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No full textArtists and writers discuss using other people’s words as a resource for making new texts and art works. Featuring Rory Macbeth on translating Kafka without a dictionary and Annabel Frearson on her use of algorithms and Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' and poet Sam Riviere
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No full textCourtship of Rory O\u27More and Kathleen Bawnhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/1961/thumbnail.jp
Stephen Partridge & Erik Kwakkel (eds.). Author, Reader, Book: Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice
No full textMacbeth
No full text“The time has been
That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
And there an end”.
Macbeth’s words ring true, but Philip Sidney’s cousin Henry Harrington is the subject of a memorable passage in Henry Sidney’s Irish Memoir that must give us pause. Rory Oge O’More took Harrington hostage in November 1577, to Sir Henry’s great distress, “for I loved him and do love him as a son of my own”. Harrington was “so wounded him as I myself in his dressing did see his brains moving; yet my good soldiers brought him away, and a great way, upon their halberds and pikes, to a good place in that country, where he was relieved, and afterwards (I thank God) recovered”. The Irish wars played into Shakespeare’s drama throughout the period, yet despite Anne Barton’s insistence forty years ago that Macbeth “is surely as much a history play as Richard II”, the so-called “Scottish play” has not been historicized in the same way as Shakespeare’s medieval “English” histories (whose own depiction of national and regional identities is often more complex than critics allow). This chapter offers a critical reading of Macbeth as a play preoccupied with war, including civil war and border warfare. Working at the intersection of battlefield archaeology, military history, and medical humanities it aims to re-contextualize our understanding of the play. It sets out to do three things: (1) track the representation of the effects and aftereffects of war and wounding in Macbeth and other early modern writings, such as John Read’s translation of Franciscus Arcæus, A Most Excellent and Compendious Method of Curing Woundes in the Head, and in Other Parts of the Body (1588); (2) examine modern responses to Shakespeare’s play by soldiers and psychiatrists that raise issues about the care and control of veterans, and the politics of remembering and remembrance; and (3) reflect on recent responses to Macbeth as a drama depicting the consequences of post-traumatic stress disorder. Macbeth is arguably the greatest example of a character whose brutality is condemned so soon after being celebrated. There is clearly an exploration of doublethink in a play that holds up savagery as heroism in its opening act in the shape of the severed head of a rebel and holds up the head of the executioner, a hero-turned-villain, in its closing scene. With all the smoke and mirrors of witches and ghosts, audiences need to be alert to the play’s exploration of hypocrisy and realpolitik, and the experience and memory of conflict and survival
Macbeth and trauma
No full text“The time has been
That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
And there an end”.
Macbeth’s words ring true, but Philip Sidney’s cousin Henry Harrington is the subject of a memorable passage in Henry Sidney’s Irish Memoir that must give us pause. Rory Oge O’More took Harrington hostage in November 1577, to Sir Henry’s great distress, “for I loved him and do love him as a son of my own”. Harrington was “so wounded him as I myself in his dressing did see his brains moving; yet my good soldiers brought him away, and a great way, upon their halberds and pikes, to a good place in that country, where he was relieved, and afterwards (I thank God) recovered”. The Irish wars played into Shakespeare’s drama throughout the period, yet despite Anne Barton’s insistence forty years ago that Macbeth “is surely as much a history play as Richard II”, the so-called “Scottish play” has not been historicized in the same way as Shakespeare’s medieval “English” histories (whose own depiction of national and regional identities is often more complex than critics allow). This chapter offers a critical reading of Macbeth as a play preoccupied with war, including civil war and border warfare. Working at the intersection of battlefield archaeology, military history, and medical humanities it aims to re-contextualize our understanding of the play. It sets out to do three things: (1) track the representation of the effects and aftereffects of war and wounding in Macbeth and other early modern writings, such as John Read’s translation of Franciscus Arcæus, A Most Excellent and Compendious Method of Curing Woundes in the Head, and in Other Parts of the Body (1588); (2) examine modern responses to Shakespeare’s play by soldiers and psychiatrists that raise issues about the care and control of veterans, and the politics of remembering and remembrance; and (3) reflect on recent responses to Macbeth as a drama depicting the consequences of post-traumatic stress disorder. Macbeth is arguably the greatest example of a character whose brutality is condemned so soon after being celebrated. There is clearly an exploration of doublethink in a play that holds up savagery as heroism in its opening act in the shape of the severed head of a rebel and holds up the head of the executioner, a hero-turned-villain, in its closing scene. With all the smoke and mirrors of witches and ghosts, audiences need to be alert to the play’s exploration of hypocrisy and realpolitik, and the experience and memory of conflict and survival
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Divorce tools & techniques.
No full textHere are proven tactics, based on author Rory T. Weiler's 30 years of experience, for handling the common issues and complex problems that you encounter in your divorce practice
Open Educational Resources
No full textThe production, licensing, use and re-use of learning objects accessible through open access distribution will be the focus of this presentation. Noted author and scholar Dr. Rory McGreal will share his knowledge of the increasing opportunities and challenges associated with the open access publication of learning materials
Early Shakespeare, 1588-1594
No full textEarly Shakespeare, 1588–1594 draws together leading scholars of text, performance, and theatre history to offer a rigorous re-appraisal of Shakespeare's early career. The contributors offer rich new critical insights into the theatrical and poetic context in which Shakespeare first wrote and his emergence as an author of note, while challenging traditional readings of his beginnings in the burgeoning theatre industry. Shakespeare's earliest works are treated on their own merit and in their own time without looking forward to Shakespeare's later achievements; contributors situate Shakespeare, in his twenties, in a very specific time, place, and cultural moment. The volume features essays about Shakespeare's early style, characterisation, and dramaturgy, together with analysis of his early co-authors, rivals, and influences (including Lyly, Spenser and Marlowe). This collection provides essential entry points to, and original readings of, the poet-dramatist's earliest extant writings and shines new light on his first activities as a professional author
The Behavioral Economics Guide 2014 (with a foreword by George Loewenstein and Rory Sutherland)
No full textCONTENTS Foreword by George Loewenstein and Rory Sutherland Part 1 - The Basics - An Introduction to Behavioral Economics - Selected Behavioral Economics Concepts - References Part 2 - Resources - Books Read by 'Behavioral Economics Group' Members - Scholarly Journals with Behavioral Economics Content - Postgraduate Programs in Behavioral Economics and Behavioral/Decision Science Part 3 - Applied Perspectives Psychology and Behavioral Economics in Practice Appendix - Author and Contributing Organization Profile
Pictures of You : Ten Journeys in Time
No full text"The 20th century took history out of the hands of historians and gave it to photographers. in Pictures of You, best-selling author Rory MacLean (Stalin's Nose, Berlin:Imagine a City) draws on the world's largest archive of amateur photography to discover ten real lives, one from each decade of that century. The first killing of the Cold War, the dying hopes of a doomed aviator, the ghosts of Native America at Alcatraz, Chairman Mao's most timid lover; ten journeys in time, ten forgotten voices that echo down from the past, ten intimate stories that mirror our own." -- p. [2] of cover
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