Soulmate
Thierry, the Lord of the Night World, has searched through the years for his soulmate, and he finally finds her in Hannah Snow, whose destiny to die before turning seventeen.
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Re-actualisation of Puppet Characters in Modern Indonesian Fictions of the 21st Century
Indonesian fiction works of the 21st century often intertextualise with puppet stories and characters. Puppet stories and characters, used as sources and references, inspire the creation of modern Indonesian fiction. Puppet stories are canonic works originating from mainstream Mahabharata and Ramayana, thematically narrating the heroism of good characters in defeating evil characters. Reactualisation of puppet stories and characters in literature is a redefinition and contextualisation as a response to the chalenges of time. Analyses of the intertextuality between Indonesian fiction and puppet stories and characters show the following things. First, Indonesian fiction is seen as intensively intertextualising with puppet stories and characters. Many puppet characters that are actualised originate more from the mainstream Mahabharata than from the mainstream Ramayana. Characters with good traits are made protagonists and characters with evil traits are made antagonists. Second, Indonesian fiction uses the identities of puppet characters as name references. References of puppet character identities take the form of hypograms of names with characters, names without characters, and characters without names. The most intensive identity referencing of puppet characters in the form of hypogramming to continue convention is naming with characters. Third, Indonesian fiction uses puppet stories and characters as cultural references. Puppet hypograming is taken to function as cultural references, comparison purposes, means of children education, and reincarnation sources in the Hindu religion. Cultural referencing of puppets is more efficient and communicative as it is typological, following the mainstreams and exact.
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Mind the Gap(s): Holly Sykes’s Life, the ‘Invisible’ War, and the History of the Future in The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks (2014) features a complex temporal scheme. Critics have discussed the novel as an allegory of mortality and in terms of labyrinthine time and reincarnation time. I herein discuss it in terms of elided time, examining the ellipses or breaks in temporal continuity that the novel so prominently highlights. Although what we might arguably call the main narrative covers Holly Sykes’s lifetime, most of that span is not narrated. Drawing on current discussions of the Anthropocene and climate change, I explore how The Bone Clocks, through its narrative ellipses, spurs readers to link past causes and future effects and to pay attention to the attritional environmental destruction that is taking place across a vast time-scale. Mitchell writes a history of the future that cautions us to mind the gaps.
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Cloud atlas : a novel
Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalyptic world.
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Pythagoras' Revenge
The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript was never found? Where would it be located? And what information would it reveal? These questions are the inspiration for the mathematical mystery novelPythagoras' Revenge. Suspenseful and instructive,Pythagoras' Revengeweaves fact, fiction, mathematics, computer science, and ancient history into a surprising and sophisticated thriller.
The intrigue begins when Jule Davidson, a young American mathematician who trolls the internet for difficult math riddles and stumbles upon a neo-Pythagorean sect searching for the promised reincarnation of Pythagoras. Across the ocean, Elmer Galway, a professor of classical history at Oxford, discovers an Arabic manuscript hinting at the existence of an ancient scroll--possibly left by Pythagoras himself. Unknown to one another, Jule and Elmer each have information that the other requires and, as they race to solve the philosophical and mathematical puzzles set before them, their paths ultimately collide. Set in 1998 with flashbacks to classical Greece,Pythagoras' Revengeinvestigates the confrontation between opposing views of mathematics and reality, and explores ideas from both early and cutting-edge mathematics.
From academic Oxford to suburban Chicago and historic Rome,Pythagoras' Revengeis a sophisticated thriller that will grip readers from beginning to surprising end.
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