Quentin Tarantino’s Cartoon Violence

In this article, the author returns to the study of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘cartoonism’ that appeared in animation 2(2) in 2007. The focus here, as in Chris Pallant’s original essay, is on how filmic live action in Tarantino’s work displays the diegetic conventions of the cartoon, namely, its (1) hyperbolic, (2) graphic novel and (3) comic strip violence. The article adopts Pallant’s interpretive framework in analysing Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time. . . in Hollywood (2019), only this time supplements the analysis with a consideration of the film’s dramatic content. Drawing on Aristotle’s Poetics the author explores whether cartoon violence in Tarantino’s film is inversely related to drama and, more generally, speculates as to whether the cartoon form is inherently non- or anti-dramatic through the ‘private’ and commercial manner of its consumption.

Instructor's Guidelines for Teaching of College Students Paper Writing －Focused on Essays

The purpose of this thesis is to propose “a model of a guideline for instructors that can be referred to” in order for them to effectively teach the information required of their students when it comes to their essay writing. Having done so, we may hope to positively contribute to the overall efficient progress of college students essay writing. By ‘college student essay’ we are referring to a short paper written by a university student, which amounts in length to roughly 5 sheets of A4 paper.The procedure used to achieve the above purpose is as follows. 1) learn about the definition and types of college student essays, 2) examine the fundamental significance and status of college student essay writing, and 3) present the instructor’s guidelines for the course of college student essay writing.What is necessary in order to properly establish the learning of college student essay writing is as follows: first, a qualitatively distinct essay task should be assigned to learners, based on the cold judgment of the learner's ability to write an essay. Second, in order not to undermine the opinions of the learners, the instructor’s comments on the contents of the essay should be excluded as much as possible, and hie or her feedback should be provided by paying attention to the formal aspects. Finally, the learner should be encouraged to write and submit a final essay that is better than their original essay, referring to the instructor's feedback.

Presidential Address: Memories of Better Times before the Christians Came to Mexico and Guatemala

The author presented a draft of this essay as a presidential address at the 2012 meeting of the society in Springfield, Missouri. The theme of the meeting was “the apocalypse,” referring to a popular belief that the Mayan calendar predicted a cataclysmic event to occur in that year. The address proposed that the apocalypse had already occurred in the sixteenth century, when the Maya and many other Indigenous groups of the Americas were devastated by diseases brought by European immigrants. The author examined how the destruction was documented in Spanish surveys called the Relaciones geográficas, which were completed after a major epidemic devastated the Indigenous population of Mesoamerica. The author did not submit the paper for publication at the time. The current pandemic has lent some modest perspective to the many epidemic diseases that have swept through the Americas since the late fifteenth century. The author submitted this revised version of the original essay after editing the content, adding notes, and citing relevant works published since 2012.

László Gozmány’s annotated essay on the history of Hungarian lepidopterology published in 1949

In 1949, the American Lepidopterists’ Society published an essay of nine entries on the history of Hungarian lepidopterology. The principal author of the short paper was the young, 28 years old Dr. László Gozmány. Access of the essay is difficult as early volumes of the News of the Lepidopterists’ Society are rare in libraries and not available on the world-wide-web. The original essay is reproduced here with 38 supplementary annotations giving more historical clarity. The article is a tribute to Dr. László Gozmány on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth. With one figure.

Isaiah of Serra: a Serbian writer and translator from the 14th century

The article deals with Isaiah, the Serbian Athonite monk from the 14th century, translator of the corpus of theological works by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (5th century) from Greek into Slavic. In 1349, he apparently became Abbot of the Panteleimon monastery on the Mount Athos. He was close to the Serbian rulers and sometimes acted on their behalf as a diplomat. In 1375, he was able to assist the Serbian Church in reconciling it with the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Isaiah was also the author of a brief original essay The Story of the destruction of Macedonia by the Turks . It is found in the preface to the translation of Areopagitums and is the only piece of literary and historical evidence of the battle of the Serbs with the Turks on the Maritsa river in 1371.

ALEXANDER GRIBOYEDOV IN WORKS BY ARSENIY MARKEVICH

Alexander Griboyedov is a classic of Russian literature. His comedy Woe from Wit (1824) was a manifesto of freethinkers, and many of his friends took part in the Decembrist revolt (1825). In the USSR, Griboyedov was studied with a special interest – Soviet authors described him as a man who struggled for reformation of Russia like a Bolshevik. At the same time, comments concerning his biography and works were accompanied by ignoring and distortion of numerous facts which proved he was not a revolutionary. Nowadays, Griboyedov studies still depend on the hypotheses of the USSR times. That is why the revaluation of works published before 1992 is of particular importance – without taking a critical look at those it is impossible to cease mythologization of Griboyedov. The present article deals with the works of Arseniy Markevich, a historian and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The subject of the study is the scholar’s view on Griboyedov’s Crimean journey of 1825. The report In Memory of A. S. Griboyedov… prepared by Markevich and presented in 1925 is one of the firsts works that focus on the writer’s visit to the peninsula. However, this material was not published. The article establishes a link between Markevich’s unpublished and consequently lost report and his essay Decembrists in Crimea that was translated into Ukrainian and published in 1930 under the title From the Cultural Past of Crimea. This translation is used to reconstruct the author’s conclusions concerning Griboyedov. It is analyzed in the light of the literature about the diplomat and writer known in the 1920s; its conformity to facts is determined based on the sources that may have been available to Markevich. The study establishes the historian’s attitude to revolution and, based on that, reconstructs the ideological orientation of the 1925 report. It also deals with the problem of place where the original essay Decembrists… was kept. Information indicating the main university of Crimea as such a location in the early 1990s is checked based on the analysis of the information source and evidence obtained from employees of the Scientific Library of the Taurida Academy of V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University

Across the Waves

BenoîteGroult’s caustic yet humorous essay Ainsisoit-elle was published in 1975, the same year as the innovative feminist text Les Femmes s’entêtent, and, just as the collective volumedemanded a radical refusal of women’s oppression, so Groult’s text is also a call to arms. Espousing views too moderate for the most radical tendenciesof French feminism, Groult is often depicted as an ‘equality feminist’; this chapter firstly puts Groult’s polemical and popular Ainsisoit-elle in conversation with Les Femmes s’entêtent and, in so doing, provides a fuller picture of the heterogeneous nature of French feminism in the mid-1970s. Secondly, it assesses Groult’s legacy some forty years on by analysing Catel Muller’s representation of Groult in the biographical graphic novel AinsisoitBenoîteGroult (2014), which, as its title suggests, engages with Groult’s original essay.

Frankenstein's Moral Responsibility

Editor's Note: This essay paper of Professor Kornai with an unusually provoking title consists of two parts. Part I is the slightly edited, non-abridged version of his writing published as an oped in The Financial Times (FT) on 11 July 2019, the world's leading global business publication (Kornai 2019a). Subsequently, the full text of this paper was published in the Hungarian weekly magazine Élet és Irodalom (Life and Literature; Kornai 2019b), which in turn generated a number of commenting articles published in the same weekly. Still in the month of July, the original essay was translated into Chinese by a Hong Kong newspaper and into Vietnamese. An influential multilingual Chinese newspaper gave an extensive summary of the FT essay (Street 2019). The latter one, according to our best knowledge, was disseminated only on the internet. Part II is the translated and slightly edited version of Kornai's second article, published in September this year on the same topic (Kornai 2019c). In this second essay he responded to his critiques both in Hungary and world-wide. This piece was published in its original form in Hungarian by the previous mentioned Hungarian weekly.1 We, the Editors of Acta Oeconomica, are proud to publish the complete English translation of this second essay first time. We thank for the opportunity given to us by Professor Kornai to publish the Frankenstein-papers in an integrated form, together with all the necessary bibliographic references.

Introduction: Stuart Marshall thinking through television

This TV essay dossier is devoted to Stuart Marshall (1949–1993). It selectively reprints an archive of his ideas, photographs and writing as illustrative of Marshall’s thinking through television as an extended critique of the televisual – sound and image –, as well as how this way of thinking through practice translates into an TV essayistic mode used to comment directly on the nature of image-making and the medium itself. Interwoven with this material archive is an original essay by Colin Perry, as well as In Conversation between Rebecca Dobbs (Marshall’s producer) and Caroline Spry (commissioner of his work at Channel 4).

Language and End Time (Sections I, IV and V of ‘Sprache und Endzeit’)

‘Language and End Time’ is a translation of Sections I, IV and V of ‘Sprache und Endzeit’, a substantial essay by Günther Anders that was published in eight instalments in the Austrian journal FORVM from 1989 to 1991 (the full essay consists of 38 sections). The original essay was planned for inclusion in the third (unrealised) volume of The Obsolescence of Human Beings. ‘Language and End Time’ builds on the diagnosis of ‘our blindness toward the apocalypse’ that was advanced in the first volume of The Obsolescence in 1956. The essay asks if there is a language that is capable of making us fully comprehend the looming ‘man-made apocalypse’. In response to this, it offers a critique of philosophical jargon and of the putatively ‘objective’ language of (nuclear) science, which are both dismissed as unsuitable. Sections I, IV and V introduce this core problematic. The selection of this text for inclusion in this special journal issue responds to present-day realities that inscribe Anders’s reflections on nuclear science and the nuclear situation into new contexts. The critique that ‘Language and End Time’ advances resonates with the way in which the (undemocratic) decisions of a few companies and individuals are shaping the future of life on earth. At the same time, the wider stakes of Anders’s turn against the language employed by (weapons) scientists are newly laid bare by the realities and politics of climate change and fake news. In this new context, the language of science is all too readily dismissed as if it were a mere idiom that can be ignored without consequence. It is against the backdrop of a future that is, if anything, more uncertain than at the time of Anders’s writing, that the essay’s reflections on popularisation, the limits of language and the nature of truth gain added significance.