Nachman Ben-Yehuda
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199734863
- eISBN:
- 9780199895090
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199734863.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter describes some themes, cases and affairs that served as axes around which media reports revolved for 1948-1998, and beyond. Such themes focus on such topics as archaeological ...
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This chapter describes some themes, cases and affairs that served as axes around which media reports revolved for 1948-1998, and beyond. Such themes focus on such topics as archaeological excavations, preparations to build the Third Jewish Temple, blackmail, cursing, boycotting and excommunicating, mixed mingling, elections falsifications, stopping El Al from flying on Shabbat, forbidden romances, using magical objects during election time, denial of state symbols, Ovadya Yoseph, pirate radio stations, attacks on the secular legal system, misusing and mismanagement of state funds, modesty and pornography and more.Less
This chapter describes some themes, cases and affairs that served as axes around which media reports revolved for 1948-1998, and beyond. Such themes focus on such topics as archaeological excavations, preparations to build the Third Jewish Temple, blackmail, cursing, boycotting and excommunicating, mixed mingling, elections falsifications, stopping El Al from flying on Shabbat, forbidden romances, using magical objects during election time, denial of state symbols, Ovadya Yoseph, pirate radio stations, attacks on the secular legal system, misusing and mismanagement of state funds, modesty and pornography and more.
Ida Östenberg
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199215973
- eISBN:
- 9780191706851
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199215973.003.0002
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
Among the large variety of spoils analysed in this chapter, the discussion focuses on catapults from Syracuse, pirate ships, Greek statues, and Jewish temple treasures — the triumphal processions ...
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Among the large variety of spoils analysed in this chapter, the discussion focuses on catapults from Syracuse, pirate ships, Greek statues, and Jewish temple treasures — the triumphal processions aimed at displaying great richness. Whether weapons, artistic masterpieces, or crowns presented as gifts, everything was shown and counted as pure material wealth: gold, silver, and bronze. The chapter points out that many riches on triumphal display came from a royal context and were linked to dining. These spoils manifested the defeat and moral inferiority of Hellenistic kingdoms, their royal leadership, and luxurious consumption. Another discussion concerns the catapults and statues from the besieged Syracuse and Ambracia put on display by Marcellus and Fulvius Nobilior. It is argued that these two triumphators were particularly concerned to use their processions as a means to show that Syracuse and Ambracia had been taken justly, thus legitimizing their looting of Greek art.Less
Among the large variety of spoils analysed in this chapter, the discussion focuses on catapults from Syracuse, pirate ships, Greek statues, and Jewish temple treasures — the triumphal processions aimed at displaying great richness. Whether weapons, artistic masterpieces, or crowns presented as gifts, everything was shown and counted as pure material wealth: gold, silver, and bronze. The chapter points out that many riches on triumphal display came from a royal context and were linked to dining. These spoils manifested the defeat and moral inferiority of Hellenistic kingdoms, their royal leadership, and luxurious consumption. Another discussion concerns the catapults and statues from the besieged Syracuse and Ambracia put on display by Marcellus and Fulvius Nobilior. It is argued that these two triumphators were particularly concerned to use their processions as a means to show that Syracuse and Ambracia had been taken justly, thus legitimizing their looting of Greek art.
Peter Temin
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691147680
- eISBN:
- 9781400845422
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691147680.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter explores the Mediterranean wheat market. The Romans made many products, from wines to pottery and glass, but wheat was the most widely traded commodity during those times. Shipped from ...
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This chapter explores the Mediterranean wheat market. The Romans made many products, from wines to pottery and glass, but wheat was the most widely traded commodity during those times. Shipped from distant provinces, the grain changed hands many times before it reached Rome. This trade was organized by the state and private merchants who did not have the benefit of modern means of transportation or communication, and merchants faced high transaction costs from several sources. The Roman government cleared the Mediterranean of pirates in 67 BCE, reducing greatly one major source of risk for merchants. However, merchants in Rome still had to rely on potentially corrupt agents operating in faraway provinces for months at a time. This arrangement created adverse selection and moral hazard problems from the asymmetric information available to merchants and their agents.Less
This chapter explores the Mediterranean wheat market. The Romans made many products, from wines to pottery and glass, but wheat was the most widely traded commodity during those times. Shipped from distant provinces, the grain changed hands many times before it reached Rome. This trade was organized by the state and private merchants who did not have the benefit of modern means of transportation or communication, and merchants faced high transaction costs from several sources. The Roman government cleared the Mediterranean of pirates in 67 BCE, reducing greatly one major source of risk for merchants. However, merchants in Rome still had to rely on potentially corrupt agents operating in faraway provinces for months at a time. This arrangement created adverse selection and moral hazard problems from the asymmetric information available to merchants and their agents.
Andrew Lipman
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780300207668
- eISBN:
- 9780300216691
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300207668.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This book presents the previously untold story of how the ocean became a “frontier” between colonists and Indians. When the English and Dutch empires both tried to claim the same patch of coast ...
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This book presents the previously untold story of how the ocean became a “frontier” between colonists and Indians. When the English and Dutch empires both tried to claim the same patch of coast between the Hudson River and Cape Cod, the sea itself became the arena of contact and conflict. During the violent European invasions, the region's Algonquian-speaking Natives were navigators, boatbuilders, fishermen, pirates, and merchants who became active players in the emergence of the Atlantic World. Drawing from a wide range of English, Dutch, and archeological sources, the text uncovers a new geography of Native America that incorporates seawater as well as soil. Looking past Europeans' arbitrary land boundaries, it reveals unseen links between local episodes and global events on distant shores.Less
This book presents the previously untold story of how the ocean became a “frontier” between colonists and Indians. When the English and Dutch empires both tried to claim the same patch of coast between the Hudson River and Cape Cod, the sea itself became the arena of contact and conflict. During the violent European invasions, the region's Algonquian-speaking Natives were navigators, boatbuilders, fishermen, pirates, and merchants who became active players in the emergence of the Atlantic World. Drawing from a wide range of English, Dutch, and archeological sources, the text uncovers a new geography of Native America that incorporates seawater as well as soil. Looking past Europeans' arbitrary land boundaries, it reveals unseen links between local episodes and global events on distant shores.
Fiona Robertson
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198112242
- eISBN:
- 9780191670725
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198112242.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter examines Scott's techniques of secrecy and suggestion in The Pirate, Rob Roy, and Peveril of the Peak, arguing that Scott draws on his readers' familiarity with a literature of terror ...
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This chapter examines Scott's techniques of secrecy and suggestion in The Pirate, Rob Roy, and Peveril of the Peak, arguing that Scott draws on his readers' familiarity with a literature of terror while allowing them, if they choose, to categorize it as literary and therefore secondary to the main purposes (moral and political) of his art. It also argues for a strategic and self-aware use of Gothic conventions, which are not to be equated either technically or psychologically with anything ‘repressed’ by the ‘dominant’ aesthetic of these novels.Less
This chapter examines Scott's techniques of secrecy and suggestion in The Pirate, Rob Roy, and Peveril of the Peak, arguing that Scott draws on his readers' familiarity with a literature of terror while allowing them, if they choose, to categorize it as literary and therefore secondary to the main purposes (moral and political) of his art. It also argues for a strategic and self-aware use of Gothic conventions, which are not to be equated either technically or psychologically with anything ‘repressed’ by the ‘dominant’ aesthetic of these novels.
JOHN J. RICHETTI
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198112631
- eISBN:
- 9780191670824
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198112631.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
This chapter discusses three literary concepts that were an important part of the English novels: pilgrims, pirates, and travellers. One example of a popular novel during the seventeenth and ...
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This chapter discusses three literary concepts that were an important part of the English novels: pilgrims, pirates, and travellers. One example of a popular novel during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was Swift's Gulliver's Travels. The discussions in the chapter show how travel books provided entertainment and education during that time.Less
This chapter discusses three literary concepts that were an important part of the English novels: pilgrims, pirates, and travellers. One example of a popular novel during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was Swift's Gulliver's Travels. The discussions in the chapter show how travel books provided entertainment and education during that time.
James Meese
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262037440
- eISBN:
- 9780262344517
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262037440.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Technology and Society
How should we think about authorship, use and piracy in an era of media convergence? How does the growing focus on amateur creativity impact on existing legal and cultural understandings of around ...
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How should we think about authorship, use and piracy in an era of media convergence? How does the growing focus on amateur creativity impact on existing legal and cultural understandings of around creation? And why are the author, user and pirate so prominent in debates around copyright law? Authors, Users, Pirates: Copyright Law and Subjectivity presents a new way of thinking about these three central subjects of copyright. It outlines a relational approach to subjectivity, charting connections between the author, user and pirate through a series of historical and contemporary case studies, moving from early regulatory debates around radio spectrum and nineteenth century cases on book abridgments to the controversial reuse of Instagram photos and the emergence of multi-channel networks on YouTube. The book draws on legal scholarship, cultural theory and media studies research to provide a new way of thinking about subjectivity and copyright. It also offers insights into a range of critical issues that sit at the intersection of copyright law and digital media including online copyright infringement, amateur media production and the potential futures of creative industries.Less
How should we think about authorship, use and piracy in an era of media convergence? How does the growing focus on amateur creativity impact on existing legal and cultural understandings of around creation? And why are the author, user and pirate so prominent in debates around copyright law? Authors, Users, Pirates: Copyright Law and Subjectivity presents a new way of thinking about these three central subjects of copyright. It outlines a relational approach to subjectivity, charting connections between the author, user and pirate through a series of historical and contemporary case studies, moving from early regulatory debates around radio spectrum and nineteenth century cases on book abridgments to the controversial reuse of Instagram photos and the emergence of multi-channel networks on YouTube. The book draws on legal scholarship, cultural theory and media studies research to provide a new way of thinking about subjectivity and copyright. It also offers insights into a range of critical issues that sit at the intersection of copyright law and digital media including online copyright infringement, amateur media production and the potential futures of creative industries.
David Ulansey
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195067880
- eISBN:
- 9780199853328
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195067880.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion in the Ancient World
As was discussed in the previous chapter, the precession of the equinoxes discovered by Hipparchus was the basis of the Stoics' claim that there was a divinity of great power accountable for such ...
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As was discussed in the previous chapter, the precession of the equinoxes discovered by Hipparchus was the basis of the Stoics' claim that there was a divinity of great power accountable for such phenomenon. This precession was symbolized by the death of the bull being killed by Perseus—whom they referred to as their native god. His power was shown not just over the bull, but also over other constellations resting on the celestial equator when the spring equinox was in Taurus. The Perseus cult then spread to the pirates of Cilicia who had close associations with Mithridates Eupator. This led the Cilician pirates to adopt the name Mithras as their new god.Less
As was discussed in the previous chapter, the precession of the equinoxes discovered by Hipparchus was the basis of the Stoics' claim that there was a divinity of great power accountable for such phenomenon. This precession was symbolized by the death of the bull being killed by Perseus—whom they referred to as their native god. His power was shown not just over the bull, but also over other constellations resting on the celestial equator when the spring equinox was in Taurus. The Perseus cult then spread to the pirates of Cilicia who had close associations with Mithridates Eupator. This led the Cilician pirates to adopt the name Mithras as their new god.
Neil Rennie
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199679331
- eISBN:
- 9780191767272
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199679331.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature, Mythology and Folklore
This starts with the historical story of Captain Kidd, another figure who rapidly became legendary (and was confused with Every). I also treat the pirate island of Saint Mary, near Madagascar, where ...
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This starts with the historical story of Captain Kidd, another figure who rapidly became legendary (and was confused with Every). I also treat the pirate island of Saint Mary, near Madagascar, where some of Every's fellow-pirates were based, as well as Kidd at one time. This chapter follows the most reliable facts about some of the notorious West Indian and American pirates, such as Mary Read, Ann Bonny, and BlackbeardLess
This starts with the historical story of Captain Kidd, another figure who rapidly became legendary (and was confused with Every). I also treat the pirate island of Saint Mary, near Madagascar, where some of Every's fellow-pirates were based, as well as Kidd at one time. This chapter follows the most reliable facts about some of the notorious West Indian and American pirates, such as Mary Read, Ann Bonny, and Blackbeard
Neil Rennie
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199679331
- eISBN:
- 9780191767272
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199679331.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature, Mythology and Folklore
The chapter traces the rambling lives of the real pirates of the previous chapter, Kidd, Blackbeard, and others, as they are rewritten and imagined in what is usually treated as the most authentic ...
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The chapter traces the rambling lives of the real pirates of the previous chapter, Kidd, Blackbeard, and others, as they are rewritten and imagined in what is usually treated as the most authentic source for them, the General History of the Roberries and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates (1724), a source for nearly all subsequent writing about pirates, historical or fictional, The Dictionary of National Biography as well as Treasure Island. The General History is credible but fictitious. Mary Read and Ann Bonny, for example, are turned by its unknown author into heroines of romance, crossed-dressed, secretly female heroines somewhat at odds with the two real women who appear more plausibly in a rare pamphlet published in Jamaica in 1721.Less
The chapter traces the rambling lives of the real pirates of the previous chapter, Kidd, Blackbeard, and others, as they are rewritten and imagined in what is usually treated as the most authentic source for them, the General History of the Roberries and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates (1724), a source for nearly all subsequent writing about pirates, historical or fictional, The Dictionary of National Biography as well as Treasure Island. The General History is credible but fictitious. Mary Read and Ann Bonny, for example, are turned by its unknown author into heroines of romance, crossed-dressed, secretly female heroines somewhat at odds with the two real women who appear more plausibly in a rare pamphlet published in Jamaica in 1721.
Conrad Russell
- Published in print:
- 1979
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198224822
- eISBN:
- 9780191678578
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198224822.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, Political History
The Parliament of 1625 marked the new reign of Charles. His new queen, Henrietta Maria, arrived in London on June 16, and the Parliament assembled on June 18. While the Parliament was petitioning ...
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The Parliament of 1625 marked the new reign of Charles. His new queen, Henrietta Maria, arrived in London on June 16, and the Parliament assembled on June 18. While the Parliament was petitioning Charles for a public declaration that the recusancy laws be enforced, the French threatened him with the ruin of his marriage if he did what the Parliament asked. The French insisted on these conditions believing that England needed the alliance more than France, and that the English would have to take the terms offered. The opening months of Charles's reign was also faced by the menaces of plague, pirates, and religious fears. The second section of this chapter looks into the events of the London session, noting the key speech mad by Phelips about subsidies. The third section describes the Oxford session which lasted from August 1 to 12.Less
The Parliament of 1625 marked the new reign of Charles. His new queen, Henrietta Maria, arrived in London on June 16, and the Parliament assembled on June 18. While the Parliament was petitioning Charles for a public declaration that the recusancy laws be enforced, the French threatened him with the ruin of his marriage if he did what the Parliament asked. The French insisted on these conditions believing that England needed the alliance more than France, and that the English would have to take the terms offered. The opening months of Charles's reign was also faced by the menaces of plague, pirates, and religious fears. The second section of this chapter looks into the events of the London session, noting the key speech mad by Phelips about subsidies. The third section describes the Oxford session which lasted from August 1 to 12.
Stefan Larsson
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190650384
- eISBN:
- 9780190650414
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190650384.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Psycholinguistics / Neurolinguistics / Cognitive Linguistics
This book makes a significant contribution to sociolegal analysis and also represents a valuable contribution to conceptual metaphor theory. By utilising the case of copyright in a digital context it ...
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This book makes a significant contribution to sociolegal analysis and also represents a valuable contribution to conceptual metaphor theory. By utilising the case of copyright in a digital context it explains the role that metaphor plays when the law is dealing with technological change, displaying both ‘conceptual path dependence’, normative implications of reusing already established concepts for new phenomena, as well as what is called non-legislative developments in the law. The analysis draws from conceptual studies of ‘property’ in intellectual property, and shows how the property regime of copyright is the projection of an older regime of control onto a new set of digital social relations. Moreover, through an analysis of the concept of ‘copy’ in copyright as well as the Swedish court case against the founders of the BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, the author shows the historical and embodied dependence of digital phenomena in law, and the significance of metaphorical framing (for example, was The Pirate Bay a ‘platform’, a ‘storage service’ or a ‘bulletin board’?). The contribution is thereby relevant for how to understand the conceptual and regulatory dynamics of a multitude of contemporary sociodigital phenomena in addition to copyright and file-sharing. On an overarching level, it is here argued that the conceptual battles to define the Internet, as well as the implications of digital development, are significant battles for the role of law in society. There are conceptions in, and underlying, both law and digital architecture—that is, in the code.Less
This book makes a significant contribution to sociolegal analysis and also represents a valuable contribution to conceptual metaphor theory. By utilising the case of copyright in a digital context it explains the role that metaphor plays when the law is dealing with technological change, displaying both ‘conceptual path dependence’, normative implications of reusing already established concepts for new phenomena, as well as what is called non-legislative developments in the law. The analysis draws from conceptual studies of ‘property’ in intellectual property, and shows how the property regime of copyright is the projection of an older regime of control onto a new set of digital social relations. Moreover, through an analysis of the concept of ‘copy’ in copyright as well as the Swedish court case against the founders of the BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, the author shows the historical and embodied dependence of digital phenomena in law, and the significance of metaphorical framing (for example, was The Pirate Bay a ‘platform’, a ‘storage service’ or a ‘bulletin board’?). The contribution is thereby relevant for how to understand the conceptual and regulatory dynamics of a multitude of contemporary sociodigital phenomena in addition to copyright and file-sharing. On an overarching level, it is here argued that the conceptual battles to define the Internet, as well as the implications of digital development, are significant battles for the role of law in society. There are conceptions in, and underlying, both law and digital architecture—that is, in the code.
Luciano Canfora and Julian Stringer (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748619368
- eISBN:
- 9780748670734
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748619368.003.0002
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical
Caesar's ship was seized by the ferocious pirates of Cilicia off the island of Pharmacussa — one of the Sporades to the south of Miletos. The most colourful account of this episode is by Plutarch. It ...
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Caesar's ship was seized by the ferocious pirates of Cilicia off the island of Pharmacussa — one of the Sporades to the south of Miletos. The most colourful account of this episode is by Plutarch. It is difficult to imagine that anybody but Caesar himself could be the source of the story. The sardonic self-confidence with which the whole episode is related must come from him. ‘The pirates demanded twenty talents for his ransom’, says Plutarch, ‘and he laughed at them for not knowing who their captive was, and of his own accord agreed to give them fifty’. He dispatched messengers from his entourage to collect the money, keeping only his personal doctor and two slaves at his side. Although a hostage for thirty-eight days while waiting for the messengers to return with the money, he quickly assumed a leading position. No sooner had he been freed than Caesar set about punishing his captors. At Miletos he fitted out some ships and moved to entrap the pirates while they still lay at anchor off Pharmacussa.Less
Caesar's ship was seized by the ferocious pirates of Cilicia off the island of Pharmacussa — one of the Sporades to the south of Miletos. The most colourful account of this episode is by Plutarch. It is difficult to imagine that anybody but Caesar himself could be the source of the story. The sardonic self-confidence with which the whole episode is related must come from him. ‘The pirates demanded twenty talents for his ransom’, says Plutarch, ‘and he laughed at them for not knowing who their captive was, and of his own accord agreed to give them fifty’. He dispatched messengers from his entourage to collect the money, keeping only his personal doctor and two slaves at his side. Although a hostage for thirty-eight days while waiting for the messengers to return with the money, he quickly assumed a leading position. No sooner had he been freed than Caesar set about punishing his captors. At Miletos he fitted out some ships and moved to entrap the pirates while they still lay at anchor off Pharmacussa.
Alexander Spencer
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780719095290
- eISBN:
- 9781526115287
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719095290.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This book is a story about the importance of stories in International Relations. It brings insights from Literary Studies and Narratology into IR and political science by developing a new discourse ...
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This book is a story about the importance of stories in International Relations. It brings insights from Literary Studies and Narratology into IR and political science by developing a new discourse analytical method of narrative analysis. Focusing on the three narrative elements of setting, characterization and emplotment, the book argues that narratives are of fundamental importance for human cognition and identity construction. Narratives help us understand the social and political world in which we live. The book emphasizes the idea of intertextual narratability which holds that for narratives to become dominant they have to link themselves to previously existing stories. Empirically the book looks at narratives about pirates, rebels and private military and security companies (PMSCs). The book illustrates in the case of pirates and rebels that the romantic images embedded in cultural narratives influence our understanding of modern piracy in places like Somalia or rebels in Libya. Dominant romantic narratives marginalize other, less flattering, stories about these actors, in which they are constituted as terrorists and made responsible for human rights violations. In contrast, in the case of PMSCs in Iraq the absence of such romantic cultural narratives makes it difficult for such actors to successfully narrate themselves as romantic heroes to the public.Less
This book is a story about the importance of stories in International Relations. It brings insights from Literary Studies and Narratology into IR and political science by developing a new discourse analytical method of narrative analysis. Focusing on the three narrative elements of setting, characterization and emplotment, the book argues that narratives are of fundamental importance for human cognition and identity construction. Narratives help us understand the social and political world in which we live. The book emphasizes the idea of intertextual narratability which holds that for narratives to become dominant they have to link themselves to previously existing stories. Empirically the book looks at narratives about pirates, rebels and private military and security companies (PMSCs). The book illustrates in the case of pirates and rebels that the romantic images embedded in cultural narratives influence our understanding of modern piracy in places like Somalia or rebels in Libya. Dominant romantic narratives marginalize other, less flattering, stories about these actors, in which they are constituted as terrorists and made responsible for human rights violations. In contrast, in the case of PMSCs in Iraq the absence of such romantic cultural narratives makes it difficult for such actors to successfully narrate themselves as romantic heroes to the public.
Neil Rennie
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199679331
- eISBN:
- 9780191767272
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199679331.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature, Mythology and Folklore
The book is about factual and fictional pirates and is therefore a deliberate combination of history and literary history. Swashbuckling eighteenth-century pirates were the ideal pirates of all time ...
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The book is about factual and fictional pirates and is therefore a deliberate combination of history and literary history. Swashbuckling eighteenth-century pirates were the ideal pirates of all time and are still popular today. Most people have heard of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, for example, although they lived about three hundred years ago. But most people have also heard of other pirates, such as Long John Silver and Captain Hook, although those pirates never lived at all, except in literature. So there have been two kinds of pirates—real and imaginary—but the real, historical pirates are themselves somewhat legendary, somewhat fictional, belonging on the page and the stage rather than on the high seas. The book discriminates and describes the ascertainable facts of real eighteenth-century pirate lives and then investigates how such facts were subsequently transformed artistically, by British and American writers like Defoe, Poe and Stevenson, into realistic and fantastic fictions of various kinds: historical novels, popular melodramas, boyish adventures, Hollywood films. The aim is to watch, in other words, the long dissolve from Captain Kidd to Johnny Depp.Less
The book is about factual and fictional pirates and is therefore a deliberate combination of history and literary history. Swashbuckling eighteenth-century pirates were the ideal pirates of all time and are still popular today. Most people have heard of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, for example, although they lived about three hundred years ago. But most people have also heard of other pirates, such as Long John Silver and Captain Hook, although those pirates never lived at all, except in literature. So there have been two kinds of pirates—real and imaginary—but the real, historical pirates are themselves somewhat legendary, somewhat fictional, belonging on the page and the stage rather than on the high seas. The book discriminates and describes the ascertainable facts of real eighteenth-century pirate lives and then investigates how such facts were subsequently transformed artistically, by British and American writers like Defoe, Poe and Stevenson, into realistic and fantastic fictions of various kinds: historical novels, popular melodramas, boyish adventures, Hollywood films. The aim is to watch, in other words, the long dissolve from Captain Kidd to Johnny Depp.
Robin Geiß and Anna Petrig
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199609529
- eISBN:
- 9780191729751
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199609529.003.0005
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
Part 4 focuses on the criminal prosecution of alleged pirates and armed robbers at sea. It discusses what substantive criminal norms the prosecution of acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea could ...
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Part 4 focuses on the criminal prosecution of alleged pirates and armed robbers at sea. It discusses what substantive criminal norms the prosecution of acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea could be based. It attempts to distil the applicable jurisdictional basis from the complex mesh of international treaties potentially applicable to the various offenses typically committed in the context of piracy and armed robbery at sea. Thereby, it analyses whether the various counter-piracy Security Council Resolutions had an impact on the criminal prosecution of pirates and armed robbers at sea. In a next step, the different propositions and arguments as to the most suitable venue for the criminal prosecution of pirates and armed robbers at sea are then examined. For the time being, the majority of persons suspected of having committed acts of piracy or armed robbery at sea are prosecuted in regional States. The transfer of alleged offenders from States carrying out maritime enforcement operations in the Gulf of Aden and apprehending persons suspected for piracy or armed robbery at sea to regional States willing to prosecute them is a prerequisite for the commencement of any criminal proceedings. Thus, the legality of transfers of alleged pirates and armed robbers to regional States, especially in the light of the principle of non-refoulement, is a highly topical issue in the present context.Less
Part 4 focuses on the criminal prosecution of alleged pirates and armed robbers at sea. It discusses what substantive criminal norms the prosecution of acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea could be based. It attempts to distil the applicable jurisdictional basis from the complex mesh of international treaties potentially applicable to the various offenses typically committed in the context of piracy and armed robbery at sea. Thereby, it analyses whether the various counter-piracy Security Council Resolutions had an impact on the criminal prosecution of pirates and armed robbers at sea. In a next step, the different propositions and arguments as to the most suitable venue for the criminal prosecution of pirates and armed robbers at sea are then examined. For the time being, the majority of persons suspected of having committed acts of piracy or armed robbery at sea are prosecuted in regional States. The transfer of alleged offenders from States carrying out maritime enforcement operations in the Gulf of Aden and apprehending persons suspected for piracy or armed robbery at sea to regional States willing to prosecute them is a prerequisite for the commencement of any criminal proceedings. Thus, the legality of transfers of alleged pirates and armed robbers to regional States, especially in the light of the principle of non-refoulement, is a highly topical issue in the present context.
Talissa J. Ford
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474409421
- eISBN:
- 9781474426794
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474409421.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
Radical Romantics engages with the critical frameworks of cultural geography, cartography, and the burgeoning field of oceanic studies in order to reformulate theories of colonization and empire in ...
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Radical Romantics engages with the critical frameworks of cultural geography, cartography, and the burgeoning field of oceanic studies in order to reformulate theories of colonization and empire in the Romantic period. In so doing, the book poses fundamental questions about our understanding of both territorial and imagined space. What are the means by which people can conceive of geographical space without resorting to the terms of nationalism? Is it possible to imagine a space beyond territory, as movement itself? How can we articulate the overlap between mapped and lived space? Rather than offering a single answer to these questions, Radical Romantics expands outward, as if from the centre of a compass, tracing the myriad ways in which authors resist the imperative of colonial and imperial conceptions of space. In studying texts that range from William Blake’s visionary poetry to prophetic pamphlets, from Lord Byron’s Eastern romances to travel narratives about Jerusalem and Africa, this book explores moments where imaginative space and territorial space overlap in the service of radical geographies.Less
Radical Romantics engages with the critical frameworks of cultural geography, cartography, and the burgeoning field of oceanic studies in order to reformulate theories of colonization and empire in the Romantic period. In so doing, the book poses fundamental questions about our understanding of both territorial and imagined space. What are the means by which people can conceive of geographical space without resorting to the terms of nationalism? Is it possible to imagine a space beyond territory, as movement itself? How can we articulate the overlap between mapped and lived space? Rather than offering a single answer to these questions, Radical Romantics expands outward, as if from the centre of a compass, tracing the myriad ways in which authors resist the imperative of colonial and imperial conceptions of space. In studying texts that range from William Blake’s visionary poetry to prophetic pamphlets, from Lord Byron’s Eastern romances to travel narratives about Jerusalem and Africa, this book explores moments where imaginative space and territorial space overlap in the service of radical geographies.
Mark G. Hanna
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469617947
- eISBN:
- 9781469617961
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469617947.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This book concludes with a discussion of trends and lessons that can be learned from the piratical societies of England in the period spanning the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It tries to ...
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This book concludes with a discussion of trends and lessons that can be learned from the piratical societies of England in the period spanning the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It tries to elucidate the nature of sea marauding, and especially the economic, legal, cultural, and political patterns of development in early America and the British Empire, by focusing on the symbiotic relationship between sea marauders and landed communities. It suggests that the history of English piracy was linked to England's initial attempts to expand the state westward, rather than to stateless renegade sailors. It argues that local debates over pirates and piracy were underpinned by contests over political power, personal rights, and individual liberties on land. It also offers a structural explanation for the rise and fall of pirate nests and considers the impact of policy changes initiated during the 1690s on sea marauding throughout the empire.Less
This book concludes with a discussion of trends and lessons that can be learned from the piratical societies of England in the period spanning the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It tries to elucidate the nature of sea marauding, and especially the economic, legal, cultural, and political patterns of development in early America and the British Empire, by focusing on the symbiotic relationship between sea marauders and landed communities. It suggests that the history of English piracy was linked to England's initial attempts to expand the state westward, rather than to stateless renegade sailors. It argues that local debates over pirates and piracy were underpinned by contests over political power, personal rights, and individual liberties on land. It also offers a structural explanation for the rise and fall of pirate nests and considers the impact of policy changes initiated during the 1690s on sea marauding throughout the empire.
Dominique Jaillard
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199589036
- eISBN:
- 9780191728983
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199589036.003.0007
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter examines the epiphanic nature of the narrative of the seventh Homeric Hymn to Dionysus in relation to the other Hymns in the collection, taking into account distinctions of length, and ...
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This chapter examines the epiphanic nature of the narrative of the seventh Homeric Hymn to Dionysus in relation to the other Hymns in the collection, taking into account distinctions of length, and Dionysus' presentation elsewhere in Greek literature (including Euripides' Bacchae) and art. It is argued that the focalization of the seventh Hymn on the epiphany of Dionysus upon the ship of the Tyrsenian pirates is not simply the narration of a divine epiphany; rather one finds in the Hymn the epiphanic structuring of the narrative.Less
This chapter examines the epiphanic nature of the narrative of the seventh Homeric Hymn to Dionysus in relation to the other Hymns in the collection, taking into account distinctions of length, and Dionysus' presentation elsewhere in Greek literature (including Euripides' Bacchae) and art. It is argued that the focalization of the seventh Hymn on the epiphany of Dionysus upon the ship of the Tyrsenian pirates is not simply the narration of a divine epiphany; rather one finds in the Hymn the epiphanic structuring of the narrative.
Robert J. Antony
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888028115
- eISBN:
- 9789882206915
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028115.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the extent, diffusion, and characteristics of piracy and smuggling in the greater China Seas region over the past six ...
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This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the extent, diffusion, and characteristics of piracy and smuggling in the greater China Seas region over the past six centuries. This book examines the multinational clandestine trade in the South China coast among merchants, smugglers, and pirates during the period from 1520 to 1550. It investigates the role of coastal residents in the success of piracy and smuggling. It also highlights the adventures of the well-known pirates during this six-century period.Less
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the extent, diffusion, and characteristics of piracy and smuggling in the greater China Seas region over the past six centuries. This book examines the multinational clandestine trade in the South China coast among merchants, smugglers, and pirates during the period from 1520 to 1550. It investigates the role of coastal residents in the success of piracy and smuggling. It also highlights the adventures of the well-known pirates during this six-century period.
