Terryl C. Givens
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195167115
- eISBN:
- 9780199785599
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195167115.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Joseph built the church on the foundation of dialogic revelation, physical artifacts, testable historical claims, and the promise of spiritual certainty. Truth claims are absolute and categorical. At ...
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Joseph built the church on the foundation of dialogic revelation, physical artifacts, testable historical claims, and the promise of spiritual certainty. Truth claims are absolute and categorical. At the same time, Mormonism conceives of salvation as a process rather than event, tied to learning, knowledge acquisition, and growth in intelligence. Eternal progress and continuing revelation are key doctrines.Less
Joseph built the church on the foundation of dialogic revelation, physical artifacts, testable historical claims, and the promise of spiritual certainty. Truth claims are absolute and categorical. At the same time, Mormonism conceives of salvation as a process rather than event, tied to learning, knowledge acquisition, and growth in intelligence. Eternal progress and continuing revelation are key doctrines.
Michael Macovski
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195069655
- eISBN:
- 9780199855186
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195069655.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
Extending and modifying the works of Bakhtin, Gadamer, Ong, and Foucault—though drawing primarily on Bakhtin's theory of dialogue—this book constructs a theoretical model of “dialogic romanticism” ...
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Extending and modifying the works of Bakhtin, Gadamer, Ong, and Foucault—though drawing primarily on Bakhtin's theory of dialogue—this book constructs a theoretical model of “dialogic romanticism” and applies it to a range of Romantic texts. Literary discourse is seen as a composite of voices—interactive voices which are not only contained within the literary text but extend beyond it, to other works, authors, interpretations, and discourses. The book holds that varieties of dialogic forms and meanings were particularly pronounced during the Romantic epoch, and accordingly traces the manifestations of dialogues within Romantic discourse, beginning with Wordsworth and Coleridge and extending to those nineteenth-century prose works most often treated as “Romantic”: Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, and Heart of Darkness.Less
Extending and modifying the works of Bakhtin, Gadamer, Ong, and Foucault—though drawing primarily on Bakhtin's theory of dialogue—this book constructs a theoretical model of “dialogic romanticism” and applies it to a range of Romantic texts. Literary discourse is seen as a composite of voices—interactive voices which are not only contained within the literary text but extend beyond it, to other works, authors, interpretations, and discourses. The book holds that varieties of dialogic forms and meanings were particularly pronounced during the Romantic epoch, and accordingly traces the manifestations of dialogues within Romantic discourse, beginning with Wordsworth and Coleridge and extending to those nineteenth-century prose works most often treated as “Romantic”: Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, and Heart of Darkness.
Terryl L. Givens
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195138184
- eISBN:
- 9780199834211
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019513818X.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Perhaps the Book of Mormon's most important and radical contribution is a model of revelation that is unstintingly literal and dialogic. Unlike the three main Christian varieties (revelation as ...
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Perhaps the Book of Mormon's most important and radical contribution is a model of revelation that is unstintingly literal and dialogic. Unlike the three main Christian varieties (revelation as history, as doctrine, and as inner experience), the Mormon version emphasizes communicated content, particularism, and egalitarian access. Unorthodox implications of the Mormon version include an anthropomorphic God and an open canon. Even admitting significant parallels with 19th‐century frontier religions and some varieties of contemporary Christianity, dialogic revelation found unusually dramatic expression and exemplification in the phenomenon of the Book of Mormon itself, thus providing a powerful “revelatory appeal.”Less
Perhaps the Book of Mormon's most important and radical contribution is a model of revelation that is unstintingly literal and dialogic. Unlike the three main Christian varieties (revelation as history, as doctrine, and as inner experience), the Mormon version emphasizes communicated content, particularism, and egalitarian access. Unorthodox implications of the Mormon version include an anthropomorphic God and an open canon. Even admitting significant parallels with 19th‐century frontier religions and some varieties of contemporary Christianity, dialogic revelation found unusually dramatic expression and exemplification in the phenomenon of the Book of Mormon itself, thus providing a powerful “revelatory appeal.”
Kirk Simpson
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719078620
- eISBN:
- 9781781703045
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719078620.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
Northern Ireland has entered what is arguably the key phase in its troubled political history—truth recovery and dealing with the legacy of the past—yet the void in knowledge and the lack of academic ...
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Northern Ireland has entered what is arguably the key phase in its troubled political history—truth recovery and dealing with the legacy of the past—yet the void in knowledge and the lack of academic literature with regard to victims' rights is particularly striking. This book analyses truth recovery as a fundamental aspect of the transition from political violence to peace, democracy and stability in post-conflict Northern Ireland. It argues that it is essential for any process of truth recovery in Northern Ireland to provide the victims of political violence with the opportunity to express and articulate their narratives of suffering within the context of public dialogic processes. The book outlines an original model: that victims of political violence should be enabled to engage in meaningful truth recovery through a Habermasian process of public democratic deliberation and communication involving direct dialogue with the perpetrators of such violence. This process of ‘communicative justice’ is framed within Habermas' theory of communicative action, and can help to ensure that legitimate truth recovery publicly acknowledges the trauma of victims' and subjects' perpetrator narratives of political violence to critical scrutiny and rational deconstruction. Crucially, the book aims to contribute to the empowerment of victims in Northern Ireland by stimulating constructive discussion and awareness of hitherto silenced narratives of the conflict. This difficult and unsettling interrogation and interpretation of the conflict from a comparatively ‘unknown perspective’ is central to the prospects for critically examining and mastering the past in Northern Ireland.Less
Northern Ireland has entered what is arguably the key phase in its troubled political history—truth recovery and dealing with the legacy of the past—yet the void in knowledge and the lack of academic literature with regard to victims' rights is particularly striking. This book analyses truth recovery as a fundamental aspect of the transition from political violence to peace, democracy and stability in post-conflict Northern Ireland. It argues that it is essential for any process of truth recovery in Northern Ireland to provide the victims of political violence with the opportunity to express and articulate their narratives of suffering within the context of public dialogic processes. The book outlines an original model: that victims of political violence should be enabled to engage in meaningful truth recovery through a Habermasian process of public democratic deliberation and communication involving direct dialogue with the perpetrators of such violence. This process of ‘communicative justice’ is framed within Habermas' theory of communicative action, and can help to ensure that legitimate truth recovery publicly acknowledges the trauma of victims' and subjects' perpetrator narratives of political violence to critical scrutiny and rational deconstruction. Crucially, the book aims to contribute to the empowerment of victims in Northern Ireland by stimulating constructive discussion and awareness of hitherto silenced narratives of the conflict. This difficult and unsettling interrogation and interpretation of the conflict from a comparatively ‘unknown perspective’ is central to the prospects for critically examining and mastering the past in Northern Ireland.
Hamilton Hess
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780198269755
- eISBN:
- 9780191601163
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198269757.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies
Church councils and synods (terms used in the West and the East, respectively) began as gatherings of leaders and representatives from several church congregations for the resolution of issues of ...
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Church councils and synods (terms used in the West and the East, respectively) began as gatherings of leaders and representatives from several church congregations for the resolution of issues of shared concern by discussion and collective decision‐making. From the evidence available to us, such gatherings first appeared during the latter part of the second century, but the practice may have begun earlier. By the third century, strong congregational leadership by bishops had become almost universally established; and, as fully evidenced by the letters of Cyprian of Carthage, councils and synods became occasions for the assembly of neighbouring bishops for deliberation together with the bishop, clergy, and people of the host congregation. The procedures employed at these gatherings were patterned on those of civil government, the most directly influential model having apparently been the Roman Senate. While the strength and effectiveness of episcopal leadership continued to increase, during the third century the clergy and laity of the local congregation where the council or synod was held retained a voice in the proceedings. Two other conciliar styles—dialogic discussion and judicial investigation—were also adopted from civil models to ecclesiastical use during the third and fourth centuries.Less
Church councils and synods (terms used in the West and the East, respectively) began as gatherings of leaders and representatives from several church congregations for the resolution of issues of shared concern by discussion and collective decision‐making. From the evidence available to us, such gatherings first appeared during the latter part of the second century, but the practice may have begun earlier. By the third century, strong congregational leadership by bishops had become almost universally established; and, as fully evidenced by the letters of Cyprian of Carthage, councils and synods became occasions for the assembly of neighbouring bishops for deliberation together with the bishop, clergy, and people of the host congregation. The procedures employed at these gatherings were patterned on those of civil government, the most directly influential model having apparently been the Roman Senate. While the strength and effectiveness of episcopal leadership continued to increase, during the third century the clergy and laity of the local congregation where the council or synod was held retained a voice in the proceedings. Two other conciliar styles—dialogic discussion and judicial investigation—were also adopted from civil models to ecclesiastical use during the third and fourth centuries.
Christine Swanton
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780199253883
- eISBN:
- 9780191598517
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199253889.003.0013
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter discusses moral epistemology from a virtue ethical perspective, rejecting an account of virtuous agent as oracle, and replacing it with a virtue ethical kind of dialogic ethics.
This chapter discusses moral epistemology from a virtue ethical perspective, rejecting an account of virtuous agent as oracle, and replacing it with a virtue ethical kind of dialogic ethics.
Tony Hunt
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198159148
- eISBN:
- 9780191673528
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198159148.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
The Testament's dialogic nature becomes evident in the testator's animated spontaneity as he engages in debate with his audience, inscribed listeners, and imaginary interlocutors when combining ...
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The Testament's dialogic nature becomes evident in the testator's animated spontaneity as he engages in debate with his audience, inscribed listeners, and imaginary interlocutors when combining jovial complicity and dramatic verve in offering an interactive plurality of views. In stanza 4, he recognizes the expression of hostility to Bishop Thibault. As this veers away from the Church's ethical teaching, the teaching is ironized by how ‘compte’ rhymes with ‘a ce compte’. The audience becomes involved in the debate as the testator appears to expect that the audience move that his views be revised. The dislocation of syntax or hyperbaton and the completion of the deferred verb indicate how the author calculates the foregrounding of ‘annemy’ and the use of permissio.Less
The Testament's dialogic nature becomes evident in the testator's animated spontaneity as he engages in debate with his audience, inscribed listeners, and imaginary interlocutors when combining jovial complicity and dramatic verve in offering an interactive plurality of views. In stanza 4, he recognizes the expression of hostility to Bishop Thibault. As this veers away from the Church's ethical teaching, the teaching is ironized by how ‘compte’ rhymes with ‘a ce compte’. The audience becomes involved in the debate as the testator appears to expect that the audience move that his views be revised. The dislocation of syntax or hyperbaton and the completion of the deferred verb indicate how the author calculates the foregrounding of ‘annemy’ and the use of permissio.
Huatong Sun
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199744763
- eISBN:
- 9780199932993
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199744763.003.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Models and Architectures
This chapter explores why action and meaning is unintegrated in cross-cultural technology design from the angle of culture. It first assesses the status of culture in cross-cultural design practices; ...
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This chapter explores why action and meaning is unintegrated in cross-cultural technology design from the angle of culture. It first assesses the status of culture in cross-cultural design practices; discusses how narrow representations of local culture result in poor user experience of localized technologies; and reviews the movement of capturing local culture from the surface to its core with case studies of three approaches commonly adopted in cross-cultural design—DOs and DON’Ts, cultural dimensions, and structured fieldwork methods. To further contextualize the discussion, it examines the complex interactions between culture, technology, and design in a contemporary situation and develops a position for technology design that attends to both instrumentality and social circulation. Built on that, this chapter establishes a dialogic view of culture as a semantic space that connects action and meaning and describes local culture as the dynamic nexus of contextual interactions for requirements gathering in cross-cultural design practices.Less
This chapter explores why action and meaning is unintegrated in cross-cultural technology design from the angle of culture. It first assesses the status of culture in cross-cultural design practices; discusses how narrow representations of local culture result in poor user experience of localized technologies; and reviews the movement of capturing local culture from the surface to its core with case studies of three approaches commonly adopted in cross-cultural design—DOs and DON’Ts, cultural dimensions, and structured fieldwork methods. To further contextualize the discussion, it examines the complex interactions between culture, technology, and design in a contemporary situation and develops a position for technology design that attends to both instrumentality and social circulation. Built on that, this chapter establishes a dialogic view of culture as a semantic space that connects action and meaning and describes local culture as the dynamic nexus of contextual interactions for requirements gathering in cross-cultural design practices.
Alan Brudner
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199207251
- eISBN:
- 9780191705502
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199207251.003.0010
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter introduces the idea that unifies the several paradigms of penal justice competing for control of the penal law. It calls this idea dialogic community and exhibits its form of mutual ...
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This chapter introduces the idea that unifies the several paradigms of penal justice competing for control of the penal law. It calls this idea dialogic community and exhibits its form of mutual recognition as the latent theme of the paradigms explicitly ordered to formal agency, real autonomy, and citizenship. The chapter shows the self-contradictoriness of dialogic community insofar as it submerges the other paradigms into an undifferentiated unity, and it criticizes the practice of restorative justice insofar as it reflects this hegemony of the communitarian idea. The chapter then shows how a self-consistent idea of dialogic community requires the political community to respect the difference of each paradigm and to incorporate them as constituent elements of a complex whole. Finally, it argues that the unity of the paradigms harmonizes apparent contradictions in the law — for example, that harm is irrelevant to punishability but relevant to measure of punishment and to defence and that virtue is irrelevant to culpability yet excuses the culpable.Less
This chapter introduces the idea that unifies the several paradigms of penal justice competing for control of the penal law. It calls this idea dialogic community and exhibits its form of mutual recognition as the latent theme of the paradigms explicitly ordered to formal agency, real autonomy, and citizenship. The chapter shows the self-contradictoriness of dialogic community insofar as it submerges the other paradigms into an undifferentiated unity, and it criticizes the practice of restorative justice insofar as it reflects this hegemony of the communitarian idea. The chapter then shows how a self-consistent idea of dialogic community requires the political community to respect the difference of each paradigm and to incorporate them as constituent elements of a complex whole. Finally, it argues that the unity of the paradigms harmonizes apparent contradictions in the law — for example, that harm is irrelevant to punishability but relevant to measure of punishment and to defence and that virtue is irrelevant to culpability yet excuses the culpable.
Robert Innes, Leigh Gilchrist, Susan Friedman, and Kristen Tompkins
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780823268795
- eISBN:
- 9780823272518
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823268795.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
The educational philosophy of John Dewey and the contemporary constructivist learning theories that have evolved from his pragmatist perspective provide a foundation for guiding efforts to introduce ...
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The educational philosophy of John Dewey and the contemporary constructivist learning theories that have evolved from his pragmatist perspective provide a foundation for guiding efforts to introduce higher education reforms that harmonize the three global missions of the university: teaching and learning, research and scholarship, and service to communities and society. A broad principle of Dewey’s perspective is that useful knowledge is the unity of abstraction and application (i.e., praxis). Useful knowledge is constructed in communities of inquiry when learners in classrooms and participants in university-community partnerships engage in dialog to solve meaningful problems. Core concepts and practices consistent with pragmatism and constructivism are explored (e.g., participatory democracy, dialogic discourse, project-based learning, service learning, participatory research) in the context of efforts to enhance the quality of communication across cultural barriers in both the classroom and the community.Less
The educational philosophy of John Dewey and the contemporary constructivist learning theories that have evolved from his pragmatist perspective provide a foundation for guiding efforts to introduce higher education reforms that harmonize the three global missions of the university: teaching and learning, research and scholarship, and service to communities and society. A broad principle of Dewey’s perspective is that useful knowledge is the unity of abstraction and application (i.e., praxis). Useful knowledge is constructed in communities of inquiry when learners in classrooms and participants in university-community partnerships engage in dialog to solve meaningful problems. Core concepts and practices consistent with pragmatism and constructivism are explored (e.g., participatory democracy, dialogic discourse, project-based learning, service learning, participatory research) in the context of efforts to enhance the quality of communication across cultural barriers in both the classroom and the community.
Laura Scuriatti
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813056302
- eISBN:
- 9780813058085
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813056302.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
In Mina Loy’s Critical Modernism, Laura Scuriatti argues that Loy’s corpus of works produces a kind of “critical” modernism, making the case that Loy’s corpus exhibits a skeptical, detached attitude ...
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In Mina Loy’s Critical Modernism, Laura Scuriatti argues that Loy’s corpus of works produces a kind of “critical” modernism, making the case that Loy’s corpus exhibits a skeptical, detached attitude toward its own simultaneous celebration and criticism of modernist aesthetic paradigms. Most modernist works are self-reflexive in this regard, but Loy’s corpus creates for itself a space of dis-affiliation, which combines critique with self-critique, rather than forging a space of rebellion and antagonism. Scuriatti investigates the notions of the masterpiece and the sacred art object, especially in their relation to the market; the figure of the author and the value of authorship; the embattled relationship between art and politics; the artwork's relationship to national language, identity and rootlessness. Scuriatti provides a new, in-depth investigation of specific aspects of the Florentine and Italian context in particular, which have so far been neglected by scholarship. Specifically, attention is devoted to the Florentine avant-garde journal Lacerba, and to the works of Giovanni Papini, Ada Negri and Enif Robert. The volume presents new insights into Loy’s feminism and argues that her texts respond to the rewriting of Otto Weininger’s then widely influential theories in the magazine Lacerba. Drawing on Adriana Cavarero’s, Luisa Muraro’s and Teresa de Lauretis’s claims, this study also rethinks the concept of eccentricity, conceived not as “aberrant”, but as consciously anti-normative, anti-idealistic and self-critical, in relation to modernist aesthetics. It shows that Loy’s texts present dialogic, “narratable,” “eccentric” selves and subjectivities, which create uncomfortable critical spaces within modernism as a broad movement.Less
In Mina Loy’s Critical Modernism, Laura Scuriatti argues that Loy’s corpus of works produces a kind of “critical” modernism, making the case that Loy’s corpus exhibits a skeptical, detached attitude toward its own simultaneous celebration and criticism of modernist aesthetic paradigms. Most modernist works are self-reflexive in this regard, but Loy’s corpus creates for itself a space of dis-affiliation, which combines critique with self-critique, rather than forging a space of rebellion and antagonism. Scuriatti investigates the notions of the masterpiece and the sacred art object, especially in their relation to the market; the figure of the author and the value of authorship; the embattled relationship between art and politics; the artwork's relationship to national language, identity and rootlessness. Scuriatti provides a new, in-depth investigation of specific aspects of the Florentine and Italian context in particular, which have so far been neglected by scholarship. Specifically, attention is devoted to the Florentine avant-garde journal Lacerba, and to the works of Giovanni Papini, Ada Negri and Enif Robert. The volume presents new insights into Loy’s feminism and argues that her texts respond to the rewriting of Otto Weininger’s then widely influential theories in the magazine Lacerba. Drawing on Adriana Cavarero’s, Luisa Muraro’s and Teresa de Lauretis’s claims, this study also rethinks the concept of eccentricity, conceived not as “aberrant”, but as consciously anti-normative, anti-idealistic and self-critical, in relation to modernist aesthetics. It shows that Loy’s texts present dialogic, “narratable,” “eccentric” selves and subjectivities, which create uncomfortable critical spaces within modernism as a broad movement.
Jacqueline Howard
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198119920
- eISBN:
- 9780191671258
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198119920.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter first states the usefulness of Bakhtin's theory of dialogism for an understanding of the structure of the Gothic, which is often considered to be an inferior genre because of its lack of ...
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This chapter first states the usefulness of Bakhtin's theory of dialogism for an understanding of the structure of the Gothic, which is often considered to be an inferior genre because of its lack of structural and/or thematic unity. This is followed by a consideration of the main issues or problems in recent discussions of the Gothic's thematic and structural dimensions. In the process, it takes up suggestions by Marxist critics that 18th-century Gothic narratives can be read as part of a process of cultural mythmaking and that ‘fantasy’ elements provide the Gothic's potential for subversion. With reference to the work of Tzvetan Todorov, Rosemary Jackson, and Gerhard Hoffmann, it discusses how we are to theorize the literary fantastic and its place in Gothic fiction. The final section of the chapter outlines Bakhtin's concepts of dialogism, heteroglossia, stylization, and intentionality as presented in The Dialogic Imagination, in order to suggest an approach to reading Gothic texts which foregrounds their hybrid nature and enables us to reconstruct some of their semantic potential for the readers to whom they were addressed.Less
This chapter first states the usefulness of Bakhtin's theory of dialogism for an understanding of the structure of the Gothic, which is often considered to be an inferior genre because of its lack of structural and/or thematic unity. This is followed by a consideration of the main issues or problems in recent discussions of the Gothic's thematic and structural dimensions. In the process, it takes up suggestions by Marxist critics that 18th-century Gothic narratives can be read as part of a process of cultural mythmaking and that ‘fantasy’ elements provide the Gothic's potential for subversion. With reference to the work of Tzvetan Todorov, Rosemary Jackson, and Gerhard Hoffmann, it discusses how we are to theorize the literary fantastic and its place in Gothic fiction. The final section of the chapter outlines Bakhtin's concepts of dialogism, heteroglossia, stylization, and intentionality as presented in The Dialogic Imagination, in order to suggest an approach to reading Gothic texts which foregrounds their hybrid nature and enables us to reconstruct some of their semantic potential for the readers to whom they were addressed.
Adam Zachary Newton
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780823283958
- eISBN:
- 9780823286096
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823283958.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This book tells the story of a Jewish Studies that hasn’t yet happened—at least not fully. At bottom, the modest version of a swerve it performs is to ask: what do we mean when we say, “Jewish ...
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This book tells the story of a Jewish Studies that hasn’t yet happened—at least not fully. At bottom, the modest version of a swerve it performs is to ask: what do we mean when we say, “Jewish Studies,” when we conjoin its component terms, when a field takes up its past and projects its future, when we imagine it not as mere amalgam but project? JS offers a unique lens through which to view the horizon of the academic humanities because, though it arrived belatedly, it has spanned a range of disciplinary locations and configurations, from an “origin story” in nineteenth-century historicism and philology to the emancipatory politics of the Enlightenment, to the ethnicity-driven pluralism of the postwar decades, to more recent configurations within an interdisciplinary cultural studies. The conflicted allegiances in respect to traditions, disciplines, divisions, stakes, and stakeholders represent the structural and historical situation of the field as it comes into contact with the humanities more broadly. JSAC reconceives Jewish Studies as an agent of that force Jacques Derrida calls “leverage” both in relation to the humanities and to its own multiple possibilities, its pluralities of position, practice, and method. As one of several images marshaled, the lever functions not just to theorize or conjure JS but to figure it, to recast the enterprise through a series of elastic and catalytic tropes. In that way, the book seeks to harness the dialogical possibilities offered by the evolving collection of forces by which JS is constituted and practiced in order to open, refashion, and exemplify possibilities for a humanities to come.Less
This book tells the story of a Jewish Studies that hasn’t yet happened—at least not fully. At bottom, the modest version of a swerve it performs is to ask: what do we mean when we say, “Jewish Studies,” when we conjoin its component terms, when a field takes up its past and projects its future, when we imagine it not as mere amalgam but project? JS offers a unique lens through which to view the horizon of the academic humanities because, though it arrived belatedly, it has spanned a range of disciplinary locations and configurations, from an “origin story” in nineteenth-century historicism and philology to the emancipatory politics of the Enlightenment, to the ethnicity-driven pluralism of the postwar decades, to more recent configurations within an interdisciplinary cultural studies. The conflicted allegiances in respect to traditions, disciplines, divisions, stakes, and stakeholders represent the structural and historical situation of the field as it comes into contact with the humanities more broadly. JSAC reconceives Jewish Studies as an agent of that force Jacques Derrida calls “leverage” both in relation to the humanities and to its own multiple possibilities, its pluralities of position, practice, and method. As one of several images marshaled, the lever functions not just to theorize or conjure JS but to figure it, to recast the enterprise through a series of elastic and catalytic tropes. In that way, the book seeks to harness the dialogical possibilities offered by the evolving collection of forces by which JS is constituted and practiced in order to open, refashion, and exemplify possibilities for a humanities to come.
Carol A. Newsom
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195396287
- eISBN:
- 9780199852420
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195396287.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This chapter argues for the recuperation of genre as a critical category for understanding the book of Job. Here is a means by which Kautzsch’s frustrated and impatient questions can be turned from ...
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This chapter argues for the recuperation of genre as a critical category for understanding the book of Job. Here is a means by which Kautzsch’s frustrated and impatient questions can be turned from rhetorical into serious ones to which serious answers can be given. To do this, however, one must have a more robust theory and a more thoroughgoing analysis of genre than historical criticism was prepared to conduct. Yet in order to avoid the “Humpty Dumpty” effect that can come from privileging differences within the book, this revaluation of genre must be closely linked to an alternative understanding of literary unity, authorship, and truth. This understanding is based neither on the modernist assumptions of historical criticism and New Critical literary approaches nor on the assumptions of deconstruction. This approach is based rather on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, particularly his distinction between monologic and dialogic truth and his conception of the polyphonic text.Less
This chapter argues for the recuperation of genre as a critical category for understanding the book of Job. Here is a means by which Kautzsch’s frustrated and impatient questions can be turned from rhetorical into serious ones to which serious answers can be given. To do this, however, one must have a more robust theory and a more thoroughgoing analysis of genre than historical criticism was prepared to conduct. Yet in order to avoid the “Humpty Dumpty” effect that can come from privileging differences within the book, this revaluation of genre must be closely linked to an alternative understanding of literary unity, authorship, and truth. This understanding is based neither on the modernist assumptions of historical criticism and New Critical literary approaches nor on the assumptions of deconstruction. This approach is based rather on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, particularly his distinction between monologic and dialogic truth and his conception of the polyphonic text.
Gavin Alexander
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199285471
- eISBN:
- 9780191713941
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199285471.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This chapter studies Sidney's writings in detail and develops two models for thinking about how their own internal dynamics condition the relationship between Sidney and his followers and imitators: ...
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This chapter studies Sidney's writings in detail and develops two models for thinking about how their own internal dynamics condition the relationship between Sidney and his followers and imitators: dialogue and incompletion. The first is framed with reference to the literary and philosophical tradition of dialogue, as well as to the literary theory of Bakhtin and the hermeneutics of Gadamer. The second centres its thinking around the rhetorical figure aposiopesis (the broken sentence) and looks at broken sentences and other kinds of interruption in Sidney's writings. Both models make use of the classical and Renaissance theory of rhetoric, and especially of rhetoric books based on Sidney's own writings, by Fraunce and Hoskyns. Both offer readers and later writers a way of thinking of Sidney's texts as open, dialogic, starting conversations, asking questions, leaving things unsaid, and therefore in need of some kind of response.Less
This chapter studies Sidney's writings in detail and develops two models for thinking about how their own internal dynamics condition the relationship between Sidney and his followers and imitators: dialogue and incompletion. The first is framed with reference to the literary and philosophical tradition of dialogue, as well as to the literary theory of Bakhtin and the hermeneutics of Gadamer. The second centres its thinking around the rhetorical figure aposiopesis (the broken sentence) and looks at broken sentences and other kinds of interruption in Sidney's writings. Both models make use of the classical and Renaissance theory of rhetoric, and especially of rhetoric books based on Sidney's own writings, by Fraunce and Hoskyns. Both offer readers and later writers a way of thinking of Sidney's texts as open, dialogic, starting conversations, asking questions, leaving things unsaid, and therefore in need of some kind of response.
Deborah Tannen, Shari Kendall, and Cynthia Gordon
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195313895
- eISBN:
- 9780199871940
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195313895.003.0011
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter uses a Bakhtinian dialogic approach to demonstrate how families socialize children in interactions prompted by television programs. It explores the relationship between the public and ...
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This chapter uses a Bakhtinian dialogic approach to demonstrate how families socialize children in interactions prompted by television programs. It explores the relationship between the public and the private in family discourse by examining how family members linguistically engage with each other as they watch television. Family members negotiate and maintain their family's values, beliefs, and identities by repeating words and phrases from television programs. By combining the concept of repetition as a discourse feature with Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogicality and Julia Kristeva's intertextuality, this chapter argues that the public and private interpenetrate within interactions in which family members repeat television texts. She demonstrates that family members do not passively repeat words and phrases from television texts but create a “dialogic unity”—a complex combination of public and private that is saturated with previous and new meanings. This type of family talk both reflects and transforms the lives of the viewers and links family members with the world that lies outside their circle of family and friends.Less
This chapter uses a Bakhtinian dialogic approach to demonstrate how families socialize children in interactions prompted by television programs. It explores the relationship between the public and the private in family discourse by examining how family members linguistically engage with each other as they watch television. Family members negotiate and maintain their family's values, beliefs, and identities by repeating words and phrases from television programs. By combining the concept of repetition as a discourse feature with Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogicality and Julia Kristeva's intertextuality, this chapter argues that the public and private interpenetrate within interactions in which family members repeat television texts. She demonstrates that family members do not passively repeat words and phrases from television texts but create a “dialogic unity”—a complex combination of public and private that is saturated with previous and new meanings. This type of family talk both reflects and transforms the lives of the viewers and links family members with the world that lies outside their circle of family and friends.
FRED PARKER
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199253180
- eISBN:
- 9780191719189
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199253180.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
Johnson's counter-sceptical impulses towards conclusiveness and general assertion in argument existed in a vital, dialogic tension, often expressed as irony, with his understanding of thinking as an ...
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Johnson's counter-sceptical impulses towards conclusiveness and general assertion in argument existed in a vital, dialogic tension, often expressed as irony, with his understanding of thinking as an open-ended, ongoing process where conclusions are at best partial and provisional. Finality in argument was coloured for Johnson by the dread with which he contemplated the finality of life, and the general conclusiveness of The Vanity of Human Wishes is cogent only because it is totalisingly bleak. Rasselas, differently but correspondently, finds a tenuous comedy, perhaps ground for affirmation, in the inability to draw general conclusions, an inability essentially sceptical. These matters are related to the conclusiveness of Johnson's style, which is inflected with irony in a manner not always acknowledged, and to the Boswellian construction of ‘Dr Johnson’ as an authority figure, yet paradoxically singular and un-normative in his performance of that role.Less
Johnson's counter-sceptical impulses towards conclusiveness and general assertion in argument existed in a vital, dialogic tension, often expressed as irony, with his understanding of thinking as an open-ended, ongoing process where conclusions are at best partial and provisional. Finality in argument was coloured for Johnson by the dread with which he contemplated the finality of life, and the general conclusiveness of The Vanity of Human Wishes is cogent only because it is totalisingly bleak. Rasselas, differently but correspondently, finds a tenuous comedy, perhaps ground for affirmation, in the inability to draw general conclusions, an inability essentially sceptical. These matters are related to the conclusiveness of Johnson's style, which is inflected with irony in a manner not always acknowledged, and to the Boswellian construction of ‘Dr Johnson’ as an authority figure, yet paradoxically singular and un-normative in his performance of that role.
Moshe Simon-Shoshan
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199773732
- eISBN:
- 9780199933129
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199773732.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
Chapter four explores the implications the finding that Mishnah is a heterogeneous text from a literary point of view. In contrast to earlier approaches the Mishnah that either emphasize the history ...
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Chapter four explores the implications the finding that Mishnah is a heterogeneous text from a literary point of view. In contrast to earlier approaches the Mishnah that either emphasize the history of the text or seek out the texts underlying unity, this chapter proposes a “dialogic” approach to the Mishnah based on the work of M M Bakhtin. In this view the meaning of the Mishnah emerges from the interaction of the different voices of the Mishnah as represented by a spectrum of approaches to the law. On the one end we have the apodictic approach which sees law as an unchanging and universal system of rules and principles, much like a natural science. The law in any given situation emerges from a proper application of the rules to the case at hand. On the other extreme, the narrative approach to law views law as a dynamic process whose ultimate expression is the issuing of a ruling regarding a specific case. General rules and principles are at best only non-binding summaries of earlier rulings. The narrative approach to law views law as a dynamic process whose ultimate expression is the issuing of a ruling regarding a specific case. General rules and principles are at best only non-binding summaries of earlier rulings. The Mishnah thus conducts an ongoing dialog between these two approaches to halakhah and the possibilities that lie between them.Less
Chapter four explores the implications the finding that Mishnah is a heterogeneous text from a literary point of view. In contrast to earlier approaches the Mishnah that either emphasize the history of the text or seek out the texts underlying unity, this chapter proposes a “dialogic” approach to the Mishnah based on the work of M M Bakhtin. In this view the meaning of the Mishnah emerges from the interaction of the different voices of the Mishnah as represented by a spectrum of approaches to the law. On the one end we have the apodictic approach which sees law as an unchanging and universal system of rules and principles, much like a natural science. The law in any given situation emerges from a proper application of the rules to the case at hand. On the other extreme, the narrative approach to law views law as a dynamic process whose ultimate expression is the issuing of a ruling regarding a specific case. General rules and principles are at best only non-binding summaries of earlier rulings. The narrative approach to law views law as a dynamic process whose ultimate expression is the issuing of a ruling regarding a specific case. General rules and principles are at best only non-binding summaries of earlier rulings. The Mishnah thus conducts an ongoing dialog between these two approaches to halakhah and the possibilities that lie between them.
Peter Ramsay
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199581061
- eISBN:
- 9780191741005
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199581061.003.0010
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter assesses the penal protection of the right to security in the terms of thee recently published broadly liberal theories of criminal law: Douglas Husak's theory of the limits of ...
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This chapter assesses the penal protection of the right to security in the terms of thee recently published broadly liberal theories of criminal law: Douglas Husak's theory of the limits of criminalization; Markus Dubber's critique of the police power; and Alan Brudner's theory of dialogic community. The enemy criminal law theory of Gunther Jakobs is also briefly considered. The purpose of the assessment is to understand the relationship of the right to security to liberalism. It argues that from the point of view of liberal political theories of criminal law, protection of the right to security is inconsistent with the state's authority understood either as a traditional (and essentially illiberal) patriarchal order or as a modern liberal state.Less
This chapter assesses the penal protection of the right to security in the terms of thee recently published broadly liberal theories of criminal law: Douglas Husak's theory of the limits of criminalization; Markus Dubber's critique of the police power; and Alan Brudner's theory of dialogic community. The enemy criminal law theory of Gunther Jakobs is also briefly considered. The purpose of the assessment is to understand the relationship of the right to security to liberalism. It argues that from the point of view of liberal political theories of criminal law, protection of the right to security is inconsistent with the state's authority understood either as a traditional (and essentially illiberal) patriarchal order or as a modern liberal state.
Robert Baron
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781496805980
- eISBN:
- 9781496806024
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496805980.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
The prologue reflects on the relationship of conventional museum curatorial practice to Smithsonian Folklife Festival curatorial practices. In particular, it examines the multiple mediations in which ...
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The prologue reflects on the relationship of conventional museum curatorial practice to Smithsonian Folklife Festival curatorial practices. In particular, it examines the multiple mediations in which Festival curators are involved and the process of “presenting” artists and participants to the public. It raises questions about the perils of objectification of artists within these “living exhibitions” and argues for dialogic approaches to developing Festival programs that incorporate participatory or community curation.Less
The prologue reflects on the relationship of conventional museum curatorial practice to Smithsonian Folklife Festival curatorial practices. In particular, it examines the multiple mediations in which Festival curators are involved and the process of “presenting” artists and participants to the public. It raises questions about the perils of objectification of artists within these “living exhibitions” and argues for dialogic approaches to developing Festival programs that incorporate participatory or community curation.
