Women in Howard Barker’s Theatre: Object or Subject?

Howard Barker ’ s Theatre : Wrestling with Catastrophe

Howard Barker’s Theatre: Wrestling with Catastrophe, edited by James Reynolds and Andy W. Smith, sets out to provide “a timely and much-needed re-evaluation” (1) of Howard Barker and the theatre company founded to stage his work, The Wrestling School. The timeliness and necessity of the collection is, in part, due to the more “practice-orientated” (1) focus of its various contributions. Where p...

Object or subject? The paradox of "youth" in Turkey.

A columnist in a Turkish newspaper recently asked : « Will nothing really be the same again ? » [Kaplanoglu, 1999: 6] referring to the impact of the earthquake of August 17, 1999, on the Turkish psyche. The writer Murathan Mungan [1994] used a similar metaphor earlier in what seems today like a prophetic statement : « I think Turkey has really come to lean against the wall. There is nowhere to ...

Treasuring identity : subject-object relations in Beowulf

Subject-Object Asymmetries in Korean Sentence Comprehension

The Entropy Reduction Hypothesis (Hale, 2006) derives the subject-object asymmetry in Korean relative clauses. This asymmetry has been observed by Kwon, Polinsky, and Kluender (2006), among others. Agreement between the Entropy Reduction predictions and the available empirical data suggests that the heightened comprehension difficulty attested in object-extracted relatives is due to distinctive...

The Fan of Noh Theatre: Object of Encounter

The Japanese Fan The folding fan is probably one of the representative images that most commonly dwell in the gallery of picturesque metaphors of Japan. Whether in the hands of a beautiful geisha or a valiant samurai, the fan is one of those objects that the external gaze has understood as peculiar of Japanese culture and that more successfully made an impact on the construction of the myth of ...