Francis Higginson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1369681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francis Higginson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francis |
| FAMILY NAME | Higginson |
| SIGNATURE | HIGGINSON F |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Well-Tempered Savage
This paper examines how Bassek ba Kobhio's 1995 film Le Grand Blanc de Lambarene uses music to deconstruct the iconic figure of Albert Schweitzer. At key moments throughout the film, the doctor encounters a young drummer with whom he attempts and fails to communicate musically. The moments have little to do with the otherwise linear narrative. Nevertheless, they structure the film's argument and demonstrate the ways in which an expressive medium …
Portrait of the Artist as Dreamer
Portrait of the Artist as DreamerMaryse Condé’s Traversée de la Mangrove and Les Derniers Rois Mages Lydie Moudileno (bio) and Francis Higginson Despite the fact that none of Maryse Condé’s novels can be qualified, in the strict sense of the word, as a künstlerroman (in other words a novel in which the theme is the peregrinations of the artist/protagonist in society) one is struck by the recurrence, in her novels, of characters who are artists; J…
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Portrait of the Artist as Dreamer
Portrait of the Artist as DreamerMaryse Condé’s Traversée de la Mangrove and Les Derniers Rois Mages Lydie Moudileno (bio) and Francis Higginson Despite the fact that none of Maryse Condé’s novels can be qualified, in the strict sense of the word, as a künstlerroman (in other words a novel in which the theme is the peregrinations of the artist/protagonist in society) one is struck by the recurrence, in her novels, of characters who are artists; J…
The Well-Tempered Savage
This paper examines how Bassek ba Kobhio's 1995 film Le Grand Blanc de Lambarene uses music to deconstruct the iconic figure of Albert Schweitzer. At key moments throughout the film, the doctor encounters a young drummer with whom he attempts and fails to communicate musically. The moments have little to do with the otherwise linear narrative. Nevertheless, they structure the film's argument and demonstrate the ways in which an expressive medium …
African history and culture studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Character (mathematics (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Contradiction (1 work)