Showing papers on "Theme (narrative) published in 1983"

The Anatomy of Power

Abstract: V^# For decades you have grappled with the theme of power, from American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power to The New Industrial State and to Economics and the Public Purpose. Now you are about to publish a book devoted entirely to the analysis of power. I have been looking forward to hearing about it. A. The Anatomy of Power, as I have ventured to call it, has just gone to press and will be out in October. I have been working on it off and on for three years; it will be published in a relatively short time by modern standards. Even as efficient a firm as Μ. E . Sharpe should be impressed. When John Stuart Mill finished his autobiography, he took it to the bookseller and had copies in two weeks. Now it would take around two years, and they would ask him to go on the Today Show to help sell it.

A View of Some Consensus Methods for Trees

Abstract: Due to space limitations, we will be quite terse. Embellishments of the theme presented here can be found in (McMorris and Neumann 1982) and (Neumann 1982). We will not give any propaganda as to why the study of consensus is important, assuming most participants of this conference are aware that the topic has recently been drawing considerable attention.

Confucianism and Christianity: The First Encounter

Abstract: The book centres around a major theme: the first 'confrontation' between the Supreme Ultimate (or T'ien) of the Confucian cosmological order and the Christian anthropomorphic God as conveyed to the Chinese literati by the Western missionaries.

Local Blockmodel Algebras for Analyzing Social Networks

Abstract: Roles and ways of thinking about roles have been a major concern of sociologists. One common approach to roles conceptualizes and analyzes them within networks of multiple social relations (see, for example, Radcliffe-Brown, 1940; Barnes, 1954; Nadel, 1957; Mayer, 1966; Kapferer, 1969; Mitchell, 1969; Bott, 1971; Boissevain, 1973; Laumann and Pappi, 1976). A recurrent theme throughout this literature is that the fundamental variables of interest are not particular characteristics of individuals but rather the social relations that connect

Evolution: The Whitworth Gun in Huxley’s War for the Liberation of Science from Theology

Abstract: An apology is needed for yet another article on Thomas Huxley and the conflict between science and religion. Recent analyses justifiably argue that Huxley is atypical and ‘the conflict’ exaggerated. Studies of the accommodations between science and theology are now needed.2 One purpose of this essay is to draw attention to a seldom-noticed accommodation made by Huxley. Two important recent studies find. New emphases in Huxley’s writings. In James Moore’s Post-Darwinian Controversies Huxley appears in strange guise, advocating a reconciliation between science and Calvinism.3 Many studies have found inconsistencies and inadequacies in Huxley’s agnosticism. James Paradis’ analysis of Huxley’s world view extends these criticisms and concludes that the concept of the order of nature is more fundamental to Huxley’s thought than his proclaimed agnosticism.4 By re-examining Huxley’s theological attitudes and arguments I hope to clarify these theses. With respect to the theme of this volume, I argue that Huxley’s ‘wider domain’ was not evolutionary thought but naturalistic thought.

Structure and theme in printed school text

Abstract: Some 700,000 words of printed English from 18 high school textbooks in 6 subjects were analyzed with Computer assistance. Various syntactic, lexical and semantic measures revealed salient characteristics. Rather few ofthe syntactic characteristics proved significant, but some semantic profiles were related to type of text, in particular general semantic structure and transitivity. Lexical collocation proved interesting in suggesting basesfor ESL practice material Ways ofconveying objectivity in educational language were distinguishable. Ofgreater interest were the features of theme typesy theme Variation and theme thread, i.e. the movement of theme-rheme along the text. Science and history proved to have identifiably different theme types and thematic organization. The implication is thatforeign learners need instruction in recognizing characteristic theme movements in speciflc school subjects, especially where objectivity is the writer's intention.

The Story of Foucault's History

Abstract: Foucault has written histories in several areas and about several periods. He has also written about the discipline of history and its methods. Typically, philosophers have paid attention primarily to his metahistory, while historians have ignored it, preferring to judge his work on their own terms. But there is a further complication. As was Sartre, Foucault is an "intellectual" with public positions, and as such he must worry about the political aims and consequences of both his histories and their methods-worries which, in America at least, have inspired mainly professors of literature. All three facets of his work are perhaps less internally consistent than anyone imagines; yet it is instructive to take them as a whole. Foucault has often been seen as Sartre's philosophical rival. Yet as an intellectual he shares with Sartre an inclination to present his work as nonacademic and nonspecialized, and as addressed in a nontechnocratic way to basic issues in the lives of all of us. And like Sartre, as Foucault assumes this intellectual role, he moves from primarily epistemological to primarily political concerns, identified with an oppositional left, though not with a party or with any claim to bureaucratic or charismatic authority. In 1972 Foucault made a point of agreeing with philosopher Gilles Deleuze that intellectuals should no longer see themselves as "representing the masses"; they should stand apart and offer useful analyses for specific struggles. In this paper I discuss a cluster of problems common to both Foucault's history and his metahistory that poses a dilemma for his left intellectual commitment. The dilemma belongs to a more general situation of French intellectuals attributed variously to a devaluation of Marxist thought, to a decline in the oppositional spirit symbolized by '68, an "end of ideology," or to the Socialist victory-but with the result that it can no longer be taken for granted that an intellectual is automatically de gauche and that his enemies are the State, the bureaucracy, the bourgeoisie or the corporations, and U.S. foreign policy. In his 1976 presentation of his history of sexuality, Foucault introduces one theme that might be read as a critical analysis of a left sensibility-his conjecture that most of our talk about "liberation" and "revolution," or at least about sexual liberation and revolution, in fact belongs to a circumscribed little practice which can be reinterpreted as continuing a long history of internalizing domination. His concluding words are that there is an irony in the historical constitution of what we think of as our sexuality: that we were ever led to believe that our liberation was at issue. I will suggest that a more general philosophical problem about freedom is involved

Horizontal Escalation: Sour Notes of a Recurrent Theme

Abstract: Following the invasion of Afghanistan, former President Carter committed the United States to the deterrence of further Soviet aggression in the Persian Gulf region. While that deterrent commitment was affirmed intact by the Reagan Administration, the symmetrical thrust of the Carter Doctrine2 was not; whether one dubs it \"horizontal escalation\" or something else,3 the Reagan Administration's attraction to an asymmetrical conventional strategy for the Persian Gulf was quickly evident.

The Development of Two Concepts

Abstract: The purpose of this chapter is to explore ways in which we can characterize conceptual development. We will briefly examine existing approaches to studying the topic, point to their strengths and weaknesses, propose an alternative approach, and illustrate the alternative with examples involving children’s concepts of numbers and of life. The recurring theme will be that conceptual understanding is multifaceted, and that our approaches to studying it must be consistent with this fact.

The Quest for the Ultimate Shiksa

Abstract: THE SHIKSA 1 OBSESSES MANY JEWS: RABBIS SEE HER AS AN INTERMARITAL threat to the survival of Judaism; parents fear that she will lure their sons away from family and faith; and Jewish men fantasize about her sexual and social desirability. She figures prominently-even compulsively-in popular movies and bestsellers by Jewish directors and writers. The dream of the shiksa can become a quest. From August Belmont through Bernard Baruch, Irving Berlin, George Jessel, Mike Todd, Arthur Miller, and Norman Mailer, American Jews have wedded gentile heiresses, actresses, and beauty queens. Indeed, several Jews were among the numerous husbands of American sex goddesses Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor. Rabbis, sociologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists have examined exhaustively the statistics, causes, and impact of romantic relationships between Jews and Christians.2 Yet this topic as a theme in high and popular

Robert Coover: The Universal Fictionmaking Process

Abstract: With works ranging thematically and stylistically from "The Universal Baseball Association "to "The Public Burning, "from "Pricksongs and Descants "to "Spanking the Maid, "Robert Coover emerges as one of the most vibrant writers from a remarkable avant-garde that in the mid-1960s mounted serious assault on traditional ideas of form and content in world literature.Lois Gordon here defines Coover s novels, short stories, and plays in terms of his contemporaries: among Americans, Donald Barthelme, William Gass, John Hawkes, and others; among Europeans, Julio Cortazar, Robert Pinget, and Italo Calvino, to name a few. These writers dismiss the conventions of traditional formlinear plot, character development, definable theme, Aristotle s unities of time and spaceas no longer appropriate in the modern world.Coover writes in a dazzling variety of forms and styles; in each he demonstrates a diversity of the style and manipulates the trappings of every conventional formfrom Old Comedy to theater of the absurd. He also translates or transposes techniques associated with other art forms, such as film montage or operatic interlude. In Coover s hands, any of these forms are fair game for parody. Gordon notes: Coover s method, more specifically is this: at the same time that he maintains a strong narrative line he counterpoints it (his musical term is descants ) with numerous mythic, legendary, or symbolic levels which serve to explode any final meaning or resting point. Nothing is staticpersonality, event, human values. Coover writes about a continual flux in which everything is constantly qualified and dramatically altered. He portrays the public and private rituals that man construes to barter inner and outer disorder. "

Response to enrollment loss and financial decline in urban school systems

Abstract: The research literature on retrenchment in our nation's public schools has paid little attention to the special problems of urban school systems (but see Bins & Townsel, 1978; Colton & Frelich, 1979; Cronin, 1980; Gurwitz, 1976). The main theme of this paper is that to understand "decline" in our nation's city school systems, one must look not only at the percentage of enrollment loss but also at the financial manifestations of decline in cities, as well as the changing character of urban school populations.

Manuscript Revision and the Heroic Theme of The Waves

Abstract: On the page opposite the diary entry serving as epigraph to this essay, Virginia Woolf transcribed the passage from the Inferno in which Ulysses explains that his longing for home, powerful though it was, could not "conquer in me the ardour I had to gain experience of the world, and of human vice and worth; / I put forth on the deep open sea, with but one ship, and with that small company, which had not deserted me."1 Although it is difficult to see any connection between this passage and the entry's central topic, a problem of form, Ulysses' commitment to a voyage of heroic risk, struggle, and discovery bears more directly on the theme of effort, personality, and defiance, and so it seems reasonable to call this the heroic theme of The Waves. Woolf's observation on theme is almost an aside, remarking a corollary advan-

Musical hallucinations in the elderly: a variation on the theme.

Abstract: (1983). Musical Hallucinations in the Elderly. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 286-287.

Hamartia: The Concept of Error in the Western Tradition : Essays in Honor of John M. Crossett

Abstract: This is a collection of 13 essays which focus on a theme to which Crossett dedicated much of his highly interdisciplinary research. Six essays concern "Hamartia" in Greek works by Herodotus, Plato, Euripides, and others; two deal with the concept of error in the Christian theology of Boethius and Aquinas; and five examine "Hamartia" in 14th-19th-century English works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, Coleridge, and George Eliot.

Fairy Tales as a Cultural Context in the French Classroom.

Abstract: IN THE LAST TEN YEARS, INDISPUTABLE PROGRESS has been made in the teaching of culture in the foreign language classroom. The dichotomy of the traditional civilization course (art, music, history, and literature) vs. the more contemporary sociological or anthropological culture course (patterns of behavior, national values and character) continues to exist. Educators who have taken the latter direction, such as Wylie, Santoni, Nostrand, and Seigneuret, have developed good, effective methods and materials for classroom use.1 However, the questions raised by Santoni in 1971 continue to be valid and relevant for teachers of culture: "Comment concilier un enseignement synchronique et diachronique? Comment eviter l'inventaire encyclop6dique et les bilans d6finitifs ou stereotyp6s? Comment integrer le d6tail a la synthese?"2 In short, nearly everyone recognizes the need to teach "culture," but few agree on the nature of materials and methods to be used. This diversity of approach has been most healthy, even though at times confusing. The last five years have seen a flurry of "Teaching French Culture Through. .." articles in pedagogical journals, as teachers have discovered that both cultural patterns and linguistic benefits derive from the study of nearly any medium, from the comics to the cinema.3 Throughout the pedagogical literature and cultural materials runs a recurrent theme: teaching cultural patters and values is essentially a two-part process. The

The Iconic Text and the Theory of Enunciation: Luca Signorelli at Loreto (Circa 1479-1484)

Abstract: HE SPECIAL ISSUE which New Literary History, after its exploration of medieval literature, devotes to Renaissance literature as it relates to contemporary theory presents, in its very wording, a problem at once theoretical and historical. Indeed, by attaching to the notion of literature the conventional denomination of a period in European history,1 the editor of the journal queries the epistemological notion of theory on two grounds. First on its historicity: What separates contemporary from Renaissance literature if not two or three centuries of history? What could this separation indicate if not the assignment of a truth value, or at least an operational explanatory value, to theory on account of its being contemporary? Would not such an assumption allow chronology to become a key factor in giving contemporary theory a privileged status over any other theory of the past? And if the wording itself introduces into the formulation of the leading theme an interrogative shade of meaning, then one of the questions raised will indeed be that of the operational sway which theory holds over its object as a result of its contemporaneous quality. Expressed simply, the question is: What would be the relations between theory and history, if by theory one means a systematic set of principles and methodological processes aimed at a complete, exhaustive explanation of the objects to which it is applied?2 To give such a definition of theory-the broadest possible definition-leads naturally to the second question which seems to fall within the purview of New Literary History's research project: What is the meaning and the scope of the phrase contemporary theory? What theory does it refer to? Will it fit under exact sciences, social sciences, human sciences? For instance, cosmological, physical, biological, psychological, psychoanalytical, linguistic, or semiological theories-all are dis-

The Orphan Archetype

Abstract: This article explores the archetype of the orphan and traces it through myth, story, fairy tale, literature, and perhaps most importantly, through the author's personal experience. This is a treatment of the theme of abandonment that details the “inner orphan's” predicament. Rothenberg, a Jungian analyst, speaks from the depths when she says: “It is only when one is truly alone that the creative potential that is carried deep inside has the space and room to emerge into the light of day.”