Liminal being

Italian Futurism and English Vorticism are generally considered to be Modernist movements. Indeed, literary scholar Peter Childs includes Futurism and Vorticism in his seminal book aptly titled Modernism, placing them amongst other Modernist movements like Expressionism, Surrealism, and Dadaism (14). In one of Childs’s many definitions of Modernism, he argues that the movement is imbued with “radical aesthetics, technical experimentation, spatial or rhythmic rather than chronological form,…

the protagonist’s mastery over death through immortality. However, Ovid effectively divorces himself from literary precedent with the defined fourth foot caesura on line 435. Indeed, rather than portraying the infernas…sedes through the eyes of a liminal narrator as Homer (11.50), Virgil (6.268) and even Dante, our implied author rejects the didactic characterisation of a protagonist, reducing our perspective to that of the umbrae…recentes. Immediately juxtaposing the apostrophe of the Damned,…

beast and gods: fire, religion, marriage, agriculture and civilization. This ambiguity embedded in the core of our liminal existence, Moving fluidly across boundaries – above/below, male/female, nature/culture…Prometheus consecration help established the human condition in a liminal, wounded, suspended state and offered a possibility of transcendental and transformation power of that liminal…

individuality. This detached outlook directly proves to the audience that the way the government has gone about treating these people is morally erroneous, at their core, people are not meant to conform, but to become their own individual. After his liminal experience, Winston comments that, “’What happens to you here is forever,’… There were things, your own acts, from which you could not recover. Something was killed in your breast; burnt out; cauterized out” (290). Using the word “killed”…

The most notable and the one discussed in this paper is one considering the Chalfens. Irie, being a young girl facing even then unattainable beauty standards, has an identity crisis. She sees herself as something undesirable by both Millat and the rest of the people around her. Before looking at the scene at the Chalfen home, it is helpful to look…

is natural to sin. However, given the intense and extraordinarily lengthy antipathy that Hester received for sinning, it is clear that the Puritans that discriminated against Hester were insincere to their own religious beliefs, which allude to sin being a natural aspect of humanity. This insincerity exhibited by the Puritans is also present in the layout of the marketplace itself. Hawthorne includes a discrete peculiarity of Boston’s marketplace, when he describes Hester’s shameful march from…

Jesse Paner Religion & Popular Culture 3/1/17 EX Machina Analysis What archetypes are seen? - The orphan exemplified by Caleb. He enters into a liminal environment where he in comparison outside of his normal life, by doing this he shows that he is an ordinary person entering an unknown world. - The sage, the inventor and the ruler are portrayed by Nathan. Nathan is seen as wise and creative which are traits that directly relate to the sage and the inventor. Using his intellect, he is able to…

empower themselves. Miller made no attempt to physically restrain them when he first approached; he respected the youths’ autonomy but was compelled to guide their decisions. He sought to connect Mobley and Ward as individuals yet uncouple them from being appendages of the group’s discursive power. Miller’s ethics of critique was galvanised by his recognition of the youths’ inequities: “Those kids didn’t look like predators to me[,]” he says in response to the interviewer's question about the…

speak to the ancient subsistence practice, which can be used to construct everything from man-animal interactions to the ancient environment and trade that existed (Fillios and Blake, 2015: 134). The human-animal divide is also described as being permeable and liminal (McNiven 2015, 215). Structuralism is also used to point out dialect opposites in nature, particularly that of humans and animals in an ethnographic context. Hunting encounters are revealed through ethnographic research to almost…

Medieval texts portray a tension between chivalric ideals and Christianity. One way of examining how the intersection of these values occurs is by focusing on how characters with religious affiliation are described, and whether these attributes reflect on their ability to embody heroic behavior. Specifically, one can examine how Sir Isumbras, his wife, and Chaucer’s Absolon illustrate how dependence on God’s grace only renders a character heroic insofar as he or she has the ability to conflate…