Hothouse
Literary Journal
Tag: 2018-2019
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Though her name is unfamiliar to many — perhaps due to her determination to challenge social and artistic boundaries while being a woman of Jewish heritage and indeterminate genre — Mina Loy continues to complicate the emotions and perceptions of those who engage with her work.
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So, what do we do when our day-to-day lives read like the prologue of a dystopian novel?
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Fear is one of the greatest motivators in existence, so why should the genre that employs it the most be the most disdained?
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It’s time to start considering video games as legitimate mediums for effective storytelling.
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O’Connor does not presume to definitively depict his country’s most horrific period. His larger point, woven throughout a narrative which suggests storytelling itself is fallible, is that words can fail to communicate horrors, and that fiction must adapt.
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Written by JoJo Phillips Today, I am sitting on a stool in a long, grey hallway, looking at the portraits on the walls. The one in front of me is of a sad, old man named Borges. He is on the wall, like a fish, and looks down at me, also Borges. All around us,…
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Written by Kevin LaTorre “Do you know what Ireland is? asked Stephen with cold violence. Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.” Stephen Dedalus—protagonist of James Joyce’s coming-of-age novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man—is blunt in his accusatory view of Ireland. Stephen often seems to act as Joyce’s fictional…
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The environment becomes the physical reference point from which authors can delve into introspection or connect to memories. Yet, only using nature as a mirror or point of introspection ignores the worth of the environment in favor of applying human value to nature.
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The Halloween witching season has come but not gone because apparently—it is here to stay. Over the past few years, witches have been claiming more space in social conversations and creative productions. In the literary and cinematic spheres, witches are either sparking new stories, embodying good or evil, or both at once (the best kind), and…
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Written by Jojo Phillips and Carolina Eleni Theodoropoulos As you return home to family or family returns home to you this week, you will be inevitably confronted with the past. Childhood homes always look smaller and grownup children always look too tall. I’m from New England, and when I go home I notice the shortness……
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From the characters, to the sets, to the body language and movement, and even to the actors’ individual expressions—the entire story that was once confined to a page unfolds in a multi-sensory experience from the seats of a theatre.
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Written by Kylie Warkentin As any young, voracious reader can attest, I used the worlds novels offered as benchmarks in which to measure the unruliness of the world around me. As a teenage girl trying her hardest to scrape together any sort of sense of self, books seemed like they held-if not the answers, then…
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