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Biography. Sheila J. Nayar’s research interests include the interplay of narrative, technology, and phenomenology, especially in the context of orality and alphabetic literacy. Her publications in that regard include the monographs Cinematically Speaking: The Orality-Literacy Paradigm for Visual Narrative; The Sacred and the Cinema ...
Sheila J. Nayar is an assistant professor of English and communication studies at Greensboro College. She is currently completing a book entitled Cinematically Speaking:The Orality-Literacy Paradigm for Visual Narrative.
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Sep 17, 2017 · A Different Kind of Diversity. By Sheila J. Nayar. September 17, 2017. I am being interviewed for a position as a humanities professor at a private, well-to-do liberal-arts college. I have ...
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Cinema and Secularism illuminates this lacuna by asking whether cinema is secular, whether that problem means different things in different societies and film cultures, and whether the world is disenchanted and/or enchanted by moving images.
The tradition of the Renaissance chivalric romance kept up the illusion of knightly combat, writes literary scholar Sheila J. Nayar, “circumscribing, exorcising, and sometimes even wittingly censoring” the new technology of killing.
by Sheila Nayar This project foregrounds the pressures that three transformative technologies in the long sixteenth century—the printing press, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass—placed on long-held literary practices, as well as on cultural and social structures.
