Taking care of the earth body: Using the metaphor of illness to approach environmental issues

Sandy Penn, Simon Fraser University Download this essay: Sandy Penn_nature culture “The Earth’s declining health is our most important concern, our very lives depending upon a healthy earth,” states Lovelock (2006) in his book, Revenge of Gaia.  Brian Handwerk[1] used the same metaphor in his article “The Earth’s Health in Sharp Decline, Massive Study Finds,”  [...]

Speaking to the Dead: A study of Yasunari Kawabata’s short story Jojoka

Sandra Lockwood, Simon Fraser University presented to the Joint Student and Alumni Symposium, Stanford University June 27~29, 2008 download this essay: lockwood_kawabata Speaking to the dead–what a sad human custom! But sadder still, I can’t help thinking, is that men should have to project into a world beyond death, the images of their loved ones [...]

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