TLS discusses film, proportionality, and just war theory.
Faraci: https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/06/15/the-strangely-cruel-and-unusual-death-in-jurassic-world
Hurka: https://www.kean.edu/~gkahn/PS4130/hurka.pdf
Jurassic Word clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBTE3aH5gpw
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With an idea spawned from a drunken encounter, TLS embarks on a path to discern differences between a narrative’s emotional arcs compared to its logical storyline climaxes, as framed through a range of pop culture works.
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Our exploration into narrative turns to selections on why novels are not poems.
Reading: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~carlos/607/readings/bakhtin.pdf
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TLS returns to its proper, formalistic roots with a discussion of Russian folktales via selections from Propp’s Morphology of the Folktale. Enjoy?
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The Lost Signals look at a chapter on Narratology from a textbook Steevo found.
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In Bertrand Russell’s brief work, he takes TLS on a tour of philosophical hell, exploring what it means to non-exist.
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In the second of an improvised trilogy on the clash between narrative and academic works, The Lost Signals discusses Voltaire’s Micromegas.
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As the great Epic Rap Battles of History once famously stated: Poe’s poems pwn posers. The posers this time are the so-called “scientists” with their so-called “science.”
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TLS debates the nuances and emerging dynamics of language evolving within the medium of texting, as presented by John McWhorter in this TED Talk.
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With a revamped outlook TLS covers two essays in one go: the first by our frenemy Sigmund Freud on the nature of creative writing; the second by Northrop Frye on how to properly codify the criticism thereof.
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