Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999 – 2009 ( Palgrave Macmillan ; 2011 ) 323 pages ; looks at recent literary & cinematic, interest in the Victorian era, including magic, sexuality, theme parks, and the postcolonial

Lobotomies have been featured in several literary and cinematic presentations that both reflected society's attitude towards the procedure and, at times, changed it.

A protagonist ( from the Greek protagonistes, " one who plays the first part, chief actor ") is the main character ( the central or primary personal figure ) of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, which ends up in conflict because of the antagonist and with whom the audience is intended to most identify.

Faust's tale is the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works.

In 1935, Buchan's literary work was adapted to the cinematic theatre with the completion of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, starring Robert Donat as Richard Hannay, though with Buchan's story much altered.

" Unlike previous cinematic depictions of Jesus ' life, Pasolini's film does not embellish the biblical account with any literary or dramatic inventions, nor does it present an amalgam of the four Gospels ( subsequent films which would adhere as closely as possible to one Gospel account are 1979's Jesus, based on the Gospel of Luke, and 2003's The Gospel of John ).

Finally, after another song from Nichols or Bentley, there was a situation comedy sketch worked up from the clichés of a literary or cinematic genre ; for example, later TIFH programmes included a sketch about restoration England, with Charles II, Nell Gwynne and the Puritan keeper of the Privy Purse (" anything TV can do, we can do later "); or a spoof spy story set on an international sleeper from London to Paris ("… as I moved through the train I gazed at a handsome film star, slumbering in his compartment, and a thought struck me — whether you're great or whether you're humble, when you sleep upright you dribble ").

Another important notion developed by the LI, was that of détournement, a technique of reutilising plagiarised material ( literary, artistic, cinematic, etc.

The partition of India and the associated bloody riots inspired many creative minds in India and Pakistan to create literary / cinematic depictions of this event.

The Cultural Society ( dramatics, music, choreography, cinematic, literary, audio, lights, Programme management, Kshitij, Watch Out ) takes all initiative related to cultural activities in the institute.

Physical reality might count as source material for these purposes, but so might superhero anthologies, or any other literary, cinematic or historical milieu.

Many of the films of this period concluded with an explanatory detective dénouement that quickly became a cinematic ( and literary ) cliche.

The narrative mode ( also known as the mode of narration ) is the set of methods the author of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical story uses to convey the plot to the audience.

The Fantastique is a French term for a literary and cinematic genre that overlaps with science fiction, horror and fantasy.

Although fiction often describes a major branch of literary work, it is also applied to theatrical, cinematic, and musical work.

There would also be technical difficulties involved in creating the MI armor and other, cinematic rather than literary restrictions ( such as Hollywood's taboo against hiding the faces of major characters for extended periods as the MI armor would necessitate ).

Other echoes, cinematic and literary, that critics have detected in the film include William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Jean Renoir's Boudu Saved from Drowning ( one of Leigh's favourite films ).

By combining cinematic and literary traditions, Franklin paints a picture of a crime, deeply rooted in the South, pointing out that the real issues at stake date back farther than one would expect.

Hübener's story has been the subject of various literary, dramatic, and cinematic works.

Played by James Earl Jones, the cinematic Thulsa Doom is considerably different from the literary one, who is described as having a skull-like face.

In 1927 Zweig published the anti-war novel The Case of Sergeant Grischa, which made him an international literary figure.

Steiner gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher.

Two general principles underlie the Formalist study of literature: first, literature itself, or rather, those of its features that distinguish it from other human activities, must constitute the object of inquiry of literary theory ; second, " literary facts " have to be prioritized over the metaphysical commitments of literary criticism, whether philosophical, aesthetic or psychological ( Steiner, " Russian Formalism " 16 ).

" They utilized the similarity between organic bodies and literary phenomena in two different ways: as it applied to individual works and to literary genres " ( Steiner, " Russian Formalism " 19 ).

" Just as each individual organism shares certain features with other organisms of its type, and species that resemble each other belong to the same genus, the individual work is similar to other works of its form and homologous literary forms belong to the same genre " ( Steiner, " Russian Formalism " 19 ).

" In light of his concept of literary evolution as a struggle among competing elements, the method of parody, " the dialectic play of devices ," becomes an important vehicle of change " ( Steiner, " Russian Formalism " 21 ).

Zara Betzion (" A Stranger in Zion ") by Janice Rebibo received awards from the Office of the President of Israel and the Mifal HaPais Cultural Committee, as well as Hebrew College's Steiner Prize in Hebrew Literature, one of several academic and literary prizes awarded to Rebibo over her many years of association with that College.

The letters of Cassiodorus, chief minister and literary adviser of Amalasuntha, and the histories of Procopius and Jordanes, give us our chief information as to the character of Amalasuntha.

The story of Ratoncito Pérez has been adapted into further literary works and movies since then, with the character of Alfonso XIII appearing in some.

In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (; ) or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood ( coming of age ), and in which character change is thus extremely important.

" Before this, he had published several works on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and its consequences, but his literary capacity was mediocre, his style stiff and cold, and it was his personal character rather than his reputation as a writer that earned him the confidence of the elector.

An interesting literary interpretation of this period of Christianity and the character of Paul can be found in Rudyard Kipling's short story " The Church that was at Antioch ".

Their literary character is not quite clear ; while most of them are adapted for public delivery, not a few bear the character of ecclesiastical pronouncements.

More concerned with the literary nature of Orwell ’ s work, he sought explanations for Orwell's character and treated his first-person writings as autobiographical.

These developments represented a fundamental change in literary criticism, which came to focus more on character and less on plot.

Due to his literary style and the thoroughness of his research — which seemingly included studying Roman imperial archives and heavily relying on Thucydides — and his apparent rigor — for he tended not to support any character or subject, taking an impartial point of view — he was by far the most read and admired historian during the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the early Modern Era.

The first work Jacob Grimm published, Über den altdeutschen Meistergesang ( 1811 ), was of a purely literary character.

However, while the creators of the literary character of Morgan may have been somewhat inspired by the much older tales of the goddess, the relationship ends there.

Structuralistic literary criticism argues that the " literary banter of a text " can lie only in new structure, rather than in the specifics of character development and voice in which that structure is expressed.

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The term noble savage ( French, bon sauvage ), expresses the concept of an idealized indigene, outsider ( or " other "), and refers to the literary stock character of the same.

Osborne took literary revenge by creating a fictionalised and pseudonymous Richardson — a domineering and arrogant character who everyone hated — in his play Hotel in Amsterdam.

The principal surviving literary sources are Dio Cassius ( a contemporary and sometimes first-hand observer, but for this reign, only transmitted in fragments and abbreviations ), Herodian and the Historia Augusta ( untrustworthy for its character as a work of literature rather than history, with elements of fiction embedded within its biographies ; in the case of Commodus, it may well be embroidering upon what the author found in reasonably good contemporary sources ).

This natural disliking of clowns makes them effective to use in a literary or fictional context, as the antagonistic threat perceived in clowns is desirable in a villainous character.

As a character and literary allusion he has appeared in, or been referred to in a large number of works of literature and popular culture, particularly in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass ( 1872 ).

The character is also a common literary allusion, particularly to refer to a person in an insecure position, something that, once broken, would be difficult to reconstruct, or a short and fat person.

In addition to his appearance in Through the Looking-Glass, as a character Humpty Dumpty has been used in a large range of literary works, including L. Frank Baum's Mother Goose in Prose ( 1901 ), where the rhyming riddle is devised by the daughter of the king, having witnessed Humpty's " death " and her father's soldiers ' efforts to save him.

Today with most of Savonarola ’ s treatises and sermons and many of the contemporary sources – chronicles, diaries, government documents and literary works – available in critical editions, scholars can provide fresh, better informed assessments of his character and his place in the Renaissance, the Reformation and modern European history.