Later portraits, also from the lost originals, and painted to fit in with the established myth, show greatly uneven shoulders and a villainous countenance. The Society of Antiquaries owns an early copy of a portrait originally painted during Richard’s lifetime, which show him with no sign of a physical deformity. When reading the comments made by eyewitnesses, or when examining portraits of King Richard, a rather different picture emerges. Shakespeare presumably also wanted to reinforce the medieval moral concept that an evil mind must dwell in a twisted body. Shakespeare’s sources were chroniclers writing in the time of Henry VII & Henry VIII who naturally were hostile to Richard to justify the new administration. This dramatic portrait painted by Shakespeare influences many people’s image of Richard III. William Shakespeare, Richard III (Act I, scene i, ll. Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion,Ĭheated of feature by dissembling Nature,ĭeformed, unfinished, sent before my time Myth – Richard was a hunchback with a withered arm Myth 6 – Richard, without just cause, usurped the throne from his nephew, Edward V Myth 5 – Richard forced Anne Neville into marriage and poisoned her Myth 4 – Richard contrived the execution of his brother, George, Duke of Clarence Myth 3 – Richard murdered the deposed King, Henry VI Myth 2 – Richard murdered Edward, Lancastrian Prince of Wales Myth 1 – Richard was a hunchback, with a withered arm
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Ultimately, the love of his wife, sister, and children are not enough to keep him alive. Summers works from a distance to keep her long-suicidal husband alive, while Ruth makes similar efforts from nearby. The small family that includes two young daughters is fractured when Stuart moves out of their Victorian home in the suburbs of a South African city, and the rupture deepens when Stuart moves further away from his family and his reluctant lover to be near his sister, Ruth, in Cape Town. Summers must first accept that her emotional, smart, artistic husband has fallen deeply in love with another woman. The intimate style, combined with second-person narration, gives the story a page-turning tension. Summers speaks directly to her husband, Stuart, who chose to end his own life, in this painfully honest eulogy. Summers’s memoir is a complex contemporary tragedy written by a mature, talented writer. Her book Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War (2017) argues that Victorian artists were, paradoxically, at their most original when they imitated the Old Masters most faithfully. Her work on the critical fortunes of Victorian art has led to a more general interest in taste and aesthetics, explored in her books Beauty and Art 1750-2000 (2005) and The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso (2012). Her books on the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement assessed the achievements of Victorian artists and placed them in relation to European Modernism. Liz’s research early in her career was motivated by curiosity about the low status of British (especially Victorian) art in academic art history. Relationships between philosophical aesthetics and art practice.Art Criticism (particularly Water Pater, Roger Fry).Receptions of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance art. Inevitably the cost to the individual is expressed in neurosis.” Read more. He means that in order to be civilised we have to repress certain sexual and destructive desires and the very powerful forms of rivalry that are inherent in all of us – for the group to function together. He writes: ‘We have taken care not to concur with the prejudice that civilisation is synonymous with a trend towards perfection.’ This laconic style is typical of the way Freud writes. He takes a long look at civilisation, embracing within that the cost to the individual, a cost we continue to pay. I don’t mean cold and indifferent but it is a psychological achievement to take in as much as he can in as unbiased a way as possible. Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents. It is partly Freud’s attitude that makes him so remarkable – his capacity for detached observation. RT LiteraryVienna: Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. “It is relatively easy to read as a stand-alone text and it addresses what we mean by civilisation and what the cost to us is of being civilised. In this seminal book, Sigmund Freud enumerates the fundamental tensions between civilization and the individual. Foreign Policy & International Relations. Not to mention the playful power dynamic between them, twisting and exploding our world's existing racial realities to imagine a world in which a Black royal vampire prince steals the heart of an older white man/servant who thought his days of loving were over. So it was really enchanting and sensual to see that narrative flipped on its head, a young-looking but centuries old vampire making moves on an old-looking but far younger 60something-year-old man. Usually with immortal vampire stories you see an ageless sexy vampire spurting their charm out on an unsuspecting young sexy thing - or something like that. The banter is witty, flowing, and totally believable, and the betrayals are just as believably wounding. I loved this graphic novel almost as much as I loved/in the same way as I love Saga! The art is beautiful and dynamic, the plot/intrigue are well thought out and slowly, teasingly disseminated. ‘the book’s shining glory is the striking empathy that radiates through the prose and poetry. ‘… the range of voices, styles and experiences makes for lively, thoughtful and entertaining reading … Springing from the passion and insistence of its editors and contributors, Meet Me at the Intersection is the kind of inspired publishing I wish there was more of in Australia.’ Leanne Hall, YA specialist, Readings With works by Ellen van Neerven, Graham Akhurst, Kyle Lynch, Ezekiel Kwaymullina, Olivia Muscat, Mimi Lee, Jessica Walton, Kelly Gardiner, Rafeif Ismail, Yvette Walker, Amra Pajalic, Melanie Rodriga, Omar Sakr, Wendy Chen, Jordi Kerr, Rebecca Lim, Michelle Aung Thin and Alice Pung, this anthology is designed to challenge the dominant, homogenous story of privilege and power that rarely admits ‘outsider’ voices. The focus of the anthology is on Australian life as seen through each author’s unique, and seldom heard, perspective. Meet Me at the Intersection is an anthology of short fiction, memoir and poetry by authors who are First Nations, People of Colour, LGBTIQA+ or living with disability. Their tagline is “A movie in your mind” and boy, do they deliver! Think old timey radio dramas, complete with soundtrack and sound effects. Horde, cross fingers!įor those who are new and might have questions, Graphic Audio produce full-cast dramatised adaptations of books, with each character being interpreted by a different actor. This is an amazing achievement and so well deserved for the wonderful production of the book we all love. Massive congratulations to Nora Achrati & team at Graphic Audio and of course, to Ilona and Gordon!Ĭlean Sweep is in august company in its category, alongside other finalist productions like 1984 adapted by Storytel and Good Omens produced by Harper Audio. In layman’s terms, it’s the audiobook Oscars and it’s a Very Big Deal. The Audie Awards are granted each year by the Audio Publishers Association to honor the best titles in audio-publishing and spoken word entertainment. In a way, we have also become Roberts’ fellow travellers. Finally, we would like to state that having the opportunity to interview Peter Roberts was a great privilege. He is Freire’s fellow traveller, but he is still himself, with his incompleteness and divergences. He refuses whatever is simple, immediate and shallow. 247-268, mai./ago., 2019 259 over the years it can be perceived in the way he expresses his ideas both orally and in his writings. Professor Peter Roberts has shown severity and commitment in his studies Momento: diálogos em educação, E-ISSN 2316-3100, v. Concerning these themes, Paulo Freire has stood out as one of the theoreticians that has been mostly used by Peter Roberts in his analyses. Most of his studies and investigations have focused on the area of Philosophy of Education, mainly on Ethics, public policies, globalization, neoliberalism, literature and Education. In his academic career, he also taught at both the University of Auckland and the University of Waikato in his country. Peter Roberts was born in New Zealand and has worked at the University of Canterbury, located in Christchurch, New Zealand. In a continent about twelve thousand kilometres away from Brazil, there is a professor who has systematically studied and researched into Paulo Freire since the 1980’s. would they mistake my sweaty hair, now gummed into gingery ropes, for luscious worms? Would they take flight from their shadowy perches, flap down in a dusty rustling of wings to peck at me, their beaks punching through my skull to get at the wrinkly pink meat of my brain.? Alone in the woods-what could be worse? I imagined owls peering down at me from the crotches of trees. Soon I lost sight of Billy and my uncle, who were moving east while I continued west. The palm-shaped fronds of a walnut tree brushed my face. Funny how meaningful those small tender gestures can be: a friend picking burrs off your shirt, the ones you can’t get because they’re stuck in that unreachable spot on your back. I crawled underneath and came up with cockleburs stuck to my shirt, which Billy picked off. When we came to a tree that had blown over in a storm, he hurdled it effortlessly. To the west I spotted a house sitting all by itself at the top of a hill.īilly, walking in front of me, moved with fluid grace. I became aware of my raspy breath, filling and emptying my lungs. Wind hummed around the bark of the maple trees. My uncle looped a chain between the frames and around a tree, locking them with a padlock. We pushed the bikes down to a sheltering glen. She's the daughter of a strong-willed wallflower who long ago eloped with Sebastian, Lord St. What West doesn't bargain on is that Phoebe is no straitlaced aristocratic lady. not to mention the bitter awareness that a woman like her is far out of his reach. However, from the moment he meets Phoebe, West is consumed by irresistible desire. And then he introduces himself-as none other than West Ravenel. But when Phoebe attends a family wedding, she encounters a dashing and impossibly charming stranger who sends a fire-and-ice jolt of attraction through her. Back in boarding school, he made her late husband's life a misery, and she'll never forgive him for it. Īlthough beautiful young widow Phoebe, Lady Clare, has never met West Ravenel, she knows one thing for certain: he's a mean, rotten bully. 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