Sarah Florini
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781479892464
- eISBN:
- 9781479807185
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479892464.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
In a culture dominated by discourses of “colorblindness” but still rife with structural racism, digital and social media have become a resource for Black Americans navigating a society that ...
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In a culture dominated by discourses of “colorblindness” but still rife with structural racism, digital and social media have become a resource for Black Americans navigating a society that simultaneously perpetuates and obscures racial inequality. Though the Ferguson protests made such Black digital networks more broadly visible, these networks did not coalesce in that moment. They were built over the course of years through much less spectacular, though no less important, everyday use, including mundane social exchanges, humor, and fandom. This book explores these everyday practices and their relationship to larger social issues through an in-depth analysis of a network of Black American digital media users and content creators. These digital networks are used not only to cope with and challenge day-to-day experiences of racism, but also as an incubator for the discourses that have since exploded onto the national stage. This book tells the story of an influential subsection of these Black digital networks, including many Black amateur podcasts, the independent media company This Week in Blackness (TWiB!), and the network of Twitter users that has come to be known as “Black Twitter.” Grounded in her active participation in this network and close ethnographic collaboration with TWiB!, Sarah Florini argues that the multimedia, transplatform nature of this network makes it a flexible resource that can then be deployed for a variety of purposes—culturally inflected fan practices, community building, cultural critique, and citizen journalism. Florini argues that these digital media practices are an extension of historic traditions of Black cultural production and resistance.Less
In a culture dominated by discourses of “colorblindness” but still rife with structural racism, digital and social media have become a resource for Black Americans navigating a society that simultaneously perpetuates and obscures racial inequality. Though the Ferguson protests made such Black digital networks more broadly visible, these networks did not coalesce in that moment. They were built over the course of years through much less spectacular, though no less important, everyday use, including mundane social exchanges, humor, and fandom. This book explores these everyday practices and their relationship to larger social issues through an in-depth analysis of a network of Black American digital media users and content creators. These digital networks are used not only to cope with and challenge day-to-day experiences of racism, but also as an incubator for the discourses that have since exploded onto the national stage. This book tells the story of an influential subsection of these Black digital networks, including many Black amateur podcasts, the independent media company This Week in Blackness (TWiB!), and the network of Twitter users that has come to be known as “Black Twitter.” Grounded in her active participation in this network and close ethnographic collaboration with TWiB!, Sarah Florini argues that the multimedia, transplatform nature of this network makes it a flexible resource that can then be deployed for a variety of purposes—culturally inflected fan practices, community building, cultural critique, and citizen journalism. Florini argues that these digital media practices are an extension of historic traditions of Black cultural production and resistance.
Richard Sharpe
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198215820
- eISBN:
- 9780191678219
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198215820.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History, History of Religion
The body of texts under examination is so large that it is not possible to attempt an item-by-item analysis of the textual evidence for the whole of the three collections. As each Life is studied, ...
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The body of texts under examination is so large that it is not possible to attempt an item-by-item analysis of the textual evidence for the whole of the three collections. As each Life is studied, new points will perhaps emerge about the textual relationships between the different recensions for particular texts. Although Revd Charles Plummer discussed his comparisons of the several versions, Life by Life, it is not possible to learn from that discussion to what extent the different compilers copied their sources verbatim. For a large number of Lives, a comparison of the various versions shows only how a source text was manipulated in the hands of the redactors of D and O. While each individual vita has still to be fitted into its place in the history of hagiography in Ireland, the study of the compilers will allow us to improve on the previous very sketchy outline of Latin hagiography in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.Less
The body of texts under examination is so large that it is not possible to attempt an item-by-item analysis of the textual evidence for the whole of the three collections. As each Life is studied, new points will perhaps emerge about the textual relationships between the different recensions for particular texts. Although Revd Charles Plummer discussed his comparisons of the several versions, Life by Life, it is not possible to learn from that discussion to what extent the different compilers copied their sources verbatim. For a large number of Lives, a comparison of the various versions shows only how a source text was manipulated in the hands of the redactors of D and O. While each individual vita has still to be fitted into its place in the history of hagiography in Ireland, the study of the compilers will allow us to improve on the previous very sketchy outline of Latin hagiography in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Melissa Schwartzberg (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781479810512
- eISBN:
- 9781479837564
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479810512.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
Protests abound in contemporary political life, including in the United States: One-fifth of Americans reported having participated in a political protest between early 2016 and early 2018. Protest ...
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Protests abound in contemporary political life, including in the United States: One-fifth of Americans reported having participated in a political protest between early 2016 and early 2018. Protest and Dissent examines the justification, strategy, and limits of mass demonstrations and other forms of resistance, drawing, in the distinctive NOMOS fashion, from political science, philosophy, and law. Its linked chapters are informed by African American political thought, Gandhian nonviolence, the history of the Civil Rights Movement, and the dynamics of recent social movements. In the ten chapters of Protest and Dissent, the authors challenge their fellow contributors and readers to reimagine the boundaries between civil and uncivil disagreement, between political reform and radical transformation, and between democratic ends and means. The volume has three parts. The first takes up the justification of civil and uncivil disobedience; the second addresses the strategic logic of political protest; and the third analyzes the democratic implications of protest and dissent, including in comparative perspective.Less
Protests abound in contemporary political life, including in the United States: One-fifth of Americans reported having participated in a political protest between early 2016 and early 2018. Protest and Dissent examines the justification, strategy, and limits of mass demonstrations and other forms of resistance, drawing, in the distinctive NOMOS fashion, from political science, philosophy, and law. Its linked chapters are informed by African American political thought, Gandhian nonviolence, the history of the Civil Rights Movement, and the dynamics of recent social movements. In the ten chapters of Protest and Dissent, the authors challenge their fellow contributors and readers to reimagine the boundaries between civil and uncivil disagreement, between political reform and radical transformation, and between democratic ends and means. The volume has three parts. The first takes up the justification of civil and uncivil disobedience; the second addresses the strategic logic of political protest; and the third analyzes the democratic implications of protest and dissent, including in comparative perspective.
J. M. Wallace‐Hadrill
- Published in print:
- 1983
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198269069
- eISBN:
- 9780191600777
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198269064.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
Discusses the development, nature and role of the most characteristic form of Merovingian literature, the Lives of the Saints. This can be seen in the volumes of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, ...
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Discusses the development, nature and role of the most characteristic form of Merovingian literature, the Lives of the Saints. This can be seen in the volumes of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, and also in an enormous number of manuscripts that contain collections of them, most of which are from the 12th to 14th centuries, although some are earlier. They are not ‘biographies’ in the usual sense of the word, but are rather an elaborate literary exercise conducted by the Frankish Church to attract and hold popular devotion (they were to be read aloud on saints’ feast days), to define the nature of sanctity, and to keep the cult of holy men within the structure of the Church. The various Lives written by Gregory, Venantius, Jonas and others are discussed, and the changes in the sort of Saint's Life wanted by the Church in the 12th century described, of which the most significant was the inclusion of the Lives of martyred political bishops. Later Merovingian Lives are richer in personal and political detail, although they were still composed as proofs of sanctity as traditionally understood.Less
Discusses the development, nature and role of the most characteristic form of Merovingian literature, the Lives of the Saints. This can be seen in the volumes of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, and also in an enormous number of manuscripts that contain collections of them, most of which are from the 12th to 14th centuries, although some are earlier. They are not ‘biographies’ in the usual sense of the word, but are rather an elaborate literary exercise conducted by the Frankish Church to attract and hold popular devotion (they were to be read aloud on saints’ feast days), to define the nature of sanctity, and to keep the cult of holy men within the structure of the Church. The various Lives written by Gregory, Venantius, Jonas and others are discussed, and the changes in the sort of Saint's Life wanted by the Church in the 12th century described, of which the most significant was the inclusion of the Lives of martyred political bishops. Later Merovingian Lives are richer in personal and political detail, although they were still composed as proofs of sanctity as traditionally understood.
Lieve Van Hoof
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199583263
- eISBN:
- 9780191723131
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199583263.003.0010
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy
This chapter gives a list of Plutarch's practical ethics and summarizes the characteristics that set them apart from especially his Lives, works of technical philosophy, and Delphic dialogues. These ...
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This chapter gives a list of Plutarch's practical ethics and summarizes the characteristics that set them apart from especially his Lives, works of technical philosophy, and Delphic dialogues. These characteristics include the author's target readership, therapeutical practices, and self-presentation, which are shown to have two important consequences. The first is that Plutarch may be much closer to the Second Sophistic than is usually assumed: he is not just a philanthropic adviser, but also a sophisticated author strategically manipulating his cultural capital in pursuit of influence and glory. The second point is that Plutarch's practical ethics turn our attention away from doctrinal history and encourage us to look at imperial philosophy as a social phenomenon: in the practical ethics, philosophy is activated by Plutarch as a kind of symbolic capital engendering power and prestige both for his readers and for himself. In this way, Plutarch's practical ethics show the social dynamics of philosophy.Less
This chapter gives a list of Plutarch's practical ethics and summarizes the characteristics that set them apart from especially his Lives, works of technical philosophy, and Delphic dialogues. These characteristics include the author's target readership, therapeutical practices, and self-presentation, which are shown to have two important consequences. The first is that Plutarch may be much closer to the Second Sophistic than is usually assumed: he is not just a philanthropic adviser, but also a sophisticated author strategically manipulating his cultural capital in pursuit of influence and glory. The second point is that Plutarch's practical ethics turn our attention away from doctrinal history and encourage us to look at imperial philosophy as a social phenomenon: in the practical ethics, philosophy is activated by Plutarch as a kind of symbolic capital engendering power and prestige both for his readers and for himself. In this way, Plutarch's practical ethics show the social dynamics of philosophy.
Wahida Shaffi (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847424105
- eISBN:
- 9781447302889
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847424105.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
In the early years of the twenty-first century, a number of Muslim women have achieved positions of influence. Women who care about the society in which they live and bring up their children are ...
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In the early years of the twenty-first century, a number of Muslim women have achieved positions of influence. Women who care about the society in which they live and bring up their children are increasingly finding a voice and working together to make things happen. There is some way to go in harnessing the potential that lies at the heart of this change, but there is plenty of evidence that Muslim women are paving the way forward in new dynamic, challenging, and creative ways. This book is all about women who have shown courage, dignity, and strength; pioneers who have recognized their potential in the public and private realms of society, who have struggled, made sacrifices, taken pride in their multiple identities, and who are committed to positive and peaceful change in the UK. It presents the stories of twenty women from Bradford between the ages of fourteen and eighty, from their own perspectives. Based on a broader project called Our Lives, which was designed to explore the insights and experiences of over one hundred women in Bradford, it belongs to a long tradition of oral history, whereby practical knowledge is passed from generation to generation. The book offers an intricate mosaic of the experiences, views, and hopes of these women and in so doing, emphasises the power of people's lives to aid deeper debate and understanding and gives voice to an important and often marginalized group.Less
In the early years of the twenty-first century, a number of Muslim women have achieved positions of influence. Women who care about the society in which they live and bring up their children are increasingly finding a voice and working together to make things happen. There is some way to go in harnessing the potential that lies at the heart of this change, but there is plenty of evidence that Muslim women are paving the way forward in new dynamic, challenging, and creative ways. This book is all about women who have shown courage, dignity, and strength; pioneers who have recognized their potential in the public and private realms of society, who have struggled, made sacrifices, taken pride in their multiple identities, and who are committed to positive and peaceful change in the UK. It presents the stories of twenty women from Bradford between the ages of fourteen and eighty, from their own perspectives. Based on a broader project called Our Lives, which was designed to explore the insights and experiences of over one hundred women in Bradford, it belongs to a long tradition of oral history, whereby practical knowledge is passed from generation to generation. The book offers an intricate mosaic of the experiences, views, and hopes of these women and in so doing, emphasises the power of people's lives to aid deeper debate and understanding and gives voice to an important and often marginalized group.
Sarah Florini
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781479892464
- eISBN:
- 9781479807185
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479892464.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Beyond Hashtags concludes with a brief discussion of the radical changes in the dominant racial discourse that have taken place since the 2016 presidential election. In noting the decreased ...
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Beyond Hashtags concludes with a brief discussion of the radical changes in the dominant racial discourse that have taken place since the 2016 presidential election. In noting the decreased visibility of the Movement for Black Lives and the constant media coverage of Donald Trump’s presidency and his unprecedented violation of US political norms, it looks at of issues of sustainability and monetization for podcasts that rely on an interstitial mode of production.Less
Beyond Hashtags concludes with a brief discussion of the radical changes in the dominant racial discourse that have taken place since the 2016 presidential election. In noting the decreased visibility of the Movement for Black Lives and the constant media coverage of Donald Trump’s presidency and his unprecedented violation of US political norms, it looks at of issues of sustainability and monetization for podcasts that rely on an interstitial mode of production.
Michael R. Page
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252039652
- eISBN:
- 9780252097744
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252039652.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
One of science fiction's undisputed grandmasters, Frederik Pohl built an astonishing career that spanned more than seven decades. In publishing novels, short stories, and essays, Pohl won millions of ...
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One of science fiction's undisputed grandmasters, Frederik Pohl built an astonishing career that spanned more than seven decades. In publishing novels, short stories, and essays, Pohl won millions of readers and seemingly as many awards while leaving a lasting mark on the genre. This book traces Pohl's extraordinary journey from discovering books as a boy at the Brooklyn Public Library to publishing the novel All the Lives He Led at age 91. A first-of-its-kind study, the book delves into the iconic works of fiction like The Space Merchants, Jem, and the tales of the Gateway universe, as well as Pohl's creative alliances with the likes of C. M. Kornbluth, Arthur C. Clarke, and Isaac Asimov. But the book also examines Pohl's as-essential contributions in other areas. He represented many of the major science fiction writers as a literary agent in the 1940s and 1950s. He helped professionalize the field by midwifing science fiction publishing at Ballantine and Ace Books. Finally, while working at Galaxy and If, he aided countless careers as, in Gardner Dozois' words, “quite probably the best SF magazine editor who ever lived.”Less
One of science fiction's undisputed grandmasters, Frederik Pohl built an astonishing career that spanned more than seven decades. In publishing novels, short stories, and essays, Pohl won millions of readers and seemingly as many awards while leaving a lasting mark on the genre. This book traces Pohl's extraordinary journey from discovering books as a boy at the Brooklyn Public Library to publishing the novel All the Lives He Led at age 91. A first-of-its-kind study, the book delves into the iconic works of fiction like The Space Merchants, Jem, and the tales of the Gateway universe, as well as Pohl's creative alliances with the likes of C. M. Kornbluth, Arthur C. Clarke, and Isaac Asimov. But the book also examines Pohl's as-essential contributions in other areas. He represented many of the major science fiction writers as a literary agent in the 1940s and 1950s. He helped professionalize the field by midwifing science fiction publishing at Ballantine and Ace Books. Finally, while working at Galaxy and If, he aided countless careers as, in Gardner Dozois' words, “quite probably the best SF magazine editor who ever lived.”
Freya Johnston
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199251827
- eISBN:
- 9780191719080
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199251827.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
This chapter interprets some of Johnson's Lives of the Poets as non-satirical, corrective responses to Pope's Peri Bathous and The Dunciad. Richard Blackmore, for instance, ‘Father of the Bathos’ and ...
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This chapter interprets some of Johnson's Lives of the Poets as non-satirical, corrective responses to Pope's Peri Bathous and The Dunciad. Richard Blackmore, for instance, ‘Father of the Bathos’ and loudest of the braying dunces, gains a moral advantage over the author who had ridiculed him. In the Lives, it is shown that Johnson articulated his preference for a Christian scale of values. Also elicited are the competing senses of 18th-century ‘condescension’ as a good and as a bad quality, dependent on whether the writer has Christian or classical precedents in mind. It teases out the motives behind Johnson's solicitous reactions to Blackmore and to Isaac Watts. The chapter concludes by discussing his commemoration of a semi-literate, indigent physician, ‘On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet’: an example of his distinctive art of sinking.Less
This chapter interprets some of Johnson's Lives of the Poets as non-satirical, corrective responses to Pope's Peri Bathous and The Dunciad. Richard Blackmore, for instance, ‘Father of the Bathos’ and loudest of the braying dunces, gains a moral advantage over the author who had ridiculed him. In the Lives, it is shown that Johnson articulated his preference for a Christian scale of values. Also elicited are the competing senses of 18th-century ‘condescension’ as a good and as a bad quality, dependent on whether the writer has Christian or classical precedents in mind. It teases out the motives behind Johnson's solicitous reactions to Blackmore and to Isaac Watts. The chapter concludes by discussing his commemoration of a semi-literate, indigent physician, ‘On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet’: an example of his distinctive art of sinking.
Matthew Dal Santo
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199646791
- eISBN:
- 9780199949939
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199646791.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Religions, European History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter argues that the defence of the saints and their miracles visible in Gregory and Eustratius’s texts can also be found in other contemporary texts. For in both saints’ Lives and ...
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This chapter argues that the defence of the saints and their miracles visible in Gregory and Eustratius’s texts can also be found in other contemporary texts. For in both saints’ Lives and collections of saints’ miracles from this period, proponents of the saints had to defend their subjects against rationalistic counter-explanations for the miracles and wonders they ascribed to the saints. The chapter thus brings together a number of Greek hagiographical texts drawn from all over the eastern Mediterranean to establish the existence of a persistent and widespread questioning of the saints’ cult from the end of the sixth to the middle of the seventh centuries. These texts include: the Miracles of Cosmas and Damian; the Miracles of Cyrus and John; the Miracles of Demetrius; the Life of Symeon the Younger; the Life of Theodore of Sykeon; the Life of John the Almsgiver; and the Miracles of Artemius. The chapter also explores the role played by images of the saints in the defence of the saints’ post-mortem miracles.Less
This chapter argues that the defence of the saints and their miracles visible in Gregory and Eustratius’s texts can also be found in other contemporary texts. For in both saints’ Lives and collections of saints’ miracles from this period, proponents of the saints had to defend their subjects against rationalistic counter-explanations for the miracles and wonders they ascribed to the saints. The chapter thus brings together a number of Greek hagiographical texts drawn from all over the eastern Mediterranean to establish the existence of a persistent and widespread questioning of the saints’ cult from the end of the sixth to the middle of the seventh centuries. These texts include: the Miracles of Cosmas and Damian; the Miracles of Cyrus and John; the Miracles of Demetrius; the Life of Symeon the Younger; the Life of Theodore of Sykeon; the Life of John the Almsgiver; and the Miracles of Artemius. The chapter also explores the role played by images of the saints in the defence of the saints’ post-mortem miracles.
Charmaine Wijeyesinghe (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781479801404
- eISBN:
- 9781479801435
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479801404.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This book analyzes and interrogates the complex ways that race, racial identity, racism, and racial justice are represented, experienced, and addressed in American society, politics, and culture. ...
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This book analyzes and interrogates the complex ways that race, racial identity, racism, and racial justice are represented, experienced, and addressed in American society, politics, and culture. Drawing from research, narratives, theory, institutional and governmental policies, and media stories, authors illustrate how centuries of racism and white privilege fuel the dynamics of racial inequality today, and created contemporary norms influencing narratives of identity, belonging, racism, and racial justice in rapidly changing contexts. Topics explored include the nature of racial choice, transracial adoption, the connections between the deaths of Black people from police violence and the deaths of economically disadvantaged whites due to despair, the conflation of race and nationality in census policies, white perceptions of wokeness and racial justice, and resistance to applying intersectionality to race and racism. The volume also examines Islamic ideologies in Black oral traditions and Hip Hop, and African cultural change and belonging through Black histories of racial mixture with Native Americans. Intersectionality receives significant attention in chapters centering the lives of GLBTQ People of Color and People of Color who belong to communities of faith marginalized in the United States. Throughout the volume, analyses are grounded in theoretical, historical, and where appropriate legal sources; however, these areas provide the context for the central focus on how race informs contemporary and emerging issues. In addition, authors use multiple specific examples and accessible language to illustrate how the experiences of people marginalized by race can inform new theories, policies, and practices related to identity, community, and social justice.Less
This book analyzes and interrogates the complex ways that race, racial identity, racism, and racial justice are represented, experienced, and addressed in American society, politics, and culture. Drawing from research, narratives, theory, institutional and governmental policies, and media stories, authors illustrate how centuries of racism and white privilege fuel the dynamics of racial inequality today, and created contemporary norms influencing narratives of identity, belonging, racism, and racial justice in rapidly changing contexts. Topics explored include the nature of racial choice, transracial adoption, the connections between the deaths of Black people from police violence and the deaths of economically disadvantaged whites due to despair, the conflation of race and nationality in census policies, white perceptions of wokeness and racial justice, and resistance to applying intersectionality to race and racism. The volume also examines Islamic ideologies in Black oral traditions and Hip Hop, and African cultural change and belonging through Black histories of racial mixture with Native Americans. Intersectionality receives significant attention in chapters centering the lives of GLBTQ People of Color and People of Color who belong to communities of faith marginalized in the United States. Throughout the volume, analyses are grounded in theoretical, historical, and where appropriate legal sources; however, these areas provide the context for the central focus on how race informs contemporary and emerging issues. In addition, authors use multiple specific examples and accessible language to illustrate how the experiences of people marginalized by race can inform new theories, policies, and practices related to identity, community, and social justice.
JULIA BRIGGS
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198182894
- eISBN:
- 9780191673917
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198182894.003.0017
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Virginia Stephen confided that she would like to write a very subtle work on the proper writing of lives. Many years later, she would fulfil her ambition, writing subtle essays. That the young ...
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Virginia Stephen confided that she would like to write a very subtle work on the proper writing of lives. Many years later, she would fulfil her ambition, writing subtle essays. That the young Virginia Stephen should equate the possibilities of and constraints upon writing with the writing of biography is scarcely surprising given her status as ‘daughter of the DNB’. Leslie Stephen had accepted the editorship of the DNB in 1882, the year Virginia was born. Its purpose was to keep a national record of the lives of great men. Later, both of Woolf's essays on biography, in which Lytton Strachey played a key role, analyse the nature of biography. Woolf's friends and family provided her with subjects and a strictly limited but familiar audience for her earliest experiments in biography. In terms of Woolf's own development, she had reached the point where she would abandon conventional form altogether.Less
Virginia Stephen confided that she would like to write a very subtle work on the proper writing of lives. Many years later, she would fulfil her ambition, writing subtle essays. That the young Virginia Stephen should equate the possibilities of and constraints upon writing with the writing of biography is scarcely surprising given her status as ‘daughter of the DNB’. Leslie Stephen had accepted the editorship of the DNB in 1882, the year Virginia was born. Its purpose was to keep a national record of the lives of great men. Later, both of Woolf's essays on biography, in which Lytton Strachey played a key role, analyse the nature of biography. Woolf's friends and family provided her with subjects and a strictly limited but familiar audience for her earliest experiments in biography. In terms of Woolf's own development, she had reached the point where she would abandon conventional form altogether.
Miles Geoffrey
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198117711
- eISBN:
- 9780191671050
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198117711.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
This chapter considers one indisputable source of the plays: Sir Thomas North's translation of Jacques Amyot's translation of Plutarch's Parallel Lives. In determining to what extent Shakespeare ...
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This chapter considers one indisputable source of the plays: Sir Thomas North's translation of Jacques Amyot's translation of Plutarch's Parallel Lives. In determining to what extent Shakespeare found his constant Romans in Plutarch, it suggests that one reason for his choice of Brutus, Antony, and Coriolanus as protagonists is that their Lives can be read as a kind of triptych on the theme of constancy. Plutarch, of course, did not design such a triptych: it is the Renaissance translators, Amyot and North, who make it into a central issue by using the words ‘constancy’ and ‘constant’ to translate a variety of Greek expressions. What emerges from the Lives, in North's translation, is an Aristotelian pattern of virtue as a mean between excess and defect: Brutus embodying the virtue of constancy, Antony its defect, inconstancy, and Coriolanus its excess, willful obstinacy.Less
This chapter considers one indisputable source of the plays: Sir Thomas North's translation of Jacques Amyot's translation of Plutarch's Parallel Lives. In determining to what extent Shakespeare found his constant Romans in Plutarch, it suggests that one reason for his choice of Brutus, Antony, and Coriolanus as protagonists is that their Lives can be read as a kind of triptych on the theme of constancy. Plutarch, of course, did not design such a triptych: it is the Renaissance translators, Amyot and North, who make it into a central issue by using the words ‘constancy’ and ‘constant’ to translate a variety of Greek expressions. What emerges from the Lives, in North's translation, is an Aristotelian pattern of virtue as a mean between excess and defect: Brutus embodying the virtue of constancy, Antony its defect, inconstancy, and Coriolanus its excess, willful obstinacy.
Jessica Martin
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198270157
- eISBN:
- 9780191683930
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198270157.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Literature, History of Christianity
This book argues that Walton's practice, in his Lives, was crucial in shaping modern expectations of biography: how it should be organised, how it should treat evidence, how seriously it should ...
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This book argues that Walton's practice, in his Lives, was crucial in shaping modern expectations of biography: how it should be organised, how it should treat evidence, how seriously it should regard narrative coherence, and most particularly in the modern expectation of an intimate relationship between author, reader, and subject. This book considers Walton's biographical ethics in relation to the tributary genres influencing him as they emerged from post-Reformation commendatory practice after 1546, most particularly classical funeral oratory and the emergent Protestant funeral sermon, the Plutarchan parallel, the didactic Character, martyrological narrative, and finally Walton's direct model, the exemplary biographical commemoration of the conformist minister. The book considers how Walton develops his literary inheritance, arguing that his lay status required him to initiate a different kind of mediation between reader and subject from the straightforwardly imitative. Walton presents himself as a channel for the words and acts of an authoritative subject, a preference implicitly followed both in his stress on personal connections with his subjects (which spectacularly particularizes his portraits) and in his very extensive use of their own writings. His Lives attempt posthumous autobiography. They are also considered as prominent and accomplished examples of the many politically intended narratives which exploit a consensual interpretation of private virtue to support, without having to argue for, a sectarian interpretation of public rectitude.Less
This book argues that Walton's practice, in his Lives, was crucial in shaping modern expectations of biography: how it should be organised, how it should treat evidence, how seriously it should regard narrative coherence, and most particularly in the modern expectation of an intimate relationship between author, reader, and subject. This book considers Walton's biographical ethics in relation to the tributary genres influencing him as they emerged from post-Reformation commendatory practice after 1546, most particularly classical funeral oratory and the emergent Protestant funeral sermon, the Plutarchan parallel, the didactic Character, martyrological narrative, and finally Walton's direct model, the exemplary biographical commemoration of the conformist minister. The book considers how Walton develops his literary inheritance, arguing that his lay status required him to initiate a different kind of mediation between reader and subject from the straightforwardly imitative. Walton presents himself as a channel for the words and acts of an authoritative subject, a preference implicitly followed both in his stress on personal connections with his subjects (which spectacularly particularizes his portraits) and in his very extensive use of their own writings. His Lives attempt posthumous autobiography. They are also considered as prominent and accomplished examples of the many politically intended narratives which exploit a consensual interpretation of private virtue to support, without having to argue for, a sectarian interpretation of public rectitude.
Richard Sharpe
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198215820
- eISBN:
- 9780191678219
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198215820.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History, History of Religion
This is a study of three important late medieval collections of saints' Lives. The manuscripts, written in Latin and, for the most part, relating to the lives of Irish saints, have never before been ...
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This is a study of three important late medieval collections of saints' Lives. The manuscripts, written in Latin and, for the most part, relating to the lives of Irish saints, have never before been subject to critical examination. The book addresses such questions as when and where the Lives were compiled, and from what sources they derive. It sets its own treatment of the collections within the wider context of Irish hagiographical studies. It sets out and resolves complex problems of historical and linguistic evidence.Less
This is a study of three important late medieval collections of saints' Lives. The manuscripts, written in Latin and, for the most part, relating to the lives of Irish saints, have never before been subject to critical examination. The book addresses such questions as when and where the Lives were compiled, and from what sources they derive. It sets its own treatment of the collections within the wider context of Irish hagiographical studies. It sets out and resolves complex problems of historical and linguistic evidence.
Wesley C. Hogan
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781469652481
- eISBN:
- 9781469652504
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469652481.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
As Wesley C. Hogan sees it, the future of democracy belongs to young people. While today's generation of leaders confronts a daunting array of existential challenges, increasingly it is young people ...
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As Wesley C. Hogan sees it, the future of democracy belongs to young people. While today's generation of leaders confronts a daunting array of existential challenges, increasingly it is young people in the United States and around the world who are finding new ways of belonging, collaboration, and survival. That reality forms the backbone of this book, as Hogan documents and assesses young people's interventions in the American fight for democracy and its ideals.
Beginning with reflections on the inspiring example of Ella Baker and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, Hogan profiles youth-led organizations and their recent work. Examples include Southerners on New Ground (SONG) in the NAFTA era; Oakland's Ella Baker Center and its fight against the school-to-prison pipeline; the Dreamers who are fighting for immigration reform; the Movement for Black Lives that is demanding a reinvestment in youth of color and an end to police violence against people of color; and the International Indigenous Youth Council, water protectors at Standing Rock who fought to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline and protect sovereign control of Indigenous lands. As Hogan reveals, the legacy of Ella Baker and the civil rights movement has often been carried forward by young people at the margins of power and wealth in U.S. society. This book foregrounds their voices and gathers their inventions--not in a comprehensive survey, but as an activist mix tape--with lively, fresh perspectives on the promise of twenty-first-century U.S. democracy.Less
As Wesley C. Hogan sees it, the future of democracy belongs to young people. While today's generation of leaders confronts a daunting array of existential challenges, increasingly it is young people in the United States and around the world who are finding new ways of belonging, collaboration, and survival. That reality forms the backbone of this book, as Hogan documents and assesses young people's interventions in the American fight for democracy and its ideals.
Beginning with reflections on the inspiring example of Ella Baker and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, Hogan profiles youth-led organizations and their recent work. Examples include Southerners on New Ground (SONG) in the NAFTA era; Oakland's Ella Baker Center and its fight against the school-to-prison pipeline; the Dreamers who are fighting for immigration reform; the Movement for Black Lives that is demanding a reinvestment in youth of color and an end to police violence against people of color; and the International Indigenous Youth Council, water protectors at Standing Rock who fought to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline and protect sovereign control of Indigenous lands. As Hogan reveals, the legacy of Ella Baker and the civil rights movement has often been carried forward by young people at the margins of power and wealth in U.S. society. This book foregrounds their voices and gathers their inventions--not in a comprehensive survey, but as an activist mix tape--with lively, fresh perspectives on the promise of twenty-first-century U.S. democracy.
James Gordon Williams
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781496832108
- eISBN:
- 9781496832092
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496832108.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This book provides an interpretive framework for understanding how African American creative improvisers think of musical space. Featuring a Foreword by eminent scholar Robin D.G. Kelley, this is the ...
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This book provides an interpretive framework for understanding how African American creative improvisers think of musical space. Featuring a Foreword by eminent scholar Robin D.G. Kelley, this is the first critical improvisation studies book that uses Black Geographies theory to examine the spatial values of musical expression in the improvisational and compositional practices of trumpeters Terence Blanchard and Ambrose Akinmusire, drummers Billy Higgins and Terri Lyne Carrington, and pianist Andrew Hill. Bar lines in this book serve as a notational and spatial metaphor for social constraints connected to systemic and structural white supremacy. Crossing them therefore applies not only to conceptions of Black spatiality in musical practices but also to how African American musicians address structural barriers to fight the social injustices that obstruct freedom and full citizenship for African Americans and other marginalized groups. Defined by both liminal and quotidian reality, Black musical space, like Black feminist thought, is about theorizing through the lived experiences of Black people which reflect different genders, sexual identities, political stances, across improvisational eras. Using this theory of Black musical space, the book explains how these dynamic musicians explicitly and implicitly articulate humanity through compositional and improvisational practices, some of which interface with contemporary social movements like Black Lives Matter. Consequently, Crossing Bar Lines not only fills a significant gap in the literature on African American, activist musical improvisation and contemporary social movements, but it gives the reader an understanding of the complexity of African American musical practices relative to fluid political identities and sensibilities.Less
This book provides an interpretive framework for understanding how African American creative improvisers think of musical space. Featuring a Foreword by eminent scholar Robin D.G. Kelley, this is the first critical improvisation studies book that uses Black Geographies theory to examine the spatial values of musical expression in the improvisational and compositional practices of trumpeters Terence Blanchard and Ambrose Akinmusire, drummers Billy Higgins and Terri Lyne Carrington, and pianist Andrew Hill. Bar lines in this book serve as a notational and spatial metaphor for social constraints connected to systemic and structural white supremacy. Crossing them therefore applies not only to conceptions of Black spatiality in musical practices but also to how African American musicians address structural barriers to fight the social injustices that obstruct freedom and full citizenship for African Americans and other marginalized groups. Defined by both liminal and quotidian reality, Black musical space, like Black feminist thought, is about theorizing through the lived experiences of Black people which reflect different genders, sexual identities, political stances, across improvisational eras. Using this theory of Black musical space, the book explains how these dynamic musicians explicitly and implicitly articulate humanity through compositional and improvisational practices, some of which interface with contemporary social movements like Black Lives Matter. Consequently, Crossing Bar Lines not only fills a significant gap in the literature on African American, activist musical improvisation and contemporary social movements, but it gives the reader an understanding of the complexity of African American musical practices relative to fluid political identities and sensibilities.
Richard Sharpe
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198215820
- eISBN:
- 9780191678219
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198215820.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History, History of Religion
Medieval Ireland produced a great quantity of hagiographical documents. Today, more than one hundred Latin Lives of about sixty Irish saints are known. Some of these survive only in Continental ...
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Medieval Ireland produced a great quantity of hagiographical documents. Today, more than one hundred Latin Lives of about sixty Irish saints are known. Some of these survive only in Continental manuscripts, but the majority are known from three great compilations of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This book investigates the sources available to the compilers of the three collections and the use they made of them. The Latin Lives were written in Ireland, as attested in some early manuscripts, mostly Continental, and in these three collections, range in date from the seventh century to the fourteenth. The latest item in any of the three collections is probably a text translated from Irish for the compilers of the Salmanticensis, the Life of St Cuanna. Saints' Lives form a very large part of the Latin literature of Ireland, and a significant part of Irish literature. They are also important as historical evidence. These biographies and other acta of saints make up one of the most extensive classes of material relating, ex prima facie, to the early history of Ireland.Less
Medieval Ireland produced a great quantity of hagiographical documents. Today, more than one hundred Latin Lives of about sixty Irish saints are known. Some of these survive only in Continental manuscripts, but the majority are known from three great compilations of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This book investigates the sources available to the compilers of the three collections and the use they made of them. The Latin Lives were written in Ireland, as attested in some early manuscripts, mostly Continental, and in these three collections, range in date from the seventh century to the fourteenth. The latest item in any of the three collections is probably a text translated from Irish for the compilers of the Salmanticensis, the Life of St Cuanna. Saints' Lives form a very large part of the Latin literature of Ireland, and a significant part of Irish literature. They are also important as historical evidence. These biographies and other acta of saints make up one of the most extensive classes of material relating, ex prima facie, to the early history of Ireland.
Richard Sharpe
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198215820
- eISBN:
- 9780191678219
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198215820.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History, History of Religion
All the three major collections of Latin Lives from medieval Ireland and a significant proportion of the Irish Lives survive because of the interest taken in them by a few Irish scholars working in ...
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All the three major collections of Latin Lives from medieval Ireland and a significant proportion of the Irish Lives survive because of the interest taken in them by a few Irish scholars working in different places in the years between about 1610 and 1650. Irish Lives rescued from oblivion at this stage were deliberately collected and transcribed for a great hagiographical and historical project undertaken by Fr. Hugh Ward and other Irish Franciscans at Louvain. The same Franciscans also obtained copies of Lives in Latin from the two collections which they called the Codex Kilkenniensis and the Codex Insulensis; the original codices survived through the intervention of the Protestant primate, Archbishop James Ussher, and his associate, Sir James Ware. The Franciscans also enjoyed close links with a Jesuit project begun in Antwerp about 1607 by Fr. Heribert Rosweyde, and now famous as the Bollandists and their Acta Sanctorum. Three scholars who were their forerunners in searching for manuscripts containing Lives of Irish saints were Fr. Henry FitzSimon, Fr. Thomas Messingham, and Fr. Stephen White.Less
All the three major collections of Latin Lives from medieval Ireland and a significant proportion of the Irish Lives survive because of the interest taken in them by a few Irish scholars working in different places in the years between about 1610 and 1650. Irish Lives rescued from oblivion at this stage were deliberately collected and transcribed for a great hagiographical and historical project undertaken by Fr. Hugh Ward and other Irish Franciscans at Louvain. The same Franciscans also obtained copies of Lives in Latin from the two collections which they called the Codex Kilkenniensis and the Codex Insulensis; the original codices survived through the intervention of the Protestant primate, Archbishop James Ussher, and his associate, Sir James Ware. The Franciscans also enjoyed close links with a Jesuit project begun in Antwerp about 1607 by Fr. Heribert Rosweyde, and now famous as the Bollandists and their Acta Sanctorum. Three scholars who were their forerunners in searching for manuscripts containing Lives of Irish saints were Fr. Henry FitzSimon, Fr. Thomas Messingham, and Fr. Stephen White.
Richard Sharpe
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198215820
- eISBN:
- 9780191678219
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198215820.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History, History of Religion
A new era in the study of Irish saints' Lives begins with the work of the Revd William Reeves (1813–1891), a learned curate to whom preferment in the Church of Ireland came only late in life. Reeves ...
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A new era in the study of Irish saints' Lives begins with the work of the Revd William Reeves (1813–1891), a learned curate to whom preferment in the Church of Ireland came only late in life. Reeves frequently cites from the Lives of other Irish saints from the medieval collections, and his papers in the library of Trinity College include a number of transcripts of Lives, often made from the Bollandist edition, collated with the two Dublin manuscripts. The year 1882 marks a turning-point in the history of hagiography. In that year, publication of Analecta Bollandiana began, a major indicator of the reorganization achieved by Fr. Charles De Smedt (1831–1911) in the work of the Bollandists. His new methods included the systematic cataloguing of hagiographical manuscripts in European libraries and an increase in the linguistic range and detail of the Acta Sanctorum from the first volume of November. This chapter looks at other modern scholars of Irish saints' Lives and the methods they used, including Revd Charles Plummer and James Kenney.Less
A new era in the study of Irish saints' Lives begins with the work of the Revd William Reeves (1813–1891), a learned curate to whom preferment in the Church of Ireland came only late in life. Reeves frequently cites from the Lives of other Irish saints from the medieval collections, and his papers in the library of Trinity College include a number of transcripts of Lives, often made from the Bollandist edition, collated with the two Dublin manuscripts. The year 1882 marks a turning-point in the history of hagiography. In that year, publication of Analecta Bollandiana began, a major indicator of the reorganization achieved by Fr. Charles De Smedt (1831–1911) in the work of the Bollandists. His new methods included the systematic cataloguing of hagiographical manuscripts in European libraries and an increase in the linguistic range and detail of the Acta Sanctorum from the first volume of November. This chapter looks at other modern scholars of Irish saints' Lives and the methods they used, including Revd Charles Plummer and James Kenney.
