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Perhaps the greatest European director of the last 30 years, Krzsztof Kieslowski created a remarkable body of work in a relatively short period of time. His films are loved around the world for their dramatic power and consummate artistry.

Kieslowski's cinematic style stands apart in several important respects: his mastery of abstract imagery, his innovative use of sound and his deliberate circumvention of standard cinematic codes. Unlike many other "art" directors - who often fail to rise above commentary on the medium itself - Kieslowski uses these stylistic liberties to explore his philosophical concerns: fate, God, suffering, and love. Through close analysis of films like The Decalogue, The Double Life of Veronique, Blue, White and Red, Joe Kickasola identifies the unique qualities, and artistic legacy, of this great director..
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Embryo adoptions, stem cells capable of transforming into any cell in the human body, intra- and inter-species organ transplantation—these and other biomedical advances have unsettled ideas of what it means to be human, of when life begins and ends. In the first study to consider the cultural impact of the medical transformation of the entire human life span, Susan Merrill Squier argues that fiction—particularly science fiction—serves as a space where worries about ethically and socially charged scientific procedures are worked through. Indeed, she demonstrates that in many instances fiction has anticipated and paved the way for far-reaching biomedical changes. Squier uses the anthropological concept of liminality—the state of being on the threshold of change, no longer one thing yet not quite another—to explore how, from the early twentieth century forward, fiction and science together have altered not only the concept of the human being but the contours of human life.

Drawing on archival materials of twentieth-century biology; little-known works of fiction and science fiction; and twentieth- and twenty-first century U.S. and U.K. government reports by the National Institutes of Health, the Parliamentary Advisory Group on the Ethics of Xenotransplantation, and the President’s Council on Bioethics, she examines a number of biomedical changes as each was portrayed by scientists, social scientists, and authors of fiction and poetry. Among the scientific developments she considers are the cultured cell, the hybrid embryo, the engineered intrauterine fetus, the child treated with human growth hormone, the process of organ transplantation, and the elderly person rejuvenated by hormone replacement therapy or other artificial means. Squier shows that in the midst of new phenomena such as these, literature helps us imagine new ways of living. It allows us to reflect on the possibilities and perils of our liminal lives..
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First and only existing published monograph of Mexican / American artist, including his cartoons, mural projects, photography, lithography and paintings. Essay on his work, his teachings in Mexico and the United States. It covers the most of his works in private and public collections: New York, Seattle, Louisiana, Texas and Mexico..
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CONTENTS: Robert YOUNG: Colonialism and the Desiring-Machine. Sylvia SÖDERLIND: Margins and Metaphors: The Politics of Post-***. John THIEME: Passages to England Steven CONNOR: Rewriting Wrong: On The Ethics of Literary Reversion. Richard TODD: The Retrieval of Unheard Voices in British Postmodernist Fiction. Chantal ZABUS: Prospero's Progeny Curses Back: Postcolonial, Postmodern, and Postpatriarchal Rewritings of The Tempest. Hena MAES-JELINEK: Teaching Past the Posts. Christine LEVECQ: "We House and We Land": History and Radical Politics in Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People. Maria DEL SAPIO GARBERO: Between the Frontiers: Polyglottism and Female Definitions of Self in Christine Brooke-Rose. Allen THIHER: Lacan, Madness, and Women's Fiction in France. Annemarie KEMENY: The Female Machine in the Postmodern Circuit. R.J. ELLIS: Out From Under the Cucumber: The Color Purple's Discursive Critique of Postmodern Deferral. Michael GRONOW: "Post-Feminist" Poetry in Britain and Ireland. Allen E. HIBBARD: Cultural Upheaval and Fictional Form: Three Novelistic Responses to Nasser's Egypt. Julia MARTIN: The Snake Person Takes on the Cock-Sure Boys: Buddhism/Postmodernism/South African Eco-Politics.
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This first monograph on the work of Lisa Klapstock features several series of photographs in full page color plates. Klapstock's main interest is the grey area between private and public space and her role as both artist and woman in that undefined space..
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This digital document is an article from Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 7207 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: 'Neither here nor there': representing the liminal in Irish poetry.(Critical essay)
Author: Rui Carvalho Homem
Publication:Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 35 Issue: 2 Page: 288(16)

Article Type: Critical essay

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This book explores what has been called "liminal" reality through the categories of anthropology, sociology, history of religions, theology, history of Christianity, neurology and psychology. Liminal reality is that state of being found at the transitional edges of individual and collective experience. It may be found in predictable form, such as the multifarious rites of passage, or in unexpected external or intrapsychic changes. In this book, exterior transitions are correlated with their corresponding intrapsychic movements and potential transformation. Special attention is given to the identity of the liminal person and dynamics which are at work in the liminal domain. The practical dimensions of this book relate to the role of ritual leaders and religious professionals as they guide persons and groups passing through liminal time and space. This includes pastoral care givers in a variety of settings, teachers, and liturgical leaders. The role and identity of the liminal guide is itself addressed and this contributes to an expanded understanding of the complex dimensions of religious leadership..
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This digital document is an article from Commonweal, published by Thomson Gale on July 15, 2005. The length of the article is 1213 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Seeing red--& blue & white.(Books)(The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski: The Liminal Image)(Book Review)
Author: Maurice Timothy Reidy
Publication:Commonweal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 15, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 132 Issue: 13 Page: 28(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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