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Creative writing : exploring the underexplored
(Assumption University Press, 2009)
This paper is based on the creative writing course (also known as the "creative writing workshop") at Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand. The first section of the paper will make a case for poetry as a resource for ...
Critical awareness : romance novels in English for the Asian market
(Assumption University Press, 2009)
This paper proposes to illustrate what is possible in the classroom to help learners to see texts as problematical; to be critically aware of literacy as a phenomenon and as a consequence for the learner to be assertive ...
The discourse and epistemology of ideas : the role of metaphors
The idea of ideas is potentially an illusive language claim. Whether as a word, as a concept, it implies an existential phenomenon which raises epistemological issues of how language shapes what we believe we know. The ...
Proxemics and the novel : an ecological approach
(Assumption University Press, 2009)
The term "proxemics" was coined by the anthropologist Edward T. Hall to describe the relationships between people in terms of the distances and spaces they set up in their societies which shape the ways they behave towards ...
Spiritus ex machina : spectral technologies in Asian horror film
(Assumption University Press, 2009)
Difficult as it may be to talk about a unified category of "Asian Horror Film," this article originates from an observation that in a great majority of Asian horror films (exemplified in this research by japanese, South ...