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Erasure Poem: Dream Actually Happened
Read more: Erasure Poem: Dream Actually HappenedA couple of weeks ago, I read the short story Traumnovelle for an elective course on the various interplays between literature and film. Also known as Dream Story, this novella was written in 1926 by the Austrian Arthur Schnitzler, a kindred spirit of Sigmund Freud. In 1999, the acclaimed director Stanley Kubrick turned Schnitzler’s book…
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Read more: The Secret Life of Walter MittyConvinced that we all have our “Walter Mitty moments”, I wanted to put him in the spotlight. I have only just seen the movie “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, which was released in 2013. The movie is based on a short story written by James Thurber (one of his masterpieces), first published in…
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Self-Made Success: Badlands by Halsey
Read more: Self-Made Success: Badlands by Halsey“We are the New Americana / High on legal marijuana / Raised on Biggie and Nirvana.” This August, Halsey released her highly-anticipated debut album Badlands to the public. For her already large group of fans, the album has been a long time coming: ever since releasing her EP Room 93 in late 2014, Halsey…
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Are You Really Here, or Are You a Figment of My Imagination: The Poetry of Sarah Chapman
Read more: Are You Really Here, or Are You a Figment of My Imagination: The Poetry of Sarah ChapmanAs a preparation for what most definitely will become an awesome year at the Writer’s Block editorial board, I ventured into some unknown literary territory during the last summer holidays. I never read much poetry, so I decided to finally do something about that and ended up reading an anthology published by the British Black…
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A Literary Guide through Oxford
Read more: A Literary Guide through OxfordNew York is the city that never sleeps. Paris, according to its nickname ‘cité des rêves’ (city of dreams), is the exact opposite and when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. Yet, for those who rather dream with their eyes open and wish they could spend every waking minute in…
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