scholarly journals Elements of Trauma Fiction in Jonathan Safran Foer’s "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"

Linguaculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-76
Author(s):  
Constantin Ilaș
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Trauma Fiction

Trauma fiction was one of the most written types of literature in America in the wake of 9/11. Not a very popular genre due to the sensitive subject matter it can contain, the trauma of 9/11 contributed significantly to its resurgence, especially in New York. Jonathan Safran Foer is one of the youngest and also most talented writers in New York. Known for his daring and innovative style, his novel, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, is unique among other works of its genre. It deals with multiple plotlines and different historical traumas presented against the backdrop of 9/11, concerning itself primarily with the victims of the tragedy and their attempts to reconstruct their lives. Moreover, it explores the ways in which different generations can come together and help each other overcome their respective traumas, emphasizing the importance of unity and solidarity between people of all ages and mindsets.

Nobody Mean More to Me Than You And the Future Life of Willie Jordan

1988 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
June Jordan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Black English ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
World Views ◽  
Controversial Subject ◽  
The Future ◽  
June Jordan

Progressive teachers often face the problem of making education in the schools relevant to life outside of the schools. They are confronted regularly with the challenge of introducing controversial subject matter that often forces students to examine critically their values and world views, and their positions in this society. In this essay, June Jordan describes the experiences in her undergraduate course on Black English in which both she and her students mounted the charge of making education and schooling truly relevant and useful when they decided to mobilize themselves on behalf of a Black classmate whose unarmed brother had been killed by White police officers in Brooklyn, New York. The Editors have decided to reprint this essay because of its particular relevance to the theme of this Special Issue. We wish to thank June Jordan for granting us permission to reprint her essay in our pages.

scholarly journals Era of exploration and new topographics : annotated bibliographies of two landmark exhibitions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Roger
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
American West ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Landscape Photography ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
Before And After ◽  
New Topographics ◽  
Western Landscape

In 1975, two landscape photography exhibitions were held concurrently in upstate New York; Era of Exploration: The Rise of Landscape Photography in the American West, 1860-1885, at Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery and New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape, at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, in Rochester (now The George Eastman International Museum of Photography and Film). Era of Exploration treated nineteenth-century landscapes of the American West while New Topographics addressed contemporary landscape practices. Though applying fundamentally different approaches to their subject matter, each exhibition proved to be extremely important to the understanding and development of not only landscape photography, but also the genre's place in photographic history. This thesis examines the essential literature relating to these two landmark exhibitions, through the construction of two extensive annotated bibliographies. Each bibliography comprises nine sections that present and evaluate significant materials, published both before and after the exhibition, relating to the exhibitions and their publications, the included photographers, and the exhibitions' influence as revealed in subsequent specialized studies and general histories of photography. The bibliographies' chronological listing allows readers to re-construct the exhibitions, and to trace the development of historical and curatorial interest in the exhibitions, the photographers, and American western landscape photography. The thesis describes the process of compiling and annotating this literature and offers reflections on how these two important exhibitions, while employing very different curatorial approaches, influenced the aesthetics, methodologies and concepts of landscape photography.

scholarly journals Recognition and Enforcement of Annulled Foreign Arbitral Awards in the Country of Origin under the 1958 New York Convention: the US and French Approaches

Teisė ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 147-154
Author(s):  
Yunus Emre Ay
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Relevant Article ◽  
National Courts ◽  
The Us ◽  
Recognition And Enforcement ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New York Convention

The recognition and enforcement of annulled foreign arbitral awards in the country of origin under the 1958 New York Convention is subject to doctrinal discussions. A relevant article of the1958 New York Convention become the subject matter of many cases in some large economies. These cases and doctrinal views are very important for other countries that did not host such a case before their national courts. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the relevant article of the 1958 New York Convention and compare delocalization and territorial theories.

Review Article:“Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience”

1988 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 514-518
Author(s):  
Winthrop S. Hudson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Good Index ◽  
Major Reference

The publication of a major reference work in any field of interest is always a welcome event. The three-volume Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience: Studies of Traditions and Movements, edited by Charles H. Lippy and Peter W. Williams (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988), is no exception. It is welcome for the authoritative up-to-date information it supplies, and it is doubly welcome for its new conception in design, format, and scope. Unlike many encyclopedias, it is not an alphabetical compendium of many brief entries dealing with narrowly defined topics or very specific items. Instead, this new encyclopedia is composed of 106 essays (mostly fourteen to sixteen large double-column pages in length, with some as long as twenty-eight pages) ranging over a broad spectrum of themes, traditions, movements, and preoccupations of“the American religious experience.” Little is neglected. While the volumes are not arranged for ready reference use, provision is made for this aspect of more convetional encyclopedias by an unusually good index which helps one locate information on a wide variety of subject matter, both past and present. The focus on the broad aspects of religion in America more than compensates for the absence of any readily available alphabetized items of information.

Mohidin, Abdul Latiff bin Haji (1938--)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarena Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Student Exchange ◽  
Autobiographical Acts ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Color Texture

Born on 20 August 1941 in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, Abdul Latiff bin Haji Mohidin, better known as Latiff Mohidin, is a Malaysian painter and poet whose works are emotional, expressive, and gestural. As a child prodigy, Latiff Mohidin was called a "Boy Wonder" from the age of eleven for his talent in art. He was sent on a German Academic Student Exchange Scholarship to Germany, where he began his studies at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin in 1960. In 1969, he took up printmaking at Atelier La Courrière, Paris, and Pratt Graphic Center, New York. His works are identifiable by his use of brushstrokes, swathes of color, texture, and layers of oil paint with lines that are dynamic and possess an energy of immediacy. His works combine visual elements as well as the verbal and gestural, and, in this way, successfully present different levels of perspective and meaning. Latiff Mohidin expresses his personal anguish on a blank canvas, paying little attention to form, style, or subject matter. It can be argued that his paintings, created in a series, are autobiographical acts of self-creation, operating as both expressions of his personality and artistic journeys into nature.

Ashcan School

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Kuykendall
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Popular Entertainment ◽  
Ashcan School ◽  
American Artists ◽  
George Bellows ◽  
Total Freedom

The Ashcan School was a group of American artists that began exhibiting together in the early 20th century and advocated for total freedom in style and subject matter. Also known as Urban Realists because of their focus on urban, public spaces including trains, streets and parks, restaurants and bars, and other spaces of popular entertainment, Ashcan members included Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, William Glackens, Everett Shinn, and George Bellows. "Ashcan" was initially a pejorative term applied to the group because they employed dark colors and painterly, unblended brushstrokes, which were thought to make their works appear dirty or unfinished. The Ashcan School was initially associated with a secessionist art group called The Eight, which also included postimpressionists Arthur B. Davies, Maurice Prendergast, and Ernest Lawson. The Eight rebelled against the National Academy of Design, the principal art school and host of prestigious juried exhibitions in New York, because they sought greater stylistic freedom and more control over their exhibition opportunities. Implicitly, the Ashcan painters also rebelled against The Ten, a group of American Impressionists, because they thought their predecessors’ works were too delicate in style and genteel in subject matter.

Lahham, Rafiq (1932--)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Ann Rogers
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
Rochester Institute Of Technology ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Arabic Calligraphy

Born in Damascus in 1932, Rafiq Lahham went on to become a pioneer in Jordan’s modern art movement. His body of work is characterized by a diverse approach to choice of style, media, and subject matter. Working in oil, gouache, watercolor, collage, printmaking, and silk screens, Lahham depicts portraits, landscapes and cityscapes, Arabic calligraphy, and semi-abstract compositions. During the 1960s, Lahham was among the first artists in Jordan to incorporate calligraphy into his compositions and also one of the first painters to experiment with complete abstraction. Lahham is considered, along with Muhanna Durra, to be a member of the first generation of Jordanian artists to receive government scholarships to train abroad. He studied at Ente Nationale Addestramento Lavoratori Commercio and St Giacomo Instituto in Rome, graduating in 1962. He continued his studies in painting and etching at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Upon his return to Amman, Lahham worked as a cultural advisor for the Ministry of Tourism until his retirement in 1995. He is a founding member of the Artists Association. He lives and works in Amman.

Caretaking and Cave Paintings

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy Curtis
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
New York ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Alcohol Addiction ◽  
Memorial Service ◽  
Cave Paintings ◽  
Cave Painting ◽  
At Home

In late 1975, Elaine bought a house in East Hampton, giving up her New York studio. She had come to rescue Bill from alcohol addiction. But she also traveled abroad, including trips to the Paleolithic caves in France and Spain, which provided subject matter for her last major painting series and a suite of prints. At home, she looked after Bill, worked in her studio, and roamed the beach with artist Connie Fox. Courtney Ross produced a documentary about Bill with commentary by Elaine, who served as his spokesperson as his dementia worsened. A partial lobectomy failed to stop the recurrence of Elaine’s lung cancer, yet she remained in high spirits, trying to work on her memoir. But immediately after the opening of her cave painting show at Fischbach Gallery, she was hospitalized. Elaine died on February 1, 1989; tributes at her New York memorial service lasted nearly three hours.

scholarly journals The law applicable to objective arbitrability: 'Lex fori', 'lex arbitri' and their alternatives

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-422
Author(s):  
Stefan Jovanović
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Applicable Law ◽  
Uniform Solution ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
Model Law ◽  
New York Convention ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
International Conventions

Bearing in mind that there is no uniform solution to the issue of arbitrability of the subject matter of a dispute in international conventions and the Model Law, as well as that different national legislations solve this issue in different ways, the great importance of correctly determining the applicable law for objective arbitrability is noticed. The paper first analyses the lex fori and lex arbitri as classic points of attachment, and then their alternatives such as the lex causae for contract, the place of potential enforcement of the award and the law applicable to the material validity of the arbitration agreement, as well as the proposal to abandon the collision technique. After concluding that for several reasons it is inadequate to apply the law applicable to the arbitration agreement to this issue, and that it is still early to consider that there is an autonomous notion of arbitrability from the New York Convention, the author recognizes that the definition of objective arbitrability encompasses several aspects. Accordingly, for each of them it is necessary to determine separately the applicable law.

scholarly journals Era of exploration and new topographics : annotated bibliographies of two landmark exhibitions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Roger
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
American West ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Landscape Photography ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
Before And After ◽  
New Topographics ◽  
Western Landscape

In 1975, two landscape photography exhibitions were held concurrently in upstate New York; Era of Exploration: The Rise of Landscape Photography in the American West, 1860-1885, at Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery and New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape, at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, in Rochester (now The George Eastman International Museum of Photography and Film). Era of Exploration treated nineteenth-century landscapes of the American West while New Topographics addressed contemporary landscape practices. Though applying fundamentally different approaches to their subject matter, each exhibition proved to be extremely important to the understanding and development of not only landscape photography, but also the genre's place in photographic history. This thesis examines the essential literature relating to these two landmark exhibitions, through the construction of two extensive annotated bibliographies. Each bibliography comprises nine sections that present and evaluate significant materials, published both before and after the exhibition, relating to the exhibitions and their publications, the included photographers, and the exhibitions' influence as revealed in subsequent specialized studies and general histories of photography. The bibliographies' chronological listing allows readers to re-construct the exhibitions, and to trace the development of historical and curatorial interest in the exhibitions, the photographers, and American western landscape photography. The thesis describes the process of compiling and annotating this literature and offers reflections on how these two important exhibitions, while employing very different curatorial approaches, influenced the aesthetics, methodologies and concepts of landscape photography.

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