Tag: comparative literature
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homelessness: a long word that never ends
After living in elbi since 2001, I partly said goodbye in 2008 when my housemates and I gave up our apartment, which I seriously, seriously treated as my home. So where does a homeless stay? PASIG & QUEZON CITY
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What is Comparative Literature?
Dr. J.B. Schriever, the Europe-educated and European-looking professor who can speak French, German, Spanish, English, Filipino, and Batangas Tagalog (&c.) interchangeably, says it’s a methodology. the comparatists in the painful making That affirms Damrosch’s claim that Comparative Literature is a mode of reading. So it’s not really an area of studies but a system of […]
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The Fantastic in Philippine Speculative Fiction
How and why is fantasy—as defined by American critic Eric Rabkin and Slovenian Slavoj Žižek—used in Philippine Speculative Fiction 3 (PSF3)? For this inquiry, the stories selected are FH Batacan’s “Keeping Time,” Alfred Yuson’s “The Music Child,” and Yvette Tan’s “Sidhi”. Edited by Nikki Alfar and Dean Francis Alfar, the anthology is marketed as “short […]
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