In theory, the offbeat subject matter provides an unusual angle from which to examine things with a wider appeal (the potato book, for instance, ventures into global migration patterns, social reform and high finance).
Mandela is ostensibly talking about the country as a whole, though he may as well be exhorting Invictus itself – a monolithic sporting saga that seems content to pose on the podium, lulled by the belief that its subject matter provides inspiration enough.
Unfortunately both the play's language and its once incendiary subject matter provide an indelible date stamp.
By sharp contrast, La Hora Marcada was a departure in form and subject matter, providing Cuarón, Del Toro, and Lubezki more creative freedom to experiment with storytelling and practice different filmmaking techniques.
An extensive literature review, combined with analysis by Robert Carlin, Siegfried Hecker, and other subject-matter experts, provides a comprehensive picture of the evolution of North Korea's nuclear program.
The mentor will engage with the learner community by moderating discussion threads, answering basic subject-matter questions, providing additional learning resources relevant to the subject such as articles and Web links, and sharing information about Ruth's professional activities and upcoming virtual office hours.
In addition, other subject-matter experts provided briefs on potential enabling technologies.
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His ability to view matters from an outsider's perspective came out of the partition of the subcontinent in 1947: he belonged to a Sikh family, with roots in what became Pakistan, and the division into two countries led to his abandoning law and diplomacy for writing, as well as providing the subject-matter of his best-known novel, Train to Pakistan (1956).
His presence is, of course, unavoidable in Benjamin Markovits's essay on The Master, Colm Tóibín's fictionalising riff on aspects of James's career, though even here James informs the criticism rather than just providing the subject-matter of the novel.
It would be easy to pass this off as so much hocus-pocus, serving no literary purpose other than providing reams of subject-matter and bumping up the poet's credentials as a latter-day witchdoctor.
