Sarah Knight
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199698707
- eISBN:
- 9780191740756
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199698707.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Milton Studies, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
This study of Milton's representation of academic experience looks particularly at his Latin Prolusions, orations delivered while a student at Cambridge during the late 1620s and early 1630s. The ...
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This study of Milton's representation of academic experience looks particularly at his Latin Prolusions, orations delivered while a student at Cambridge during the late 1620s and early 1630s. The Prolusions blend speculative, satirical, and expository writing, collectively marked by mastery of rhetorical technique and unevenness of tone from speech to speech. Here Milton first discusses the proper management of a young man's education, and the university's function (or not) as a stimulating context for personal development. A comparison of these early discussions with Milton's other depictions of Cambridge in the Latin elegies, and also with his imaginary academies created in Of Education and Paradise Regained furnish an informative position developed over an extended period of time.Less
This study of Milton's representation of academic experience looks particularly at his Latin Prolusions, orations delivered while a student at Cambridge during the late 1620s and early 1630s. The Prolusions blend speculative, satirical, and expository writing, collectively marked by mastery of rhetorical technique and unevenness of tone from speech to speech. Here Milton first discusses the proper management of a young man's education, and the university's function (or not) as a stimulating context for personal development. A comparison of these early discussions with Milton's other depictions of Cambridge in the Latin elegies, and also with his imaginary academies created in Of Education and Paradise Regained furnish an informative position developed over an extended period of time.
Rodney A. Smolla
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814741030
- eISBN:
- 9780814788561
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814741030.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law
American college campuses, where ideas are freely exchanged, contested, and above all uncensored, are historical hotbeds of political and social turmoil. In the past decade alone, the media has ...
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American college campuses, where ideas are freely exchanged, contested, and above all uncensored, are historical hotbeds of political and social turmoil. In the past decade alone, the media has carefully tracked the controversy surrounding the speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia, the massacres at Virginia Tech, the dismissal of Harvard's President Lawrence Summers, and the lacrosse team rape case at Duke, among others. No matter what the event, the conflicts that arise on U.S. campuses can be viewed in terms of constitutional principles, which either control or influence outcomes of these events. In turn, constitutional principles are frequently shaped and forged by campus culture, creating a symbiotic relationship in which constitutional values influence the nature of universities, which themselves influence the nature of our constitutional values. This book uses the American university as a lens through which to view the Constitution in action. Drawing on landmark cases and conflicts played out on college campuses, it demonstrates how five key constitutional ideas—the living Constitution, the division between public and private spheres, the distinction between rights and privileges, ordered liberty, and equality—are not only fiercely contested on college campuses, but also dominate the shape and identity of American university life. The book demonstrates that the American college community, like the Constitution, is orderly and hierarchical yet intellectually free and open, a microcosm where these constitutional dichotomies play out with heightened intensity.Less
American college campuses, where ideas are freely exchanged, contested, and above all uncensored, are historical hotbeds of political and social turmoil. In the past decade alone, the media has carefully tracked the controversy surrounding the speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia, the massacres at Virginia Tech, the dismissal of Harvard's President Lawrence Summers, and the lacrosse team rape case at Duke, among others. No matter what the event, the conflicts that arise on U.S. campuses can be viewed in terms of constitutional principles, which either control or influence outcomes of these events. In turn, constitutional principles are frequently shaped and forged by campus culture, creating a symbiotic relationship in which constitutional values influence the nature of universities, which themselves influence the nature of our constitutional values. This book uses the American university as a lens through which to view the Constitution in action. Drawing on landmark cases and conflicts played out on college campuses, it demonstrates how five key constitutional ideas—the living Constitution, the division between public and private spheres, the distinction between rights and privileges, ordered liberty, and equality—are not only fiercely contested on college campuses, but also dominate the shape and identity of American university life. The book demonstrates that the American college community, like the Constitution, is orderly and hierarchical yet intellectually free and open, a microcosm where these constitutional dichotomies play out with heightened intensity.
Minae Mizumura
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231163026
- eISBN:
- 9780231538541
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231163026.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter describes Minae Mizumura's stay in Iowa as part of the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa, a program designed to give foreign writers a taste of university life in ...
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This chapter describes Minae Mizumura's stay in Iowa as part of the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa, a program designed to give foreign writers a taste of university life in America. It describes her experience interacting with the other writers of the program who had all come from different nations. Mizumura highlights that each writer was writing in their own language. It made no difference whether a writer's language had hundreds of millions of potential readers or a few hundred thousand; either way, they wrote in their own language, as if to do so was the most natural act imaginable—as if people had always done so. Mizumura notes that the idea of one's own language is connected to the feelings for his or her own country. She also expresses that there is a hierarchy among languages, and that the English language is becoming the universal language.Less
This chapter describes Minae Mizumura's stay in Iowa as part of the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa, a program designed to give foreign writers a taste of university life in America. It describes her experience interacting with the other writers of the program who had all come from different nations. Mizumura highlights that each writer was writing in their own language. It made no difference whether a writer's language had hundreds of millions of potential readers or a few hundred thousand; either way, they wrote in their own language, as if to do so was the most natural act imaginable—as if people had always done so. Mizumura notes that the idea of one's own language is connected to the feelings for his or her own country. She also expresses that there is a hierarchy among languages, and that the English language is becoming the universal language.
Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226443065
- eISBN:
- 9780226443232
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226443232.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
Chapter 6 constitutes a detailed criticism of current U.S. Latin Americanism in various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. They examine the current challenges faced by U.S. Latin ...
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Chapter 6 constitutes a detailed criticism of current U.S. Latin Americanism in various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. They examine the current challenges faced by U.S. Latin Americanism, namely: its own insignificance; the “kingdom of the comma” and its arguments; and textbook categories summed up in the model “south of Nogales, Arizona everything is Nogales Sonora,” or in the style of “epistemic otherness” theories that nevertheless respect the commands of the old concept: “Latin America.” The term endures as an unchallenged, almost unconscious assumption, a cultural landscape that serves for the projection of new and old utopias and dystopias.Less
Chapter 6 constitutes a detailed criticism of current U.S. Latin Americanism in various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. They examine the current challenges faced by U.S. Latin Americanism, namely: its own insignificance; the “kingdom of the comma” and its arguments; and textbook categories summed up in the model “south of Nogales, Arizona everything is Nogales Sonora,” or in the style of “epistemic otherness” theories that nevertheless respect the commands of the old concept: “Latin America.” The term endures as an unchallenged, almost unconscious assumption, a cultural landscape that serves for the projection of new and old utopias and dystopias.
Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226443065
- eISBN:
- 9780226443232
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226443232.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
Chapter 7 further elaborates on one of the forms of survival of Latin Americanism –in literary, “coloniality,” post-colonial, and cultural studies-- and its proud lack of historiographical ...
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Chapter 7 further elaborates on one of the forms of survival of Latin Americanism –in literary, “coloniality,” post-colonial, and cultural studies-- and its proud lack of historiographical accountability. It includes an exploration of the endurance of the exotic in the term Latin America.Less
Chapter 7 further elaborates on one of the forms of survival of Latin Americanism –in literary, “coloniality,” post-colonial, and cultural studies-- and its proud lack of historiographical accountability. It includes an exploration of the endurance of the exotic in the term Latin America.
