Carl Nilsson-Polias

In traditional theatre practice, the actors are directed by one person who sits and observes from where the audience will eventually sit. The actors are the observed element in this equation and the director/audience are the observing element. In a clear break from this paradigm, Pulse is a process of ensemble theatre improvisation, derived from […]

When, in 1929, Sam Taylor’s adaptation of the Taming of the Shrew first screened, audiences were aghast at the legend that read: “Written by William Shakespeare with Additional Dialogue by Sam Taylor” (Johnson 7). Since that time, the notion of Shakespeare’s oeuvre as a pure, untouched and untouchable canonical monolith has come under sustained and […]

Charles Taylor’s work spans a number of disciplines in its discussions of contemporary political debates. As will be shown, his essays arguing against atomism in the realm of political science—with regard to negative liberty, republican society and the primacy of individual rights—are mirrored in his similarly non-atomistic essays on his conception of linguistics. Indeed, it […]

Given that the dominant discourse reflects a masculine point of view, a woman writer must search for a means of expression more suitable to her self-understanding and her understanding of the world.
In a patriarchal society where the values and mores are set down in a firmly masculine discourse, female authors must strive to […]