... Cinéas and The Ethics of Ambiguity, as well as her political essays. Beauvoirian freedom is reconceived as an effort to support one’s own individuation through the individuation of others, bringing her into dialogue with contemporary thinkers of the “transindividual...

...Structural ambiguity is attributed a central role as a driving force in diachronic change. However, what is referred to as structural ambiguity in theories of language change does not necessarily imply structurally ambiguous sentences with two interpretations. It refers to the principled...

... Connection ambiguity belonging diversity mediation This book has spoken about the permanence and persistence of the Hajj in scholarly discourses and the everyday lives of Bosnian Muslims, as much as about their physical journeys to Mecca and Medina. This presence is especially seen in times of absence...

... and rounding up of mongrel dogs, that is, those whose blood is not purely Hungarian. I argue that the film’s elaboration of non-human attunement offers an opportunity to see its politics in ambiguous terms. What does it mean to be attuned to (and reattuned via) the dog, as non-human animal? Eisner Lotte Fehér...

.... Bazin André Buñuel Luis Germania anno zero Germany Year Zero Leenhardt Roger Renoir Jean Rossellini Roberto Cinema of Cruelty From Buñuel to Hitchcock The Journal d’un curé de campagne Roman Catholic What is Cinema? ambiguity Heidegger Martin ontology ontological Citizen Kane ‘Ontology...

... ambiguities of these projects, which belies their superficial optimism. Aeneid nation building Western film genre Augustus aureum saeculum heroes Parade of Heroes Rome Underworld Ford John Hawks Howard Hollywood United States of America USA Cleopatra labor the “Other” Pax Romana Roman Peace...

.... ‘Percy Bysshe Shelley’, Amelia Curran, Oil on canvas, 1819, © National Portrait Gallery, London. This essay affirms Emily Brontë’s status as a late Romantic and reconsiders Brontë’s poetics of sexual transgression, alterity and gender ambiguity. Responsive to scholarship on the underappreciated...

... the grammars of their ambient languages, commonly held views need to be reconsidered according to which language change is primarily triggered by structural ambiguity in the input and in settings of language contact. In an innovative take on this matter, the authors argue that morphosyntactic change in core...

... of cosmopolitanism and ambiguity in particular. Anastasia Bergman Ingrid biblical epics Broadway stardom cameos CinemaScope Collier’s DeMille Cecil B fan magazines Genghis Khan Hammerstein Oscar Hollywood cont The King and I Lang Walter Litvak Anatole Picturegoer Rodgers Richard Saturday Evening...

..., neither Shrooms nor Triangle grant an objective stance on their narrative events. Metamodern slasher films leverage unresolved ambiguities, offering multiple simultaneous interpretive possibilities that invite viewers to actively collaborate in meaning-making...

..., and experimentation with radio technology resulted in Words and Music. It then argues that radio is central to Beckett’s aesthetic enquiry into imperfection, ambiguity, and creative struggle. BBC British Broadcasting Company Beckett Samuel Barclay – Works cont Gascoyne David Jones David MacNeice...

... Aṭdāṭ K al Maªāsin wa al masāwī al Afshīn Ibn Qutayba McDonald M Khāqān Turner J Race in Islamic civilization Environmental determinism Ambiguity Human geography While the epistolary conversations we saw in the preceding chapter bring personal biases and extreme positions to the forefront...

... of hesitation to argue Dunye’s filmmaking as ethico-political action that interrupts complacent viewing habits in the cinematic encounter. Simone de Beauvoir emphasizes ambiguity within the experience of perception as a pointer to the more prevalent ambiguity within the human condition, supporting Maurice...

...This chapter examines the existential concept of bad faith in specific relation to the ambiguity that infuses patriarchal love relationships, via Claire Denis’s Let the Sunshine In. It explores Simone de Beauvoir’s writings on women in love (specifically from The Second Sex...

... their instincts and the text’s volatile ambiguities. Experimental, collaborative, and empowering, its goal is to give students, not Shakespeare, authority in the classroom. Baldwin James Lorde Audre University of Pennsylvania “Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare” Baldwin ambiguity authority vs ambiguity Freire...

...Chapters 1 anchors the discussion of waiting and colonial time in two novels: Joseph Conrad’s 1899 Heart of Darkness and Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s 1962 novel Ambiguous Adventure (L'Aventure ambiguë). Heart of Darkness locates the temporality of waiting...

... to and during the Yugoslavian wars (1980s and ‘90s). Closely analysed is NSK’s use of ambiguity and parody to hold a mirror up to authoritarianism and Irwin’s appropriation of early Russian avant-garde motifs to criticise socialist-realism and the State’s ‘misuse’ of art. As protection against retaliation...

...) typically attain full competence, thus attesting the robustness of the LAD. The question then is whether there exist conditions under which the LAD might fail. It has been argued that decreasing frequency of occurrence of a grammatical property, structural ambiguity of a construction, or the presence...

... that structural ambiguity in the input or language contact (in the speech community or in the individual) can be qualified as sufficient conditions for grammatical restructuring to take place. We provided empirical evidence showing that this is not the case: Language acquirers rather rely on structurally...

...This chapter discusses the narrative and offers a scene-by-scene analysis of Memento with the aim of determining how the film creates and maintains ambiguity. It also reports the analysis of the film framed by David Bordwell's cognitive theory of narrative comprehension...