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Theme (narrative)
About: Theme (narrative) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 13050 publications have been published within this topic receiving 159511 citations. The topic is also known as: narrative theme.
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01 Jan 1985
TL;DR: Saile as discussed by the authors studied the transformation of inert physical and spatial fabric into living, participating, and richly experienced home places in the Pueblo world during the past 100 years and found that not only is the physical environment transformed but also the human participants and their relationships with the changed place.
Abstract: The theme of this essay is centered upon ritual processes involved in the transformation of inert physical and spatial fabric into living, participating, and richly experienced home places. Through such rituals not only is the physical environment transformed but so too are the human participants and their relationships with the changed place. This theme emerged from my studies of Pueblo house-building procedures and, although these studies focused upon the Pueblo world during the past 100 years, there appear to be lessons for learning about homes in other cultures and times (Saile, 1977, 1985).
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16 Oct 2008
TL;DR: Powell's "Tree of Hate" as discussed by the authors explores the Black Legend, the popular myth that colonial Spain and her military and religious agents were brutal and unrelenting in their conquest of the Americas.
Abstract: First published in the early 1970s, "Tree of Hate" is Philip Powell's exploration of "the Black Legend"--the popular myth that colonial Spain and her military and religious agents were brutal and unrelenting in their conquest of the Americas. "Powell seeks not merely to trace the origins of what he calls Hispanophobia but to analyze its impact on American education, textbooks, religion, and especially foreign policy. . . . The evidence easily demonstrates that English-speaking scholars and diplomats speak with a biased tongue. . . . Too many critics of Spain, to use Powell's central theme, have merely erected a 'Tree of Hate' out of ignorance or to justify their own prejudices and activities. . . . Powell's book deserves careful reading."--"Journal of American History"
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the body of knowledge around workplace sexual harassment and argue that this knowledge, as part of the wider discourse on sex, may produce consequences counter to those which its proponents espouse.
Abstract: This article reviews the body of knowledge around workplace sexual harassment. In deploying a Foucauldian analysis, it attempts to argue that this knowledge, as part of the wider discourse on sex, may (re)produce consequences counter to those which its proponents espouse. In particular, the discussion seeks to problematize the status of harassment knowledge as truth; the depiction within this knowledge of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ sex; the roles this knowledge identifies for men and women within the phenomenon of harassment; and the theme within harassment knowledge that sex is central to our existence. The conclusion aims to suggest the ways in which this kind of analysis is useful by addressing the criticisms usually levelled at Foucault's work.
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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between intertextuality and incest in Murdoch's fiction and how she utilises an intertextual approach to confront dominant literary trends within the Western canon, occasioning the reader to reconsider the views presented by well-known literary and cultural narratives and their modes of expression.
Abstract: Throughout her literary oeuvre Iris Murdoch displayed a preoccupation with the theme of incest, a consideration which has not previously been examined in a full length critical study. Her portrayal of the incest taboo is examined here in relation to incest as an abusive practice, which is the predominant image of the subject throughout her fiction. Examining the changes in scientific and cultural attitudes to incest in the post-war era, this thesis explores Murdoch’s literary interaction with these developments and how her writing reflects and challenges the social perspective contemporaneous with her individual works.
The argument is concerned with the relationship between intertextuality and incest in Murdoch’s fiction and how she utilises an intertextual approach to confront dominant literary trends within the Western canon, occasioning the reader to reconsider the views presented by well-known literary and cultural narratives and their modes of expression. The examination of other ‘texts’ is not limited to the written word but to any art object which conveys a culturally recognised narrative and which relates to her presentation of the incest taboo.
Incest was brought to the public forum partly by the second wave of feminism and the revelation of incest abuse coincided with the public recognition of child abuse more generally and thereby occasioned concern over the rights of children. Accordingly, therefore, this thesis focuses on the impact of a history of patriarchal domination on the suppression of women and children, and how this has affected the ability for incest victims to find a means of expression within a language, and therefore a literary culture, defined and designed by others. Murdoch is approached here through her concern with gendered stories and gendered means of communication, not in order to privilege one sex over the other but, anticipating third-wave feminism, employing them as a means to dispense with sexual difference and sexual expectations, in order to reach an androgynous narrative. Such literary concerns can be seen to draw not only from a process of the cultural evolution of narratives, but also out of the wider literary sphere, to affect social change.
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