Women and Temporality in Literature and Cinema

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ila Ahlawat
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Affective Experiences ◽  
The Subject

Women and Temporality in Literature and Cinema delves into the subject of literary and cinematic women characters entrapped in temporal spaces and their peculiar communication with visibility, enclosure, space, and time in the context of sexual and temporal discord. It explores subjects such as youth, ageing, remembering, forgetting, and repeating within the larger realm of gendered temporalities that are essentially nuanced and affective experiences. Throughout, this book seeks to locate and spell out the damaging as well as the healing effects of temporality upon women’s consciousness.

scholarly journals Female Assertion as an Antidote to Male Dominance: Mother Archetypes in Achebe’s Novels—Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and A Man of the People

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Jeremiah Mutuku Muneeni
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Gender Balance ◽  
The People ◽  
Archetypal Criticism ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Things Fall Apart ◽  
Intense Debate

There has been an intense debate with regards to Chinua Achebe’s (mis)representation of women in his creative works, especially his first four novels. Some scholars have argued that Achebe is a patriarchal writer who has relegated women to the periphery. Nevertheless, a few have read subtle nuances of gender balance in his works. This paper is a continuation of this debate. Specifically, it argues that Achebe has created Mother Archetypes in his novels and if the same is not recognized, he will continue to be demonized as a gender insensitive writer. The unit of analysis is three of the five Achebe’s novels namely: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and A Man of the People. The paper interrogates the aforementioned novels within the framework of archetypal criticism, with the aim of unearthing and examining Mother Archetypes inherent in them. The paper identifies religion, education, and justice as the spheres of life in which Achebe has created, empowered and elevated Mother Archetypes to be at par with their male counterparts. However, owing to the breadth of the subject, the paper dwells on education. The paper concludes that creation of empowered Mother Archetypes in Achebe’s novels is a symbolic relay in which women characters hand in the symbolic empowerment baton to the next woman in the next novel until the last one where the creation of a woman major character, Beatrice, wins the race against male dominance.

scholarly journals Rethinking Language in Irigaray’s Mimesis Applied in David Mamet’s Oleanna

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 2357-2362
Author(s):  
Shahrzad Mohammad Hossein ◽  
Narges Raoufzadeh ◽  
Fatemeh Sadat Basirizadeh
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Luce Irigaray ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Keen Interest ◽  
David Mamet ◽  
The Subject

Throughout history, women have always sought their rights and place and this has long been the subject of much debate among writers and critics. So writers and critics, both men and women have reflected this issue in their works in different ways. From the very outset of her career, Luce Irigaray showed a keen interest in the exploration of the key role that language has in determining how women are evaluated in their society and the position they hold in it. In order to show resistance to masculine values imposed on them, women resort to strongholds such as mimesis in opposition. This paper aims to primarily, trace the backgrounds of this notion, secondly, to pursue the effect and use of it by women characters and to depict in what way it is employed as a means of resistance. Examples that will be provided shall be selected from the play “Oleanna”, a modern play written by David Mamet.

scholarly journals Tatiana Koltochikhina’s batiks: «From the beginning without the end»

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
И.В. Октябрьская
Keyword(s):  
Space And Time ◽  
The World ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
The Subject

Батик роспись по ткани один из древнейших видов искусства, восходящих к ремеслам, преобразующим вещный мир по законам красоты. Рукотворная природа делает причастным это декоративное творчество к творению. Под руками художника по батику Татьяны Колточихиной пространство ткани превращается в пространство мира. Ее мир не имеет границ в пространстве и времени. Он древний и вечный. Поверхность бытия на полотнах художника растресканная, как поверхность старых картин, напоминает о глубине памяти и непреходящем характере творческих исканий. Batik, the textile painting, is one of the most ancient art forms, dating back to the crafts, transformed the subject world according to the laws of beauty. Manmade nature makes this decorative work involved into creation. At the Tatiana Koltochikhina’s hands, craftsman in batik, the space of textile turns into the space of the world. Her world does not have the borders of space and time. It is ancient and eternal. The surface of the existence on the artist’s canvases is cracked, as the surface of the old pictures, reminds the memory depth and the imperishable nature of the artistic explorations.

Quattro viaggi nel tempo, rimanendo in città: cronotopi nella narrativa brasiliana contemporanea

2021 ◽  
pp. 389-396
Author(s):  
Maria Caterina Pincherle
Keyword(s):  
Space And Time ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Subject

If the concept of time-space, associated to the travel, usually refers to a space-temporal changing from a subject, the aim of this work is to reflect on the possibility to use the same concept for a different process, that involves space and time in other positions regarding to the subject, or else the physical immobility and the research during the time. In the last years some famous Brazilian novels deal not only with actual themes, but they find again their present origins in places cancelled by the urban palimpsest: the senzalas and the slavery live again in the echos of very different works as Becos da memória by Conceição Evaristo (2006), Passageiro do fim do dia by Rubens Figueiredo (2010), and O amor dos homens avulsos by Victor Heringer (2016).

scholarly journals Categories of everyday knowledge in German professional discourse

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 00063
Author(s):  
Natalia Shnyakina ◽  
Anna Klyoster
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Frame Analysis ◽  
Professional Discourse ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
The World ◽  
Categorical Structure ◽  
Cognitive Action ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Subject Of Cognition ◽  
Everyday Knowledge

The study of language as a cognitive phenomenon makes it possible to identify patterns of categorical division of the world. This paper considers the issue of the characteristics of everyday knowledge categories verbalization in professional discourse. On the basis of language fragments, objectifying ideas about the cognitive situation, through frame analysis, surface realizations of significant cognitive categories are investigated, among which are the subject of cognition, the object, the cognitive action, the instrument, the result, space and time. The named semantic nodes form the categorical structure of the frame behind the language fragment. The analysis demonstrates the compatibility of everyday and scientific knowledge division by a speaker; still, it illustrates the specificity of the language expression of frame nodes within the framework of professional discourse.

scholarly journals Pleasure and Duty

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-282
Author(s):  
JEFFREY WEEKS
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
The Body ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Temporal Unity ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
The Subject

Three obvious, superficially simple but actually intensely complex questions embodied in the title immediately confront the reader of Dagmar Herzog's important new book. First, what do we mean by the ‘sexuality’ that constitutes the subject matter? Second, what is demarcated by the Europe that provides the geo-political boundaries of this study? Third, does the ‘twentieth century’ provide a useful temporal unity for the narrative and analysis that is at the heart of the book? Such questions are not mere scholarly nit-picking or academic point scoring, but a tribute to the problematising of the body in space and time that has been a hallmark of the deconstructive and reconstructive energy of recent scholarship on the sexual, and that is now making a welcome entry into mainstream history.

scholarly journals Quanton Fields: Evolution and Degrees of Freedom

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
AYMAN KASSEM MOHAMMED
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Maxwell Equations ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Space Time ◽  
The Third ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Physical Phenomena

The concept of space time had been the subject of debate for so long, here another version will be discussed in the form of space and time fields where a new concept of energy constraining can explain the interactions between those fields. This model comes in three parts : energy constraining , where the evolution of the quanton and its different transitions are discussed, the second part , energy fields, their degrees of freedom and the third part electromagnetic waves as relativistic quantons and the generic form of Maxwell equations in terms of space and time fields. This work shows that the origin many of the physical phenomena can be traced back to the quanton based world .

scholarly journals An Artist Without Wings? Regulation of Emotions Through Aesthetic Experiences

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-103
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Osowiecka
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Functioning ◽  
Efficient Method ◽  
Expressive Writing ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Aesthetic Experiences ◽  
Affective Experiences ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Task Oriented ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Therapy Sessions

AbstractArt can help handle difficult experiences. Art therapy sessions (healing through art) have been recognised for years as a well-known and efficient method of treatment. At the same time, one can observe people’s tendencies – apparently inefficient in terms of their well-being (emotions, mood) – to create or experience art (e.g. watching horror movies, listening to sad songs, expressive writing about one’s ordeals). Many authors have described the way negative emotions are regulated. Their research has not, however, exhausted the subject in relation to art. In this paper I discuss the regulation of emotions through art. I am interested in the process of regulating affective experiences, particularly through expressive writing, and in the impact this way of regulation has on task-oriented functioning, especially cognitive functioning.

scholarly journals Sait Faik Abasıyanık’ın Seçilmiş Üç Öyküsünde Zaman, Mekân ve Ahlak

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-65
Author(s):  
Kıvılcım Uzun ◽  
Arda Arıkan
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
White Gold ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Turkish Literature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Temporal And Spatial

One of the most influential Turkish literature authors after the post-republic period, Sait Faik Abasıyanık pursued virtue and morality in his literary work, although literary critics have not underlined this aspect of his work. In his non-didactic and open-ended stories, the perception of morality he adopted is quite evident. Analyzing Sait Faik’s selected stories in the context of their temporal and spatial settings, this study aims to resolve the moral equation manifested. In this paper, three randomly selected short stories by Abasiyanik were studied to understand how he perceived morality and how the subject of morality is treated in his select short stories. His short stories The Old Teenager, The White Gold, and Just a Story were studied in terms of how the selected subject, morality, appears in these texts. While analyzing these stories, it is recognized that the author was affected from the space and time in and during which he lived and wrote in Istanbul.

scholarly journals MF Husain’s Hindi Autobiography Em. Ef. Husain kī kahānī apnī zubānī

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandra Consolaro
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Cultural Artefact ◽  
The World ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Subject

Drawing from Elizabeth Grosz’s notion of the body as a socio-cultural artefact and the exterior of the subject bodies as psychically constructed, and Rosi Braidotti’s concept of nomadic identities, in this article I introduce world-renowned Indian painter MF Husain’s verbal and visual autobiography Em. Ef. Husen kī kahānī apnī zubānī as a series of sketches of a performative self, surfing the world in space and time. Bodies and spaces are envisioned as “assemblages or collections of parts” in constant movement, crossing borders and creating relationships with other selves and other spaces. People and places become a catalyst for manifestations of the self in art – MF Husain being foremost a painter – and eventually also in literature. I look for strategies that MF Husain uses in order to construct or deconstruct the self through crossings and linkages. I try to investigate how the self is performed inside and outside private and public spaces, how the complex (sometimes even contradictory) relationship between self and community is portrayed, and how this autobiography does articulate notions of (imagined) community/ies, nationalism, transnational subjectivity, nostalgia.

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