Film review: The Matrix cult
Much of the semiotic discussion around the deeper structures of "The Matrix" has tended to center around positive ethical and philosophical systems. Thus, numerous critics have pointed out the Christian subtext in the film with Neo as Christ and...
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Much of the semiotic discussion around the deeper structures of "The Matrix" has tended to center around positive ethical and philosophical systems. Thus, numerous critics have pointed out the Christian subtext in the film with Neo as Christ and Morpheus as John the Baptist (James L. Ford: 8). The Garden of Eden story has been superimposed on "The Matrix" as well with the implication that just as Adam's and Eve's awakening to knowledge makes Christianity possible, so too, Neo's awakening will lead to the salvation of humanity by a Christ-like figure (cf. James S. Spiegel: 13). Others have picked out connections with Joseph Campbell's monomyth concept where the hero must depart from the familiar world, go into a netherworld and return morally transformed (A. Samuel Kimball: 176, 198). There is also the Platonic interpretation where the passage toward the light from the famous cave allegory is read into the awakening process of "The Matrix": "The theme of appearance versus reality is as old as Plato's Republic. And while perhaps no writer or artist has improved upon his cave allegory in presenting this theme, the Wachowski brothers' The Matrix might be as effective an attempt as any since Plato, in cinematic history anyway" (James S. Spiegel: 9). Buddhism and its notion that reality is illusion appears as an equally convincing model for reading "The Matrix" (James L. Ford: 10). Even Gnosticism has been used as an interesting semiotic framework for the film (Frances Flannery-Dailey and Rachel Wagner: 10-12).
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Robert Musil, his era and predicaments : explained for readers in the Americas
[Rezension zu] Musil, Robert. Ensaios de Robert Musil, 1900-1919. Seleção, Tradução, textos críticos e notas de Kathrin Rosenfield. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2021.
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[Rezension zu] Musil, Robert. Ensaios de Robert Musil, 1900-1919. Seleção, Tradução, textos críticos e notas de Kathrin Rosenfield. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2021.
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The Persian Whitman : greybeard sufi with something American in his pocket
Rezension zu Behnam M. Fomeshi, The Persian Whitman: Beyond a Literary Reception, Leiden, Leiden University Press, 2019, 200 p.
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Rezension zu Behnam M. Fomeshi, The Persian Whitman: Beyond a Literary Reception, Leiden, Leiden University Press, 2019, 200 p.
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[Rezension zu:] Christopher Ian Foster. Conscripts of Migration. Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas. Jackson: University Press of
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Rezension zu Christopher Ian Foster. Conscripts of Migration. Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019. 194 p.
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Rezension zu Christopher Ian Foster. Conscripts of Migration. Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019. 194 p.
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[Rezension zu:] Imagology Profiles. The Dynamics of National Imagery in Literature
Rezension zu Imagology Profiles. The Dynamics of National Imagery in Literature. Ed. Laura Laurušaitė. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2018. 259 p.
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