Trickster Narratives and Carnivalesque Intermediality in Contemporary Romanian Cinema

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-126
Author(s):  
Christina Stojanova
Keyword(s):  
Visual Media ◽  
Home Video ◽  
Representative Selection ◽  
Romanian Cinema ◽  
Selection Of

Based on similarities in Mikhail Bakhtin's and Carl Gustav Jung's ideas about dialogism, this chapter discusses the inclusion of sequences featuring heterogenic audio-visual media of conspicuously lower quality – the shooting of a film, TV reportage, a home video – in representative selection of films by veteran Romanian directors Mircea Daneliuc and Lucian Pintilie, as well as in films by Corneliu Porumboiu and Gabriel Achim from the New Romanian Cinema generation. The chapter then argues that the resultant intermedial carnivalesque, or trickster narrative, is facilitated by a Trickster figure, usually a director's stand-in of ambiguous cultural, ideological and ethical repute. This self-reflexive and meta-médiatique versatility of Trickster narratives, the chapter concludes, have proven time and again to be superb vehicles for cinematic encoding, which explains the fascination of Romanian film auteurs with tricksterish re-enactments and intermedial carnivalesque.

Amphoras in the Apollonia Museum Store

1981 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 75-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Riley
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean Region ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Agricultural Produce ◽  
Representative Selection ◽  
Coarse Wares ◽  
Selection Of

The store rooms of the Department of Antiquities at Apollonia contain pottery from excavations at Apollonia and Ras el Hilal, together with a few stray finds from other sites (including some from the sea collected by the Royal Air Force Aqualung Society in the 1950s and early 1960s). The bulk of this material dates in the later Roman period (i.e. sixth century A.D. onwards), but includes a little earlier Roman and some Hellenistic pottery. There is a representative selection of coarse wares, including amphoras, as yet unpublished. These are mainly in fragmentary condition but their typological range conforms with that from the well stratified and dated excavations at Berenice-Benghazi (Riley, in press).Publication of the more complete of these amphoras seems justified as there is a relative scarcity of published information on Roman amphoras from the eastern Mediterranean, at a time when many eastern types are being recognised in western Mediterranean excavated contexts (Panella, 1974; Hayes, 1976a; Riley, 1981). In addition, a brief consideration of the other amphoras helps to illustrate the diversity of trade in liquid agricultural produce within the eastern Mediterranean region. No locally made amphoras were noted on the Apollonia stone: all were imported into Cyrenaica.The Hellenistic period is represented by Rhodian (Inv. Nos. 321, 322 and 1582) and Knidian (Inv. Nos. 141 and 723) amphora fragments. There are several sherds of early Imperial amphoras, and attention has been drawn to these by Panella (1974). These include a first to second century A.D. Aegean type (ibid., 477, Ostia Form LXIII; Apollonia Box 2036, from Ras el Hilal); a Spanish garum amphora of the same period (ibid., 513, Ostia Form LXIII; Apollonia Inv. No. 256); several Tripolitanian amphoras of the first and second centuries A.D. (ibid., 562, Ostia Form LXIV; Apollonia Inv. Nos. 253, 254, 315 and 317); and a common Aegean amphora of the third and fourth centuries A.D. (ibid., 597, Ostia Form VI).

scholarly journals Cultural codes in the iconography of St Nicholas (Santa Claus)

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-144
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Haładewicz-Grzelak
Keyword(s):  
Public Culture ◽  
Eastern Christianity ◽  
Santa Claus ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Representative Selection ◽  
Selection Of

This paper examines some aspects of the cultural codes implied in the iconography of St Nicholas (Santa Claus). The argument posits the iconography of St Nicholas as a vessel for capturing meanings and accumulating them in the construction of public culture. The discussion begins from the earliest developments of the Christian era and proceeds to contemporary depictions (imagology). The study is conducted on the basis of a representative selection of renditions of Saint Nicholas, including 350 pictures of medieval representations (Western and Eastern Christianity), folk extensions and secular representations and it is theoretically grounded in the Tartu School of semiotics.

scholarly journals A systematic series of synthetic chromophoric substrates for aspartic proteinases

1986 ◽  
Vol 237 (3) ◽  
pp. 899-906 ◽  
Author(s):  
B M Dunn ◽  
M Jimenez ◽  
B F Parten ◽  
M J Valler ◽  
C E Rolph ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structure Function ◽  
Peptide Bond ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Animal Origin ◽  
Aspartic Proteinases ◽  
Peptide Substrates ◽  
Representative Selection ◽  
Micro Organisms ◽  
Hydrolysis Of ◽  
Selection Of

The hydrolysis of the chromogenic peptide Pro-Thr-Glu-Phe-Phe(4-NO2)-Arg-Leu at the Phe-Phe(4-NO2) bond by nine aspartic proteinases of animal origin and seven enzymes from micro-organisms is described [Phe(4-NO2) is p-nitro-L-phenylalanine]. A further series of six peptides was synthesized in which the residue in the P3 position was systematically varied from hydrophobic to hydrophilic. The Phe-Phe(4-NO2) bond was established as the only peptide bond cleaved, and kinetic constants were obtained for the hydrolysis of these peptide substrates by a representative selection of aspartic proteinases of animal and microbial origin. The value of these water-soluble substrates for structure-function investigations is discussed.

Indexing Defoe

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-14
Author(s):  
Douglas Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Daniel Defoe ◽  
The Political ◽  
Original Publication ◽  
Representative Selection ◽  
Selection Of

The extensive and varied writings of Daniel Defoe have long been esteemed by historians for their commentaries on the political and social life of the late 17 th and early 18th centuries, but many have not been available since their original publication. A new multi-volume edition of a rich and representative selection of these works is now in progress, and is being issued with detailed editorial notes and full analytical indexes.

Between Orthodoxy and Enlightenment

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-26
Author(s):  
Paul Helm
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Church Of Scotland ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Representative Selection ◽  
Adult Lives ◽  
The Church ◽  
Selection Of

This chapter is an attempt to gauge the theology of the Church of Scotland in the first half of the eighteenth century by considering a representative selection of theological writers of that period. Each of those considered—Thomas Blackwell, Robert Riccaltoun, and Thomas Halyburton—held parish ministries, two them for most of their adult lives, and two of them held chairs of theology. Distinct personalities, each upheld the position of the Westminster Standards con animo. Yet each reveal in their different ways an awareness of changes that the Enlightenment was bringing, calling for adaptation to the literary form of theology, or in its apologetic direction.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Larry E. Morris
Keyword(s):  
American History ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
First Person ◽  
Book Of Mormon ◽  
Primary Documents ◽  
Representative Selection ◽  
Selection Of

Ever since the summer of 1829, when newspapers began announcing the forthcoming publication of the Book of Mormon, that text has been the object of both praise and ridicule, a situation that shows no signs of easing almost two hundred years later. Scholars agree, however, that understanding the primary documents surrounding the origin of the Book of Mormon is essential to understanding its significance in American history. This volume presents a representative selection of those source documents, emphasizing first-person accounts produced close to the time of the events in question. Embracing such values as balance, fairness, openness, integrity, and the willingness to be self-critical, the introductions and annotation accompanying each document set the events in their historical context.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES AND TECHNICAL DETAILS

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 25-26
Keyword(s):  
National Archives ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
Technical Details ◽  
Representative Selection ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Selection Of

Volume I of British Envoys to the Kaiserreich comprises a selection of official reports on Germany and Anglo-German relations sent to the Foreign Office from the diplomatic missions in Berlin, Darmstadt, Dresden, Stuttgart, and Munich between 1871 and 1883. All originals are held in the National Archives, Kew. As in the preceding series, British Envoys to Germany, the selection is based on the quality, originality of perspective, and informative value of the dispatches as well as on a balance between the individual missions. While not aiming to present a representative selection of letters from each mission, the edition is intended to cover the major developments of the period and present as multifaceted a picture of British perceptions of Germany as possible.

The Third Programme and Hans Pfitzner

Tempo ◽  
1953 ◽  
pp. 19-20
Author(s):  
Donald Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Double Bass ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
Representative Selection ◽  
The Right ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
A Performance

One of the brightest of the Third Programme's recent efforts was the presentation of a little festival of Pfitzner's music. “Little,” perhaps, may be not quite the right word for however short a series of programmes which included the whole of Palestrina (1912–1915), but it must be remembered that Pfitzner wrote four other operas besides this celebrated chef-d'oeuvre—Der arme Heinrich (1891–93), Die Rose vom Liebesgarten (1897–1900), Das Christelflein (1906, revised 1917), and Das Herz (1930–31). The B.B.C. gave us no glimpse of these other operas, although round about Christmas of each year one of their regional orchestras undertakes the overture to Das Christelflein as an appropriately seasonal piece. For this festival occasion, the B.B.C, in addition to Palestrina, threw in a song recital and a performance of Pfitzner's last chamber work, the Sextet (Op. 55/1945) for piano, violin, viola, cello, double-bass and clarinet. These two latter items may have been well-intentioned choices, but, notwithstanding, they were extremely ill chosen. The Third Programme—as, alas, so often—was either wrongly advised, or simply did not have any (skilled) advice to call upon. For instance, the six songs, ably performed by Mary Jarred, belonged to Pfitzner's earliest period—the latest “Lied”" was Sonst (Op. 15, no. 4), composed in 1904, and most of the other songs were written in the 1880's or 90's. But Pfitzner's output of “Lieder” extends to the 1930's and up to Op. 41—and his maturest and best songs are to be found in the years which the B.B.C. did not remotely approach! Incidentally, no opus numbers were printed in the Radio Times or announced over the air, so that as far as the uninformed listener was concerned he was hearing a “representative” selection of Pfitzner's “Lieder”; in fact, of course, he was hearing nothing of the kind.

scholarly journals 14C Dating Compared to Art Historical Dating of Roman and Coptic Textiles from Egypt

Radiocarbon ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Van Strydonck ◽  
Antoine De Moor ◽  
Dominique Bénazeth
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Interquartile Range ◽  
14C Dating ◽  
Art Historians ◽  
Representative Selection ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Individual Objects

A representative selection of Roman and Coptic textiles is used to compare the radiocarbon dating results with the chronology proposed by art historians. In some cases, the comparison was made on individual objects, but in other cases, groups of stylistically and/or technologically related textiles were compared. In the case of the latter, the interquartile range was calculated. The results of this comparison show that some individual samples and groups are dated older than expected, while for another group the opposite is the case. One group was matching well with the presumed period as a whole, but not on the basis of the individual pieces. The analyses showed the necessity of 14C dating to obtain a more accurate dating of Coptic textiles.

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