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Pathways to Conservative Identification: The Politics of Ideological Contradiction in the United States

Christopher Ellis and James A. Stimson

in Facing the Challenge of Democracy: Explorations in the Analysis of Public Opinion and Political Participation

This chapter considers a long-standing paradox in American public opinion: that the American public is, on average, operationally liberal and at the same time symbolically conservative. It discusses ... More

This chapter considers a long-standing paradox in American public opinion: that the American public is, on average, operationally liberal and at the same time symbolically conservative. It discusses the reasons for and implications of it, working to understand why so many citizens who hold predominantly liberal policy preferences identify as ideological conservatives. This chapter argues that because of its nonpolitical connotations and the way in which it is used by political elites, the ideological label “conservative” is both more popular and more multidimensional than the label “liberal.” It suggests three general “pathways” through which an individual can approach the decision to identify as ideological conservatives.Less

The Arms in the Sky: Diffraction of a Narrative Theme

Alessandro Barchiesi

in Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative

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 ... More

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

A Jewel Shining in the Mud: Love and Money in Konjiki yasha

in An Age of Melodrama: Family, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the Turn-of-the-Century Japanese Novel

This chapter examines the issues about love and money in the melodramatic novel Konjiki yasha by Ozaki Kōyō. It analyzes how this novel attempts to mobilize melodrama's binary morality and shows that ... More

This chapter examines the issues about love and money in the melodramatic novel Konjiki yasha by Ozaki Kōyō. It analyzes how this novel attempts to mobilize melodrama's binary morality and shows that the passions in this novel are produced as much by ideological failure as by ideological certitude. This chapter argues that the novel exhibits ideological contradiction on many levels and contends that it fails to uphold a binary opposition between “momentary” money and eternal love.Less

But There's Your Mother and Your Work: The Family and the Nation in Hototogisu

in An Age of Melodrama: Family, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the Turn-of-the-Century Japanese Novel

This chapter examines the models of family and their relationship to the nation in the Japanese melodrama Hototogisu by Tokutomi Roka. It examines how this novel negotiates extra-literary discourses ... More

This chapter examines the models of family and their relationship to the nation in the Japanese melodrama Hototogisu by Tokutomi Roka. It examines how this novel negotiates extra-literary discourses involving representations of family, gender and status and analyzes it representation of temporality. This chapter also argues that the ideological contradiction of this melodrama traces a trajectory toward an exclusively male fictive family serving the interconnected needs of manliness and nationalism.Less