431,225 research outputs found
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
Ep. #002 - Anna Tsing
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cultures of Energy Podcast is now on iTunes! Stitcher soon! We celebrate Anna Tsing, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz, one of the world’s greatest analysts of globalization and the environment and the author (most recently) of The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Then (6:16) Cymene and Anna talk about feminist legacies, more-than-human anthropology, capitalist ruins and how to think with weeds and mushrooms
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Design Futures time-based paradigms
No full textAnna Barbara pointed out that the design of time
is one of the most important global trends, and
we should take the future as an important tool for
designing the present.
Anna Barbara asked the question: what kind of
present do we live in?
First of all, she explained the present meaning of
contraction and told us that the form of time is
changing. We are driving towards the future like
a car. What we see in the rearview mirror is the
past, and now is simplified to a moment. This is our
current situation.
We decompose our emotions and opinions and
filter our heritage to the world through smart
phones, cameras and other filters, which gives us
a distance between reality and related problems,
between us and social responsibility, and choose
to live in a comfortable area, making us passive
bystanders rather than active participants.
Anna Barbara pointed out that there are more and
more different perspectives, which have brought
us different opinions, which is also changing
the quality of our design and the space we will
live in. We hope to respond to the living space,
experience and experience, and our space may
have been designed 50 years ago, not modern
design at all. At the same time, the digital age has
brought us a completely different life.
In addition, the exploration of time is closely
related to the innovation in the field of mobile and
transportation. Anna Barbara, for example, looks
at the swimming pool in the above figure. The
swimming pool on the screen is more exciting than
in reality. She puts forward a social way to make
life no longer socialized. Excessive use of social
media gives us a sense of definition and existence.
Now we are not close to the people around us, but
we have established contact with people in another
space. Back to the point just mentioned, in fact, we
walk in space, and we don't move our steps when we walk. We don't even exist in space now. Our
existence is nonexistence.
In the compression or expansion of time, not only
designers, people maximize productivity. We are
constantly adjusting our adaptability to time. What
is it like now? With the continuous compression
and expansion of time, we become more and more
efficient, and our productivity has been maximized.
We all use artificial, rising and setting sun like
chickens in farms, but make them produce more
chicken eggs in an unsustainable way.
We have now become consumers of space. Our
feelings and experiences of place have been
distorted, seduced, enjoyed and entertained. Even
if our physiological rhythm is compromised in this
process, we have become over excited consumers,
resulting in emotional bulimia.
Finally, Anna Barbara asked: what should it be like
for future design?
Students are the people who live in the future. She
asked students to design a space where they hope
to live and see their prospects for the future. She
believes that as a teacher, we should go out of the
reflection of knowledge, let ourselves stand out, be
able to accommodate ourselves, teach methods,
abandon ideas, and teach students how to ask
correct questions, rather than simply give answers.
So that students can really live in a conscious
time and space, establish real proximity, sharing
economy and open knowledge. If teachers can
afford equal programs for young people of all
genders without leaving anyone behind, regardless
of social and cultural background, learning will be
highly sustainable in the future
Anna Bonola, Voce, diatesi e processi di trasformazione della struttura attanziale nel verbo russo (con note contrastive sull'italiano)
No full textL'autore descrive lo sviluppo dei concetti di "diatesi" e "voce" nella riflessione linguistica russa dalla grammatica di Lomonosov fino ai nostri giorni e mostra come si è passati da una prospettiva morfo-sintattica a una pragmatico-testuale. Dal punto di vista tipologico non si rilevano particolari differenze fra i mezzi espressivi della struttura attanziale in lingua russa e in lingua italiana. Tuttavia, per quanto concerne l'uso, l'italiano tende a privilegiare la variazione lessicale rispetto all'espressione morfologica (affissazione del verbo).The author describes how in Russian Linguistics (from Lomonosov’s grammar to contemporary research) the concepts of “voice” and “diathesis” have been understood and developed, as well as the fact that there has been a transition from a morphological and syntactic-semantic perspective to a pragmatic-textual one. The ways of expressing tha attantial structure of the Russian verb – morphological and grammaticalized (as regards voice), morphosyntactic (as regards diathesis and attantial derivation) and lexical (conversives) – are described and compared with those of Italian. From a typological point of view, no differences are found but from the analysis of the examples it emerges that in Italian there is a tendency to express transformations of diathesis by means of lexical variation, whereas, in Russian, morphological variation (affixation of the verb) is more common
Anna Guerra interview
No full textAnna Guerra was born in Laredo, Texas and is a 9th generation Laredoan. Her family helped found the town back in 1755. She grew up speaking Spanish, learned English in school and recently learned Hebrew. She attended the University of Texas where she persued a law degree, receiving her Doctorate in Jurisprudence in 1992. She also received her Master's in Clinical Psychology and has been practicing as a psychotherapist for almost 21 years. She's lived in Houston, Texas for 28 years. Anna was raised Catholic but recently converted to Judaism and currently belongs to a congregation in Houston. She started the Spanish citizenship application but did not complete the process.Anna discusses her childhood upbringing and family lineage in Texas and her educational, religious and language background. She shares her Sephardic origins and the discovery of her paternal great grandmother being Jewish and growing up in northern Mexico. She discusses the genealogy and local history projects showing Rio Grande colonists of Sephardic origin from the 1750s (00:05:14). Anna talks about her Mexican American identity, tracing ancestry through DNA, and her research focus on her Sephardic origins (00:09:38). She discusses converting to Judaism (00:18:56) and her experiences attending synagogue (00:23:10). Anna explains how she learned about the Spanish citizenship opportunity (00:26:47) and her motivations for applying (00:30:07). She explains how Spanish citizenship provides affirmation of history and the complexity of identities and feelings of belonging (00:35:28). Anna concludes with thoughts on Sephardic identity and connection to Jewish culture and people (00:45:27).Topics presented in order of discussion on recording:
-Childhood upbringing in Texas; education, language, and religious background.
-Discovery of Sephardic origins in college and confirmation that paternal great grandmother was Jewish and from northern Mexico.
-Sephardic communities in Nuevo Leon during the 1750s.
-Genealogical research using DNA and family trees.
-Discussion of Mexican American identity, tracing heritage back to the 1500s, and desire to better understand hidden Sephardic identity and origins.
-Converting to Judaism, feeling called to Jewish identity, and understanding story of Jewish family migration.
-Personal experiences and cultural connections with Ashkenazi Jews.
-Intellectual freedom within Jewish faith compared to experiences growing up Catholic.
-Subliminal transmission of Jewish identity.
-Learning about citizenship opportunity and applying for certificate of Sephardic ancestry.
-Applying for affirmation and validation of Jewish and Spanish background and history; making history explicit and being part of emerging reconnection.
-Thoughts on persecutions of Jews in Spain and impact on belonging to the country.
-Complexity of the human experience - being oppressors/conquerors and oppressed/subjegated; importance of embracing historical complexities.
-Identifying as a Sephardic Jew and experiences attending a conservative Ashkenazi synagogue.1 online resourceSephardi Citizenship Oral Histor
Anna Hazard letter to Charity Rotch, New York, 7 mo 22nd 1822
No full textAnna Hazard has been ill but has regained her health; she notes that she has heard that Charity has again been ill. Anna reports that Friends who attended the Yearly Meeting will soon be at home with news of the large yearly meetings lasting a week or more that drew in large numbers of Friends from extended areas for religious worship, as well as for networking and finding perspective mates for their children. Anna comments that 'some account of the state of the society will transpire.' 7.8" x 9.55" (19.9 by 24.4 cm
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