Word: didacticism
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Once it was different. Before the media age, people tended to believe in public didactic art and therefore in patronage. Although they may have eventually pulled it off its pedestal after what the Bush Administration euphemistically calls "regime change" occurred, they did not whine soggily about élitism when some...
Now that the student population has read this article, which pinpoints this tragic woman to an exact location, we may all walk past Holyoke Gate “fully informed” and wonder how she could possibly undertake this journey across the Atlantic. Presumably, we are supposed to laugh...
Jin nails the claustrophobic, poisonous atmosphere of academia, but the recounting of life in the bamboo tower quickly grows didactic and stale. The reader tires of it faster than Jian does. It doesn't help that Jian is an affecting character but too often a lifeless narrator; like a typical...
Where most conventional superhero books present some sort of evil to be overcome, this series depicts the overcoming of reality. This narrative requires a different, refreshing way of reading a "superhero" book. It's more like one of those smart travelogues that doubles as an essay. "We're in the...
But Gomes isn’t content to offer an apolitical reflection on this question; he has an agenda. After quoting a verse from Jeremiah in which the Lord delights in “love, justice, and righteousness,” Gomes goes on to assume without argument that a...