Kyle Garton-Gundling
Biographic Data
| ID | 6543757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kyle Garton-Gundling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kyle |
| FAMILY NAME | Garton-Gundling |
| SIGNATURE | GARTON-GUNDLING K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Christopher Newport University Newport News, VA USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Every Moment In Touch”
Previous readers have recognized that Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Murderer” (1953) presciently anticipates the rise of cell phones. I argue, however, that “The Murderer” does not only mirror a reality that has finally caught up with the story. Rather, looking at the disparities, not just the similarities, between the world of “The Murderer” and our own helps to reveal how the quantity and quality of sounds in our lives are related. In particu…
Vastness and Profundity”
Scholars have often struggled to define the boundaries between sublime and religious experiences, but research tends to agree that sublimity is rational while religious experience is non-rational. However, this view receives a challenge from key texts in science fiction. In the texts I examine, contrary to prevailing views, sublimity turns mystical, while new religions become rational. Furthermore, religion and sublimity relate uneasily, as oppos…
Ancestors We Didn’t Even Know We Had”
Recent debates about the ethics of identity in a global age have dealt with how to prioritize conflicting local and global allegiances. Guided by these concerns, the fiction of Alice Walker develops a distinctive view of how local cultures and global movements can fruitfully interact. This vision depends on concepts from Asian religions, a major influence that critics of Walker have largely overlooked. Walker promotes Hindu and Buddhist meditatio…
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Ancestors We Didn’t Even Know We Had”
Recent debates about the ethics of identity in a global age have dealt with how to prioritize conflicting local and global allegiances. Guided by these concerns, the fiction of Alice Walker develops a distinctive view of how local cultures and global movements can fruitfully interact. This vision depends on concepts from Asian religions, a major influence that critics of Walker have largely overlooked. Walker promotes Hindu and Buddhist meditatio…
Vastness and Profundity”
Scholars have often struggled to define the boundaries between sublime and religious experiences, but research tends to agree that sublimity is rational while religious experience is non-rational. However, this view receives a challenge from key texts in science fiction. In the texts I examine, contrary to prevailing views, sublimity turns mystical, while new religions become rational. Furthermore, religion and sublimity relate uneasily, as oppos…
“Every Moment In Touch”
Previous readers have recognized that Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Murderer” (1953) presciently anticipates the rise of cell phones. I argue, however, that “The Murderer” does not only mirror a reality that has finally caught up with the story. Rather, looking at the disparities, not just the similarities, between the world of “The Murderer” and our own helps to reveal how the quantity and quality of sounds in our lives are related. In particu…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Ambivalence (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Buddhism (1 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (1 works) · Comparative and World Literature (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works)