Ogbu Kalu
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195340006
- eISBN:
- 9780199867073
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195340006.003.0012
- Subject:
- Religion, World Religions
This chapter focuses on cultural discourse that reconstructs the African Pentecostal movement's response to the system of meanings embodied in the symbols and worldviews of indigenous African ...
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This chapter focuses on cultural discourse that reconstructs the African Pentecostal movement's response to the system of meanings embodied in the symbols and worldviews of indigenous African religions and cultures. It starts from a different location to explore the cultural discourse that argues that Pentecostalism has grown because of its cultural fit into indigenous worldviews and its response to the questions that are raised within. It asserts that the indigenous worldview still dominates contemporary African experiences and shapes the character of African Pentecostalism. Therefore, African Pentecostalism is the “setting to work” of the gospel in Africa, at once showing how Africans appropriated the gospel message, how they responded to the presence of the Kingdom in their midst, and how its power transformed their worldviews.Less
This chapter focuses on cultural discourse that reconstructs the African Pentecostal movement's response to the system of meanings embodied in the symbols and worldviews of indigenous African religions and cultures. It starts from a different location to explore the cultural discourse that argues that Pentecostalism has grown because of its cultural fit into indigenous worldviews and its response to the questions that are raised within. It asserts that the indigenous worldview still dominates contemporary African experiences and shapes the character of African Pentecostalism. Therefore, African Pentecostalism is the “setting to work” of the gospel in Africa, at once showing how Africans appropriated the gospel message, how they responded to the presence of the Kingdom in their midst, and how its power transformed their worldviews.
Alessandro Barchiesi
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691161815
- eISBN:
- 9781400852482
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691161815.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter considers some of the narrative strategies and their relative effects of sense in the Aeneid. What matters here is grasping the specific way the complexity of cultural presuppositions ...
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This chapter considers some of the narrative strategies and their relative effects of sense in the Aeneid. What matters here is grasping the specific way the complexity of cultural presuppositions (and their interactions) acts in reading as a source of complex meanings—that is, tightening the link between the density of literary signification and the multitude of implied models. This chapter marks out the elusive pathway that unites two discursive manifestations in Vergil's epic poetry which are quite distinct from one another: an ideological contradiction and a narrative “polyphony.” It then concludes with the form and workmanship of a “pluri-isotopic” narrative text.Less
This chapter considers some of the narrative strategies and their relative effects of sense in the Aeneid. What matters here is grasping the specific way the complexity of cultural presuppositions (and their interactions) acts in reading as a source of complex meanings—that is, tightening the link between the density of literary signification and the multitude of implied models. This chapter marks out the elusive pathway that unites two discursive manifestations in Vergil's epic poetry which are quite distinct from one another: an ideological contradiction and a narrative “polyphony.” It then concludes with the form and workmanship of a “pluri-isotopic” narrative text.
Robert Maier
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622098114
- eISBN:
- 9789882206830
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622098114.003.0002
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter examines the influence of discourse on cultural transformation. It considers the new cultural context of contemporary discourse and discusses new ways of engaging in cultural discourses. ...
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This chapter examines the influence of discourse on cultural transformation. It considers the new cultural context of contemporary discourse and discusses new ways of engaging in cultural discourses. It attempts to answer the question about the possibility of avoiding a renewed imposition of some abstract universalistic norms and values while at the same time respecting cultural differences in a satisfactory way. It discusses the observation that discourse is receiving increasing attention in the social sciences because it is a crucial medium and component in the various forms of power and identity in the contemporary multicultural world.Less
This chapter examines the influence of discourse on cultural transformation. It considers the new cultural context of contemporary discourse and discusses new ways of engaging in cultural discourses. It attempts to answer the question about the possibility of avoiding a renewed imposition of some abstract universalistic norms and values while at the same time respecting cultural differences in a satisfactory way. It discusses the observation that discourse is receiving increasing attention in the social sciences because it is a crucial medium and component in the various forms of power and identity in the contemporary multicultural world.
Gary Sigley
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622098114
- eISBN:
- 9789882206830
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622098114.003.0006
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter examines the popular Christmas celebration in the broader context of China's unfolding social transformation. It highlights the interconnectivity of political, economic, and cultural ...
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This chapter examines the popular Christmas celebration in the broader context of China's unfolding social transformation. It highlights the interconnectivity of political, economic, and cultural discourses. It treats the Christmas celebration as an allegory for the celebration of China's integration with the global economy and of the emergence of a so-called consumer democracy. It suggests that any examination of the discourse of Christmas and cultural nationalism in China must take into account what is excluded just as much as what is included.Less
This chapter examines the popular Christmas celebration in the broader context of China's unfolding social transformation. It highlights the interconnectivity of political, economic, and cultural discourses. It treats the Christmas celebration as an allegory for the celebration of China's integration with the global economy and of the emergence of a so-called consumer democracy. It suggests that any examination of the discourse of Christmas and cultural nationalism in China must take into account what is excluded just as much as what is included.
Adelyn Lim
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9789888139378
- eISBN:
- 9789888313174
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888139378.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This chapter deliberates on the feminization of poverty to illustrate diverging feminist agendas and organizing processes as the first local Chinese women's groups reinforce an enduring ...
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This chapter deliberates on the feminization of poverty to illustrate diverging feminist agendas and organizing processes as the first local Chinese women's groups reinforce an enduring organizational base for women's activism in Hong Kong. Women activists confront a difficult dilemma of balance – as popular education, political mobilization, and poor and working-class women's empowerment are being replaced by gender policy assessment, project execution, and social services delivery – and often have to compromise between their feminist ideals and the realities and demands of their socio-political environment. Feminism as a collective action frame is incorporated into organizations, networks, and other sorts of strategic mobilizing initiatives. Frames do not do anything by themselves; they allow different political and social groupings to engage in debate and negotiation. In this way, women activists can embrace diverse feminist organizational forms, rhetoric, and strategies and, at the same time, develop shared understandings and aspirations of changing prevailing gender structures and advancing women's empowerment.Less
This chapter deliberates on the feminization of poverty to illustrate diverging feminist agendas and organizing processes as the first local Chinese women's groups reinforce an enduring organizational base for women's activism in Hong Kong. Women activists confront a difficult dilemma of balance – as popular education, political mobilization, and poor and working-class women's empowerment are being replaced by gender policy assessment, project execution, and social services delivery – and often have to compromise between their feminist ideals and the realities and demands of their socio-political environment. Feminism as a collective action frame is incorporated into organizations, networks, and other sorts of strategic mobilizing initiatives. Frames do not do anything by themselves; they allow different political and social groupings to engage in debate and negotiation. In this way, women activists can embrace diverse feminist organizational forms, rhetoric, and strategies and, at the same time, develop shared understandings and aspirations of changing prevailing gender structures and advancing women's empowerment.
Rosa Linda Fregoso
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520229976
- eISBN:
- 9780520937284
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520229976.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter considers the salience of the ideology of la familia in Chicana/Chicano cultural discourse and politics. The discussion also reflects on the effects of its monolithic representation for ...
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This chapter considers the salience of the ideology of la familia in Chicana/Chicano cultural discourse and politics. The discussion also reflects on the effects of its monolithic representation for the identities of women. It begins with a study of My Family, a Chicano family romance composed of memory traces triggered by familiar historical desires and tropes. It then looks at how la familia was championed as a “righteous causa” and the guiding principle of the Chicano Movement. This principle is expressed by two concepts, which are carnalismo and la familia de la raza. The family ideology and the experience of la familia of some Chicanas are discussed in the final section of the chapter.Less
This chapter considers the salience of the ideology of la familia in Chicana/Chicano cultural discourse and politics. The discussion also reflects on the effects of its monolithic representation for the identities of women. It begins with a study of My Family, a Chicano family romance composed of memory traces triggered by familiar historical desires and tropes. It then looks at how la familia was championed as a “righteous causa” and the guiding principle of the Chicano Movement. This principle is expressed by two concepts, which are carnalismo and la familia de la raza. The family ideology and the experience of la familia of some Chicanas are discussed in the final section of the chapter.
Esther C.L. Goh and Sheng-li Wang
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781447340645
- eISBN:
- 9781447340690
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447340645.003.0012
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
This chapter examines two dominant research constructs namely, ‘cultural obligation’ and ‘intergenerational reciprocity’ in caring for grandchildren in Chinese societies – Fuzhou and Singapore. ...
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This chapter examines two dominant research constructs namely, ‘cultural obligation’ and ‘intergenerational reciprocity’ in caring for grandchildren in Chinese societies – Fuzhou and Singapore. Drawing on Social Relational Theory (SRT), it examines the agency of grandmothers through unpacking the rationales for their involvement or non-involvement in childcare, and the goals and meanings they ascribe to their decisions. Grandparents are viewed as agents: capable of setting goals, devising plans, strategies and taking actions to achieve their goals in the relational contexts with their adult children and grandchildren. The key research questions addressed in this chapter are : (1) to what extent do grandmothers in Fuzhou and Singapore are influenced in their decisions to provide childcare by similar yet diverse Confucian roots; (2) understanding the socio-cultural discourses of grandparenthood in Fuzhou and Singapore; and (3) whether such discourses will constrain or facilitate their sense of agency in decision making.Less
This chapter examines two dominant research constructs namely, ‘cultural obligation’ and ‘intergenerational reciprocity’ in caring for grandchildren in Chinese societies – Fuzhou and Singapore. Drawing on Social Relational Theory (SRT), it examines the agency of grandmothers through unpacking the rationales for their involvement or non-involvement in childcare, and the goals and meanings they ascribe to their decisions. Grandparents are viewed as agents: capable of setting goals, devising plans, strategies and taking actions to achieve their goals in the relational contexts with their adult children and grandchildren. The key research questions addressed in this chapter are : (1) to what extent do grandmothers in Fuzhou and Singapore are influenced in their decisions to provide childcare by similar yet diverse Confucian roots; (2) understanding the socio-cultural discourses of grandparenthood in Fuzhou and Singapore; and (3) whether such discourses will constrain or facilitate their sense of agency in decision making.
John Brannigan
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748638833
- eISBN:
- 9780748651801
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638833.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter reviews the relationship of Irish political and cultural discourses and the ‘sciences’ of racial typology during the 1930s. It argues that the connection between the typologies of the ...
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This chapter reviews the relationship of Irish political and cultural discourses and the ‘sciences’ of racial typology during the 1930s. It argues that the connection between the typologies of the Irish ‘race’ and state nationalism is probably a more important context for certain forms of late modernist writing and art in Ireland than has previously been acknowledged. The chapter determines that face was a central figure in the cultural imagination of Ireland, both in the revival and post-independence periods.Less
This chapter reviews the relationship of Irish political and cultural discourses and the ‘sciences’ of racial typology during the 1930s. It argues that the connection between the typologies of the Irish ‘race’ and state nationalism is probably a more important context for certain forms of late modernist writing and art in Ireland than has previously been acknowledged. The chapter determines that face was a central figure in the cultural imagination of Ireland, both in the revival and post-independence periods.
Tracie Church Guzzio
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617030048
- eISBN:
- 9781617030055
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617030048.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
This chapter shows how the Ibo saying “all stories are true” suggest a way of reading Wideman’s chronicle of his family and the history of the community and the race. The statement and its appearance ...
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This chapter shows how the Ibo saying “all stories are true” suggest a way of reading Wideman’s chronicle of his family and the history of the community and the race. The statement and its appearance in his canon direct readers to a meditation on history itself, the nature of storytelling, and the dialogue between cultural discourses. This can also be extended into a consideration of Wideman’s style and how it reflects his content. His “palimpsestic” storytelling can be seen through the intratextual and intertextual interaction of multiple perspectives, narrators, versions of stories, and discourse modes. This allows Wideman to engage both the European and African traditions in his narratives as dialogic and contrapuntal texts.Less
This chapter shows how the Ibo saying “all stories are true” suggest a way of reading Wideman’s chronicle of his family and the history of the community and the race. The statement and its appearance in his canon direct readers to a meditation on history itself, the nature of storytelling, and the dialogue between cultural discourses. This can also be extended into a consideration of Wideman’s style and how it reflects his content. His “palimpsestic” storytelling can be seen through the intratextual and intertextual interaction of multiple perspectives, narrators, versions of stories, and discourse modes. This allows Wideman to engage both the European and African traditions in his narratives as dialogic and contrapuntal texts.
Kelly E. Happe
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814790670
- eISBN:
- 9780814744727
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814790670.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine
This introductory chapter explains how genomics is dependent on normative conceptions of the gendered, raced, and bounded body. Epistemologically and rhetorically, genomics effects the ...
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This introductory chapter explains how genomics is dependent on normative conceptions of the gendered, raced, and bounded body. Epistemologically and rhetorically, genomics effects the dematerialization of the body and its embeddedness in historically specific environments when biological matter is translated into the language of gene sequences and risk assessment. The body becomes just so much information. Yet the body rematerializes when genomics must make fathomable and palpable the body at risk, both to fashion medical subjects and to engage in the making of procedural rules and norms necessary to formalize and routinize particular sets of interventions. Not only must genomics rely on cultural discourses about the body to translate genetic information into body practices, but in doing so it will in turn participate in their construction. It thus contributes to our shared meanings of race, gender, and embodied life.Less
This introductory chapter explains how genomics is dependent on normative conceptions of the gendered, raced, and bounded body. Epistemologically and rhetorically, genomics effects the dematerialization of the body and its embeddedness in historically specific environments when biological matter is translated into the language of gene sequences and risk assessment. The body becomes just so much information. Yet the body rematerializes when genomics must make fathomable and palpable the body at risk, both to fashion medical subjects and to engage in the making of procedural rules and norms necessary to formalize and routinize particular sets of interventions. Not only must genomics rely on cultural discourses about the body to translate genetic information into body practices, but in doing so it will in turn participate in their construction. It thus contributes to our shared meanings of race, gender, and embodied life.
Carolyn Nordstrom and Antonius C. G. M. Robben
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520089938
- eISBN:
- 9780520915718
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520089938.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Theory and Practice
Not only chaos but also creativity accompanies war and violence. This chapter describes how the author has struggled and continues to struggle with the senselessness of the violence inflicted on the ...
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Not only chaos but also creativity accompanies war and violence. This chapter describes how the author has struggled and continues to struggle with the senselessness of the violence inflicted on the population of Mozambique by Renamo's war. The excessive violence deliberately attacks people's sense of family and community, shattering the foundations of their cultural and human existence. Anthropologists themselves, like those among whom they work, cannot remain removed from the impact of witnessing tragedy. Instead of reasoning away her bewilderment or surrendering to the inevitable distortions of reasonable narration, the author focuses on the poetics of the cultural discourse of the victims of war who create their worlds anew with the shards of their broken homes and lives.Less
Not only chaos but also creativity accompanies war and violence. This chapter describes how the author has struggled and continues to struggle with the senselessness of the violence inflicted on the population of Mozambique by Renamo's war. The excessive violence deliberately attacks people's sense of family and community, shattering the foundations of their cultural and human existence. Anthropologists themselves, like those among whom they work, cannot remain removed from the impact of witnessing tragedy. Instead of reasoning away her bewilderment or surrendering to the inevitable distortions of reasonable narration, the author focuses on the poetics of the cultural discourse of the victims of war who create their worlds anew with the shards of their broken homes and lives.
Paul Brodwin
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469630359
- eISBN:
- 9781469630373
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630359.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This chapter raises a key question for the interdisciplinary study of health and justice: is dialogue possible between theoretical models and first-person testimony about the harms caused by ...
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This chapter raises a key question for the interdisciplinary study of health and justice: is dialogue possible between theoretical models and first-person testimony about the harms caused by injustice? To consider this question, the chapter examines the claim that disrespect—the systematic devaluation of others in a way that excludes them from reciprocal social relations—is a form of injustice. The philosopher Stephen Darwall and social theorist Axel Honneth conceptually elucidate the links between justice, respect, and recognition. Their normative arguments offer a high-order conceptual framework for recognizing people’s equal worth as human beings (and the harmful effects of denying such recognition). This chapter compares their abstract frameworks with a landmark autobiography by a founder of the psychiatric survivor movement. The search for commensurability between these texts exposes the precise difference between experience-far and experience-near genres of ethical expression. This chapter adopts a similar approach as DeBruin et al. (this volume) in examining popular cultural discourses in light of formal theory. Both chapters take seriously the lay narratives and forms of ethical argumentation that circulate outside the academy. Both envision a plural ethics of justice and health that acknowledges how ordinary people interpret and respond to institutionalized oppression in health-care services.Less
This chapter raises a key question for the interdisciplinary study of health and justice: is dialogue possible between theoretical models and first-person testimony about the harms caused by injustice? To consider this question, the chapter examines the claim that disrespect—the systematic devaluation of others in a way that excludes them from reciprocal social relations—is a form of injustice. The philosopher Stephen Darwall and social theorist Axel Honneth conceptually elucidate the links between justice, respect, and recognition. Their normative arguments offer a high-order conceptual framework for recognizing people’s equal worth as human beings (and the harmful effects of denying such recognition). This chapter compares their abstract frameworks with a landmark autobiography by a founder of the psychiatric survivor movement. The search for commensurability between these texts exposes the precise difference between experience-far and experience-near genres of ethical expression. This chapter adopts a similar approach as DeBruin et al. (this volume) in examining popular cultural discourses in light of formal theory. Both chapters take seriously the lay narratives and forms of ethical argumentation that circulate outside the academy. Both envision a plural ethics of justice and health that acknowledges how ordinary people interpret and respond to institutionalized oppression in health-care services.
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853236269
- eISBN:
- 9781846313318
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853236269.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This book examines bourgeois formations within Northern Irish cultural discourse, and also addresses indigenous and non-indigenous film, popular fiction, autobiography, critical analyses and ...
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This book examines bourgeois formations within Northern Irish cultural discourse, and also addresses indigenous and non-indigenous film, popular fiction, autobiography, critical analyses and government publications. The material considered deals with identity and with developing the meaning of identity in modern Northern Ireland. The book deals with the frameworks founded through criticism of Northern Irish poetry, and, in addition, tries to indicate something of their ultimate obsolescence through a strategic relocation of focus. Moreover, it concludes with an extended consideration of what happens when the internal contradictions of identity's strategies of engagement overwhelm its own delicate structures. The book seeks to map a cultural progression. It has been previously suggested that there is no ‘solution’ to the conflicts of identity in Northern Ireland or anywhere else, but equally there is an imperative to be more than simply a spectator of the faction fight.Less
This book examines bourgeois formations within Northern Irish cultural discourse, and also addresses indigenous and non-indigenous film, popular fiction, autobiography, critical analyses and government publications. The material considered deals with identity and with developing the meaning of identity in modern Northern Ireland. The book deals with the frameworks founded through criticism of Northern Irish poetry, and, in addition, tries to indicate something of their ultimate obsolescence through a strategic relocation of focus. Moreover, it concludes with an extended consideration of what happens when the internal contradictions of identity's strategies of engagement overwhelm its own delicate structures. The book seeks to map a cultural progression. It has been previously suggested that there is no ‘solution’ to the conflicts of identity in Northern Ireland or anywhere else, but equally there is an imperative to be more than simply a spectator of the faction fight.
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226608563
- eISBN:
- 9780226608570
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226608570.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter examines the emergence of an alchemical persona from the late Middle Ages to the sixteenth century, the initial elements of which it describes as having been reshaped in reaction to ...
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This chapter examines the emergence of an alchemical persona from the late Middle Ages to the sixteenth century, the initial elements of which it describes as having been reshaped in reaction to public debates about alchemy. It discusses the public perception of the alchemist as artisan, fool, and corrupt merchant. The chapter suggests that in the absence of formal institutions to shape the alchemist's identity, these cultural discourses became all the more important in shaping just who alchemists were and where they fitted into the early modern social and cultural landscape.Less
This chapter examines the emergence of an alchemical persona from the late Middle Ages to the sixteenth century, the initial elements of which it describes as having been reshaped in reaction to public debates about alchemy. It discusses the public perception of the alchemist as artisan, fool, and corrupt merchant. The chapter suggests that in the absence of formal institutions to shape the alchemist's identity, these cultural discourses became all the more important in shaping just who alchemists were and where they fitted into the early modern social and cultural landscape.
Timothy Luckritz Marquis
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300187144
- eISBN:
- 9780300187427
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300187144.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies
This chapter discusses the theme of judgment, which influences Paul to target the attitude and behavior of the Corinthians. It reviews a language Paul used that might reflect his initial and basic ...
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This chapter discusses the theme of judgment, which influences Paul to target the attitude and behavior of the Corinthians. It reviews a language Paul used that might reflect his initial and basic message, and looks at Paul's discussion on the connection between death and apostleship in light of Christ's death. This discussion leads to the removal of consolatory motifs. The chapter ends with the issue that the pacing of the imagery that serves as a unique characteristic of the letter provides the rhetorical function of causing many cultural discourses; these define Paul as an apostle in relation to these discourses.Less
This chapter discusses the theme of judgment, which influences Paul to target the attitude and behavior of the Corinthians. It reviews a language Paul used that might reflect his initial and basic message, and looks at Paul's discussion on the connection between death and apostleship in light of Christ's death. This discussion leads to the removal of consolatory motifs. The chapter ends with the issue that the pacing of the imagery that serves as a unique characteristic of the letter provides the rhetorical function of causing many cultural discourses; these define Paul as an apostle in relation to these discourses.
Lisa Downing
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226003405
- eISBN:
- 9780226003689
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226003689.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter examines the case of Marie Lafarge, and how the treatment she received in a series of cultural discourses, including medical, literary, journalistic, and criminological, differed ...
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This chapter examines the case of Marie Lafarge, and how the treatment she received in a series of cultural discourses, including medical, literary, journalistic, and criminological, differed considerably from that of Lacenaire, despite her own, more prolific output as a writer. Although a feature shared by conservative accounts of both murderers is the focus on the criminal dangers of reading and writing, the gendered specificity of the treatments afforded the reading and writing criminal subject will be given consideration here. There was a general disagreement on whether Lafarge was guilty or not, and this divided French society into two opposing factions: the Lafargistes and the anti-Lafargistes. The extensiveness of the medico-legal investigations concerning the physical evidence of the crime has led to the case being cited as the first instance of forensic toxicology.Less
This chapter examines the case of Marie Lafarge, and how the treatment she received in a series of cultural discourses, including medical, literary, journalistic, and criminological, differed considerably from that of Lacenaire, despite her own, more prolific output as a writer. Although a feature shared by conservative accounts of both murderers is the focus on the criminal dangers of reading and writing, the gendered specificity of the treatments afforded the reading and writing criminal subject will be given consideration here. There was a general disagreement on whether Lafarge was guilty or not, and this divided French society into two opposing factions: the Lafargistes and the anti-Lafargistes. The extensiveness of the medico-legal investigations concerning the physical evidence of the crime has led to the case being cited as the first instance of forensic toxicology.
R. Howard Bloch
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226059686
- eISBN:
- 9780226059693
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226059693.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This chapter examines the elements of doctrine that fit into the mold of fable and of romance in Marie de France's Espurgatoire Seint Patriz, her translation of the Tractatus. It analyzes Marie's ...
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This chapter examines the elements of doctrine that fit into the mold of fable and of romance in Marie de France's Espurgatoire Seint Patriz, her translation of the Tractatus. It analyzes Marie's reasons for choosing to write a literary translation of Tractatus and describes how Espurgatoire Seint Patriz served as a dissemination of the legend in the vernacular. This chapter also argues that what the Espurgatoire Seint Patriz accomplished in converting a supposedly documentary treatise on the origins and workings of Purgatory into a tale of knightly deeds is significant because it is a translation not just between languages but between different cultural discourses.Less
This chapter examines the elements of doctrine that fit into the mold of fable and of romance in Marie de France's Espurgatoire Seint Patriz, her translation of the Tractatus. It analyzes Marie's reasons for choosing to write a literary translation of Tractatus and describes how Espurgatoire Seint Patriz served as a dissemination of the legend in the vernacular. This chapter also argues that what the Espurgatoire Seint Patriz accomplished in converting a supposedly documentary treatise on the origins and workings of Purgatory into a tale of knightly deeds is significant because it is a translation not just between languages but between different cultural discourses.
Susan Jeffords and Fahed Al-Sumait
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038860
- eISBN:
- 9780252096822
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038860.003.0012
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter considers the question of why Osama bin Laden's death did not seem to have the impact that was expected from the largest and most expensive manhunt in history. It looks at the debate ...
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This chapter considers the question of why Osama bin Laden's death did not seem to have the impact that was expected from the largest and most expensive manhunt in history. It looks at the debate about Zero Dark Thirty (2012), the film that chronicled the hunt and killing of bin Laden. The film's perspective is unmistakably American and Western, with assumptions that audiences would already know the back-story about who bin Laden is, why the U.S. government invested so much in finding him, and why his death should be an event for celebration. What is remarkable about the debates, the reviews, and the discussions about Zero Dark Thirty, however, is that they mimic cultural discourses that arose in the decade since 9/11 in an elusive dance with Osama bin Laden.Less
This chapter considers the question of why Osama bin Laden's death did not seem to have the impact that was expected from the largest and most expensive manhunt in history. It looks at the debate about Zero Dark Thirty (2012), the film that chronicled the hunt and killing of bin Laden. The film's perspective is unmistakably American and Western, with assumptions that audiences would already know the back-story about who bin Laden is, why the U.S. government invested so much in finding him, and why his death should be an event for celebration. What is remarkable about the debates, the reviews, and the discussions about Zero Dark Thirty, however, is that they mimic cultural discourses that arose in the decade since 9/11 in an elusive dance with Osama bin Laden.
John A. Riley
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474419475
- eISBN:
- 9781474444699
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474419475.003.0012
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
‘If visual culture is central in not only creating, but maintaining the imagined community of a nation, what happens when the community is newly emerged, and a collective imagination has not yet ...
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‘If visual culture is central in not only creating, but maintaining the imagined community of a nation, what happens when the community is newly emerged, and a collective imagination has not yet solidified?´ As an answer to that question, this essay analyses the ways in which Georgian women documentary makers have conceptualised Georgia as a country in the midst of a multifaceted transition through the work of two key filmmakers. The author situates their work in their socio-political and cultural context by discussing the competing narratives of post-Soviet Georgia from different perspectives and time periods.Less
‘If visual culture is central in not only creating, but maintaining the imagined community of a nation, what happens when the community is newly emerged, and a collective imagination has not yet solidified?´ As an answer to that question, this essay analyses the ways in which Georgian women documentary makers have conceptualised Georgia as a country in the midst of a multifaceted transition through the work of two key filmmakers. The author situates their work in their socio-political and cultural context by discussing the competing narratives of post-Soviet Georgia from different perspectives and time periods.
Úna Ní Bhroiméil
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198187318
- eISBN:
- 9780191803277
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780198187318.003.0031
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter examines the devotional periodicals that proliferated in late nineteenth-century Ireland. These periodicals aimed to inculcate and foster a Catholic mentality in the minds of the people. ...
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This chapter examines the devotional periodicals that proliferated in late nineteenth-century Ireland. These periodicals aimed to inculcate and foster a Catholic mentality in the minds of the people. This was aided by the provision in church sacristies of parish libraries which were an important though mediated source of books for country people. Women were often the principal readers of devotional literature and there are indications that they were often very attentive to features of that literature that were specific to the gendered cultural discourse of the nineteenth century.Less
This chapter examines the devotional periodicals that proliferated in late nineteenth-century Ireland. These periodicals aimed to inculcate and foster a Catholic mentality in the minds of the people. This was aided by the provision in church sacristies of parish libraries which were an important though mediated source of books for country people. Women were often the principal readers of devotional literature and there are indications that they were often very attentive to features of that literature that were specific to the gendered cultural discourse of the nineteenth century.