Meaning of THE WILD DUCK - Drew Lichtenberg

Clip source: The Meaning of THE WILD DUCK | Drew Lichtenberg Drew Lichtenberg~ Dramaturg and Theater CriticTags David Auburn, Henrik Ibsen, ReDiscovery, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Wild Duck What is it that has drawn David Auburn, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award and one of our greatest contemporary playwrights, to The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen? The play is rarely staged and the challenges it poses to an adaptor are potentially vast. It was written in 1884, after the career-c...

Phoenix and Phoenices

Phoenix and Phoenices Copilot answers zas inquiry about "Phoenix" in mythology The oldest referent of the name "Phoenix" in mythology is associated with the ancient Egyptian Bennu bird. The name "Bennu" relates to the verb "weben," meaning "to rise brilliantly" or "to shine"⁴. This bird is often linked to the sun, creation, and rebirth. The Greek word "phoenix" could have been derived from the Mycenaean Greek "po-ni-ke," which may have meant "griffin" or "palm tree" and is believed to be a...

Words of a feather

My query: In languages other than English, is there any euphemistic meaningful of the words for birds, and in particular the rooster?Copilot response: Certainly! The use of euphemistic and taboo terms varies across languages, and some non-English languages indeed have parallels to the English situation. Let's explore this further: 1. **German**: - In German, the word for **rooster** is **"Hahn"**. While it doesn't directly carry a secondary taboo meaning like "cock" in English, it's wor...

Motif in Film and How to Use It

We've covered the ideas of the theme in writing, but I wanted to talk about something that commonly gets confused with the theme; the idea of a motif in film. Motif covers all genres. It's that little something special that adds to the depth and meaning in your film. It's the thing that film scholars will talk about for ages. And it can set your work apart from the crowd. Today we're going to go over motif in film history, look at a few examples of motifs and leitmotifs, and talk about some...

Super Chicken

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Super Chicken (person) See all of Super Chicken, no other writeups in this node. (person) by Gritchka Fri Feb 02 2001 at 17:01:08 Mild-mannered Henry Cabot Henhaus III is the world's richest chicken and an amateur scientist to boot. When he drinks the Secret Sauce he invented he turns into Superchicken. With his faithful butler Fred he goes on around solving mysteries. The catchphrase is "You knew the job was dangerous when you too...

Penelope etymology

Penelope fem. proper name, name of the faithful wife in the "Odyssey," from Greek Pēnelopē, Pēnelopeia, which is perhaps related to pēne "thread on the bobbin," from pēnos "web," cognate with Latin pannus "cloth garment" (see pane (n.)). But Beekes suggests rather a connection with pēnelops "duck or wild goose with colored neck." Used in English as the type of the virtuous wife (1580) as it was in Latin.From etymonline.comrelatedly:pane (n.)mid-13c., "garment, cloak, mantle; a part of a ga...

Duck Amuck - when Chuck Jones destroyed the fourth wall

(Credits: Far Out / Warner Bros. Pictures) 'Duck Amuck': when Chuck Jones destroyed the fourth wall          Fri 2nd Jun 2023 22.00 BST          While it is popularly associated with postmodernism, many artists throughout history have experimented with metafictional constructs to generate unique forms of artistic expression. Ranging from Jean-Luc Godard and Federico Fellini to Charlie Kaufman and Abbas Kiarostami, some of the world’s greatest pioneers have pushed the boundaries of cinema thr...

Journey to the Golden Age

There on a plain, a multitude. From a distance—a hill or the eye of a soaring bird—one could see numberless little dots in the shape of men assembled around a lesser crowd in the middle. There was a great distance separating them. Focusing the gaze, one could make out the silhouettes: a great many feathers brandished in the air over a palette of colors that gave the frenzy an almost carnival atmosphere. A pointillist would have had a field day with the scene, were it not for the shimmering, a...

Alfred Hitchcock – ‘The Birds’

Alfred Hitchcock - 'The Birds' Alfred Hitchcock had released almost all of his most revered movies by the time The Birds arrived in 1963; with this natural horror, he achieves a unique sense of discernible dread, where the threat is purely inhumane. Based on the 1952 short story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier, originally featured in The Apple Tree collection, the plot follows Tippi Hedren’s Melanie Daniels as she follows her love interest, Mitch, to Bodega Bay, Calif...

Biggest Turkey in Game Show History

By Adam Nedeff, Researcher for the National Archives of Game Show History You bring the stuffing, the cranberry sauce, and the pumpkin pie. For Thanksgiving, we’ll bring you the biggest turkey in the history of game shows: You’re in the Picture By 1961, Jackie Gleason was already a bona fide show business legend. His Cavalcade of Stars had made him one of the first superstars in the young medium of television. The classic 39-episode season of The Honeymooners had been icing on the cake....

‘Hawkeye’ Finale Recap: Hawkeye’s Home for Christmas

Disney/Ringer illustration The sixth and final episode of ‘Hawkeye’ delivers a lot of action, sets up future MCU series, and passes an important torch (or two), though it also leaves some loose ends untied Between all the damage to the newly reconstructed Statue of Liberty in Spider-Man: No Way Home and the destruction of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in this week’s final episode of Hawkeye, New York City’s landmark sites have been subjected to a lot of dram...

Introduced blackbirds and song thrushes: useful substitutes for lost mid-sized native frugivores, or weed vectors? | NZES

H7K9JZNRL is my link code for Otter recording with related commentary. zas Introduced blackbirds and song thrushes: useful substitutes for lost mid-sized native frugivores, or weed vectors? Research Article*  Corresponding authorThe New Zealand avifauna has declined from human impacts, which might leave some larger-seeded native plants vulnerable to dispersal failure. We studied fruit dispersal in a lowland seco...

Artificial Intelligence Develops an Ear for Birdsong - Scientific American

Skip to main content Scientific American Save 30% on all subscriptions ComputingArtificial Intelligence Develops an Ear for BirdsongMachine-learning algorithms can quickly process thousands of hours of natural soundscapesBy Harini Barath on April 26, 2021Male yellow warbler in Yosemite National Park. Credit: Alice Cahill Getty Images Advertisement We can learn a lot from nature if we listen to it more—and scientists around the world are trying to do just that. From mountain peaks to oc...

Golden Eagle the book

Golden Eagle the book Contents Preface Picking up my first satellite Sources and methodsTracking Soviet reconnaissance satellites Tracking Soviet piloted spacraft on shortwavesHearing cosmonauts talk from spaceTracking Salyut-4, -5, -6 A cosmic conundrumOn the trail of three space sta...

Birds as Characters in Fiction (75 books)

Listopia Birds as Characters in Fiction Fiction with birds as characters. Includes animal fiction, animal fantasy, anthropomorphic fiction, and xenofiction. All Votes Add Books To This List 1 Beak of the Moon by Philip Temple (Goodreads Author) 4.28 ...

What Happens When Your Grandma Turns Into a Bird

Entering the odd and exquisitely nonlinear world Marie-Helene Bertino’s Parakeet dislocates over and over. The novel begins with the unnamed bride protagonist talking to her deceased grandmother who appears to her in the form of a parakeet. Grandmother as parakeet tells her not to get married and to go find her missing brother. She also demands an explanation for what the internet is, and defecates all over the bride’s wedding dress.  With incredible sleight of prose, B...

The cute kitten represents violence and carnage (idea) by Anark - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2The cute kitten represents violence and carnage (idea)See all of The cute kitten represents violence and carnage, no other writeups in this node.(idea)by Anark Mon Mar 21 2005 at 4:57:44The smell of a good barbecue can draw visitors like vultures to a battlefield. There's something Jungian about wood smoke and roasting meat; they reveal a human kinship deeper than mere culture. Facing an unexpected crowd, most casual cooks will either generously...

Reckless Paper Birds

Cock Up Your Beaver (thing) by jodrell - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Cock Up Your Beaver (thing) See all of Cock Up Your Beaver, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by jodrell Wed Feb 20 2002 at 8:52:50 Poem written in 1791 by Robert Burns. When first my brave Johnie lad came to this town, He had a blue bonnet that wanted the crown, But now he has gotten a hat and a feather - Hey, brave Johnie lad, cock up your beaver! Cock up your beaver, and cock it fu' sprush! We'll over the border and gie...

Bird Box horror fiction

On amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds – The Brooklyn Rail

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Rally of the Birds - and New Yorker weekly caption contest - and other New Yorker clips - 4 May 2020 edition

To see the antisemitism of medieval bestiaries, look for the owl | Aeon Ideas

Support Aeon‘As a professor, I can teach entire classes using Aeon articles. As a reader, I always find something that teaches me.’Greg S, USA, Friend of AeonAeon is a registered charity committed to the spread of knowledge and a cosmopolitan worldview. Our mission is to create a sanctuary online for serious thinking.No ads, no paywall, no clickbait – just thought-provoking ideas from the world’s leading thinkers, free to all. But we can’t do it without you.Aeon is a registered charity commit...

Bird as bard

Could birds in English literature be a reference to poets and playwrights? More ancient languages would suggest a different but not opposite meaning. Birds are often symbolic of the female psyche, and the virtual function of females in the storyworld as potential powerful diplomats. Birds can carry and deliver informed messages (sometimes literally on paper) without causing a direct threat. (Hitchcock's The Birds being one exception) or angelic spy -- a neither necessarily friendly nor nece...

Tasty Bird Turkeys - tasty burger pulp fiction

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