Off-brand for a studio known for its glossy Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals, the epigraph, set against a backdrop of a knight holding aloft a cat pierced by his sword, references respectively ...a fictitious quotation, book, and author (see figure 1). In the Introduction to a collection titled The Simple Art of Murder, Raymond Chandler outlined the overall code and structure of his detective fiction featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe (such as The Big Sleep, 1939; Farewell, My Lovely, 1940; and The Lady in the Lake, 1943): according to Chandler, detective fiction tells of "a world gone wrong, a world in which, long before the atom bomb, civilization had created the machinery for its own destruction" (vii). "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid," Chandler concludes, providing a "quality of redemption"-or, more properly, a detective functioning as an heroic redeemer-unavailable to the naturalistic sufferers of a modern "world gone wrong" ("The Simple Art of Murder" 193). Identified as a discrete genre by French critics after its heyday in the 1940s, film noir comprises not only a cinematic style but also themes, plots, and characters located in postwar disillusionment and a loss of confidence in the ability of institutions to restore order in the naturalistic "mean streets" of the urban jungle.2 Beginning with the movie version of Double Indemnity (1944), with its moody atmospherics of smoky, shadowed daytime interiors punctuated with strips of lights through Venetian blinds, films noir placed the viewer in the position of the point-of-view character forced to interpret situations in which nothing is as it seems.
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This study aims to analyze the parenting style of a Native American father named Kino in John Ernest Steinbeck's The Pearl. Through Kino, all the emotions common to humanity such as family ...satisfaction, the joy and excitement of finding a great treasure, the fear when family life is threatened, the anxiety of being hunted down, and the tragedy of losing a loved one are revealed. This research applied a qualitative descriptive method with a sociological approach to literature to reveal the relationship between the Native American father and the role of fathers. This research data is collected from the actions and words of the characters in the story. The research results indicate the important role of the Native American fathers played by Kino through the role of father thinking and behavior. Five paternal roles involving Kino's actions as a Native American father such as Kino as a provider, protector, decision- maker, educator, and foster mother are vividly reflected in this research.
Driving Days Dai, Thomas
New England review (1990),
06/2021, Letnik:
42, Številka:
2
Journal Article
INTERSTATE 20, TEXAS This is the summer of the record-breaking heat; the summer of the Pulse nightclub shootings in Orlando; the summer every gay bar in the South plays "This Is What You Came For" by ...Rihanna and Calvin Harris; the summer of Lemonade and Captain America: Civil War; the summer of people in the streets demanding we "say their names" (Freddie Gray, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile); the summer we're shocked by our own American perdition, by drone strikes abroad and mass shootings at home; the summer of all my worst haircuts, and peeing in Starbucks cups while mired in traffic, and slipping a single cigarette behind my ear as I drive because I'm on break from my MFA and my intentions are artistic. Outside Abilene, I hear on the radio that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached 400 parts-per-million-a tipping point, the climate scientist on the line is saying. Many of the insects Nabokov caught on his trans-American trips were still stored in the museum's butterfly room, each specimen affixed to a label listing its Latin name, geographic provenance, date of capture, and collector. ...during my brief stint in the museum, I did occasionally imagine I knew what Nabokov meant when he described the study of butterfly anatomy as that "delicate meeting place between imagination and knowledge, a point, arrived at by diminishing large things and enlarging small ones, that is intrinsically artistic."
Let the children persuade Heller, Rafael
Phi Delta Kappan,
02/2021, Letnik:
102, Številka:
5
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Two decades ago, during a brief stint working in a teacher preparation program, Heller got to know a young man who struck him as an exceptionally promising educator. Tom was a top student in the ...university's English department, a gifted writer, and, according to his supervising instructor at the local high school, far and away the best student teacher she had seen in her 40 years in the classroom. With our glowing recommendations in hand, he soon found a job teaching in a district not far from where he had grown up. Tom's first day of teaching went well enough, but that night he got a call from his principal, who berated him for assigning his students to read John Steinbeck's classic novel Of Mice and Men.
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The concept of Slightly Out of Focus, attributed to the photographer Robert Capa, is a line of research that invites us to delve into icons, such as the photographs “The Falling Soldier” and ...“Crawling through the Water”. Regarding the version presented by proponents of Robert Capa’s work and the results of recent investigations, there are some discrepancies regarding the classification of The Mexican Suitcase II and his photographic style. The conflicts concerning cameras lost negatives, and the effect of blurriness in both icons are coincidences that may form a pattern in the discourse about Robert Capa. This research also analyzes two theses on the biases of press photography and documentary photography. The first thesis considers that in press photography, staging is fraudulent information, but not in documentary photography. The second thesis posits that staging is an unacceptable fraud in both photographic biases. The methodology applied in both theses compares two icons of Robert Capa, considered typical of press photography, with two other icons by photographer Arthur Rothstein, namely, “Cattle Skull” and “Dust Storm”. Rothstein is a reference figure in documentary photography and the 1936 Resettlement Administration program, later known as Farm Security Administration. The press’s reaction to the staging of the photograph Cattle Skull left no doubt about the incompatibility of staging in the context of documentary photography.
This article is an effort to bring into light the theme of American Dream for the betterment of individual characters in John Steinbeck's novels. It is the natural inclination of all humans to dream. ...Here the American dream is sought after by many different characters. The main theme is, how these dreams are unattainable and how because of great depression all American dreams were dead. However, the meaning of living American dream is something that differs for everyone. For some people, the American dream might be acceptance and equality. The American dream was no more, and the land of opportunity had become the land of misfortune. It is the idea of an individual overcoming all obstacles and beating all odds to become successful one day. This subject is the predominant theme in John Steinbeck's novels. Keywords: Steinbeck, despair, self-hatred, egotism, appetites, mundanity, wilderness, steadfastness, obstacles.
READING TO MY MOTHER Theroux, Phyllis
Phi Kappa Phi forum,
04/2022, Letnik:
102, Številka:
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Flying home to California, she packed up her few belongings and drove to my brothers house on the Monterey Peninsula, where she spent the next few weeks meditating, trying to come to terms with ...reality. At night after supper, it became a new habit for us to sit in the living room while I read aloud from whatever looked interesting - a gossipy Vanity Fair article about a celebrity or a chapter from Look Homeward, Angel. When Dolo came on Friday, my mother placed Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist on. the coffee table - along with a bottle of Scotch. (Refreshments were a big part of this reading program.) " The Alchemist is definitely the right book for Dolo," my mother declared after she had departed.
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Par définition, la comparaison crée des liens. Mais aussi bien toute réflexion et toute science. Entre comparatistes comme entre chercheurs de toutes disciplines, des liens aussi préexistent, ...familiaux (filiation, fraternité, mariage) ou familiers (condisciples, collaborateurs, successeurs, amis). Tels sont les liens que je décris en récapitulant les souvenirs de ma carrière ; dont la RLC fut l’un des vecteurs. Petit récit mémoriel.
This essay explores Richard Wright’s Native Son in light of the rhetoric of possession deployed in it. I begin by revisiting Wright’s political ideas with a focus on the theme of possession, thereby ...opening up the possibility to read the novel as Wright’s critique of what C. B. Macpherson calls “possessive individualism,” a conception of the individual as essentially the proprietor of his own person and capacities, for which he owes nothing to society. Clarifying how the novel—including its naturalist narrative form—is structured by the theme of dis/possession, I demonstrate that even Bigger’s seemingly existentialist selfhood is also informed by his sense of possession. From this perspective, I argue that the novel’s controversial ending bespeaks Wright’s aspiration to an alternative to capitalist property relations.
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