Humans are resilient. Like chameleons‚ human beings can adapt and transform themselves in various ways. Certain types of transformations can be attributed to biological needs and drives‚ while others arise from personal motives or fantasy. Human transformation can be seen in myriad genres of film‚ literature‚ and art throughout various cultures. The idea of transformation can be seen as a reoccurring theme in the literature of Latin American culture. This notion of human metamorphosis is also visible
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This example‚ among others‚ allows Di Tella to evoke a general atmosphere of suspicion‚ personal risk‚ and disappearance. Meanwhile‚ archival films show General Videla visiting the Buenos Aires Book Fair‚ where he is greeted by none other than Jorge Luis Borges. Videla also appears onscreen visiting a school where the children receive him as a new national
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Chapter 4 (85-94) – “The fire was dead…” to the end. What is the Importance of this section in the plot of the novel? How does this passage help our understanding of the main characters? How does it help us to understand what Golding is trying to say in the novel as a whole? The major event of these few pages is the first sentence. “The fire was dead.” This is clear and simple‚ like Ralphs anger at the confirmation of his fears at the fact it has gone out; this is exaggerated further by the
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The author‚ Joseph Brodsky‚ of this passage taken from “How to Read a Book” from On Grief and Reason‚ presents the reader with an enigmatic literature dilemma that individuals face in determining what they should read. This dilemma questions how to manage all the literature material that is presented continuously and how to decide what one should read‚ as there is limited time of one existence. This passage has an educative‚ informative‚ and didactic tone to present this dilemma‚ as it tries to inform
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Therefore‚ the director’s extensive use of reminiscences and his drastic manipulation of plot time‚ although regarded as ordinary now‚ were considered almost “traumatic” for the age‚ since they disrupted the conventional linearity expected of classical Hollywood’s narratives. In order to accustom audiences to this new storytelling device‚ Welles introduced flashback sequences in the plot through well calibrated dissolve techniques and wipe transitions. It is also interesting to notice that
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is considered an early prototype of hypertext. Quite further into the timeline‚ an Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges published "The Garden of Forking Paths". It is a novel that can be read in multiple ways‚ a hypertext novel. Borges described this in 1941‚ prior to the invention of the electromagnetic digital computer. Not only did he arguably invent the hypertext novel—Borges went on to describe a theory of the universe based upon the structure of such a novel. Borges’s vision of "forking
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eroticism and homosexuality‚ added tales from the dictation of a Lebanese friend‚ and perhaps invented the two best-known and seemingly most "Arabian" tales of all: "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves". Warner quotes Jorge Luis Borges (a guiding spirit in her book) approving this belle infidèleapproach to translation. "I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something
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Determining what exactly separates a short story from longer fictional formats is problematic. A classic definition of a short story is that one should be able to read it in one sitting‚ a point most notably made in Edgar Allan Poe’s essay "Thomas Le Moineau (Le Moile)" (1846). Interpreting this standard nowadays is problematic‚ since the expected length of "one sitting" may now be briefer than it was in Poe’s era. Other definitions place the maximum word count of the short story at anywhere from
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to him‚ so he would not know the events that occurred in it (Raffa 102). Instead of sailing back home to Ithaca‚ Dante explains how Ulysses convinced his men to sail with him beyond the Pillars of Hercules to “experience the world beyond the sun” (Borges 3; Alighieri 26.109). After he and his men passed through the Strait of Gibraltar‚ they continue sailing to the southwest. After five months of traveling‚ Ulysses and his men laid eyes on the Mountain of Purgatory. Ulysses relayed how “Our cheers
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writing poetry becomes more difficult for him. It is perhaps not accidental that similar limitations affected other personalities‚ such as Beethoven‚ who‚ as composer‚ lost his hearing‚ Michelangelo‚ who as an artist lost also his sight‚ or Jorge Luis Borges‚ whose blindness didn’t prevent him from writing. The next theme is light‚ strongly related with the theme of limitation. Light represents what can be perceived with the eyes‚ but it also has the meaning of spiritual light. The poet expresses
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