Academic literature on the topic 'Annie Wood'

Stephen Esslemont Woods was born in Cardiff on 12 January 1912, the fifth of eight children, to Scottish parents, William Woods and Annie Whyte. His father was a fifth–generation merchant seaman who was an apprentice in sail and eventually became captain of a steam ship.

Resumo: O presente artigo trabalha a evolução das representações de Nova York no cinema de Woody Allen, destacando o que chamo de Tetralogia de Nova York, uma série de longas-metragens que formam um conjunto coerente onde a cidade é usada como cenário para se discutir determinadas concepções de narrativa, visão de história e perspectiva de memória. O foco é o filme Annie Hall (1977), o primeiro que transforma a cidade em personagem. Em Annie Hall (1977), a cidade de Nova York é comparada a Los Angeles, estando Los Angeles num lugar de inferioridade: enquanto Nova York é uma cidade viva e real, Los Angeles seria uma cidade artificial e movida pela vaidade. Palavras-chave: Woody Allen. Cidade. Nova York. Los Angeles.

O presente artigo busca compreender e analisar aspectos autobiográficos no poema “Mother and Daughter”, escrito por Anne Sexton (1928–1974), norte-americana que se consolidou como uma dasprincipais vozes da poesia confessional do século XX. Em um contexto hodierno, podemos afirmar que a pertinência deste trabalho é extremamente significativa: na era da autobiografia, em que a primeira pessoa do singular e a falta de privacidade emergem, assim como outrora emergiram na época da poesia confessional. Para fundamentar nossas colocações, recorremos a estudos de Philippe Lejeune (2008), Manuel Alberca (2007), Dominique Combe (2010), Michel Collot (2018) e Mariana Soletti da Silva (2021), bem como à biografia de Anne Sexton, escrita por Diane Wood Middlebrook (1994), à coletânea completa dos poemas de Sexton, publicada em 1999, e outros textos que tratam especificamente da autora, da poesia confessional e das questões pertinentes à análise do poema.

Philosophy and comedy are parallel enterprises of self-detachment. But while philosophy consistently carries out the detachment, comedy underlines its contradictions and undermines it. Thus, comedy gains an advantage especially where it reflects upon the material body which underlies every reflection, namely, its medium. My paper observes this process by studying Woody Allen's Annie Hall. Thus, the media-philosophy of the film can be contrasted against a philosopher's philosophy of the very same film.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 1987.
Title from title screen (viewed 25 March 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of Religious Studies. Degree awarded 1987; thesis submitted 1986. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

Leadbeater was a man who made the most startling claims for himself, and made them in a very matter-of-fact way.[4] He declared that he had penetrated the depths of the atom by his psychic powers, discovered the ultimate unit of matter whilst sitting in a park on the Finchley Road in London, and had psychically extracted individual atoms of various elements from the showcases in the Dresden Museum whilst he reclined several miles away. He also claimed to have sent sea spirits to dig out atoms of another element from the mines of Sabaranganuwa in Ceylon while he lay in his bed in Madras in India.[5] He claimed to have explored most of the planets in the Solar System, while his body remained on earth, and described their climates and inhabitants in some detail.[6] He claimed to be in regular communication with the Powers which govern the earth from the Inner Planes, the Masters or Mahatmas, the Supermen who constitute the Occult Hierachy of this planet. And, so he said, he conducted parties of pupils to the secret places in Tibet where these same Masters resided, while the bodies of both the pupils and their guide slept securely in their beds.[7](Excerpt from Introduction pp.3-4)

Doctor of Philosophy
Leadbeater was a man who made the most startling claims for himself, and made them in a very matter-of-fact way.[4] He declared that he had penetrated the depths of the atom by his psychic powers, discovered the ultimate unit of matter whilst sitting in a park on the Finchley Road in London, and had psychically extracted individual atoms of various elements from the showcases in the Dresden Museum whilst he reclined several miles away. He also claimed to have sent sea spirits to dig out atoms of another element from the mines of Sabaranganuwa in Ceylon while he lay in his bed in Madras in India.[5] He claimed to have explored most of the planets in the Solar System, while his body remained on earth, and described their climates and inhabitants in some detail.[6] He claimed to be in regular communication with the Powers which govern the earth from the Inner Planes, the Masters or Mahatmas, the Supermen who constitute the Occult Hierachy of this planet. And, so he said, he conducted parties of pupils to the secret places in Tibet where these same Masters resided, while the bodies of both the pupils and their guide slept securely in their beds.[7](Excerpt from Introduction pp.3-4)

This thesis examines Allen's development using Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), and Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) as landmarks. Three criteria (chapters) structure the analysis: comedy, narrative, and romance.

Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, has been the subject of fictional and nonfictional historical narratives since her execution in 1536. Although already a contentious figure for her role in Henry VIII’s annulment of his first marriage and England’s ensuing break from the Roman Catholic Church, the nature of her death ensured that she would become a focus of examination, intrigue and scrutiny. This fascination is, in part, fuelled by limited primary source materials, particularly from Boleyn’s perspective; there is an accepted, familiar narrative of her life that is defined by landmark events, however we cannot know precisely how she experienced these events. The reasons for her death are unclear because conclusive evidence confirming either her guilt or her innocence is yet to be uncovered. This combination of fascination and ambiguity means that Anne Boleyn is an apt case study for a consideration of the tensions between history and fiction that appear in all historical narratives. In recent decades, postmodern historiography has highlighted the literary qualities of histories, and scholars such as Hayden White have drawn attention to the narrativisation, emplotment and characterisation that occur in both fictional and non-fictional histories. The role of the historian as author—rather than as objective observer—has been integral to such scholarship. This study examines ten twenty-firstcentury historical narratives, encompassing a range of historical writing, including academic histories, popular biographies, historiographic metafiction and historical fiction. In spite of variations in style, audience, genre and veracity, each of the focus texts constructs both a characterisation of Boleyn and a narrative of her life. A close textual analysis of these narratives reveals that there are representational techniques and practices that are shared by the authors, regardless of their claims to authenticity and accuracy. Thus, the thesis rejects the apparent disjuncture between fictional and non-fictional histories on the basis of their capacity to relate truth, and argues that these texts should each be considered examples of historical writing.

La majorité des enfants apprennent rapidement leur langue maternelle, mais la trajectoire de leur acquisition varie d'un enfant à l'autre. C'est le cas par exemple pour la vitesse d'acquisition du vocabulaire, mais aussi pour certaines capacités précoces de perception de la parole. Des travaux menés en psycholinguistique ces deux dernières décennies ont commencé à étudier ces différences individuelles, cherchant d'une part à évaluer les facteurs qui prédisent ces différences, et d'autre part à comprendre comment ces différences impactent l'acquisition ultérieure du langage, notamment du vocabulaire. Ces études ont porté essentiellement sur la deuxième année de vie. L'objectif de cette thèse est de poursuivre ce travail dans le cadre de la première année. Il s'agit de mieux caractériser la variabilité individuelle dans trois capacités de traitement précoce, de préciser certains prédicteurs de ces capacités, et d'évaluer l'impact de la variabilité individuelle sur le vocabulaire à 12 mois. Les capacités qui nous ont intéressées sont : (1) le traitement audiovisuel de la parole à 4 et 8 mois, et plus spécifiquement l'attention relative portée par les enfants aux yeux et à la bouche d'un visage qui parle ; (2) la segmentation de formes sonores de mots d'un flux continu de parole sur la base de probabilités de transition entre les syllabes à 8 mois ; et (3) la reconnaissance de formes sonores de mots familiers à 12 mois. Les prédicteurs que nous avons évalués sont liés à la quantité d'input parental et aux capacités de production précoce des nourrissons. Pour cela, des enregistrements d'une journée complète réalisés dans l'environnement naturel des enfants ont été collectés à 4, 8 et 12 mois à l'aide d'un enregistreur porté par les enfants. Trois mesures quantitatives en ont été extraites : (1) le nombre de mots entendus par les nourrissons, (2) le nombre de tour de parole entre un parent et son enfant et (3) le nombre de vocalisations des nourrissons. De plus, une mesure qualitative de (4) babillage (inventaire des sons produits) a été prise aux âges de 4 et 8 mois grâce à des questionnaires parentaux. Concernant les liens entre input et capacités précoces, les résultats montrent que plus d'input parental à 4 mois est lié à un meilleur traitement auditif (segmentation de la parole à 8 mois et reconnaissance de formes sonores des mots à 12 mois) mais non au traitement audiovisuel de la parole. De plus, plus d'input parental à 8 mois est lié à plus de vocabulaire en compréhension à 12 mois. La quantité de tours de parole n'est pas liée aux capacités explorées, mais plus de tours de parole est lié à plus de vocabulaire en production à 12 mois. Concernant les liens entre production et capacités précoces, la quantité de vocalisations ne semble jouer qu'un rôle mineur dans les capacités précoces (restreinte au traitement audiovisuel de la parole) et n'est pas liée au vocabulaire à 12 mois. Par contre, un répertoire de babillage plus riche à 8 mois est lié au traitement auditif (meilleure segmentation de la parole) et audiovisuel (moins d'intérêt pour la bouche) de la parole au même âge et, dans une moindre mesure, aux capacités de traitement des mots à 12 mois. Un babillage plus élaboré à 4 et 8 mois est également lié à plus de vocabulaire en production à 12 mois. Enfin, concernant les prédicteurs du vocabulaire précoce, les résultats montrent que les enfants qui regardent le plus la bouche et qui ont de meilleures capacités de segmentation à 8 mois ont plus de vocabulaire en production à 12 mois. Mis ensemble, nos résultats permettent de mettre en avant qu'il existe des liens très précoces entre la quantité d'input parental, le traitement de la parole et le vocabulaire. Ces résultats soulignent également l'importance d'explorer le développement des productions précoces des enfants en lien avec le traitement de la parole et l'acquisition du vocabulaire au cours de la première année de vie
The majority of infants acquire their native language relatively fast, yet the trajectory of their acquisition varies from one child to another. This is the case for example for the rate of vocabulary growth but also for some early speech perception abilities. Research studies conducted in psycholinguistics over the last two decades started to explore these individual differences, seeking to specify the factors that predict these differences on the one hand, and to further understand how these differences impact later language acquisition, including vocabulary, on the other hand. These studies focused mainly on the second year of life. The aim of this thesis is to complement this research, focusing on the first year of life. It aims to better characterize individual variability in three early speech processing abilities, to specify some of the predictors of these abilities, and to assess the impact of individual variability on vocabulary acquisition at 12 months. The speech processing abilities we investigated are: (1) audiovisual speech processing at 4 and 8 months, and more specifically infants' relative attention towards the eyes or the mouth of a talking face; (2) word form segmentation from a continuous speech stream, based on transitional probabilities between syllables at 8 months; and (3) familiar word form recognition at 12 months. The predictors that have been investigated are related to the quantity of parental speech input and to infants' early production skills. To this end, daylong recordings were collected longitudinally in infants' natural environment at 4, 8 and 12 months of age, using a device wore by the infants at home. Three quantitative measures were extracted from these audio recordings: (1) the number of words heard by the infants, (2) the number of conversational turns between a parent and his child and (3) the number of infants' vocalizations. Moreover, a qualitative measure of (4) babbling (inventory of produced sounds) was collected at 4 and 8 months of age through parental questionnaires. Regarding the links between input and early abilities, the results show that more parental input at 4 months is related to better auditory speech processing skills (word segmentation at 8 months and word form recognition at 12 months) but not to audiovisual speech processing. In addition, more parental input at 8 months is related to more receptive vocabulary at 12 months. Furthermore, the quantity of conversational turns is not linked to the abilities investigated here, but more conversational turns is linked to more expressive vocabulary at 12 months. Regarding the links between production and early abilities, the amount of vocalizations appears to only play a minor role in early abilities (limited to audiovisual speech processing) and is not linked to vocabulary at 12 months. However, a richer babbling repertoire at 8 months is linked to auditory (better segmentation skills) and audiovisual speech processing skills (less interest in the mouth) at the concurrent age and, to a lesser extent, to word processing abilities at 12 months. A more complex babbling at 4 and 8 months is linked to more vocabulary in production at 12 months. Lastly, regarding the predictors of early vocabulary, the results show that infants who look the most towards the mouth and who have better speech segmentation skills at 8 months have more vocabulary in production at 12 months. Taken together, our results help us highlight the existence of very early links between the amount of parental input, speech processing skills and vocabulary. These results also emphasize the importance of investigating infants' early production skills together with speech processing skills and vocabulary acquisition during the first year of life

Dissertação de Mestrado em Estudos Americanos apresentada à Universidade Aberta
Resumo - Este trabalho centra-se na minoria étnica/religiosa judeus, porque foram eles, juntamente com outras minorias, que contribuíram para desenvolver o país que os acolheu, nomeadamente, no campo cinematográfico Fazemos também referência aos anos sessenta, porque o seu impacto cultural nos anos setenta foi incontornável e porque foi também, neste período, que os filmes Annie Hall e Manhattan foram filmados estreados, respectivamente em 1976 e 1979, em Nova Iorque, cidade de eleição de Woody Allen. O corpus do trabalho foi dividido em três capítulos: no primeiro tentamos dar uma contextualização histórica e social dos E U A.(adiante designados, por vezes, por América) e de Nova Iorque, mencionando o contributo de alguns judeus, como os pais de Woody Allen,de Woody Allen e de George Gershwin, entre outros, na sociedade WASP. Woody Allen nunca negou as suas raízes judaicas, mas nasceu em Nova Iorque e considera-se um americano com ascendência judaica. Tem ideias muito próprias sobre o Judaísmo e sobre os judeus americanos. No segundo capítulo abordaremos o filme Annie Hall e faremos uma abordagem ao meio artístico da época, anos setenta. O terceiro capítulo lida com alguns aspectos do filme Manhattan e uma atmosfera intelectual e elitista de Nova Iorque, durante os anos setenta
Résumé - Cette dissertation fut écrite ayant comme source le séminaire « Histoire Américaine » et « Litérature et Cinéma » écrit par la Prof. Docteur Maria do Céu Marques qui est, dans les circonstances, ma promotrice de doctorat. Ce travail se penche sur la minorité juif américaine parce qu’elle a participé d’une façon assez prononcée dans la composition du tissu social des années 30 du XX siècle, comme d’ailleurs, d’autres minorités qui ont aidée le Président Franklin Roosevelt dans la construction du nouveau pays américain, après le « crash » de 1929. On se penche aussi sur les années 60, parce qu’ils ont été d’importance capitale pour le période qui suit, les années 70 qui ont vu naître les deux films-clés de Woody Allen, « Annie Hall » et « Manhattan ». Le travail fut elaboré en trois parties : Dans la première partie on essaye de montrer le côté historique et social de l’Amerique et New York en particulier, n’oubliant la contribuition de quelques juifs, comme par exemple, les parents de Woody Allen ou George Gershwin dans la société WASP . Woody Allen n’a jamais nié ses racines juifs, sans oublier qu’il est né à New York, dont il sera toujours un américan avec des ancêtres juifs. Il a même des idées très originaux a ce sujet comme vous pouvez voir au deuxième chapitre, dans une petite biographie de ce réputé metteur en scène/realizateur/écrivain/musicien qui est Woody Allen. Dans la troisième partie on travail certaines particularités autobiographiques des deux films – Annie Hall et Manhattan – et c’est pour ça qu’on les a choisi – sa vie, le milieu intellectuel ou il «habite » dans les années 70 à New York
Abstract - This Dissertation was carried out bearing in mind the Seminars" American History" and “Literature and Cinema" both taught by Professora Doutora Maria do Céu Marques, who happens to be my Academic Tutor. This work focus on the ethnic minority Jews, because they contributed to weave the social tissue of the thirties (twentieth century), along with other minorities which helped President Franklin Delano Roosevelt build a new country after the New York Crash. We also focus on the sixties because of their cultural impact upon the seventies (twentieth century), when both films were shot and released: Annie Hall (1976) and Manhattan(1979), both filmed in New York.. The corpus of the work was divided into tree chapters: in the first one we try to give an historical and social background of the U.S.A. /also called America, in this work) and New York, mentioning the contribution of some Jews like Woody Allen’s parents, George Gershwin, among others in the WASP society. Woody Allen has never denied his Jewish roots but was born in New York, and considers himself an American with Jewish ancestry. He has original ideas about Judaism and the Jews in America as you will see in the second chapter – a small biography of the film director, writer, actor and musician Woody Allen . The third chapter deals with some aspects of the films Annie Hall and Manhattan and we chose them because of their autobiographical features upon Woody Allen´s life and his intellectual milieu and the city of New York during the seventies