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Wake up, Sun!
When Dog wakes up early, in the middle of the night, he launches all the other farm animals in a worried search for the missing sun.
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New Essays on The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first novel and is widely considered to be the most important of his longer works of fiction. Written in an accessible style by prominent scholars, this collection of essays provides helpful and valuable insight for general readers and Hemingway specialists alike. Each essay is devoted to a major aspect of the novel: Hemingway's use of humor, the literary and historical context of the book, the atypically prevalent character of Brett Ashley, and topical approaches to issues of sexuality in the novel.
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Love and hope: affective labor and posthuman relations in Klara and The Sun
If super AI becomes possible, what could be the relationship between humans and non-humans? Does love play an important role in it? What is the meaning of true love? Noted for writing “novels of great emotional force”, Kazuo Ishiguro in his most recent speculative fiction Klara and the Sun imagines a posthuman world in which enhanced transhumans, super AIs and ordinary human beings coexist and interact with each other. By focusing on the Artificial Friend Klara’s complex emotions, such as her sensitivity, pathos and altruistic love, which is in strong contrast to the possessive, overprotective, and self-centered love of Josie’s mother, this essay uses Michael Hardt’s concept of affective labor to ponder on the question of parental love and human and non-human relationship. It argues that as a companion robot, Klara’s affective labor makes her more humanlike, and that in the posthuman world where artificial intelligence can be ever more potent and inescapably change the human relations, the key to more constructive relationship is to cherish hope and show benevolent love to one another, whether they are humans, or non-humans.
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Sunshine, moonshine
Illustrations and rhyming text follow the sun and moon as they shine on a young boy's day.
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Turning Tides, Changing Times
The paper aims to compare two murder mysteries in which the sea plays a key role—the Golden Age mystery Evil Under the Sun (1941) by Agatha Christie and the postmodern novel Journey to the South (2004, in English 2023) by Michal Ajvaz. It is argued that both novels present the sea/water as an element that incites transgression, yet simultaneously facilitates the solving of the crime, thus tying the image of the sea to the notion of unpredictability and chaos. The paper further shows how, in Evil Under the Sun, the twentieth century cultural transformation of the sea is depicted in its early stages, with the penetration of the social type of tourists into a space archaically connected to danger. Meanwhile, Ajvaz already regards this as the default attitude—seeing the sea as a domesticated place of leisure, with evil, dangerous, or even supernatural elements in tense moments of conflict. While Evil Under the Sun works with a more traditional struggle between order and chaos, Ajvaz’s novel appeals to postmodern thinking by treating the ambiguity, the diverse interpretations of the world, and the chaotic nature of the sea as stimulating.
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The sun shines everywhere
Rhyming text and illustrations celebrate the sun's constancy through history and around the world.
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21st-Century Arabic Literary Remixes of the Arab-Soviet Romance
After an absence of more than fifteen years, Russian and Soviet themes began to reappear in contemporary Arabic fiction around 2005, as Russia started to regain prominence in Arab politics and Arabic writers began rediscovering some of the transnational entanglements that the Cold War’s unipolar ending had largely occluded. Contemporary Arabic fiction writers have put Russian and Soviet material to many uses; this essay focuses on four: satirizing Soviet internationalism through depictions of dormitory racism; mocking the gender assumptions behind Arab nationalism and internationalism; humanizing jihadi fighters; and speaking beauty to power. The sheer diversity of these uses (and of others not covered here) shows that “How has Russian literature influenced Arabic literature?” is the wrong question. Future research should ask, rather, what local hungers the Russian/Soviet legacy has fed, what artistic and rhetorical resources it has offered, and how Arab writers have reimagined it.
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Nova the Star Eater
When Nova eats Earth's Sun, panicked scientists from around the world tell her why they need it back and using a little girl's suggestion, Nova is happy to help. Includes glossary and facts about the sun.
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Cli-Fi, Noir, and The Nonhuman Subject in Netflix's The Silent Sea (2021)
The various elements explored by American noir scholars such as Stewart King and Homer B. Pettey include an analysis of how the hardboiled private investigator and the dangerous femme fatale reflect gender and sexual norms of the era, or how the anti-hero reflects a conception of the individual as isolated or fragmented. [...]The Silent Sea depicts what Timothy Morton calls a \"dark ecology,\" in his book of the same name, that renders nature as ruined or destroyed as a result of anthropogenic climate change; the series relies on a fusion of noir and cli-fi conventions with the hope that humanity may halt the violence humans inflict on the nonhuman, and the potential violence that a destroyed nature may wreak upon humanity in return. Because eco-catastrophes are often experienced on a global level, especially when they pertain to water usage and drought, it is important to consider how this series adopts a global perspective-how it links South Korean and American conventions-to highlight the widespread effects of climate change. Because The Silent Sea depicts space exploration and the dystopic effects of climate change by fusing elements of speculative fiction with mystery, violence, and thrill, one might name the series as a \"crimate\" television series, a term that Stewart King coined in \"Crimate Fiction and the Environmental Imagination of Place.\" [...]we can expand upon our ecocritical approaches when examining expression of environmental concern, and one way of doing so is by using the conventions of noir as tools for \"discussing ecological crises and abuses [...] exposing the criminal acts they involve in their violent effects on people and the environment\" (1236).
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