Word: leitmotifs
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...more compelling of these tricks is Tarantino's playing with a kind of leitmotif song for a couple of characters, but this fades in and out and becomes a frustrating medley selection from, we are assured in reports, his extensive LP collection. Indulgence and soundtrack worship reaches an unbelievable point when we are forced to watch Forster's bondsman go to a record store, browse among tapes, and finally buy, quite clearly, a Delfonics hit. The merchandisers of old chestnut love songs must be rejoicing with a future return more guaranteed than the suddenly fortunate surf bands...
...soundtrack, designed by Jen Smith '96, gives the poems a strong sense of unity. Her use of a recurring African rhythm dramatizes the problem of the black or Hispanic women in finding an individual voice in a white, male-dominated world. That rhythm becomes a leitmotif for empowerment and self-expression...
...claim of Peretz [surely not on the basis of his own knowledge] that Stager is an extraordinarily narrow specialist can be answered easily by drawing on the dossier collected to present to the President's ad hoc committee appointed to review his appointment to the Dorot Chair. A leitmotif in the recommendations of senior scholars from many nations, including Israel's most distinguished archaeologists, was the extraordinary breadth of Stager's scholarship both in his field and in adjacent fields including anthropology [Stager is a member of Harvard's department of Anthropology], historiography, and historiographic theory, ancient Near Eastern...
Colonialism (along with its inevitable handmaidens--economic and cultural subordination) is the central concern which informs much of their work. Their leitmotif is exile (its corollaries, dispossession and displacement) and the attempt to resolve the enigma of arrival and assimilation in a culture not their own. Their focus is still on empire and the oscillation of loyalties...
...Many of your novels seem to include a type of structural leitmotif or metaphor. What I mean, for example, is that in Nice Work, the character Robyn explains to us what the 19th century Industrial Novel was, and your actual novel fits that description. How does this happen in Paradise News? Are you using genre as mechanism...