... difficult by wide-scale language death during the twentieth century and the accompanying death of cultural traditions. In the case of the first people of South Africa, the bushmen, this process was further complicated by their depiction in museum exhibits and displays as “living fossils,”alienated from...

... Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press). 1992 “Aesthetics and Anesthetics: Walter Benjamin's Artwork Essay Reconsidered,” October 62 ( Fall ): 3 -41. Carmeli, Yoram S. 2003 “Lion on Display: Culture, Nature, and Totality in a Circus Performance,” Poetics Today 24...

... order,particularly vis-à-vis the crisis of the premodern Culture/Nature paradigm. A lion act presents the Culture/Nature opposition, that is, human trainer, props, routines versus animals, in the context of circus traveling(fieldwork carried out in 1975-79).The circus display of both animals and humans...

... the entire enterprise highly ironic; the racialized unconscious ultimately on display is that of the analyst rather than his subject. Rather than assimilating the native subject then, psychoanalysis finds itself exposed in a setting conceived as alien. As a complex cultural text, Black Hamlet actively lends...

... display, by means of modifications, or what are called in the article lit mods . Thus, the article proposes an approach for a more informed reading and understanding of digital kinetic poems, since they are ever-changing events. Finally, it locates the work’s aural and performative versions in a cultural...

... for a new way of life in a new community for the inner self who is truly seeking God. Thus, like Augustine before and Rousseau after him, Abelard writes about his own life with a philosophical aim: to display the nature of what it is to be human and to make claims about how human life ought to be lived...

... such as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat , this essay suggests, also display a narrative “we” that transgresses the conventional postcolonial center/periphery paradigm. Here the first-person plural voice becomes a marker of multidirectional inclusions and demarcations, equally highlighting the internal...

...Chanita Goodblatt; Joseph Glicksohn In the introduction to his 1912 edition of John Donne's poetry, Herbert J. C. Grierson writes of “the vein of sheer ugliness which runs through his work, presenting details that seem merely and wantonly repulsive.” What is more, Donne displays what Samuel Johnson...

...' and `Impossible'—Paradoxes in Circus Performance,” Semiotica 80 : 193 -220. 1996 “Marginal Body and Bourgeois Cosmology: The British Acrobat in Reference to Sport,” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 37 : 252 -73. 2003 “Lion on Display: Culture, Nature, and Totality in a Circus...

... run incrementally faster over extended periods of time. Consonant writing displays fewer letters, but critics such as David Crystal and Mark Seidenberg certainly cause us to question whether it makes us read faster. Spritzing, by arresting the eye, allows many more words to pass our field of vision...

... useful information capable of improving how we make decisions. I hope that one way of resisting these views is to display by contrast in practical cases how the arts deploy quite different models of intelligence responsive to complexities in individual experience. Here we work from the individual case...

.... In particular, I will be arguing that Evelyn Waugh goes some way toward capturing the complex dynamics of multiparty talk but also displays considerable artistry in the way in which he shapes and molds that talk to comic effect. Another reason for the concentration on ‘‘duologues of personal encounter...

... of mentioned earlier, and on Moore’s prosody, in particular her experimentation with syllabic verse Hollander often displays in these essays an acute sensitivity to the special ways poetic language is organized and the manner in which such organization influences perceptions of reality. This kind...

.... On the level of the represented world, omniscience is possessed by God—in a marked contrast to the epistemological limitations of the human char- acters. On the level of discourse, omniscience is displayed by the biblical narrator, who relies on the convention of divine inspiration. In a cultural...

... and Semiotics. 708 Poetics Today 23:4 narrative worlds—between the extremes of immersion (feeling as if we are members of the displayed or signified fictional domain) and interactivity (self-aware or un-self-aware engagement with or manipulation of the sig- nifiers that give rise to the corresponding...

... progress over the last decades. Its theoretical ‘‘tool kit’’ has been constantly refined, adapted to both new developments in fiction writing and new insights into older works. Yet a number of features in the models that are usually brought to the narrato- logical analysis of ‘‘storytelling’’ display...

... spaces that “display extreme degrees of photorealism, overaccentuating realistic detail” set in and around a village that seems to be recently emptied of human life. The section on impossible time similarly tracks antinomic temporality, temporal loops, and inverted causal sequences as they appear...

... Identifier/Attribute Passive Total . Note: Values are percentages. 646 Poetics Today 23:4 In the example below, (a) and (b) display Porpentine’s introduction in the opening paragraphs of ‘‘Under the Rose’’ and V...

... of Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson (creators of Broad City ) and Rachel Bloom (creator of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend ), subsequent digital streaming shows run by women content creators display a similar trend of adapting older Jewish humor tropes with the same new motifs. This trend is a significant phenomenon...

... of comprehending it, Hardy s novelistic technique displays uncommon attentiveness to concrete sensory and affective details. He insistently directs attention to discrete phys- ical actions at the scale of the human body, as in this description of the Talbothays dairy: Each girl sat down on her three-legged stool...