Fantasy
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Disconnected Tales: Contrasting Ken Liu’s Original and Translated Works
While I was growing up, the Chinese realm of my life was wholly separate from the English one. The two only overlapped when I struggled…
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How Dark Souls Taught Me to Close-Read
Like any English undergrad, I’ve been lectured on the concept of close-reading by nearly every professor I’ve encountered. During discussions of how to find…
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Swamp Things and Singing True: a Review of the comic Bayou
If you’re going to build a world with words, look at Jeremy Love’s comic book series Bayou for inspiration—you can’t go wrong. What began as…
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Harry Potter and the Crisis of Sorting
It’s safe to say that Harry Potter blazed many paths. It brought life to a dying publishing industry, it launched the young adult and children’s…
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Why I Play Dungeons & Dragons, and So Should You (If You’re Into That)
Okay friends, it is time to talk about my favourite subject. Despite the rise in nerd culture, Dungeons and Dragons still has a bit of…
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: A Charming New Chapter of the Wizarding World
Some people may understand I say that the first time I saw the commercial for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, it felt very…
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The Poor Teaching Practices of Professor Dumbledore
Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore was a great man. A champion of wizard and muggle rights, defender of the innocent, genius, scholar, warrior, philosopher,…
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Embracing The Hag: Feminist Implications Of Proto-Pagan Ritual
Mythologies across the world have stories from before the regular pantheon. Before the Norse gods there were frost giants, and before Zeus there was Cronos…
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A Step in the Right Direction: A Review of Disney’s “Moana”
We are slowly entering the age of the reinvention of Disney. Disney has boasted about including diversity in their films for a few years now,…
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