A230A: Book1, Chapter 2, William Shakespeare, Othello: Honesty and Difference, men and Women
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A230A: Book1, Chapter 1, William Shakespeare, Othello: Impediments to Love
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AA100: What you will study?
What you will study?
Book 1: Reputations Why are some individuals famous? What is it about Cézanne’s paintings or Cleopatra’s life that makes them so well known? This book takes you from the distant past to the contemporary world to consider these questions in the light of the famous and the infamous. Case studies of significant figures (Cleopatra, Josef Stalin and the Dalai Lama) introduce subject-specific skills such as differentiating between primary and secondary sources, and understanding and interpreting varied points of view. This will enable you to develop an understanding of how we construct ideas of the past. Chapters on Christopher Marlowe and Paul Cézanne consider artistic reputation through the works that made them famous: Marlowe’s Dr Faustus, the absorbing, tragic story of the man who sells his soul to the devil; and Cézanne’s mysterious, beguiling paintings of bathers and the Mont St Victoire. You’ll acquire competencies in visual analysis and the critical reading of literary texts. A chapter on the musical Diva explores artistic reputation from a different perspective and investigates why some performers become famous. The same chapter also introduces varied musical repertoires and develops your close listening skills.
Book 2: Tradition and Dissent Tradition is a widely used word, particularly in academic contexts, but what do we mean by it? Why is it important to an understanding of the arts? What does it mean to dissent from tradition? This book provides some answers while extending the range of your skills. We begin with Laches, the work of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, which raises questions about how reliable tradition is as a source of knowledge. This is followed by discussion of tradition in relation to poetry, centred on an attractive anthology of poems about animals. Linked chapters explore religious dissent in England (including the cataclysmic story of the Reformation in England), and the gothic revival of the nineteenth century, concentrating on the work of the revolutionary architect Augustus Pugin. Ideas of tradition underpin the formation of nation states: by looking at the invention of tradition in Ireland, you’ll examine this historical process in action. Finally, you’ll listen to the string quartets of the controversial Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich, which raise fascinating questions about the importance of tradition to music and the extent that musical works might act as a form of political dissent.
Book 3: Cultural Encounters Cultural Encounters addresses questions that are pertinent both to the changing world we live in and to all arts subjects: what is the relationship between works of art and colonial history? To what extent can objects and texts be translated from one culture to another? There’s more interdisciplinary work in this part of the module. The book begins with linked chapters on the art of Benin – these are extraordinary sculptures from West Africa, which were taken by Britain and other European countries in the late nineteenth century. The chapters consider this encounter between Europe and Africa from both historical and art historical perspectives. The book continues by examining the philosophical tension between liberal ideas of inclusivity and the pressure for exemptions for minorities in contemporary society. You’ll then read a collection of modern short stories from around the world that explore the ways encounters between different cultures shape ideas of identity and belonging. These short stories are followed by an epic of the exchange of knowledge between cultures: the transmission of medical knowledge from Ancient Greece to the Arabian world and then back to medieval Europe. The book ends with another ancient text – Sophocles’s seminal tragedy, Antigone. You’ll study this play in the Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney’s 2004 translation, The Burial at Thebes. Cumulatively, these individual case studies enrich and complicate our sense of the interplay and exchange of ideas from one culture to another.
Book 4: Place and Leisure The final book explores ideas of place and leisure: how should we interpret sacred spaces or Roman villas? What is the meaning and history of leisure? As well as these thematic questions, the end of the module prompts you to consider what you’ve learnt and what you’ll want to study in the future. With AA100 as the basis for your studies, you will have a good grounding in a range of subjects and their methodologies. The book has two related concerns, outlined in the opening chapters. First we consider leisure as a philosophical issue: what is the purpose of life, and how does leisure fit into broader accounts of what its purpose should be? Secondly, we look at how we interpret the human environment, from ancient monuments through to twentieth-century cities, by interrogating what we mean by the idea of sacred space. These concerns are joined together by focusing on Roman ideas of leisure, both in the evidence of Latin literature and the archaeological remains of villas from across the Roman Empire. The module concludes with a multidisciplinary study of the seaside. This material combines social history of the development of the British seaside resort in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including work on the changing technologies and medical ideas that fostered seaside holidays, with analysis of different representations of the seaside phenomenon in film, music and visual art.
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AA100A: Book 1, Reputations: Chapter 5 Stalin
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AA100A: Book 1, Reputations: Chapter 3 Cézanne
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AA100A: Book 1, Reputations: Chapter 2 Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
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AA100A: Book 1, Reputations: Chapter 1 Cleopatra
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A Short Story: PEACE!
كتبتها منذ زمن ولا أعلم حتى إن كانت تسمى قصة, وأعلم أنها تشكو ضعفا في البناء واللغة. ولكنها أولى محاولاتي التي أعلم بأني سأنطلق منها يوما إلى مستوى عال.
"Find a way to assemble us
together"
I wish I could find that way……
Am I incapable? Ineffective? Powerless?
"I can't answer you"
I feel that you all are manipulating with me!
I am bored wearing that white apparel, I
need a relief.
"Is that your last saying?"
The silence is settled, and PEACE is
retiring slowly without any word. This issue is complicated immensely. She is
suffering an internal conflict which she cannot get rid of. What is the essence that she
made of? Which purpose does she take in life? Who are her friends and who are her
enemies? When you are unable to distinguish between good and bad, right and
wrong, you will live a war, internal physiological war. You have to win or you will
be defeated! PEACE is losing her self-confidence; she is thinking of how
they project to make her leave or stay with deformed countenance as a doll at
the road!
Quite PEACE, QUITE!
Of course this is not the end; I still have
the hope of permanent peaceful world .
But HOW?
She remembered her old friend FAITH,
and decided to talk with her. She understood what kind of meeting it will be.
Because PEACE knows how the bright light of FAITH is starting to
fade last years. But the wonderful thing about FAITH is whatever happen, that's normally will increase her message with values and principles.
"PEACE? Is that you?"
Yes, it's me.
"I couldn't recognize you! Why your
white apparel is going to be a grey?
Oh, really, I didn’t recognize that before.
"Maybe you are different than the last
time I saw you!"
It's me. It's me PEACE.
Why are you saying that?
We were good friends.
"Yes, we were, a long time ago!
Am I bad?
"I don't know, but you are
failing"
I am not belonging to them, believe me!
"Then, you have to set your attitude!"
FAITH is gone, leaving PEACE alone. Peace who felt
discomfiture. But she wants to prove the contrary. PEACE is peace and
she will not abandon her principles.
It was everlasting, vaporous, gloomy winter.
Life is in chaos. Shambles is the lord of the law. Time is accelerating which
no one can stop. In spite of the absence of the sun, there were a various shades
which follow most of creatures with no certain shapes.
Peace stopped at the battlefield where the snow occupied
the earth, where Peace's apparel colour transformed into red. Drops of blood are
fallen down and smudged the only whiteness when an intensive scream is rising.
The earth was screaming in a way that cause a deafness to Peace as her solidity is fading and she fall.
I feel I am frail
Where are the POWER, and she appeared so far.
Help me!
"I can do nothing
The power of my language is disappeared;
the power of principles is gone.
But do you know?
You need the power of encounter, the power
of material, the power that can do everything and no one can speech!"
And she had gone.
Peace is breathing and standing up heavily.
To the right, I need RIGHT!
, and there was a place with several doors
where she stopped scrupled. Every time she chose a door to open, another door
is opening.
She whispers:
The RIGHT used to be one door!
The quarrel of the doors is getting louder.
There was a great fight between them. Each of the doors claims that it is the
right, it is the salvation and the others are hypocrites!
Then, it was the moment when Peace is
crying:
If
RIGHT cannot know what is right how could I know!
She returns for where she came from, and there
was the EQUITY.
"What is going on PEACE?
Are you changing your saying?
I neglected Fight when I prepossess with
life! By the time I lose the power of speech, I lose my word sense. When it became
unsound, people start to use FORCE to change the world. But which parties has
the RIGHT to tackle humanity's issues? Each of them works according to their
views and utilities and others are abasing and reviling as they are not humans!
When I return to my EQUITY I understand that it is too late to restore justice
to this poor life!
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