Monica Ross

Monica Ross
Author: Monica Ross
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre:
ISBN: 9783956792021

British artist Monica Ross (19502013), a pivotal artist in the 1980s feminist movement, left behind a 40-year body of pioneering and socially engaged performance-driven artwork. Her timeless pieces continue to have a deep effect on contemporary artists and society today. Presented for the first time is this extensively illustrated document of Rosss works from 1970 to 2013 including Rosss early feminist collaborative works, drawings made at the Greenham Common Womens Peace Camp in the 1980s, poster designs for the antinuclear movement, works relating to the writings of Walter Benjamin, and documentation from the sixty performances of Anniversaryan act of memory (200813), solo, collective and multilingual recitations from memory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which concluded with a final collaborative performance at the UN in Geneva on the day of Rosss death. Informative essays by Jorn Ebner, Esther Leslie, Eric Levi Jacobson, Alexandra M. Kokoli, Denise Robinson,Monica Ross and Yve Lomax along with extensive archival documentation by Bernard G. Mills.

Television Dialogue

Television Dialogue
Author: Paulo Quaglio
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2009-02-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902729044X

This book explores a virtually untapped, yet fascinating research area: television dialogue. It reports on a study comparing the language of the American situation comedy Friends to natural conversation. Transcripts of the television show and the American English conversation portion of the Longman Grammar Corpus provide the data for this corpus-based investigation, which combines Douglas Biber’s multidimensional methodology with a frequency-based analysis of close to 100 linguistic features. As a natural offshoot of the research design, this study offers a comprehensive description of the most common linguistic features characterizing natural conversation. Illustrated with numerous dialogue extracts from Friends and conversation, topics such as vague, emotional, and informal language are discussed. This book will be an important resource not only for researchers and students specializing in discourse analysis, register variation, and corpus linguistics, but also anyone interested in conversational language and television dialogue.

Investigating Intimate Discourse

Investigating Intimate Discourse
Author: Brian Clancy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2015-10-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317372182

Intimate discourse – that between couples, family and close friends in private, non-professional settings – lies at the heart of our everyday linguistic experience. It creates and sustains our closest relationships. Using an innovative blend of the community of practice model with a corpus linguistic methodology, Brian Clancy expertly reveals the patterns that characterise the shared linguistic repertoire of intimates. Corpus methods such as frequency and concordance are thoroughly introduced, exemplified and systematically employed in order to operationalise the concept of the community of practice in relation to intimate discourse. A half-million-word corpus of intimate data collected in various settings throughout Ireland provides the data for insights into patterns such as intimates’ use of pronouns, vocatives, taboo language and pragmatic markers. The intimate linguistic repertoire that emerges is shown to facilitate the delicate balance between our instinctive desire to be involved in the lives of those closest to us while at the same time recognising their need for privacy and non-imposition. Investigating Intimate Discourse will primarily be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers working in the area, and to those working in related areas such as discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics and pragmatics. Advanced undergraduates taking modules in those subjects will also find the book useful.

Dimensions of Humor

Dimensions of Humor
Author: Carmen Valero-Garcés
Publisher: Universitat de València
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2011-11-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 8437082900

This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to exploring humor in the academic world. It is a rich collection of essays by an international array of scholars representing various theoretical perspectives and practical orientations in the disciplines of Linguistics, Literature, Cultural Studies, and Translation, but all concerned with the interactional aspects of humor. The two main reasons behind the publication of this volume are, first, to continue the journey along the path towards full recognition of humor as a discipline worthy of research and assessment, and, second, to offer a new and integrating perspective on hu¬mor to showcase the wide range of dimensions that it offers. This book is sure to become an important reference and source of inspiration for scholars in the various subfields of Humor Studies: Linguistics, Literature, Cultural Studies, and Translation.

The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice

The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice
Author: Alexandra M. Kokoli
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2016-08-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1472514025

The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice investigates the widely debated, deeply flawed yet influential concept of the uncanny through the lens of feminist theory and contemporary art practice. Not merely a subversive strategy but a cipher of the fraught but fertile dialogue between feminism and psychoanalysis, the uncanny makes an ideal vehicle for an arrangement marked by ambivalence and acts as a constant reminder that feminism and psychoanalysis are never quite at home with one another. The Feminist Uncanny begins by charting the uncanniness of femininity in foundational psychoanalytic texts by Ernst Jentsch, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and Mladen Dolar, and contextually introduces a range of feminist responses and appropriations by Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva and Sarah Kofman, among others. The book also offers thematically organised interpretations of famous artworks and practices informed by feminism, including Judy Chicago's Dinner Party, Faith Ringgold's story quilts and Susan Hiller's 'paraconceptualism', as well as less well-known practice, such as the Women's Postal Art Even (Feministo) and the photomontages of Maud Sulter. Dead (lexicalised) metaphors, unhomely domesticity, identity and (dis)identification, and the tension between family stories and art's histories are examined in and from the perspective of different artistic and critical practices, illustrating different aspects of the feminist uncanny. Through a 'partisan' yet comprehensive critical review of the fascinating concept of the uncanny, The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice proposes a new concept, the feminist uncanny, which it upholds as one of the most enduring legacies of the Women's Liberation Movement in contemporary art theory and practice.

Renegotiating the Body

Renegotiating the Body
Author: Kathy Battista
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2012-11-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857735918

What makes art 'feminist art'? Although feminist artists do have a unique aesthetic, there can be no essential feminist aesthetic, argues Kathy Battista in this exciting new art history. Domesticity, the body, its traces and sexuality have become prominent themes in contemporary feminist practice but where did these preoccupations begin and how did they come to signify a particular type of art? Kathy Battista's (re-)engagement with the founding generation of female practitioners centres on 1970s London as the cultural hub from which a new art practice arose. Emphasising the importance of artists including Bobby Baker, Anne Bean, Catherine Elwes, Rose English, Alexis Hunter, Tina Keane, Hannah O'Shea, Kate Walker and Silvia Ziranek and examining works such as Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document, Judy Clark's 1973 exhibition Issues, Carolee Schneemann's Meat Joy and Cosey Fanni Tutti's Prostitution, shown in 1976, Kathy Battista investigates some of the most controversial and provocative art from the era. This book not only deals with the 'famous' art events but includes analysis of lesser-known exhibitions and performances and explains why so much feminist art has been both marginalised in art history and grossly under-represented in institutional archives and collections.

Register

Register
Author: University of California, Berkeley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1880
Release: 1928
Genre:
ISBN:

The Plot to Ice Governor Tea

The Plot to Ice Governor Tea
Author: C. O Lamp
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595260888

Disenchanted Minnesota voters repudiated both major political parties and elected a handsome star of motion pictures and television to be their governor. It fell to the suave double-dealing state ombudsman to protect not only the governor but those in the legislature who sought to replace him. Among the more sinister were a philandering senator who could not keep his pants zipped, and a part-time actor, expatriate New Yorker, who could arrange anything, including murder. Murder proved to be contagious; a newspaper columnist wanted a piece of the action, as did a juvenile delinquent who thought he had made the big time when the Don hired him as a hit man. Only Ross Scotyard, the young private investigator who had been sent to establish an office in the Twin Cities stood in their way. And only Ross Scotyard could obtain justice for the Lady in the Lake.

Friends

Friends
Author: Jennifer C. Dunn
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2019-12-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1538112744

A cultural phenomenon for a decade, Friends ranked in the top ten for every year of its original run, an accomplishment unmatched by any other scripted series. And more than twenty-five years since its theme song promised “I’ll be there for you,” Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Chandler, and Ross are still entertaining audiences around the world. As the characters maneuvered their ways through dating, love, and the occasional conflict, their loyalty to each other remained steadfast. In Friends: A Cultural History, Jennifer C. Dunn explores why the show immediately took hold of viewers and how the series remained must-see TV for so long. Dunn examines the cultural landscape that allowed a show not centered on traditional sitcom norms of family and career to become such a critical and commercial success. The author also addresses how the show’s complicated depictions of gender roles and class distinctions—as well as its lack of ethnic diversity—did not detract from its popularity. In addition to exploring memorable plotlines, cherished moments, and the quirks of the principal players, this book analyzes the show’s enduring cultural relevance. Featuring a discussion of the show’s 25 best episodes, Friends: A Cultural History offers an engaging look at the series that has resonated with generations of television viewers.

Little Miss Mia Ross

Little Miss Mia Ross
Author: Anna Cooper
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2017-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781979371865

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