Disguise, Deception, Trompe-l'oeil
Disguise, Deception, Trompe-l'oeil

Author: Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9781433104220

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The series is designed to advance the publication of research pertaining to themes and motifs in literature. The studies cover cross-cultural patterns as well as the entire range of national literatures. They trace the development and use of themes and motifs over extended periods, elucidate the significance of specific themes or motifs for the formation of period styles, and analyze the unique structural function of themes and motifs.

Philosophical Genealogy
Philosophical Genealogy

Author: Brian Lightbody

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9781433109560

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Volume I, explored the three axes of the genealogical method: power, truth and the ethical. In addition, various ontological and epistemic problems pertaining to each of these axes were examined. In Volume II, these problems are now resolved. Volume II establishes what requisite ontological underpinnings are required in order to provide a successful, epistemic reconstruction of the genealogical method. Problems regarding the nature of the body, the relation between power and resistance as well as the justification of Nietzschean perspectivism, are now all clearly answered. It is shown that genealogy is a profound, fecund and, most importantly, coherent method of philosophical and historical investigation which may produce many new discoveries in the fields of ethics and moral inquiry provided it is correctly employed

Stepping Off the Edge
Stepping Off the Edge

Author: Anne McConnell

Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

Published: 2021-03-09

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 162897379X

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Stepping Off the Edge addresses the question of literary edges and endings in contemporary works of literature from France, the United States, Canada, and Latin America. The book includes discussion of works by nine different authors, including Anne Carson, Marie NDiaye, Paul Auster, and César Aira. It considers the way that specific texts identify and interrogate textual boundaries, and also draw attention to questions of closure. Each of these texts also reflects on the way we experience and write about edges and endings in our lives.

Sarcasm in Paul’s Letters
Sarcasm in Paul’s Letters

Author: Matthew Pawlak

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-12-22

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1009271911

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Provides an extensive analysis of sarcasm in Paul's letters, illuminated by case studies on Septuagint Job, the prophets, and Lucian of Samosata.

Rewriting Texts Remaking Images
Rewriting Texts Remaking Images

Author: Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781433109713

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The twenty-four essays in Rewriting Texts Remaking Images: Interdisciplinary Perspectives examine the complex relationships between original creative works and subsequent versions of these originals, from both theoretical and pragmatic perspectives. The process involves the rereading, reinterpretation, and rediscovery of literary texts, paintings, photographs, and films, as well as the consideration of issues pertaining to adaptation, intertextuality, transcodification, ekphrasis, parody, translation, and revision. The interdisciplinary analyses consider works from classical antiquity to the present day, in a number of literatures, and include such topics as the reuse and resemantization of photographs and iconic images.

Camouflage Australia
Camouflage Australia

Author: Ann Elias

Publisher: Sydney University Press

Published: 2018-08-30

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1743320698

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Camouflage Australia provides international context for the historical circumstances and events of the organisation of camouflage in World War II in Australia and the Pacific region. She elaborates on the parallel involvement of British and American artists in the field of concealment and deception, and reveals the widespread interest shown by western naturalists and scientists in the application to warfare of the behaviours and aesthetics of animals.

Camouflage Cultures
Camouflage Cultures

Author: Ann Elias

Publisher: Sydney University Press

Published: 2015-02-06

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 174332426X

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Approaching this subject from the disciplines of art history and theory, art practice, biology, cultural theory, literature and philosophy, this volume greatly expands the reach of camouflage's cultural terrain. The result is a collection that provides a new perspective on the developing discourse of camouflage and contributes to debates about the roles that physical, artistic and social camouflage play in contemporary life.

The Pleasure of Pictures
The Pleasure of Pictures

Author: Jérôme Pelletier

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-07-17

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 135162265X

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The general aim of this volume is to investigate the nature of the relation between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation. In particular, it is concerned with the character and intimacy of this relationship: is there a mere causal connection between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation, or are the two relata constitutively associated with one another? The essays in the book’s first section investigate important conceptual issues related to the pictorial experience of paintings. In Section II, the essays discuss the notion of styles, techniques, agency, and facture, and also take into account the experience of photographic and cinematic pictures. The Pleasure of Pictures goes substantially beyond current debates in the philosophy of depiction to launch a new area of reflection in philosophical aesthetics.

The Cinema of Tod Browning
The Cinema of Tod Browning

Author: Bernd Herzogenrath

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2008-09-22

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0786434473

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As a director, actor, writer and producer, Tod Browning was one of the most dynamic Hollywood figures during the birth of commercial cinema. Known for his fantastic collaborations with Lon Chaney in numerous silents, and for directing the horror classic Dracula and the still-controversial Freaks, Browning has been called "the Edgar Allan Poe of the cinema." Despite not entering the profession until he began acting in his early thirties, he went on to helm more than 60 films in a 25-year career. His work continues to influence directors such as David Lynch, John Waters, and Alejandro Jodorowsky. These essays critically explore such topics as the connection between Browning, Poe and Kant; Browning's cinematic techniques; disability; masochism; sound and suspense; duality; parenthood; narrative and cinematic trickery; George Melford; surrealism; and the occult. A Browning filmography is included.