Oscar Wilde as a temporal designer : a case study of the picture of Dorian Gray

Since the publication of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, there have been great amounts of ideological criticism both for and against the author and the work. Critics have variously evaluated the work from different perspectives; however, these studies have largely targeted the thematic aspects of the novel, while little serious attempt has been made to examine the narrativity of this great work. As a result, the narrative structure of this novel still remains quite untouched. As a partial fulfillment, the present paper has examined the temporal structure of the novel. The analysis indicated that temporality is one of the very functional elements of the work. In fact, much of the meaning or the effect the author intends to converse through each action, character, or dialogue is firstly embedded in a proper and effective temporal setting. Moreover, the analysis ascertained that the well-set temporal structure of the work has resulted in (1) Ekphrasis, (2) Characterization, and (3) Reader manipulation. According to the paper, these three elements dramatically carry out the influentiality of this great novel

AN ANALYSIS OF PHATIC COMMUNION EMPLOYED BY THE CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE ENTITLED JUNO (Based on A Sociopragmatics Approach)

Natalia Dany Parastika. C0304037. The Analysis of Phatic Communion Employed by the Characters in the Movie Entitled JUNO (A Sociopragmatics Approach), English Departement, Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts, Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta, 2009. This research was conducted to describe the forms of phatic communion employed by characters in the movie entitled JUNO and also why the characters employ the forms of phatic communion. This research used the socio-pragmatics approach. This research was a descriptive qualitative research. It employed total sampling technique. The dialogs containing the phatic communion were taken as data. The result of the analysis can be seen as follows: First, there are four forms of phatic communion employed by the characters in the movie entitled JUNO, namely ritual words that are exchanged when people meet, standard topic of conversation, supportive chat and meaningless word or misunderstood words. Second, the characters employ forms of phatic communion because of some reasons. In the form of ritual exchanged when people meet, the speakers usually employ this form because they just want to greet one and another. The form of standard topic of conversation is a topic of conversation that is too standard and not too specific. The speakers employ this form because they want to strike up the relationship. The topic of conversation is usually about the weather, someone’s health, etc. The speakers employ supportive chat form because this conversation does not deliver any new information but full of empathy and solidarity. It often takes the form of compliments, empathy and repetitions, both self-repetition and other repetition. The speakers employ meaningless words or misunderstood form because they want to maintain and keep the conversation going. Phatic communion occurs both in formal or informal situation and the relationship between the participants can be intimate or distant. It can happen in both higher and lower status. The atmosphere is commonly good but if the atmosphere is bad, phatic communion utterances will help to turn into the good one. The attitude of the participants while uttering phatic communion utterances is usually sympathetic. It can be seen from the low tone. At last, phatic communion functions to establish and maintain social relationship between people in society

Made Up: A Devised Short Film

I\u27ve explored and studied the use of devising in theatre, and decided to bring that process to the making of a short film. Devising is the process of an ensemble creating a piece together in a collaborative and creative environment. These devised works start without a final script and are formed through discussion, improvisation. and ensemble exercises. Film is a new medium for devising and allows for unlimited creative opportunity and exploration. My devised short film utilizes dramatic makeup as an artistic device to assist in the storytelling. The narrative focuses on the idea of how we present ourselves publicly versus how we are feeling internally

Multiparty talk in the novel: the distribution of tea and talk in a scene from Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief

This article argues that studies of fictional dialogue have hitherto neglected the specific dynamics of multiparty talk. I will contend that this neglect contributes to the perpetuation of an "ideal" of conversation that allows no space for either the frustrations and inequalities of such encounters or the unique pleasures they may bring to the reader. I urge the importance of distinguishing between group talk, in which there is some element of cohesion and shared goals, and multiparty talk, in which the representation foregrounds fragmentation and explores the often subtle power games played by the participants. Focusing on a scene from Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief (1986 [1932]), I argue that Waugh is sensitive to the dynamics of multiparty talk while orchestrating the representation for comic effect. I propose that analyzing such scenes of multiparty talk must make us reassess not only how we theorize fictional dialogue, but how far our models of everyday speech serve to privilege and universalize certain conversational practices and mechanisms based almost exclusively on the duologue

VScript: Controllable Script Generation with Visual Presentation

In order to offer a customized script tool and inspire professional scriptwriters, we present VScript. It is a controllable pipeline that generates complete scripts, including dialogues and scene descriptions, as well as presents visually using video retrieval. With an interactive interface, our system allows users to select genres and input starting words that control the theme and development of the generated script. We adopt a hierarchical structure, which first generates the plot, then the script and its visual presentation. A novel approach is also introduced to plot-guided dialogue generation by treating it as an inverse dialogue summarization. The experiment results show that our approach outperforms the baselines on both automatic and human evaluations, especially in genre control

Genre-based literacy pedagogy: the nature and value of genre knowledge in teaching and learning writing on a university first year media studies course

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, Uniiversity of Luton, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of PhilosophyIn the teaching and learning of literacy, descriptions of text have a problematic status as a result of the growing understanding of literacy as both a cognitive process and a social practice. In the teaching of academic subjects at university, student text is not usually an object of study. The research in this thesis draws on a language based theory oflearning to place textual description at the centre of the teaching and learning of both literacy and academic subjects at university. Participant observation and practice-based research methods were used to implement a form of text-oriented literacy teaching and to explore its compatibility with processes and practices orientations to literacy. Over an eighteen month period, systemic functional grammar was used to investigate and describe the texts of a film studies classroom and the descriptions were used in genre based literacy pedagogy. The effects of the pedagogy are measured in terms of students' performance in an end of course assignment, students' accounts of their writing processes, and student and subject-tutor perception of the text description and the pedagogy. In the thesis, a linguistic description of a key curriculum genre -a Taxonomic Film Analysis -is presented. An account is given of the pedagogy by means of which this essay genre was represented in the film studies classroom as a realisation of choices from linguistic, conceptual and activity systems. Systemic functional grammar-based text description is seen to have provided a means whereby a literacy tutor could collaborate with a subject tutor to provide a subject-specific form of literacy teaching which was evaluated as relevant by students and tutors. The account and the evaluation help to clarify the role that description of text can play in relation to processes and practices ofliteracy use in the teaching and learning of literacy in a film studies classroom and have implications for the teaching and learning of literacy at university more generally

The theatre and its screen double

This essay offers a close exploration of the live filming and sound production in the schaubühne berlin staging of strindberg's Fräulein Julie (directed by Katie Mitchell, shown on tour at the barbican, london, in 2012). It provides a series of theoretical and critical angles from which to discuss contemporary intermedia performance and audiovisual scenography. After a brief evocation of Artaud's writings in "theatre and cruelty" and on raw cinema, the essay builds on a historical understanding of Western theatre's evolving and hardly settled relationship to cinematography and moving-image technologies, as well as the "choreographic unconscious," as examined in contemporary dance and technology, before delving into an analysis of Mitchell's dramaturgy of real-time film construction and her use of the "camera-actor." A particular emphasis is placed on the question whether the live mediatization of realist drama, under Mitchell's direction, deliberately weakens the theatricality of the physical body and spoken language while proffering an extenuated, if uncritical/unpolitical modulation of digital prosthetics in a superbly crafted, seamless intermedial performance

Some novelists between two wars

The 1920's in America—a time of exhilaration and wild exuberance, of bravado and fast living to make up the wasted war years. A time of jazz, short skirts, new shiny automobiles; a time of lavish spending and "get-rich-quick" schemes. And yet, there were other things in these "roaring, mad" years too. Heartbreak for some who found their dreams of permanent peace and prosperity smashed; mounting hysteria and fear for others who knew that the gaiety and rejoicing could not last. And finally for all the insecurity and bewilderment of the sudden, if not unexpected, depression. The 1930's found a new group of Americans—older, wiser, often bitter, and decidedly more realistic. The era of youthful carelessness had passed; there were some who questioned whether it had ever really existed

THE DIFFICULTIES IN TEACHING ENGLISH TO THE FOURTH GRADE STUDENTS OF MI NEGERI SUKOHARJO

This final project report was written based on the writer’s job training in MI Negeri Sukoharjo. The objectives of this final project report are to identify the difficulties in teaching English to the fourth grade students of MI Negeri Sukoharjo and to give the solutions of the problems. The difficulties faced by students such as mispronunciation and writing, less motivation. The difficulties faced by the writer such as time management, handling big class, understanding the material and handling the students. To solve the student’s difficulties, the students should practice English pronunciations continually and develop their self-motivation. The teacher also gives spirit and good feedback to them. To solve the writer’s problems, the writer should make not only the main plan but also another plan before teaching, make a strategy by doing activities and giving assignment in-group to handle big class, make the teaching process more interesting and creative and has a rule in class