What Else Is a Comic?

2019 ◽  
pp. 52-74
Author(s):  
Evan B. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Side Effect ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Printing Press ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Visual Metaphors ◽  
William Hogarth ◽  
Intaglio Printing ◽  
Rake's Progress ◽  
Sequential Images ◽  
The Way

Comics studies has taken a comparative turn to global culture, which challenges claims in favor of Richard F. Outcault, Rodolphe Töpffer, or William Hogarth as the originators of comics. The synthesis for each claim is founded in the proliferation of image and text in the printing press. The printing press standardized visual tropes such as the panel-strip convention which is fundamental to comics. Examples of the panel-strip convention are found in the early period of print, where it might have begun as a side effect of intaglio printing. Alongside the panel-strip convention are several alternative conventions for organizing sequential images: processions, curtains, staircases, calendars, wheels, and decks. Each possesses affordances not found in the panel-strip convention. Furthermore, these conventions represent the way that visual metaphors were used to scaffold meaning, a method virtually erased by Hogarth. Rather than being an early artist of sequential images, Hogarth radically simplified an existing tradition that included direct predecessors to Rake’s Progress.

The Faustian and Mephistophelean Worlds in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress

2019 ◽  
pp. 336-360
Author(s):  
Maureen A. Carr
Keyword(s):  
Igor Stravinsky ◽  
Compositional Process ◽  
William Hogarth ◽  
Rake's Progress ◽  
The Way

Created by Igor Stravinsky, in collaboration with W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, the Faustian opera The Rake’s Progress (1947–51) was inspired by a series of engravings by William Hogarth. The collaboration between Stravinsky and Auden is a fascinating study, not only because of the way in which these luminaries interacted to produce this masterwork, but also because it provides insights into Stravinsky’s compositional process for his first dramatic work that involved the setting of a text in English. This chapter provides a glimpse into the process for specific musical passages in The Rake’s Progress and considers certain parallels between the storyline of Auden’s text and that of Goethe’s Faust.

Gospels before the Book

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew D. C. Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Collection ◽  
Printing Press ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Textual Tradition ◽  
Textual Culture ◽  
Early Christian Studies ◽  
The Way

What does it mean to read the gospels “before the book”? For centuries, the way people have talked about the gospels has been shaped by ideas that have more to do with the printing press and modern notions of the author than they do with ancient writing and reading practices. Gospels Before the Book challenges several subtle yet problematic assumptions about authors, books, and publication at work in early Christian studies. The author explores a host of underappreciated elements of ancient textual culture, such as unfinished texts, accidental publication, postpublication revision, and multiple authorized versions of the same work. Turning to the gospels, he argues the earliest readers and users of the text we now call the Gospel according to Mark treated it not as a book published by an author but as an unfinished, open, and fluid collection of notes (hypomnēmata). The Gospel according to Matthew, then, would not be regarded as a separate book published by a different author but, rather, as a continuation of the same unfinished gospel tradition. Similarly, it is not the case that, of the five different endings in the textual tradition, one is “right” and the others are “wrong.” Rather, each ending represents its own effort to fill in what some perceived to be lacking in the Gospel according to Mark. The text of the Gospel according to Mark is better understood when approached as unfinished notes than as a book published by an author. Larsen also offers a new methodological framework for future scholarship on early Christian gospels.

Corporates in the Digital Age

2021 ◽  
pp. 1519-1532
Author(s):  
Hammad Azzam
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Customer Experience ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Essential Factor ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Customer Interaction ◽  
The Way

A proposition for digital transformation of global groups into efficient enterprises is introduced. At the heart of the proposition is a transformational practice aimed at creating a customer-focused, data-driven global culture in any customer-serving company. The digital age has added a level of complexity to the way we acquire and serve customers. Doing a good job in the traditional channels is not enough anymore. Online is increasingly becoming the channel of choice with the two main customer-interaction paradigms: sell and service. And building a great customer experience is probably the most essential factor of success for both functions.

Visual metaphor in extended conceptual metaphor theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-30
Author(s):  
Zoltán Kövecses
Keyword(s):  
Visual Experience ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
Natural Scenes ◽  
Visual Metaphor ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor Theory ◽  
Visual Metaphors ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Processing Mechanisms ◽  
The Way

Abstract My goal in the paper is to examine a variety of visual experiences that appear to evoke visual metaphors. This is a range of experience types that extends from “sign-like” visual experiences to “non-sign-like” visual experiences. I propose that visual metaphors are evoked by paintings through winner’s podiums all the way to cityscapes and scenes in nature. The latter two (non-sign-like) cases, cityscapes and natural scenes, are not commonly subjected to serious examination from a CMT perspective. However, they provide us with new challenges in the study of visual metaphors, since they greatly extend the range of visual experience that might give rise to visual metaphors. I suggest, further, that the comprehension or interpretation of all of these visual experiences, including sign-like and non-sign-like alike, makes use of the same metaphorical processing mechanisms. The visual metaphors that are evoked by visual experiences can be based either on correlations or resemblance.

scholarly journals THE RUSSIAN COMPOSER EDISON DENISOV – FAR OR CLOSE TO THE WESTERN CULTURE

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-108
Author(s):  
Angelina-Ogniana GOTCHEVA
Keyword(s):  
Western Culture ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Pierre Boulez ◽  
Religious Perspectives ◽  
Innovative Thinking ◽  
Edison Denisov ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Russian Composers ◽  
The Way

19 marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of the Russian avant-garde composer Edison Denisov. He belongs to the second generation of Soviet avant-garde composers, whose work is famous for its innovative thinking and techniques: serialism, aleatory, sonorism and the use of electronics. The most progressive composers among them are Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina and Alfred Schnittke, who form a group later called “The Moscow Triad”. This article explores the ways in which Eastern and Western culture meet, specifically within works pertaining to the religious perspectives of the three authors – Gubaidulina’s meditative concept, the mystic beliefs of Schnittke, the sublimity of art in Denisov’s works and their different spiritual insight into art. The article also gives specific evaluation of the connection between the members of the Moscow Triad and the way they perceived each other’s personalities and work through a series of their own quotations. Their difficulties in communication with foreign Western composers and the wish to bring their work to the knowledge of the younger generation of Russian composers is observed, as well as the friendship between Denisov and another legendary French avant-garde composer Pierre Boulez. It briefly explores the effect of the contemporary political situation that led to the prohibition of the distribution and performance of the music of the three composers. The article addresses the way the art of Denisov was perceived in the past and today, the reception of his music in the West and in his homeland, his legacy and the future of his music in the context of the global culture.

How Does Technology Influence on Education in Nowadays?

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Sonila Tatili
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
School Day ◽  
Future Learning ◽  
The Way

Technology is undoubtedly having a major impact on every aspect of our lives and that includes today’s learning environments. It is shaping the way in which students learn, teachers deliver material and the way in which we design spaces for future learning opportunities. It is said that schools aren’t just investing in computer stations and keyboards and we are witness to the fact, based on our planning and design work, and that they are quickly embracing the “constant contact” trends that have changed our global culture. As technology continues to evolve, it brings with it new opportunities and challenges for educators and students. Social networking is a great example of technology that can help — or hinder — education, depending on how it is used and integrated into teaching plans. Privacy and security are two concerns that can come with using social networking in the classroom. It can also become a distraction to students, or even a tool used for bullying. Learning spaces now, more than ever, are being designed to help with communication and information sharing. From tablets used to asking kids to “raise their hands” virtually, to viewing a lecture via Skype or FaceTime, the traditional four walls and a chalkboard are transforming rapidly. According to a recent USA Today article, a New York-based educational technology startup released the first device, an Androidpowered touchscreen tablet, “designed for kids both to take to school and bring home. For sale only to schools for now, the Amplify tablet comes pre-loaded with virtually everything a student will encounter during the school day, including all the textbooks, lessons, tests and e-books she might be assigned. ”

The evolution of trinity images to the medieval period

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 93-110
Author(s):  
Balderstone Susan
Keyword(s):  
Early Period ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Abstract Ideas ◽  
Artistic Works ◽  
Theological Debate ◽  
Catholic Churches ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
The Way

This paper investigates an association between the iconography used in artistic works and theological positions in the great debates over the nature of Christ and the Trinity. It looks at how the iconography evolved up to the medieval period with the schism between the Orthodox and Catholic churches and beyond. It is proposed that there was dogmatic intent which related to the ongoing theological debate. This is demonstrated by the chronological correlation between specific markers in the debate and changes in the way the Trinity was depicted. Acknowledged authority Andre Grabar considered that changes were due to the essential inadequacy of pictorial means to depict abstract ideas, and a striving by artists and image makers to capture them in different ways. He did not relate dated images to events in theological history, but referred to a "general confusion" of ideas in the early period due to the theological debates. However, it can be seen that there was a correlation between the chronology of the debate and iconographic development of all four main 'types' of the Trinity.

Corporates in the Digital Age

2019 ◽  
pp. 39-52
Author(s):  
Hammad Azzam
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Customer Experience ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Essential Factor ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Customer Interaction ◽  
The Way

A proposition for digital transformation of global groups into efficient enterprises is introduced. At the heart of the proposition is a transformational practice aimed at creating a customer-focused, data-driven global culture in any customer-serving company. The digital age has added a level of complexity to the way we acquire and serve customers. Doing a good job in the traditional channels is not enough anymore. Online is increasingly becoming the channel of choice with the two main customer-interaction paradigms: sell and service. And building a great customer experience is probably the most essential factor of success for both functions.

Holiness and Sanctity in the Early Church

2011 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Louth
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Early Period ◽  
The Other ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Western Society ◽  
The World ◽  
And Function ◽  
Holy Man ◽  
The Way

In 1971 Peter Brown published his justly famous article, ‘The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity’. It is no exaggeration to say that this article — and the host of articles and books that succeeded it — have transformed the way we think about saints and their cult in late antiquity. This change is part of a wider transformation of the study of the world of early Christianity, a change that has much to do with the changing, not to say declining, place of Christianity in Western society. The very words Peter Brown used in the title of his article are emblematic of this changed perspective: holy, man, late antiquity. Others have noted the change of words from what one might have expected, or from what one would have expected a few decades, even years, earlier. Averil Cameron spoke of Peter Brown ‘rightly avoiding the term “saint”, for in this early period there were no formal processes of sanctification, and no official bestowal of sainthood’. Put like that, it seems obvious why Brown talked about the ‘holy man’. I want to suggest that the nature of the change involved is much less easy to track down, and furthermore that awareness of the specific suggestions implicit in Brown’s choice of words will enable us to contemplate the world of late antiquity from the perspective Brown was largely inaugurating, while not losing the other perspectives that were implicit in the language and concepts laid aside.

The Rev. William Harte and Attitudes to Slavery in Early Nineteenth-Century Barbados

1979 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. T. Gilmore
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Christian Love ◽  
The Church ◽  
Slave Population ◽  
The Way

In St Mary's Church, Barbados, there is a monument to a curate who died in 1851, and ‘whose labours as a clergyman of the Church of England for fifty years were distinguished by talent, energy & faithfulness. His efforts were unceasing to make known the truths of the Gospel to all classes in this island. At an early period in his ministry he led the way in rescuing the then slave population from spiritual bondage and darkness. In this work of Christian love he was ever resolute, singlemin-ded, Sc uncompromising’. Mr Harte's claim to our interest is further increased when we learn that he was once prosecuted by the vestry of his parish for, among other things, teaching slaves ‘doctrines of equality inconsistent with their obedience to their masters’ and for comparing the white inhabitants of his parish to those of Sodom and Gomorrah, somewhat to the advantage of the latter.

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