Thematic Imagery Research Articles

The Influence of Flooding Imagery and Party Cues on Perceived Threat, Collective Efficacy, and Intentions for Political Action to Address Climate Change

This study investigates how episodic and thematic flooding imagery and political party cues in climate change news stories influence risk perceptions, collective efficacy perceptions, and intended political action. We found that imagery and party cues had significant total effects on perceived flooding threat but not on perceived climate change threat. Specifically, episodic imagery (but not thematic imagery) increased perceived flooding threat, and party cues lowered perceived threat. Perceived threat was positively associated with collective efficacy, which, in turn, was positively associated with intended political action. Both imagery and party cues had significant indirect effects on perceived efficacy and intended action.

“L’Allegria” e l’haiku: due modelli letterari in “Airs” di Philippe Jaccottet

Within the wider literary production of Philippe Jaccottet, generally composed in prose or long verses, Airs’unique stylistic brevity brings us to evaluate how his readings and his literary translations have influenced the poet’s own verses. During the composition of Airs, the Franco-Swiss poet shows interest in modesty and lightness of the haiku model and he reflects, at the same time, on conciseness and condensation of Ungaretti’s first work, L’Allegria. If compared with the ancient form of Japanese poetry and with the deconstruction of canonical rhythm achieved by Ungaretti, the suggestion of the two literary lessons is recognizable in a metric analysis of Airs’ poems. A focus on subject posture in poetic discourse, as well as a thematic analysis of the three different poetics, reveals similar imagery and ethical position: inclined to the progressive absence of subjectivity in haiku and Jaccottet’s poems, tending to a collective voice in Ungaretti’s intention. While the influence of haiku on Airs is already established from critical studies on the author, the specific weight of Ungaretti’s Allegria on Jaccottet’s verses still seems unexplored. Considering the influence of haiku, of which L’Allegria is also permeated, our study shall aim at verifying how the early production of Ungaretti affects Jaccottet’s stylistic choices, thematic imagery, and ethical purpose.

Decoding the Thematic Imagery in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss”

This paper deploys the methodology of textual analysis to re-read and undertake an exegesis of the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “Bliss” penned by modernist writer Katherine Mansfield. The exploration of the symbols and imagery that abound in the texts reveal and underscore the thematic framework of the short stories. While the colour, animal and food imagery add richness to the story of Bertha Mason in “Bliss”, the multifarious symbols are symptomatic of the protagonist’s mental make-up and the descent into madness of her creative propensity in “The Yellow Wallpaper”.

Life Themes and Their Therapeutic Transformation in Couple and Family Therapy

This article extends the examination of thematic analysis to an exploration of its applicability for the practice of feminist family therapy. Life themes-the interpretive orientation seen as guiding one's coping repertoire and contributing meaning and purpose to life-arose from empirical studies into the life stories of adult men and women. A focus on themes and their patterns in human lives over time is likened to and suggested to be compatible with Miller and Stiver's concept of relational images as well as their model of relational therapy. A beginning framework is laid out for a method that would both identify thematic imagery as well as suggest ways to transform restrictive, maladaptive images in the service of growth and healing.

"No esta olvidada la ciencia": Science, Chaos Theory, and Tragedy in "El medico de su honra"

The relationship between science and literature is too frequently presented as a dichotomy of mutually exclusive fields. Scholarship is now showing that the division of studies into arts and sciences--however convenient for academics-may be artificial and misleading. Interdisciplinary approaches that emphasize similarities in scientific and literary thought are increasing in both popularity and influence, as the recent literary critical interest in chaos theory demonstrates.' The emerging science of chaos, which addresses unpredictability and nonlinearity in complex systems, offers a useful framework for the analysis of literature in addition to its more technical, scientific applications. In the following pages, I will address some of the implications of chaos theory that are more pertinent to literary criticism and then discuss in particular Calder6n's El mddico de su honra, keeping in mind the important role of science in the play's thematic imagery and the ways in which chaos theory sheds light on the formulation of Calderonian tragedy. In the process, I will show how the study of chaotics in Calder6n's play can suggest interesting points of comparison between postmodern and premodern thinking. The science of chaos emerged in the 1970s and 1980s to present a challenge to classical Newtonian physics.2 Chaos theory takes issue with the reductionism inherent in the Newtonian model and criticizes by extension the deterministic insistence on order and predictability which has characterized Western science since the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The founders of Western science, products of Enlightenment logic and the age of the machine, conceived of the world mechanistically, breaking the whole into its constituent parts, describing how each component functions, and ultimately delineating a system that behaves in a predictable, stable, and orderly way according to certain universal laws.3 This new scientific perception of the world was fundamentally deterministic; given a set of initial conditions, one could predict the behavior of a system with relative accuracy and reliability. Newtonian

Structured approach to land cover mapping or the Atlantic zone of Costa Rica using single date TM data

Abstract A structured approach to land cover mapping, involving different stages of field work and processing of remote sensing data, is presented. The Processing of TM data of one acquisition date was done by Analysing the Digital data-Structure (PAD) to produce optimum imagery for land-cover mapping of the Atlantic zone in Costa Rica. Three stages were evaluated: 1. Image-processing in the pre-fieldwork stage to obtain insight into the overall variation of the scene. 2. Small scale reconnaissance fieldwork, and processing thereafter, directed towards the production of thematic imagery guided by the properties of objects and features. 3. Medium scale reconnaissance fieldwork and classification. With this method we made use of statistical data, such as standard deviations and correlation coefficients, graphic presentations of mean values for the evaluation of ratios as well as variance percentages expressed by principal components. The selection of training fields for statistic calculation was considered ...

Icons of Justice: Iconography and Thematic Imagery in Book V of the Faerie Queene

Icons of Justice: Iconography and Thematic Imagery in Book V of the Faerie Queene

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Reviews Get access ICONS OF JUSTICE: ICONOGRAPHY AND THEMATIC IMAGERY IN BOOK V OF ‘THE FAERIE QUEENE’ , by Jane Aptekar . New York and London : Columbia University Press , 1969 ; pp. x, 278 ; $9.50, £4.30. R. M. CUMMINGS R. M. CUMMINGS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 18, Issue 8, August 1971, Pages 318–319, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/18-8-318 Published: 01 August 1971

Icons of Justice: Iconography and Thematic Imagery in Book V of 'The Faerie Queene'

Icons of Justice: Iconography and Thematic Imagery in Book V of 'The Faerie Queene'

Thematic Imagery in Mauriac's Vipers Tangle

Thematic Imagery in Mauriac's Vipers Tangle

“Ocular Proof” in Othello and its Source

Shakespeare's selectivity in adapting a novella from Giraldi Cinthio's De Gli Hecatommithi into his own Othello has long been apparent; students of Shakespeare's play have stressed his transformation of the source by speeding up the action, condensing the plot, reassessing the characterization, and transfiguring the commonplace attitudes toward an interracial marriage presented in the source into a tragedy of love. But no one has demonstrated how a close comparison of single words and phrases in Othello and in the novella can help us to understand how the transformation took place, how words and phrases such as vedere cogl' occhi, vendetta, satio, and la giustizia divina are translated imaginatively into the thematic imagery of ocular proof, the configuration of revenge, satisfaction, and satiation, and the movement from justice to mercy which Desdemona offers to Othello. Clearly, such a comparison of the play and its source affords a critical perspective upon the verbal drama especially. But studies of the imagery in Othello neglect its source entirely, and source studies, merely footnoting the verbal parallels as they appear, seem to maintain the critical view that marvels how Shakespeare could have created so much out of so little. It is as if Shakespeare's characteristic ingredient, the poetic interplay of words and images in the verbal fund of his drama, had no parallel in the verbal fund of his source.