Sentences with phrase «of autobiographical experience»

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Or I could have taken a more autobiographical tack, relating some of my own teenage experiences as a preacher's son in the 1950s.

It is clear from his autobiographical statements that Paul was able to move freely from one mode of consciousness to another, from the left hemisphere to, the right, and back again — from law to grace, from mystical experience to ethical evaluation.

There are several speeches on Goethe, two autobiographical books, two volumes of a projected four on a general theory of civilization, smaller tracts on atomic testing and world peace, a collection of sermons, numerous anthologies of his sayings, and a half dozen books and pamphlets on his experiences in Africa.

This broadly phenomenological type of argumentation is necessary to the sort of «explicit» conviction that depends on direct and first - hand evidence, even while it properly recognizes that «our thought unavoidably moves within a hermeneutical circle which excludes any simple resolution of fundamental differences» (PP 87).11 Since it makes immediate reference to the evidence of one's own experience, a description of which is at issue, and only then is extended to all others one sympathetically imagines to be like oneself, it is essentially an autobiographical type of argumentation.

10 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SELF Autobiographies are made of personal memories, the sum total of our life experiences, including the experiences of the plans we have made for the future, specific or vague.

Three things stand out about our memories of life experiences, so - called autobiographical memories.

«Furthermore, the psychedelic nature of ibogaine tends to induce a dream - like state in which many report autobiographical subjective experiences, like watching their life as a movie from the vantage point of an observer,» Malcolm continued.

Invited Speakers: Martin Conway — Autobiographical memory and self http://www.city.ac.uk/arts-social-sciences/academic-staff-profiles/profe... Nick Chater — Self and Other in Joint Action http://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/nick-chater/ Kevin O'Regan — Phenomenal experience of self http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/ Giorgio Metta — Physical Self and Peri-personal Space http://pasa.liralab.it Yiannis Demiris — Motor Self and Development of the Mirror system http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/yiannis Paul Verschure — An Architecture for Self specs.upf.edu Peter Ford Dominey — Construction of the Narrative Self over Time http://pfdominey.perso.sfr.fr/RobotDemos.htm

In 2000, he started an autobiographical blog about his experiences of being gay in China's conservative culture.

Based on the autobiographical novel by Jan Guillou and set in the mid-1950s, the film relates the experiences of a troubled young man who's enrolled into a hidebound private school.

With This Is 40, Apatow gets closer to making his quintessential dramedy — one which may not deftly express the universal experience of midlife (as if there even is one), but moves past its veneer of autobiographical verisimilitude and rings with something like real truth.

«Almost Famous» (2000) Crowe's been consistently unafraid to draw from his own experiences, but his epic «Almost Famous» is certainly his most autobiographical work, telling the tale of how, as an underage high - schooler, he ended up working at Rolling Stone magazine (in this case, covering fictional band Stillwater), falling in love, and coming of age.

«I am a Flatbush girl», first - time feature director Eliza Hittman said proudly at the world premiere of It Felt Like Love in the Next section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the film draws from her experience of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood of New York City's most populous borough, of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea with your friends for fear of melting like the asphalt under your feet.

By taking Jarman's own experiences of AIDS as its subject, the film manages to be personal and autobiographical but also taps into the consciousness of the viewer, who could not possibly be untouched by this global epidemic.

During TIFF last fall, our own Steven Weintraub chatted with Hunnam about the autobiographical tale of the late Henri Charrière «s experiences in the French prison system and its penal colony.

Carol (née The Price of Salt) is the most autobiographical of Patricia Highsmith's novels, dealing so frankly with her own lesbian experiences that she originally had it published under a pseudonym.

Greta Gerwig's script sparkles with wit and has the ring of truth: the film might only be partly based on her own experiences, but the fact Gerwig gave her cast her high school yearbooks and journals to help them prepare suggests a keenly felt autobiographical undercurrent.

Moonlight Mile is not exactly autobiographical, but surely draws on his experiences, and because of them Silberling (City of Angels, Casper) is able to convey a deeper range of emotions than somebody else could have.

Another autobiographical film about the war, John Boorman's «Hope and Glory,» detailed the experience of his family in suburban London during the Blitz and garnered five Academy Award nominations, including best picture.

In this autobiographical text, Gary Paulson narrates experiences he had in the bitter cold of the North which taught him to respect all...

From my experiences working in collaboration with Susan Florio - Ruane, I have seen how autobiography and autobiographical fiction can encourage the study of diversity and multiculturalism in ways that penetrate the reading and language arts curriculum in teacher education and for school - aged students (Florio - Ruane with deTar, 2001; Raphael et al., 2001).

You could probably say that the entire book is my attempt to understand what my mother was experiencing (not that there was anything autobiographical about the novel — I wanted to explore the effect of disease on characters and relationships).

Award - winning Spanish author Molina tells the story of James Earl Ray's attempt to escape after killing Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and mixes it with autobiographical elements to ask: How does our experience of history, or our collective memory, affect our future?

This autobiographical novel manages to make the spiritual realm of gods and eternal consciousness attractive to a heathen like me while detailing a very 21st - century experience.

Jiménez's compelling autobiographical stories in Breaking Through, sequel to The Circuit, combine dramatic social issues of poverty and prejudice in the 1950s with timeless adolescent experiences of family tension, school, and romance.

Especially when the the stories are really autobiographical and the author is reveling in the awesomeness of their own experience, filtered through educated pandering reflection and elevated, flowery word choice.

Often inspired by autobiographical details and by the arduous transformations of his home country, Paci's work intertwines personal narratives with metaphorical and poetical chronicles of the experience of life in exile.

People make a bit of an autobiographical distinction, between a before and an after based on their own experience.

Although deeply autobiographical, Brent's work questions the viewer's own perceptions of home and family, and in this way, speaks to a profoundly universal experience.

Born in 1946, Binion has maintained an engaging practice that draws on autobiographical experience, African American narrative and the visual elements of Modernism.

Phouthavong's source material for research is autobiographical and stems from her personal experience as a refugee, mother, wife, teacher, citizen, and observer of everyday culture.

Her process of selection and arrangement of materials is measured and refined, drawing equally on a precise formal language and the most intimate of personal experiences to create a compelling autobiographical thread.

Part fictional, part autobiographical, Hancock's work pulls from his own personal experience, art historical canon, comics and superheroes, pulp fiction, and myriad pop culture references, resulting in a complex amalgamation of characters and plots possessing universal concepts of light and dark, good and evil, and all the gray in between.

These autobiographical works draw on the memories that Neely carries with her, «hidden in plain sight,» of the experiences that have shaped her life.

It demonstrates not only the power of the artist's use of his autobiographical landscape as a foil for considering a collective experience, but also his technical expertise as a sculptor.

Using autobiographical threads to inform larger universal fields of experience, his work constructs narratives, scenes, and stories that point to the tensions found between the individual and communities.

Beyond the common superficialities of the two spaces, both artists» work draws heavily upon autobiographical elements, contradicting society's expectations of women's art and women artists, through the communication of their most intimate experiences.

Among the artists represented is Chicago - based McArthur Binion (b. 1946) whose triangular shaped, duo - chromatic black and white Differness: Three (2012) fuses African American autobiographical experiences with the visual tropes of predominantly white American modernism.

«Travelogue is an autobiographical journey into our psyche via the photo - documentation of environments and experiences in our travel history during the last two years.

Bringing personal experiences (both real and imagined) into contact with broader historical, social, and political topics, his expansive practice has been described as an «autobiographical journey through the architecture of modern life — constantly rebuilt as it is retold.»

Exploiting the creative potential of free association and past experience, he created deeply personal, often autobiographical, images by drawing liberally from such disparate fields as urban street culture, music, poetry, Christian iconography, African and Aztec cultural histories and a broad range of art historical sources, a practice that is particularly evident in this work.

Downey uses the material, painterly process of image - creation to merge a history experienced only through books, movies, and photographs with autobiographical memories set in the leftover landscape of that history.

These artists interpret the thirty - year influence of the Vietnam War through autobiographical experiences, narratives, and postmemories.

Her autobiographical observations and experiences — recorded in personal journals, snapshots, and notes — as well as drafts, published articles, and images of her past work, all provided fodder for her visual and performance art.

His works combine autobiographical links to 19th - century occultism and spiritism with anthropological (sound) studies on the shamanism of the Lummi Nation und experiments with psychedelic substances in the attempt to visualize synaesthetic and mystic experiences.

An autobiographical dialogue with Dudek's own past underpins this discussion, taking his own experiences of violent football subculture and post-Soviet societal climate as a point of departure.

Part fictional, part autobiographical, Hancock's work pulls from his own personal experience, art historical canon, comics and superheroes, pulp fiction, and myriad pop culture references, resulting in a complex amalgamation of characters and plots possessing universal concepts of light and dark, good and evil, and all the grey in between.

Zangewa's works exemplify a contemporary reinvention of tapestry traditions, wherein autobiographical and universal experiences entwine and unfold.

Often focused on a queer experience of the post-Soviet world, his work transforms descriptive accounts into literary dramas, autobiographical reflections, and philosophical inquiries.

Often referred to as an autobiographical or confessional artist, her paintings are both narratives of personal and communal experiences.