Menu Skip to primary content Search Drew Lichtenberg Dramaturg and Theater Critic Bottomless Dream (or, Palindromes and Palimpsests) Written in the Winter of 2012 for Ethan McSweeny’s Dream at the Shakespeare Theatre. Indebted to Jan Kott and "The Bottom Translation," but there are worse fates than to be Kott’s amanuensis. -D...
This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But you have to choose: live or tell. — Jean-Paul Sartre, NauseaI. LegacyThe majority of the legendary postmodernists in American fiction lived long enough to be disappointed by their legends. Don DeLillo (87), Thomas Pynchon (87), Joseph McElroy (93) and Robert Coover (92) can still, as yet, contrast life with lore...
By Jeremy Carr. Ben Model and his Undercrank Productions continue to deliver eclectic fare from the annals of film history, distributing movies that shed light on their respective era, their audiences, and their creators."Given the nature of what is discovered, handled, and ultimately distributed as part of the Accidentally Preserved series, a fair amount of variety is to be expected. Accrued from private collections of rare 16mm prints—"Show-at-Home" versions of a studio’s 35mm offerings—div...
Marion Milner, The Angry Parrot. All images from Marion Milner’s On Not Being Able to Paint (Routledge, 2010), reproduced by permission of Taylor and Francis Group."Before the problem of the creative artist," Freud famously declared in an essay on Russian literature, "analysis must, alas, lay down its arms." Our creative potential—as it is expressed in the most ordinary dream or jokes, or in the extraordinary compositions of great artists—has always been a vital theme in psychoanalysis, but i...
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We welcome submissions from all graduate students and faculty or independent scholars Apologies for cross-posting Synoptique is soliciting proposals for book reviews for our upcoming issue 11.1, which is a special issue with the topic "Teaching Media Archives." We invite reviewers to propose reviews for both the themed and general review sections. If you are interested in writing a review for this issue, please contact book.reviews@synoptique.ca with a short proposal (maximum 250 words) outl...
Romulus and Remus Definition by Brittany Garcia published on 18 April 2018 9Save Available in other languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Turkish Romulus & Remus Mark Cartwright (CC BY-NC-SA) In Roman mythology, Romulus and his twin brother Remus were the founders of the city of Rome. They were the children of Rhea Silvia and Mars (or in some variations the demi-god hero Hercules) and their story is recorded by many authors including Virgil ...
The dining room, or "triclinium," of a Roman house derived its name from the three couches that were grouped at right angles to one another in a U-shape. Wealthy citizens ate while reclining on these couches. On this example, bronze fittings decorate a wood frame (restored). Straps originally would have supported a mattress covered with luxurious textiles. The ends of the couch are decorated with bronze fulcra, the curving ends of the armrests, which terminate in lion heads in the front and d...
IntroductionA successful Internet meme entwines comedy with social commentary to make its point. This potent combination provides an accessible way for individuals to participate in public discourse. A sub-category of Internet meme are historic royal memes. These memes leverage shared historical knowledge to communicate ideas. This article examines memes that use imagery of past English and British monarchs from William the Conqueror (1066) to George VI (1952). It will provide illustrative an...
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1I would like to mark the recent fiftieth anniversary of "Signature Event Context" (SEC) by looking at some of the varied contexts for this paper on the problem of context and by treating SEC as part of Derrida’s wider engagement with the problem of history.In an important and timely article, Joshua Kates has recently argued that when it comes to the question of history, Derrida both rejects the constrictions of historicism and affirms the transformations of historicity.1 For Kates, the tensi...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Lazarus Long (person) See all of Lazarus Long, no other writeups in this node. (person) by Alixtii Wed Jan 22 2003 at 1:36:09 A fictional character by Robert A. Heinlein. Lazarus Long was born Woodrow Wilson Smith (after American President Woodrow Wilson) in 1912 to Maureen Johnson (then Maureen Smith) and Brian Smith. He was the fifth of many Smith children. "Woodie," as he was then affectionately called, was Maureen’s favorite, ...
One of the most challenging parts of being a writer is constantly coming up with original ideas. You can feel extra pressure to be inventive and develop your voice. There are many ways to shake these pressurized slumps, but I find that the best way is to work on an adaptation. You get the backbone of the story, and you can flesh the rest of the original parts out on your own, allowing you the freedom to dream big. Still, it's not easy getting your hands on IP. That's where the public domain c...
Ghost stories are as quintessential part of British Christmas traditions as turkey and stuffing. It is a wintertime activity that has existed as long as people have been gathering around fires on cold, dark nights to get warm and to pass the time.What better way to do that than to listen to a tale of terror that will make the darkness outside just that little bit more frightening and the cosy warmth of the fire a little more comforting? Perhaps the best-known example of these stories is Charl...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Green Lantern #1 (review) See all of Green Lantern #1, no other writeups in this node. (review) by Glowing Fish Mon Mar 07 2022 at 1:29:26 Green Lantern #1 is the first issue of Green Lantern, and was first published in July of 1960. The character of the Silver Age Green Lantern had been introduced in Showcase #22, in September of 1959. After three issues in Showcase, Green Lantern was given his own title. Featuring MENACE of th...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Suetonius (person) See all of Suetonius, there are 2 more in this node. (person) by Gritchka Sun May 13 2001 at 23:13:43 Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was born in about 70, and lived for a long time, dying perhaps around 160. He studied as a lawyer, served as one of the secretaries to the Emperor Trajan, then chief secretary to Hadrian, and devoted his later years to his books. His historical works drew on the imperial archives he ha...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 19 CE Expulsion from Rome (essay) See all of 19 CE Expulsion from Rome, no other writeups in this node. (essay) by The Debutante Mon Sep 29 2003 at 15:16:20 The Background: In 19 CE, Tiberius expelled the Egyptian and Jewish residents from the city of Rome. The move was effective only within the city itself, not across the Empire, and it was not a permanent measure. What was it, then, that Tiberius was trying to achieve? The Sou...
Public DomainSnakes, like other non-human animals, can exist in multiple layers of human experience.By Dr. Huaiyu ChenAssociate Professor of Religious StudiesArizona State UniversityAbstractIn the medieval Chinese context, snakes and tigers were viewed as two dominant, threatening animals in swamps and mountains. The animal-human confrontation increased with the expansion of human communities to the wilderness. Medieval Chinese Buddhists developed new discourses, strategies, rituals, and narr...
Interior of the detached kitchen…preserved at Whitney Plantation…St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Credit:Library of Congress control number 2021755922BY B.J. SEDLOCKCharacters in novels set in the 18th and 19th centuries have to eat, so historical novelists may want to do research on foodways of that era. I’ll limit this list to North America, due to a wealth of material, and cover UK and Australia at a later date. (I covered ancient and medieval/Renaissance foodways in previous arti...
The Fall of the Titans, by Dutch painter Cornelis van Haarlem, 1596–1598. Source: Wikimedia Commons Different interpretations exist regarding the creation of the world in Greek mythology. Historians and poets have differing accounts of how the universe, along with its gods and deities, came into existence. However, there is consensus on the existence of three generations of gods: the first generation comprising Uranus and Gaia, the second consisting of Cronus and Rhea, and the thir...
Witchcraft and sorcery, sometimes also referred to as "pharmakeia," relates to magic, working with herbs, potions, and the ancient healing arts. Although the gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece all had unique powers and magical abilities of their own, there are a few figures that stand out as the most famous sorceresses in Greek mythology. Circe The Greek sorceress Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses, by John William Waterhouse, 1891. Source: Gallery Oldham, Oldham, United Kingdom ...
BY DIMOSTHENIS VASILOUDISAnimism: The Dawn of Religious ThoughtTotemism: The Spiritual Connection with NaturePhysiolatry or Naturism: The Worship of NatureMonotheism: The Belief in One GodConclusionThe religious beliefs and practices of human civilizations have evolved remarkably over millennia, reflecting the complexities and changes in human societies. This evolution can be broadly categorized into five stages: animism, totemism, physiolatry or naturism, polytheism, and monotheism. Each sta...
Clip source: The%20Influence%20of%20Zoroastrianism%20on%20Christianity%20and%20Islam%20%28idea%29%20by%20Eclectic%20Scion%20-%20Everything2.com Near MatchesIgnore ExactFull Text Everything2The Influence of Zoroastrianism on Christianity and Islam (idea)See all of The Influence of Zoroastrianism on Christianity and Islam, there is 1 more in this node.(idea)by Eclectic ScionWed Oct 11 2000 at 0:02:54Zoroastrianism is one of the oldest world religions. In fact, some have dated it as the world's...
Introduction This is a book about cops, and wild teenage whiz-kids, and lawyers, and hairy-eyed anarchists, and industrial technicians, and hippies, and high-tech millionaires, and game hobbyists, and computer security experts, and Secret Service agents, and grifters, and thieves. This book is about the electronic frontier of the 1990s. It concerns activities that take place inside computers and over telephone lines. A science fiction writer coined the useful term "cyberspace" in 1982. ...