scholarly journals Marie de l’Incarnation d’après Jean-Daniel Lafond : l’amour d’une sainte contre la barbarie actuelle

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-197
Author(s):  
Amandine Bonesso
Keyword(s):  
Film Maker ◽  
The Future ◽  
Autobiographical Texts ◽  
Biographical Tradition

Abstract The contribution examines the documentary Folle de Dieu (2008) and the play Marie de l'Incarnation ou La déraison d'amour (2009), Jean-Daniel Lafond’s adaptations of Marie de l’Incarnation’s (1599-1672) autobiographical texts. The study demonstrates that the two works, the last in a long biographical tradition, construe the nun’s life as a humanitarian model through the theme of love. In this manner, the film-maker encourages the current society not to give way to the bellicose violence of the last century and to rethink the future as a possible happiness.

Autohagiobiography

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley K. Storin
Keyword(s):  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Content Structure ◽  
The Past ◽  
Autobiographical Texts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Biographical Tradition

Over the past fourteen centuries, Gregory of Nazianzus (ca. 330–390 C.E.) has been the subject of more than a dozen biographical narratives and monographs, beginning with the late antique hagiography of Gregory the Presbyter and concluding with the modern biography by John McGuckin. This is likely the result of Gregory's vast autobiographical corpus, which has provided scholars with a chronological narrative and character perspective from which to start their own secondary narratives. By examining this tradition of biography, I argue that two trends remain regularly operative. First, each biographer has consistently endowed his subject with his own values, ideals, and theological commitments. Second, each biography has given pride of place to Gregory's autobiographical voice. To make a precise demonstration of the latter trend, I follow the notorious Maximus affair from its presentation in Gregory's autobiography and in the biographical tradition, showing how Gregory's narrative remains almost entirely intact and unscrutinized. Ultimately I contend that the generic boundaries between autobiography, hagiography, and biography have broken down and suggest that readers subject autobiographical texts, along with their content, structure, style, and narrative, to rhetorical analysis rather than treat them as texts that reveal, with varying degrees of transparency, the authentic personality of their author.

A Future Without Spectacle: A Refuge from Cultural Hegemony in Contemporary Art and Neo-Humanism

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Lynn MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
The State ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
Film Maker ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
Contemporary Artists

Abstract This paper explores possibilities for the future of popular culture. Central to the arguments in this paper, is the search for a remedy to a visual culture that has been left deconstructed and fragmented by a Western obsession with postmodernism. This paper begins with a discussion of Boris Groy’s “society of spectacle without spectators” (2012) and the ramifications of such an observation as homological to the state of contemporary art and the human subject. A discussion of the works of modern and contemporary artists is used to illustrate contemporary art’s metonymic relationship to the future of popular culture. Specific examples are explored such as German photographer and film maker Thomas Demand’s works that create a “critical fiction” Liljegren (2013) to highly engage the spectator and are juxtaposed with postmodern speculations such as Baudrillard’s simulacra.

scholarly journals Katherine Dunham and Maya Deren on ritual, modernity, and the African Diaspora

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-51
Author(s):  
Ramsay Burt
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Experimental Film ◽  
Modern Approach ◽  
Film Maker ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Katherine Dunham

In the early 1940s, Katherine Dunham engaged the future experimental film-maker Maya Deren to act as her secretary. In 1946 Deren wrote about the importance of ritual in her films, two of which had been made with dancers from Dunham’s company. The following year she made her first visit to Haiti to study and film voodoo rituals that had been the subject of Miss Dunham’s research. These rituals was then generally seen as a survival from a more ‘primitive’ stage of human development that modern educated people, like Dunham and Deren, were not supposed to believe in. This paper shows that Dunham and Deren each used their experiences of voodoo to define a modern approach to spirituality that was grounded in an Africanist approach to the dancing body that was very different from the idea of disembodied transcendence which runs through the European philosophical tradition.

scholarly journals INTERPRETIVE STRATEGIES USED FOR DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF ONE’S OWN EXPERIENCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iryna Kolobova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life Experience ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Temporal Orientation ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Analytical Strategy ◽  
The Future ◽  
Autobiographical Texts ◽  
Interpretive Strategies

The article examines strategies used for discursive construction of significant life events on the examples of women experienced divorce. Using the author's approach to the discursive analysis of autobiographical texts, we highlighted the specific features of event interpretation by such women. As a result of our study, we identified five main interpretive strategies used by these women for discursive construction of their experience: “dramatic”, “demonstrative”, “pragmatic”, “accusative” and “analytical”, which were examined from the following aspects: psycholinguistic (a narrator’s focus, communicative tonality of their texts), emotional (emotional load, a polarity of emotions), meaningful (area of meanings, meaningful and factual information), reflexive (meanings, senses, conclusions, ways of interpretation, attitudes), self-designing (the way of experience organization), intentional (a basic line of self-presentation, purposes of communication), regulatory (constructed links between the past and the future, planning of the future), motivational-value (a role and significance of marital relations in a woman's life). We demonstrated that these interpretive strategies used for discursive construction of examined women’s experience had clear specificity, due to the used methods objectifying textually their experience in divorce, discursive strategies and individual characteristics of meaning generation. According to our previous results, the “analytical” strategy is a more productive trend for interpretations of divorce. Thus, as for motivation and values, women preferring this strategy focuses on the values of the classical family due to highly structured life experience and its conversion into a narrate; as for regulation, they use a constructive spatial-temporal orientation, positive emotional background, an unbiased attitude to the Other, moderate involvement in the event and an optimistic perspective. If these factors are reduced, as it is characteristics for intermediate interpretive strategies, the integrity of self-narrative texts is breached, the semantic core is ruptured, factual information predominate over reflective, which generally leads to superficial destructive conclusions and negative prospects as for marriage. Keywords: experience, personal experience, discourse, discursive construction of experience, interpretive strategies, discursive text analysis.

International determination of the total motion of the pole

1961 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Wm. Markowitz
Keyword(s):  
Secular Motion ◽  
The Future

A symposium on the future of the International Latitude Service (I. L. S.) is to be held in Helsinki in July 1960. My report for the symposium consists of two parts. Part I, denoded (Mk I) was published [1] earlier in 1960 under the title “Latitude and Longitude, and the Secular Motion of the Pole”. Part II is the present paper, denoded (Mk II).

Status of the Lick Proper Motion Program

1978 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 387-388
Author(s):  
A. R. Klemola
Keyword(s):  
Proper Motion ◽  
The Future

Second-epoch photographs have now been obtained for nearly 850 of the 1246 fields of the proper motion program with centers at declination -20° and northwards. For the sky at 0° and northward only 130 fields remain to be taken in the next year or two. The 270 southern fields with centers at -5° to -20° remain for the future.

Some Structural Features of Metaphase Chromosomes of Mice and Men

1967 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 190-191
Author(s):  
Godfrey C. Hoskins ◽  
Betty B. Hoskins
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Electron Micrographs ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Metaphase Chromosomes ◽  
The Future ◽  
Of Mice And Men ◽  
Mouse Cells ◽  
Human And Mouse

Metaphase chromosomes from human and mouse cells in vitro are isolated by micrurgy, fixed, and placed on grids for electron microscopy. Interpretations of electron micrographs by current methods indicate the following structural features.Chromosomal spindle fibrils about 200Å thick form fascicles about 600Å thick, wrapped by dense spiraling fibrils (DSF) less than 100Å thick as they near the kinomere. Such a fascicle joins the future daughter kinomere of each metaphase chromatid with those of adjacent non-homologous chromatids to either side. Thus, four fascicles (SF, 1-4) attach to each metaphase kinomere (K). It is thought that fascicles extend from the kinomere poleward, fray out to let chromosomal fibrils act as traction fibrils against polar fibrils, then regroup to join the adjacent kinomere.

Freeze-fracture cytochemistry: A goal set by Russell Steere in 1957

1993 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 60-61
Author(s):  
Nicholas J Severs
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Nature ◽  
Biological Systems ◽  
Freeze Fracture ◽  
Structural Components ◽  
Major Goal ◽  
Membrane Biology ◽  
Routine Application ◽  
The Future ◽  
Freeze Etching

In his pioneering demonstration of the potential of freeze-etching in biological systems, Russell Steere assessed the future promise and limitations of the technique with remarkable foresight. Item 2 in his list of inherent difficulties as they then stood stated “The chemical nature of the objects seen in the replica cannot be determined”. This defined a major goal for practitioners of freeze-fracture which, for more than a decade, seemed unattainable. It was not until the introduction of the label-fracture-etch technique in the early 1970s that the mould was broken, and not until the following decade that the full scope of modern freeze-fracture cytochemistry took shape. The culmination of these developments in the 1990s now equips the researcher with a set of effective techniques for routine application in cell and membrane biology.Freeze-fracture cytochemical techniques are all designed to provide information on the chemical nature of structural components revealed by freeze-fracture, but differ in how this is achieved, in precisely what type of information is obtained, and in which types of specimen can be studied.

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