... these manga were (and some still are) an amalgam of elements of European comics and Japanese manga and tried to find new ...
Tópico(s): Translation Studies and Practices
2007 - Taylor & Francis | Perspectives
... of his vision of world as an inseparable amalgam of elements including comic, tragic, pathetic, and absurd-with occasional lurches into ...
Tópico(s): Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
1982 - Duke University Press | Twentieth Century Literature
... hundred years. It continues today as a vibrant amalgam of singing, dancing, acting, and comic improvisation, still performed annually at pagoda festivals. As ...
Tópico(s): Cambodian History and Society
2000 - Cambridge University Press | New Theatre Quarterly
... and mutually illuminating, and the "philosophy," that complex amalgam of views on politics, evolution, art, the relations of the sexes, and human nature in general which emerges from the work, is partly defined in its import and directions by the shape and development of the comic action.
Tópico(s): Theater, Performance, and Music History
1976 - University of Toronto Press | Modern Drama
... point of reference with respect to which the comic tale should be so deemed. The amalgam of Latin references (Macrobius, Alain de l’Isle) and vernacular texts (Chrétien de Troyes, the Roman de Silence) blurs the issue at this point. Bloch disentangles himself somewhat when he states on p. 35 that: “The scandal of the comic tale is not that which traditionally is associated ...
Tópico(s): Medieval European Literature and History
1987 - Johns Hopkins University Press | L'esprit créateur/L'Esprit créateur
... novel, is an apparently simple but actually complex amalgam of social satire, environmental protest, antic language, ironic ambiguities, and playful fantasy. Outrage is mixed with absurdity; profound archetypes are intertwined with the most trivially comic; idealism and cynicism travel arm in arm ; soaring ...
Tópico(s): American Literature and Humor Studies
1991 - University of Nebraska Press | Western American literature
... subgenre within computer entertainment, offering a distinctive, interactive amalgam of popular frontier-based fictions, including the nineteenth- ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2008 - University of California Press | Pacific Historical Review
... Christmas Because Christmas in America reemerged as an amalgam of various European celebrations, it is appropriate to ...
Tópico(s): Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification
2000 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Advertising & Society Review
... contradictions. I also borrow liberally throughout from an amalgam of two methodological approaches that also might seem at first glance (and even afterwards ) to be contradictory: those of Mikhail Bahktin and Frederic Jameson. In carnival, Bakhtin traces cultural phenomena already dead, yet celebrated in comic effigy. In media, Jameson tracks the pre...
2005 - | Goethe yearbook
... and in the lingua franca, the now lost amalgam of oral languages that was still being used as a means of communication throughout the Mediterranean and the Levant in the mid-nineteenth century. Moussa examines examples of Nerval’s sensitivity to the ironic and comic possibilities of miscommunication and misunderstanding caused by the ...
Tópico(s): Historical and Literary Studies
2019 - Oxford University Press | French Studies
... and mutually illuminating, and the "philosophy," that complex amalgam of views on politics, evolution, art, the relations of the sexes, and human nature in general which emerges from the work, is partly defined in its import and directions by the shape and development of the comic action. This essay explores the relations between the ...
Tópico(s): Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research
1976 - University of Toronto Press | Modern Drama
... self formation. I also focus on the ensuing amalgam between western conceptions of mental illness, trauma and ...
Tópico(s):
2021 - | Complutense Journal of English Studies
... case-based learning (CBL). These 'stories' are often amalgams of real-life incidents reworked to stimulate discussion ... that 'explores the interaction between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare' (http://www.graphicmedicine. ... P, Watson K. What's up, Doc? How comic strips are improving bedside manner. Available at http:// ...
Tópico(s): Cinema History and Criticism
2014 - Wiley | The Clinical Teacher
... other whaling vessels as "an antiphonal blend of comic and tragic motifs incorporated within the novel's larger biblical themes." Cook reads them as thematically related pairs and triads, and even as two sets of four types of metaphysical parables plus the stand-alone "The Town Ho's Story"—an amalgam of comedy and tragedy with a complex blend ...
Tópico(s): Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
2013 - Johns Hopkins University Press | The Sewanee review
... Communist infiltration, organized crime, and public panics over comic books" had become the primary obsessions of legions of Americans (13). Through the employment of surveillance-themed humor, Funt [End Page 124] successfully played on the viewing public's concerns about personal privacy against a postwar ambiance of rampant paranoia. A curious amalgam of cinema verité, broadcast news, and documentary styles, ...
Tópico(s): Gender, Feminism, and Media
2011 - | Film & history
... Solomon 2013, 11), Disney's Elsa is an amalgam of Andersen's Snow Queen and Kay, a ...
Tópico(s): Media Influence and Health
2022 - University of Illinois Press | Scandinavian Studies
... of the past. His technique brings together an amalgam of voices and perspectives, real and imagined, that ...
Tópico(s): Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
2022 - Berghahn Books | European Comic Art
... which are linked to the American penchant for comic exaggeration, often inextricably tied to such associated phenomena as tall tale narratives, occupational folklore, and small town boosterism. Examples of such typically American "fearsome critters" are the Sidehill Dodger, with shortened legs on the uphill side to allow for suc cessful mountain grazing, the Jackalope, a fantastic amalgam of jackrabbit and antelope, the Hoopsnake, its deadly ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
1983 - University of Nebraska Press | Western American literature
... assumed to be an unproblematic and self-evident amalgam of wealth and status. Yet, as Mark S. ... or “cit”) remained a constant figure on the comic stage, as older plays remained in repertoire and ...
Tópico(s): Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
2007 - Oxford University Press | The American Historical Review
... to be of equal visual allure—and increasing comic zing—in detail, as separate sections define their own abstracted island within the whole. The modular commingling of parts suggests a connection between all the things represented. There are accomplishments of consumerism, end products of a technological and material-based culture, as well as representing the dross and effluvia of that culture. They also point to an amalgam of the natural and the man-made world, ...
Tópico(s): Culinary Culture and Tourism
2010 - University of Nebraska Press | Frontiers A Journal of Women Studies
... Sanchez’s collaborator and wife, and is an amalgam of personal essay and photo-book. It opens ... Turbine Blade, both the album (2002) and the comic books (2010). As a depiction of his destabilised ... song lyrics are quoted in the text of comic books and the novel. The readers recognise and ... manner. For example, in Sanchez’ previous work, TAW, comic book components of the storyworld were often released ... the storyworld’s temporality.The different media—CD, comic, novel, or art-book—often represent different perspectives ...
Tópico(s): Digital Humanities and Scholarship
2018 - Queensland University of Technology | M/C Journal
... in wildly different ways—a toxic and retrograde amalgam of gender stereotypes, or a feminist hero, or [ ...
Tópico(s): Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
2016 - University of Tulsa | James Joyce quarterly
... culture into culture studies, as the title’s amalgam of the giant-robot genre of mecha with ... have noted the resemblances between popular sci-fi, comics, and fan conventions (most of which include cosplay) ... sexual cosplay” to the fetishization of anime and comics characters, with obvious applications to cosplay more generally. ... focus on the performative domains of Japan’s Comic Market mega-cons, virtual (as in online) photo- ...
Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
2023 - Penn State University Press | Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture
... McNamara was referring to the new show's amalgam of TNG's narrative style and DSC's ... the evolution of humanity.Given such a rich amalgam, then, academic interest in the hybridity of Star ...
Tópico(s): Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
2021 - Penn State University Press | Interdisciplinary Literary Studies
... how authentic speech can be composed of an amalgam of inauthentic sources—a scrambling of literary forms, ... normativity. Forever at work and at play, these comic-tragics are ur-figures of neoliberalism—over-connected ... of the object” (Berlant 25). Inflating for both comic and tragic effect a profoundly nebulous yet weaponized ...
Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
2018 - Queensland University of Technology | M/C Journal
... American Studies, it's probably a rather confused amalgam—perhaps sociology, ethics, and political science. If, on ...
Tópico(s): Education and Critical Thinking Development
1970 - | The Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
... brands and consumer messaging that are “visual-linguistic” amalgams “increasingly detached from any specific ethnolinguistic group or ...
Tópico(s): Art Education and Development
2021 - Queensland University of Technology | M/C Journal
... off more than he chews. Nonetheless, the heady amalgam of assertion and anthology will prove essential not ... pioneering study of jazz, vaudeville, movies, Broadway, and comic strips, The Seven Lively Arts, as a snapshot ...
Tópico(s): Poetry Analysis and Criticism
2020 - Penn State University Press | The F Scott Fitzgerald Review
... work has come down to us as an amalgam of two projects—a dedication to Sidney and ...
2020 - University of Chicago Press | English Literary Renaissance
... or romance, or satire, and in just what amalgam. At least for now, these questions, framed from ... are all gathered, like the figures in a comic history painting" (p. 58), to the narrative operations ...
Tópico(s): Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies
1999 - University of Toronto Press | Eighteenth-Century Fiction