410 research outputs found
Review of Barbara Alice Mann, Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath: The Twinned Cosmos of Indigenous America
No full textBarbara Alice Mann, Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath: The Twinned Cosmos of Indigenous America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), xi + 364 pp. 38.95 (paper), $37.99 (ebook).This book review is published as Dees, S. . (2022). Barbara Alice Mann, Spirits of Blood, Spirits of Breath: The Twinned Cosmos of Indigenous America. Pomegranate, 23(1-2), 232–234. https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.21975. Posted with permission
Faith-based Archaeology: Barbara Mann, Archaeologists, and the Mounds
No full textA critical review of Native Americans, Archaeologists, and the Mounds, by Barbara Alice Mann (New York, Peter Lang, 2003)
Relative values: resisting desire and individuation in Barbara Garlaschelli's 'Alice nell'ombra' and 'Sorelle'
No full textBarbara Garlaschelli (Milan, 1965), a successful author of literature for adolescents, editor of children's series and publishing consultant, has recently received acclaim in Italy as one of the most interesting new voices in noir fiction, with two novels published two years apart: Alice
nell ombra (2002) and Sorelle (2004)1.
Although the novels clearly represent two distinct moments in Garlaschelli's literary development -- something which is apparent in the differing structures, narrative strategies and linguistic registers -- they are both set against a common and disturbingly claustrophobic family milieu. It is against this shared backdrop that a female protagonist struggles to reconcile herself with the notions of disenfranchisement and individuation, in an attempt to negotiate a novel formulation of self in the face of extremely adverse personal and familiar circumstances. The aim of this article is to explore how, departing from the canonical structure of crime fiction, Garlaschelli weaves two unsettling tales of love and prevarication, unearthing that obscure side of society which lives and propagates itself from within the bosom of the family
Death, Women, and "Value Production": The Circulation of Hair Strings among the Walpiri of the Central Australian Desert
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Award-Winning Alice in Wonderland
No full textAward-Winning "Alice in Wonderland"Communication Profile SystemsCommunication UpdatesDiacritical MarkingsFacilities, Services Intrigue Foreign VisitorsGetting the Job Done in the 'Big Apple'Graduate Feature: Carl MooreHoward Mann Joins StaffMedia Graphics AwardsMedia Production TechnologyNTID Grads On the Job in Film and TVNational Advisory Board Gains New MembersSharing IdeasStaff Features: Peggy and Larry Quinsland, Kevin NolanStudent Feature: Pat SullivanThird Annual Deaf Hockey TournamentYou Could Feel It. ..
Watson Family
No full textPhotograph - A group of people sitting on the steps of a house, Athabasca, Alberta. Adults, left to right: Thomas Watson, Cecilia Barbara Wright (Watson), Bessie Finlayson (Bell), and Agnes Bell (sister of Thomas Watson). The Wright children, clockwise from top: George, Robin, Charles and Mari
“My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain”: Alzheimer’s Disease and the Impossible Survivor Narrative in Lisa Genova’s Still Alice
No full textThe protagonist of Lisa Genova’s novel Still Alice, Alice Howland, is a Harvard Professor of Cognitive Psychology who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’sdisease at the age of 50. In order to save traces of her past as it progressively wears away, and to maintain control of her life despite the illness, Alice comes up with several coping strategies. She also creates a support group composed of others suffering from the disease, while submitting to an experimental therapy.The diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease still leaves no hope for a positive outcome— that is why, according to Martina Zimmermann, a novel about it does not match the survivor narrative type. In any case, as this contribution hopes to convey, a novel such as Still Alice, the author of which is a neuroscientist, can help patients and their families understand what they are dealing with and what to expect, in a narrative that is not intended as a “cure” or a success story, but mostly as an aid to manage the inevitable disappearance of memory, orientation and family relations.The protagonist of Lisa Genova’s novel Still Alice, Alice Howland, is a Harvard Professor of Cognitive Psychology who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’sdisease at the age of 50. In order to save traces of her past as it progressively wears away, and to maintain control of her life despite the illness, Alice comes up with several coping strategies. She also creates a support group composed of others suffering from the disease, while submitting to an experimental therapy.The diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease still leaves no hope for a positive outcome— that is why, according to Martina Zimmermann, a novel about it does not match the survivor narrative type. In any case, as this contribution hopes to convey, a novel such as Still Alice, the author of which is a neuroscientist, can help patients and their families understand what they are dealing with and what to expect, in a narrative that is not intended as a “cure” or a success story, but mostly as an aid to manage the inevitable disappearance of memory, orientation and family relations
Environmental Urban Morphology: A Multidisciplinary Methodology for the Analysis of Public Spaces in Dense Urban Fabrics
No full textA city is an organism made of social, economic, cultural, and environmental fabrics, the interactions of which determine the form and functioning of city life. Different disciplines are then involved in analyzing the complex processes of the 21st-century city. The aim of this study was to explore the use of an analytical method that can act as a catalyst for the main players involved in the environmental urban morphology (EUM). This multidisciplinary methodology focuses on the study of public space in dense urban fabrics as a key context for understanding a city. Operationally, the work shows the potential of integrating morphological analysis, pedestrian flow analysis, and environmental analysis and applying them in dense and compact urban fabrics. The first of these analyses methods was carried out using urban survey tools and the geographic information system (GIS) in order to detect the physical forms of the city and develop a number of morphological maps. The second, using the global positioning system (GPS) and on-site detectors, maps pedestrian movement within public spaces. The latter mainly focuses on the microclimatic analysis of public spaces and outdoor comfort, carried out using environmental software such as ENVI-met (4.4 version). The ultimate goal of this study was to achieve the definition of a dynamic, multidisciplinary, and multilayer methodology for the analysis of dense urban fabrics which we believe could be very useful for addressing the regenerative processes of the contemporary city.Environmental Technology and Desig
Resist: be modern (again) [Exhibition Catalogue]
No full textCurated by artists and researchers Alice Maude-Roxby and Stefanie Seibold, Resist: be modern (again) explores the practices of women artists of the 1920s and 30s. The project looks back in particular at revolutionary art, design, performative and written practices via the lens of contemporary art, theory and design practitioners, highlighting the importance and influence of these long-lost early avant-garde practices into the present. It is part of a larger research project highlighting the contributions to modernism of women in general and non-heterosexual women in particular.
Contributions by artists: Becky Beasley, Madeleine Bernstorff, Tessa Boffin, Ricarda Denzer, Andrea Geyer, Moira Hille, Alice Maude-Roxby, Nick Mauss, Ursula Mayer, Falke Pisano, Ingrid Pollard, Tanoa Sasraku-Ansah, Katie Schwab, Stefanie Seibold, Megan Francis Sullivan, S. Louisa Wei, Riet Wijnen, Gillian Wylde and curator Beatriz Herráez. The exhibition Resist: be modern (again) includes installations of archival materials, contemporary artists’ works and writings relating to the early practices of Alice Austen, Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland, Natalie Clifford Barney, Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher, Sonia Delaunay, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Rose Dugan and Vera von Blumenthal, Esther Eng, Elizabeth Eyre de Lanux and Evelyn Wyld, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Therese Giehse, Eileen Gray, Lotte Goslar, Barbara Ker-Seymer, The Little Review, Jane Heap and Margaret Anderson, Erika Mann, Maria Martinez, Enid Marx, Marlow Moss,Charlotte Perriand, Lilly Reich, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith, Florine Stettheimer, Renée Vivien, A’Lelia Walker, Marguerite Wildenhain and Virginia Woolf. Essays by Madeleine Bernstorff, Laura Cottingham, Bridget Elliott, Sian Norris, Gemma Romain, T.L. Cowan & Jasmine Rault and Shane Vogel
Food and eating in fiction since 1950 with particular reference to the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis.
No full textPhDEating is a fundamental activity. What people eat, how and with whom, what
they feel about food, what they do or do not want to eat and why - even who
they eat - are of crucial significance in any reading of human behaviour.
In this thesis, I consider the diverse and complex uses of food and eating
in fiction since 1950, especially that written by women. I argue both that food
and eating carry much of the meaning of a novel or story and that the acts of
cooking, feeding and eating depicted are inseparable from issues of power and
control: individually, interpersonally, culturally, politically.
My discussion centres on the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing,
Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory,
sociology, anthropology, Foucault, Bakhtin and others, the thesis aims to
construct an interdisciplinary perspective which both resists reductive
interpretations and emphasises the centrality, complexity and diversity of food
and eating in literature in our culture.
I begin with an examination of the ambiguities of maternal feeding and
nurturing, moving on to explore the links between appetite, eating and sexuality.
I explore cannibalism and vampirism as manifestations of oppression, but also as
indicating insatiable emptiness and transgressive appetite. The body itself is
crucial, and my argument considers the paradox of not eating as
control/enslavement, also tracing self-starvation as a positive route towards
wholeness and connection. The last part of my argument focuses on social
eating, examining conventions, rituals and food itself in connection with power
relations, and finally considers how we might truly speak of food and eating in
the context of society as a whole
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