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Anime’s Media Mix
In Anime’s Media Mix, Marc Steinberg convincingly shows that anime is far more than a style of Japanese animation. Engaging with film, animation, and media studies, as well as analyses of consumer culture and theories of capitalism, Steinberg offers the first sustained study of the Japanese mode of convergence that informs global media practices to this day.
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Japanese kanji made easy : learn 1000 kanji and kana the fun and easy way
Learning the fundamental kanji characters used to write Japanese can be challenging, but this book is designed to speed up learning by presenting the 1,000 most common characters using a mnemonic approach. In a fun and accessible way to learn Japanese, each kanji is associated with memorable visual and verbal clues. For example, the Japanese character for person is superimposed over a sketch of a smiling man. The visual clue is a person standing on two legs. By seeing the distinctive shape of the kanji, learners create a mental image of its meaning. As well, each character is presented as part of a group of characters which share similar traits. These groups use common root symbols known as radicals; they are also categorized by themes such as colors, numbers, animals, or body parts. Pronunciations, meanings and common vocabulary compounds are provided for each character in the group. Mnemonic clues are also given for the basic 92 hiragana and katakana phonetic symbols. A free audio CD helps you learn pronunciation for all of the characters and vocabulary in this book. The short introduction explains the basic history and structure of the kanji.
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The One vs. the Many
Does a novel focus on one life or many? Alex Woloch uses this simple question to develop a powerful new theory of the realist novel, based on how narratives distribute limited attention among a crowded field of characters. His argument has important implications for both literary studies and narrative theory.
Characterization has long been a troubled and neglected problem within literary theory. Through close readings of such novels asPride and Prejudice,Great Expectations, andLe Père Goriot, Woloch demonstrates that the representation of any character takes place within a shifting field of narrative attention and obscurity. Each individual--whether the central figure or a radically subordinated one--emerges as a character only through his or her distinct and contingent space within the narrative as a whole. The \"character-space,\" as Woloch defines it, marks the dramatic interaction between an implied person and his or her delimited position within a narrative structure. The organization of, and clashes between, many character-spaces within a single narrative totality is essential to the novel's very achievement and concerns, striking at issues central to narrative poetics, the aesthetics of realism, and the dynamics of literary representation.
Woloch's discussion of character-space allows for a different history of the novel and a new definition of characterization itself. By making the implied person indispensable to our understanding of literary form, this book offers a forward-looking avenue for contemporary narrative theory.
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Out of Character
\"Characters\" are those fictive beings in novels whose coherent patterns of behavior make them credible as people. \"Character\" is also used to refer to the capacity—or incapacity—of individuals to sustain core principles. When characters are inconsistent, they risk coming across as dangerous or immoral, not to mention unconvincing. But what is behind our culture's esteem for unwavering consistency? Out of Character examines literary characters who defy our culture's models of personal integrity. It argues that modernist writers Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and T. S. Eliot drew inspiration from vitalism as a way of reinventing the means of depicting people in fiction and poetry. Rather than regarding a rigid character as something that inoculates us against the shifting tides of circumstance, these writers insist on the ethical necessity of forming improvisational, dynamic social relationships. Charting the literary impact of William James, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, and, in particular, Henri Bergson, this book contends that vitalist understandings of psychology, affect, and perception led to new situational and relational definitions of selfhood. As Moses demonstrates, the modernists stirred by these vital life lessons give us a sense of what psychic life looks like at its most intricate, complex, and unpredictable.
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Favorite first friends!
Pikachu meets other Pokâemon a trainer can choose as their first partner, including Bulbasaur, Charmander, Chikorita, Mudkip, and Litten.
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Fan Fiction and Copyright
As long as there have been fans, there has been fan fiction. There seems to be a fundamental human need to tell additional stories about the characters after the book, series, play or movie is over. But developments in information technology and copyright law have put these fan stories at risk of collision with the content owners’ intellectual property rights. Fan fiction has long been a nearly invisible form of outsider art, but over the past decade it has grown exponentially in volume and in legal importance. Because of its nature, authorship, and underground status, fan fiction stands at an intersection of key issues regarding property, sexuality, and gender. In Fan Fiction and Copyright, author Aaron Schwabach examines various types of fan-created content and asks whether and to what extent they are protected from liability for copyright infringement. Professor Schwabach discusses examples of original and fan works from a wide range of media, genres, and cultures. From Sherlock Holmes to Harry Potter, fictional characters, their authors, and their fans are sympathetically yet realistically assessed. Fan Fiction and Copyright looks closely at examples of three categories of disputes between authors and their fans: Disputes over the fans’ use of copyrighted characters, disputes over online publication of fiction resembling copyright work, and in the case of J.K. Rowling and a fansite webmaster, a dispute over the compiling of a reference work detailing an author's fictional universe. Offering more thorough coverage of many such controversies than has ever been available elsewhere, and discussing fan works from the United States, Brazil, China, India, Russia, and elsewhere, Fan Fiction and Copyright advances the understanding of fan fiction as transformative use and points the way toward a safe harbor for fan fiction.
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Learn to draw your favorite Disney Pixar characters : featuring Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Lightning McQueen, Mater, and other favorite characters
Presents step-by-step instructions for drawing various Disney characters, such as Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Nemo, and Lightning McQueen.
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Ovid's Tragic Heroines
Ovid's Tragic Heroines expands
our understanding of Ovid's incorporation of Greek generic codes
and the tragic heroines, Phaedra and Medea, while offering a new
perspective on the Roman poet's persistent interest in these two
characters and their paradigms. Ovid presents these two
Attic tragic heroines as symbols of different passions that are
defined by the specific combination of their gender and generic
provenance. Their failure to be understood and their subsequent
punishment are constructed as the result of their female \"nature,\"
and are generically marked as \"tragic.\" Ovid's masculine poetic
voice, by contrast, is given free rein to oscillate and play with
poetic possibilities.
Jessica A. Westerhold focuses on select passages from the poems
Ars Amatoria , Heroides , and
Metamorphoses . Building on existing scholarship, she
analyzes the dynamic nature of generic categories and codes in
Ovid's poetry, especially the interplay of elegy and epic. Further,
her analysis of Ovid's reception applies the idea of the abject to
elucidate Ovid's process of constructing gender and genre in his
poetry.
Ovid's Tragic Heroines incorporates established
theories of the performativity of sex, gender, and kinship roles to
understand the continued maintenance of the normative and abject
subject positions Ovid's poetry creates. The resulting analysis
reveals how Ovid's Phaedras and Medeas offer alternatives both to
traditional gender roles and to material appropriate to a poem's
genre, ultimately using the tragic code to introduce a new
perspective to epic and elegy.
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