1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910155734503321

Autore

Doeden Matt

Titolo

Final Four, The : The Pursuit of College Basketball Glory

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lerner

ISBN

1-5124-4264-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (64 p.)

Disciplina

796.323/63

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Musica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

When basketball fans hear the words Final Four, they probably think of the buzzer-beaters, Cinderella stories, and bracket-busters that have thrilled people for years. However, you don't need to be a die-hard fan to know that the NCAA men's basketball tournament is one of the most popular sports events in the United States. By the time the tournament of 64 teams has been whittled down to the Final Four, excitement reaches a fever pitch. From the first intercollegiate basketball game played in 1895 all the way to the thrills and drama of the most recent Final Four, read about the shocking moments and stunning upsets that give March Madness its name.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967975903321

Autore

Brown Llewellyn

Titolo

Beckett, Lacan and the Gaze / / Llewellyn Brown, Paul Stewart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hannover, : ibidem, 2019

ISBN

9783838272399

3838272390

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (625 pages)

Collana

Samuel Beckett in Company ; 6

Disciplina

848.91409

Soggetti

Beckett

Lacan

Literature

Literatur

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Table of contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations and editions used for works by Beckett -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 - The collapse of Collective Reality -- 2 - Mirrors and Frames -- 3 - Light and Darkness -- 4 - Doubles and Spectres -- 5 - Variants of an Ideal -- 6 - The Monad -- 7 - Seeing and Unseeing -- 8 - Technology and the Gaze -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Forming a pair with the voice, the gaze is a central structuring element of Samuel Beckett’s creation. And yet it takes the form of a strangely impersonal visual dimension testifying to the absence of an original exchange of gazes capable of founding personal identity and opening up the world to desire. The collapse of conventional reality and the highlighting of seeing devices—eyes, mirrors, windows—point to the absence of a unified representation. While masks and closed spaces show the visible to be opaque and devoid of any beyond, light and darkness, spectres—manifestations without origin—reveal a realm beyond the confines of identity, where nothing provides a mediation with the seen, or sets it within perspective. Finally, Beckett’s use of the audio-visual media deepens his exploration of the irreducibly real part of existence that escapes seeing.  This study systematically examines these essential aspects of the visual in Beckett’s creation. The



theoretical elaborations of Jacques Lacan—in relation with corresponding developments in the history and philosophy of the visual arts—offer an indispensible framework to understand the imaginary not as representation, but as rooted in the fundamental opacity of existence.