Angela Smith
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198183983
- eISBN:
- 9780191674167
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198183983.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Long after the death of Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923), Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) described being haunted by her in dreams. Through detailed comparative readings of their fiction, letters, and ...
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Long after the death of Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923), Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) described being haunted by her in dreams. Through detailed comparative readings of their fiction, letters, and diaries, this book explores the intense affinity between the two writers. Their particular inflection of modernism is interpreted through their shared experience as ‘threshold people’, familiar with the liminal, for each of them a zone of transition and habitation. Writing at a time when the First World War and changing attitudes to empire problematized boundaries and definitions of foreignness, this book shows how the fiction of both Mansfield and Woolf is characterised by moments of disorienting suspension in which the perceiving consciousness sees the familiar made strange, and the domestic made menacing.Less
Long after the death of Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923), Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) described being haunted by her in dreams. Through detailed comparative readings of their fiction, letters, and diaries, this book explores the intense affinity between the two writers. Their particular inflection of modernism is interpreted through their shared experience as ‘threshold people’, familiar with the liminal, for each of them a zone of transition and habitation. Writing at a time when the First World War and changing attitudes to empire problematized boundaries and definitions of foreignness, this book shows how the fiction of both Mansfield and Woolf is characterised by moments of disorienting suspension in which the perceiving consciousness sees the familiar made strange, and the domestic made menacing.
Catherine Conybeare
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780199262083
- eISBN:
- 9780191603761
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019926208x.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies
The Cassiciacum dialogues present Augustine in a liminal state. He chose the genre of philosophical dialogue for his first public statements as a would-be Christian to encapsulate that sense of ...
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The Cassiciacum dialogues present Augustine in a liminal state. He chose the genre of philosophical dialogue for his first public statements as a would-be Christian to encapsulate that sense of liminality. He uses the relative informality of the genre to open up questions about the relationship of language to reality, underplay his conclusions, and let his readers take the conversation further for themselves.Less
The Cassiciacum dialogues present Augustine in a liminal state. He chose the genre of philosophical dialogue for his first public statements as a would-be Christian to encapsulate that sense of liminality. He uses the relative informality of the genre to open up questions about the relationship of language to reality, underplay his conclusions, and let his readers take the conversation further for themselves.
Mark I. Wallace
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195176452
- eISBN:
- 9780199785308
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195176452.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter discusses how fresh reactions to 9/11 were dealt with in the classroom. In a class on religion and ecology, a variety of contemplative practices and social fieldwork projects were used, ...
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This chapter discusses how fresh reactions to 9/11 were dealt with in the classroom. In a class on religion and ecology, a variety of contemplative practices and social fieldwork projects were used, but unexpected rituals were born when the class was taken into the woods. There the natural world created a liminal space in which the students were able to stop, sense, feel, speak, and reflect in healing forms of shared communication. The chapter describes the experience of taking risks with a religion class, those that are planned and also the challenge of those that are unplanned.Less
This chapter discusses how fresh reactions to 9/11 were dealt with in the classroom. In a class on religion and ecology, a variety of contemplative practices and social fieldwork projects were used, but unexpected rituals were born when the class was taken into the woods. There the natural world created a liminal space in which the students were able to stop, sense, feel, speak, and reflect in healing forms of shared communication. The chapter describes the experience of taking risks with a religion class, those that are planned and also the challenge of those that are unplanned.
Rachel Stanworth
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- November 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198525110
- eISBN:
- 9780191730504
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198525110.003.0008
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making, Palliative Medicine Research
This chapter discusses the metaphors of marginality and liminality, which provide alternative ‘orderings’ or meanings to events that initially may appear synonymous. These metaphors challenge ...
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This chapter discusses the metaphors of marginality and liminality, which provide alternative ‘orderings’ or meanings to events that initially may appear synonymous. These metaphors challenge personal identity, and either can be experienced as painful. However, the liminal situation harbours a dynamic and potential that eludes the purely marginal. The potential and range of either metaphor to mediate ultimate or spiritual concerns will become more apparent as the prism presented in Chapter 6 is further constructed.Less
This chapter discusses the metaphors of marginality and liminality, which provide alternative ‘orderings’ or meanings to events that initially may appear synonymous. These metaphors challenge personal identity, and either can be experienced as painful. However, the liminal situation harbours a dynamic and potential that eludes the purely marginal. The potential and range of either metaphor to mediate ultimate or spiritual concerns will become more apparent as the prism presented in Chapter 6 is further constructed.
Niels Christian Hvidt
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195314472
- eISBN:
- 9780199785346
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195314472.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
The reality and truth of divine revelation is realized most of all in the lived faith of the church. It is here that prophecy has played its most significant role. Prophets are not called mainly to ...
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The reality and truth of divine revelation is realized most of all in the lived faith of the church. It is here that prophecy has played its most significant role. Prophets are not called mainly to change tradition but to enliven it. Alessandro Toniolo's reception of the works of Victor Turner provides a deeper insight in the way this occurs. According to the modality of structure, antistructure, and restructurization, the inner dynamism of prophecy is such that it may lead people to new ways of realizing and living the core of Christian faith. In doing so, they may appear as marginal and as if departing from the core of the church, but in reality they are rearranging the way they live the Christian mystery in ways that better fit their times. The inner power of true prophecy is not centrifugal but centripetal, leading anew towards the core of faith.Less
The reality and truth of divine revelation is realized most of all in the lived faith of the church. It is here that prophecy has played its most significant role. Prophets are not called mainly to change tradition but to enliven it. Alessandro Toniolo's reception of the works of Victor Turner provides a deeper insight in the way this occurs. According to the modality of structure, antistructure, and restructurization, the inner dynamism of prophecy is such that it may lead people to new ways of realizing and living the core of Christian faith. In doing so, they may appear as marginal and as if departing from the core of the church, but in reality they are rearranging the way they live the Christian mystery in ways that better fit their times. The inner power of true prophecy is not centrifugal but centripetal, leading anew towards the core of faith.
Hans H. Penner
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195385823
- eISBN:
- 9780199870073
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195385823.003.0019
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
This chapter continues the interpretation and analysis started in Chapter 18 of the legends as “rites of passage.” The distinguishing character of the legends as such a rite in Buddhism is ...
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This chapter continues the interpretation and analysis started in Chapter 18 of the legends as “rites of passage.” The distinguishing character of the legends as such a rite in Buddhism is asceticism. The legends of Part I, Vessantara, the Buddha, and the Universal Monarch, are the test cases for the interpretation.Less
This chapter continues the interpretation and analysis started in Chapter 18 of the legends as “rites of passage.” The distinguishing character of the legends as such a rite in Buddhism is asceticism. The legends of Part I, Vessantara, the Buddha, and the Universal Monarch, are the test cases for the interpretation.
Anna Servaes
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781628462104
- eISBN:
- 9781626745599
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628462104.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Social Groups
Travel with La Guiannée in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri and Prairie du Rocher, Illinois to glimpse the Franco-American cultural identity in these two Midwestern communities that have continued for over ...
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Travel with La Guiannée in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri and Prairie du Rocher, Illinois to glimpse the Franco-American cultural identity in these two Midwestern communities that have continued for over 250 years and even have survived language loss due in part to socio-political pressures. Cultural identity presents itself in many forms, not just language, and appears as festivals and traditional celebrations, which take on a more profound and visible role when language loss occurs. On New Year’s Eve, the guionneurs, those who participate in the celebration, disguise themselves in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century costume and travel throughout their community, singing and wishing New Year’s greetings to other members of the community. This celebration, like others, such as the Cajun Mardi Gras in Louisiana, Mumming in Ireland and Newfoundland, and the Carnaval de Binche, belong to a category of begging quest festivals that have existed since the Medieval Age. These festivals may also be adaptations or evolutions of pre-Christian pagan rituals. Part one creates an historical context of the development of the French mentality and cultural identity as well as an historical context of La Guiannée in order to compare and understand the contemporary identity and celebration. Part two analyzes the celebration to create an affirmation of community by using liminal theories proposed by Victor Turner, who states that during such rites or rituals, individuals undergo a transformation to reveal cultural information to others. Part three discusses cultural continuity and its relationship to language to reveal contemporary expressions of the Franco-American identity.Less
Travel with La Guiannée in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri and Prairie du Rocher, Illinois to glimpse the Franco-American cultural identity in these two Midwestern communities that have continued for over 250 years and even have survived language loss due in part to socio-political pressures. Cultural identity presents itself in many forms, not just language, and appears as festivals and traditional celebrations, which take on a more profound and visible role when language loss occurs. On New Year’s Eve, the guionneurs, those who participate in the celebration, disguise themselves in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century costume and travel throughout their community, singing and wishing New Year’s greetings to other members of the community. This celebration, like others, such as the Cajun Mardi Gras in Louisiana, Mumming in Ireland and Newfoundland, and the Carnaval de Binche, belong to a category of begging quest festivals that have existed since the Medieval Age. These festivals may also be adaptations or evolutions of pre-Christian pagan rituals. Part one creates an historical context of the development of the French mentality and cultural identity as well as an historical context of La Guiannée in order to compare and understand the contemporary identity and celebration. Part two analyzes the celebration to create an affirmation of community by using liminal theories proposed by Victor Turner, who states that during such rites or rituals, individuals undergo a transformation to reveal cultural information to others. Part three discusses cultural continuity and its relationship to language to reveal contemporary expressions of the Franco-American identity.
Elizabeth F. Evans and Sarah E. Cornish (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780984259830
- eISBN:
- 9781781382226
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780984259830.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This book contains chapters selected from the nearly 200 papers delivered at the nineteenth annual international conference on Virginia Woolf. The volume includes an introduction, the conference ...
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This book contains chapters selected from the nearly 200 papers delivered at the nineteenth annual international conference on Virginia Woolf. The volume includes an introduction, the conference keynote addresses, and twenty-five other chapters organized around six presiding themes: navigating London; spatial perceptions and the cityscape; regarding others; the literary public sphere; border crossings, and liminal landscapes; and teaching Woolf, Woolf teaching. The book also includes a special session of the conference, a round-table conversation on Woolf's legacy in and out of the academy. Beyond the volume's focus on urban issues, many of the chapters address the ethical and political implications of Woolf's work, a move that suggests new insights into Woolf as a “real world” social critic.Less
This book contains chapters selected from the nearly 200 papers delivered at the nineteenth annual international conference on Virginia Woolf. The volume includes an introduction, the conference keynote addresses, and twenty-five other chapters organized around six presiding themes: navigating London; spatial perceptions and the cityscape; regarding others; the literary public sphere; border crossings, and liminal landscapes; and teaching Woolf, Woolf teaching. The book also includes a special session of the conference, a round-table conversation on Woolf's legacy in and out of the academy. Beyond the volume's focus on urban issues, many of the chapters address the ethical and political implications of Woolf's work, a move that suggests new insights into Woolf as a “real world” social critic.
Sarah Kingston
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780748694266
- eISBN:
- 9781474412391
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694266.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter explores the function of sleep habits and insomnia in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End and Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, arguing that insomnia is an embodiment of the ...
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This chapter explores the function of sleep habits and insomnia in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End and Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, arguing that insomnia is an embodiment of the individual's resistance to military discipline, loss of privacy, and the subjection of one's body to authoritative control. Insomnia, a liminal state between sleeping and waking, pits the body against the mind or mind against the body, and in doing so illustrates the failure of disciplinary mechanisms to completely regulate individual behaviours. Further, the phenomenology of insomnia is in many ways similar to the phenomenology of experience in the First World War, especially given the war's association with exhaustion and fatigue, nocturnal activity, a sense of endlessness, and idiosyncratic temporality, making it an apt device through which to express the anxieties associated with participation in the war.Less
This chapter explores the function of sleep habits and insomnia in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End and Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, arguing that insomnia is an embodiment of the individual's resistance to military discipline, loss of privacy, and the subjection of one's body to authoritative control. Insomnia, a liminal state between sleeping and waking, pits the body against the mind or mind against the body, and in doing so illustrates the failure of disciplinary mechanisms to completely regulate individual behaviours. Further, the phenomenology of insomnia is in many ways similar to the phenomenology of experience in the First World War, especially given the war's association with exhaustion and fatigue, nocturnal activity, a sense of endlessness, and idiosyncratic temporality, making it an apt device through which to express the anxieties associated with participation in the war.
Mense Siegfried
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198523345
- eISBN:
- 9780191724527
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198523345.003.0007
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Sensory and Motor Systems
A nociceptor has been defined as a receptive ending that is activated by noxious (tissue threatening, subjectively painful) stimuli, is capable by its response behaviour of distinguishing between ...
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A nociceptor has been defined as a receptive ending that is activated by noxious (tissue threatening, subjectively painful) stimuli, is capable by its response behaviour of distinguishing between innocuous and noxious events, and encodes the intensity of noxious stimuli. When tested with graded natural stimuli (mechanical, chemical, thermal), these receptors do not respond to stimuli such as that which occurs during the normal activity of the muscle but rather it requires noxious intensities of stimulation for activation. A liminal activation of a muscle nociceptor may occur if the intensity of stimulation approaches noxious levels without damaging the tissue. Teleologically, this property is important, since a nociceptor is supposed not only to signal tissue damage but also to prevent its occurrence.Less
A nociceptor has been defined as a receptive ending that is activated by noxious (tissue threatening, subjectively painful) stimuli, is capable by its response behaviour of distinguishing between innocuous and noxious events, and encodes the intensity of noxious stimuli. When tested with graded natural stimuli (mechanical, chemical, thermal), these receptors do not respond to stimuli such as that which occurs during the normal activity of the muscle but rather it requires noxious intensities of stimulation for activation. A liminal activation of a muscle nociceptor may occur if the intensity of stimulation approaches noxious levels without damaging the tissue. Teleologically, this property is important, since a nociceptor is supposed not only to signal tissue damage but also to prevent its occurrence.
Rachelle Hope Saltzman
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719079771
- eISBN:
- 9781781704080
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719079771.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Social History
‘Images of the Volunteers’: media versus memory’ presents and analyzes the differences between the media's take on the volunteers and those of individuals. While media accounts tended to be ...
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‘Images of the Volunteers’: media versus memory’ presents and analyzes the differences between the media's take on the volunteers and those of individuals. While media accounts tended to be summarizing and focused on titled or well-placed volunteers, those of individuals provide a variety of motives for volunteering as well as more mundane details about the work involved. Both sources detailed liminal qualities of volunteer life—the temporary shelters, extra license and freedoms afforded to youthful volunteers, the sheer excitement of doing something out of the ordinary. Individual accounts, however, tended to emphasize the often hard and tedious work involved. The media did their level best to concentrate on elite volunteers, creating an image that has endured in the collective memory. In contrast, oral history interviews provide a more complete perspective and serve in part to refute the popular image of the volunteers.Less
‘Images of the Volunteers’: media versus memory’ presents and analyzes the differences between the media's take on the volunteers and those of individuals. While media accounts tended to be summarizing and focused on titled or well-placed volunteers, those of individuals provide a variety of motives for volunteering as well as more mundane details about the work involved. Both sources detailed liminal qualities of volunteer life—the temporary shelters, extra license and freedoms afforded to youthful volunteers, the sheer excitement of doing something out of the ordinary. Individual accounts, however, tended to emphasize the often hard and tedious work involved. The media did their level best to concentrate on elite volunteers, creating an image that has endured in the collective memory. In contrast, oral history interviews provide a more complete perspective and serve in part to refute the popular image of the volunteers.
Andrew Smith
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719074462
- eISBN:
- 9781781700006
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719074462.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter examines a theory of spectrality that relates it to a specific field of economics. It shows that the connections between economics and the ghostly relate to the perception of paper ...
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This chapter examines a theory of spectrality that relates it to a specific field of economics. It shows that the connections between economics and the ghostly relate to the perception of paper money, at a time when such promissory notes were redeemed for gold. It reveals that paper money was previously considered as spectral money (not ‘real’), and like ghosts had a liminal presence. This chapter also aims to present a new theorisation of the spectral that allows a re-reading of the economic contexts of the nineteenth century.Less
This chapter examines a theory of spectrality that relates it to a specific field of economics. It shows that the connections between economics and the ghostly relate to the perception of paper money, at a time when such promissory notes were redeemed for gold. It reveals that paper money was previously considered as spectral money (not ‘real’), and like ghosts had a liminal presence. This chapter also aims to present a new theorisation of the spectral that allows a re-reading of the economic contexts of the nineteenth century.
RICHARD KEARNEY and KASCHA SEMONOVITCH
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823234615
- eISBN:
- 9780823240722
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823234615.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter turns to liminal experiences, this time of “things at the edge of the world.” It reposes Martin Heidegger's question, What is a “thing”? Phenomenologically revealed, things open worlds ...
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This chapter turns to liminal experiences, this time of “things at the edge of the world.” It reposes Martin Heidegger's question, What is a “thing”? Phenomenologically revealed, things open worlds and worlds within worlds. Through a “productive strangeness,” things at the edge of the world serve as sites that permit reversals and transformations. The chapter suggests we would perhaps do better to think of ourselves as involved in an event with these strange, other-than-human faces. After dismantling our paradigm of “things,” it moves on to provocatively address our presuppositions about the animal and human other. It also proposes an ethics of what it calls “fractalterity” that might emerge through such reversals and estrangements; this would be an ethos that safeguards strangeness. Finally, it addresses the neglected question of hospitality to others such as animals and purportedly “inanimate” objects, and asks when we legitimately, justly attribute a soul, a psyche, an interiority to the “thing.”.Less
This chapter turns to liminal experiences, this time of “things at the edge of the world.” It reposes Martin Heidegger's question, What is a “thing”? Phenomenologically revealed, things open worlds and worlds within worlds. Through a “productive strangeness,” things at the edge of the world serve as sites that permit reversals and transformations. The chapter suggests we would perhaps do better to think of ourselves as involved in an event with these strange, other-than-human faces. After dismantling our paradigm of “things,” it moves on to provocatively address our presuppositions about the animal and human other. It also proposes an ethics of what it calls “fractalterity” that might emerge through such reversals and estrangements; this would be an ethos that safeguards strangeness. Finally, it addresses the neglected question of hospitality to others such as animals and purportedly “inanimate” objects, and asks when we legitimately, justly attribute a soul, a psyche, an interiority to the “thing.”.
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804751582
- eISBN:
- 9780804767644
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804751582.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter examines how changes in the conceptualization of defilement over the course of the late Heian and early medieval periods transformed the character of ritual space which ultimately ...
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This chapter examines how changes in the conceptualization of defilement over the course of the late Heian and early medieval periods transformed the character of ritual space which ultimately undermined an earlier practice of royal authority. It analyzes this shift in relation to dengaku and the weirdness associated with the heteromorphic and shows how several contradictory images of the tennō coexisted in the medieval imaginary about royal authority. This chapter also explores some of the paradoxes and contradictions underlying the medieval imaginary of sacred space, particularly the ambiguous character of heterotopic space as typified by borders and liminal sites.Less
This chapter examines how changes in the conceptualization of defilement over the course of the late Heian and early medieval periods transformed the character of ritual space which ultimately undermined an earlier practice of royal authority. It analyzes this shift in relation to dengaku and the weirdness associated with the heteromorphic and shows how several contradictory images of the tennō coexisted in the medieval imaginary about royal authority. This chapter also explores some of the paradoxes and contradictions underlying the medieval imaginary of sacred space, particularly the ambiguous character of heterotopic space as typified by borders and liminal sites.
Patricia MacCormack
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748638642
- eISBN:
- 9780748652679
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638642.003.0009
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter examines what happens when, through body modification, we literally become animal, and investigates when modification turns bodies into aesthetic events as such and the body emerges as ...
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This chapter examines what happens when, through body modification, we literally become animal, and investigates when modification turns bodies into aesthetic events as such and the body emerges as teeming with art. It explores the modified body as an in-between, a concept that negotiates and transgresses discourses of signified flesh and subjectivity to create a new concept of the body as liminal. The chapter explains that these liminal bodies allow us to navigate the plasticity of the regime of signification through which the body emerges.Less
This chapter examines what happens when, through body modification, we literally become animal, and investigates when modification turns bodies into aesthetic events as such and the body emerges as teeming with art. It explores the modified body as an in-between, a concept that negotiates and transgresses discourses of signified flesh and subjectivity to create a new concept of the body as liminal. The chapter explains that these liminal bodies allow us to navigate the plasticity of the regime of signification through which the body emerges.
Margery Palmer McCulloch
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748634743
- eISBN:
- 9780748651900
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748634743.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter discusses Edwin Muir and Hugh MacDiarmid, and observes the contrasting way they each dealt with the changing modern world. It first focuses on Muir, and discusses the importance of ...
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This chapter discusses Edwin Muir and Hugh MacDiarmid, and observes the contrasting way they each dealt with the changing modern world. It first focuses on Muir, and discusses the importance of liminal positioning in his relationship with modernism, his metaphorical use of Greek myth and his acknowledgement of his belief in something beyond material existence. The chapter then studies MacDiarmid and his late poetry, which is considered as a continuation of the modernist orientation of his early poetry.Less
This chapter discusses Edwin Muir and Hugh MacDiarmid, and observes the contrasting way they each dealt with the changing modern world. It first focuses on Muir, and discusses the importance of liminal positioning in his relationship with modernism, his metaphorical use of Greek myth and his acknowledgement of his belief in something beyond material existence. The chapter then studies MacDiarmid and his late poetry, which is considered as a continuation of the modernist orientation of his early poetry.
Robert Hemmings
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748633067
- eISBN:
- 9780748651887
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748633067.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter discusses the crucial points in Sassoon’s autobiographical project. Here, Sassoon physically returns to certain sites of his past, which result in tropes of longing and provoke the ...
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This chapter discusses the crucial points in Sassoon’s autobiographical project. Here, Sassoon physically returns to certain sites of his past, which result in tropes of longing and provoke the collisions between past and present selves. The chapter demonstrates that there is a spatial and temporal gap between the cusp of each of these collisions, or a liminal moment of increased autognostic perception, and concludes that they are revelatory and representative of modern – and modernist – anxieties about nostalgia, subjectivity and trauma.Less
This chapter discusses the crucial points in Sassoon’s autobiographical project. Here, Sassoon physically returns to certain sites of his past, which result in tropes of longing and provoke the collisions between past and present selves. The chapter demonstrates that there is a spatial and temporal gap between the cusp of each of these collisions, or a liminal moment of increased autognostic perception, and concludes that they are revelatory and representative of modern – and modernist – anxieties about nostalgia, subjectivity and trauma.
Jana Evans Braziel
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034577
- eISBN:
- 9780813038247
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034577.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter suggests considering Ginen and Guantánamo to be two poles along a continuum essential for rethinking of black Atlantic. While doing so, the chapter also sheds light on liminal citizens, ...
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This chapter suggests considering Ginen and Guantánamo to be two poles along a continuum essential for rethinking of black Atlantic. While doing so, the chapter also sheds light on liminal citizens, migrants who are trapped in no-man's land. The place no longer is in Ayiti, Haiti; and has not yet arrived in Etazini, the United States. As per the chapter, both Ginen and Guantánamo coexist in the black Atlantic and should effect our reconceptualization of the black Atlantic. The author brings into light aspects of both Gine and Guantánamo and how they are important elements of black Atlantic.Less
This chapter suggests considering Ginen and Guantánamo to be two poles along a continuum essential for rethinking of black Atlantic. While doing so, the chapter also sheds light on liminal citizens, migrants who are trapped in no-man's land. The place no longer is in Ayiti, Haiti; and has not yet arrived in Etazini, the United States. As per the chapter, both Ginen and Guantánamo coexist in the black Atlantic and should effect our reconceptualization of the black Atlantic. The author brings into light aspects of both Gine and Guantánamo and how they are important elements of black Atlantic.
Patricia Hynes
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847423269
- eISBN:
- 9781447303749
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847423269.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter looks at access to services, demonstrating how temporary access to services adds to the liminal experience of asylum seekers. It outlines the changing entitlements of asylum seekers ...
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This chapter looks at access to services, demonstrating how temporary access to services adds to the liminal experience of asylum seekers. It outlines the changing entitlements of asylum seekers since the early 1990s, highlighting how the power to define who can access welfare and other services is now based on legal status. It identifies emergent issues in dispersal locations, such as services for domestic violence and mental health, once gender and the intangible barriers to access services have been explored. It argues that the temporary nature of services, along with the monitoring and reporting roles of accommodation providers, maintain asylum seekers in a liminal state. It also argues that the priority for good-quality legal, accommodation, and translation services is indicative of the weaknesses of the dispersal and asylum systems.Less
This chapter looks at access to services, demonstrating how temporary access to services adds to the liminal experience of asylum seekers. It outlines the changing entitlements of asylum seekers since the early 1990s, highlighting how the power to define who can access welfare and other services is now based on legal status. It identifies emergent issues in dispersal locations, such as services for domestic violence and mental health, once gender and the intangible barriers to access services have been explored. It argues that the temporary nature of services, along with the monitoring and reporting roles of accommodation providers, maintain asylum seekers in a liminal state. It also argues that the priority for good-quality legal, accommodation, and translation services is indicative of the weaknesses of the dispersal and asylum systems.
Anna Servaes
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781628462104
- eISBN:
- 9781626745599
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628462104.003.0014
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Social Groups
This chapter is an overview of the Midwestern communities of Ste. Genevieve and Prairie du Rocher through a brief description of their heritage, location, and cultural expressions, particularly La ...
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This chapter is an overview of the Midwestern communities of Ste. Genevieve and Prairie du Rocher through a brief description of their heritage, location, and cultural expressions, particularly La Guiannée, the focus of the study. La Guiannée symbolizes the link between the past and the present, the continuity of the French identity, and community affirmation. Theories, such as performance, liminal, and cultural identity, analyze this celebration in order to show influence on memory and how memories connect individuals, communities, and culture. French and American societies are defined according to the relationship and development of capitalism and religion. The introduction concludes with the notion that identity can persist despite language loss.Less
This chapter is an overview of the Midwestern communities of Ste. Genevieve and Prairie du Rocher through a brief description of their heritage, location, and cultural expressions, particularly La Guiannée, the focus of the study. La Guiannée symbolizes the link between the past and the present, the continuity of the French identity, and community affirmation. Theories, such as performance, liminal, and cultural identity, analyze this celebration in order to show influence on memory and how memories connect individuals, communities, and culture. French and American societies are defined according to the relationship and development of capitalism and religion. The introduction concludes with the notion that identity can persist despite language loss.
