839 research outputs found
Media Heritage and Memory in the Museum: Managing Dennis Potter’s Legacy in the Forest of Dean
No full textThis research explores the ways in which Dennis Potter (1935-1994) is made inheritable to audiences through a rural Heritage Lottery Funded project. With the sale of the written Potter Archive to the Dean Heritage Centre, Gloucestershire, in 2010, this study explores in great detail the processes enacted to interpret the Potter Archive as cultural (television) heritage. Through a creative and innovative research design which utilises autoethnography, inventive qualitative methods and a level of quantitative analysis, this study examines the ways in which Potter is made intelligible to past television audiences, project members and collaborators, local people, and the casual tourist within the heritage environment.
A unique and irreproducible study, this interdisciplinary research sits as a contribution to an emerging field that is located at the interface between Memory studies and Museum Studies and explores the way various forms of mediation are connected to these fields. Inherently at stake in this research is the valorisation of television as heritage, as Potter remains well within living memory. Through proximate and intimate connections to this multifaceted heritage project this work represents one of the first interventions to explore turning television into heritage at a local level drawing together the macro level of cultural policy with the micro level of enacting that policy.
In asking how Dennis Potter’s legacy is managed in the Forest of Dean heritage environment, this thesis explores the ways Potter’s legacy is mediated, how television heritage is consumed and made meaningful (or struggles for meaning) in the museum space, how a writer’s legacy is interpreted by heritage professionals, volunteers, past television audiences and museum visitors, and how television as heritage is consumed online. This thesis makes visible the underlying mechanisms by which the Dennis Potter Archive is (or might yet become) articulated as television heritage, through examining the core managerial, interpretive and memorial processes involved in this high stakes, multi-partner project
The Struggle of Matchmaker to Find Love as Seen in Jane Austen's Emma
No full textThis thesis is entitled The Struggle of Matchmaker to Find Love as Seen in Jane Austen's Emma. The formulation of the problem in this research is how the extrinsic elements that builds the story outside the novel. How the psychology of personality of a matchmaker in finding love. The background of this research problem is in the writing of a novel created by an author, there is an author personality in creating characters in the story. Knowing the extrinsic elements that build a story will make it easier to conduct research on the psychology of the character in the story. The purposes of this research are describe the extrinsic elements that builds a novel from outside and to analyze the psychology of Emma' personality as a matchmaker in finding love.
The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The data are in the form of sentences and statements in the Emma and Biography of Jane Austen. The technique used in analyzing data is content analysis. The steps taken in analyzing are reading and understanding the psychology and story in the novel. This step will make it easier to research using theory extrinsic element theory of Renne Wellek and Austin Warren (1948) and personality psychology from Freud's (1962).
The results of this research there are extrinsic elements of the author which consists of literary relation with the biography, psychology, society, and idea of an author. The extrinsic elements influenced the author in creating a work on personality psychology Emma as a matchmaker in finding love consists of Id, Ego ad Superego. This research it was found that the personality of Id from Emma is more dominant and the Ego tends to follow the wishes of the Id. Superego about the principle of values and morals are also widely found. Emma really holds the values and morals of how she acts in society
Повернення Емми Андрієвської (доповідь-презентація) (Return of Emma Andiievska (Report Presentation))
No full textУ тезах здійснено аналіз творчості видатної діаспорної мисткині, уродженці Донецька, Емми Андієвської. Представлено основні мистецькі здобутки талановитої художниці й письменниці. Основну увагу зосереджено на історії повернення та популяризації творчості Е. Андієвської у незалежній Україні. Автором передано власний досвід в організації та проведені її персональних виставок у різних містах України, презентації книжкових видань. З’ясовано географію поширення творів Е. Андієвської в Україні – подано перелік музеїв та бібліотек, чиї художні та книжкові колекції містять її твори.
(The author analyses the work of Emma Andiievska, a prominent diaspora artist and a native of Donetsk. The article presents the main artistic achievements of a talented painter and writer. The paper mainly focuses on the history of return and popularization of Andiievska’s art in independent Ukraine. The author presents the artist’s experience in organizing her own exhibitions in different Ukrainian cities and in presenting her book publications. The paper explores the geography of Emma Andiievska’s works expansion in Ukraine; and therefore, it presents a list of museums and libraries where there are art and book collections that contain her works.
The postmodern sacred: popular culture spirituality in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and fantastic horror
No full textIn my thesis I argue that the return of the religious in contemporary culture has been in two forms the rise of so-called fundamentalisms in the established faiths-Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, even Buddhist-and the rise of a New Age style spirituality that draws from aspects of those faiths even as it produces something distinctively different. I argue that this shift both produces post-modern media culture, and is itself always-already mediated through the realm of the fictional. Secular and profane are always entangled within one another, a constant and pervasive media presence that modulates the way that contemporary subjects experience themselves and their relationship to the spiritual. I use popular culture as an entry point, an entry point that can presume neither belief nor unbelief in its audiences, showing that it is 'unreal' texts such as Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Matrix and so on that we find religious symbols and ideas refracted through a postmodernist sensibility, with little regard for the demands of 'real world' epistemology.
I argue that it is in this interplay between traditional religions and New Age-ised spirituality in popular culture that the sacred truly finds itself in postmodernity
Adapting authoritarianism: institutions and co-optation in Egypt and Syria
No full textThis PhD thesis compares Egypt and Syria’s authoritarian political systems. While the tendency in social science political research treats Egypt and Syria as similarly authoritarian, this research emphasizes differences between the two systems with special reference to institutions and co-optation. Rather than reducibly understanding Egypt and Syria as sharing similar histories, institutional arrangements, or ascribing to the oft-repeated convention that “Syria is Egypt but 10 years behind,” this thesis focuses on how events and individual histories shaped each states current institutional strengthens and weaknesses. Specifically, it explains the how varying institutional politicization or de-politicization affects each state’s capabilities for co-opting elite and non-elite individuals.
Beginning with a theoretical framework that considers the limited utility of democratization and transition theoretical approaches, the work underscores the persistence and durability of authoritarianism. Chapter two details the politicized institutional divergence between Egypt and Syria that began in the 1970s. Chapter three and four examines how institutional politicization or de-politicization affects elite and non-elite individual co-optation in Egypt and Syria. Chapter five discusses the study’s general conclusions and theoretical implications.
This thesis’s argument is that Egypt and Syria co-opt elites and non-elites differently because of the varying degrees of institutional politicization in each governance system. Rather than view one country as more politically developed than the other, this work argues that Syria’s political institutions are more politicized than their Egyptian counterparts. Syria’s political arena is, thus, described as politicized-patrimonialism. Syria’s politicized-patrimonial arena produces uneven co-optation of elites and non-elites as they are diffused through competing institutions. Conversely, the Egyptian political arena remains highly personalized as weak institutions and individuals are manipulated and molded according to the president’s ruling clique. This is referred to as personalized-patrimonialism. As a consequence, Egypt’s political establishment demonstrates more flexibility in ad hoc altering and adapting its arena depending on the emergence of crises.
This study’s theoretical implications suggest that, contrary to modernization and democratization theory’s adage that institutions lead to a political development, politicized institutions within a patrimonial order actually hinder regime adaptation because consensus is harder to achieve and maintain. It is within this context that Egypt’s de-politicized institutional framework advantages its top political elite. In this reading of Egyptian and Syrian politics, Egypt’s personalized political arena is more adaptable than Syria’s. These conclusions do not indicate that political reform is a process underway in either state
On the Sherlocks, Jane Coleman and County Kildare in the Eighteen Forties
No full textIn the late 1980s and early 1990s the author acquired about 30,000 letters written mainly in the 1840s. These pertained to estates throughout Ireland managed by the firm of James Robert Stewart and Joseph Kincaid, hereafter denoted SK. Until the letters – called the SK correspondence in what follows – became the author’s property, they had not seen light of day since the 1840s. Addressed mainly to the firm’s office in Dublin, they were written by landlords, tenants, the partners in SK, local agents, etc. After about 200 years in operation as a land agency, the firm in which members of the Stewart family were the principal partners – Messrs J. R. Stewart & Son(s) from the mid- 1880s onwards – ceased operations in the mid-1980s. Since 1994 the author has been researching the SK correspondence of the 1840s. It gives many new insights into economic and social conditions in Ireland during the decade of the great famine, and into the operation of Ireland’s most important land agency during those years. It is intended ultimately to publish details on several of the estates managed by SK in a study more comprehensive than the present article, in book form. The proposed title is Landlords, tenants, famine: business of an Irish land agency in the 1840s, a draft of which has now been completed. A majority of the letters in that study are on themes some of which one might expect - rents, distraint (seizure of assets in lieu of rent); ‘voluntary’ surrender of land in return for ‘compensation’ upon quitting quietly; formal ejectment (a matter of last resort on estates managed by SK); landlordassisted emigration (on a scale much more extensive than most historians of Ireland in the 1840s appear to believe); petitions from tenants; complaints by tenants, both about other tenants and about local agents; landlord-financed and other relief of distress both before and during the great famine; major works of improvement (on almost all of the estates managed by SK which have been investigated in detail in the draft book); applications by SK, on behalf of landlords, for government loans to finance improvements; recommendations of agricultural advisers hired by SK, etc. Thus, most of the SK correspondence is about aspects of estate management. But the firm of SK was not only a manager of land. The correspondence reveals only two estates in Kildare, each of them relatively small, managed by SK in the 1840s. These were the lands of the Sherlocks near Naas and of Jane Coleman in the Kilcullen district. The correspondence on these properties differs substantively from most of those discussed in detail in the draft of Landlords, tenants, famine: first, it is relatively small in quantity, and secondly, it contains relatively little on the core aspects of estate management indicated above. Much of that on the Sherlocks focuses on misfortunes among family members, while the correspondence on Jane Coleman highlights the benevolence of that proprietor.
The Dilution of Identity in the Artistic Concept of Emma Andijewska
No full textThe article considers the dilution of identity in the artistic concept of the Ukrainian writer Emma Andijewska, where creating a cultural identity has become a particularly important issue in her literary heritage. She belongs to those writers who have created their own literary discourse around reflecting the inner spirituality of human feelings. Each book by Emma Andijewska also contains contradictory motifs appropriate as representative of immigration literature. Emma Andijewska lived and created in countries with different socio-economic conditions. Being in exile – in Germany, France and the United States – she never felt isolated from her home country as she always considered herself a Ukrainian. The drama of actions committed by her protagonists is that they cannot and do not want to get rid of the heightened sense of belonging to their nation while not being able to live in their native land. In the "Novels About Human Destiny", the author motivates the psychological states of her heroes through the prism of nationality, genetic and cultural memory, as well as extreme and brink situations. The artistic world of Emma Andijewska primarily reflects universal manifestations related to specific facts, life events and realities. The direct foundations of her creative practice appears from the observation and interpretation of the author’s experience in conditions of migration.Der Artikel widmet sich der Fragestellung des Identitätsdilemmas in der künstlerischen Konzeption der ukrainischen Schriftstellerin Emma Andijewska. Die Schaffung kultureller Identität ist zu einem besonders wichtigen Thema im literarischen Werk von Emma Andijewska geworden. Sie gehört zu den SchriftstellerInnen, die einen kreativen Diskurs kreieren, der die innere Spiritualität menschlicher Gefühle widerspiegelt. Jedes Buch von Emma Andijewska enthält auch widersprüchliche Motive, die für Vertreter der Einwanderungsliteratur kennzeichnend sind. Emma Andijewska lebte und schuf in Ländern mit unterschiedlichen sozioökonomischen Bedingungen. Im Exil, d. h. in Deutschland, Frankreich und den USA, fühlte sie sich nie von ihrem Heimatland isoliert, weil sie sich immer als Ukrainerin betrachtete. Das Drama der Handlungen der Protagonisten besteht darin, dass sie ein gesteigertes Zugehörigkeitsgefühl zu ihrer Nation nicht loswerden können und wollen, ohne in ihrem Heimatland leben zu können. In dem "Roman über die menschliche Bestimmung" motiviert die Autorin die psychologischen Zustände ihrer Figuren durch das Prisma der Nationalität, des genetischen und kulturellen Gedächtnisses sowie durch Extrem- und Grenzsituationen. Die künstlerische Welt von Emma Andijewska spiegelt in erster Linie universelle Manifestationen wider, die sich auf bestimmte Fakten, Lebensereignisse und Realitäten beziehen. Die direkten Grundlagen ihrer kreativen Praxis ergeben sich aus der Beobachtung und Interpretation dessen, was die Autorin direkt unter den Migrationsbedingungen erfahren hat.Artykuł poświęcony jest zagadnieniu tożsamości w artystycznej koncepcji ukraińskiej pisarki Emmy Andijewskiej. Kreowanie tożsamości kulturowej stało się szczególnie istotną kwestią w dorobku literackim Emmy Andijewskiej. Należy ona do pisarek i pisarzy, którzy tworzą twórczy dyskurs wokół odzwierciedlania wewnętrznej duchowości ludzkich uczuć. Każda książka Emmy Andijewskiej zawiera również sprzeczne motywy właściwe dla przedstawicieli literatury migracyjnej. Emma Andijewska żyła i tworzyła w krajach o odmiennych uwarunkowaniach społeczno-ekonomicznych. Przebywając na obczyźnie – w Niemczech, Francji i Stanach Zjednoczonych – nigdy nie czuła się odizolowana od rodzimego kraju, ponieważ zawsze uważała się za Ukrainkę. Dramat działań popełnianych przez protagonistów polega na tym, że nie mając szczęścia do życia na ojczystej ziemi, nie mogą i nie chcą pozbyć się podwyższonego poczucia przynależności do swojego narodu. W "Powieści o ludzkim powołaniu" autorka motywuje psychologiczne stany bohaterów przez pryzmat narodowości, pamięci genetycznej i kulturowej, a także ekstremalnych i granicznych sytuacji. Świat artystyczny Emmy Andijewskiej odzwierciedla przede wszystkim uniwersalne manifestacje związane z konkretnymi faktami, wydarzeniami życiowymi i realiami. Bezpośrednie podstawy jej twórczej praktyki wynikają z obserwacji i interpretacji tego, co autorka zaznała bezpośrednio w warunkach migracji
Exposure-Tolerant Imaging Solution forCultural Heritage Monitoring
No full textThis paper describes a simple and cheap solution specifically designed for monitoring the degradation of thin coatings employed for metal protection. The proposed solution employs a commercial photocamera and a frequency-domain-based approach that is capable of highlighting the surface uniformity changes due to initial corrosion. Even though the proposed solution is specifically designed to monitor the long-time performance of protective coatings employed for the restoration of silver artifacts, it can be successfully used also for assessing the conservation state of other ancient metallic works of art. The proposed solution is made tolerant to exposure changes by using a procedure for sensor nonlinearity identification and correction, does not require a precise lighting control, and employs only free open-source software, so that its overall cost is very low and can be used also by not specifically trained operator
Jews and gender in British literature 1815-1865.
No full textPhDThis thesis examines the variety of relationships between Jews and gender in early
to mid-nineteenth century British literature, focussing particularly on representations
of and by Jewish women. It reconstructs the social, political and literary context in
which writers produced images and narratives about Jews, and considers to what
extent stereotypes were reproduced, appropriated, or challenged. In particular it
examines the ways in which questions of gender were linked to ideas about religious
or racial difference in the Victorian period.
The study situates literary representations of Jews within the context of
contemporary debates about the participation of the Jews in the life of the modern
state. It also investigates the ways in which these political debates were gendered,
looking in particular at the relationship between the cultural construction of
femininity and English national identity.
It first considers Victorian culture's obsession with Rebecca, the Jewess created in
Walter Scott's influential novel Ivanhoe (1819). It examines Rebecca's refusal to
convert to Christianity in the context of Scott's discussion of racial separatism and
modern national unity.
Evangelical writers like Annie Webb, Amelia Bristow and Mrs Brendlah were
prolific literary producers, and preoccupied with converting Jewish women.
Particularly during the 18'40s and 1850s, evangelical writing provided an important
forum for the construction and consolidation of women's national identity.
Grace Aguilar's writing was an attempt to understand Jewish identity within the
terms of Victorian domestic ideology. In contrast, Celia and Marion Moss, in their
historical romances, offered narratives of female heroism and national liberation,
drawing on the contemporary debate about slavery.
Benjamin Disraeli's construction of a "tough version of Jewish identity was a
response both to the contemporary stereotype of the feminised Jew and to the debate
about Jewish emancipation. It also drew on the virile ideology of the Young England
movement of the 1840s
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