Being a Woman: Mothers and Lovers

2016 ◽  
pp. 137-154
Author(s):  
Akane Kawakami
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Real

This chapter examines the increasingly important role of female characters in Modiano’s novels of the 90s onwards, who divide roughly into two types: mothers and lovers. The chapter argues that Modiano’s interest in the young female lover figure has its roots in his failure to satisfactorily identify the ‘real’ Dora (ever since he was inspired to write a novel based on her, Voyage de noces, in 1990). As for the mother, the chapter suggests that it was the cathartic writing of the quasi-autobiographical Accident nocturne and the explicitly autobiographical Un pedigree that seems to have freed Modiano to write more nuanced and complex portraits of mothers in his more recent work. Last but not least, Modiano’s recent use of female narrators is examined in detail.

scholarly journals Terrors of Girlhood

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Casali
Keyword(s):  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Horror Films ◽  
Horror Film ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Horror Genre ◽  
Adolescent Women ◽  
American Horror Film

<p>Since the birth of the genre, American horror filmmakers have posed female characters as prey and objects of sexual desire. Adolescent women in particular act as both the victim and as eye candy for viewers. From the damsel in distress to the rape victim seeking revenge, women in horror films exist to be antagonized, and so often, their exhibition of femininity and sexuality determines the severity of their suffering. Moreover, though the popular horror film narrative tends to explore the fringes of human nature, few horror films openly deal with the fears and concerns of women outside of threats to their physical being.</p> <p>In the past decade, the horror genre has produced a new crop of young female characters who challenge the tropes of traditional horror films by trading in their role of damsel in distress for the role of the antagonist and anti-hero. What’s more, these films deal with themes relevant to young women, such as body image issues, tumultuous relationships, and sexual repression. In this thesis, I analyze the popular American horror film <em>Jennifer’s Body </em>(2009), which features two violent female protagonists and explores the horrors of adolescent female friendships. In my analysis, I examine whether or not the re-imagined female characters in this film are a progressive reconstruction of gender, and identify ideological conventions of the horror genre that continue to denigrate femininity and female sexuality.</p>

The Role of Money in Plato’s Republic, Book i

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Noutsopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
The Real

Seaford’s recent work has revived and further substantiated a line of argument that had been developed by Marxist scholars claiming a central role for money in the genesis of philosophical thought. In a nutshell, this line of argument holds that beneath the abstractions in which philosophy breathes and with which philosophy works we can trace the real abstraction of the money form as embodiment of abstract social labour. Following this perspective, I will try to demonstrate the role money plays in Plato’s Republic, focusing on Book i.

scholarly journals HIPERREALITAS RELASI DALAM SINETRON KOMEDI “TETANGGA MASA GITU?”

INFORMASI ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Eldo Eka Saputra
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Real World ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Media ◽  
Independent Individual

Emergence of non-mainstream way of women representations in soap operas, where women are constructed as an independent individual, brought an impact to the patterns of relation between men and women. If we look at Indonesian soap operas, there are not many of them that can manage to present a non-mainstream construction of female characters. The shift on women representation is associated to how the men were represented in said soap operas, therefore this is a form of the role of the media in altering gender stigma in the society. However, in the process of construction there is a new reality presented by the media through soap operas. Baudrillard established that hyperreality is a condition in which the reality that are presented by the media overtook the real world. This makes the society, as a consumer, became convinced that the newreality is a description of real life. This research is a qualitative study on a sitcom titled Tetangga Masa Gitu? with the analysis on the contents of the sinetron. Relation between men and women shown in this sitcom is based on the factors of economic ownership, resulting in hyperreality in the patterns of relation.Munculnya representasi perempuan yang tidak mainstream di dalam sinetron, dimana perempuan dikonstruksikan sebagai individu yang independen berdampak kepada pola relasi antara perempuan dan laki-laki. Apabila melihat kondisi sinetron di Indonesia, belum banyak sinetron yang berhasil menampilkan konstruksi yang tidak mainstreamterhadap tokoh perempuan. Perubahan konstruksi perempuan tidak terlepas dari bagaimana konstruksi laki-laki ditampilkan di dalam sinetron tersebut sehingga hal ini merupakan salah satu bentuk peran media dalam mengubah stigma peran gender kepada masyarakat. Namun dalam proses konstruksi tersebut terdapat suatu realitas baru yang ditampilkan oleh media melalui sinetron. Baudrillard menjelaskan bahwa hiperrealitas merupakan suatu kondisi dimana realitas yang dibangun di dalam mediamelebihi kondisi yang sebenarnya. Hal seperti ini menjadikan masyarakat sebagai konsumen meyakini realitas baru tersebut sebagai ilustrasi dalam kehidupan nyata. Penelitian ini merupakan suatu penelitian kualitatif terhadap sinetron komedi Tetangga Masa Gitu? dengan menggunakan metode analisis isi wacana sinetron. Relasi antara laki-laki dan perempuan dalam sinetron ini ditunjukan oleh adanya faktor kepemilikan ekonomi dalam diri perempuan sehingga pola relasi yang terjadi menunjukan adanya kondisi hiperrealitas.

MANUSCRIPT EVIDENCE FOR ALPHABET-SWITCHING IN THE WORKS OF CICERO: COMMON NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 498-516
Author(s):  
Neil O'Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Consistent Pattern ◽  
Current Interest ◽  
Reliable Transmission ◽  
Accurate Record ◽  
The Way

Of the hundreds of Greek common nouns and adjectives preserved in our MSS of Cicero, about three dozen are found written in the Latin alphabet as well as in the Greek. So we find, alongside συμπάθεια, also sympathia, and ἱστορικός as well as historicus. This sort of variation has been termed alphabet-switching; it has received little attention in connection with Cicero, even though it is relevant to subjects of current interest such as his bilingualism and the role of code-switching and loanwords in his works. Rather than addressing these issues directly, this discussion sets out information about the way in which the words are written in our surviving MSS of Cicero and takes further some recent work on the presentation of Greek words in Latin texts. It argues that, for the most part, coherent patterns and explanations can be found in the alphabetic choices exhibited by them, or at least by the earliest of them when there is conflict in the paradosis, and that this coherence is evidence for a generally reliable transmission of Cicero's original choices. While a lack of coherence might indicate unreliable transmission, or even an indifference on Cicero's part, a consistent pattern can only really be explained as an accurate record of coherent alphabet choice made by Cicero when writing Greek words.

EVERYDAY PRACTICE OF MOTHERS IN A PROVINCIAL SOVIET CITY IN THE 1950–60S

2020 ◽  
pp. 42-51
Author(s):  
Irina V. Bogdashina
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Reproductive Behaviour ◽  
Working Mother ◽  
Material Wealth ◽  
The Real ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Diffi Cult ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Right

The article reveals the measures undertaken by the Soviet state during the “thaw” in the fi eld of reproductive behaviour, the protection of motherhood and childhood. Compilations, manuals and magazines intended for women were the most important regulators of behaviour, determining acceptable norms and rules. Materials from sources of personal origin and oral history make it possible to clearly demonstrate the real feelings of women. The study of women’s everyday and daily life in the aspect related to pregnancy planning, bearing and raising children will allow us to compare the real situation and the course of implementation of tasks in the fi eld of maternal and child health. The demographic surge in the conditions of the economy reviving after the war, the lack of preschool institutions, as well as the low material wealth of most families, forced women to adapt to the situation. In the conditions of combining the roles of mother, wife and female worker, women entrusted themselves with almost overwork, which affected the health and well-being of the family. The procedure for legalising abortion gave women not only the right to decide the issue of motherhood themselves, but also made open the already necessary, but harmful to health, habitual way of birth control. Maternal care in diffi cult material and housing conditions became the concern of women and the older generation, who helped young women to combine the role of a working mother, which the country’s leadership confi dently assigned to women.

Musical shape and feeling

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Sensory Perception ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Sensorimotor System ◽  
Musical Sound ◽  
Sensory Mode ◽  
Daniel Stern

The concept of shape is widely used by musicians in talking and thinking about performance, yet the mechanisms that afford links between music and shape are little understood. Work on the psychodynamics of everyday life by Daniel Stern and on embodiment by Mark Johnson suggests relationships between the multiple dynamics of musical sound and the dynamics of feeling and motion. Recent work on multisensory and precognitive sensory perception and on the role of bimodal neurons in the sensorimotor system helps to explain how shape, as a percept representing changing quantity in any sensory mode, may be invoked by dynamic processes at many stages of perception and cognition. These processes enable ‘shape’ to do flexible and useful work for musicians needing to describe the quality of musical phenomena that are fundamental to everyday musical practice and yet too complex to calculate during performance.

The role of buy-side anchoring bias: Evidence from the real estate market

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 34-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuang-Chang Chang ◽  
Ching-Hsiang Chao ◽  
Jin-Huei Yeh
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
The Real Estate Market ◽  
Anchoring Bias
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