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\"Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she can't wait to begin! But wait-how can Marisol ever make a sky without blue paint? After gazing out the bus window and watching from her porch as day turns into night, she closes her eyes and starts to dream\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Now Tell Me What Else It Means: Gender, Genre, and Canonicity in Contemporary Fiction
This article analyses three different texts—a short story, a novel, and a book chapter—that each focuses on a young female protagonist who strives for a modicum of emancipation and agency: A. S. Byatt’s Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (1998), Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999), and Jennifer Donnelly’s book chapter “Anne of Cleves,” from the young adult historical fictional work Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All (2018). It specifically looks at the texts’ critique of the relations of power inscribed within the practice of the artistic profession. As the texts under scrutiny focus on the unbalanced gender relationships underlying the artistic process, they all mobilize pictorial perspective as the most accomplished (male) expression of a worldview in which women are “made,” celebrated, and manipulated, in function of a specific artistic and/or political design.
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Adapting The Mysteries of Udolpho’s Musicality into Real Music: An Impossible Task?
The Mysteries of Udolpho was published at a time when poetry and music were being redefined, along with the notions of imitation and expression. From a precedence of word over music, theorists, musicians and composers started reconsidering the hierarchy of arts, which led to a new appreciation of both sung music and instrumental music. Ann Radcliffe’s novel is replete with pleasing sounds and mysterious melodies, working both as part of her décor and general soundscape and as a key element of the narrative. Given the novel’s musical profusion and versatility, one may wonder how to adapt its musicality into actual music. This paper, therefore, endeavors to define the balance of imitation and expression in The Mysteries of Udolpho and questions the ability of other media, especially those relying on sounds, to adapt its musical richness. It first focuses on the novel’s inscription in the larger context of musical theory, before delving into the limits of language’s sound mimesis and its counteracting expressivity. The final part is a case study of three artworks inspired by Radcliffe’s novel: John Bray’s song “Soft as yon’s silver ray that sleeps”, Catherine Czerkawska’s radio dramatization The Mysteries of Udolpho, and Marc Morvan and Benjamin Jarry’s album Udolpho.
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Glow
\"When thrift-store aficionado Julie discovers a series of antique paintings with hidden glowing images that are only visible in the dark, she uncovers a century-old romance and the haunting true story of the Radium Girls\"--Provided by publisher.
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Understanding and the Facts
If understanding is factive, the propositions that express an understanding are true. I argue that a factive conception of understanding is unduly restrictive. It neither reflects our practices in ascribing understanding nor does justice to contemporary science. For science uses idealizations and models that do not mirror the facts. Strictly speaking, they are false. By appeal to exemplification, I devise a more generous, flexible conception of understanding that accommodates science, reflects our practices, and shows a sufficient but not slavish sensitivity to the facts.
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Ma couleur préférée
« Albin est trop timide pour parler aux autres élèves de la classe. Aujourd'hui, il est arrivé en retard à l'atelier de peinture sur les couleurs. Oriane a choisi le jaune, Marine le bleu et Garance le rouge. Il ne lui reste que le blanc et le noir. Que faire avec ces deux couleurs qui n'en sont pas vraiment? Du gris !!! Il faudra bien qu'Albin vainque sa timidité pour demander un peu d'aide à ses trois amies.»-- Résumé de l'éditeur.
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Blood Guitar
There will be a man named Pablo, who is now also only a boy, and who lives in Malaga, a port town across the Great Desert to the far north, across the sea, on another continent. Which was why Maurice, sitting among the sailors and stevedores in this bistro on the Seine, was able in a moment to identify the statuettes on the shelf, between the Pernod bottles, with the mirror behind them, the statuettes and his own face appraising him. The banter of the sailors and stevedores, the smell of the wine, the heat of the sun, the hunger of his belly, and his face in the mirror. The ubiquity of blood and rubber sap upon the hands and feet, between fingers and toes.
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Apocalypse in Paradise: Niki de Saint Phalle in Los Angeles
Discusses the works produced and exhibited by the French artist Niki de Saint-Phalle in Los Angeles, California, in the 1960s, where she travelled with the French artist Jean Tinguely, commenting on works such as 'King Kong' (1963, illus.) in the context of the depiction of apocalyptic scenes of urban catastrophes and devastation by artists generally in this period after the decimation of cities during World War II, noting photojournalistic accounts of atomic devastation and the social and political response to these events, particularly in California. Comments on both St-Phalle and Tinguely's work relating to death and destruction, commenting on the work produced in Los Angeles by Saint-Phalle depicting the destruction of New York, 'Pirodactyl over New York', (1962, illus.) noting the presence of found objects, toys and the iconography of monsters and its cinematic approach, and its reference to the film 'King Kong', and considering the military planning motifs and religious references to the Last Judgment in the work, referring to Saint-Phalle's relationship with the Catholic church. Comments on the perceived the iconoclasm and ethical issues in the work observed in the critical reception for 'King Kong' and refers to the writing of Susan Sontag on the representation of disaster. Concludes by noting the comic and ludic aspects of Saint-Phalle's approach to apocalypse as a challenge to technological and military attack.
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