Intertextuality and Reflexivity in Joe Wright’s Atonement (2007)

Transgression and Atonement

This paper presents an approach to modeling social transgressions in agent based systems. The approach is intended to be abstract enough that it may be used with many different theories of transgression, apology, forgiveness, etc. We discuss an implementation of this approach in PMFserv, an agent based socio-cognitive modeling framework.

Fabricating Unease: Intertextuality,

The subject matter of the nation is a usual staple on the menu of postcolonial Nigerian fiction. In this sense, the repertoire of Chinua Achebe’s art echoes an incurable preoccupation with Nigeria’s postcolonial condition as a nation. Also, this paper explores the centrality of intertextuality in the production of Achebe’s fiction, primarily his political novel about crisis plaguing intellectua...

Beyond sacrifice: Milton and the atonement

Joe Howard

Joe Howard is a Group Leader and Director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden. He has always been on the move. In his native Australia he did his PhD on the neurobiology of vision; in San Francisco he worked on hair cells and hearing; and in Seattle he developed single-molecule techniques to study microtubules and kinesins. He wrote a textbook on the Me...

Joe Lakowicz