Ádám T. Bogár and Rebeka Sára Szigethy look from the world of Fahrenheit 451, where reading is forbidden, to our wide-open world of the present, and into the future as well. Networked reading among groups of people and near-infinite searchability linked out from electronic texts themselves offer interesting new possibilities for personal and soc…[Read more]

This brief essay is about an understanding of the essence of modern (or rather postmodern) haiku, and it is meant to offer an explanation as to the reason why such haiku, in particular those by Japanese haiku poet Ban’ya Natsuishi, are frequently deemed incomprehensible. The term ‘modern’ (or
‘postmodern’) haiku here does not refer to haiku wri…[Read more]

In this chapter, Adam T. Bogar explores class inequality in the literary work of Kurt Vonnegut through the lens of a particular theory from the discipline of anthropology, a discipline in which Vonnegut was very interested. Beginning with an analysis of how American writer Vonnegut developed an interest in anthropology and political thought, Bogar…[Read more]

Ádám T. Bogár examines the role of books in Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles. It is a commonplace, of course, to note that books occupy a central place in Bradbury’s famous novel of book burning, or even in his breakthrough book whose tales of Mars include, say, the Poe-based revenge-uponthe-small-minded of “Usher II.” Bogár, however,…[Read more]

Drawing upon the science-fictional elements of Vonnegut’s work, Ádám T. Bogár asks whether a machine can be a gentleman as a way to approach the human-versus-machine dichotomy, which is explored in a number of Vonnegut’s writings. For instance, the eponymous “hero” of the 1950 short story “EPICAC,” one of Vonnegut’s first publications, is…[Read more]

A collection of 40 found haiku poems, all excerpted from The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. III: Quantum Mechanics by Richard P. Feynman.