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girls girls boys

I remember in psychology class back in high school, we learnt about the education of children and the way advertisements and commercials affect children and their perception of who they are and what is acceptable in society. Why is this … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Podcast: Civilization and Its Discontents and Borges

Discussion with Jon Beasley-Murray and Jill Fellows

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J M Coetzee, Foe

Video of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme

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Neil Jordan, The Crying Game

Powerpoint of lecture by Brian McIlroy for the “Explorations and Encounters” theme

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and Franz Kafka, “The Metamorphosis”

Video of lecture by Jill Fellows for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme

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“The Yellow Wallpaper”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is preoccupied above all with the secret and mysterious life of things. It’s concerned with the human and the non-human, and the surprisingly porous line between them. The narrator takes for granted that things … Continue reading →

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Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

Video of lecture by Renisa Mawani for the “Explorations and Encounters” theme

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