ellauri034.html on line 541: In 1975 the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe published an essay, "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad´s ´Heart of Darkness´", which provoked controversy by calling Conrad a "thoroughgoing racist". Achebe´s view was that Heart of Darkness cannot be considered a great work of art because it is "a novel which celebrates... dehumanisation, which depersonalises a portion of the human race." Referring to Conrad as a "talented, tormented man", Achebe notes that Conrad (via the protagonist, Charles Marlow) reduces and degrades Africans to "limbs", "ankles", "glistening white eyeballs", etc., while simultaneously (and fearfully) suspecting a common kinship between himself and these natives—leading Marlow to sneer the word "ugly." Achebe also cited Conrad´s description of an encounter with an African: "A certain enormous buck nigger encountered in Haiti fixed my conception of blind, furious, unreasoning rage, as manifested in the human animal to the end of my days." Achebe´s essay, a landmark in postcolonial discourse, provoked debate, and the questions it raised have been addressed in most subsequent literary criticism of Conrad.
ellauri034.html on line 545: Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as the dominant figure of modern African literature. His first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart, occupies a pivotal place in African literature and remains the most widely studied, translated and read African novel. If Conrad or his novel is racist, it is only in a weak sense, since Heart of Darkness acknowledges racial distinctions "but does not suggest an essential superiority" of any group.
ellauri054.html on line 344: Anthony Hecht was born in New York City in 1923. His books of poetry include The Darkness and the Light (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001); Flight Among the Tombs (1996); The Transparent Man (1990); Collected Earlier Poems (1990); The Venetian Vespers (1979); Millions of Strange Shadows (1977); The Hard Hours (1967), which won the Pulitzer Prize; and A Summoning of Stones (1954).
ellauri064.html on line 31: Darkness won’t engulf my head
ellauri143.html on line 589: Darkness departs, and rapture springs to men who see,

ellauri143.html on line 1347: Darkness in daytime broods o'er all the vast and mighty earth.
ellauri151.html on line 121: In 1924, he published an autobiography, If it Die... (French: Si le grain ne meurt). In the same year, he produced the first French language editions of Joseph Conrad´s Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim.
ellauri180.html on line 474: Darkness Pimeys
ellauri180.html on line 563: And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Ja pilvet menehtyivät; pimeys ei tarvinnut
ellauri180.html on line 571: The dream of the speaker revolves around one main concept, “darkness.” Byron’s ‘Darkness’ is considered one of the best poems ever on the theme of darkness.
ellauri180.html on line 594: Note the Darkness is a “She”. Figures.
ellauri185.html on line 787: Darkness blanketed the country for three days. The eldest child in each family died suddenly, and so did the first born animals. A swarm of locusts ate what was left of them.
ellauri188.html on line 415: Josh's other projects included the horror-thriller Child of Darkness, Child of Light, an adaptation of Paterson's novel Virgin, a tale of two Catholic virgin schoolgirls, that folded when they were both found pregnant under mysterious and supernatural circumstances. To avoid being caught red "handed" Lucas relocated to Australia to play the hot "headed" American cousin Luke McGregor opposite Andrew Clarke and Guy Pearce in the first season of the family western Snowy River: The McGregor Saga. Lucas appeared in all 13 episodes of the first season, but claimed in a later interview that despite the friendly reception by Rhonda Byrne, he was homesick for the United States, and his character was killed off in the second episode of season 2.
ellauri204.html on line 757: Contre le monde, contre la vie on H. P. Lovecraftia käsittelevä teos. Se sisältää Stephen Kingin esipuheen, Houellebecqin pitkän esseen Lovecraftin teoksista ja elämästä ja kaksi Lovecraftin pitkää novellia, "The Call of Cthulhu" ('Cthulhun kutsu') ja "The Whisperer of Darkness" (Kuiskaus pimeässä) ranskaksi käännettyinä.
ellauri206.html on line 184: Contre le monde, contre la vie on H. P. Lovecraftia käsittelevä teos. Se sisältää Stephen Kingin (yäk) esipuheen, Houellebecqin pitkän esseen Lovecraftin teoksista ja elämästä ja kaksi Lovecraftin pitkää novellia, "The Call of Cthulhu" ('Cthulhun kutsu') ja "The Whisperer of Darkness" (Kuiskaus pimeässä) ranskaksi käännettyinä. Tästä häiskästä on joku aikaisempi paasaus albumissa 204, jossa ruoditaan Rikun jouzenlaulua. Se näyttää piipunrassilta. Siis Thomas. Tai no molemmat. Sitä on syystä sanottu islamofobiseksi, rasistiseksi ja seksistiseksi ja väitetty sen myötäilevän äärioikeistoa. Oikeus nautintoon (Plateforme, 2001. Suomentanut Ville Keynäs) on täyttä millenniaaliroskaa sekin. Jokaisella ihmisellä on oikeus turvalliseen ja nautinnolliseen seksuaalisuuteen. On tärkeää siis tutkiskella itseään ja opetella tunnistamaan jutut, mitkä tuntuvat itsestä nautinnollisilta. Omaan kehoon kannattaa tutustua rauhassa ja selvittää millainen kosketus tuntuu itsestä nautinnolliselta. Myös vammaisilla on oikeus nautintoon, tunnevammaisilla varsinkin.
ellauri244.html on line 335: Ei tää ota loppuaxeen ollenkaan. Vielä mainitaan Jönsyn mielikirja Styronin Darkness Visible. Muistaaxeni sekin oli ilmeinen collapsed narsistin muistelmateos.
ellauri332.html on line 232: Me kaikki tiedämme sanonnan "elämä jäljittelee taidetta". No, Francis Ford Coppolan elokuva "Apocolypse Now" (sovitus kyrpiäisen Joseph Conradin paska romaanista "Heart of Darkness") on loistava esimerkki siitä. Elokuvan tekeminen osoittautui puhtaaksi kaaokseksi ja tulos oli sen mukainen.
ellauri332.html on line 518: Kukapa ei haluaisi nähdä Spockin ja kapteeni James T. Kirkin uskaltavan vanhuxina avaruuteen ja kohtaavan suuren tuntemattoman mysteereitä? Kuuluisa tv-sarja "Star Trek" käynnistyi äskettäin uudelleen, ja fanit kerääntyivät katsomaan. Tähtien sota keskittyi uudelleen käynnistetyn "Star Trek Into Darkness" -sarjan toisen osan kohtaukseen, jossa tohtori Carol Marcus esiintyy alushousuissa ilman näkyvää syytä. Mixei ilman housuja? Eikö yhtiöllä ollut siihen varaa muka? Fanit kritisoivat elokuvaa sen riittämättömästä naishahmon seksualisoinnista. Ehkä elokuvantekijöiden on aika "rohkeasti mennä" seuraavaan elokuvaansa ilman tuota tarpeetonta naisten alusvaatetta.
ellauri333.html on line 261: Similar to the Angry Hanuman transformation, in the 1990s, the familiar Ram holding his bow and standing casually next to his happy family became a lone militant warrior, all flying hair and drawn arrow. The Rath Yatra followed, replicating this motif, and as it reached its crescendo, the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya was demolished by a self-proclaimed Vaanar Sena (monkey army) wielding trishuls. In the Angry Hanuman, we may well be seeing a genial, well-loved icon being transformed into a militant killer, a hominid that might have shared a cave with his now enemy for long. Samuel Taylor Coleridge once wrote in a notebook, “The Prince of Darkness is a Gentleman.” The first fratricidal weapon, as the Bible scholar Bruce Chatwin reminds us, was seen around 10,000 BC, when Citizen Kane the farmer brother crushed a hoe through his brother hunter-gatherer Li'l Abner’s skull.
ellauri349.html on line 574: Jules: Well, there's this passage I got memorized.`It sort of fits the occasion. "Ezekiel 25:17". "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the self and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through the Valley of Darkness for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. [now on-screen] And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. [raising his gun on Brett] And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

xxx/ellauri081.html on line 311: His era was later labeled as La Grande Noirceur ("The Great Darkness") by its critics, due to his support of strong Catholic traditions, his support of private property rights vis-a-vis growing labour rights movements, and his strong opposition not only to Communism, but also to secularism, feminism, environmentalism, leftist separatism and other non-conservative and progressive political trends and movements that would influence Quebec politics and society over the following 60 years, starting with the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s under his Liberal successor Jean Lesage.
xxx/ellauri086.html on line 799: Darkness there and nothing more. Pimeää kuin säkissä.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 536: Ursulan The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) was described by Harold Bloom as her masterpiece. Harold on tuttu aiemmista seikkailuista. Amerikan Tuomas Anhava.
xxx/ellauri199.html on line 157: Darkness Beneath Dreamland IV: Run From Red Remoras Of Neptune
xxx/ellauri200.html on line 184: Naipaul's fiction and especially his travel writing have been criticised for their allegedly unsympathetic portrayal of the Third World. The novelist Robert Harris has called Naipaul's portrayal of Africa racist and "repulsive," reminiscent of Oswald Mosley's fascism. Edward Said argued that Naipaul "allowed himself quite consciously to be turned into a witness for the Western prosecution", promoting what Said classified as "colonial mythologies about wogs and darkies". Said believed that Naipaul's worldview may be most salient in his book-length essay The Middle Passage (1962), composed following Naipaul's return to the Caribbean after 10 years of exile in England, and the work An Area of Darkness (1964).
xxx/ellauri200.html on line 192: Nissim Ezekiel wrote the 1984 essay "Naipaul's India and Mine" as a reply to Naipaul's An Area of Darkness.
xxx/ellauri225.html on line 277: Several of Le Guin´s works have featured stylistic or structural features that were unusual or even subversive. The heterogeneous structure of The Left Hand of Darkness, described as "distinctly post-modern" (eek!), was unusual for the time of its publication. This was in marked contrast to the structure of (primarily male-authored) traditional science fiction, which was straightforward and linear. The novel was framed as part of a report sent to the Ekumen by the protagonist Genly Ai after his time on the planet Gethen, thus suggesting that Ai was selecting and ordering the material, consisting of personal narration, diary extracts, Gethenian myths, and ethnological reports. Earthsea also employed an outlandishly unconventional narrative form described by scholar Mike Cadden (Princeton U Senior Lecturer in Theater) as "free indirect discourse", in which the feelings of the protagonist are not directly separated from the narration, making the narrator seem sympathetic to the characters, and removing the skepticism towards a character´s thoughts and emotions that are a feature of more direct narration. Cadden suggests that this method leads to younger readers sympathizing directly with the characters, making it an effective technique for young-adult literature like Flaubert or Zola.
xxx/ellauri225.html on line 284: Gender and sexuality are prominent themes in a number of Le Guin´s works. The Left Hand of Darkness, published in 1969, was among the first books in the genre now known as feminist science fiction, and is the most famous examination of androgyny in science fiction. The story is set on the fictional planet of Gethen, whose inhabitants are ambisexual humans with no fixed gender identity, who adopt female or male sexual characteristics for brief periods of their sexual cycle. Which sex they adopt can depend on context and relationships.
xxx/ellauri225.html on line 288: Le Guin´s attitude towards gender and feminism evolved considerably over time. Although The Left Hand of Darkness was seen as a landmark exploration of gender, it also received criticism for not going far enough. Reviewers pointed to its usage of masculine gender pronouns to describe its androgynous characters, the lack of androgynous characters portrayed in stereotypical feminine roles, and the portrayal of heterosexuality as the norm on Gethen.
xxx/ellauri225.html on line 329: I told my literature students about Ursula K. Le Guin today, squeezing a few minutes for her into a class on American science fiction writers of color, a class where she didn’t strictly speaking belong – though to be honest, I rather think she’d improve almost any class. I told them about the six books that comprise Earthsea, about the gender-bending brilliance of The Left Hand of Darkness, the anarchist explorations in The Dispossessed, the stories in The Birthday of the World and Four Ways to Forgiveness (many of which I teach, gratefully). I mentioned her National Book Award, and her host of awards in science fiction and fantasy. I gave them her story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” which is one of the most brilliant, uncomfortable stories I’ve ever read. But no blow-by-blow romps in the sack, alas.
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xxx/ellauri291.html on line 129: 2002 takaiskujen jälkeen Ensiarvoisen tärkeä vapautti tuoteketjutuottaja Berkemannin Star Trekin hallinnasta. Yhdennentoista Star Trek -elokuvan markkinointikampanja kohdistettiin ei-faneille ja todettiin elokuvan mainoksissa, että "tämä ei ole isäsi Star Trek ". Elokuva ansaitsi huomattavan kriittisen ja taloudellisen menestyksen ja tuotti (inflaatiokorjattuina dollareina) enemmän lipputuloja kuin mikään aikaisempi Star Trek -elokuva. Ensimmäinen jatko-osa, Star Trek Into Darkness, sai ensi-iltansa keväällä 2013. Vaikka elokuva ei tienannut Pohjois-Amerikan lipputuloissa yhtä paljon kuin edeltäjänsä, kansainvälisesti lipputuloilla mitattuna Into Darkness on hamppariketju-sarjan menestynein. Samalla myönteisiä arvosteluja saanut Star Trek Beyond pettyi lipputuloihin.
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