Closing Remarks: Practical Wisdom as a Global Research Project in the Twenty-First Century

2016 ◽  
pp. 195-198
Author(s):  
André Habisch
Keyword(s):  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
First Century ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Global Research

Staging Beckett: Constructing Histories of Performance

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna McMullan ◽  
Trish McTighe ◽  
David Pattie ◽  
David Tucker
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Victoria And Albert Museum

This multi-authored essay presents some selected initial findings from the AHRC Staging Beckett research project led by the Universities of Reading and Chester with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. For example, how did changes in economic and cultural climates, such as funding structures, impact on productions of Beckett's plays in the UK and Ireland from the 1950s to the first decade of the twenty-first century? The paper will raise historiographical questions raised by the attempts to map or construct performance histories of Beckett's theatre in the UK and Ireland.

scholarly journals Shadows Between the Signs

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-94
Author(s):  
David Brian Howard
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Charles Baudelaire ◽  
First Century ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ernst Bloch ◽  
Right Hand ◽  
Critical Method ◽  
Twenty First Century

Abstract The following experimental text is drawn from my most recent research project War Machines: Utopia and Allegorical Poetics in the Twenty-First Century. The project is an adaptation of the allegorical poetics developed by the French poet Charles Baudelaire in his scathing attacks on the sweeping transformation of Paris being conducted by Napoleon III’s right-hand man, Baron Haussmann. This small excerpt from my new book is a demonstration of my critical and poetical re-framing of Benjamin’s work that orients itself more towards the overlooked elements of Benjamin’s Marxism, as well as his “weak messianic” perspective, in order to re-assert a more radical orientation of his poetics and critical method with the utopian perspectives found in the work of that other great Marxist outlier of the twentieth century, Ernst Bloch, especially as outlined in his book, The Principle of Hope. Thus, unlike the postmodern appropriation of Baudelaire and Benjamin, I want to propose the possibility of bridging the gap between allegorical poetics, Marxism, and utopianism once again as a rigorous, critical option in the twenty-first century.

Introduction: Egypt in the Garden

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-50
Author(s):  
Caitlín Eilís Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Art History ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
First Century ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Material Turn ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Interpretive Frameworks

This introductory chapter sets out an agenda for the larger research project; investigates problems of definition and interpretation; provides a critical review of past and current scholarship on Roman “Aegyptiaca”; and makes a case for new theoretical and methodological approaches that engage with current intellectual developments in the broader fields of archaeology and art history. It is argued that research on Roman Aegyptiaca can gain much from, and is poised to contribute substantially to (1) twenty-first-century archaeology’s “material turn”; (2) the construction of new interpretive frameworks for cross-cultural interactions; and (3) increased attention to the relationships between artifacts, contexts, and assemblages.

scholarly journals The transcultural comics of Takoua Ben Mohamed: memory and translation a fumetti

Modern Italy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-197
Author(s):  
Barbara Spadaro
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
First Century ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Popular Medium ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Words And Images ◽  
Globalising World

Comics are an increasingly popular medium in the twenty-first century. Combining words and images, comics enable the expression of individual and collective histories that straddle languages and cultures, reflecting the multimodality of the cognitive and narrative processes in a multilingual, globalising world. This article proposes an original framework to understand the power of comics as a transcultural medium by exploring the production of Takoua Ben Mohamed, a graphic journalist and comics author born in Tunisia and raised in Rome. These comics visualise histories of migration and translation in Italy and the Mediterranean, questioning notions of homogeneity, authenticity and canonicity of Italian memory and culture. The article engages with the theoretical and methodological framework of the Transnationalizing Modern Languages (TML) research project, exploring the interconnected linguistic and cultural dimensions of memory and translation. The analysis identifies a series of processes termed mediation-translation in Ben Mohamed's comics, which illuminate the constitutive nature of memory and translation in contemporary processes of identification.

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