Index of /COURS/MSC. Kutz-Acting-togethe-PPR-2000. The Fauna of Mirrors, by Borges. In one of the volumes of the Lettres edifiantes et curieuses that appeared in Paris during the first half of the eighteenth century, Father Fontecchio of the Society of Jesus planned a study of the superstitions and misinformation of the common people of Canton; in the preliminary outline he noted that the Fish was a shifting and shining creature that nobody had ever caught but that many said they had glimpsed in the depths of mirrors.
Father Fontecchio died in 1736, and the work begun by his pen remained unfinished; some years later Herbert Allen Giles took up the interrupted task. According to Giles, belief in the Fish is part of a larger myth that goes back to the legendary times of the Yellow Emperor. In those days the world of mirrors and the world of men were not, as they are now, cut off from each other. They were, besides, quite different; neither beings nor colors nor shapes were the same. One night the mirror people invaded the earth. CTheory.net. Illuminated Darkness: Nightmares, Blind Spots and Biofeedback Ted Hiebert This exploration would be best seen as the beginning of a story, a somewhat tenuous account of what might be called a manifest imagination.
This is the story of how we are all already imaginary beings, entities not governed by the rules of science or truth or reason, but at least always in part governed by our imaginary participation in the formation of the world. This is also the story of a digital imaginary: minds caught in the dynamic of user-generated content, bound by worldly context to something that would never have appeared to an analog mind -- namely, the observation that reflection is no longer the governing sign of knowledge or understanding.
Imaginary Beings In the land of the screen we jump second, our appearances always ahead of us at the speed of the half-distance traveled, the speed of light that only has to go half as far -- the space of the light-beam before it is reflected back. Useless Functions. How To Increase Student Engagement And Understanding Of A Novel. The Structure of the Novel. A novel is an extended fictional narrative, usually written in prose. Fiction, regardless of its attempt at verisimilitude, is a created world apart, a world of the possible or probable or even the fantastic rather than the actual. Fiction is governed by its own rules and internal completeness.
The only obligation of the writer is to make the story interesting. The measure of success of a work of fiction is how well or poorly the author has unified the story and controlled its impact. In The Art of Fiction John Gardner says: A novel is like a symphony in that its closing movement echoes and resounds with all that has gone before. . . . A novel aims for a comprehensive unified effect in which all of the elements of fiction intertwine to make a comment on the human condition.
The elements of fiction are : Teaching the American 20s: Image Gallery. A Quick History of Philosophy - General - The Basics of Philosophy. Pre-Socratic Philosophy | Classical Philosophy | Other Ancient Philosophical Schools | Medieval Philosophy | Early Modern Philosophy | 19th Century Philosophy | 20th Century Philosophy For younger readers and those with short attention spans, here is my own abbreviated and simplified history of Western Philosophy, all on one (long) page.
The explanations are necessarily simplistic and lacking in detail, though, and the links should be followed for more information. Western Philosophy - by which we usually mean everything apart from the Eastern Philosophy of China, India, Japan, Persia, etc - really began in Ancient Greece in about the 6th Century B.C. Thales of Miletus is usually considered the first proper philosopher, although he was just as concerned with natural philosophy (what we now call science) as with philosophy as we know it. Another issue the Pre-Socratics wrestled with was the so-called problem of change, how things appear to change from one form to another. St. From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection. Vincent van GoghLa Mousmé, 1888oil on canvasChester Dale Collection23 Dale, who died in 1962, bequeathed to the National Gallery of Art the core of his still-substantial collection of modern art. Comprising 228 paintings, 7 sculptures, and 23 works on paper, this gift was among the single most valuable ever given to the Gallery.
As a result of Dale's generosity, the Gallery's permanent holdings of 19th-century French paintings nearly tripled in size. Works by Cassatt, Gauguin, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Van Gogh (Dale donated four paintings by this artist, including this celebrated picture) all entered the collection for the first time. Timeline of Philosophy. Method Acting Technique | Stanislavsky | Strasberg | Group Theatre| The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. If one listens to either its critics or supporters Method Acting is described as a form of acting where the actor mystically ‘becomes’ the character or tries to somehow literally live the character in life.
Like all clichés, both explanations are false. When Lee Strasberg defined what is popularly known as Method Acting he used a simple declarative sentence: “Method acting is what all actors have always done whenever they acted well.” Now to the casual observer, that may sound as though he were implying that only actors who studied and used Strasberg’s particular method of work were good actors; but such an interpretation is contrary to Strasberg’s intent. He meant that what is called “Method Acting” is nothing new, but rather as old as Western Civilization itself.
In fact, the Greeks were the first to identify and practice this kind of acting (despite it being credited to Constantin Stanislavsky). Liveness.
Tech & learning. 32-34. Phelan-peggy-marina-abramovic-witnessing-shadows. Horizon Section. www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/learn/k-12/pdf/2005/Study_Guide_Commedia.pdf. Study Guide Commedia dell'Arte.indd - llanday - Berklee College of Music Mail.