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Political Discourse and The Body on Television: Debate/Fighting

This article seeks to analyze the electoral political discourse from senses inscribed on the body of the presidential candidates in the 2014 campaign during the television broadcast of the last ... studies and anthropological studies of imagery production in the social history of civilizations, the paper aims to think over the functioning of the current political discourse inscribed in the dynamics of

“Tough to Compete”: Adaptation of Michael Dobbs’ Trilogy, House of Cards, by the BBC And Netflix

This paper presents a reading of the political trilogy House of Cards, To Play the King e The Final Cut, by Michael Dobbs, an English writer; and their adaptation by the BBC and Netflix series. I try ... Shakespeare’s plays in contemporary artistic/mediatic production. Keywords: House of Cards; Political Trilogy; TV Series Introdução Minha consciência tem mais de mil línguas, E todas me condenam por

Language, Translation, and the Irish Theatre Diaspora in Quebec

facilitated by similar political, religious, and even linguistic elements. Interest in Irish culture, especially in its theatrical output, remains high, with many theatre companies, for example Théâtre La ... political contextualisation of Irish and Québécois experiences of immigration and colonisation are useful for fleshing out the reasons for a sustained interest in Irish theatre on the part of Québécois

Dobbs and the Tiger: The Yeatses’ Intimate Occult

collaboration illuminates the esoteric philosophy expounded in the two very different versions of Yeats’s book A Vision (1925 and 1937). It is also theoretically interesting in itself, not only in the early ... marriage in 1917, the late period that includes much of his strongest work. A good deal is already known about their joint production of the esoteric philosophy expounded in Yeats’s book A Vision, and

Terry Eagleton: culture and politics in transformation

political terms.Keywords : Culture; History; Politics; Literary Criticism. ... . Some previous theoretical assumptions are abandoned and others are reaffirmed or modified. I try to discuss the results of this process in cultural, historical and political terms. Keywords: Culture

The Reconfiguration of Cultural Identity in We Need New Names, by Noviolet Bulawayo

Darling’s story from her childhood, in Harare, Zimbabwe, until she became an adult, as an immigrant in the United States. The novel’s background is the economic, political and social crisis that plagued the ... drafts of the novel were actually naming Zimbabwe, and they addressed Mugabe. The draft was not in Darling's voice, it was in an older peasant's voice. So you can imagine it was very political. There was a

Esp Teaching in Contemporary Medical Education In Brazil

Political Pedagogical Projects (PPPs) of public medical schools between the years 2013-2019; and (ii) to present a methodological proposal to the teaching of ESP in medical schools, according to the National ... universities, allowing the concrete consolidation of theory and practice, academy and community. Historical and political tensions were and will still be part of the structure and implementation of proposals

“So Were I Equalled in Renown”: Autobiographical Elements and the Epic Poet’s Career in Milton

major cultural and political revolution, in which the legitimacy of the individual consciousness was revalued. The main aim of this article is to explore specific moments in Milton’s oeuvre in which the ... discoveries, and religion, England’s economic and political structures were thoroughly reconfigured. While prior to that period civil society was understood as a great body whose head was the king,3 now, there

Revisiting The Waste Land in the Light of Lacanian Materialism

perspective. Thus, the Lacanian Materialism via Žižek, a Slovenian philosopher who writes in the scope of Political Theory, Film Criticism, Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies, becomes essential for the

Agnes Blake Poor and the Pan-American Poems

Translation Studies, the objective of this article is to analyse the political and literary dimensions in which the anthology was published in the United States and compare the source and target poems to

“Serving the turn”: Collaboration and Proof in Illegal Hand-press Period Books

printing process - is key to understanding the social dynamics of authorship, and the strains on production resulting from political suppression of the press during this period. We look at the evidence of ... as orthodox ideas, and as such, printing was subject to various degrees of censorship. This remained the case throughout the political tumult of the seventeenth century. During the hand-press period

“Serving the turn”: Collaboration and Proof in Illegal Hand-press Period Books

printing process - is key to understanding the social dynamics of authorship, and the strains on production resulting from political suppression of the press during this period. We look at the evidence of ... as orthodox ideas, and as such, printing was subject to various degrees of censorship. This remained the case throughout the political tumult of the seventeenth century. During the hand-press period

Between Humans and Beasts: The Fictional Uncanny in The Great God Pan and Shame

the same device, typical of fantastic fiction, the metamorphosis of characters, and, through it, the authors build a subliminal criticism of the political and social system dominant in their own ... submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Baylor University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, August, 2010. [ Links ] RODRIGUES, Selma Calasans. O Fantástico

Critical tasks in action: the role of the teacher in the implementation of tasks designed from a critical perspective

Based on the premise that teaching is a political act and that it is thus necessary to engage additional language students in the process of both linguistic and critical development (Crookes, 2013 ... Introduction: teaching English critically through tasks Teaching (and also learning) is always a political act. As Paulo Freire (1996) states, “no one can be in the world, with the world and with others in a

Race as Technology: From Posthuman Cyborg to Human Industry

Technology of Race." Radical Philosophy Review, vol. 7, no. 1, 2004, pp.77-98. [ Links ] Sheth, Falguni A. Toward a Political Philosophy of Race. Albany: SUNY Press, 2009. [ Links ] Sinclair, Bruce, ed ... of a person’s humanness and their race. We ask this question amidst a surge of interest for theorizing race as some sort of technology. Consider four examples. Falguni Sheth, a political philosopher

Race as Technology: From Posthuman Cyborg to Human Industry

Technology of Race." Radical Philosophy Review, vol. 7, no. 1, 2004, pp.77-98. [ Links ] Sheth, Falguni A. Toward a Political Philosophy of Race. Albany: SUNY Press, 2009. [ Links ] Sinclair, Bruce, ed ... of a person’s humanness and their race. We ask this question amidst a surge of interest for theorizing race as some sort of technology. Consider four examples. Falguni Sheth, a political philosopher

Cinema, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, and Criticism: Filming on an Uneven Field

that can have an impact on the film’s artistic choices (3). Thornley chooses to analyze cross-cultural films in a wider cultural, financial, and political context in order to highlight that such ... perspectives and promote political autonomy for the indigenous peoples while avoiding the binary restrictions that the term entails. Fourth Cinema was coined by Barry Barclay and “suggests a separate, but not

An Inter-Semiotic Study of Ideology on the Book Covers of Persian Translations of George Orwell’s Animal Farm

All the movements and revolutions in the world’s history have been initiated and reinforced by a systematized structure of standards, opinions and thoughts establishing the foundations of political ... Iran respectively. Definitions of Ideology Hawkes (1996) published a book on the general concept of ideology at a time when political and philosophical developments spread substantial hesitancy

Private Affairs, Public Office: Reading the Body of Virgília in The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

for political office. These parallel efforts coincide in the form of the political wife, the woman who enables both domestic and public glory. Using the encounter of public and private spaces as a point ... private, appears in its fullest expression in the link between public office and private intimacies. The perfect wife, advanced first by Brás Cubas's father, offers a metonymy for political ambition-a

Spatial Politics in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

scarcely any legitimate power structure controls the state. Their regularized political rationality ceases to apply to the world; reality violates the empirical knowledge -emplacements, geographical and ... . In actuality, they enter “shambles” (60, 107, 108). The set of relations which shape either a monarchical or capitalist system of political manipulation creates heterotopias-spaces with specific