Sentences with phrase «first narrative history»

Recent successes include: No god but God (Random House), by religious scholar Reza Aslan; Morgan Spurlock's Don't Eat This Book (Putnam), a companion to his Academy Award nominated documentary Super Size Me; Fergus Bordewich's Bound for Canaan (Amistad), the first narrative history of the Underground Railroad; and Benjamin Kunkel's Indecision (Random House), lead fiction title by an editor of the new literary magazine n +1.

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I loved learning about history as a kid, and the first - person narratives of princesses was one way to get me deeply involved.

The new genre would contain autobiographical fiction closely based on the Scriptural narratives and faithful to first - century history.

This view has been advocated with great skill by Professor C. H. Dodd, first in an article entitled «The Framework of the Gospel Narrative,» published in The Expository Times (June, 1932), and then in his books, The Apostolic Preaching (1936) and History and the Gospel (1938).

Their narrative history portrays it as being first given at the foot of Mount Sinai some twelve hundred fifty years before the birth of Jesus.

Here we meet for the first time history on a world scope; the tenth chapter of Genesis, particularly against the background of the preceding narrative, though made up of lists of names, is yet an astonishing document, revealing the writer's knowledge of the world of his time, and even more remarkable, his recognition of the essential unity of the entire human process.

To this rich heritage of insight the Hebrews added their unique facility in narrative and produced the first real history that the world knew.

It is a logic which, as we shall see, moves us in the course of the biblical narrative from creation to history, from first things to human politics.

On the Men's side — the narrative remains the same — can anyone dethrone the reigning and defending 3x Champs Team SigEp — or for the first time in All Sports Series history — will SigEp earn a 4peat!?

For the first time in Brazilian history, the narrative of a major political crisis has been constructed by an incredibly fragmented media system.

Revati Crater is named for the main character in the Hindu epic narrative Mahabharata — widely regarded as the first in history (circa 400 BC) to include the concept of time travel.

The works of Max Brooks, who wrote 2003's satirical and subversively political, «The Zombie Survival Guide», and 2006's, «World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War», provided the kernels of inspiration for this mega-budgeted horror - action - thriller that mostly makes up its own narrative, independent of much of the book content (jettisoning the first - person account style and most of the events), to make it fit more with the ranks of current, eye - candy loaded popcorn movies than a thoughtful adaptation of the best - seller.

It's only when the first film's narrative more or less gives up on Rose's inner turmoil, expanding to include a needless town history (replete with meaningless baddies, gruesome deaths, and buckets of gore), that the movie goes south, and it's this dismal second half that Revelation takes as its basic model.

After the film's Fantastic Fest debut, we sat down with Pesce to discuss the influences behind his first feature, the surprising personal history that was woven into the film's narrative, and more.

The end of this entry's story is also the end of the anime - to - be, meaning that for the first time in the franchise's history, the game is ahead of the narrative curve.

Of course, Fellini's career - changing film and Godard's «second first film» — this was his first «narrative,» defined loosely of course, in a decade — are invaluable to movie history as well.

The first few games even came up with an elaborate excuse for the setup, with a present - day company using a machine to tap into a person's «genetic memory,» allowing the person to interact with the people and places of a specific point in history through the eyes of the person's ancestor (If you're not following this, that's fine, because it really is just a narrative justification).

For the record, Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale won both the Grand Jury prize and the Audience Award for U.S. dramatic narrative, and Steve Hoover's Blood Brother took the corresponding prizes for documentary, the first time in Sundance history there was complete accord between juries and the public.

This short blurb by Checker Finn is terrific; the first - person narrative is compelling, and for history buffs and those fascinated by the intersection of politics and policy, it offers something special.

First - person narrative poems focus on the last day of high school, when a distraught history teacher holds his seniors hostage.

Gripping from the first page, and rich with fascinating detail about the time, the people, and the new inventions that connect and divide us, Thunderstruck is splendid narrative history from a master of the form.

His first travel narrative, Flight of Passage, was hailed by The New Yorker as «a funny, cocky gem of a book,» and with The Oregon Trail he brings the most important route in American history back to glorious and vibrant life.

Multiple first - person quotes drawn from primary source documents, including letters, slave narratives, and oral histories, fill the text.

The first substantial narrative to deeply explore the latter decades of her reign, Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years zooms in on a critical period in Tudor history, providing a fascinating close - up of an aging queen taking her final turn upon the world stage.

What we've seen of the sequel's narrative appears to successfully carry forward the first game's torch and expand the alt - history mythology across... Read More

For the first time since the original Legend of Zelda, the experience was truly your own, and while the narrative took a backseat in this title, the legacy of this new Link, his own narrative, was that oral history of your gameplay, talking to friends, streaming online, however it was you shared your adventurous tales.

While Johnson's works are grounded in a dialogue with modern and contemporary art history, specifically abstraction and appropriation, they also give voice to an Afro - futurist narrative in which the artist commingles references to experimental musician Sun Ra, jazz great Miles Davis, and rap group Public Enemy, to name just a few, with various symbols including that of Sigma Pi Phi (also known as the Boulé), the first African American Greek - letter organization, and writings by civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, among others.

Highlighting new narratives in Mexico's modern art history, México 1900 — 1950 marks the first exhibition at the DMA organized by the Museum's new director, Agustín Arteaga.

Personally, I think some of these developments owe to a mixture of two elements: first, nostalgia towards different moments in Italian history in which we could still appear to play a crucial role internationally; and second, a desire to celebrate a polyphonic idea of art history that is too often flattened by mainstream narratives in international museums.

Along with familiar works from the collection, the installation will include objects on loan from other institutions, such as historical Native American art, folk art, furniture, and art from other regions and time periods to encourage a more textured narrative about the first centuries of US art and history.

The first iteration in a three - part exhibition series, Expanding Narratives uses the formal relationship between the figure and the ground in Western art history as a conceptual springboard into discussions around visual representation, the museum space, and the role of the Smart Museum's collection in fostering the exchange of diverse perspectives.

Andrew Sendor's first solo exhibition with Sperone Westwater investigates hypothetical narratives in art history.

Each painting is measured to exactly the same dimensions, and her titles, such as Isko (2008) and Teite (2008), are drawn from a German dictionary of first names, emphasizing each painting's individuality and imparting a deeper sense of history and narrative to the canvases.

Secretion, 2012, first shown to critical acclaim at dOCUMENTA 13, draws on the possibilities of lost and forgotten narratives located somewhere between recent history and a near future.

His first exhibition in Turin» Dopo» unfolds inside the Fondazione Merz gallery spaces, is conceived as a total installation, a choral narrative addressing individual and collective memory, entwining the past with the present, urging unattended promises, recombining History with each individual's life.

This project encapsulated what its curator Anselm Franke refers to as «undead histories»: those lacking sufficient authority to question officially sanctioned narratives, or simply without the financial support or infrastructure to be exhibited in the first place.

Valenciennes, Daubigny, and the Origins of French Landscape Painting traces the history of artists» engagement with nature from the late Renaissance, when landscape painting first emerged from the background of narrative representation, up to the eve of Impressionism in the 19th century.

Entering the New York art world in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, Diao first engaged, in his early work, in the complex position of painting in the aftermath of the Abstract Expressionists and the formalist critical debates that followed them, successfully pushing painting into conceptual territory while allowing him to deal with aesthetics, history as well as personal narrative in his painting.

The proper approach to the determination of the issue As she had done in Aintree v James, Lady Hale took matters back to first principles, by reference to the legislative history of the MCA (and, indeed, its pre-history, including — in essence — a potted narrative of the development of the doctrine of necessity and its ultimate codification).

Rather, your LinkedIn profile should be used as a personal branding tool created in the first - person narrative that weaves your personality into your career history and value proposition to spur interest in «you».