This lecture has two purposes: both to illuminate some of Annie Hall's central concerns, through analysing both its aesthetic and narrative structures; and to allow you to consider a way in which a film can be approached as a visual text. ... Annie Hall engages with this idea of the constant flow of people and the possibilities they offer both of a romantic relationship, but also loss and regret - if everything is always changing, then loss is always a possibility. ... The contrast, indeed conflict between, old-time romance and the confusions and complexities of what we might term m...

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"In these texts (courtly tradition's lyric and narrative poetry) woman appears as a physically desirable but difficult-to-attain goal for her refined though still unworthy lover, often her social inferior," Lillian M. ... Nevertheless, as the tale focuses on the courtly love seeking of the knights, Emilye's personal inclination is hardly central on the spotlight. ... By contriving the inhumane scheme for Arcite and Palamon, Theseus functions to perform the typical ideas of romantic rivalry. ... Thanne were they maad upon a creature To purge uryne, and eek for engendrure," says th...

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While Cummings fought in World War I, he experienced first-hand the chaotic destruction during battle, and later carried his personal beliefs of freedom to protest against the glorified view of war that Americans embrace. ... Also, the "old sith avenue el" refers to an old elevated subway train that ran through New York City, and was torn up to trade to Japan. 3 Now, to put the ideas together, the "nipponized bit of the old sixth avenue," is the metal Japan acquired from the U.S. to make into bullets for Japanese soldiers during World War II. ... Although these protests against war seem typi...

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It could be seen that 'Beckett concedes that his narratives cannot avoid this futility'2 and the relationships are there to present the awareness of that, even if the characters themselves are not. ... The ideas presented will be reinforced with the conclusions of Theodore W. ... Although 'Beckett refuses to transfigure this initial meaninglessness into a meaning for existence' 6 through Adorno we are presented with the idea that 'meaning nothing becomes the only meaning.'7 I am to present the idea that although the situations may be meaningless through the per...

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However, it is Jamal's delusional beliefs that result in him achieving a future with Latika, proving Boyle's idea that love really can conquer all if you believe it will. ... Through the use of first-person narrative, Nick states, "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. ... This led to a society with deluded ideas on what love is really about. ... At the time of writing the song, Mitchell's personal life was in a state of flux. ... " Not only were Mitchell's delusional ideas of love in direct alignment with t...

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