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...Jerzy Limon This essay concentrates on a relatively neglected aspect of theater reconstructions, namely, the various ways the “reconstructed space” impacts today's spectator, an impact that is substantially different from the impact the original building had on the Elizabethan audience. When...

...Peter Merrington Cecil Rhodes's vision of an all-British “Cape-to-Cairo” road,rail, and telegraph route is addressed by a reconstruction of the cultural matrix that appears to have held this concept before the public eye for nearly five decades. This cultural matrix constitutes a kind of colonial...

... the unthinkable nuclear future and a microhistory reconstructing an elusive past – the article suggests that fictions which have been constructed outside the literary realm (by historians, political scientists, physicists, and others) are useful methodologies when standard disciplinary research procedures...

...Jan-Noël Thon From John Grierson’s influential early definition of documentary as “the creative treatment of actuality” via documentary studies’ reconstruction of the multitude of existing forms to philosophers’ attempts to develop comprehensive accounts of documentary as a specific kind...

... to be reconstructed as such or an aggregate of elements participating in a loose intertext? Is it the expression of a universal common sense or the mark of a given sociohistorical worldview? There follows an attempt at a taxonomy to provide some tools for text analysis. Rhetorical topoi as empty structures...

...Mark J. Bruhn This essay reconstructs Percy Shelley's theory of mind from his letters and many unfinished essays as well as his Defence of Poetry (1821), emphasizing his radical insistence on the formal and teleological roles of analogy in human cognition, communication, and culture. Adopting...

...Tamar Yacobi Interpretive disputes about the text's implied normative framework (its aesthetics, ideology, reality-model) involve the reliability of the fictive narrator who mediates between interpreter and implied author. Narrative and normative reconstruction must go together. But how...

... reality. By providing scattered hints from which further information can be deduced or inferred, often but not always with the help of contextual knowledge, this temporal narrative strategy invites the reader to actively participate and politically engage in the reconstruction of future histories...

... Lukács, Walter Benjamin, Fredric Jameson). The discussion is in part descriptive and in part programmatic: a reconstruction that does not pretend to do full justice to any one of these thinkers independently but strives to outline a field, the various inflections of which produce complementary...

... vocabulary, derived from systems theory and second-order cybernetics, to reconstruct the formal dynamics of Beckett's writing and to reveal the structural principle that determines the generation of form in Beckett's work. The argument assumes that George Spencer Brown's dynamic (operative) concept of form...

...Aleida Assmann The essay focuses on the relationship between memory and history, which has changed in many ways under the impact of the Holocaust. Memory that had been discarded by historians as an unreliable and distorting source came to be acknowledged as an important factor in the reconstruction...

... is used to show how Woolf's work evolved as a frame of reference for literary critics and essayists. Woolf's translation and publishing history is analyzed in terms of changing strategies and shifting interests on these fronts. Reconstruction of values that underlie judgments in reviews of Woolf's work...

... or concepts of the hybrids’ components are not combined into one, and their properties are not applied to one another, therefore none of the components reconstructs the other such that it is introduced to a new category. Language freezes the hybridity of the visual hybrid into conceptuality. Given...

... Freshwater • The Allure of the Archive 739 and acknowledge that this is a recontexualization of the past rather than a reconstruction. Shanks outlines just such an approach in his recent interdis- ciplinary collaboration with Mike Pearson...

... a culture that is lost. One framework is comparative, horizontal; the other vertical, palimpsestic. Both disciplines reconstruct how a culture fit and held together. But ethnography, Wharton shows, is interested in power structures: how a culture made rules, how its organizing principles held its...

... Reconstructing Contexts: The Aims and Principles of Archaeo-Historicism ( Oxford : Clarendon ). Hyland Peter 2002 “The Performance of Disguise,” Early Theatre 5 ( 1 ): 77 – 83 . Innis Harold A. 2007 [1950] Empire and Communications ( Toronto : Dundurn ). Iser...

... and replaces these claims with the fundamental concepts of Stephen Greenblatt’s (ibid.: 12) highly influential model of reconstructing the historical “negotiation between a creator or class of creators, equipped with a complex, communally shared repertoire of conventions, and the insti- tutions...

..., Victor 1988 Lost in a Book (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press). Polhemus, Robert M., and Roger B. Henkle, eds. 1994 Critical Reconstructions: The Relationship of Fiction and Life (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press). Singer, Dorothy G., and Jerome L. Singer, eds. 2001 Handbook...

...–2014) 423 Limon, Jerzy Elizabethan Theater Reconstructions Reconsidered: Some Theoretical Aspects of Time-Space-Audience Relationships 539 Low, Jennifer A. Early Modern Audiences and the Pleasures of Cross-dressed Characters 561 Lupton...

... of Culture: A Critical Reconstruction ( Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan ). Lanser Susan 1992 Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice ( Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press ). Leavis F. R. 1962 [1948] The Great Tradition ( Harmondsworth, UK : Penguin...