Titlebook: Imaging Identity; Text, Mediality and Johannes Riquet,Martin Heusser Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under excl

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Art, Arcadia and Images of Identity in John Banville’s , Trilogyn each of the three novels, Banville’s narrator-protagonist emplots various works of art, be they real, counterfeit or metafictional, into his storied self, thereby crafting a ., an overly self-conscious and stylised discourse for his crisis of identity. Crucially, Banville’s artful narrative relies

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W. B. Yeats’s ,: Self-Consuming Images of Identityociations and residues of past events, it is equally a temporal concept. This chapter looks at a play by W. B. Yeats—.—written in response to one of the key events in modern Irish history, the 1916 Rising, in which questions of identity were contested in a military uprising whose meaning continues t

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Terrorist Self-Fashioning: Politics, Identity and the Making of “Martyrdom” Videos—From the 7/7 Bombquences depicting the shooting of martyrdom videos. As these sequences suggest, the performance for the camera is the moment in which ordinary individuals become terrorists by presenting themselves as such to an implied audience, even before they have committed actual acts of violence. In this way,

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Islands as (Floating) Images: Towards a Poetic Theory of Island Geographyadictory conceptions of the world and of subjectivity. Islands have offered “the delusion of a comprehensible totality” (Robinson) and a readily accessible (and visual) identity ever since the “insular moment” of early modernity (Conley), but they have simultaneously functioned as figures resisting

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“Come see my land”: Watching the Tropical Island Paradise Die in Poetryt the home island. By tracing a lineage from the exoticist gaze of colonialism to postmodern tourism advertisements, the poem highlights the latter’s destructive potential. The rejected text constructs an accusing and satirical image of a relentlessly exploitative identity that monetises the insular

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Island Images and Imaginations: Beyond the Typical Tropicalspiritual and psychological pilgrimage. The metaphoric deployment of the small, warm, tropical island is a gripping topos in Western discourse. With these traits, however, comes a suite of challenges: invisibility, inability to influence an island’s reputational construct, and an incongruence betwee

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Johannes Riquet,Martin Heussererous, but primarily it stems from the mounting realization that research programs focused solely on DNA sequence variation, despite their breadth and depth, are unlikely to address all fundamental aspects of human biology. Some questions are evident even to non-biologists. How does a single zygote