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Category Archives: essays

The Geography of Bliss

By Dave | Published: May 31, 2010
The Geo­graphy of Bliss is a book which explores hap­pi­ness in rela­tion to cul­tural and geo­graph­ical situ­ations. It looks at why people from dif­fer­ent coun­tries are happy, and how they are dif­fer­ently happy. I haven’t read this book, but I saw a quo­ta­tion today which made me stop what I was doing to think: You can [...]
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Subversion / Reversion: The deconstruction and reconstruction of the Western cultural narrative through a Native American idiom in Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water

By Dave | Published: February 27, 2010
In Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water, one of the many methods used to create a Native American narrative, rather than a Westernised one, is the radical re-versioning of Western-Christian mythology. In this essay I explore the power of destroying and recreating traditions, and the effect it has upon a westerner's euro-centric reading of the novel.
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What happened to telling stories?

By Dave | Published: November 21, 2009
I’ve been think­ing a lot recently about how we tell stor­ies. I enjoy writ­ing, and it is obvi­ous to me that the inven­tion of the writ­ten word, and more spe­cific­ally the inven­tion of the print­ing press and mass media, has been more or less the most fun­da­mental revolu­tion in the his­tory of what we now [...]
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