Osądy Kiry w mandze „Death Note” a problem kultury okrucieństwa by Jarosław Dobrzycki

“…With Geoffrey Gorer’s notion of ‘the pornography of death,’ Louis-Vincent Thomas’s ‘cannibalism of the eye,’ as well as the issues related to the culture of cruelty as understood by Marek Krajewski, I will examine and prove that the main character’s actions have become a part of the media spectacle of death, and are eventually reduced to mass entertainment. I conclude with a statement that the protagonist’s actions, initially captured by the media in moral and ethical terms, are subjected to the phenomenon of commercialization, to which a large part of society acquiesces.…”
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Literature and History: Study of Nigerian Indigenous Historical Novels by Lere Adeyemi

“… The assumption that history posits itself as a fact, while literature is to be taken as an artistic form, only for entertainment (i.e., the difference between truth and falsehood, reality and illusion) has long been debated by formalists and soclologlsts of literature. …”
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