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Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents

Includes the central texts of the modernist movement, in the areas of politics, aesthetics and literature.

The Arts of Alasdair Gray

... Kelvin Walker Quiet People Mavis Watson / Triangles / Cholchis | Agnes Belfrage / Agnes Watson | Mavis Belfrage Folder : 1 ] The History Maker , all this material dates from a few months in 1965 . [ XR 9417.1 NB 21,47 ; 9417.2 NB 46 ] 1 ...

Produced by Irving Thalberg: Theory of Studio-Era Filmmaking

... Romeo and Juliet as a monument to his career, then Shearer—with this new sense of agency—perceived Marie Antoinette as a monument to her husband. It is fitting, then, that the two films would share a similar stylistic duality. Where Romeo ...

And Now for Something Completely Different: Critical Approaches to Monty Python

Critical Approaches to Monty Python Kate Egan. Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979 album), 7 Monty Python's Life of ... Song', 81, 218 hyperbole and waste, 183 joie de vivre éclatante, 179 'The Middle of the Film', 178–9 'The Miracle of Birth' ...

Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads: Studies in Relocation, Transition and Appropriation

... hai Japani // My shoes are Japanese, Yeh Patloon Inglistani // These trousers are English, Sar pe lal topi Rusi // The red hat on my head is Russian, Phir bhi dil hai Hindustani // And yet my heart is still Indian. T. he above song lyrics ...

Persian Art: Image-making in Eurasia

... legacy of a 19th century Persian Baha'i calligrapher : the restoration of ... the messianic theophany of the Divine Fire ( átar , ádar , átash ) in ... pdf > ( last accessed 16 November 2016 ) . ( 2014a ) , ' Lawh - i Qinā " , Hurqalya ...

Ranciere and Music

... improvisation referential rather than melody', 'fast, intense, impassioned' improvisation, 'clean [melodic] execution' and more. David Baker, 'Bebop Characteristics' (2000), 37, <https://www.jazzbooks.com/mm5/download/FQBK-handbook.pdf> ...

Scottish Newspapers, Language and Identity

... of mice and men, 81, 109, 115, 116 bevvy, 100 Table 6.1, 101, 123, 124 Blake, George, 25 blooter, 123 bonnie/bonny, 117, 121, 124 British English, 28 British identity, 53, 143, 144 Daily Record, 5 article types, 72–3 circulation and ...

Thinking Nature: An Essay in Negative Ecology

Moving between ancient and modern sources, philosophy and theology, and science and popular culture, Sean McGrath offers a genuinely new reflection on what it means to be human in an era of climate change, mass extinction and geoengineering ...

Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts

Maggie Humm. she visited family friend Sylvia Stebbing, then sharing a bindery with Anastasia Power in Museum Street, and asked for lessons in binding old books of sheet music. Anastasia Power (who had acquired her skills from Douglas ...

ReFocus: The Films of Francis Veber

... screenplay for their films became a loose framework for improvisation much in the same way that Thelonious Monk's bebop compositions were a guide for players, not a rule. The screenplays for Anchorman and The 40-Year-Old Virgin outline ...

New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror

... Ann Rutherford, <http://www.thecine-files.com/pisters2016/> (last accessed 27 March 2020). Pisters, Patricia (2019) ... Anne (1976), Interview with the Vampire (New York: Ballantine Books). Rife, Katie (2017), 'Maybe Some Day the World ...

Arabic Language

... feminine ending, -t; only in female proper names is the pausal ending -h sometimes used. Unlike the later Arabic script, this script does not indicate the long vowels; thus, dr stands for dār 'camp site'. The diphthongs are very often ...

Islam and Colonialism

... 3) the disbelief of stubbornness (A. kufr inad ), referring to one who knows God in his heart and says so, but does not practise His law; and 4) the disbelief of hypocrisy (A. kufr nifaq), meaning one who claims belief verbally,

Quiz Show

... game show culture is concerned. The internet has also emerged as a gaming medium in its own right, not simply with the use of computer games and puzzles, but with the popularity of on-line gambling (that is, poker). Entertainment Weekly ...

Refugee Imaginaries: Research Across the Humanities

... documentary's conventional aims of raising awareness of an issue and proposing solutions. On the Bride's Side also has an underlying dramatic logic that allows it to lay claim to certain narrative traditions of fiction. Edited to ...

Korean Horror Cinema

... book on this subject, and here we must acknowledge the excellent Korean-language scholarship already available on the topic. While there are a raft of articles available to read online in Cine 21, South Korea's film and entertainment ...

Wyndham Lewis: A Critical Guide

... code, he proposed, 'the artistic impulse is a more primitive one than the ethical' (MWA p. 89). Shorn of morality ... associate Lewis, Satire, and Literature 93.

Religion and Society in Scotland since 1707

... herbs and an Iron key which were thrown into another's milk in order to ... minister of Gairloch in the 1710s , John Morrison , having no church , manse ... enquiry ' meetings and of discussing Scripture at fellowship meetings , the ...

American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture

... MILF (Mother I would Like to Fuck), 112 Miller, Rebecca, 156 Millet, Kate ... (MILF), 112 Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) ratings system, 17, 37, 111 ... Nanny Diaries (film), 59 narrative conventions, 19, 42, 143, 156 Neale ...

Islamic Chinoiserie: The Art of Mongol Iran

... 3.5, 3.19–20, 4.20–23, 6.1, 6.5 murals, 131, 4.8 painting, 123 textiles, 23, 26, 32, 1.4, 1.8 Jingdezhen, 49, 58, 62 ... Bestiary, 215 Morgan Bestiary, 128–41, 143–5, 148, 154, 169, 171, 181, 186, 205–8, 212–13, 215–17, 226, 4.4, 4.7 ...

Texture - A Cognitive Aesthetics of Reading

... Pi Patel in Canada for the first-hand account. Secondly, the main part of the novel is told in the first-person as if by Pi Patel, but with continuing interspersed italicised shifts back out to the 'authorial' voice. Richard Parker saves Pi ...

Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Selected Writings of Andrew Lang, Volume 1: Anthropology, Fairy Tale, Folklore, The Origins of Religion, Psychical Research

... 1. pp. 25–38. Lang later included a modified version of this story in The ... volume, p. 377, n. 38. 3 FAIRY TALES 2 5 'Literary FairyTales', Introduction to Frederick van Eeden's Little Johannes (1895) 1 Chansons de Geste ... Fairy Tales)

British Children's Fiction in the Second World War

... Heil Me' and 'More Heil for me with Swastikas on', an allusion to 'same to you with knobs on', which was popularly endowed with a phallic connotation.)81 Inter-war comics had sought to humanise the aristocrat, the Beano in 1938 by the ...

Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities

... Umberto Eco, On Ugliness (London: Harvill Secker, 2007), p. 16. Eco's companion anthology, On Beauty, was published in 2010. Eco, On Ugliness, p. 16. Quoted in ibid., p. 16. Lessing, Laocoon, chs 2, 17. See, for example, Susan M. Schweik, ...

Arabic Today: A Student, Business and Professional Course in Spoken and Written Arabic

... Form VII often expresses the passive voice (see 12/4) of Form I: I sahab yishab to pull, withdraw (something) VII insáhab yinsáhib to be withdrawn, withdraw (oneself), retreat (of an army) Form VII verbs cannot take a direct object. Typical ...

Talkies, Road Movies and Chick Flicks: Gender, Genre and Film Sound in American Cinema

... tune also signalled the newly important role that film music played in this era of cinema. Jaws became a signature film in the body of early Hollywood blockbusters that feature famous music soundtracks. Indeed, on hearing the theme music ...

Modern Islamic Authority and Social Change, Volume 1: Evolving Debates in Muslim Majority Countries

... Friday prayers in the Blue Mosque: “Where else will you find the Friday khutbah given in three languages, Arabic, Turkish and English—the last being in recognition of the large number of visiting Muslim tourists who inevitably flock to ...

Place of Breath in Cinema

... Star Wars's iconic antagonist, the character Darth Vader, the subject of breathing is already an implicit part of film history. Star Wars occupies a considerable position within our collective, cultural memory and it is the strange ...

Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction

... make sense out of written words was somehow redundant, but those days are gone: words ... Girls at Parties' and the television series based on Sandman. His wider ... Snow, Glass, Apples' (1994) and The Sleeper and the Spindle (2013) about ...

Contemporary British Novel Since 2000

James Acheson. Notes. 1. Zadie Smith, 'Speaking in Tongues', New York Review of Books, 26 February 2009, <http:// www ... Beauty)', in Vanessa Guignery and François Gallix (eds), (Re-)Mapping London: Visions of the Metropolis in the ...

Filming the Children's Book: Adapting Metafiction

... Story Only') The story/discourse distinction is historically important in theories of transmediation, not least from book ... book must also include its thematic bookish plot ... Prince Caspian (2008), and Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010). The ...

Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome

... kleos, 'fame', of gods and heroes to his audience (cf. Od. 1.338) ... examples include the Theogony and Homeric Hymns (distant past), the Iliad, the Odyssey ... Odyssey are the longest known examples (c. 15,000 and 12,000 lines respectively) ...

Tears of the Dead: The Social Biography of an African Family

... wife . ' I took her [ Buka's mother ] when I had taken the other one ... cow of mine . ' And here it really ' defecated ' , defecating female ones ... has her lads . They are now marrying wives , and even [ the third son ] will be taking ...

Other Hollywood Renaissance

... Money,” and then, in a jump cut, to their comic cabaret duet, “Money Makes the World Go 'Round.” This is a modernist show musical. The plot could move forward without the number, but the song instantly burlesques Sally's attraction to ...

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