scholarly journals Monstrous Architecture and the Architect's Monster : Discovering Meaning in Architecture Through Critical Engagement and Intellectual Discourse

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean MacLean
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Discourse ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Literature And Film ◽  
Critical Process

The purpose of this thesis is to engage architecture, explore it through an imaginative process, with inventive forms of realism, and use architecture as a vehicle to engage design in a critical process. It will open the opportunity for discourse on the subject of monster. Not monsters under the bed or the ones hiding in the closet awaiting some unsuspecting child, but the breed that offers a discussion or commentary on a particular event, idea, or era. The monster is a way to demonstrate, "to show", and at the same time be explicit in meaning and representation. The Latin roots of the word monster links monstrum with monere, "to remind or warn", it is a "sign or an omen". It is said, that monsters are great signifiers, and in doing so, portray protagonists out of the ordinary. Literature and film are two very strong ways to employ the idea of monster as a narrative, and this thesis will reveal this tactic in architecture.

scholarly journals Monstrous Architecture and the Architect's Monster : Discovering Meaning in Architecture Through Critical Engagement and Intellectual Discourse

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean MacLean
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Discourse ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Literature And Film ◽  
Critical Process

The purpose of this thesis is to engage architecture, explore it through an imaginative process, with inventive forms of realism, and use architecture as a vehicle to engage design in a critical process. It will open the opportunity for discourse on the subject of monster. Not monsters under the bed or the ones hiding in the closet awaiting some unsuspecting child, but the breed that offers a discussion or commentary on a particular event, idea, or era. The monster is a way to demonstrate, "to show", and at the same time be explicit in meaning and representation. The Latin roots of the word monster links monstrum with monere, "to remind or warn", it is a "sign or an omen". It is said, that monsters are great signifiers, and in doing so, portray protagonists out of the ordinary. Literature and film are two very strong ways to employ the idea of monster as a narrative, and this thesis will reveal this tactic in architecture.

Der fatale Blick in den Spiegel – Zum Zusammenhang von Medialität und Reflexivität

2010 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Jahraus
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Specular Reflections ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Literature And Film

Der Beitrag untersucht den Zusammenhang von Reflexivität und Medialität (das, was ein Medium zum Medium macht), indem er die Idee der Reflexion an den konkreten Formen von Spiegelungen in Literatur und Film wie zum Beispiel Doppelgänger oder Figurenspaltungen darstellt. Dabei zeigt sich, daß jedes Medium autoreflexiv verfasst ist und daß die Vorstellung von Subjektivität seit dem 18. Jahrhundert selbst auf diesem Zusammenspiel von Reflexivität und Medialität beruht. Das Subjekt gilt demnach als reflexiver Effekt der Medialität, wie es an einer Betrachtung von Foucaults berühmter Meninas-Interpretation nachverfolgt werden kann.<br><br>This article analyses the relation between reflexivity and mediality (what makes a medium a medium) by presenting concrete situations of optical and specular reflections in literature and film, such as doubles (Doppelgänger) and split figures. Thus it can be shown that since the 18th century every medium is self-reflexive and that the concept of subjectivity has its basis in the interplay of reflexivity and mediality. The subject is an effect of medialitity as may be demonstrated by a new recapitulation of Foucault’s famous Meninas-interpretation.

Trusts & Equity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Watt
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
Literature And Film

This book provides a detailed and conceptual analysis of trusts and equity; concentrating on those areas of the subject that are most relevant in the contemporary arena, such as the commercial context. It utilizes expertise in teaching, writing, and researching to enliven the text with helpful analogies and memorable references to extra-legal sources such as history, literature, and film. In this way, the book also stimulates students to engage critically with concepts. This new edition includes coverage of significant recent cases, including decisions of the Supreme Court on the nature of a trust in relation to third parties (Akers v. Samba Financial Group [2017]), the right to recover wealth transferred between parties to an illegal scheme (Patel v. Mirza [2016]) and on the distinction between contractual debt and constructive trust (Bailey v. Angove’s PTY Ltd [2016]). Further reading and discussion of anticipated reforms has been updated throughout in light of the latest legal developments.

scholarly journals Interpreting social issues: Museum theatre’s potential for critical engagement

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niki Nikonanou ◽  
Foteini Venieri
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Museum Education ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Communities ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Museum Theatre ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Sensitive Issues ◽  
The City

Museum theatre and its potential within museum education is explored at the Museum Education and Research Laboratory at the University of Thessaly, Greece. There, the leading research project Museums and Education: methods of approaching and interpreting museum objects’aims to address how, over the last few decades, museum theatre has been in ever-increasing use to vocalize the sensitive issues of a multicultural society and marginalized social communities. Recent studies highlight museum theatre evoking empathy and critical engagement in the audience with the subject-matter of the performance. One such performance was organized by the School of Drama at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and studied in depth. Titled Voices of the City: Historical Routes through Theatre, the performance embodied controversial social issues, and its implementation was evaluated using qualitative methodology to examine the responses of visitors.

Recognition

Metagnosis ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 165-199
Author(s):  
Danielle Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Real World ◽  
Speculative Fiction ◽  
Blade Runner ◽  
Theory And Criticism ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Literature And Film ◽  
Century Science

This chapter begins Part III: Seeing Metagnosis, which explores the narrative arc of metagnosis itself, including the stages of recognition, subversion, and renegotiation. Here the subject is recognition, the first metagnostic stage. Beginning with the model of passing, it traces experiences and forms of recognition through real-world examples as well as those drawn from speculative fiction literature and film, particularly Blade Runner. Drawing upon recognition’s conceptualization—from Aristotle to twentieth-century science fiction editors to literary theory and criticism—it describes a form of misrecognition which characterizes, too, the experience of metagnosis, in which the terms of knowledge have shifted.

Fluchtraum Europa

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Interdisciplinary Character ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Literature And Film ◽  
Historical Case Studies

With its interdisciplinary character, this volume provides a multifaceted overview of flight, refuge and displacement in the context of Europe, spanning the period from antiquity to the present. Its basic chapters illuminate the legal background to the subject and refer to historical discourse connections. By means of historical case studies and the use of the topic of flight in literature and film, the contributions the book contains sketch the contours of Europe as a space of flight and refuge and the research perspectives associated with it. With contributions by Rainer Hudemann, Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen, Thomas Giegerich, Justus Nipperdey, Dietmar Hüser, Mechthild Gilzmer, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Peter Riemer, Christiane Solte-Gresser, Christoph Vatter, Romana Weiershausen, Astrid M. Fellner, Joshua Bechtold, Ines Funk, Nils Pendl

scholarly journals Aestheticism versus Utilitarianism: The Reception of the “Tragic” in 1930s Chinese Literary Discourse

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-82
Author(s):  
Tian Gu
Keyword(s):  
Decisive Role ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Literary Practice ◽  
Literature And Politics ◽  
Intellectual Discourse ◽  
Theory To Practice ◽  
Chinese Intellectual ◽  
The Subject

This study examines the construction of the Chinese literary discourse on tragedy in the 1930s, when the intertwining connections between literature and politics left a noticeable influence on the Chinese understanding of the concept. It approaches the subject from three angles: first, it reviews both theoretical discussions of the concept of tragedy and the literary practice of the tragic, exploring possible factors that have either promoted or prevented the application of theory to practice. Second, it traces the changing relationship between pragmatic and aesthetic perspectives during the formation of the Chinese intellectual discourse on tragedy, analysing its relevance to the inextricable link between literature and politics in the 1930s. Thirdly, it investigates the differences between the Chinese perception of tragedy and its foreign origins, presenting the constant interplay among several cultural, social, and political elements that affected the establishment of the 1930s Chinese tragic tradition. In doing so, this study demonstrates the particular features of the Chinese perception of the tragic in the 1930s, as well as the decisive role that socio-political factors played in manipulating the intellectual practices at the time.

Ideological Identities in Afghanistan: A Critical Examination of the Emergence of “Singular” Identities before the Soviet Occupation

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 180-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mujib Abid
Keyword(s):  
Critical Examination ◽  
Significant Power ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Level Of Significance

People are multi-identited subject to multiple layers of identities, some more pronounced than others. The level of significance attached to each identity is dependent on different factors, among them spatiality and temporality. In extreme cases, one identity is brought to the forefront of all others, potentially at the expense of all others. For such shuffling and reshuffling to take place, often a choice is made by the subject/object. This space for choice and agency could be minimized, influenced by others, or simply rendered nonexistent by those who are willing and wield significant power. This article examines the adoption of singular identities by the Afghans who took part in the Jihad and became Mujahidin, an American-supported insurgency that resisted Soviet occupation and its satellite state in Kabul in the 1980s. This paper argues that the space for deliberation and critical engagement by potential recruits was organized in such a way that little to no scrutiny was allowed when inviting potential recruits to adopt the mantle of the Mujahid. Safeguarding Afghanistan’s independence, introduction of radical Islamism, and deliberate targeting of specific parts of the populace, is fundamental to that intervention.

scholarly journals The sweet trade revived

2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 91-97
Author(s):  
Kris Lane
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cultural Relativism ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Charles Johnson ◽  
Yale University ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Literature And Film ◽  
Selection Of

[First paragraph]Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger. ULRIKE KLAUSMANN, MARION MEINZERIN & GABRIEL KUHN. New York: Black Rose Books, 1997. x + 280 pp. (Paper US$ 23.99)Pirates! Brigands, Buccaneers, and Privateers in Fact, Fiction, and Legend. JAN ROGOZINSKI. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996. xvi + 398 pp. (Paper US$ 19.95)Sir Francis Drake: The Queens Pirate. HARRY KELSEY. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998, xviii + 566 pp. (Cloth US$ 35.00)A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates. CAPT. CHARLES JOHNSON (edited and with introduction by DAVID CORDINGLY). New York: Lyons Press. 1998 [Orig. 1724]. xiv + 370 pp. (Cloth US$ 29.95)The subject of piracy lends itself to giddy jokes about parrots and wooden legs, but also talk of politics, law, cultural relativism, and of course Hollywood. This selection of new books on piracy in the Caribbean and beyond touches on all these possibilities and more. They include a biography of the ever-controversial Elizabethan corsair, Francis Drake; an encyclopedia of piracy in history, literature, and film; a reissued classic eighteenth-century pirate prosopography; and an anarchist-feminist political tract inspired by history and legend. If nothing else, this pot-pourri of approaches to piracy should serve as a reminder that the field of pirate studies is not only alive and well, but gaining new ground.

scholarly journals Uncovering Cinematic Adaptations of James Joyce’s The Dead

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Pegah Marandi ◽  
Alireza Anushiravani
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Subject ◽  
John Huston ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Literature And Film ◽  
Culture And Language

The relationship between literature and film is the subject of plentiful analyses and reflections within the general framework of Comparative Literature. A comparison between a literary work and its adaptations shows how filmmakers adhere to the principles of intertextuality. Exploring various adaptations of James Joyce’s The Dead (1914) and comparing them against each other are the main objectives of this research. This study examines how John Huston (1987), Travis Mills and William Ivey Long (2013) adapted James Joyce’s The Dead (1914) culturally, geopolitically, and sociologically. This study demonstrated that Huston’s adaptation was faithful to Joyce’s text in terms of character, costume, culture, and language, whereas Mills and Long’s adaptation was not fully loyal to Joyce especially in terms of character and culture. However, Mills and Long have attempted to create a language similar to Joyce’s. Further, consciousness and interior thoughts as subtle issues precisely shown in the novel were not illustrated wholly in both adaptations. Huston’s creativity was maintained in the last scene, picturing Gabriel’s monologue, whereas Mills and Long’s creativity was shown in creating new postmodern characters and culture. 

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