In this essay I consider the counter-intuitive (even apparently impossible) enterprise of picturing ekphrasis—of visually depicting verbal representation visual. do so by attending to two paintings, William Martin and James Barry, disturbing scene in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline which Iachimo gains illicit entry Imogen’s bedroom proceeds record details both room her body, he later uses convince Post...

After illustrating with the help of a textuality checklist how it transpires that humans can produce so much better summaries than automatic systems, I plead the cause of a summarization system that follows the approach of human summarizers not in the system underground but near the user interface where users actually feel it. I present the overall research strategy and a sketch of the target s...

In his article "'Mad Laughter' in Federman's The Twofold Vibration" Menachem Feuer discusses one of the central questions in the debate over post-Holocaust representation with regard to comedy and laughter. Several authors and filmmakers including Mel Brooks, Lina Wertmüller, Roberto Benigni, Michael Chabon, or Jonathan Safran Foer employ comedy in work. Although the books and films of these au...

Recent interest amongst critical human geographers in postcolonial theory has been framed by a concern for the relationship between ‘politics’ and ‘theory’. This paper addresses debates in the field of colonial discourse analysis in order to explore the connections between particular conceptions of language and particular models of politics to which oppositional academics consider themselves re...

Alongside other methodological affinities between contemporary Scandinavian information systems research and social anthropology, the modes of reflexivity that have come to characterize each differ. Reflexivity in the former concerns an ‘otherness’ of technology, which is related to the users and their practices, while reflexivity within social anthropology concerns the encounter between the te...

The article focuses on Renaissance emblematics and its privileged relationship with metaphor, considered in the light of contemporary theories as an inherently tensional form, steeped interchange transition heavily relying a basically conflictual dynamic. Though often dismissed academic, antiquarian form figurality or pleasing symbolical monologic stability, was fact conceived brand-new hybrid ...

RESUMEN: A partir de los avances realizados en estudios cultura visual a lo largo últimos treinta años, se describen las técnicas ecfrásticas adoptadas por Salas Barbadillo El curioso y sabio Alejandro, fiscal juez vidas ajenas (1634), una colección seis relatos insertados un marco narrativo representado galería retratos. Al disponer solamente epítomes que personajes retratados, estudiará cómo ...