Category: Non-Fiction

by CG FEWSTON February 6, 2014
Non-Fiction

The Masks of God, Vol. III: Occidental Mythology (1964) by Joseph Campbell

The Masks of God, Vol. III: Occidental Mythology (1964) by Joseph Campbell casts a large net over what it is to hold a Western faith in distinction from an Eastern faith and how such distinctions developed among the varied belief systems over the ages.

by CG FEWSTON February 2, 2014
Fiction Non-Fiction

How to Read Novels Like a Professor (2008) by Thomas C. Foster

‘What we call a novel,” writes Foster, ”would nearly everywhere in non-Anglophone Europe be a roman. That term derives from romanz, the universal term for lengthy narratives in verse prior to the age of print.

by CG FEWSTON December 19, 2013
Non-Fiction

What is Art? (1899) by Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy writes: ”But what is this beauty which forms the subject-matter of art? How is it defined? What is it?

”As is always the case, the more cloudy and confused the conception conveyed by a word, with the more aplomb and self-assurance do people use that word, pretending that what is understood by it is so simple and clear that it is not worth while even to discuss what it actually means.”

by CG FEWSTON December 15, 2013
Non-Fiction Pictures

Quản trị rủi ro giá nông sản – nhìn từ thị trường cà phê Việt Nam (2013) by Nguyen Hoang My Phuong

Coffee in Vietnam is also focused around growing Robusta and Arabica, two of the major kinds of coffee favored in the world market.

by CG FEWSTON December 11, 2013
Non-Fiction Pictures

The Masks of God, Vol. II: Oriental Mythology (1962) by Joseph Campbell

The Masks of God: Vol. II, Oriental Mythology (1962) by Joseph Campbell is again one of those marathons of the mind.

by CG FEWSTON November 23, 2013
Non-Fiction

Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East (2008) by Robin Wright

”The Constitutional Rebellion of 1905-1911 forced the weak Qajar dynasty to agree to Iran’s first constitution and parliament. Foreshadowing the 1979 revolution, the revolt was launched by the same powerful troika–the clergy, bazaar merchants, and the intelligentsia–that would come together again later in the century. Their goal was to curtail the monarchy’s power.”

by CG FEWSTON November 15, 2013
Film Non-Fiction Pictures Videos

Techno-Culture and the Future of Education

Immediately there is a question of metaphor in the title itself. ”A day made of glass” has an untold number of connotations. First, glass can either be extremely durable (as advertised in the video) but it can also be fragile. The future itself, as presented in the video, would be in a delicate state, or flux, of durability and destruction.

by CG FEWSTON November 6, 2013
Fiction Film Non-Fiction Pictures Videos

Utopian and Dystopian Cultures in Four Short Films

The short film Bendito Machine III consists of a primitive tribe/culture worshiping a higher form of technology that falls from the heavens.

by CG FEWSTON July 24, 2013
Non-Fiction Pictures

The Masks of God, Vol. I: Primitive Mythology (1959) by Joseph Campbell

One of the last sections is “The Functioning of Myth” and Campbell goes into great deal to extrapolate the introductory section. “The ends for which men strive in the world,” writes Campbell, “are three — no more, no less; namely: love and pleasure (kāma), power and success (artha: pronounced ‘art-ha’), and lawful order and moral virtue (dharma).”