Narrative discourse : an essay in method
TL;DR: Cutler as mentioned in this paper presents a Translator's Preface Preface and Preface for English-to-Arabic Translating Translators (TSPT) with a preface by Jonathan Cutler.
Abstract: Foreword by Jonathan Cutler Translator's Preface PrefaceIntroduction 1. Order 2. Duration 3. Frequency 4. Mood 5. VoiceAfterword Bibliography Index
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TL;DR: Time-space compression has been identified as a major cause of post-modernity as mentioned in this paper, and it has been argued that time is essentially a diversity of forms fatally vulnerable to the singularities of modernity.
Abstract: A vicious circle shapes much work on the problem of time in postmodern culture. Jean-François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson, David Harvey, and others trace a bad reciprocity between crisis in time and cultural crisis more generally: if postmodernity puts time in crisis, there can be no change, progress, or thinking otherwise; postmodernity redoubles, making more trouble for time. Lyotard, for example, defines “time today” as “controlled time” destructive to thought itself and therefore beyond rethinking, beyond repair (76). When Jameson notes that “the subject has lost its capacity actively to extend its pro-tensions and re-tensions across the temporal manifold and to organize past and future into coherent experience,” he too means to locate a certain cultural incoherence beyond our capacities to resolve it (25). The “time-space compression” that defines but obscures postmodernity for Harvey largely has the same effect, which might be said to extend across the ages as well, with origins as early as what Richard Terdiman has called the “memory crisis” of post-revolutionary France and recent iterations as various as Antonio Negri’s critique of “totality without contradiction” (53), Richard Sennett’s account of “short-termism” (9), and James Gleick’s complaint against “the epoch of the nanosecond” and “the consequences of haste in our culture” (6, 13). These time-crisis theorists share the view that time is essentially a diversity of forms fatally vulnerable to the singularities of modernity. Human temporality ought to distinguish strongly but flexibly among past, present, and future, to pattern out all possible durations—to serve as a fully open and varied field of opportunity; but “time today” collapses the temporal manifold, sets only a given pace, and thereby limits possibility. Because it destroys any basis for real recourse—due, that is, to the reciprocity between time-crisis and crises in thought, memory, and experience—timecrisis theory tends to suggest that there is nothing to be done about it. Compare narrative theory: it reverses this vicious circle, arguing all the while that narrative engagement creates human time even as (or just because) modernity would destroy it. As early as Gotthold Lessing’s classification of literature as the “art of time,”
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest a metahistorical reading of the Persian Council Scene and of Xerxes, through correspondences with the authorial narrative, reveal the usefulness of the Histories as well as the limits of history as magistra vitae.
Abstract: While Herodotus does not offer us an explicit reflection on the usefulness of his work, references of his characters to their own past imply a commentary on how (not) to use the past. This article suggests a metahistorical reading of the Persian Council Scene and of Xerxes. Through correspondences with the authorial narrative, the historical arguments employed by Xerxes, Artabanus, and Mardonius reveal the usefulness of the Histories as well as the limits of history as magistra vitae . Furthermore, Xerxes' attempts to record his own deeds shed light on an aspect of writing history that distinguishes Herodotus from Thucydides.
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01 Nov 1996
TL;DR: The authors explored the impact of the increased coverage of environmental issues on television since the late 1980s, on children's awareness and concern about the environment, finding that most children had environmental concerns, but these were not necessarily as indicated in preliminary interviews.
Abstract: This thesis seeks to explore the impact of the increased coverage of environmental issues on television since the late 1980s, on children’s awareness and concern about the environment.
The rise of environmental concern and related media coverage is charted, and then research regarding the effects of mass media on behaviour is discussed. Frequent methodological flaws and oversimplistic approaches are seen to limit these studies.
The theoretical approaches of Adorno, Gramsci, and others are then discussed in some detail in an attempt to renegotiate critical theory and cultural studies for the purposes of the thesis. Paradigms of research on children and the media are discussed. It is argued that research, particularly in psychology, has traditionally disenfranchised young people and not recognised their capacities.
Previous research on environmental issues and media audiences is then considered, and interviews with the producers of three key British environmental TV programmes are discussed. It is found that programmes tend to focus on individuals, rather than social structures, as both the causes and potential solutions to environmental problems.
The new research method developed for this study is introduced, and its methodological foundations are discussed. Children aged 7-11 were invited to make their own videos about the environment. (Total of 53 children, from seven Leeds schools, worked in small groups). Observation of this process, and the videos produced, formed the research data. Findings showed that the children were impressively media literate. Most children had environmental concerns, but these were not necessarily as indicated in preliminary interviews. Concerns were generally local and associated with individuals. It is argued that the children’s environmental concern was not a product of simple media ‘effects’, but that their understanding of the issues had been subject to ‘hegemonic bending’ by programmes which had emphasised individualistic rather than social accounts.
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27 Feb 2014TL;DR: The Tabulae Iliacae of the Roman public library as discussed by the authors have been used as a metaphor for narrative reading in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds, and the semantics of the center of the centre have been discussed.
Abstract: Introduction 1. Reading visual narrative in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds 2. Tabula and taxis 3. The semantics of the center 4. Narrative in frieze and panel 5. Findspots, display contexts, and the Roman public library 6. Epic in miniature Appendix 1. Conspectus of the Tabulae Iliacae Appendix 2. Description of selected Tabulae: texts and images.
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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: Mangano as discussed by the authors submitted a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in English in the Graduate College of The University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.
Abstract: Approved: _____________________________________________________ Thesis Supervisor _____________________________________________________ Title and Department _____________________________________________________ Date AMIABLE FICTIONS: VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIP AND THE ENGLISH NOVEL by Bryan Paul Mangano A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in English in the Graduate College of The University of Iowa
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01 Jan 1954
TL;DR: Deuxieme tirage de cet essai critique de Georges Blin sur Stendhal, publie aux editions Jose Corti en 1954 as mentioned in this paper, et les images, une description a completer, une bibliotheque
Abstract: Deuxieme tirage de cet essai critique de Georges Blin sur Stendhal, publie aux editions Jose Corti en 1954.Deux images, une description a completer, une bibliotheque.
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