Rosemary Deem, Sam Hillyard, and Michael Reed
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199265909
- eISBN:
- 9780191708602
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199265909.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Knowledge Management
The nature of Higher Education in the UK has changed over the last three decades. Academics can no longer be said to carry out their work in ‘ivory towers’, as increasing government intervention and ...
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The nature of Higher Education in the UK has changed over the last three decades. Academics can no longer be said to carry out their work in ‘ivory towers’, as increasing government intervention and a growing ‘target culture’ has changed the way they work. Increasingly universities have transformed from ‘communities of scholars’ to ‘workplaces’. The organization and administration of universities has seen a corresponding prevalence of ideas and strategies drawn from the ‘New Public Management’ ideology in response, promoting a more ‘business-focussed’ approach in the management of public services. This book examines the issues that these changes have had on academics, both as the ‘knowledge-workers’ managed, and the ‘manager-academic’. It draws on a study of academics holding management roles in sixteen UK universities, exploring their career histories and trajectories, and providing accounts of their values, practices, relationships with others, and their training and development as managers. Examining debates around ‘New Public Management’, knowledge management, and knowledge workers, the wider implications of these themes for policy innovation and strategy in HE and the public sector more generally are considered, developing a critical response to recent approaches to managing public services, and practical suggestions for improvements which could be made to the training and support of senior and middle managers in universities.Less
The nature of Higher Education in the UK has changed over the last three decades. Academics can no longer be said to carry out their work in ‘ivory towers’, as increasing government intervention and a growing ‘target culture’ has changed the way they work. Increasingly universities have transformed from ‘communities of scholars’ to ‘workplaces’. The organization and administration of universities has seen a corresponding prevalence of ideas and strategies drawn from the ‘New Public Management’ ideology in response, promoting a more ‘business-focussed’ approach in the management of public services. This book examines the issues that these changes have had on academics, both as the ‘knowledge-workers’ managed, and the ‘manager-academic’. It draws on a study of academics holding management roles in sixteen UK universities, exploring their career histories and trajectories, and providing accounts of their values, practices, relationships with others, and their training and development as managers. Examining debates around ‘New Public Management’, knowledge management, and knowledge workers, the wider implications of these themes for policy innovation and strategy in HE and the public sector more generally are considered, developing a critical response to recent approaches to managing public services, and practical suggestions for improvements which could be made to the training and support of senior and middle managers in universities.
William Bain
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199260263
- eISBN:
- 9780191600975
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199260265.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Begins by giving an outline of the idea of trusteeship as presented by P. H. Kerr, and then as viewed against a background of the opposite idea—that of liberty, as considered by J. S. Mill. It states ...
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Begins by giving an outline of the idea of trusteeship as presented by P. H. Kerr, and then as viewed against a background of the opposite idea—that of liberty, as considered by J. S. Mill. It states the purpose of the book is to interrogate the character of trusteeship as an idea of international society, to investigate the assumptions, claims, and justifications that render it intelligible as a recognized and settled mode of human conduct in international life. It contends that the character of trusteeship is discernible in full relief at the intersection of two dispositions of human conduct: the good of assisting persons in need, and the good of respecting human autonomy. The first part of the chapter is a general discussion of the idea of trusteeship in contemporary international society, and it ends by commenting that, since the 11 September attacks, there is very little about the Bush administration's claims that would be out of place in the age of empire—an age in which trusteeship was the most obvious outward manifestation of a similarly righteous mission to propagate the virtue of civilization and to eradicate its enemies. The remaining three sections of the chapter discuss the idiom of Oakeshottian conversation in which the book is written, the international society/English School theoretical tradition in which the book is situated, and the character of trusteeship, which is intelligible in a particular relation of virtue, inequality, and tutelage.Less
Begins by giving an outline of the idea of trusteeship as presented by P. H. Kerr, and then as viewed against a background of the opposite idea—that of liberty, as considered by J. S. Mill. It states the purpose of the book is to interrogate the character of trusteeship as an idea of international society, to investigate the assumptions, claims, and justifications that render it intelligible as a recognized and settled mode of human conduct in international life. It contends that the character of trusteeship is discernible in full relief at the intersection of two dispositions of human conduct: the good of assisting persons in need, and the good of respecting human autonomy. The first part of the chapter is a general discussion of the idea of trusteeship in contemporary international society, and it ends by commenting that, since the 11 September attacks, there is very little about the Bush administration's claims that would be out of place in the age of empire—an age in which trusteeship was the most obvious outward manifestation of a similarly righteous mission to propagate the virtue of civilization and to eradicate its enemies. The remaining three sections of the chapter discuss the idiom of Oakeshottian conversation in which the book is written, the international society/English School theoretical tradition in which the book is situated, and the character of trusteeship, which is intelligible in a particular relation of virtue, inequality, and tutelage.
Haruzo Hida
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780198571025
- eISBN:
- 9780191718946
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198571025.003.0004
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Algebra
This chapter discusses p-adic automorphic forms on Shimura variety from Springer, recalling the exact control theorem which connects the specialization (at a given weight) of the universal nearly ...
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This chapter discusses p-adic automorphic forms on Shimura variety from Springer, recalling the exact control theorem which connects the specialization (at a given weight) of the universal nearly ordinary Hecke algebra with the Hecke algebra of finite level of the given weight. A new result is presented relating the adjoint L-invariant (discussed in Chapter 3); the order of vanishing at s=1 of the adjoint L-function of a Hilbert modular automorphic representation r; and the extensions Ext(r,r) of the p-adic automorphic representation r.Less
This chapter discusses p-adic automorphic forms on Shimura variety from Springer, recalling the exact control theorem which connects the specialization (at a given weight) of the universal nearly ordinary Hecke algebra with the Hecke algebra of finite level of the given weight. A new result is presented relating the adjoint L-invariant (discussed in Chapter 3); the order of vanishing at s=1 of the adjoint L-function of a Hilbert modular automorphic representation r; and the extensions Ext(r,r) of the p-adic automorphic representation r.
Sanford Schwartz
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195374728
- eISBN:
- 9780199871506
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195374728.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Literature
This study of C. S. Lewis’s popular Space Trilogy—Out of the Silent Planet (1938), Perelandra (1943), and That Hideous Strength (1945)—departs from the prevailing emphasis upon Lewis’s affection for ...
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This study of C. S. Lewis’s popular Space Trilogy—Out of the Silent Planet (1938), Perelandra (1943), and That Hideous Strength (1945)—departs from the prevailing emphasis upon Lewis’s affection for the “Medieval Model” of the universe and situates Lewis’s work in the context of modern intellectual, cultural, and political history. It demonstrates that Lewis did not simply dismiss the modern “Developmental Model,” as is often assumed, but discriminated carefully among different kinds of evolutionary theory and the manner in which they influenced modern thinking about human nature, social practice, and religious conviction. It also shows that the “unfallen” imaginary worlds that Lewis constructs on Mars and Venus are derived not only from classical and medieval sources but also from the transfiguration or “taking up” of the same modern evolutionary paradigm he is ostensibly putting down. This perspective on the Space Trilogy (an appendix is devoted to the abortive “Dark Tower”) brings out the enduring relevance of Lewis’s “scientific romances” to contemporary concerns on a wide variety of issues, including our relations to the natural world and the other species with whom we share Earth, the ethical and political problems surrounding the emerging revolution in bio-technology, and the seemingly intractable struggle between religious and naturalistic worldviews in the twenty-first century. Far from a simple struggle between an old-fashioned Christian humanism and a newfangled heresy, Lewis’s Space Trilogy is the searching effort of a modern religious apologist to sustain and enrich the former through critical engagement with the latter.Less
This study of C. S. Lewis’s popular Space Trilogy—Out of the Silent Planet (1938), Perelandra (1943), and That Hideous Strength (1945)—departs from the prevailing emphasis upon Lewis’s affection for the “Medieval Model” of the universe and situates Lewis’s work in the context of modern intellectual, cultural, and political history. It demonstrates that Lewis did not simply dismiss the modern “Developmental Model,” as is often assumed, but discriminated carefully among different kinds of evolutionary theory and the manner in which they influenced modern thinking about human nature, social practice, and religious conviction. It also shows that the “unfallen” imaginary worlds that Lewis constructs on Mars and Venus are derived not only from classical and medieval sources but also from the transfiguration or “taking up” of the same modern evolutionary paradigm he is ostensibly putting down. This perspective on the Space Trilogy (an appendix is devoted to the abortive “Dark Tower”) brings out the enduring relevance of Lewis’s “scientific romances” to contemporary concerns on a wide variety of issues, including our relations to the natural world and the other species with whom we share Earth, the ethical and political problems surrounding the emerging revolution in bio-technology, and the seemingly intractable struggle between religious and naturalistic worldviews in the twenty-first century. Far from a simple struggle between an old-fashioned Christian humanism and a newfangled heresy, Lewis’s Space Trilogy is the searching effort of a modern religious apologist to sustain and enrich the former through critical engagement with the latter.
G. A. KOSHELENKO
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263846
- eISBN:
- 9780191734113
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263846.003.0013
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter discusses the result of research on the Gobekly-depe fortifications at the north-western edge of the Merv Oasis conducted by the South Turkmenistan Archaeological Multi-Disciplinary ...
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This chapter discusses the result of research on the Gobekly-depe fortifications at the north-western edge of the Merv Oasis conducted by the South Turkmenistan Archaeological Multi-Disciplinary Expedition (YuTAKE) in the late 1940s. The findings suggest that the fortress served as a residence for the state dignitary in charge of the fortress and as a warehouse to which specific commodities were sent from Merv and from which they were then distributed further. The plan of the fortifications involved towers in all four corners and an entrance in the middle of the south wall, and the walls were built with alternate layers of mud bricks and pakhsa.Less
This chapter discusses the result of research on the Gobekly-depe fortifications at the north-western edge of the Merv Oasis conducted by the South Turkmenistan Archaeological Multi-Disciplinary Expedition (YuTAKE) in the late 1940s. The findings suggest that the fortress served as a residence for the state dignitary in charge of the fortress and as a warehouse to which specific commodities were sent from Merv and from which they were then distributed further. The plan of the fortifications involved towers in all four corners and an entrance in the middle of the south wall, and the walls were built with alternate layers of mud bricks and pakhsa.
Jonathan M. Bloom
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780748637256
- eISBN:
- 9780748693832
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637256.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to explore the history and development of the minaret. It seeks to explain when and why Muslims decided to attach towers to mosques, ...
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This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to explore the history and development of the minaret. It seeks to explain when and why Muslims decided to attach towers to mosques, why they look so different in different places, and what they were intended to mean. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.Less
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to explore the history and development of the minaret. It seeks to explain when and why Muslims decided to attach towers to mosques, why they look so different in different places, and what they were intended to mean. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
BILLIE MELMAN
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780197264942
- eISBN:
- 9780191754111
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264942.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter discusses Tudorism in popular historical culture during the nineteenth century. First, it briefly delineates the apparent streamlining of the Tudor era into a broadly Whig and ...
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This chapter discusses Tudorism in popular historical culture during the nineteenth century. First, it briefly delineates the apparent streamlining of the Tudor era into a broadly Whig and liberal-radical culture of progress and improvement and the confident interpretation of history. It then focuses on the evolution of popular Tudorism with its emphasis upon, and uses of, horror and its relations to modernity and urbanisation: what Dickens described as the ‘attraction of repulsion’ in horror. It traces developments in representations, meanings, and uses of Tudor horror, mainly by concentrating on the Tower of London, which during the nineteenth century evolved into an embodiment of the history of England, and the site of continuous debate and contest over access to, and ownership of, the Tudors.Less
This chapter discusses Tudorism in popular historical culture during the nineteenth century. First, it briefly delineates the apparent streamlining of the Tudor era into a broadly Whig and liberal-radical culture of progress and improvement and the confident interpretation of history. It then focuses on the evolution of popular Tudorism with its emphasis upon, and uses of, horror and its relations to modernity and urbanisation: what Dickens described as the ‘attraction of repulsion’ in horror. It traces developments in representations, meanings, and uses of Tudor horror, mainly by concentrating on the Tower of London, which during the nineteenth century evolved into an embodiment of the history of England, and the site of continuous debate and contest over access to, and ownership of, the Tudors.
Harvey Molotch
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691163581
- eISBN:
- 9781400852338
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691163581.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Security Studies
This chapter focuses on Ground Zero and the successive attempts to rebuild. It treats the replacement skyline of New York as a great mishap and wasted opportunity. Security measures display, on the ...
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This chapter focuses on Ground Zero and the successive attempts to rebuild. It treats the replacement skyline of New York as a great mishap and wasted opportunity. Security measures display, on the ground, some rather new ways that political authority combines with market forces to shape the world. Although there were varied aesthetic and moral visions of what should happen at the site, the pugilist instinct predominated. Post-9/11 measures to protect the downtown called for not just any sort of buildings, but those that would show the enemy that we could build tall and powerful. The result is a different kind of building in the form of One World Trade Center, also known as “Freedom Tower.” It is argued that the “program” for the structure, still in another way, created vulnerabilities through misguided hardening up.Less
This chapter focuses on Ground Zero and the successive attempts to rebuild. It treats the replacement skyline of New York as a great mishap and wasted opportunity. Security measures display, on the ground, some rather new ways that political authority combines with market forces to shape the world. Although there were varied aesthetic and moral visions of what should happen at the site, the pugilist instinct predominated. Post-9/11 measures to protect the downtown called for not just any sort of buildings, but those that would show the enemy that we could build tall and powerful. The result is a different kind of building in the form of One World Trade Center, also known as “Freedom Tower.” It is argued that the “program” for the structure, still in another way, created vulnerabilities through misguided hardening up.
Stephen R. Haynes
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195142792
- eISBN:
- 9780199834280
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195142799.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This chapter reviews the history of biblical interpretation with regard to Nimrod (Ham's grandson through Cush), who is described in Genesis 10:6–12 as “a mighty hunter before the Lord.” The roots of ...
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This chapter reviews the history of biblical interpretation with regard to Nimrod (Ham's grandson through Cush), who is described in Genesis 10:6–12 as “a mighty hunter before the Lord.” The roots of Nimrod's traditional association with the Tower of Babel are explored, as is the evolution of Nimrod's personification of the more aggressive and rebellious dimensions of the Hamitic curse. The beginning of Nimrod's explicit racialization is located in the work of nineteenth‐century author Alexander Hislop.Less
This chapter reviews the history of biblical interpretation with regard to Nimrod (Ham's grandson through Cush), who is described in Genesis 10:6–12 as “a mighty hunter before the Lord.” The roots of Nimrod's traditional association with the Tower of Babel are explored, as is the evolution of Nimrod's personification of the more aggressive and rebellious dimensions of the Hamitic curse. The beginning of Nimrod's explicit racialization is located in the work of nineteenth‐century author Alexander Hislop.
Stephen R. Haynes
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195142792
- eISBN:
- 9780199834280
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195142799.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This chapter traces the way Noah's curse has been interpreted by Christians seeking to establish the relevance of Genesis 9–11 in a post‐Civil Rights age. While race steadily receded into the ...
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This chapter traces the way Noah's curse has been interpreted by Christians seeking to establish the relevance of Genesis 9–11 in a post‐Civil Rights age. While race steadily receded into the background of American commentary on Genesis 9–11 during the twentieth century, Bible readers continued to commend Noah's prophecy as a “remarkable unfolding of the future destinies of the new humanity.” As such, the passage was read as a delineation of the character and destiny of the great human “types” stemming from Shem, Japheth, and Ham. Attention is also given to the way the biblical tale of the Tower of Babel came to function as an explanation for the origins of human difference.Less
This chapter traces the way Noah's curse has been interpreted by Christians seeking to establish the relevance of Genesis 9–11 in a post‐Civil Rights age. While race steadily receded into the background of American commentary on Genesis 9–11 during the twentieth century, Bible readers continued to commend Noah's prophecy as a “remarkable unfolding of the future destinies of the new humanity.” As such, the passage was read as a delineation of the character and destiny of the great human “types” stemming from Shem, Japheth, and Ham. Attention is also given to the way the biblical tale of the Tower of Babel came to function as an explanation for the origins of human difference.
Max A. Alekseyev and Toby Berger
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691164038
- eISBN:
- 9781400881338
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691164038.003.0005
- Subject:
- Mathematics, History of Mathematics
This chapter studies solutions of the Tower of Hanoi puzzle and some of its variants with random moves, where each move is chosen uniformly from the set of the valid moves in the current state. The ...
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This chapter studies solutions of the Tower of Hanoi puzzle and some of its variants with random moves, where each move is chosen uniformly from the set of the valid moves in the current state. The Tower of Hanoi puzzle consists of n disks of distinct sizes distributed across three pegs. At a single move it is permitted to transfer a disk from the top of one peg to the top of another peg, if this results in a valid state, i.e. a particular distribution of the disks across the pegs. The chapter proves the exact formulas for the expected number of random moves to solve the puzzles. It also presents an alternative proof for one of the formulas that couples a theorem about expected commute times of random walks on graphs with the delta-to-wye transformation used in the analysis of three-phase AC systems for electrical power distribution.Less
This chapter studies solutions of the Tower of Hanoi puzzle and some of its variants with random moves, where each move is chosen uniformly from the set of the valid moves in the current state. The Tower of Hanoi puzzle consists of n disks of distinct sizes distributed across three pegs. At a single move it is permitted to transfer a disk from the top of one peg to the top of another peg, if this results in a valid state, i.e. a particular distribution of the disks across the pegs. The chapter proves the exact formulas for the expected number of random moves to solve the puzzles. It also presents an alternative proof for one of the formulas that couples a theorem about expected commute times of random walks on graphs with the delta-to-wye transformation used in the analysis of three-phase AC systems for electrical power distribution.
Thomas Leslie
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252037542
- eISBN:
- 9780252094798
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252037542.001.0001
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
For more than a century, Chicago's skyline has included some of the world's most distinctive and inspiring buildings. This history of the Windy City's skyscrapers begins in the key period of ...
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For more than a century, Chicago's skyline has included some of the world's most distinctive and inspiring buildings. This history of the Windy City's skyscrapers begins in the key period of reconstruction after the Great Fire of 1871 and concludes in 1934 with the onset of the Great Depression, which brought architectural progress to a standstill. During this time, such iconic landmarks as the Chicago Tribune Tower, the Wrigley Building, the Marshall Field and Company Building, the Chicago Stock Exchange, the Palmolive Building, the Masonic Temple, the City Opera, Merchandise Mart, and many others rose to impressive new heights, thanks to innovations in building methods and materials. Solid, earthbound edifices of iron, brick, and stone made way for towers of steel and plate glass, imparting a striking new look to Chicago's growing urban landscape. This book reveals the daily struggles, technical breakthroughs, and negotiations that produced these magnificent buildings. It also considers how the city's infamous political climate contributed to its architecture, as building and zoning codes were often disputed by shifting networks of rivals, labor unions, professional organizations, and municipal bodies. Featuring more than a hundred photographs and illustrations of the city's physically impressive and beautifully diverse architecture, the book highlights an exceptionally dynamic, energetic period of architectural progress in Chicago.Less
For more than a century, Chicago's skyline has included some of the world's most distinctive and inspiring buildings. This history of the Windy City's skyscrapers begins in the key period of reconstruction after the Great Fire of 1871 and concludes in 1934 with the onset of the Great Depression, which brought architectural progress to a standstill. During this time, such iconic landmarks as the Chicago Tribune Tower, the Wrigley Building, the Marshall Field and Company Building, the Chicago Stock Exchange, the Palmolive Building, the Masonic Temple, the City Opera, Merchandise Mart, and many others rose to impressive new heights, thanks to innovations in building methods and materials. Solid, earthbound edifices of iron, brick, and stone made way for towers of steel and plate glass, imparting a striking new look to Chicago's growing urban landscape. This book reveals the daily struggles, technical breakthroughs, and negotiations that produced these magnificent buildings. It also considers how the city's infamous political climate contributed to its architecture, as building and zoning codes were often disputed by shifting networks of rivals, labor unions, professional organizations, and municipal bodies. Featuring more than a hundred photographs and illustrations of the city's physically impressive and beautifully diverse architecture, the book highlights an exceptionally dynamic, energetic period of architectural progress in Chicago.
Gail Brown
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823257966
- eISBN:
- 9780823268924
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823257966.003.0018
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter presents the author's account of creating the From Where I'm Standing photo-documentary workshop in 1995. Since 2005, she has been providing in-depth photography and writing workshops at ...
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This chapter presents the author's account of creating the From Where I'm Standing photo-documentary workshop in 1995. Since 2005, she has been providing in-depth photography and writing workshops at the Watts Towers Arts Center to people in the community aged ten through sixty-nine. The objective of the workshop is the creation of an in-depth photo-documentary by and about the Watts community, and in the process build community. People of all ages participate in discussions about their photographs and writing, and experience the dynamic and vital relationship between the individual (artist) and the community (society) at large. The chapter concludes by identifying the resonances between the workshop, the Arts Center, and Simon Rodia's Watts Towers.Less
This chapter presents the author's account of creating the From Where I'm Standing photo-documentary workshop in 1995. Since 2005, she has been providing in-depth photography and writing workshops at the Watts Towers Arts Center to people in the community aged ten through sixty-nine. The objective of the workshop is the creation of an in-depth photo-documentary by and about the Watts community, and in the process build community. People of all ages participate in discussions about their photographs and writing, and experience the dynamic and vital relationship between the individual (artist) and the community (society) at large. The chapter concludes by identifying the resonances between the workshop, the Arts Center, and Simon Rodia's Watts Towers.
Steven S. Lee
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231173520
- eISBN:
- 9780231540117
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231173520.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
The Introduction uses Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International (aka Tatlin's Tower) to rethink both ethnicity and the avant-garde. To assist with this effort, I also provide overviews of ...
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The Introduction uses Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International (aka Tatlin's Tower) to rethink both ethnicity and the avant-garde. To assist with this effort, I also provide overviews of Russian modernism's long-standing interest in non-Western cultures, Claude McKay and Walter Benjamin's unexpected impressions of Moscow, and Nikolai Marr's dream of a restored, socialist Tower of Babel.Less
The Introduction uses Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International (aka Tatlin's Tower) to rethink both ethnicity and the avant-garde. To assist with this effort, I also provide overviews of Russian modernism's long-standing interest in non-Western cultures, Claude McKay and Walter Benjamin's unexpected impressions of Moscow, and Nikolai Marr's dream of a restored, socialist Tower of Babel.
Drew Morton
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781496809780
- eISBN:
- 9781496809827
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496809780.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Over the past forty years, American film has entered into a formal interaction with the comic book. Such comic book adaptations as Sin City, 300, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World have adopted ...
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Over the past forty years, American film has entered into a formal interaction with the comic book. Such comic book adaptations as Sin City, 300, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World have adopted components of their source materials' visual style. The screen has been fractured into panels, the photographic has given way to the graphic, and the steady rhythm of cinematic time has evolved into a far more malleable element. In other words, films have begun to look like comics. Yet, this interplay also occurs in the other direction. In order to retain cultural relevancy, comic books have begun to look like films. Frank Miller's original Sin City comics are indebted to film noir while Stephen King's The Dark Tower series could be a Sergio Leone spaghetti western translated onto paper. Film and comic books continuously lean on one another to reimagine their formal attributes and stylistic possibilities. This book examines this dialogue in its intersecting and rapidly changing cultural, technological, and industrial contexts. Early on, many questioned the prospect of a “low” art form suited for children translating into “high” art material capable of drawing colossal box office takes. Now the naysayers are as quiet as the queued crowds at Comic-Cons are massive. The book provides a nuanced account of this phenomenon by using formal analysis of the texts in a real-world context of studio budgets, grosses, and audience reception.Less
Over the past forty years, American film has entered into a formal interaction with the comic book. Such comic book adaptations as Sin City, 300, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World have adopted components of their source materials' visual style. The screen has been fractured into panels, the photographic has given way to the graphic, and the steady rhythm of cinematic time has evolved into a far more malleable element. In other words, films have begun to look like comics. Yet, this interplay also occurs in the other direction. In order to retain cultural relevancy, comic books have begun to look like films. Frank Miller's original Sin City comics are indebted to film noir while Stephen King's The Dark Tower series could be a Sergio Leone spaghetti western translated onto paper. Film and comic books continuously lean on one another to reimagine their formal attributes and stylistic possibilities. This book examines this dialogue in its intersecting and rapidly changing cultural, technological, and industrial contexts. Early on, many questioned the prospect of a “low” art form suited for children translating into “high” art material capable of drawing colossal box office takes. Now the naysayers are as quiet as the queued crowds at Comic-Cons are massive. The book provides a nuanced account of this phenomenon by using formal analysis of the texts in a real-world context of studio budgets, grosses, and audience reception.
M. A. Aldrich
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622097773
- eISBN:
- 9789882207585
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622097773.003.0034
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter continues with the visit to the Old Tartar City, which has a variety of sights, including scenic lakes and other landmarks. The intersection at Di An Men West Avenue and Di An Men Wai ...
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This chapter continues with the visit to the Old Tartar City, which has a variety of sights, including scenic lakes and other landmarks. The intersection at Di An Men West Avenue and Di An Men Wai Avenue is located right on the central axis of Old Peking. From here, one can turn to the north and walk in the direction of the Drum Tower and Bell Tower. While walking north, one will come across the Ming-era Back Door Bridge. An interesting account of Old China meeting with New India is highlighted. But there was indeed a time when China's intellectuals regarded the United States as a source of idealism and benevolence, and in turn, Americans could not resist the temptation of clinging to this ideal even as their government's external actions undermined it. To the minds of many, the image of American hypocrisy deepened tenfold because of the Second Gulf War and the Bush Administration's lame justifications for its misadventure. Perhaps the present state of the Democracy Wall is a fitting end to Chinese idealism about the United States. Now, nothing is left.Less
This chapter continues with the visit to the Old Tartar City, which has a variety of sights, including scenic lakes and other landmarks. The intersection at Di An Men West Avenue and Di An Men Wai Avenue is located right on the central axis of Old Peking. From here, one can turn to the north and walk in the direction of the Drum Tower and Bell Tower. While walking north, one will come across the Ming-era Back Door Bridge. An interesting account of Old China meeting with New India is highlighted. But there was indeed a time when China's intellectuals regarded the United States as a source of idealism and benevolence, and in turn, Americans could not resist the temptation of clinging to this ideal even as their government's external actions undermined it. To the minds of many, the image of American hypocrisy deepened tenfold because of the Second Gulf War and the Bush Administration's lame justifications for its misadventure. Perhaps the present state of the Democracy Wall is a fitting end to Chinese idealism about the United States. Now, nothing is left.
W. A. Sessions
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198186250
- eISBN:
- 9780191674457
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198186250.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
In January 1547, Henry Howard, the poet Earl of Surrey, was beheaded. His execution, the last in the reign of Henry VIII, took place on Tower Hill just north-west of the Tower of London. The young ...
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In January 1547, Henry Howard, the poet Earl of Surrey, was beheaded. His execution, the last in the reign of Henry VIII, took place on Tower Hill just north-west of the Tower of London. The young earl had walked up Tower Hill, ascended the nine steps of the scaffold, spoken, and then thrust his body forward, hands and arms outstretched and head across the block. After the executioner had raised his axe and brought it down, the poet's head, still bleeding, and his torso, cut loose and also bleeding, were thrown into a waiting wagon. The severed head and body were then taken to the nearby London church of All Hallows, Barking, where they were hastily entombed. Within weeks, the first elegy in a long line went straight to the shock of the event. In his poem, Sir John Cheke is still stunned by Surrey's execution.Less
In January 1547, Henry Howard, the poet Earl of Surrey, was beheaded. His execution, the last in the reign of Henry VIII, took place on Tower Hill just north-west of the Tower of London. The young earl had walked up Tower Hill, ascended the nine steps of the scaffold, spoken, and then thrust his body forward, hands and arms outstretched and head across the block. After the executioner had raised his axe and brought it down, the poet's head, still bleeding, and his torso, cut loose and also bleeding, were thrown into a waiting wagon. The severed head and body were then taken to the nearby London church of All Hallows, Barking, where they were hastily entombed. Within weeks, the first elegy in a long line went straight to the shock of the event. In his poem, Sir John Cheke is still stunned by Surrey's execution.
Margaret R. Hunt
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199280728
- eISBN:
- 9780191700149
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199280728.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Social History
This chapter explores gender relations by reading John Gay's poem Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London as a setting in which women are represented as emblems of corruption to be ...
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This chapter explores gender relations by reading John Gay's poem Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London as a setting in which women are represented as emblems of corruption to be reviled and shunned. Their major use is to be read by males as ‘useful natural feature[s] of the city, akin to street signs’ who can help men negotiate urban time and space. The chapter uses the Bible and literature of the Society for the Reformation of Manners to contextualize the poem. It concludes with multiple readings involving fire, gang-rape, falling towers, and engulfment, leaving the fate of male walkers to be concluded by the reader.Less
This chapter explores gender relations by reading John Gay's poem Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London as a setting in which women are represented as emblems of corruption to be reviled and shunned. Their major use is to be read by males as ‘useful natural feature[s] of the city, akin to street signs’ who can help men negotiate urban time and space. The chapter uses the Bible and literature of the Society for the Reformation of Manners to contextualize the poem. It concludes with multiple readings involving fire, gang-rape, falling towers, and engulfment, leaving the fate of male walkers to be concluded by the reader.
Conrad Russell
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198205883
- eISBN:
- 9780191676833
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205883.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter discusses the impeachment trial of Strafford. Strafford was accused of trying to set up ‘arbitrary government’, and to divide the King from his people. The underlying theme of the ...
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This chapter discusses the impeachment trial of Strafford. Strafford was accused of trying to set up ‘arbitrary government’, and to divide the King from his people. The underlying theme of the twenty-eight articles of the charge was the attempt to portray the King as an authoritarian ruler determined to have his own way regardless of any legal or political restraints. It was, throughout the trial, an implied premise of the prosecution that Charles I must settle with his Parliament on the best terms he could get, and nothing less than Strafford's execution could force a reluctant King to compromise. Charles then conceived the idea of an Army Plot designed to seize the London Tower and free Strafford. However, the revelation of the Army Plot caused the Lords to immediately pass the Attainder Bill. For whatever reason, the King's courage failed him, and on May 10, he gave his Royal Assent by Commission.Less
This chapter discusses the impeachment trial of Strafford. Strafford was accused of trying to set up ‘arbitrary government’, and to divide the King from his people. The underlying theme of the twenty-eight articles of the charge was the attempt to portray the King as an authoritarian ruler determined to have his own way regardless of any legal or political restraints. It was, throughout the trial, an implied premise of the prosecution that Charles I must settle with his Parliament on the best terms he could get, and nothing less than Strafford's execution could force a reluctant King to compromise. Charles then conceived the idea of an Army Plot designed to seize the London Tower and free Strafford. However, the revelation of the Army Plot caused the Lords to immediately pass the Attainder Bill. For whatever reason, the King's courage failed him, and on May 10, he gave his Royal Assent by Commission.
Bernard Capp
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203759
- eISBN:
- 9780191675959
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203759.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
John Taylor was born on 24 August 1578 in the parish of St. Ewen's, Gloucester. He learned to read and write at elementary school. When his schooldays were over, he moved south to London where he was ...
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John Taylor was born on 24 August 1578 in the parish of St. Ewen's, Gloucester. He learned to read and write at elementary school. When his schooldays were over, he moved south to London where he was apprenticed to a waterman. The waterman's trade, though lowly, suited Taylor's temperament. It offered him independence and an outdoor life, and guaranteed an endless supply of new faces and stories. For half a century, Taylor's life was bound up with the fortunes of the Thames watermen. Their numbers had grown up dramatically in the later years of Elizabeth's reign. Losing his post as a bottleman proved to be a blessing in disguise, for he became free to embark on the travels that were to make him famous.Less
John Taylor was born on 24 August 1578 in the parish of St. Ewen's, Gloucester. He learned to read and write at elementary school. When his schooldays were over, he moved south to London where he was apprenticed to a waterman. The waterman's trade, though lowly, suited Taylor's temperament. It offered him independence and an outdoor life, and guaranteed an endless supply of new faces and stories. For half a century, Taylor's life was bound up with the fortunes of the Thames watermen. Their numbers had grown up dramatically in the later years of Elizabeth's reign. Losing his post as a bottleman proved to be a blessing in disguise, for he became free to embark on the travels that were to make him famous.
