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or complex ideas. For instance, even though the ankh sign is motivated by a tro- pological transfer using successive metonymies, it represents an idea, [life], lack- ing materiality. Therefore, the penis sheath20 used to convey the concept should not be taken at face value. It should be deciphered
quality of a poem for me, and I have learned (from the stage) to what extent today’s literature is worked out as a problem at the desk and is made for the spectacles of the collector instead of for the ears of living human beings.” 12 Between February and June 1916, Hugo Ball staged a series of
Wright, Joan- na L. (Hg.). Feathered Dragons. Studies on the Transition from Dinosaurs to Birds. Blooming- ton: Indiana University Press. 1-11. Bakker, Robert T. und Galton, Peter M. 1974. Di- nosaur Monophyly and a New Class of Vertebra- tes. In: Nature. 248: 168-172. Balston, Thomas. 1945. The life of
into an autonomous form of life and thereby sets down, at one and the same time, the autonomy of art and its identification with a moment in life’s process of self-formation“ (Rancière 2004: 26). Das ästhetische Regime trennt nicht länger, wie der repräsentative Modus, den Bereich der Kunst von
her autobiographical sketches Leben in zwei Welten (2007). In this book, she recounts her father’s life, a first-generation immigrant who discovered, while living in Germany, a yearning for his native Turkey; yet when on vacation in his homeland he became overwhelmed by desire to return to Germany
the film ends, he signals to Markum that he will arrest him, at the same time emphasizing his rejection of the retributive justice that characterizes his community. His choices are rewarded by stability in his personal life as he reunites with his estranged wife. A somewhat ambiguous character, who
of what exactly motivates a person beyond acquired cultural conventions, group constraints, common habits, or instinctive and seemingly self-evident traditions, and how human will, chance, accident, and unplanned circumstances affect the life, thought, and agency of the individual as well as of the
Mauritius. Maunick, writing in French and, from the 1960s onwards, in Paris alongside Black intellectuals from around the world taking their cue from the negritude movement, was raised to obscure his Black genes in order to pass for white; in Paris, living as a Black man, he noted that he wished he could
on extreme retribution. The Irish freedom fighters represent a spectrum of characters. Liam McGivney has quit his violent life; Frankie McGuire is a romantic hero whose sense of duty does not let him start a new life when he is given a chance to do so; Sean Miller is a violent murderer motivated by
, who were portrayed as strong and non-violent. An interesting exception to this rule was an early portrayal of Irish gangs in William Beaudine’s Little Annie Rooney from 1925. Annie (Mary Pickford), an Irish American girl living in New York, is a tomboy who looks up to her older brother, a member