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Character Constellations

Author : Roel Smeets
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462702950
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Character Constellations written by Roel Smeets and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction has a major social impact, not least because it co-shapes the image that society has of various social groups. Drawing on a collection of 170 contemporary Dutch-language novels, Character Constellations presents a range of data-driven, statistical models to study depictions of characters in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, sexuality, and other identity categories. Incorporating the tools of network analysis, each chapter highlights an aspect of fictional social networks that affects the representation of social groups: their centrality, their communities, and their conflicts. While reading individual novels in light of emerging statistical patterns, combining the formal methods of social network analysis with the interpretive tools of narratology, this study shows how central societal themes such as (in)equality and emancipation, integration and segregation, and social mobility and class struggle are foregrounded, replicated, or distorted in the Dutch novel. Showcasing what character-based critiques of literary representation gain by integrating data-driven methods into the practice of critical close reading, Character Constellations contributes to societal debates on cultural representation and identity and the role

Characters in Fictional Worlds

Author : Jens Eder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110232413
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Characters in Fictional Worlds written by Jens Eder and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although fictional characters have long dominated the reception of literature, films, television programs, comics, and other media products, only recently have they begun to attract their due attention in literary and media theory. The book systematically surveys today ́s diverse and at times conflicting theoretical perspectives on fictional character, spanning research on topics such as the differences between fictional characters and real persons, the ontological status of characters, the strategies of their representation and characterization, the psychology of their reception, as well as their specific forms and constellations in - and across - different media, from the book to the internet.

Constellations

Author : Nick Payne
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374711119
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Constellations written by Nick Payne and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A singular astonishment." —John Lahr, The New Yorker One relationship. Infinite possibilities. In the beginning Marianne and Roland meet at a party. They go for a drink, or perhaps they don't. They fall madly in love and start dating, but eventually they break up. After a chance encounter in a supermarket they get back together, or maybe they run into each other and Marianne reveals that she's now engaged to someone else and that's that. Or perhaps Roland is engaged. Maybe they get married, or maybe their time together will be tragically short. Nick Payne's Constellations is a play about free will and friendship; it's also about quantum multiverse theory, love, and honey.

Numerical Taxonomy

Author : Joseph Felsenstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642690246
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Numerical Taxonomy written by Joseph Felsenstein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NATO Advanced Study Institute on Numerical Taxonomy took place on the 4th - 16th of July, 1982, at the Kur- und Kongresshotel Residenz in Bad Windsheim, Federal Republic of Germany. This volume is the proceedings of that meeting, and contains papers by over two-thirds of the participants in the Institute. Numerical taxonomy has been attracting increased attention from systematists and evolutionary biologists. It is an area which has been marked by debate and conflict, sometimes bitter. Happily, this meeting took place in an atmosphere of "GemUtlichkeit", though scarcely of unanimity. I believe that these papers will show that there is an increased understanding by each taxonomic school of each others' positions. This augurs a period in which the debates become more concrete and specific. Let us hope that they take place in a scientific atmosphere which has occasionally been lacking in the past. Since the order of presentation of papers in the meeting was affected by time constraints, I have taken the liberty of rearranging them into a more coherent subject ordering. The first group of papers, taken from the opening and closing days of the meeting, debate philosophies of classification. The next two sections have papers on congruence, clustering and ordination. A notable concern of these participants is the comparison and testing of classifications. This has been missing from many previous discussions of numerical classification.

Screening Characters

Author : Johannes Riis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429749163
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Screening Characters written by Johannes Riis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characters are central to our experiences of screened fictions and invite a host of questions. The contributors to Screening Characters draw on archival material, interviews, philosophical inquiry, and conceptual analysis in order to give new, thought-provoking answers to these queries. Providing multifaceted accounts of the nature of screen characters, contributions are organized around a series of important subjects, including issues of class, race, ethics, and generic types as they are encountered in moving image media. These topics, in turn, are personified by such memorable figures as Cary Grant, Jon Hamm, Audrey Hepburn, and Seul-gi Kim, in addition to avatars, online personalities, animated characters, and the ensembles of shows such as The Sopranos, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad.

Cinematic Histospheres

Author : Rasmus Greiner
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030705900
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Histospheres written by Rasmus Greiner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Open Access book, film scholar Rasmus Greiner develops a theoretical model for the concept of the histosphere to refer to the “sphere” of a cinematically modelled, physically experienceable historical world. His analysis of practices of modelling and perceiving, immersion and empathy, experience and remembering, appropriation and refiguration, combine approaches from film studies, such as Vivian Sobchack’s phenomenology of film experience, with historiographic theories, such as Frank R. Ankersmit’s concept of historical experience. Building on this analysis, Greiner examines the spatial and temporal organization of historical films and presents discussions of mood and atmosphere, body and memory, and genre and historical consciousness. The analysis is based around three historical films, spanning six decades, that depict 1950s Germany: Helmut Käutner’s Sky Without Stars (1955), Jutta Brückner’s Years of Hunger (1980), and Sven Bohse’s three-part TV series Ku’damm 56 (2016).

The Invasion of Sennacherib in the Book of Kings

Author : Paul S. Evans
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004175962
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Invasion of Sennacherib in the Book of Kings written by Paul S. Evans and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The invasion of Sennacherib in 701 BCE is a classic issue for both biblical scholars and historians alike. Extant Assyrian, Biblical and even Greek texts all refer to Sennacherib and many different theories have been put forward in attempts to understand the relationship between these various accounts. Despite the rise of new literary-rhetorical criticism in biblical studies, studies tackling the problem of Sennacherib s invasion have been dominated by historical-critical work on the issue and have virtually ignored rhetorical methodology. Against this trend, this book employs both traditional historical-critical methods and newer rhetorical methods in an effort to utilize the biblical texts in a historical reconstruction of this famous Assyrian assault on ancient Judah.

Handbook of Narratology

Author : Peter Hühn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110382075
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Narratology written by Peter Hühn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a systematic overview of the present state of international research in narratology and is now available in a second, completely revised and expanded edition. Detailed individual studies by internationally renowned narratologists elucidate central terms of narratology, present a critical account of the major research positions and their historical development and indicate directions for future research.

Nominal and Pronominal Address in Jamaica and Trinidad

Author : Matthias Klumm
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027258953
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Nominal and Pronominal Address in Jamaica and Trinidad written by Matthias Klumm and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the various patterns of nominal and pronominal address used in Jamaica and Trinidad, the two most populous islands of the English-speaking Caribbean. Given that the Anglo-Caribbean context has so far been largely neglected in address research, this study aims to provide an in-depth analysis of the linguistic means Jamaicans and Trinidadians have at their disposal and make use of to address each other. A particular focus will be on variation in the speakers’ address behaviour with regard to their sex, age, social class, ethnicity, and regional background. The study draws both on data from a self-compiled corpus of postcolonial Jamaican and Trinidadian literary works, and on questionnaire and interview data collected during fieldwork. This book contributes to the ever-growing body of research in the field of nominal and pronominal address, and will be relevant to researchers interested in the fields of sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and World Englishes.

Metamorphoses of (New) Media

Author : Julia Genz
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443887676
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Metamorphoses of (New) Media written by Julia Genz and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current success story of new media and the ongoing digitalisation of our world provide an illuminating starting point for the discussion of the powerful revolutions in our media and media uses initiated by the introduction of a(ny) ‘new’ medium: how do new media evolve and how do they relate to established, ‘old’ media and media uses? What does the rise of new media and media uses imply for other discourses? And not least: which methodological and theoretical approaches help us to understand these developments? Metamorphoses of (New) Media offers an international and interdisciplinary range of studies on these questions. In examining the effects of new media and media uses in fields such as social discourse, transmediality, and aesthetics, the essays in this collection engage with a great variety of examples, from political debate on Twitter to digital storytelling and the game-like experience of DVDs. What these diverse perspectives share, however, is an approach to Metamorphoses of (New) Media as an ongoing, recursive process of change that initiates dialogue and casts light on existing discursive, medial, and aesthetic models.

Tennessee Williams’s Female Characters: Problems of Gender and Sexuality

Author : Bünyamin Yuvarlak
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346371840
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Tennessee Williams’s Female Characters: Problems of Gender and Sexuality written by Bünyamin Yuvarlak and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, RWTH Aachen University (Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Romanistik der RWTH Aachen), language: English, abstract: The goal of the paper is to identify features relating to homosexual identity, based on a characterization of Williams’s female characters. Among other studies, Tennessee Williams’s work has commonly been researched from a gay study perspective by literary scholars and queer theorists. The motive for that was mostly Williams’s own homosexuality and the stigma that surrounded the issue around the time he published his most famous pieces. He has written plays which explicitly involve the topic of homosexuality, as the eminent Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but most of his work does not embrace homosexuality precisely. Nevertheless, on the grounds that literary studies is fairly limitless, for literature provides many different fields for analyses, it is possible to involve literary pieces into the field of gay studies, even though it initially does not specify the matter. The arguably most interesting element in Tennessee Williams’s drama are his characters, many of whom seem to share similar characteristics as struggling individuals. Analyzing the fictional characters with regard to gay writing could help find a possible pattern, draw conclusions about the influence of Williams’s personality, and thus, support the assumption that homosexuality is integrated in his plays. Gender is also fundamental for an approach based on sexuality. Taking that into consideration, below, the focus will be on Williams’s female characters, especially on the protagonists Laura Wingfield from The Glass Menagerie and Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar Named Desire. These women are not necessarily gay themselves; in the plays, there is no clear evidence about them being sexually or romantically attracted to the same sex. Instead, sexuality is a broad concept with more meanings attached to it, which will further be discussed in the third chapter.

Manmade Constellations

Author : Misha Lazzara
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Manmade Constellations written by Misha Lazzara and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern-day love story that explores childhood trauma, the boundaries between idealism and self-righteousness, and the heartaches we must confront in order to chart our courses forward. Lo Gunderson feels trapped in her small midwestern hometown until she sees an ad for a free car in the local paper. To maintain her staunch anticapitalist values, she refuses to spend money on what she can find for free, so this car is the perfect ticket out of the town. Though it doesn’t cost any money, it still comes with a price. Blanche Peterson is dying and asks for a single favor—that Lo track down her estranged son, whom Blanche hasn’t seen in over a decade. Before she can decide whether to fulfill Blanche’s dying wish, she needs to get the car started. She’s helped by John Blank, a Southern auto mechanic who moved up north for a fresh start. Despite vastly different backgrounds, they share an electrifying mutual attraction that threatens to upend Lo’s carefully constructed worldview. Meanwhile, Blanche’s son, Jason, finds himself adrift after an argument with his girlfriend. Memories of his negligent mother and the death of his father resurface for the first time in years as he travels across the country searching for what comes next. Manmade Constellations is a smart, magnetic, and emotional novel dedicated to the American landscape, exploring how taking to the open road teaches lessons that can’t be learned at home.

Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions

Author : K. Loock
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137263350
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions written by K. Loock and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic investigation of processes of cultural reproduction – remaking and remodelling – which considers a wide range of film adaptations, remakes and fan productions from various industrial, textual and critical perspectives.

Common-Sense Morality and Consequentialism

Author : Michael A. Slote
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000073424
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common-Sense Morality and Consequentialism written by Michael A. Slote and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1985 and now re-issued with a new preface, this study assesses the two major moral theories of ethical consequentialism and common-sense morality by means of mutual comparison and an attempt to elicit the implications and tendencies of each theory individually. The author shows that criticisms and defences of common-sense morality and of consequentialism give inadequate characterizations of the dispute between them and thus at best provide incomplete rationales for either of these influential moral views. Both theories face inherent difficulties, some familiar but others mentioned for the first time in this work. The argument proceeds by reference to historical figures like Bentham, Ross and Sidgwick and to contemporary thinkers such as Williams, Nagel, Hare and Sen.

Essential Papers on Borderline Disorders

Author : Michael H. Stone
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081477850X
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Essential Papers on Borderline Disorders written by Michael H. Stone and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1986-02 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is divided into sections with seminal papers from each decade. The preface of each section, written by the editor, places each paper in it's historical context and making for a fascinating story of an aspect of the history of psychoanalysis and psychiatry in America.

On the Poetics of the Utendi

Author : Clarissa Vierke
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643800894
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book On the Poetics of the Utendi written by Clarissa Vierke and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as author's thesis (doctoral)--BIGSAS, Bayreuth, 2009.

Film Psychoanalysis

Author : Andreas Hamburger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040021050
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Film Psychoanalysis written by Andreas Hamburger and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-27 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the development of psychoanalytically informed film interpretation, Andreas Hamburger provides new insights into the experience of watching films and their influence upon our internal lives. Building upon a relational understanding of psychoanalysis, this volume develops a methodical procedure for psychoanalytical film interpretation, discusses individual aspects of the medium – such as editing, spatial and temporal design – and puts approaches to film psychoanalysis and cinema theory into a systematic perspective. Hamburger exemplifies his arguments in a detailed analysis of numerous film examples and demonstrates how an in-depth encounter with the medium can provoke new and surprising understandings. Providing an interdisciplinary perspective that crosses the study of popular culture with psychoanalytic theory, this book will be required reading not only for students and scholars of film, but also for psychoanalysts in practice and training.