Richard Greene
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198119883
- eISBN:
- 9780191671234
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198119883.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry, 18th-century Literature
Mary Leapor, of all the submerged poets, has been the one most warmly received by scholars and reviewers in the past few years. Accordingly, an examination of her work has implications for the study ...
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Mary Leapor, of all the submerged poets, has been the one most warmly received by scholars and reviewers in the past few years. Accordingly, an examination of her work has implications for the study of eighteenth-century poetry. She may be seen as a test case for poets outside the canon. This book argues that Leapor's poetry reveals a deep intelligence exercised especially upon issues of gender and class. She is accustomed to reading and is conscious of participating within a literary tradition. She is also a religious poet whose treatment of imminent death is at times distinguished. Her poetry achieves a remarkable range of feeling; it is at times a vehicle of comedy, of pathos, or of rage. Although she is not inventive in terms of technique, she brings to poetry a perspective and a tone of voice that are truly individual. In all of this, it is possible to recognize a poet of substance.Less
Mary Leapor, of all the submerged poets, has been the one most warmly received by scholars and reviewers in the past few years. Accordingly, an examination of her work has implications for the study of eighteenth-century poetry. She may be seen as a test case for poets outside the canon. This book argues that Leapor's poetry reveals a deep intelligence exercised especially upon issues of gender and class. She is accustomed to reading and is conscious of participating within a literary tradition. She is also a religious poet whose treatment of imminent death is at times distinguished. Her poetry achieves a remarkable range of feeling; it is at times a vehicle of comedy, of pathos, or of rage. Although she is not inventive in terms of technique, she brings to poetry a perspective and a tone of voice that are truly individual. In all of this, it is possible to recognize a poet of substance.
David M. Terman
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195379655
- eISBN:
- 9780199777334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195379655.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter situates the fundamentalist mindset in a group psychological context. A review of the psychoanalytic theory of groups shows some conflation between the psychology of the individual and ...
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This chapter situates the fundamentalist mindset in a group psychological context. A review of the psychoanalytic theory of groups shows some conflation between the psychology of the individual and that of the group. Several trends in research are evident. The group's history, values, and goals are central to the group's concerns, and threats to these elements — experienced by the group as assaults on its self-esteem — are increasingly cited as the source of violence. The history of the theory of paranoia shows the same direction: there is more recognition of the problems of fragile self-esteem, shame, and humiliation in the genesis of the paranoid structure. Intrinsic to the structure is dualistic thinking and the Manichaean view of the world. Work on violence in groups shows analogous psychological organization: great investment in the ideology of the group that contains its goals, values, and sense of group self-esteem. An injury to those goals and values produces a paranoid organization and an analogy to rage in the individual, and subsequent violence.Less
This chapter situates the fundamentalist mindset in a group psychological context. A review of the psychoanalytic theory of groups shows some conflation between the psychology of the individual and that of the group. Several trends in research are evident. The group's history, values, and goals are central to the group's concerns, and threats to these elements — experienced by the group as assaults on its self-esteem — are increasingly cited as the source of violence. The history of the theory of paranoia shows the same direction: there is more recognition of the problems of fragile self-esteem, shame, and humiliation in the genesis of the paranoid structure. Intrinsic to the structure is dualistic thinking and the Manichaean view of the world. Work on violence in groups shows analogous psychological organization: great investment in the ideology of the group that contains its goals, values, and sense of group self-esteem. An injury to those goals and values produces a paranoid organization and an analogy to rage in the individual, and subsequent violence.
Joseph M. Hassett
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199582907
- eISBN:
- 9780191723216
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199582907.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
Yeats's experimentation with the ideas developed in Per Amica and A Vision took a startling turn in June 1935 when he met Dorothy Wellesley. His letters to Wellesley reflect beliefs that her role as ...
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Yeats's experimentation with the ideas developed in Per Amica and A Vision took a startling turn in June 1935 when he met Dorothy Wellesley. His letters to Wellesley reflect beliefs that her role as Muse would be colored by her lesbianism, and that her Muse was located at the intersection of what he perceived as the masculine and feminine aspects of her personality. ‘What makes your work so good’, he wrote her, is its masculine element amid so much feminine charm. Your lines have the magnificent swing of your boyish body. I wish I could be a girl of nineteen for certain hours that I might feel it even more acutely. He had already suggested to Wellesley that his own creativity arose out of ‘the woman in me.’ ‘To Dorothy Wellesley’ suggests that Wellesley's Muses are Furies, primitive earth goddesses who, as Erich Neumann has shown, represent angry emotional forces that are opposite to those of the Muses but, because of the tendency of opposites to merge into each other, can be forerunners of inspiration. Yeats's own Muse was now a Fury as well. The beast of hatred had replaced concentration on Gonne as the besom that could clear his soul and open the way to inspiration. Chapter 8 explains how the manifestation of what Adorno called ‘late style,’ the lust and rage described in a poem (‘The Spur’) Yeats sent to Wellesley, threatened to dominate his relationship with his Muse.Less
Yeats's experimentation with the ideas developed in Per Amica and A Vision took a startling turn in June 1935 when he met Dorothy Wellesley. His letters to Wellesley reflect beliefs that her role as Muse would be colored by her lesbianism, and that her Muse was located at the intersection of what he perceived as the masculine and feminine aspects of her personality. ‘What makes your work so good’, he wrote her, is its masculine element amid so much feminine charm. Your lines have the magnificent swing of your boyish body. I wish I could be a girl of nineteen for certain hours that I might feel it even more acutely. He had already suggested to Wellesley that his own creativity arose out of ‘the woman in me.’ ‘To Dorothy Wellesley’ suggests that Wellesley's Muses are Furies, primitive earth goddesses who, as Erich Neumann has shown, represent angry emotional forces that are opposite to those of the Muses but, because of the tendency of opposites to merge into each other, can be forerunners of inspiration. Yeats's own Muse was now a Fury as well. The beast of hatred had replaced concentration on Gonne as the besom that could clear his soul and open the way to inspiration. Chapter 8 explains how the manifestation of what Adorno called ‘late style,’ the lust and rage described in a poem (‘The Spur’) Yeats sent to Wellesley, threatened to dominate his relationship with his Muse.
Emily Katz Anhalt
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780300217377
- eISBN:
- 9780300231762
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300217377.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer's Iliad, Euripides' Hecuba, and Sophocles' Ajax show that anger and vengeance destroy ...
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Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer's Iliad, Euripides' Hecuba, and Sophocles' Ajax show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and victims alike. Composed before and during the ancient Greeks' groundbreaking movement away from autocracy toward more inclusive political participation, these stories offer guidelines for modern efforts to create and maintain civil societies. The book reveals how these three masterworks of classical Greek literature can teach us, as they taught the ancient Greeks, to recognize violent revenge as a marker of illogical thinking and poor leadership. These time-honored texts emphasize the costs of our dangerous penchant for glorifying violent rage and those who would indulge in it. By promoting compassion, rational thought, and debate, Greek myths help to arm us against the tyrants we might serve and the tyrants we might become.Less
Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer's Iliad, Euripides' Hecuba, and Sophocles' Ajax show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and victims alike. Composed before and during the ancient Greeks' groundbreaking movement away from autocracy toward more inclusive political participation, these stories offer guidelines for modern efforts to create and maintain civil societies. The book reveals how these three masterworks of classical Greek literature can teach us, as they taught the ancient Greeks, to recognize violent revenge as a marker of illogical thinking and poor leadership. These time-honored texts emphasize the costs of our dangerous penchant for glorifying violent rage and those who would indulge in it. By promoting compassion, rational thought, and debate, Greek myths help to arm us against the tyrants we might serve and the tyrants we might become.
Terrence T. Tucker
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813054360
- eISBN:
- 9780813053059
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813054360.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock explores the simultaneous expression of militancy and humor in African American literature that came to fruition in the post–World War II ...
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Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock explores the simultaneous expression of militancy and humor in African American literature that came to fruition in the post–World War II moment. This book traces the increasing presence of African American works containing a combustible mix of fury and radicalism, of pathos and pain, of wit and love that fuse to create what I refer to as comic rage. I employ Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to argue that works of comic rage centralize African American experience and tradition in direct challenges to dominant (white) narratives and (black) counter-narratives about race, identity, and nation. Works of comic rage sit at the center of the discourse through humor’s connection to the familiar and the recognizable in mainstream and African America. Comic rage capitalizes on the inability of African Americans to be fully expelled from mainstream American constructions of its identity and culture. Therefore, as with the abject that cannot be expelled, works of comic rage cause the narratives and counter-narratives to collapse and initiate a re-visioning of fundamental, destructive assumptions within white supremacy. Whether those assumptions involve history, literature, or (white) superiority, comic rage aggressively promotes an African American subjectivity that rejects white stereotypes of blackness and African American responses that remain dependent on the power dynamics that reinforce white supremacy (master vs. slave, perpetrator vs. victim).Less
Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock explores the simultaneous expression of militancy and humor in African American literature that came to fruition in the post–World War II moment. This book traces the increasing presence of African American works containing a combustible mix of fury and radicalism, of pathos and pain, of wit and love that fuse to create what I refer to as comic rage. I employ Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to argue that works of comic rage centralize African American experience and tradition in direct challenges to dominant (white) narratives and (black) counter-narratives about race, identity, and nation. Works of comic rage sit at the center of the discourse through humor’s connection to the familiar and the recognizable in mainstream and African America. Comic rage capitalizes on the inability of African Americans to be fully expelled from mainstream American constructions of its identity and culture. Therefore, as with the abject that cannot be expelled, works of comic rage cause the narratives and counter-narratives to collapse and initiate a re-visioning of fundamental, destructive assumptions within white supremacy. Whether those assumptions involve history, literature, or (white) superiority, comic rage aggressively promotes an African American subjectivity that rejects white stereotypes of blackness and African American responses that remain dependent on the power dynamics that reinforce white supremacy (master vs. slave, perpetrator vs. victim).
Perry Gauci
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198206057
- eISBN:
- 9780191676956
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206057.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This book studies the political development of a major English town during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The book examines the activities of the local oligarchy over a period which begins ...
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This book studies the political development of a major English town during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The book examines the activities of the local oligarchy over a period which begins in upheaval, in the aftermath of civil war, and ends in the relative stability of early Georgian England. It considers important episodes as the borough regulation of the 1680s, and the ‘rage of party’ after 1689, by broadening the sphere of ‘politics’ to encompass provincial experiences. The book examines the role of the town corporation, a little-studied organ of local government, whose membership reveals much about the relationship between social and political change in this period. It challenges accepted views on these corporations, showing them to be much more dynamic, and less self-interested, than is usually supposed. The book's analysis of the structures of local politics transcends local history and reveals a great deal about the influence of national authorities over provincial life.Less
This book studies the political development of a major English town during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The book examines the activities of the local oligarchy over a period which begins in upheaval, in the aftermath of civil war, and ends in the relative stability of early Georgian England. It considers important episodes as the borough regulation of the 1680s, and the ‘rage of party’ after 1689, by broadening the sphere of ‘politics’ to encompass provincial experiences. The book examines the role of the town corporation, a little-studied organ of local government, whose membership reveals much about the relationship between social and political change in this period. It challenges accepted views on these corporations, showing them to be much more dynamic, and less self-interested, than is usually supposed. The book's analysis of the structures of local politics transcends local history and reveals a great deal about the influence of national authorities over provincial life.
Jörg Kreienbrock
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780823245284
- eISBN:
- 9780823250721
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823245284.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Why do humans get angry with objects? Why is it that a malfunctioning computer, a broken tool, or a fallen glass causes an outbreak of fury? How is it possible to speak of an inanimate object's ...
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Why do humans get angry with objects? Why is it that a malfunctioning computer, a broken tool, or a fallen glass causes an outbreak of fury? How is it possible to speak of an inanimate object's recalcitrance, obstinacy, or even malice? When things assume a will of their own and seem to act out against human desires and wishes rather than disappear into automatic, unconscious functionality, the breakdown is experienced not as something neutral but affectively—as rage or as outbursts of laughter. Such emotions are always psychosocial: public, rhetorically performed, and therefore irreducible to a “private” feeling. By investigating the minutest details of life among dysfunctional household items through the discourses of philosophy and science, as well as in literary works by Laurence Sterne, Jean Paul, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, and Heimito von Doderer, this book reconsiders the modern bourgeois poetics that render things the way we know and suffer them.Less
Why do humans get angry with objects? Why is it that a malfunctioning computer, a broken tool, or a fallen glass causes an outbreak of fury? How is it possible to speak of an inanimate object's recalcitrance, obstinacy, or even malice? When things assume a will of their own and seem to act out against human desires and wishes rather than disappear into automatic, unconscious functionality, the breakdown is experienced not as something neutral but affectively—as rage or as outbursts of laughter. Such emotions are always psychosocial: public, rhetorically performed, and therefore irreducible to a “private” feeling. By investigating the minutest details of life among dysfunctional household items through the discourses of philosophy and science, as well as in literary works by Laurence Sterne, Jean Paul, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, and Heimito von Doderer, this book reconsiders the modern bourgeois poetics that render things the way we know and suffer them.
Nancy Sherman
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195315912
- eISBN:
- 9780199851201
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195315912.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy
This chapter discusses the Stoic conception of anger and the control of anger. It examines the Stoic view that anger is a dangerous emotion that can torment both its possessor and the human beings ...
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This chapter discusses the Stoic conception of anger and the control of anger. It examines the Stoic view that anger is a dangerous emotion that can torment both its possessor and the human beings who are its object. In response to the excesses of anger, the Stoics proposed their own extreme measure: to do away with anger entirely. They proposed an apatheia—a freedom from passions in which there is no frenzy or rage, no annoyance or bitterness, no moral outrage. The recurrent question in ancient texts from Homer to Seneca is whether a warrior needs anger to go to battle or not. Seneca, like many moderns, says no, but then he proceeded to eliminate other, more constructive forms of anger that might be essential to good moral character in general.Less
This chapter discusses the Stoic conception of anger and the control of anger. It examines the Stoic view that anger is a dangerous emotion that can torment both its possessor and the human beings who are its object. In response to the excesses of anger, the Stoics proposed their own extreme measure: to do away with anger entirely. They proposed an apatheia—a freedom from passions in which there is no frenzy or rage, no annoyance or bitterness, no moral outrage. The recurrent question in ancient texts from Homer to Seneca is whether a warrior needs anger to go to battle or not. Seneca, like many moderns, says no, but then he proceeded to eliminate other, more constructive forms of anger that might be essential to good moral character in general.
John Casey
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198240037
- eISBN:
- 9780191680069
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198240037.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter discusses the history of Lear criticism. King Lear is someone who was once proud, but whose pride has, with age and flattery, degenerated into childish vanity and irascibility. It also ...
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This chapter discusses the history of Lear criticism. King Lear is someone who was once proud, but whose pride has, with age and flattery, degenerated into childish vanity and irascibility. It also states part of the greatness of King Lear lies in what, ethically speaking, could be regarded as confusion. It makes use, opportunistically, of some of the most potent images and emotions in our culture — the humbling of pride, the survival of love, finding oneself through losing oneself, redemption. At the same time, and even as a condition of the power to move us of such things, there is in the background a recognition of the good of ‘noble rage’, of outrage at ingratitude, of horror at the comprehensive defeat of manhood. It has been a theme implicit in this book that we inherit a confused system of values; that when we think most rigorously and realistically we are ‘pagans’ in ethics, but that our Christian inheritance only allows a fitful sincerity about this. It would therefore be wrong to assume that any thorough return to ‘pagan’ ways of thinking about ethics is being suggested.Less
This chapter discusses the history of Lear criticism. King Lear is someone who was once proud, but whose pride has, with age and flattery, degenerated into childish vanity and irascibility. It also states part of the greatness of King Lear lies in what, ethically speaking, could be regarded as confusion. It makes use, opportunistically, of some of the most potent images and emotions in our culture — the humbling of pride, the survival of love, finding oneself through losing oneself, redemption. At the same time, and even as a condition of the power to move us of such things, there is in the background a recognition of the good of ‘noble rage’, of outrage at ingratitude, of horror at the comprehensive defeat of manhood. It has been a theme implicit in this book that we inherit a confused system of values; that when we think most rigorously and realistically we are ‘pagans’ in ethics, but that our Christian inheritance only allows a fitful sincerity about this. It would therefore be wrong to assume that any thorough return to ‘pagan’ ways of thinking about ethics is being suggested.
Tom Adam Davies
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780520292109
- eISBN:
- 9780520965645
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520292109.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This book upends the narrative that the Black Power movement allowed for a catharsis of black rage but achieved little institutional transformation or black uplift. Retelling the story of the 1960s ...
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This book upends the narrative that the Black Power movement allowed for a catharsis of black rage but achieved little institutional transformation or black uplift. Retelling the story of the 1960s and 1970s across the United States—and focusing on New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles—this book reveals how the War on Poverty cultivated black self-determination politics and demonstrates that federal, state, and local policies during this period bolstered economic, social, and educational institutions for black control. The book shows more convincingly than ever before that white power structures did engage with Black Power in specific ways that tended ultimately to reinforce rather than challenge existing racial, class, and gender hierarchies. The book emphasizes that Black Power's reach and legacies can be understood only in the context of an ideologically diverse black community.Less
This book upends the narrative that the Black Power movement allowed for a catharsis of black rage but achieved little institutional transformation or black uplift. Retelling the story of the 1960s and 1970s across the United States—and focusing on New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles—this book reveals how the War on Poverty cultivated black self-determination politics and demonstrates that federal, state, and local policies during this period bolstered economic, social, and educational institutions for black control. The book shows more convincingly than ever before that white power structures did engage with Black Power in specific ways that tended ultimately to reinforce rather than challenge existing racial, class, and gender hierarchies. The book emphasizes that Black Power's reach and legacies can be understood only in the context of an ideologically diverse black community.
Victor M. Uribe-Uran
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780804794633
- eISBN:
- 9780804796316
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804794633.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
Looks at excuses murderers could use to reduce their sentences, in particular those derived from drinking and other mitigating factors. It examines also the favorable treatment granted to Indians, ...
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Looks at excuses murderers could use to reduce their sentences, in particular those derived from drinking and other mitigating factors. It examines also the favorable treatment granted to Indians, and the extensive use of royal pardons. The chapter argues that forgiveness was essential to the image and legitimacy of the Spanish monarchy and strategic to its hegemonic control over society.Less
Looks at excuses murderers could use to reduce their sentences, in particular those derived from drinking and other mitigating factors. It examines also the favorable treatment granted to Indians, and the extensive use of royal pardons. The chapter argues that forgiveness was essential to the image and legitimacy of the Spanish monarchy and strategic to its hegemonic control over society.
Victor M. Uribe-Uran
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780804794633
- eISBN:
- 9780804796316
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804794633.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
Focuses on over 65 murders committed by Spanish wives and husbands, detailing their characteristics. Given the saliency of murders committed by unfaithful wives, this chapter explores the culture of ...
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Focuses on over 65 murders committed by Spanish wives and husbands, detailing their characteristics. Given the saliency of murders committed by unfaithful wives, this chapter explores the culture of honor and the extent to which it could be considered central to explaining the events under consideration. It demonstrates that most incidents resulting from extramarital affairs involved women who killed their husbands, not the other way around. This suggests that the honor codes were upended.Less
Focuses on over 65 murders committed by Spanish wives and husbands, detailing their characteristics. Given the saliency of murders committed by unfaithful wives, this chapter explores the culture of honor and the extent to which it could be considered central to explaining the events under consideration. It demonstrates that most incidents resulting from extramarital affairs involved women who killed their husbands, not the other way around. This suggests that the honor codes were upended.
Jaak Panksepp
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199755059
- eISBN:
- 9780199979479
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199755059.003.0004
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology
All mammals share homologous primary-process emotional circuits, verified by the capacity of artificial activation of these systems to mediate “rewarding” and “punishing” effects in humans and other ...
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All mammals share homologous primary-process emotional circuits, verified by the capacity of artificial activation of these systems to mediate “rewarding” and “punishing” effects in humans and other animals. These systems (SEEKING, RAGE, FEAR, CARE, PANIC/GRIEF, and PLAY) mediate social functions. These bottom-up primal emotional networks are fundamental for emotional reinforcement processes that regulate secondary-process learning and memory and lead to a diversity of higher cognitive functions, which, primarily via neural plasticity and learning, provide various top-down regulatory factors for emotional homeostasis as well as amplification of psychic disturbances. Many of the interminable controversies in psychological emotions studies may be due to different investigators focusing on different levels of organization within these multitiered levels of circular causality. A better understanding of the emotional primes can help guide the development of coherent new ways to optimize child development.Less
All mammals share homologous primary-process emotional circuits, verified by the capacity of artificial activation of these systems to mediate “rewarding” and “punishing” effects in humans and other animals. These systems (SEEKING, RAGE, FEAR, CARE, PANIC/GRIEF, and PLAY) mediate social functions. These bottom-up primal emotional networks are fundamental for emotional reinforcement processes that regulate secondary-process learning and memory and lead to a diversity of higher cognitive functions, which, primarily via neural plasticity and learning, provide various top-down regulatory factors for emotional homeostasis as well as amplification of psychic disturbances. Many of the interminable controversies in psychological emotions studies may be due to different investigators focusing on different levels of organization within these multitiered levels of circular causality. A better understanding of the emotional primes can help guide the development of coherent new ways to optimize child development.
Richard T. Hughes
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252042065
- eISBN:
- 9780252050800
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042065.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
The Great American Myths are the commonly accepted stories that, along with the American Creed, convey to most Americans the meaning of their nation. The first edition of Myths America Lives By ...
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The Great American Myths are the commonly accepted stories that, along with the American Creed, convey to most Americans the meaning of their nation. The first edition of Myths America Lives By identified five of those myths: the Chosen Nation, Nature’s Nation, the Christian Nation, the Millennial Nation, and the Innocent Nation. The second edition adds a sixth: the myth of White Supremacy. This chapter introduces the two primary arguments of this book—first, that the myth of White Supremacy is the primal American myth that informs all the others and, second, that one of the chief functions of the other five myths is to protect and obscure the myth of White Supremacy and assure us that we remain innocent after all. Most blacks understand that white supremacy is the primal American myth since they live with its real-life consequences. But those in positions of power are not forced to live with the consequences of this myth. As a result, for most American whites the myth of White Supremacy is like the air they breathe: it envelops and shapes them but does so in ways they seldom discern.Less
The Great American Myths are the commonly accepted stories that, along with the American Creed, convey to most Americans the meaning of their nation. The first edition of Myths America Lives By identified five of those myths: the Chosen Nation, Nature’s Nation, the Christian Nation, the Millennial Nation, and the Innocent Nation. The second edition adds a sixth: the myth of White Supremacy. This chapter introduces the two primary arguments of this book—first, that the myth of White Supremacy is the primal American myth that informs all the others and, second, that one of the chief functions of the other five myths is to protect and obscure the myth of White Supremacy and assure us that we remain innocent after all. Most blacks understand that white supremacy is the primal American myth since they live with its real-life consequences. But those in positions of power are not forced to live with the consequences of this myth. As a result, for most American whites the myth of White Supremacy is like the air they breathe: it envelops and shapes them but does so in ways they seldom discern.
Mike Fortun
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520247505
- eISBN:
- 9780520942615
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520247505.003.0018
- Subject:
- Biology, Evolutionary Biology / Genetics
After deCODE Genetics placed its initial public offering (IPO), announced in March 2000, on hold as NASDAQ tumbled through the spring, its underwriters, Morgan Stanley, decided to go ahead. The ...
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After deCODE Genetics placed its initial public offering (IPO), announced in March 2000, on hold as NASDAQ tumbled through the spring, its underwriters, Morgan Stanley, decided to go ahead. The deCODE stock was first offered on July 17, 2000, grossing $198,720,000 out of some 11 million shares sold. The IPO was clearly a financial success, for both deCODE and Morgan Stanley. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations often refer to a “sophisticated investor” as their ideal subject: the person who makes rational decisions about his or her money, about other people's money, and about the corporations in which these monies might be invested. This population of sophisticated investors swelled in the 1990s, and online securities trading sites multiplied, all in the expanded “safe harbor” for forward-looking statements dredged out by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This chapter looks at how deCODE was discussed in the period immediately before and after its IPO in July 2000 on the online investing sites Raging Bull and Yahoo!Finance.Less
After deCODE Genetics placed its initial public offering (IPO), announced in March 2000, on hold as NASDAQ tumbled through the spring, its underwriters, Morgan Stanley, decided to go ahead. The deCODE stock was first offered on July 17, 2000, grossing $198,720,000 out of some 11 million shares sold. The IPO was clearly a financial success, for both deCODE and Morgan Stanley. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations often refer to a “sophisticated investor” as their ideal subject: the person who makes rational decisions about his or her money, about other people's money, and about the corporations in which these monies might be invested. This population of sophisticated investors swelled in the 1990s, and online securities trading sites multiplied, all in the expanded “safe harbor” for forward-looking statements dredged out by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This chapter looks at how deCODE was discussed in the period immediately before and after its IPO in July 2000 on the online investing sites Raging Bull and Yahoo!Finance.
Leger Grindon
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604739886
- eISBN:
- 9781604739893
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604739886.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This is a book-length study of the Hollywood boxing film, a popular movie entertainment since the 1930s that includes such classics as Million Dollar Baby, Rocky, and Raging Bull. The boxer stands ...
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This is a book-length study of the Hollywood boxing film, a popular movie entertainment since the 1930s that includes such classics as Million Dollar Baby, Rocky, and Raging Bull. The boxer stands alongside the cowboy, the gangster, and the detective as a character that shaped America’s ideas of manhood. The author relates the Hollywood boxing film to the literature of Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, and Clifford Odets; the influence of ring champions, particularly Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali; and controversies surrounding masculinity, race, and sports. The book focuses on the fundamental dramatic conflicts uniting both documentary and fictional films with compelling social concerns. The boxing film portrays more than the rise and fall of a champion; it exposes the body in order to reveal the spirit. Not simply a brute, the screen boxer dramatizes conflicts and aspirations central to an American audience’s experience. The book features chapters on the conventions of the boxing film, the history of the genre and its relationship to famous ring champions, and self-contained treatments of thirty-two individual films, including a chapter devoted to Raging Bull.Less
This is a book-length study of the Hollywood boxing film, a popular movie entertainment since the 1930s that includes such classics as Million Dollar Baby, Rocky, and Raging Bull. The boxer stands alongside the cowboy, the gangster, and the detective as a character that shaped America’s ideas of manhood. The author relates the Hollywood boxing film to the literature of Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, and Clifford Odets; the influence of ring champions, particularly Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali; and controversies surrounding masculinity, race, and sports. The book focuses on the fundamental dramatic conflicts uniting both documentary and fictional films with compelling social concerns. The boxing film portrays more than the rise and fall of a champion; it exposes the body in order to reveal the spirit. Not simply a brute, the screen boxer dramatizes conflicts and aspirations central to an American audience’s experience. The book features chapters on the conventions of the boxing film, the history of the genre and its relationship to famous ring champions, and self-contained treatments of thirty-two individual films, including a chapter devoted to Raging Bull.
Terrence T. Tucker
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781617039973
- eISBN:
- 9781626740280
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617039973.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter explores Aaron McGruder’s use of “comic rage” – comedy fuelled by anger and resentment – as a driving principle behind the satire of his hit comic and animated television series The ...
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This chapter explores Aaron McGruder’s use of “comic rage” – comedy fuelled by anger and resentment – as a driving principle behind the satire of his hit comic and animated television series The Boondocks. This chapter demonstrates how The Boondocks challenges the mainstream belief in a “colorblind” society that Supposedly followed the Civil Rights Movement. This chapter shows how McGruder uses satire and parody to critique the inconsistencies present in contemporary discussions of race in America.Less
This chapter explores Aaron McGruder’s use of “comic rage” – comedy fuelled by anger and resentment – as a driving principle behind the satire of his hit comic and animated television series The Boondocks. This chapter demonstrates how The Boondocks challenges the mainstream belief in a “colorblind” society that Supposedly followed the Civil Rights Movement. This chapter shows how McGruder uses satire and parody to critique the inconsistencies present in contemporary discussions of race in America.
Terry Williams
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780231177900
- eISBN:
- 9780231542500
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231177900.003.0002
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
Enoch, a rural kid involved in blood-letting rituals with his girl friend; after several years of cutting and self-mutilation decided to use his journal as a writing cure, where his writing became ...
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Enoch, a rural kid involved in blood-letting rituals with his girl friend; after several years of cutting and self-mutilation decided to use his journal as a writing cure, where his writing became theraeutic. Yet the alternative economic life of kids like Enoch is embedded in an alternative culture; the culture of refusal as the strong sense of possibility slowly turn into a kind of rage.Less
Enoch, a rural kid involved in blood-letting rituals with his girl friend; after several years of cutting and self-mutilation decided to use his journal as a writing cure, where his writing became theraeutic. Yet the alternative economic life of kids like Enoch is embedded in an alternative culture; the culture of refusal as the strong sense of possibility slowly turn into a kind of rage.
Ellen Winner and Jennifer E. Drake
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199794003
- eISBN:
- 9780199345212
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794003.003.0016
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
Deliberate practice (or hard work) is necessary for the achievement of high levels of expertise, but it is not sufficient. Talent – the innate proclivity to learn easily and quickly in a particular ...
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Deliberate practice (or hard work) is necessary for the achievement of high levels of expertise, but it is not sufficient. Talent – the innate proclivity to learn easily and quickly in a particular domain – is also a necessary ingredient and should not be dismissed. We use the domain of the visual arts to illustrate our position, focusing on the drawings of children who draw realistically years before their peers, and we consider four pieces of evidence for talent. First, the drawings of these children are advanced from the start – before they have engaged in deliberate practice. Second, these children are not just advanced but are also different. Third, there are biological markers of artistic talent. And fourth, these children show a “rage to master” the domain of drawing – a strong drive to figure out the rules of graphic representation. Only when children have such an intense interest are they are willing to engage in extensive deliberate practice. And an intense interest in a domain is almost always a sign of innate talent.Less
Deliberate practice (or hard work) is necessary for the achievement of high levels of expertise, but it is not sufficient. Talent – the innate proclivity to learn easily and quickly in a particular domain – is also a necessary ingredient and should not be dismissed. We use the domain of the visual arts to illustrate our position, focusing on the drawings of children who draw realistically years before their peers, and we consider four pieces of evidence for talent. First, the drawings of these children are advanced from the start – before they have engaged in deliberate practice. Second, these children are not just advanced but are also different. Third, there are biological markers of artistic talent. And fourth, these children show a “rage to master” the domain of drawing – a strong drive to figure out the rules of graphic representation. Only when children have such an intense interest are they are willing to engage in extensive deliberate practice. And an intense interest in a domain is almost always a sign of innate talent.
Simone C. Drake
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226363837
- eISBN:
- 9780226364025
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226364025.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
Black servicemen in WWII and the Korean War consistently reveal embittered stories of segregation, discrimination, and the hard fact of unequal protection and second-class citizenship, in spite of ...
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Black servicemen in WWII and the Korean War consistently reveal embittered stories of segregation, discrimination, and the hard fact of unequal protection and second-class citizenship, in spite of sacrificing their lives for a nation that refused them full citizenship. Constructed as a personal narrative, this chapter explores U.S. military documents used by the author’s grandfather and other Buffalo Soldiers to develop an archive of unwritten and unacknowledged military service. A scholarly book manuscript was published as a result of this 1980s “setting the record straight” campaign. This chapter tells a story about the counter-story a determined group of black men worked collaboratively to produce. It pushes readers to think about the limits and possibilities of black men “imagining grace” through militaristic service to a nation whose only interest in their [black men’s] best interest was by way of an interest convergence. What emerges is a narrative of black pride and shame.Less
Black servicemen in WWII and the Korean War consistently reveal embittered stories of segregation, discrimination, and the hard fact of unequal protection and second-class citizenship, in spite of sacrificing their lives for a nation that refused them full citizenship. Constructed as a personal narrative, this chapter explores U.S. military documents used by the author’s grandfather and other Buffalo Soldiers to develop an archive of unwritten and unacknowledged military service. A scholarly book manuscript was published as a result of this 1980s “setting the record straight” campaign. This chapter tells a story about the counter-story a determined group of black men worked collaboratively to produce. It pushes readers to think about the limits and possibilities of black men “imagining grace” through militaristic service to a nation whose only interest in their [black men’s] best interest was by way of an interest convergence. What emerges is a narrative of black pride and shame.
