... War. Cultural types of female ageing have evolved since the twentieth century, the older woman gaining greater visibility although the ageing woman of colour is largely absent. Some archetypes such as the spinster and the working-class battleaxe are less visible, reflecting wider social changes...

...The ‘Black History’ of Northern Scotland – the children of Scots and both enslaved and ‘free coloured’ women. This includes accounts of children of mixed race at schools in Scotland and the growth of systematic racism in the mid-nineteenth century. Individual studies include those who were able...

... since the appearance of the tinted and stencilled Italian epics of the 1910s, colour technology and design constitutes a direct line of formal innovation that extends from the earliest iterations of the genre to the exalted colour symphonies of the present. The significance of colour in the epic...

... performativity postfeminism postfeminist Pretty in Pink 1986 Spider Man 2002 cycle Dirty Dancing 1987 Lyne Charlie moral panic posthuman recognition Divergent 2014– Hunger Games The 2012–15 Shary Timothy Humour people of colour conventions struggle for autonomy ephebiphobia Released in 2001...

... mediator between the visual and sonic, and the long tradition of efforts, from the eighteenth century onwards, to establish a discrete art-form, ‘colour music,’ on that basis. Literary and scientific accounts of synaesthesia are surveyed, as are recurrent identifications of writing as something either made...

...This chapter draws together the semiotic thread of the previous discussions by highlighting three realms of signification which have been of particular importance to the mystical authors discussed in this chapter. These are: 1) Realm of Mystic Colour; 2) Realm of al-Khadir/Elijah and the Mystic...

... of Secondary Qualities Buras J Todd Hanson N R hardness Wolterstorff Nicholas Dretske Fred real figure Russell Bertrand Van Cleve James original perceptions perceivable properties secondary qualities Berkeley George colour sound texture Way of Ideas Direct Realism heat Indirect Realism...

...Silke Stroh explores the role played by writers of colour on the Scottish literary scene during the first two decades of the 21st century, and discusses their potential role in changing conceptions of Scottish literature in the decades to come. Her chapter begins by reviewing some essential...

...), The Tarnished Angels (1957) and Imitation of Life (1959), Victoria L. Evans demonstrates how Sirk attempted to dissolve the boundaries of the cinema by assimilating elements of avant-garde art, architecture and design into the colour, composition and settings of many of his most well...

... and FiveSociety colour enchantment Fry Roger Furst Herbert Harrison Charles music of colour the ordinary Matisse Henri red hot pokers Woolf Virginia Christian Science Eddy Mary Baker Kandinsky Wassily Mondrian Piet the spiritual Sutherland Helen transfiguration Spalding Frances Ede H S Jim...

... Winifred quivering Woolf Virginia Braque Georges colour ekphrasis Gris Juan the ordinary red hot pokers the spiritual visions hallucinatory dance de Chirico Giorgio double life Vermeer Bryson Norman enchantment flower painting Fry Roger Hitchens Ivon moments of being Morris Margaret...

... extends a discussion of modernist primitivism in Carmel to show how Jeffers reformulates what might otherwise be understood as an exotic and entertaining spectacle of local colour as a scathing political commentary that is aimed both locally and globally. Tamar, a terrifying poem...

...Examines the role of ‘free coloured’ women in Guyana, their relationships with Highland Scots, and describes the powerful force they were within the colonies until emancipation. Dominica ‘free coloured’ people Guyana former Dutch colonies of Essequibo Demerara & Berbice later British Guiana...

... illustrates, through an analysis of Fantasia, how Disney's use of colour, shadow, sound and gesture enabled the development of animistic mimesis. marvel Snow White sparks wonder punctum Dumbo Fantasia Pinocchio Walt Disney Company affection images Deleuze Gilles abilities affect...

...This chapter charts the significance of colour in DeLillo’s novels, from Americana to The Silence, examining a varied palette of hues and tones, including black and white. It would be an exaggeration to contend that the curve of DeLillo’s career heads towards...

... distinguished scientist of the time. This approach also allows an exploration of what information circulated – and did not circulate – within the family. In this context, the chapter examines relationships of family members with women of colour and the place of children of mixed race within the family networks...

...Today the Alhambra appears mostly devoid of colour, but the recent work of conservators demonstrates that the interior spaces were vibrantly coloured in Nasrid times. This chapter takes up the much-neglected use of colour in stucco, wood, marble, glass and, above all, ceramic tiles, seeking...

...—colours, smells, sounds, tastes, and heat—must be subjective or mental, because science offers no place to them in the physical world. This new reading of Thomas Reid on primary and secondary qualities shows how Reid supports Direct Realism, answers the Problem of Secondary Qualities, and maintains...

...Objections to treating secondary qualities as objective, causally relevant, physical properties often focus on a few key cases. This chapter considers and answers five such cases, including the perceived heat of lukewarm water, perceived taste of PTC, colour appearances of bees and pigeons...