Goethe's Heirs@@@The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture
About: This article is published in Novel: A Forum on Fiction.The article was published on 1989-01-21. It has received 529 citations till now.
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TL;DR: The history of the world is the slaughterhouse of literature, reads a famous Hegelian aphorism; and literature is the world's slaughterhouse as discussed by the authors, and the majority of books disappear forever.
Abstract: Let me begin with a few titles: Arabian Tales, Aylmers, Annaline, Alicia de Lacey, Albigenses, Augustus and Adelina, Albert, Adventures of a Guinea, Abbess of Valiera, Ariel, Almacks, Adventures of Seven Shillings, Abbess, Arlington, Adelaide, Aretas, Abdallah the Moor, Anne Grey, Andrew the Savoyard, Agatha, Agnes de Monsfoldt, Anastasius, Anzoletto Ladoski, Arabian Nights, Adventures of a French Sarjeant, Adventures of Bamfylde Moore Carew, A Commissioner, Avondale Priory, Abduction, Accusing Spirit, Arward the Red Chieftain, Agnes de Courcy, An Old Friend, Annals of the Parish, Alice Grey, Astrologer, An Old Family Legend, Anna, Banditt’s Bride, Bridal of Donnamore, Borderers, Beggar Girl . . . It was the first page of an 1845 catalog: Columbell’s circulating library, in Derby: a small collection, of the kind that wanted only successful books. But today, only a couple of titles still ring familiar. The others, nothing. Gone. The history of the world is the slaughterhouse of the world, reads a famous Hegelian aphorism; and of literature. The majority of books disappear forever—and “majority” actually misses the point: if we set today’s canon of nineteenth-century British novels at two hundred titles (which is a very high figure), they would still be only about 0.5 percent of all published novels. And the other 99.5 percent? This is the question behind this article, and behind the larger idea of literary history that is now taking shape in the work of several critics—most recently Sylvie Thorel-Cailleteau, Katie Trumpener, and Margaret Cohen. The difference is that, for me, the aim is not so much a change in the canon—the discovery of precursors to the canon or alternatives to it, to be restored to a
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TL;DR: For almost 50 years specially trained dogs have been used in clinical and family settings to facilitate how children with autism engage in social interaction and participate in everyday activities as mentioned in this paper, but little theoretical grounding and empirical study of this socioclinical phenomenon has been offered by social science.
Abstract: For almost 50 years specially trained dogs have been used in clinical and family settings to facilitate how children with autism engage in social interaction and participate in everyday activities. Yet little theoretical grounding and empirical study of this socioclinical phenomenon has been offered by social science. This article draws on interdisciplinary scholarship to situate the study of the therapeutic use of dogs for children and teens with autism. Two case studies of service and therapy dogs' mediating social engagement of children with autism in relationships, interactions, and activities illustrate how dogs support children's communication, their experience of emotional connection with others, and their participation in everyday life. Theorizing this process enriches approaches to sociality in psychological anthropology. [animal-assisted therapy, autism, engagement, sociality, intersubjectivity]
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...…it expands the notion of sociality to include human beings with and without developmental disorders (see also Ochs and Solomon 2004, this issue; and Ochs et al. 2005), and suggests that sociality is not a quality of an individual but a capacity realized through certain kinds of social interaction....
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...These parental accounts are often reminiscent of Bildungsroman novels of European and U.S. literature (e.g., Bakhtin 1986; Moretti 2000)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, Dostoevsky and the Novelist as Philosopher are discussed. But they do not discuss the relationship between the novel and the Bakhtinian Research Programme.
Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. Early Ethical and Aesthetic Philosophy of the Circle 1919-26 3. Marxism, Semiotics and Sociology 1926-29 4. From Verbal Interaction to Dialogue: Dostoevsky and the Novel 5. The Novel and Literary History 1934-41 6. The Novelist as Philosopher 1940-63 7. Final Methodological Works 8. The Bakhtinian Research Programme Yesterday and Today Abbreviations and References in the text Bibliography Index
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12 Jul 2007TL;DR: The Phoebe in Arcadia Bibliography as mentioned in this paper is a collection of books about service and silences in the working class: Wool, worsted, and the working classes: myths of origin.
Abstract: 1. Introduction: on service and silences 2. Wool, worsted, and the working class: myths of origin 3. Lives and writing 4. Labour 5. Working for a living 6. Teaching 7. Relations 8. The Gods 9. Love 10. Nelly's version 11. Conclusion: Phoebe in Arcadia Bibliography.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the liminal affective states in the texts are sites of insurgent potential in their own right whose politics are inscrutable when the Revolution is conceived as an oppositional conflict of sides whose descriptive vocabulary reduces to a binary formula (American/British, Loyalist/Patriot).
Abstract: Insurgent Remains disturbs the identification of the American Revolution with U.S. national beginnings by tracing it through its literary aftereffects in the period with which it is identified, 1770-1820. While the American Revolution is thought to have concluded with the Treaty of Paris (1783) and the “birth of the United States, Insurgent Remains reads texts produced in the decades following the peace for delineations of ongoing Revolutionary experiences characterized by loss and constraint that demand creative, collective responses without guarantee. In chapters organized around the re-use and re-circulation of “old” forms and formats—allegory, anthology, tragedy, and petition—I propose that the liminal affective states in the texts I examine are sites of insurgent potential in their own right whose politics are inscrutable when the Revolution is conceived as an oppositional conflict of sides whose descriptive vocabulary reduces to a binary formula (American/British, Loyalist/Patriot). Instead, they become legible as “remains”: pending works of grief, yearning, need, and love that offer vibrant possibilities for collective action and ethical commitment obscured by teleologies of national consolidation. Eschewing preconceived identitarian and partisan markers through which Revolutionary history has conventionally been organized, my approach stresses the roles of literary forms in mediating traumatic experiences of Revolutionary history that may otherwise elude representation. I argue that the itineraries along which these forms travel open up new ways of thinking about the cultural politics of the period and the politics of revolution itself. This project thus seeks to enrich our understanding of the Revolutionary period by expanding the narrow field in which politics seem to operate, attending to modes of historical experience debarred from political consideration by traditional Revolutionary histories bound to binary narratives of conflict and progress. Degree Type Dissertation Degree Name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Graduate Group English First Advisor Amy B. Kaplan
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