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MY DARK VANESSA, DE KATE ELIZABETH RUSSELL
No full textIn this review, I analyse the novel My Dark Vanessa, by North-American author Kate Elizabeth Russell, focusing on narrative strategies like the use of suspense, the resort to an unreliable narrator, the chronological alternance between past and present. To substantiate my study, I quote examples taken from the main steps of the plot and I comment upon them.Nesta recensão, analiso o romance My Dark Vanessa, da escritora norte-americana Kate Elizabeth Russell, focando estratégicas narrativas como o uso do suspense, o recurso à narradora não fiável, a alternância cronológica entre passado e presente. Para escorar o meu estudo, cito exemplos dos principais passos do enredo e comento-os
The Reel Living Dead: Tales of Sounds from the Archival Vaults in Memory of Elizabeth Travassos
No full textAbstract: Audiovisual archives were an essential component of the emergence of the fields of comparative musicology and its successor, Ethnomusicology. By the end of the 20th century archives seemed to be less important to the ethnographic study of musical performances. Most researchers analyzed only their own recordings, not those collected by others. This paper suggests that during the past 15 years archives have a renewed ethical, political, and artistic importance. The author describes examples of returning collections to communities for them to use at critical moments in their self-transformation. Collections like those Elizabeth Travassos curated at the Museu de Folklore Edison Carneiro early in her professional career may have continued life in Brazilian culture in spite of the damage inflicted on the recordings by the passage of time. Keywords: Audiovisual archives. Field recordings. Ethnomusicology. Elizabeth Travassos. BrazilDa morte à vida: contos sobre coleções sonoras e fonotecas em memória de Elizabeth TravassosResumo: As fonotecas tiveram um papel essencial no desenvolvimento das disciplinas de musicologia comparativa no início do século 20 e de sua herdeira, a etnomusicologia. Depois, no final do século 20, as fonotecas pareciam menos imporantes e muitos pesquisadores somente analisaram suas próprias gravações, e não as gravações de outras pessoas. O autor descreve examplos do retorno de coleções para as comunidades onde foram colhidas para serem usados em momentos críticos. Sugere-se que durante os ultimos 15 anos fonotecas ganharam um crecida importancia ética, política, e artística. Coleções, como aqueles que Elizabeth Travassos se responsibilizou no Museu Folclore Edison Carneiro no início da sua carreira, possam ter uma nova e importante vida na cultura brasileira, apesar nos danos de deterioração e de tempo. Palavras-chave: Fonotecas. Gravacões para pesquisa. Etnomusicologia. Elizabeth Travassos. Brasi
Translating Brecht : versions of "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder" for the British stage
No full textThis study analyses five British translations of Bertolt Brecht's 'Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder'. Two of these translations were written by speakers of German, and three by well-known British playwrights with no knowledge of the source text language. Four have been produced in mainstream British theatres in the past twenty-five years. The study applies translation studies methodology to a textual analysis which focuses on the translation of techniques of linguistic "Verfremdung", as well as linguistic expression of the comedy and of the political dimension in the work. It thus closes the gap in current Brecht research in examining the importance of his idiosyncratic use of language to the translation and reception of his work in the UK. The study assesses the ways in which the translator and director are influenced by Brecht's legacy in the UK and in turn, what image of Brecht they mediate through the production on stage. To this end, the study throws light on the formation of Brecht's problematic reputation in the UK, and it also highlights the social and political circumstances in early twentieth century Germany which prompted Brecht to develop his theory of an epic theatre.
The focus on a linguistic examination allows the translator's contribution to the production process to be isolated. Together with an investigation of the reception of each performance text, this in turn facilitates a more accurate assessment of the translator and director's respective influence in the process of transforming a foreign-language text onto a local stage. The analysis also sheds light on the different approaches taken by speakers of German, and playwrights creating an English version from a literal translation. It pinpoints losses in translation and adaptation, and suggests how future versions may avoid these
Taste
No full textThis thesis manuscript is the beginning of a book-length project by the same title. Taste is a memoir, dedicated to the exploration of the author’s life through a deep fixation with family dysfunction, mental illness, body image, and food. The narrative begins with the author’s childhood experience of taste, texture, and the insatiable desire to eat, tempered by an awareness of her own developing body, her family’s history with morbid obesity, her mother’s militant avoidance of “junk” food, and her father’s inability to feed his children in the aftermath of an especially vengeful divorce. The narrative follows the author’s bout with anorexia, spurred by a desire to improve a competitive figure skating career with the increased speed and rotation that inevitably follows dramatic weight loss. Once the author is hospitalized in her first eating disorders unit, she discovers the warped world of chronic eating disorder patients, women whose lives revolve around a psychological diagnosis that traps the food-obsessed for the rest of their lives. Out of the hospital, the author’s violent addiction to binge eating, anorexia, and bulimia intensifies and, during the following decade, her weight fluctuates 100 pounds, sometimes rendering her bloated and unrecognizable, other times reducing her to a 58-pound death wish. When the author wakes up one morning to discover she’s mysteriously lost her sense of taste, a life-long infatuation with food is thrown into the fire, but she’ll do anything to recapture the love of her life.M.F.A.by Elizabeth Licoris
Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays
No full text2014 saw the long-awaited first publication of Elizabeth Harrower’s final novel, 'In Certain Circles', written nearly four decades earlier and withdrawn by the author shortly before its scheduled publication by Macmillan in 1971. This belated publication itself enacted a form of literary revival, not least in bearing the impress of international endorsement in the form of a “Rediscovering Harrower” essay by James Wood in the New Yorker. Just ahead of this publication, Harrower said in an interview with Susan Wyndham that part of the reason she withdrew the novel from publication might have had to do with the death of her mother, which had left her “frozen” with grief; she also claimed to have forgotten the novel, and to be no longer interested in it, or in her writing life, or indeed in writing at all
RoMEO Studies 3: How academics expect to use open-access research papers
No full textThis paper is the third in a series of studies emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving). It considers previous studies of the usage of electronic journal articles through a literature survey. It then reports on the results of a survey of 542 academic authors as to how they expected to use open-access research papers. This data is compared with results from the second of the RoMEO Studies series as to how academics wished to protect their open-access research papers. The ways in which academics expect to use open-access works (including activities, restrictions and conditions) are described. It concludes that academics-as-users do not expect to perform all the activities with open-access research papers that academics-as-authors would allow. Thus the rights metadata proposed by the RoMEO Project would appear to meet the usage requirements of most academics
Sob um olhar estrangeiro: nuances da trajetória histórica das mulheres amazônicas a partir da perspectiva de Elizabeth Agassiz
No full textIn the nineteenth century small villages and, later, the city of Manaus received the visit of numerous travelers, who mostly consisted of scientists eager for the local fauna and flora. One of these trips brought the couple Louis and Elizabeth Agassiz, who during the Tayer expedition traveled from Rio de Janeiro to the Amazon. With the support of Emperor Dom Pedro II and help from several locals, the couple spent about a year in Brazil. The region that received the most attention was the Amazon, in which Elizabeth Agassiz describes places, people and animals in her own way. To develop this work, we had as main source the book of the author\u27s travel report, the methodology used was the bibliographical research elaborated from materials available for the research, in addition to the indiciary method used by the Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg, in it is possible to interpret the reality using evidence that allows to decipher it and understand it. We conclude that, in the representations elaborated by Elizabeth Agassiz lies an expressive ideological load, marked by ethnocentrism, evolutionism and racism, theories in vogue in the nineteenth century, in addition to observing that women were present in Amazonian society the problem would be the lack of representation related to them.No decorrer do século XIX pequenas vilas e, posteriormente, a cidade de Manaus receberam a visita de inúmeros viajantes, que na sua maioria, se constituíam de cientistas ávidos pela fauna e flora locais. Uma dessas viagens trouxe o casal Louis e Elizabeth Agassiz, que durante a expedição Tayer percorreram do Rio de Janeiro ao Amazonas. Com o apoio do Imperador Dom Pedro II e ajuda de vários habitantes locais o casal passou cerca de um ano no Brasil. A região que recebeu mais atenção foi a Amazônica, nela, Elizabeth Agassiz descreve lugares, pessoas e animais a sua própria maneira. Para desenvolver esse trabalho, tivemos como fonte principal o livro do relato de viagem da autora, a metodologia utilizada foi a pesquisa bibliográfica elaborada a partir de materiais disponíveis para a pesquisa, além do método indiciário utilizado pelo historiador italiano Carlo Ginzburg, nele é possível interpretar a realidade utilizando indícios que permitam decifrá-la e compreendê-la. Concluímos que, nas representações elaboradas por Elizabeth Agassiz reside expressiva carga ideológica, marcada pelo etnocentrismo, evolucionismo e racismo, teorias em voga no século XIX, além de observar que as mulheres estiveram presentes na sociedade amazônica o problema seria a falta de representatividade relacionada a elas
Tudor women writers fashioning masculinity
No full textThis thesis contributes to the growing interest in early modern masculinity and its literary representations by introducing texts by women writers into dialogue with their male-authored counterparts. It argues for a more nuanced approach that recognises that the concepts of masculinity and femininity can only be fully understood when studied in relation with each other.
The first chapter explores how, notwithstanding the wisdom of conduct books and marriage guides, the demands of the state may not always be commensurate with those of the domestic realm and shows that this conflict necessitates a rethinking of existing definitions of masculinity by focusing on selected writings of the Tudor sisters Mary and Elizabeth and Jane Fitzalan’s *Tragedie of Iphigeneia*. The second chapter identifies how Elizabeth’s unique discursive strategies were designed to elicit support from her male subjects and subdue the belligerence that simmered under polemic like John Stubbs’ *Gaping Gulf*. In her letters to Anjou, the chapter examines how Elizabeth manoeuvred around her position as a beloved and as a monarch to fashion a husband who would not only be sympathetic but also subordinate to her political authority. This chapter also shows how the fabulous world of John Lyly’s *Galatea* consummates the Queen’s desire for the ideal male subject. The final chapter investigates the construction of martial manhood. It juxtaposes Mary Sidney’s *The Tragedy of Antonie* with William Shakespeare’s *Antony and Cleopatra* to determine how the figure of Cleopatra, common to both plays, challenges and revises the martial code of masculinity as embodied by Antony. By examining the authorial position appropriated by Cleopatra in the plays and its impact on the narrative, this chapter also extends this thesis’ interest in the extent to which female characters within texts compete for diegetic control with male protagonists
RoMEO Studies 4: An analysis of Journal publishers' Copyright Agreements
No full textThis article is the fourth in a series of six emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open archiving). It describes an analysis of 80 scholarly journal publishers’ copyright agreements with a particular view to their effect on author self-archiving. 90% of agreements asked for copyright transfer and 69% asked for it prior to refereeing the paper. 75% asked authors to warrant that their work had not been previously published although only two explicitly stated that they viewed self-archiving as prior publication. 28.5% of agreements provided authors with no usage rights over their own paper. Although 42.5% allowed self-archiving in some format, there was no consensus on the conditions under which self-archiving could take place. The article concludes that author-publisher copyright agreements should be reconsidered by a working party representing the needs of both partie
Pedagogical Questions in Parent-Child Conversations
No full textQuestioning is a core component of formal pedagogy. Parents commonly question children, but do they use questions to teach? This article defines "pedagogical questions" as questions for which the questioner already knows the answer and intended to help the questionee learn. Transcripts of parent-child conversations were collected from the CHILDES database to examine the frequency and distribution of pedagogical questions. Analysis of 2,166 questions from 166 mother-child dyads and 64 father-child dyads (child's age between 2 and 6 years) showed that pedagogical questions are commonplace during day‐to‐day parent-child conversations and vary based on child's age, family environment, and historical era. The results serve as a first step toward understanding the role of parent-child questions in facilitating children's learning.Preprint provided, so should not violate copyright, embargoPeer reviewe
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