Reading Dylan Thomas

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
First Century ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
War Films ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Dylan Thomas ◽  
The Many

Reclining quietly with a book; an ear glued to the Hi-Fi; sifting a library stack; the TV flickering; a website gone live… Few poets have inspired such remarkable scenes and modes of interpretation as Dylan Thomas. Our means of access and response to his work have never been more eclectic, and this collection sheds new light on what it means to ‘read’ such a various art. In thinking beyond the parameters of life writing and lingering interpretative communities, Reading Dylan Thomas attends in detail to the problems and pleasures of deciphering Thomas in the twenty-first century, teasing out his debts and effects, tracing his influence on later artists, and suggesting ways to understand his own idiosyncratic reading practices. From short stories to memoirs, poems to broadcasts, letters to war films, manuscripts to paintings, the material considered in this volume lays the ground for a new consideration of Thomas’s formal versatility, and his distinctive relation to the many kinds of media that constitute literary modernism.

scholarly journals “Obligations to Negroes who would be kin if they were not Negro”

Daedalus ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 140 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-153
Author(s):  
Werner Sollors
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
African American ◽  
First Century ◽  
Half Century ◽  
African American Authors ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
American Authors

The 1965/1966 Dcedalus issues on “The Negro American” reveal how America's racial future was imagined nearly a half-century ago, and at least one of the prophecies - voiced by sociologist Everett C. Hughes - found its fulfillment in an unexpected way at President Obama's inauguration in 2009. Short stories by Amina Gautier (“Been Meaning to Say” and “Pan is Dead”), Heidi Durrow's novel The Girl WhoFellfrom the Sky, plays by Thomas Bradshaw (Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist and Cleansed), and poems by Terrance Hayes (“For Brothers and the Dragon” and “The Avocado”) suggest trends in recent works by African American authors who began their publishing careers in the twenty-first century.

James Baldwin

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
American History ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
First Century ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Twenty First Century

The book is devoted to the works of James Baldwin, one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. The authors examine his most important contributions – including novels, essays, short stories, poetry, and media appearances – in the wider context of American history. They demonstrate the lasting importance of his oeuvre, which was central to the Civil Rights Movement and continues to be relevant at the dawn of the twenty-first century and the Black Lives Matter era.

scholarly journals Fiction Strengthens Research: A Review of Patricia Leavy's Fiction as Research Practice: Short Stories, Novellas, and Novels

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Real Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Research Writing ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century Skills

Arts-based research (ABR) is a form of qualitative research that includes genres such as poetry, music, theatrical scripts, visual art, novels, and short stories. Fiction-based research is one type of ABR that utilizes the strength of fiction to connect with readers and to portray real life and genuine human experiences. The author, Patricia Leavy, wrote a text that thoroughly explains the meaning and evaluation of fiction-based research. In addition, she provides exemplar pieces and uses her eight criteria to assess the research. Lastly, the text explains why fiction is an important pedagogy to use with students. Twenty-first century skills and love of research, writing, and reading are important components to fiction-based research.

scholarly journals Remarks on the migration crisis as a challenge to the European Union in the twenty-first century

2019 ◽  
pp. 153-158
Author(s):  
Andrzej Sakson
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
First Century ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The West ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Eu

Among the many crises tormenting the Old Continent, the course and consequences of the migration crisis that began in 2015 are particularly noteworthy. There following issues should be highlighted: – the migration crisis manifests the internal weakness of the EU, since it has not been predicted, effectively neutralized nor managed properly; – the migration crisis has produced a division inside the EU; – the migration crisis has led to internal political and social crises in many EU countries; – the migration crisis has produced far-reaching outcomes (such as increased populism and xenophobia, division of Europe into the East and the West).

scholarly journals Deleuze Becoming-Mary Poppins: Re-Imagining the Concept of Becoming-Woman and Its Potential for Challenging Current Notions of Parenting, Gender and Childhood

Humanities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Donna Carlyle ◽  
Kay Sidebottom
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Gender Performativity ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
War Machine ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Many ◽  
Post Humanism

In this paper, we consider the major and controversial lexicon of Deleuze’s ‘becoming-woman’ and what an alternative re-working of this concept might look like through the story of Mary Poppins. In playfully exploring the many interesting aspects of Travers’ character, with her classic tale about the vagaries of parenting, we attempt to highlight how reading Mary Poppins through the Deleuzian lens of ‘becoming-woman’ opens up possibilities, not limitations, in terms of feminist perspectives. In initially resisting the ‘Disneyfication’ of Mary Poppins, Travers offered insights and opportunities which we revisit and consider in terms of how this fictional character can significantly disrupt ideas of gender performativity. We endeavour to accentuate how one of its themes not only dismantles the patriarchy in 1910 but also has significant traction in the twenty- first century. We also put forth the idea of Mary Poppins as an icon of post-humanism, a nomadic war machine, with her robotic caring, magic powers and literal flights of fancy, to argue how she ironically holds the dual position of representing the professionalisation of parenting and the need to move beyond a Dionysian view of children as in need of control and regulation, as well as that of nurturer and emancipator. Indeed, in her many contradictions, we suggest a nomadic Mary Poppins can offer a route into the ideas of Deleuze and his view of children as de-territorialising forces and activators of change.

scholarly journals Informacja jako arché – czyli zarys koncepcji dataizmu Yuvala Noaha Harariego

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 17-40
Author(s):  
Maciej Kryszczuk ◽  
Kamil Szymański
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
The Future ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Many

The authors discuss Yuval Noah Harari’s concept of dataism, which is part of a wider stream of debate on the future of civilization. Depending on the analytical perspective and the type of narration, dataism has been characterized as a kind of faith, an ideology, a worldview, or a set of (conscious) attitudes for which information is a kind of arche. The popularizer of the concept, the anthropologist Yuval Harari, argues that acts of dataism are a useful praxis of the twenty-first century, consisting in the deliberate – but also partly involuntary – entrusting of one’s life affairs (and not only) to algorithms that process data from popular digital devices such as a smartphone. Among the many significant effects thors point to changes in the spheres of work and capital which to produce a profound political and moral revolution.

Brazilian Videodance

2016 ◽  
pp. 104-124
Author(s):  
Leonel Brum
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
First Century ◽  
New Work ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Many

This chapter reflects on some of the most important transformations that contributed to the development of Brazilian videodance. Proposing a feasible mapping of the many works considered to be the most emblematic in the last four decades, the study identifies three generations of creators, starting in the 1970s with Analívia Cordeiro, the next two decades with videodance festivals like Carlton Dance, and culminating in the twenty-first century with numerous artists, choreographers, and producers, and especially the project dança em foco. This videodance scene is in a constant process of transformation that needs to be investigated aesthetically, politically, and conceptually, in dialogue with ideas stemming from some of the most important Brazilian scholars in the areas of video and dance. This chapter also develops an approach to how videodance (re)invents the relation between video and dance with each new work, while additionally assessing how these works resonate within contemporary art contexts.

scholarly journals The poverty of numbers: reflections on the legitimacy of global development indicators

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morag Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
First Century ◽  
Global Development ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Development Institutions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global North ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Many

AbstractIt is no surprise that development institutions and actors have taken to indicators with such enthusiasm. Where indicators are both a form of knowledge production and simultaneously a technology of governance, they are a form of soft powers that allow such actors to set the standards for what it is to be developed in the twenty-first century. Such measures of civilisation have been dominant throughout a history of Global North–South encounters: measurement was central to the many forms of colonial control, from map-making to craniometry, to the global ‘discovery’ of poverty in the 1940s. This paper seeks to place development indicators in this colonial context by focusing on the issue of comparability or the global claim that underpins global development indicators.

Introduction

Husserl ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
John J. Drummond ◽  
Otfried Höffe
Keyword(s):  
Edmund Husserl ◽  
Transcendental Phenomenology ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
First Century ◽  
Viable Alternative ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
Philosophical Movement ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Many

Edmund Husserl, generally regarded as the founding figure of the philosophical movement of phenomenology—or, more precisely, transcendental phenomenology—exerted an enormous influence on the course of twentieth-and twenty-first-century philosophy. This influence was both positive and negative. The subsequent developments of, for example, existentialism, hermeneutics, and deconstruction were defined in part by how they both assimilated and departed from Husserlian views. The course of what has come to be called “continental philosophy” cannot be described without reference to this assimilation and departure and, among the many successor approaches, phenomenology remains a viable alternative. In addition, problems addressed by Husserl—most notably, intentionality, consciousness, the emotions, and ethics—are of central concern in so-called analytic philosophy. So, Husserl’s views remain central to many contemporary philosophical discussions....

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