and none of it in English.) I thought a lot about the irrevocability of time, how the present moment sometimes stops spinning in wheels and opens up like a sinkhole beneath us, to swallow everything solid and leave us with only memories. Somewhere...
Central to the ecosystem concept is the idea that living organisms interact with every other element in their local environment. Eugene Odum, a founder of ecology, stated: "Any unit that includes all of the organisms (ie: the "community") in a given area interacting with the physical environm...
The latter (e.g., its account of mimesis and diegesis) is worth comment in its own right, but it lies beyond the scope of the present essay. I will illustrate the multimodal use of a KC table with a simple example. Imagine that we are standing in line at the Amsterdam airport, ...
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Aristotle introduced the worddramain the context of poetry when discussing the term imitation (mimesis) and the manners of imitation: “… poet may imitate by narration (…) or he may present all his characters as living a...
but there is no monument to remembering the everyday disaster that is systemic racism. For the Diaz brothers—and many like them—this is merely their harsh reality. And while we should certainly care about the climate change allegory present within this scene, more important is the notion that...
What is mimesis in literature? What is literary fiction? What is world literature? What is theme in literature? What is experimental literature? What is the theme of the novel The Moonstone? What are the subgenres of crime fiction? What is the theme of the novel ''Speak''? What is anim...
"factual" accounts of human words and deeds (for such would be the task of a historian) but, rather, on "fictional" ones---the kind that one usually refers to as art---I call into the discussion yet another Greek term, mimesis, a pivotal concept in all Western theorizations of art....
This article considers the representation of monstrous characters in three Icelandic sagas, examining the influence that period, setting and genre have upon the nature of that presentation. In two cases, the characters presented are essentially human (though present inhuman, or non-human characteristics...
»Is this a man?«: Iron Man (2008)91maticmimesis«nennt:»themeticulousreplicationofnewsreelgrammar,style,andlookvia staged interviews, faux library stock, and unsteady peek-a-boo shots from an Eymonewsreel camera«.106»Furthermore«,ergänzt David Bordwell,since each shot looks ex...