What May This Meyne? BADIR, PATRICIA
Modern philology,
11/2018, Letnik:
116, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Badir discusses the Scriveners' pageant in the York Play, which, as one would expect, addresses the problem of doubt, both thematically and formally, by proposing that seeing and touching Christ's ...body can confirm knowledge and restore faith. She explores the tension between the demands of the theatrical enactment of the Thomas story and the phenomenology of the written Word. She proposes that Thomas's indexical finger, in this instance, points not only to Christ's body--as the actor playing Thomas gestures toward the actor playing Christ--but also to the gospel text, inscribed on parchment by the hands of the pageant's players, themselves copyists by trade. She proposes that the Scriveners' pageant and its playbooks suggest an imaginative series of associations between Thomas's outstretched hand, the scrivener-actor's hand, and the scrivener writer's pointing stylus.
In its current statement of core values, the Council pledges to * support freedom of artistic expression from control or dominance by external forces such as governments and markets, a value ...reinforced by the arm's length relationship; * believe in government investment in the arts as a public good enabling the arts to contribute to peoples' lives, encouraging arts development across Canada, and freeing art from complete reliance on the marketplace; * seek to develop excellent art in Canada by focusing on professional artistic activity by individuals and organizations, respecting artistic excellence as the primary criterion in providing grants, and relying on peer assessment as the best method for determining comparative merit in a national context, maintaining freedom of artistic expression from control or dominance by external forces such as governments and markets; and * believe in the value of a national perspective of the arts, to enrich knowledge within the Council and the arts community, foster attitudes inclusive of all art forms and artistic traditions, and provide national and international leadership.89 The nationalist vision that Massey brought to Hart House surfaces prominently in the last of these statements.
Backyard Nardizzi, Vin; Werth, Tiffany Jo
Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination,
04/2019
Book Chapter
“What if this were your backyard?” A promotional video for the University of British Columbia poses this question of potential recruits. The camera pans a mountain range – blue sky, Douglas fir, ...rocks. The music swells. Cut to a forest scene. We see tall evergreen trees, shafts of sunlight, and students glossed by this caption: “And this your classroom?” Should you come here, the video promises, “You will see the world differently … Discover a way to make a difference. And in turn discover yourself.”¹ I teach Shakespeare. Should it matter where I do it? Yes, another sea-to-sky UBC video
Marjorie Pickthall's play "The Wood Carver's Wife" betrays a firm bond to a sticky moral sentimentality, and it never quite releases itself from melodrama, as though it ventures into the modernist ...waters of repression and sublimation but never quite escapes ties from an upright, Victorian sense of property and virtue. However, there seems to be enough evidence to suggest that the play appealed not only to the ambitions of the amateur theater community, but did so because it lent itself to an experimental stagecraft that sought to probe the depths of the psyche through the power of the symbol.
Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination explores how the cognitive and physical landscapes in which scholars conduct research, write, and teach have shaped their understandings of ...medieval and Renaissance English literary "oecologies." The collection strives to practice what Ursula K. Heise calls "eco-cosmopolitanism," a method that imagines forms of local environmentalism as a defense against the interventions of open-market global networks. It also expands the idea's possibilities and identifies its limitations through critical studies of premodern texts, artefacts, and environmental history. The essays connect real environments and their imaginative (re)creations and affirm the urgency of reorienting humanity's responsiveness to, and responsibility for, the historical links between human and non-human existence. The discussion of ways in which meditation on scholarly place and time can deepen ecocritical work offers an innovative and engaging approach that will appeal to both ecocritics generally and to medieval and early modern scholars.
