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"The Crown Returns to the Queen of the Fishes". Illustration by H. J. Ford for Andrew Lang's The Orange Fairy Book Folio Society editions of the Coloured Fairy Books. The best-known volumes of the series are the 12 Fairy Books, each of which is distinguished by its own color.
Thing theory is a branch of critical theory that focuses on human–object interactions in literature and culture. It borrows from Heidegger 's distinction between objects and things, which posits that an object becomes a thing when it can no longer serve its common function. [ 1] The Thing in Thing Theory is conceptually like Jacques Lacan 's ...
Rare Objects is a 2023 film co-written and directed by Katie Holmes. [ 1][ 2] It stars Saundra Santiago, Derek Luke, Holmes, and Alan Cumming. [ 3] The film is based on Kathleen Tessaro's 2016 historical fiction novel of the same name. [ 4]
Science fiction author Gene Wolfe cited Proust as an influence, saying: "Proust, of course, was obsessed with some of the same things I deal with in The Book of the New Sun – memory and the way memory affects us." [40] The opening line of his novella The Fifth Head of Cerberus is a parphrase of the first sentence of Swann's Way.
Hugo finds a book titled The Invention of Dreams with a drawing of the automaton, which he learns is a scene from the first movie his father ever saw, A Trip to the Moon, directed by Georges Méliès. Hugo invites Etienne and the book's author, René Tabard, to Isabelle's house later, and explains Méliès’ career to Isabelle.
Publication date. 2 May 2019. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is a young adult mystery crime debut novel by Holly Jackson. The novel is the first in a series of three novels and one novella: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (2019); Good Girl, Bad Blood (2020); As Good As Dead (2021); and Kill Joy (2022). All books were published by Electric Monkey ...
e. In philosophy and specifically metaphysics, the theory of Forms, theory of Ideas, [ 1][ 2][ 3] Platonic idealism, or Platonic realism is a theory widely credited to the Classical Greek philosopher Plato. The theory suggests that the physical world is not as real or true as "Forms". According to this theory, Forms—conventionally capitalized ...
1961. " Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius " is a short story by the 20th-century Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story was first published in the Argentine journal Sur, May 1940. The "postscript" dated 1947 is intended to be anachronistic, set seven years in the future. The first English-language translation of the story was published in 1961 .