Of all the elusive‚ seductive concepts shared by the disciplines of literary studies‚ art‚ and psychology‚ genius is among the most scoffed at‚ the least understood. To hear‚ as I have heard‚ a literature professor say that he "doesn’t believe in genius‚" as if millions of people haven’t attained I.Q. scores in excess of 140‚ or as if anyone‚ if he or she only worked vigorously enough‚ could pen a single work comparable to The Canterbury Tales or Paradise Lost or The Rape of the Lock‚ is to know
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students to “dig deeper” into the text that they are reading. In fact‚ every high school English course that I took part in involved interpreting the texts the way that I saw it. After reading Poetics by Aristotle and Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag‚ I now realize that it is not always important to find the hidden meaning of texts. As a student‚ it is necessary to look closely at the texts‚ however it is not always necessary to find incantations while interpreting them. Analyzing texts is
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Annie Leibovitz Madison Sutton Prof. Campbell Digital Photography 12 May‚ 2016 Annie Leibovitz is considered one of America’s best portrait photographers who developed a trademark while working at Rolling Stone magazine. She was born on October 2‚ 1949 here in Waterbury‚ Connecticut. In 1970 is when she landed her chief photographer position at Rolling Stone creating a distinctive look. In 1983 she started at entertainment magazine Vanity Fair continuing to create images that were both iconic and
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Triumph of the Will‚ has been perceived as one of the most remarkable works of art in film history. It is a documentary produced by Leni Riefenstahl‚ a renowned film maker‚ who “has remained the focus of critical attention since the 1930’s” (Sontag‚ 1976p. 31). Triumph of the Will‚ is a documentary created to follow Hitler and his supporters through the Nazi Nuremberg Rally of the 1930’s. In the study of Holocaust and films‚ it is crucial to uncover hidden messages portrayed through films by analyzing
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Just as Sontag explains‚ photographs are "the most mysterious of all the objects that make up‚ and thicken‚ the environment we recognize as modern (175)." This is indeed what Neshat made her work a metaphor of the Middle-East’s society and thus led its conditions of tensions and contradictions become visible to the viewers. In addition‚ I believe that although photography is two - dimensional‚ it can be viewed through multidimensional lens
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in this essay to discuss ways of approaching a text. Besides‚ ‘Against Interpretation’ will be a main reference in this essay. ‘In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art’ is the famous and controversial statement which suggested by Susan Sontag and it will be the blueprint of this essay and the direction of the discussion will follow it. In the first part‚ the interpretation theory of hermeneutics will be discussed. In the second part‚ the problem of hermeneutics‚ which was discussed in
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Record photographer Thomas E. Franklin had just gotten back from an assignment in the Dominican Republic. As soon as he arrived in The Record photo office‚ an editor immediately informed him of what had just happened. He started driving down to the World Trade Center on the Turnpike when he heard the second plane crash. Franklin hitched a ride on one of the tug boats across the Hudson River‚ arriving at the scene around noon. He took pictures of the scene for about an hour. He was “expecting to
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various artistic endeavors like painting and playing music. She began taking photographs when her father was stationed in Philippines during the Vietnam War. She enrolled at San Francisco Art Institute to study painting. She also continued her photography skills during this period. She was deeply influenced by the works of photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank. In 1987‚ she won the prestigious international advertising award‚ for her celebrity photographs for an advertising campaign
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Re-examination of the “Chinese nationalism” and Categorization of the Chinese in Malaya: The Case of the Chinese in Penang‚ 1890s-1910s SHINOZAKI Kaori‚ Ph.D. student‚ Graduate School of Arts and Sciences University of Tokyo Email: kaoris@pd.jaring.my ABSTRACT It is often described that the Chinese in Malaya strongly oriented towards China before the independence. Their activities were all explained by the "China factor"‚ described as if it was always developed
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From 1979 to present there have been many famous photographers‚ but there are three who really stick out: Jerry Uelsmann‚ Freeman Patterson‚ and Annie Slivovitz. These three photographers had very distinct photography and viewed photography as more than pictures but as pigments of emotions and feelings. These photographers are very famous for their pictures and one photographer is known for her help in third world countries. The first photographer that I would like to mention in my research paper
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