779 research outputs found
Author: Nadine Gordimer
No full textThis booklet celebrates the life and work of Nadine Gordimer, internationally acclaimed author, icon, role-model and one of South Africa's living treasures
Author: Nadine Gordimer
No full textThis booklet celebrates the life and work of Nadine Gordimer, internationally acclaimed author, icon, role-model and one of South Africa's living treasures
The effects of Chinese typeface design, stroke weight, and contrast polarity on glance based legibility
No full textModern interfaces increasingly rely on screens filled with digital text to display information to users. Previous research has shown that even relatively subtle differences in the design of the on-screen typeface can influence to-device glance time in a measurable and meaningful way (Reimer et al., 2014). Here we outline a methodology for rapidly and flexibly investigating the legibility of typefaces on digital screens in glance-like contexts, and apply this method to a comparison of 5 Simplified Chinese typefaces. We find that the legibility of the typefaces, measured as the minimum presentation time needed to read character strings accurately and respond to a yes/no lexical decision task, is sensitive to differences in the typeface's design characteristics. The most legible typeface under study ("MT YingHei") could be read 33.1% faster than the least legible typeface in this glance-induced context. A second study examined two different weights of the MT YingHei type family (medium and bold), as well as two contrast polarity (color) conditions to investigate how these variations impact legibility thresholds. Results indicate that bold weight text is easier to read in this enforced glance-like context, and that positive polarity text (black on white) is easier to read compared to white on black text under the lighting conditions considered. These results are discussed in terms of contextual factors that may mediate glance-reading behavior, as well as how type design interacts with the practical limitations of a moderate density pixel grid. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Women Look into Love: Reimaginings of Heterosexual Love in Contemporary Women’s Fiction
No full textThis thesis explores how contemporary women writers write about heterosexual love, considering not only the ways it has been implicated in patriarchal models and traditional romance plots, but also its portrayal in light of developments in feminism and fiction in the 1990s and 2000s. The thesis examines Carol Shields’s The Republic of Love (1992), Toni Morrison’s Jazz (1992), Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (1993), Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup (2001), Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto (2001), Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin (2000) and Doris Lessing’s Love, Again (1995). In this study it emerges that as well as illustrating continuities, the scope of the treatment of love is opened up further in recent fiction as aspects like age or social, economic and historical factors are centralised and considered in interesting ways. The thesis also identifies some positive approaches to heterosexual love, as in, for example, the emphasis on men’s capacity for emotions. However, this is not always the case, as a writer like Lessing further develops a vision of love without providing an affirmative view. Thus, the contemporary women writers’ work can be said to contribute to understandings of heterosexual love on many different levels, even as feminist criticisms of repressive, patriarchal forms of romantic relationship continue to remain relevant
Theoretical and Textual Approaches to Contemporary Humanitarian Narrative: The Cases of Roberto Saviano’s Gomorra, Aung San Suu Kyi’s Letters from Burma, Jerry Piasecki’s Marie in the Shadow of the Lion and Nadine Gordimer’s The Ultimate Safari
No full textThe purpose of this thesis is to describe how some forms of fictional and non-fictional texts can be configured as and within the framework of humanitarian practices. In exploring the definitions and features of humanitarianism and humanitarian literature, the thesis attempts to answer the question of what purpose these texts try to serve. In examining the works Marie in the Shadow of the Lion (2000) by Jerry Piasecki, The Ultimate Safari (1989) by Nadine Gordimer, Gomorra (2006) by Roberto Saviano and Letters from Burma (1996) by Aung San Suu Kyi, we will argue that the scope of these books can be located by analogy to social and political humanitarian practices. Beyond their differences in genre, style and subject matter, these texts share a common feature: they are performative, namely they strive to do things with words. The humanitarian texts discussed in this thesis can be shown to act in the world in order to implement the values proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
ANALYSIS OF EXTRINSIC ELEMENTS IN NADINE LABAKI\u27S CAFERNAUM FILM: Analisis Unsur Ekstrinsik Dalam Film Cafernaum Karya Nadine Labaki
No full textAbstract: Film is a literary work (prose) that contains the life story of a person or various characters packaged in imaginative works, so that it attracts the interest of many readers, where in the film itself there are various elements that can be used as life lessons in real life. This research includes descriptive qualitative research with the type of literature research (library). The data was taken from several journals, books, e-books, newspapers and others. This data set was processed using triangulation, where the data was sorted and adjusted to suit this research. The film Capernaum by Nadine Labaki is one of the films on the realization of children\u27s rights which is part of a literary work, where the film contains extrinsic elements that show the life of the author (Nadine Labaki) which includes: the author\u27s background, society\u27s background, and values. contained in the film. background regarding the film\u27s author, Nadine Labaki, a film director who lives in a heterogeneous Lebanese society, asked him to voice the human rights of children, by casting non-professional actors to make the film feel more alive and real. The civil war resulting from friction between groups who wanted to maintain their existence caused long chaos in Lebanon which sacrificed the human rights of children who lived in suffering, injustice and oppression.
Keywords: Extrinsic Elements, Capernaum, Nadine Labaki
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Bemerkungen zu den Straßenbezeichnungen im antiken Rom
No full textDas hodonymische Erbe Roms ist noch weit davon entfernt, Gegenstand einer systematischen Untersuchung
zu sein. Trotz der reichhaltigen Bibliografie, die sich den verschiedenen Aspekten der Urbs widmet, war
das Interesse an den Namen der Straßen bisher eher begrenzt. Abgesehen von den Verzeichnissen in den
wichtigsten Nachschlagewerken und topografischen Lexika, findet sich der erste – von einer linguistischen
Herangehensweise geprägte – Aufsatz zum Thema Straßennamen in Rom erst am Ende der 70er Jahre des
vergangenen Jahrhunderts. Die Versuche, das Phänomen der Hodonomastik in einen breiteren Kontext
einzuordnen, sind sehr selten geblieben. Im Zuge des jüngst erwachten Interesses an der Erfahrung der
städtischen Räume in der antiken Welt werden die Hodonyme oft unter dem Aspekt ihrer geografischen
Bedeutung betrachtet, während eine Reihe von wichtigen Fragen in den Hintergrund treten. Zu diesen gehört
die Frage nach den Gründen für das Entstehen der Straßennamen, ihre Interpretation und die Art des
Gebrauchs der Hodonyme in öffentlichen Dokumenten
Structure des documents et fouille de données textuelles
No full text@conference{ac-Lucas-2005-2, author = {Lucas, Nadine}, title = {Structure des documents et fouille de données textuelles}, booktitle = {Journées Bingo Caen}, year = {2005}, month = {juin}, organization = {Bingo}
La recherche d'information dans les textes médicaux
No full text@conference{ac-Lucas-2004-4, author = {Lucas, Nadine}, title = {La recherche d'information dans les textes médicaux}, booktitle = {Journées Bingo Lyon}, year = {2004}, month = {octobre}, organization = {Bingo}
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