The works of Edgar Allan Poe : newly collected and edited, with a memoir, critical introductions, and notes /

Includes index.

Eliciting nature and landscape writing through outdoor experiences

Nature and landscape writing includes creative writing about wild places. However, most authors have a literary background and are not outdoor ‘educators’. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, the reasons suggested are a lack of framing of outdoor experiences for this intent, the need for learning the skills of interpretation and lexicon and the offer of prolonged, powerful experiences and time for creative thinking and responses, such as an extended solo. It is suggested that outdoor educators may be too busy ‘experiencing’ to write, that they do not go ‘slow’ enough or that they are encapsulated in the ‘edginess of existence’ through adventure and just pass through their surroundings rather than connect with them. Outdoor educators have much to offer as they experience metaphorical or literal journeys comprising ‘flow’ rather than episodic encounter through lived experience to create rich embodied stories with ideological and social aspects so often overlooked in narrative.

Ace's activity book : fun and facts relating to the ACE Basin Reserve

This activity book is a fun way to reinforce and enrich every student’s ACE Basin experience ... to instill a stronger awareness and respect for environmentalism and conservation, to broaden their knowledge of this area where they co-exist with a diversity of other life forms, and to encourage them to enjoy the adventure and discovery within Coastal South Carolina. These pages can also be used as coloring pages.

(Un)doing gender : ways of being in an age of uncertainty

Children’s literature has conventionally and historically been concerned with identity and the often tortuous journey to becoming a subject who is generally older and wiser, a journey typically characterised by mishap, adventure, and detours. Narrative closure in children’s and young adult novels and films typically provides a point of self-realisation or self-actualisation, whereby the struggles of finding one’s “true” identity have been overcome. In this familiar coming-of-age narrative, there is often an underlying premise of an essential self that will emerge or be uncovered. This kind of narrative resolution provides readers with a reassurance that things will work for the best in the end, which is an enduring feature of children’s literature, and part of liberal-humanism’s project of harmonious individuality. However, uncertainty is a constant that has always characterised the ways lives are lived, regardless of best-laid plans. Children’s literature provides a field of narrative knowledge whereby readers gain impressions of childhood and adolescence, or more specifically, knowledge of ways of being at a time in life, which is marked by uncertainty. Despite the prevalence of children’s texts which continue to offer normative ways of being, in particular, normative forms of gender behaviour, there are texts which resist the pull for characters to be “like everyone else” by exploring alternative subjectivities. Fiction, however, cannot be regarded as a source of evidence about the material realities of life, as its strength lies in its affective and imaginative dimensions, which nevertheless can offer readers moments of reflection, recognition, or, in some cases, reality lessons. As a form of cultural production, contemporary children’s literature is highly responsive to social change and political debates, and is crucially implicated in shaping the values, attitudes and behaviours of children and young people.

Jogos narrativos de videogame: criação e manutenção do estado de imersão

O objetivo deste trabalho é entender como o jogo narrativo de aventura para videogame consegue atrair e manter a atenção do jogador, imergindo-o no mundo ficcional, em face dos inúmeros estímulos existentes a sua volta. É sugerida uma definição para o jogo narrativo de aventura e a imersão e, posteriormente, estabelece-se uma relação entre elementos presentes nos jogos e as estruturas que atraem a atenção do indivíduo. Para isso, consultou-se material produzido pelas duas principais linhas de estudos de jogos: Narratologia e Ludologia. O conteúdo teórico foi comparado e exemplificado através da prática de diversos jogos, principalmente do console Sony Playstation 3. O próprio conceito de jogo narrativo, a prática dos jogos e a relação percebida entre seus elementos e as ferramentas para criar e manter a atenção revelaram que o videogame, através dos jogos narrativos de aventura, representa um potente meio para criar e manter o estado de imersão sobre o jogador.

La rencontre des contraires : attraction/narration et immersion/réflexivité dans le film en IMAX 3-D

Ce mémoire est consacré à la question de la réception spectatorielle des films en IMAX 3-D. Dans un premier temps, nous retracerons l’histoire du cinéma stéréoscopique, des origines jusqu’à l’inauguration de l’IMAX 3-D en 1986. Nous verrons que le modèle de l’attraction cinématographique s’est maintenu de tout temps dans l’économie de ce format, ce qui a contribué aux échecs de son institutionnalisation dans les années 50 et 80. En un deuxième temps, nous nous intéresserons à l’« expérience IMAX », afin de cerner la position qui y est attribuée au spectateur. Nous montrerons que les films IMAX misent à la fois sur leur potentiel immersif et sur la mise en évidence du dispositif. L’état d’immersion du spectateur entre donc en dialogue avec la réflexivité du médium. Par l’analyse des films Sea Monsters : A Prehistoric Adventure et Haunted Castle, il sera démontré que cette tension entre immersion et réflexivité sert un discours de glorification de l’IMAX. Aussi, nous interrogeons les liens entre la structure ponctuelle imposée par le modèle attractionnel et le fil narratif immanquablement mis en place dans les films IMAX.

Desenhando um paraíso tropical: a construção do Rio de Janeiro como um destino turístico

As primeiras imagens (gráficas ou narrativas) que circularam no exterior sobre o Rio de Janeiro. O complexo processo de produção em série da imagem, envolvendo vários profissionais que muitas vezes trabalhavam a distância. As possibilidades econômicas de uma cidade a ser construída, e o interesse de imigrantes aventureiros e empreendedores. A cidade que os primeiros guias para viajantes pretendiam mostrar. A modernização da urbe, voltada para o olhar internacional. A construção da identidade nacional pela música, dança e a indústria do entretenimento. A identificação do carioca com os estereótipos que lhe foram concedidos.A perpetuação dos ícones da cidade. Este trabalho perpassa várias categorias temáticas, buscando revelar o processo de construção da cidade do Rio de Janeiro enquanto um destino turístico. Um paraíso tropical a ser conhecido.

Aventura e Legado no Ensino Jurídico

De 1967 a 1972, o Centro de Estudo e Pesquisa no Ensino do Direito (CEPED) realizou, anualmente, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, um curso de Advogados de Empresa, sob a direção do professor Caio Tácito. Este livro apresenta a pesquisa sobre a História Oral do CEPED e traz reflexões de seus professores, fundadores e pesquisadores sobre o impacto que ele produziu e produz no ensino jurídico e na sociedade brasileira.

O erotismo mítico da ninfeta

This dissertation establishes a viewpoint in the Social Cience Field of the Nymphs image in the romanesque construction of the twentieth century based in modern archaeology. Our literary corpus is constitututed by the book of the russian author callled Wladimir Nabokov entlited Lolita and the book Presença de Anita, from a brazilian author called Mario Donato. Both works had a singular repercussion involving an erotic conception wich was faced as pornographic and baffling. We appeal to Georges Bataille‟s and Foucault‟s discussion in order to observe it through an erotic viewpoint from an inner experience not submitted to normalizations. Such experiences provoke a feeling of something unknown and it reflects wild singularities proposed by Foucault and related with many misunderstanding things presented in institutions and cultures. Furthemore Bataille‟s conception about erotism will give us conditions to analyze nymphs‟ bodies in order to see themselves from their main characteristics, such as seduction and tempting and maligning forces. We still aim to focus the paradigm of mankind and nature in the direction presented by Edgar Morin. He analyzes some feelings that nymphs provoke and their relation between men and death. In adittion, we present in this issue some questions between culture and biology, focusing on the initial period of larva (wich means the beggining), bringing up what is ready to be born, a mythical and significant body shown in the media. Lolita in the cinema and A Presença de Anita in the TV was disturbing in society and it projected the possibility of a syntaxes of desire. It can has a symbolic purpose or it can be a kind of social and cultural phenomenon, wich is an object of representation. Our purpose is to immersion/emerge in the Nimphs‟s body with adventure and its risks at the same time in wich we are crossing frontiers

Lazer, aventura e risco: reflexões sobre atividades realizadas na natureza

This paper reflects on the conceptions of adventure and risk, revealed in activities in nature. The presented speeches are contained in a research, whose boarding works with a universe of reasons, aspirations, values, beliefs and attitudes, corresponding to a deeper space of the processes, relations and phenomena. It was possible to perceive that the adventure activities in nature are carrying of innumerable meanings, related with new discoveries, new challenges, search for the stranger, uncertainty, cooperation, friendship, among others. Such activities understand diverse forms of experimentation, pointing besides to physical risk, the symbolic and imaginary risk.

Road wanderers in Brazil: a study on modern psychosocial human mobility

Human mobility patterns are quite diverse nowadays and a very singular, extreme pattern is seen in the Brazilian scene: road wandering. Road wanderers are individuals who leave their home, family, work and other territories of a settled life and throw themselves into a life of solitary wandering along Brazilian highways. This study aimed to describe the lifestyle of road wanderers, investigate the reasons that led them choose this way of living and understand it against a background of modern human mobility patterns. A total of 63 interviews were conducted with individuals wandering on road shoulders. We found road wandering is associated with the following determinants: poverty; unemployment; marital conflicts; emotional suffering following the loss of loved ones; desires for adventure and freedom; and cultural symbols related to journey, migration, exodus and other modes of displacement. Despite its particularities, road wandering can be understood as a way of human mobility in the modern world.

A História segundo Xenofonte: Historiografia e usos do passado

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

A História segundo Xenofonte: Historiografia e usos do passado

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Not in the Legends

In writing “Not in the Legends”, one of the images and concepts which constantly returned was that of pilgrimage. I began to write these poems while studying abroad in London, after having passed the previous semester in France and travelling around Europe. There was something in the repetition of sightseeing— walking six miles in Luxembourg to see the grave of General Patton, taking photographs of the apartment where Sylvia Plath ended her life, bowing before the bones of saints, searching through Père Lachaise for the grave of Théodore Gericault— which struck me as numinous and morbid. At the same time, I came to love living abroad and I grew discontent with both remaining and returning. I wanted the opportunity to live everywhere all the time and not have to choose between home and away. Returning from abroad, I turned my attention to the landscape of my native country. I found in the New England pilgrims a narrative of people who had left their home in search of growth and freedom. In these journeys I began to appreciate the significance of place and tried to understand what it meant to move from one place to another, how one chose a home, and why people searched for meaning in specific locations. The processes of moving from student to worker and from childhood to adulthood have weighed on me. I began to see these transitions towards maturity as travels to a different land. Memory and nostalgia are their own types of pilgrimage in their attempts to return to lost places, as is the reading of literature. These pilgrimages, real and metaphorical, form the thematic core of the collection. I read the work of many poets who came before me, returning to the places where the Canon was forged. Those poets have a large presence in the work I produced. I wondered how I, as a young poet, could earn my own place in the tradition and sought models in much the same way a painter studies the brushstrokes of a master. In the process, I have tried to uncover what it means to be a poet. Is it something like being a saint? Is it something like being a colonist? Or is to be the one who goes in search of saints and colonists? In trying to measure my own life and work based on the precedent, I have questioned what role era and generation have on the formation of identity. I focused my reading heavily on the early years of English poetry, trying to find the essence of the time when the language first achieved the transcendence of verse. In following the development of English poetry through Coleridge, John Berryman, and Allison Titus, I have explored the progression of those basic virtues in changing contexts. Those bearings, applied to my modern context, helped to shape the poetry I produced. Many of the poems in “Not in the Legends” are based on my own personal experience. In my recollections I have tried to interrogate nostalgia rather than falling into mere reminiscence. Rather than allowing myself poems of love and longing, I have tried to find the meaning of those emotions. A dominant conflict exists between adventure and comfort which mirrors the central engagement with the nature of being “here” or “there”. It is found in scenes of domesticity and wilderness as I attempt to understand my own simultaneous desire for both. For example, in “Canned Mangoes…” the intrusion of nature, even in a context as innocuous as a poem by Sir Walter Raleigh, unravels ordinary comforts of the domestic sphere. The character of “The Boy” from Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot proved such an interesting subject for me because he is one who can transcend the normal boundaries of time and place. The title suggests connections to both place and time. “Legends” features the dual meaning of both myths and the keys to maps. To propose something “Not in the Legends” is to find something which has no precedent in our histories and our geographies, something beyond our field of knowledge and wholly new. One possible interpretation I devised was that each new generation lives a novel existence, the future being the true locus of that which is beyond our understanding. The title comes from Keats’ “Hyperion, a Fragment”, and details the aftermath of the Titanomachy. The Titans, having fallen to the Olympians, are a representation of the passing of one generation for the next. Their dejection is expressed by Saturn, who laments: Not in my own sad breast, Which is its own great judge and searcher out, Can I find reason why ye should be thus: Not in the legends of the first of days… (129-132) The emotions of the conquered Titans are unique and without antecedent. They are experiencing feelings which surpass all others in history. In this, they are the equivalent of the poet who feels that his or her own sufferings are special. In contrast are Whitman’s lines from “Song of Myself” which serve as an epigraph to this collection. He contends for a sense of continuity across time, a realization that youth, age, pleasure, and suffering have always existed and will always exist. Whitman finds consolation in this unity, accepting that kinship with past generations is more important that his own individuality. These opposing views offer two methods of presenting the self in history. The instinct of poetry suggests election. The poet writes because he feels his experiences are special, or because he believes he can serve as a synecdoche for everyone. I have fought this instinct by trying to contextualize myself in history. These poems serve as an attempt at prosopography with my own narrative a piece of the whole. Because the earth abides forever, our new stories get printed over the locations of the old and every place becomes a palimpsest of lives and acts. In this collection I have tried to untangle some of those layers, especially my own, to better understand the sprawling legend of history.

Las casualidades controladas : la primera visibilidad del cambio del paradigma moderno

Como no pocos proyectos, el origen de esta tesis es fruto de una casualidad. Hace unos años me topé en Londres, en la librería Walden Books del 38 de Harmood St., con una primera edición de la conocida monografía de Mies a cargo de Philip Johnson. El librito, en realidad catálogo de la exposición que en 1947 el MoMA de Nueva York dedicara a la obra de Mies Van der Rohe a los diez años del desembarco del arquitecto en Estados Unidos, tiene un tamaño de 10 x 7,5 pulgadas, es decir, la mitad del formato americano Crown (20x15 pulgadas), equivalente a 508 x 381 mm. Se imprimieron, en su primera tirada, editada por The Plantin Press, 12.000 ejemplares. Ese mismo año, con edición al cuidado de Reynal y Hitchcock, se publicaría la primera traducción al inglés de Cuando las catedrales eran blancas de Le Corbusier y una selección de poemas de Lorca, siete años después de su Poeta en Nueva York. En la monografía, en la página 109, aparece el conocido croquis de Mies Sketch for a glass house on a hillside. c. 1934, escasamente unas líneas, aunque precisas y llenas de matices, de la casa en una ladera que rápidamente nos remite a aquella primera propuesta de Saarinen para una casa en el aire, primero en 1941 en Pensilvania y después, en 1945, con Charles Eames, en Los Angeles, que nunca llegarían a construirse, sino en su aliteraciones posteriores realizadas por Harry Seidler (Julian Rose House, Wahroonga, Sydney, 1949), Philip Johnson (Leonhardt house, Long Island, Nueva York, 1956) o Craig Ellwood (Smith House, Crestwood Hills, 1958; Frank & Polly Pierson House, Malibú, 1962; Chamorro House, Hollywood Hills, 1963, o la serie Weekend House, con Gerald Horn, entre 1964 y 1970, hasta el magnífico Art Center College of Design de Pasadera, su puente habitado de 1977). El relato que da origen al texto discurre en un estricto período de tiempo, desde los primeros dibujos de la Case Study House nº8, dentro del programa promovido por John Entenza y su revista Arts & Architecture en California, realizados en el estudio de Saarinen en Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, hasta que el proyecto de la casa Eames finaliza cinco años después de acabar la obra en 1955, en la versión conocida, radicalmente distinta al proyecto original, cuando la pareja Charles y Ray Eames edita el corto House After Five Years of Living. La discusión original en torno a esta casita, o mejor, a las circunstancias, casualidades controladas, que rodean su construcción, se produce estrictamente cuando rastreamos aquellos invariantes que se mantienen en las dos versiones y las reconcilian. En este corto período de tiempo se producen en el proyecto una serie de decisiones que permiten descubrir, tanto en la forma como en el mismo proceso transformador del proyecto, en su obsesivo registro, en los nuevos referentes asumidos y propuestos, la primera visibilidad del cambio del paradigma moderno. Pero este momento germinal que cristaliza el paso a la postmodernidad no es inédito en la historia de la arquitectura americana. Así, el relato abre su ámbito temporal hasta un nuevo período de cincuenta años que arranca en 1893, año de la celebración en Chicago de la Exposición Internacional Colombina. En la White City de Hunt & McKim y del traidor Burham, Louis Sullivan construye su Golden Doorway en el pabellón de los Transportes. Aquella que visitará Adolf Loos antes de volver, renovado, a Viena; la misma que admirará André Bouillet, representante de la Union Centrale des Arts Decoratifs de Paris, y que deslumbrará en los museos de toda Europa, de París a Moscú en grandes fotografías y maquetas. Hasta que en Finlandia alguien muestra una de esas fotografías a un joven estudiante de diecinueve años en el Instituto Politécnico. Eliel Saarinen queda fascinado por la poderosa novedad de la imagen. Cuelga la fotografía frente a su tablero de dibujo, consciente de que la Golden Doorway, esa puerta de la aventura y la catarsis que Sullivan acuñaría como distintivo y que resolvería como único elemento complejo sus proyectos más maduros, desprovistos de todo ornamento; la misma que repetirían más tarde, con profundo reconocimiento, Ladovsky, Wright, Scarpa o Moneo, puerta dentro de puerta, fuelle y umbral, contenía, en sus propias palabras emocionadas, todo el futuro de la arquitectura. Desde ahí, pasando por el año 1910, momento de la huida de Wright a La Toscana y el descubrimiento de su arquitectura en Europa, entre otros por un joven Mies van der Rohe, meritorio en el estudio de Peter Behrens, a través del Wasmuth Portfolio; y así como algo después, en 1914, Schindler y en 1923 Neutra, harán el camino inverso, hasta que Mies les siga en 1937, animado por un Philip Johnson que había viajado a Europa en 1930, volviendo a 1945 y el inicio del programa Case Study House en California, hasta 1949, momento de la construcción de la CSH#8, y, por fin, al año 1955, after 5 years of living, en el que Julius Shulman fotografía la casa de Ray y Charles Eames en el prado de Chautauqua sobre las Pacific Palisades de Los Angeles, lanzando sus finas líneas amarillas hasta Alison y Peter Smithson y su tardomoderno heroico, hasta el primer Foster y su poético hightech y hasta el O-riginal Ghery, deconstruyendo el espacio esencial de su casa desde el espacio mismo, abiertas ya las puertas al nuevo siglo. Y en estos cambios de paradigma, desde el rígido eclecticismo de los estilos al lirismo moderno en el gozne secular y de ahí a la frivolidad, ligereza, exhibicionismo y oportunismo cultos del hecho postmoderno, hay algo que se mantiene invariante en los bandazos de la relación del hombre contemporáneo con su entorno. Como la escultura, que según Barnett Newman no es sino aquello contra lo que uno choca cuando retrocede para mirar un cuadro, en estos prístinos lugares, comunes y corrientes, recorrido, puerta, umbral, recinto y vacío, te topas con la arquitectura antes de darte cuenta de que es arquitectura. ABSTRACT As with many other projects, the origin of this doctoral thesis is the result of a chance. A few years ago I found in a bookstore in London, 38 Harmood st., Walden Books, a first edition of the well-known monograph about Mies by Philip Johnson. The tiny book, in fact a catalog of the exhibition that the MoMA of New York devoted to the work of Mies van der Rohe in 1947, ten years after his landing in the United States, has a size of 10 x 7.5 inches, that is, half of Crown American format (20 x 15 inches), equivalent to 508 x 381 mm. In the first printing, published by The Plantin Press, 12,000 copies were released. That same year, produced by Reynal and Hitchcock, both the first English translation of When the cathedrals were white by Le Corbusier and a selection of poems by Lorca were published, seven years after his Poet in New York. Inside the book, the famous drawing from Mies Sketch for a glass house on a hillside c. 1934 appears on page 109, barely a few lines, precise and nuanced though, the house on a hillside that quickly reminds us of the proposals of Eero Saarinen for a house in the air, first in 1941, in Pennsylvania, and later, in 1945, with Charles Eames, in Los Angeles, that would never be built, but in their later alliterations made by Harry Seidler (Julian Rose House, Wahroonga, Sydney, 1949), Philip Johnson (Leonhardt house, Long Island, New York, 1956) or Craig Ellwood (Smith House, Crestwood Hills, 1958; Frank Pierson & Polly House, Malibu, 1962, Chamorro House, Hollywood Hills, 1963, or the Weekend House series, with Gerald Horn, between 1964 and 1970, to the magnificent Art Center College of Design Pasadena, the inhabited bridge, in 1977). The story that gives rise to the text flows in a short amount of time, from the first drawings of the Case Study House No. 8, within the program promoted by John Entenza and his magazine Arts & Architecture in California, made in the study of Saarinen in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, until the project of the Eames house is completed five years after finishing the construction in 1955, in the final version we know, radically different from the initial state, when the couple, Charles and Ray, published the film House after Five Years of Living. The original discussion around this house, or better, about the circumstances, controlled coincidences, regarding its construction, appears when one takes account of those that remain, the invariants, in the two versions, drawn and built, which precisely allow the reconciliation between both projects. In this short period of time a series of decisions made in the transformation process of the project reveal, in the obsessive record made by Charles Eames and in the new proposed references, the first visibility of the changing of the modern paradigm. But this germinal moment that crystallizes the transition to postmodernism is not unprecedented in the history of American architecture. So, the story opens its temporal scope to a fifty-year period that started in 1893, date of the celebration of the Chicago World´s Columbian Exposition. In the White City by Hunt & McKim and Burnham, the traitor, Louis Sullivan builds his Golden Doorway in the Transportation Building. That visited by a renovated Adolf Loos before his coming back to Vienna; the same that André Bouillet, Head of the Union Centrale des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, admired and dazzled in museums all over Europe, from Paris to Moscow, in large photographs and models. Until someone in Finland showed one of those photos to a young nineteen-years-old student at the Polytechnic Institute. Eliel Saarinen became fascinated by the powerful new image: he hanged the picture in front of his drawing board, aware that the Golden Doorway, that door of adventure and catharsis Sullivan coined as distinctive and as a single complex element which would solve their most mature projects, devoid of all ornament; the same that would repeat later, with deep appreciation, Ladovsky, Wright, Scarpa, or Moneo, a door inside a door, a threshold, a gap that contained, in its own moving words, the whole future of architecture. From there, through 1910, when Wright's flight to Tuscany allows Europe to discover his architecture, including a young Mies van der Rohe, meritorious in the studio of Peter Behrens, via the Wasmuth Portfolio; and as a little bit later, in 1914, Schindler and Neutra in 1923, made the travel in opposite direction, until Mies follows them in 1937, led by a Philip Johnson who had traveled to Europe in 1930, we return to 1945 and the beginning of the program Case Study House in California, and from 1949, when construction of the CSH # 8 begins, and finally, to 1955, after five years of living, when Julius Shulman photographs the inside of the house with Ray and Charles Eames, and all their belongins, at the Chautauqua meadows on Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, launching its fine yellow lines to Alison and Peter Smithson and his heroic late modern, up to the first Foster and his poetic hightech and even the O-riginal Gehry, deconstructing the essential space of his home from the space itself, opening the doors to the new century. And these paradigm shifts, from the hard eclectic styles to modern secular lyricism in the hinge and then overcoming the cultured frivolity, lightness, exhibitionism, and opportunism of the postmodern skeptical focus, something remains intense, invariant in the lurching relationship of contemporary man and his environment. As the sculpture, which according to Barnett Newman is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting, in these pristine, ordinary places, promenade, door, threshold, enclosure and emptiness, you stumble upon the architecture even before realizing that it is architecture.