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Q and A with Winnie M Li on Complicit
No full text‘Like the best filmmakers, Li draws you to the edge of your seat and keeps you there’. Following Winnie M Li’s debut novel Dark Chapter, winner of the Not the Booker Prize 2017, Complicit is her new thriller that follows protagonist Sarah Lai as she reflects on her past experiences of silence, suppression and abuse in the film industry. We speak to Winnie M Li about writing the novel, delving into workplace practices and webs of complicity, the power of fiction for social justice movements and the need for spaces of collective healing. Q&A with Winnie M Li on Complicit. Orion Books (UK)/Atria Books (US). 2022
Winnie Li on Finding That Elusive Thing: A Perfect Writing Space
No full textThe author of Complicit reflects on the cozy writerly dream, motherhood, and making peace with a messier realit
Winnie Li on Finding That Elusive Thing: A Perfect Writing Space
No full textThe author of Complicit reflects on the cozy writerly dream, motherhood, and making peace with a messier realit
Women of the World Festival: celebrity, solidarity, and activism
No full textWinnie M Li is a first-year PhD researcher in the Dept of Media and Communications, focusing on the impact of social media and storytelling on the public dialogue about rape. She is also writes for The Huffington Post about sexual assault, and this year, she co-founded the Clear Lines Festival, the UK’s first-ever festival dedicated to talking about sexual assault and consent through the arts and discussion. The festival was entirely crowd-funded, and brought together over 60 artists, speakers, comedians, and journalists to engage with the public on the issue
Winnie M Li and Jordan Harper on Complicity, Confrontation, and the City of Angels
No full textThe authors of two recent books set in LA discuss how their characters confront a culture numbed to bad behavio
Winnie M Li and Jordan Harper on Complicity, Confrontation, and the City of Angels
No full textThe authors of two recent books set in LA discuss how their characters confront a culture numbed to bad behavio
Winnie the Pooh in the classroom
Get PDFIn this master’s thesis, I have chosen to write about Winnie the Pooh, and the main characters of four children’s books written by Alan Alexander Milne and illustrated by E.H. Sheppard. The statement of hypothesis is: Can the characters in Winnie the Pooh be argued to be personifications of the various traits of Christopher Robin? And what can these traits tell us, when shown, in a pupil? To answer this hypothesis I have made use of Glynis Hannell's book Identifying Children with Special Needs in reference to the characters and students. The discussion sets out to show that the traits of the characters in Winnie the Pooh can be found in every classroom and that some of the traits may, or may not, be a symptom of a disorder. In the cases where the trait may have a connection to a disorder, the disorder in question is also addressed. Further, the thesis contains chapters about the author, A. A. Milne, his son, the real Christopher Robin, and various critic’s views and interpretations of the Winnie the Pooh stories
Writing My Trauma with a Little Help from a Jason Bourne Car Chase:Winnie M Li on What Writers Can Take From the Big Screen
No full textWriting My Trauma with a Little Help from a Jason Bourne Car Chase:Winnie M Li on What Writers Can Take From the Big Screen
No full textAcademic Pooh Bear: A reception analysis of Winnie-the-Pooh in a literary critical perspective: A reception analysis of Winnie-the-Pooh in a literary critical perspective
No full textThe children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh was first published in 1926 by the British author A. A. Milne. Since then, the book and its sequels have been intertwined with many different fields of literature, both as a literary works and in a cinematic context, through the adaptations by The Walt Disney Company. However, it is strikingly absent in the field of literary criticism, since almost no academic work has been performed and published, about which underlying meaning the books may include.The inquiry of this thesis consists of an examination of how the books about Winnie-the-Pooh have been used since the publication of the first book in 1926, specifically within the realm of literary criticism. Furthermore, it also investigates which historical development the usage of the books in academic work has reflected. This thesis is therefore a reception analysis of the books about Winnie- the-Pooh with a focus on a literary critical perspective.In this thesis four source texts have been selected and studied as to represent the way in which the books about Winnie-the-Pooh have been used in literary criticism. The source material is com- posed of: the book The Pooh Perplex from 1964; the article Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: a neurodevelopmental perspective on A. A. Milne from 2000; the book Postmodern Pooh from 2001 and the article The Survival of a Woman: A Feminist Approach to Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner from 2015. The source material expresses a perspective of literary criticism, except for Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood.The theoretical basis for this thesis consists of two approaches to discourse theory and analysis. One being Norman Fairclough and his critical discourse analysis, including his three-dimensional model of critical discourse analysis. The other theoretical approach used in this thesis is that of Ern- esto Laclau and Chantal Mouffes theory of discourse.This thesis also includes the work of Kenneth B. Kidd through the usage of the book Freud in Oz, at the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature from 2011. Furthermore, re- search about the different strategies that consist within literary criticism will also be included, through the usage the chapter Oversigt over kritiske skoler by Ane M. K. Lønneker et al., from the anthology Litteratur: Introduktion til teori og analyse by Lasse H. Kjældgaard et al.The analysis of this thesis uses the first level of Fairclough’s three-dimensional model in cor- relation with the chosen source material, as to examine the textual elements hereof. Furthermore, the source material is examined to determine which strategies within literary criticism they convey. This is followed by a discussion, in which the second and third levels of Fairclough’s three-dimensional model is used, as well as Laclau and Mouffes theory of discourse. The objective of this discussion is1to determine the discursive and social practice of the source texts. Furthermore, the discussion seeks to establish which discourse the sources assign themselves to.The conclusion of this thesis ultimately finds, on the basis of the stated theoretical approach, analysis and discussion, that the source texts all abide by Kidds Poohology discourse, if this discourse is reimagined to involve three or more individual discursive paths. The first of these consists of Kidds own text, which includes a psychoanalytical, but not literary critical, perspective towards the Winnie- the-Pooh books. The second path would be Literary Critical Poohology, which is the discourse both The Pooh Perplex, Postmodern Pooh and The Survival of a Woman follow. The third and last path, would be Medical Poohology, which is the discourse of Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood, which consists of a neuro and developmental psychological perspective on the books about Winnie-the- Pooh. This conclusion, however, is made with the reservation, that discourses are never constant, and are always changing. Therefore, these results will only work within this paper with these specific sources. This thesis also finds that the sources, in almost unison, operate as reflections of their con- temporary time and the evolution of literary criticism
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