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The title is Feedback, and this may have brought to mind the noise that occurs when you hold a microphone too close to the speaker; what...

Disney’s versus De Beaumont’s Beauty and the Beast   Walt Disney created a career and empire based on retelling well-known fairy tales....

In Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, Krapp is an old man who finds it extremely difficult to simply move and live, even in his own office. As...

The Myth Medusa was one of three sisters known as the Gorgons, who lived on the outskirts of the inhabited world. They were born from...

A Matter of Metaphor and How Do the Political Effects of Pictures Come About? A Matter of Metaphor  begins by admitting that Picasso did...

The formal qualities of a work of art inform the viewer not only of what is being looked at, but also of how the artwork presents itself....

Kwame Anthony Appiah, in “The Case for Contamination”  (often referred to under themes of cosmopolitanism), and Olu Oguibe, in “In the...

In approaching such a broad subject, Ernst Gombrich opens his argument with an equally broad statement: “Style is any distinctive, and...

Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut's 1959 science fiction novel about the implications of war and the pulls of luck versus free will, is...

A refutation of Ayn Rand's critique of 'Whim' “Today, as in the past, most philosophers agree that the ultimate standard of ethics is...

Alice in Wonderland is highly imaginative writing with unforeseen twists and turns in every chapter. Various themes make up the...