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Keeping you all updated on her Writing Journey and various writing projects and activities.

Opposites, the Sublime and the Beautiful [Essay]

Posted on August 19, 2019May 27, 2020 by Alexia Barrett

Opposites, the Sublime and the Beautiful “The invention of beauty by the Greeks, that is, their postulate of beauty, as an ideal, has been the bugbear of European art and European aesthetic philosophies. Man’s natural desire in the arts to express his relation to the Absolute became identified and confused with the absolutisms of perfect…

The Ambience of Decadence [Essay]

Posted on August 16, 2019May 27, 2020 by Alexia Barrett

The portrayal of decadence through staging and shots in the 1945 adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray compared to the 2009 adaptation. “Move from the consciousness of the picture to the unconscious of the thought… A photograph is only a surface, lacking in depth, but burdened with fantastic weight.” Philippe DuBois, Photography…

Pre-departure | Interning in Shanghai | CRCC Asia

Posted on August 1, 2019May 27, 2020 by Alexia Barrett

Why did I come to Shanghai? There comes a time in life when you need work experience, and not just the casual work experience at your local bank or newspaper, but the type of experience that will put you on the global stage. Especially when we are living in an increasingly globalised world, where only…

What Made Goethe’s Faust a masterpiece?

Posted on April 19, 2019December 1, 2020 by Alexia Barrett

Recently, I had the pleasure of reading Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe’s famed classic, Faust. I bought the dramatic poem some time ago, and years prior to that it had been on my reading list, but against my best wishes I ended up leaving the tale on my shelf, allowing months of dust to collect on…

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