Kim Hyo Yeon meninggalkan negara asalnya, Korea Selatan, ke Indonesia demi mengunjungi tempat-tempat kenangan ibunya dan mengabadikan dalam jurnalnya. Namun, rencana itu tak semulus yang diharapkan. Sejak hari pertama, Hyo Yeon sudah disambut cowok angkuh yang berakhir dengan insiden memalukan hingga membuat cowok itu dendam. Masalah Hyo Yeon semakin rumit ketika mendapati cowok itu, Alden, ad…
This leaves the question of whether Sogi and his cohorts sawsomething in the waka of their day that scholars since have not; andthe answer would seem to be yes. For while many poets of that agewere satisfied with vain repetitions of familiar lines, a few intrepidindividuals still managed to approach the old form with vitality andartistic purpose. …
When it came out in 1997, Hayao Miyazaki’s Mononokehime ( Princess Mononoke ) was a new kind of anime fi lm. It broke long- standing Japanese box offi ce records that had been set by Hollywood fi lms, and in becoming a blockbuster- sized hit Mononokehime demonstrated the commercial power of anime in Japan. 1 F u r t h e r , Mononokehime became the fi rst…
Feminist scholars have rightfully argued that today the Virgin Mary often operates as an unhealthy feminine ideal of obedience and self-sacrifice.1The reality of their arguments sank in one morning as I had coffee with a Hispanic friend who had suffered years of domestic violence. As she sipped her coffee, her childhood seemed close to the surface. She talked about growing …