Ned Schantz
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195335910
- eISBN:
- 9780199868902
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335910.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies, Women's Literature
This chapter pursues the problem of coincidence on the telephone in its greatest cinematic example—Sorry, Wrong Number—all the way to the ambivalent dream of telepathy, a major fantasy of novelistic ...
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This chapter pursues the problem of coincidence on the telephone in its greatest cinematic example—Sorry, Wrong Number—all the way to the ambivalent dream of telepathy, a major fantasy of novelistic culture and troubling concern for film. Telepathy then structures a sustained comparison between film and the novel in terms of access to characters’ minds, a comparison developed in an extended reading of Shadow of a Doubt. Hitchcock’s film finally represents a turning away from telepathy and female knowledge—the double—edged legacy of the novel—toward a cinema of female mobility and speed.Less
This chapter pursues the problem of coincidence on the telephone in its greatest cinematic example—Sorry, Wrong Number—all the way to the ambivalent dream of telepathy, a major fantasy of novelistic culture and troubling concern for film. Telepathy then structures a sustained comparison between film and the novel in terms of access to characters’ minds, a comparison developed in an extended reading of Shadow of a Doubt. Hitchcock’s film finally represents a turning away from telepathy and female knowledge—the double—edged legacy of the novel—toward a cinema of female mobility and speed.
Jakob Lothe
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198122555
- eISBN:
- 9780191671463
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198122555.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism, European Literature
This chapter argues that one of the chief narrative characteristics of The Shadow-Line, and hence a constituent element of Joseph Conrad's fictional achievement in this tale, is to be sought in the ...
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This chapter argues that one of the chief narrative characteristics of The Shadow-Line, and hence a constituent element of Joseph Conrad's fictional achievement in this tale, is to be sought in the reciprocal relationship between narrative distance and a striking immediacy sometimes approaching the lyric. The prominence of the narrator is central to Conrad's narrative method in The Shadow-Line. The narration is consistently personal throughout. The tale is the story of its narrator, at a particularly challenging and difficult point of life. The most important implications obviously result from a complex combination of the various constituent elements of the narrative, and thus cannot be fully appreciated until the text is finished.Less
This chapter argues that one of the chief narrative characteristics of The Shadow-Line, and hence a constituent element of Joseph Conrad's fictional achievement in this tale, is to be sought in the reciprocal relationship between narrative distance and a striking immediacy sometimes approaching the lyric. The prominence of the narrator is central to Conrad's narrative method in The Shadow-Line. The narration is consistently personal throughout. The tale is the story of its narrator, at a particularly challenging and difficult point of life. The most important implications obviously result from a complex combination of the various constituent elements of the narrative, and thus cannot be fully appreciated until the text is finished.
Assaf Razin
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262028592
- eISBN:
- 9780262327701
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262028592.003.0003
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, International
The 2008 global financial crisis thus was not just a garden-variety, white swan, business cycle event. It was a long time coming, and prospects for a repetition depend on whether underlying ...
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The 2008 global financial crisis thus was not just a garden-variety, white swan, business cycle event. It was a long time coming, and prospects for a repetition depend on whether underlying structural disequilibria, including political indiscipline, are redressed. Factors that either triggered the 2008 financial crisis or that reinforced its severity could be listed as follows: (1) an evolving deregulatory consensus, especially concerning financial institutions; (2) the notion that government insurance guarantees, off-budget unfunded obligations such as social security, and mandated preferences to savings and loan banks were innocuous, despite the savings and loan debacle of the late 1980–1990s; (3) an indulgent attitude toward destructive financial innovation apparent in the 1987 “program trading” and 2000–2002 “dot-com bubble” stock market crashes,5 as well as the 1998 Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund collapse6; (8) a permissive approach to financial auditing, including mark to face valuation for illiquid securities; (4) the creation of a one-way-street, too-big-to-fail mentality that transformed prudent business activity into a venal speculative game on Wall Street, main street, and in Washington; (5) the emergence of “institutional” bank runs, where financial and nonfinancial companies flee repurchase (repo) agreements; and more. The Chapter surveys the creation of the credit bubble and its sudden burst.Less
The 2008 global financial crisis thus was not just a garden-variety, white swan, business cycle event. It was a long time coming, and prospects for a repetition depend on whether underlying structural disequilibria, including political indiscipline, are redressed. Factors that either triggered the 2008 financial crisis or that reinforced its severity could be listed as follows: (1) an evolving deregulatory consensus, especially concerning financial institutions; (2) the notion that government insurance guarantees, off-budget unfunded obligations such as social security, and mandated preferences to savings and loan banks were innocuous, despite the savings and loan debacle of the late 1980–1990s; (3) an indulgent attitude toward destructive financial innovation apparent in the 1987 “program trading” and 2000–2002 “dot-com bubble” stock market crashes,5 as well as the 1998 Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund collapse6; (8) a permissive approach to financial auditing, including mark to face valuation for illiquid securities; (4) the creation of a one-way-street, too-big-to-fail mentality that transformed prudent business activity into a venal speculative game on Wall Street, main street, and in Washington; (5) the emergence of “institutional” bank runs, where financial and nonfinancial companies flee repurchase (repo) agreements; and more. The Chapter surveys the creation of the credit bubble and its sudden burst.
Stephen R. L. Clark
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198242369
- eISBN:
- 9780191680458
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198242369.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter discusses the concepts of individuals and persons. Part of this discussion includes that of partial judgment and abstract argument, social relativism, and how living beings are ...
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This chapter discusses the concepts of individuals and persons. Part of this discussion includes that of partial judgment and abstract argument, social relativism, and how living beings are classified as non-alien or not. It is stated that most individuals, if not all, are groping for a convincing picture of the Shadow, the Self that they are not. They do this to find out what they are or what they hope to be.Less
This chapter discusses the concepts of individuals and persons. Part of this discussion includes that of partial judgment and abstract argument, social relativism, and how living beings are classified as non-alien or not. It is stated that most individuals, if not all, are groping for a convincing picture of the Shadow, the Self that they are not. They do this to find out what they are or what they hope to be.
Richard Hand
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823234462
- eISBN:
- 9780823241255
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823234462.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Mythology and Folklore
This chapter looks at a largely overlooked trove of zombie stories, those that were played on the air in the early days of horror radio. The chapter sketches an overview of the history of ...
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This chapter looks at a largely overlooked trove of zombie stories, those that were played on the air in the early days of horror radio. The chapter sketches an overview of the history of broadcasting tales of terror on the radio, which provides useful background for those who are unfamiliar with the history of radio more broadly. This chapter highlights several tales of the living dead, among them an offering from the long running radio show, The Shadow. Included in the examples it pulls out of the archives are both revenant-like creatures, come back from the dead to seek revenge on the living, and the more typical Voodoo zombie, as well as zombie-like beings. The chapter's discussion of the offerings of such shows as Inner Sanctum Mysteries and Lights Out reveals much about the formation of conventions of the horror genre in general; and this description of radio zombies gives us a more complete picture of the way the zombie was established in popular culture, as it was anchored in radio as well as fantastic literature and film.Less
This chapter looks at a largely overlooked trove of zombie stories, those that were played on the air in the early days of horror radio. The chapter sketches an overview of the history of broadcasting tales of terror on the radio, which provides useful background for those who are unfamiliar with the history of radio more broadly. This chapter highlights several tales of the living dead, among them an offering from the long running radio show, The Shadow. Included in the examples it pulls out of the archives are both revenant-like creatures, come back from the dead to seek revenge on the living, and the more typical Voodoo zombie, as well as zombie-like beings. The chapter's discussion of the offerings of such shows as Inner Sanctum Mysteries and Lights Out reveals much about the formation of conventions of the horror genre in general; and this description of radio zombies gives us a more complete picture of the way the zombie was established in popular culture, as it was anchored in radio as well as fantastic literature and film.
Francio Guadeloupe
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520254886
- eISBN:
- 9780520942639
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520254886.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter takes a look at DJ Shadow, a member of one of the wealthiest local clans in SMX. The discussion introduces the One Love ideology, which is the assertion of a universal human identity and ...
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This chapter takes a look at DJ Shadow, a member of one of the wealthiest local clans in SMX. The discussion introduces the One Love ideology, which is the assertion of a universal human identity and a privileging of individuality above ethnic and national differences. It discusses Rastafari and the Rastafari message of egalitarianism, and even identifies the secrets of DJ Shadow's success. The chapter also introduces DJ Shadow's notion of Rastafari individuality, which is a way to promote an inclusive politics of belonging without explicitly addressing socioeconomic inequalities.Less
This chapter takes a look at DJ Shadow, a member of one of the wealthiest local clans in SMX. The discussion introduces the One Love ideology, which is the assertion of a universal human identity and a privileging of individuality above ethnic and national differences. It discusses Rastafari and the Rastafari message of egalitarianism, and even identifies the secrets of DJ Shadow's success. The chapter also introduces DJ Shadow's notion of Rastafari individuality, which is a way to promote an inclusive politics of belonging without explicitly addressing socioeconomic inequalities.
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804754903
- eISBN:
- 9780804772501
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804754903.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 18th Century and Early American Literature
This postscript is devoted to subcontinental portraits of national memory, mourning, and movement in Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (1988) and Ghosh's The Shadow Lines (1989). It considers the ...
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This postscript is devoted to subcontinental portraits of national memory, mourning, and movement in Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (1988) and Ghosh's The Shadow Lines (1989). It considers the possibilities of thinking the nation through the practice of fantasmatic cartography—the mapping of national and global territories of belonging through an analysis of the psychic work of longing.Less
This postscript is devoted to subcontinental portraits of national memory, mourning, and movement in Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (1988) and Ghosh's The Shadow Lines (1989). It considers the possibilities of thinking the nation through the practice of fantasmatic cartography—the mapping of national and global territories of belonging through an analysis of the psychic work of longing.
Alexa Alfer and Amy J. Edwards de Campos
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719066528
- eISBN:
- 9781781701751
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719066528.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This introductory chapter discusses A. S. Byatt, a writer with a personal and intellectual dislike of literary criticism that places a heavy emphasis on a writer's life. It first provides some ...
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This introductory chapter discusses A. S. Byatt, a writer with a personal and intellectual dislike of literary criticism that places a heavy emphasis on a writer's life. It first provides some background information on Byatt's early career as a writer and her debut novel, Shadow of a Sun. It studies her commitment to the mutually informative discourses of fiction and literary criticism and her popular reimaginings of the Victorian past. This chapter also studies some of Byatt's novels, which are discussed in detail in the following chapters.Less
This introductory chapter discusses A. S. Byatt, a writer with a personal and intellectual dislike of literary criticism that places a heavy emphasis on a writer's life. It first provides some background information on Byatt's early career as a writer and her debut novel, Shadow of a Sun. It studies her commitment to the mutually informative discourses of fiction and literary criticism and her popular reimaginings of the Victorian past. This chapter also studies some of Byatt's novels, which are discussed in detail in the following chapters.
Anshuman A. Mondal
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719070044
- eISBN:
- 9781781701102
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719070044.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter discusses all of Ghosh's major works, such as The Hungry Tide. It focuses on Ghosh's engagement with history and historiography. It analyses how each of these major works deal and come ...
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This chapter discusses all of Ghosh's major works, such as The Hungry Tide. It focuses on Ghosh's engagement with history and historiography. It analyses how each of these major works deal and come to terms with the methodological, political, theoretical and ethical problems posed by historical knowledge and its different protocols. This chapter also studies In an Antique Land, The Shadow Lines and The Glass Palace.Less
This chapter discusses all of Ghosh's major works, such as The Hungry Tide. It focuses on Ghosh's engagement with history and historiography. It analyses how each of these major works deal and come to terms with the methodological, political, theoretical and ethical problems posed by historical knowledge and its different protocols. This chapter also studies In an Antique Land, The Shadow Lines and The Glass Palace.
Gabriel Riera
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823226719
- eISBN:
- 9780823235315
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823226719.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Language
This chapter discusses Emmanuel Levinas' criticism on the inhumanity of art in his essay “Reality and Its Shadow”. It explains that the il y a plays a central role in Levinas' ...
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This chapter discusses Emmanuel Levinas' criticism on the inhumanity of art in his essay “Reality and Its Shadow”. It explains that the il y a plays a central role in Levinas' thinking and in his determination of the nonethical nature of the work of art. Levinas places transitional layers between the anonymous rumbling of the il y a and the order of the world or totality, and considers the exposure of consciousness to the il y a as a horror that throws subjectivity into an impersonal vigilance.Less
This chapter discusses Emmanuel Levinas' criticism on the inhumanity of art in his essay “Reality and Its Shadow”. It explains that the il y a plays a central role in Levinas' thinking and in his determination of the nonethical nature of the work of art. Levinas places transitional layers between the anonymous rumbling of the il y a and the order of the world or totality, and considers the exposure of consciousness to the il y a as a horror that throws subjectivity into an impersonal vigilance.
Stephen Meredith
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719073229
- eISBN:
- 9781781701508
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719073229.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter addresses the (limitations) of group and factional organisation and activity on the parliamentary Labour right in the 1970s. It also describes the standard conceptual frameworks of ...
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This chapter addresses the (limitations) of group and factional organisation and activity on the parliamentary Labour right in the 1970s. It also describes the standard conceptual frameworks of factionalism and Labour Party factionalism. Tony Crosland's priorities were now clearly different to those of Roy Jenkins. The Jenkinsites represented the re-emergence of Campaign for Democratic Socialism (CDS) in truncated form. Jenkins' disinclination to compete with his factional opponents from within the Shadow Cabinet and the National Executive Committee (NEC) was to have important implications for political alignments and the balance of power in the Labour Party. The Manifesto Group ‘was formed to deal with a purely Parliamentary situation’. The limitations of Manifesto Group organisation are presented. The experience of the Manifesto Group confirmed the emerging constraints, divisions and limitations of Labour's centre-right coalition and the seemingly inalienable trajectory of the Labour Party further to the left.Less
This chapter addresses the (limitations) of group and factional organisation and activity on the parliamentary Labour right in the 1970s. It also describes the standard conceptual frameworks of factionalism and Labour Party factionalism. Tony Crosland's priorities were now clearly different to those of Roy Jenkins. The Jenkinsites represented the re-emergence of Campaign for Democratic Socialism (CDS) in truncated form. Jenkins' disinclination to compete with his factional opponents from within the Shadow Cabinet and the National Executive Committee (NEC) was to have important implications for political alignments and the balance of power in the Labour Party. The Manifesto Group ‘was formed to deal with a purely Parliamentary situation’. The limitations of Manifesto Group organisation are presented. The experience of the Manifesto Group confirmed the emerging constraints, divisions and limitations of Labour's centre-right coalition and the seemingly inalienable trajectory of the Labour Party further to the left.
Wolfgang Banzhaf and Lidia Yamamoto
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262029438
- eISBN:
- 9780262329460
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262029438.003.0012
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This chapter delves into the mathematical theory of how abstract organizations could be described. We start with some basic definitions of what an organization would be before discussing how they can ...
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This chapter delves into the mathematical theory of how abstract organizations could be described. We start with some basic definitions of what an organization would be before discussing how they can be generated. We then discuss the mathematical term of a lattice as a structure that can help bring order to organizations. Next is an exploration of the fascinating concepts of novelty and innovation which play a role when new organizations form. Finally we present examples of organizations and explain how particular features of them can be calculated.Less
This chapter delves into the mathematical theory of how abstract organizations could be described. We start with some basic definitions of what an organization would be before discussing how they can be generated. We then discuss the mathematical term of a lattice as a structure that can help bring order to organizations. Next is an exploration of the fascinating concepts of novelty and innovation which play a role when new organizations form. Finally we present examples of organizations and explain how particular features of them can be calculated.
Halidé Edib
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195699999
- eISBN:
- 9780199080540
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195699999.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature
In this chapter, the author shares her impression of the other Indian women living at the Salam House of Dr M.A. Ansari. One of the women guests was Sarojini Naidu, the foremost Indian woman of the ...
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In this chapter, the author shares her impression of the other Indian women living at the Salam House of Dr M.A. Ansari. One of the women guests was Sarojini Naidu, the foremost Indian woman of the present day. She was a veteran patriot and revolutionary, imprisoned numerous times. The author considered her the best known Eastern woman in politics, along with Mrs Sun-Yat-Sen. A poet and an outstanding orator, in 1935, Naidu was a member of the Shadow Cabinet in India. The other women at Salam House were mostly social workers, teachers, and club workers. Many of them were interested in feminism, others did not think of India in terms of gender.Less
In this chapter, the author shares her impression of the other Indian women living at the Salam House of Dr M.A. Ansari. One of the women guests was Sarojini Naidu, the foremost Indian woman of the present day. She was a veteran patriot and revolutionary, imprisoned numerous times. The author considered her the best known Eastern woman in politics, along with Mrs Sun-Yat-Sen. A poet and an outstanding orator, in 1935, Naidu was a member of the Shadow Cabinet in India. The other women at Salam House were mostly social workers, teachers, and club workers. Many of them were interested in feminism, others did not think of India in terms of gender.
Jad Smith
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040634
- eISBN:
- 9780252099076
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040634.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
During the 1940s, Bester scripted comics, radio mysteries, and teleplays, and developed a fast-paced, highly visual style that, along with an emphasis on psychological depth and language play, would ...
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During the 1940s, Bester scripted comics, radio mysteries, and teleplays, and developed a fast-paced, highly visual style that, along with an emphasis on psychological depth and language play, would later define his approach to SF. He also adopted writing practices (such as allowing ideas to gestate and recombine over time in a “gimmick” book) that fueled his explosive return to SF at the end of the decade. This chapter examines Bester’s growth into a seasoned writer and the circumstances of his return to SF. Particular attention is given to his parting of ways with John W. Campbell, to his budding relationship with Fantasy and Science Fiction editors Tony Boucher and J. Francis McComas, and to the stories “Oddy and Id” and “Of Time and Third Avenue.”Less
During the 1940s, Bester scripted comics, radio mysteries, and teleplays, and developed a fast-paced, highly visual style that, along with an emphasis on psychological depth and language play, would later define his approach to SF. He also adopted writing practices (such as allowing ideas to gestate and recombine over time in a “gimmick” book) that fueled his explosive return to SF at the end of the decade. This chapter examines Bester’s growth into a seasoned writer and the circumstances of his return to SF. Particular attention is given to his parting of ways with John W. Campbell, to his budding relationship with Fantasy and Science Fiction editors Tony Boucher and J. Francis McComas, and to the stories “Oddy and Id” and “Of Time and Third Avenue.”
Lopamudra Basu
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617039058
- eISBN:
- 9781621039907
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617039058.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
This chapter examines public and private trauma by focusing on autobiographical representations of the events and emotions surrounding 9/11. It analyzes acts of recovering and explores pain, grief, ...
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This chapter examines public and private trauma by focusing on autobiographical representations of the events and emotions surrounding 9/11. It analyzes acts of recovering and explores pain, grief, and mourning by offering a reading of Art Spiegelman’s graphic memoir In the Shadow of No Towers. It considers comic art as a space of resistance against oppression and suggests that the terrorist bombing of the Twin Towers brings back the traumatic memory of the Holocaust experienced by Spiegelman’s parents. It also shows how Spiegelman links his traumatic experience and its effect on his artistic sensibility to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Finally, the chapter highlights the relationship between cartoons and politics in Spiegelman’s memoir.Less
This chapter examines public and private trauma by focusing on autobiographical representations of the events and emotions surrounding 9/11. It analyzes acts of recovering and explores pain, grief, and mourning by offering a reading of Art Spiegelman’s graphic memoir In the Shadow of No Towers. It considers comic art as a space of resistance against oppression and suggests that the terrorist bombing of the Twin Towers brings back the traumatic memory of the Holocaust experienced by Spiegelman’s parents. It also shows how Spiegelman links his traumatic experience and its effect on his artistic sensibility to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Finally, the chapter highlights the relationship between cartoons and politics in Spiegelman’s memoir.
Davida Pines
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617039058
- eISBN:
- 9781621039907
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617039058.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
This chapter explores how bearing witness challenges public narratives of unity, triumph, and heroism by focusing on the works of Art Spiegelman, Alissa Torres, and Sungyoon Choi and their ...
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This chapter explores how bearing witness challenges public narratives of unity, triumph, and heroism by focusing on the works of Art Spiegelman, Alissa Torres, and Sungyoon Choi and their representations of 9/11. More specifically, it highlights the connections between history, memory, and trauma in Torres’s American Widow (with illustrations by Sungyoon Choi) and Spiegelman’s graphic memoir In the Shadow of No Towers. It discusses how Spiegelman, Torres, and Sungyoon Choi use the comics medium to capture the specifics of their lived experiences of 9/11. It also shows how American Widow and In the Shadow of No Towers challenge the dominant verbal and visual narratives that arose in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.Less
This chapter explores how bearing witness challenges public narratives of unity, triumph, and heroism by focusing on the works of Art Spiegelman, Alissa Torres, and Sungyoon Choi and their representations of 9/11. More specifically, it highlights the connections between history, memory, and trauma in Torres’s American Widow (with illustrations by Sungyoon Choi) and Spiegelman’s graphic memoir In the Shadow of No Towers. It discusses how Spiegelman, Torres, and Sungyoon Choi use the comics medium to capture the specifics of their lived experiences of 9/11. It also shows how American Widow and In the Shadow of No Towers challenge the dominant verbal and visual narratives that arose in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
Nayan B. Ruparelia
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262529099
- eISBN:
- 9780262334129
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262529099.003.0003
- Subject:
- Computer Science, Programming
This chapter addresses the following questions: Why cloud computing? What is so special about cloud computing? How will it affect you, your work, and our society? Just as Microsoft Windows became ...
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This chapter addresses the following questions: Why cloud computing? What is so special about cloud computing? How will it affect you, your work, and our society? Just as Microsoft Windows became ubiquitous at home and work, and changed our lives, cloud computing represents a paradigm shift. This is because cloud computing is an enabling technology that bypasses many functions provided by your computer, the software installedon it, your workplace’s IT and finance departments, businesses and government departments. Cloud computing’s paradigm shift is considered from three different viewpoints: (1) how it should affect you socially and personally, (2) how it will affect you in your work, and (3) how it will affect businesses.The personal paradigm shift viewpoint is extended using a novel concept: a cloud of things and services. Such a cloud serves an internet-of-things device and, by the application of service automation, it further provides related services on a personal basis. The combination of a cloud of things and a process-as-a-service deployment model culminates in a Cloud of Things and Services (COTS).Less
This chapter addresses the following questions: Why cloud computing? What is so special about cloud computing? How will it affect you, your work, and our society? Just as Microsoft Windows became ubiquitous at home and work, and changed our lives, cloud computing represents a paradigm shift. This is because cloud computing is an enabling technology that bypasses many functions provided by your computer, the software installedon it, your workplace’s IT and finance departments, businesses and government departments. Cloud computing’s paradigm shift is considered from three different viewpoints: (1) how it should affect you socially and personally, (2) how it will affect you in your work, and (3) how it will affect businesses.The personal paradigm shift viewpoint is extended using a novel concept: a cloud of things and services. Such a cloud serves an internet-of-things device and, by the application of service automation, it further provides related services on a personal basis. The combination of a cloud of things and a process-as-a-service deployment model culminates in a Cloud of Things and Services (COTS).
Mariusz Kotowski
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780813144887
- eISBN:
- 9780813145105
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813144887.003.0011
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Chapter 10 highlights Negri's enjoyment of her luxurious and opulent life as a famous Paramount movie star. Although happy on the surface, Negri feels unsatisfied professionally with the characters ...
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Chapter 10 highlights Negri's enjoyment of her luxurious and opulent life as a famous Paramount movie star. Although happy on the surface, Negri feels unsatisfied professionally with the characters she plays in such movies as Spanish Dancer, Shadow of Paris, Men, and Lily of the Dust. The roles actresses find themselves in at the time reflect a broader social ideal in the early 1920s: morally lacking female characters either repent by the end of the movie, or they die. Negri is not comfortable playing women who are vain, fickle, and ultimately unable to take care of themselves, since they are the exact opposite of everything she embodies and believes in. Working with the director Dmitri Buchowetzki brought greater success for Negri.Less
Chapter 10 highlights Negri's enjoyment of her luxurious and opulent life as a famous Paramount movie star. Although happy on the surface, Negri feels unsatisfied professionally with the characters she plays in such movies as Spanish Dancer, Shadow of Paris, Men, and Lily of the Dust. The roles actresses find themselves in at the time reflect a broader social ideal in the early 1920s: morally lacking female characters either repent by the end of the movie, or they die. Negri is not comfortable playing women who are vain, fickle, and ultimately unable to take care of themselves, since they are the exact opposite of everything she embodies and believes in. Working with the director Dmitri Buchowetzki brought greater success for Negri.
Wayne K. Chapman (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780989082686
- eISBN:
- 9781781382318
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780989082686.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This section features Edward Dowden's poems from A Woman's Reliquary (based on the 1914 Dent edition), including The Rosary, Song a Shadow, Silence and Speech, A Garden Inclosed, The Well, ...
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This section features Edward Dowden's poems from A Woman's Reliquary (based on the 1914 Dent edition), including The Rosary, Song a Shadow, Silence and Speech, A Garden Inclosed, The Well, Premonitions, Bud and Blossom, The Haven, Manna, Love's Nudity, Credo quia Impossible, Grief in Joy, and Giving and Taking. Also included are The Interpreter, Love's Sacrament, Ave Atque Vale, The Resting Place, Impersonal, Babblement, Gift on Gift, The Chapel, Charity and Knowledge, The Potter's Wheel, The Holy of Holies, Fons Signatus, Love Tokens, Hours and Moments, The Triumph of Love, The Book of Hours, Spring in Autumn, Song and Sunset, The Village Well, Poverty and Plenty, Truths and Truth, Speech a Cloud, Knowledge and Truth, Exchange of Sex, Love and Death, The Blessed Ones, Intimate Sorrow, Lachrymatories, and Love's Lord.Less
This section features Edward Dowden's poems from A Woman's Reliquary (based on the 1914 Dent edition), including The Rosary, Song a Shadow, Silence and Speech, A Garden Inclosed, The Well, Premonitions, Bud and Blossom, The Haven, Manna, Love's Nudity, Credo quia Impossible, Grief in Joy, and Giving and Taking. Also included are The Interpreter, Love's Sacrament, Ave Atque Vale, The Resting Place, Impersonal, Babblement, Gift on Gift, The Chapel, Charity and Knowledge, The Potter's Wheel, The Holy of Holies, Fons Signatus, Love Tokens, Hours and Moments, The Triumph of Love, The Book of Hours, Spring in Autumn, Song and Sunset, The Village Well, Poverty and Plenty, Truths and Truth, Speech a Cloud, Knowledge and Truth, Exchange of Sex, Love and Death, The Blessed Ones, Intimate Sorrow, Lachrymatories, and Love's Lord.
Carol Margaret Davison
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781784992699
- eISBN:
- 9781526124050
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781784992699.003.0015
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
Taking as its point of focus E. Elias Merhige’s Shadow of the Vampire (2000), a cinematic mise-en-abîme homage to, and a self-referential twenty-first century commentary on F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, ...
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Taking as its point of focus E. Elias Merhige’s Shadow of the Vampire (2000), a cinematic mise-en-abîme homage to, and a self-referential twenty-first century commentary on F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, this essay examines vampire cinema as an emblem of ‘technological necromancy’ that mediates our ambivalent responses to modernity, its proliferating technologies, and death in the wake of the secularising Enlightenment whose driving ideal – rational empiricism – undermined long established Christian certainties about the existence and nature of a soul and an afterlife. This essay reads Shadow as a compelling and sedimented, twenty-first century meditation on the nefarious, desensitizing impact of our cultural addiction to visual technologies, in which the vampire is used to mirror its audience. Shadow is also assessed as an interrogation of the gender and racial politics of cinematic spectatorship – particularly the influence and impact of pornography and propaganda cinema.Less
Taking as its point of focus E. Elias Merhige’s Shadow of the Vampire (2000), a cinematic mise-en-abîme homage to, and a self-referential twenty-first century commentary on F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, this essay examines vampire cinema as an emblem of ‘technological necromancy’ that mediates our ambivalent responses to modernity, its proliferating technologies, and death in the wake of the secularising Enlightenment whose driving ideal – rational empiricism – undermined long established Christian certainties about the existence and nature of a soul and an afterlife. This essay reads Shadow as a compelling and sedimented, twenty-first century meditation on the nefarious, desensitizing impact of our cultural addiction to visual technologies, in which the vampire is used to mirror its audience. Shadow is also assessed as an interrogation of the gender and racial politics of cinematic spectatorship – particularly the influence and impact of pornography and propaganda cinema.
