Maarten A. Hajer
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198293330
- eISBN:
- 9780191599408
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019829333X.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
Introduces discourse analysis as a way to analyse the policy process. Draws on two different discourse analytical approaches: the work of Michel Foucault and the social psychological work by Michael ...
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Introduces discourse analysis as a way to analyse the policy process. Draws on two different discourse analytical approaches: the work of Michel Foucault and the social psychological work by Michael Billig and Rom Harré. Concludes by comparing the analysis of policy making using the concept of discourse coalitions to the well‐known concept of ‘advocacy coalitions’.Less
Introduces discourse analysis as a way to analyse the policy process. Draws on two different discourse analytical approaches: the work of Michel Foucault and the social psychological work by Michael Billig and Rom Harré. Concludes by comparing the analysis of policy making using the concept of discourse coalitions to the well‐known concept of ‘advocacy coalitions’.
Barbara Tepa Lupack
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501748189
- eISBN:
- 9781501748202
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501748189.003.0010
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter studies The Mysteries of Myra (1916). Although the Wharton brothers apparently abandoned some of the shorter pictures that they had been considering, early in the new year of 1916, they ...
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This chapter studies The Mysteries of Myra (1916). Although the Wharton brothers apparently abandoned some of the shorter pictures that they had been considering, early in the new year of 1916, they began preparations for The Mysteries of Myra. Pioneering in both subject and execution, The Mysteries of Myra aimed to avoid the hackneyed melodramatic lines of many early serials by offering instead what one contemporary reviewer called “a wonderful new theme that compels attention because of the puzzling thoughts regarding mental telepathy and spirits presented in a manner which follows authenticated scientific discoveries.” In other words, the serial purported to demonstrate the way that science had become powerful enough to “prove” the existence of the unscientific. Myra had other cultural reverberations as well. In addition to reflecting the unconventional “New Woman” type that had come into vogue in the 1910s, Myra Maynard was also emblematic of another early twentieth-century type in America popular culture: the adolescent girl as a liminal figure who, as she comes of age, uncannily mediates between the living and the dead. The scenario for the serial was written by Charles W. Goddard, a veteran of serial pictures who had scripted The Perils of Pauline and whose association with the Whartons dated back to their first Elaine serial production in 1914. On the Myra scripts, Goddard collaborated closely with American investigator of psychic phenomena Hereward Carrington, who supplied most of the occult story lines.Less
This chapter studies The Mysteries of Myra (1916). Although the Wharton brothers apparently abandoned some of the shorter pictures that they had been considering, early in the new year of 1916, they began preparations for The Mysteries of Myra. Pioneering in both subject and execution, The Mysteries of Myra aimed to avoid the hackneyed melodramatic lines of many early serials by offering instead what one contemporary reviewer called “a wonderful new theme that compels attention because of the puzzling thoughts regarding mental telepathy and spirits presented in a manner which follows authenticated scientific discoveries.” In other words, the serial purported to demonstrate the way that science had become powerful enough to “prove” the existence of the unscientific. Myra had other cultural reverberations as well. In addition to reflecting the unconventional “New Woman” type that had come into vogue in the 1910s, Myra Maynard was also emblematic of another early twentieth-century type in America popular culture: the adolescent girl as a liminal figure who, as she comes of age, uncannily mediates between the living and the dead. The scenario for the serial was written by Charles W. Goddard, a veteran of serial pictures who had scripted The Perils of Pauline and whose association with the Whartons dated back to their first Elaine serial production in 1914. On the Myra scripts, Goddard collaborated closely with American investigator of psychic phenomena Hereward Carrington, who supplied most of the occult story lines.
Tess Chakkalakal
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252036330
- eISBN:
- 9780252093388
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252036330.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
This chapter focuses on Charles Chesnutt's postslavery fiction and criticism that, in some respects, might be read as offering one of the most effective counterarguments to Harper's view of marriage ...
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This chapter focuses on Charles Chesnutt's postslavery fiction and criticism that, in some respects, might be read as offering one of the most effective counterarguments to Harper's view of marriage and vision of freedom. Chesnutt casts a surprisingly critical eye on the movement to legitimate slave-marriages during Reconstruction, a movement celebrated by historians of marriage and slavery alike. While Harper views marriage as essential to preserving relations formed in slavery, Chesnutt presents it as a way of breaking free of those relations, of forming new relations that eschew the racial principles that made it impossible for former slaves and their descendants to marry according to self-interest and personal desire. The differences between their positions are suggestive of a broader political debate about the formation of a postslavery slave community.Less
This chapter focuses on Charles Chesnutt's postslavery fiction and criticism that, in some respects, might be read as offering one of the most effective counterarguments to Harper's view of marriage and vision of freedom. Chesnutt casts a surprisingly critical eye on the movement to legitimate slave-marriages during Reconstruction, a movement celebrated by historians of marriage and slavery alike. While Harper views marriage as essential to preserving relations formed in slavery, Chesnutt presents it as a way of breaking free of those relations, of forming new relations that eschew the racial principles that made it impossible for former slaves and their descendants to marry according to self-interest and personal desire. The differences between their positions are suggestive of a broader political debate about the formation of a postslavery slave community.
Gayden Wren
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195301724
- eISBN:
- 9780199850655
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195301724.003.0014
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
The Yeomen of the Guard is not only the culmination of Gilbert and Sullivan’s arc toward seriousness but also Gilbert’s most sustained and effective use of his long-established ...
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The Yeomen of the Guard is not only the culmination of Gilbert and Sullivan’s arc toward seriousness but also Gilbert’s most sustained and effective use of his long-established multi-story-lines technique. Most impressive, however, is the opera’s imaginative use of songs that present “could be” parallel plots to comment on the actual course of events, either prophetically or ironically. It was a culmination it seems to be—a masterly drawing-together of thematic ideas, dramatic and musical techniques, and collaborative interactions that had been being forged for a decade.Less
The Yeomen of the Guard is not only the culmination of Gilbert and Sullivan’s arc toward seriousness but also Gilbert’s most sustained and effective use of his long-established multi-story-lines technique. Most impressive, however, is the opera’s imaginative use of songs that present “could be” parallel plots to comment on the actual course of events, either prophetically or ironically. It was a culmination it seems to be—a masterly drawing-together of thematic ideas, dramatic and musical techniques, and collaborative interactions that had been being forged for a decade.
Mary Orr
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780853238577
- eISBN:
- 9781781380499
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853238577.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter evaluates Claude Simon's Le Jardin des Plantes in comparison with Borges' The Garden of Forking Paths. It offers a literary criticism of Le Jardin des Plantes, and illustrates the inter- ...
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This chapter evaluates Claude Simon's Le Jardin des Plantes in comparison with Borges' The Garden of Forking Paths. It offers a literary criticism of Le Jardin des Plantes, and illustrates the inter- and intratextuality by citing the parallelism in the story line, events and symbolism.Less
This chapter evaluates Claude Simon's Le Jardin des Plantes in comparison with Borges' The Garden of Forking Paths. It offers a literary criticism of Le Jardin des Plantes, and illustrates the inter- and intratextuality by citing the parallelism in the story line, events and symbolism.
