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Lost: Carter Svensson's Detached Island Theory

Carter Svensson on February 6, 2010
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'lost' island
The island used to be connected to the rest of the Earth, but was detached during electromagnetism experiments conducted by the Dharma Initiative. It is capable of traveling anywhere with the only parameter being gravity

TV Show Lost Explained Fully

Carter Svensson on February 6, 2010
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My theory is based on explanations of electromagnetism, Newton's Laws, Interaction, Length Contraction, Proper Time, Time Dilation, and Reference Frames. All of these scientific explanations are used as the basis of my theory that the island was once connected to the Earth in the same matter as all land is connected to Earth. The island however split a part from the Earth following a failed electromagnetism experiment.

Nick Jonas Has Theories On Conspiracies

Theorypedia on January 23, 2010
Nick Jonas Has Theories On Conspiracies
Nick Jonas (and the Administration) has just released a new song and it's called "Conspiracy Theory." Listen to the newest single from his upcoming album "Who I Am" below:

Rankin and Bass' Rudolph, allegory of communisim vs. capitalism

Theorypedia on December 8, 2009
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Rudolph and Santa and Hammer and Sickle
Rankin and Bass' 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' is an allegory of communism vs. capitalism that ends in a draw. Santa and his elves represent an anti-free market, Stalinist, collectivist state that values conformity above all else. Rudolph and Hermey try to free themselves from the state but eventually become its dupes. Yukon Cornelius is the spirit of independent thinking, self-reliance and free market capitalism.

Spin.com: Radiohead Kinda Blow

YouBetErasmus on November 19, 2009
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Thom Yorke, Pencil drawing
Spin magazine's Chris Norris looks at Radiohead's career trajectory and apparently annoying penchant for serial innovation and theorizes: Radiohead kinda blow...

'You're So Vain' is about...Jesus?

Theorypedia on November 17, 2009
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Carly Simon and South Park Jesus
Carly Simon reveals the wildest theory about the subject of 'You're So Vain' to date.

LOST Season 6: all about the Others

Ms Terri on October 28, 2009
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Lost Season 6 promo
LOST's last season is not what you expect

Emma Watson: The Hepburn Theory

CallaLily on October 25, 2009
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Emma Watson at Harry Potter Premier
Emma Watson is no Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears or Demi Lovato. This theory says she's the next Hepburn.

'The Wall' Syncs with 'Alice in Wonderland'

MeghanRizzo on October 25, 2009
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Yep...Play 'The Wall' along with Disney's
Pink Floyd's “The Wall” syncs with Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" and was recorded to do so.

'Lost:' Sole Survivor Theory

Ms Terri on October 23, 2009
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'Lost:'  Sole Survivor Theory
While the LOST-ies were on the island, everyone else on the planet perished.

Amelia Earhart: 6 Theories

Theorypedia on October 20, 2009
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Amelia Earhart: 6 Theories
The 6 major theories around Amelia Earhart's demise are: captured by the Japanese; open ocean crash and sinking; espionage gone wrong; castaway on Gardner's island; Bougainville crash and the identity change to Irene Bolam.

Concrete Universal

Theorypedia on October 19, 2009
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Phrase coined by the American critic William Kurtz Wimsatt (jnr) (1907-75) for a traditional belief about poetry.Poetry uniquely exhibits a linguistic paradox: it refers to, or creates the fiction of, highly specific, individual, concrete, entities; but treats them in such a way that the themes or...

Concrete Poetry

Theorypedia on October 19, 2009
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Essentially due to MODERNISM, but there existed an earlier Renaissance tradition of 'emblems', for example poems of George Herbert (1593-1633) shaped like wings or an altar.Poem, usually a single page for instantaneous apprehension, in which format and typography offer a visual meaning. Often 'iconic',...

Conceit

Theorypedia on October 19, 2009
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Poetic device which became popular with the rediscovery of the METAPHYSICAL POETS.In the 16th century, the 'Petrarchan conceit' was a hyperbolic comparison of the attributes of one thing (for example the poet's mistress) with those of another, somewhat distant (for example a landscape). In the early...

Comedy

Theorypedia on October 19, 2009
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No single authoritative theory.Comedy has been an important and prolific form of drama from the plays of the Greek Aristophanes (c.448-c.380 BC), and is a mode which finds expression in non-dramatic genres too. Aristotle's Poetics (4th century BC) has little to say about comedy, but seems to regard...

Closure

Theorypedia on October 19, 2009
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Evaluative as well as theoretical term, used either positively or negatively.An aesthetically satisfying sense of formal completeness given by, for instance, rhyme in poetry or a clear outcome in narrative. Closure is disvalued in the sceptical atmosphere of DECONSTRUCTION and POSTSTRUCTURALISM, suggesting...

Chromaticism

Theorypedia on October 19, 2009
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Derived from the Greek word for colour, this is the notion that in tonal music certain notes foreign to those belonging to a key may be present without undermining the key of the piece.Chromatic notes are the five pitches that, together with the seven pitches of a major or minor scale ('diatonic'),...

Chosisme

Theorypedia on October 19, 2009
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French for 'thingism', this is a descriptive technique favoured by practitioners of the 'NOUVEAU ROMAN'.A kind of hyper-realism which employs very detailed decriptions of the physical appearance of inanimate objects, this is a style of writing practised particularly by the French novelists Alain Robbe-Grillet...

Chicago Critics

Theorypedia on October 19, 2009
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Group of critics practising at the University of Chicago, notably Ronald Salmon Crane (1886-1967), Elder Olson (1909- ), Wayne C Booth (1921-).Otherwise called 'Chicago Neo-Aristoteleans' for their adherence to the poetic theory of Aristotle (384-322 BC). Opposed to NEW CRITICISM (whose proponents...

Carnivalization

Theorypedia on October 19, 2009
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Theory of Russian Mikhail M Bakhtin (1895-1975).Development of DIALOGISM in which the metaphor of carnival is applied to the structure of those narratives which invert conventional relationships, subvert power, and celebrate a 'grotesque canon of the body': paradigmatically, F Rabelais's Gargantua...

Bitonality

Theorypedia on October 16, 2009
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Most often found in music of the first half of the 20th century, the best-known exponents of this concept include composers Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) and Charles Ives (1874-1954). Bitonality is the theory that two distinct keys or tonalities may be traced as simultaneously...
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