Robert C. Solomon
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195181579
- eISBN:
- 9780199786602
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195181573.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre were the giants of 20th-century “existentialism”, although neither of them was comfortable with that title. Their famous differences aside, they shared a ...
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Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre were the giants of 20th-century “existentialism”, although neither of them was comfortable with that title. Their famous differences aside, they shared a “phenomenological” sensibility and described personal experience in exquisite and excruciating detail and reflected on the meaning of this experience with both sensitivity and insight. That is the focus of this book: Camus and Sartre, their descriptions of personal experience, and their reflections on the meaning of this experience. They also reflected, worriedly, on the nature of reflection. The thematic problem of the book is the relationship between experience and reflection. The book explores this relationship through novels and plays, Camus’ The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall, Sartre’s Nausea and No Exit, and Sartre’s great philosophical tome, Being and Nothingness.Less
Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre were the giants of 20th-century “existentialism”, although neither of them was comfortable with that title. Their famous differences aside, they shared a “phenomenological” sensibility and described personal experience in exquisite and excruciating detail and reflected on the meaning of this experience with both sensitivity and insight. That is the focus of this book: Camus and Sartre, their descriptions of personal experience, and their reflections on the meaning of this experience. They also reflected, worriedly, on the nature of reflection. The thematic problem of the book is the relationship between experience and reflection. The book explores this relationship through novels and plays, Camus’ The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall, Sartre’s Nausea and No Exit, and Sartre’s great philosophical tome, Being and Nothingness.
Robert C. Solomon
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195181579
- eISBN:
- 9780199786602
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195181573.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Camus’ novel, The Stranger, can be read as a philosophically profound phenomenological study of personal experience, more or less devoid of reflection. The novel also presents the development of ...
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Camus’ novel, The Stranger, can be read as a philosophically profound phenomenological study of personal experience, more or less devoid of reflection. The novel also presents the development of reflective consciousness through the increasing awareness of the significance of other people. Camus himself has interpreted the hero of the book as a hero for the truth, but the point is made here that Meursault (the supposed hero) is not sufficiently reflective to either be concerned with the truth or to tell a lie.Less
Camus’ novel, The Stranger, can be read as a philosophically profound phenomenological study of personal experience, more or less devoid of reflection. The novel also presents the development of reflective consciousness through the increasing awareness of the significance of other people. Camus himself has interpreted the hero of the book as a hero for the truth, but the point is made here that Meursault (the supposed hero) is not sufficiently reflective to either be concerned with the truth or to tell a lie.
Richard Kearney and Kascha Semonovitch (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823234615
- eISBN:
- 9780823240722
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823234615.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
What is strange? Or better, who is strange? When do we encounter the strange? We encounter strangers when we are not at home — when we are in a foreign land or a foreign part of our own land. From ...
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What is strange? Or better, who is strange? When do we encounter the strange? We encounter strangers when we are not at home — when we are in a foreign land or a foreign part of our own land. From Freud to Lacan to Kristeva to Heidegger, the feeling of strangeness — das Unheimlichkeit — has marked our encounter with the other, even the other within our self. Most philosophical attempts to understand the role of the Stranger, human or transcendent, have been limited to standard epistemological problems of other minds, metaphysical substances, body/soul dualism and related issues of consciousness and cognition. This volume endeavors to take the question of hosting the Stranger to the deeper level of embodied imagination and the senses. It plays host to a number of encounters with the strange. It asks such questions as: How does the embodied imagination relate to the Stranger in terms of hospitality or hostility? How do we distinguish between projections of fear or fascination, leading to either violence or welcome? How do humans sense the dimension of the strange and alien in different religions, arts, and cultures? How do the five physical senses relate to the spiritual senses, especially the famous sixth sense, as portals to an encounter with the Other? Is there a carnal perception of alterity, which would operate at an affective, pre-reflective, preconscious level? What exactly do embodied imaginaries of hospitality and hostility entail, and how do they operate in language, psychology, and social interrelations? What are the topical implications of these questions for ethics and practice of tolerance and peace?Less
What is strange? Or better, who is strange? When do we encounter the strange? We encounter strangers when we are not at home — when we are in a foreign land or a foreign part of our own land. From Freud to Lacan to Kristeva to Heidegger, the feeling of strangeness — das Unheimlichkeit — has marked our encounter with the other, even the other within our self. Most philosophical attempts to understand the role of the Stranger, human or transcendent, have been limited to standard epistemological problems of other minds, metaphysical substances, body/soul dualism and related issues of consciousness and cognition. This volume endeavors to take the question of hosting the Stranger to the deeper level of embodied imagination and the senses. It plays host to a number of encounters with the strange. It asks such questions as: How does the embodied imagination relate to the Stranger in terms of hospitality or hostility? How do we distinguish between projections of fear or fascination, leading to either violence or welcome? How do humans sense the dimension of the strange and alien in different religions, arts, and cultures? How do the five physical senses relate to the spiritual senses, especially the famous sixth sense, as portals to an encounter with the Other? Is there a carnal perception of alterity, which would operate at an affective, pre-reflective, preconscious level? What exactly do embodied imaginaries of hospitality and hostility entail, and how do they operate in language, psychology, and social interrelations? What are the topical implications of these questions for ethics and practice of tolerance and peace?
Andrea Braides
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780198507840
- eISBN:
- 9780191709890
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198507840.003.0014
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Applied Mathematics
This chapter discusses a direct treatment of problems in perforated domains with a Dirichlet condition on the perforation. It relies on a joining lemma by Ansini and Braides, allowing the decoupling ...
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This chapter discusses a direct treatment of problems in perforated domains with a Dirichlet condition on the perforation. It relies on a joining lemma by Ansini and Braides, allowing the decoupling of the problem close and far away from the perforation, based on the well-known procedure of De Giorgi to treat boundary conditions. The contribution close to the perforation gives a higher-dimensional version of a phase-transition energy that can be expressed through a capacitary problem, recovering the ‘strange term’ of the Cioranescu-Murat approach to the same problem.Less
This chapter discusses a direct treatment of problems in perforated domains with a Dirichlet condition on the perforation. It relies on a joining lemma by Ansini and Braides, allowing the decoupling of the problem close and far away from the perforation, based on the well-known procedure of De Giorgi to treat boundary conditions. The contribution close to the perforation gives a higher-dimensional version of a phase-transition energy that can be expressed through a capacitary problem, recovering the ‘strange term’ of the Cioranescu-Murat approach to the same problem.
Philip Lambert
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195390070
- eISBN:
- 9780199863570
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195390070.003.0009
- Subject:
- Music, Theory, Analysis, Composition, Popular
This final chapter surveys the separate professional lives of Bock and Harnick since their partnership dissolved in the early 1970s. Jerry Bock has worked as his own lyricist and written songs for ...
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This final chapter surveys the separate professional lives of Bock and Harnick since their partnership dissolved in the early 1970s. Jerry Bock has worked as his own lyricist and written songs for concept albums and a feature film (Sidney Lumet’s A Stranger Among Us). He has worked on two major musicals that were never fully staged, one a murder-mystery (with author Evan Hunter), the other based on the tax code (with Jerry Sterner). He also wrote a successful series of musicals for young audiences (with Sidney Berger). Sheldon Harnick has branched out into opera (with composers Jack Beeson and Henry Mollicone) and translations (of Ravel, Bizet, and Lehár). His activities in the musical theater since the 1970s include writing lyrics with Richard Rodgers (Rex), book and lyrics with Michel Legrand (A Christmas Carol) and Joe Raposo (A Wonderful Life), and book, music, and lyrics for Dragons, based on Yevgeny Schwartz’s political fable.Less
This final chapter surveys the separate professional lives of Bock and Harnick since their partnership dissolved in the early 1970s. Jerry Bock has worked as his own lyricist and written songs for concept albums and a feature film (Sidney Lumet’s A Stranger Among Us). He has worked on two major musicals that were never fully staged, one a murder-mystery (with author Evan Hunter), the other based on the tax code (with Jerry Sterner). He also wrote a successful series of musicals for young audiences (with Sidney Berger). Sheldon Harnick has branched out into opera (with composers Jack Beeson and Henry Mollicone) and translations (of Ravel, Bizet, and Lehár). His activities in the musical theater since the 1970s include writing lyrics with Richard Rodgers (Rex), book and lyrics with Michel Legrand (A Christmas Carol) and Joe Raposo (A Wonderful Life), and book, music, and lyrics for Dragons, based on Yevgeny Schwartz’s political fable.
Jane Whittle and Elizabeth Griffiths
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199233533
- eISBN:
- 9780191739330
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199233533.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
Lady Alice Le Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk kept a continuous series of household accounts from 1610 to 1654. This book uses the Le Stranges’ rich archive to imaginatively reconstruct the material ...
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Lady Alice Le Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk kept a continuous series of household accounts from 1610 to 1654. This book uses the Le Stranges’ rich archive to imaginatively reconstruct the material aspects of family life. This involves looking not just at purchases but also at home production and gifts; and not just at the luxurious but also at the everyday consumption of food and medical care. Consumption is viewed not just as material culture, but as a process involving household management, acquisition and appropriation, a process which created and reinforced social links with craftsmen, servants, labourers and the local community. It is argued that the county gentry provide a missing link in histories of consumption: connecting the fashions of London and the royal court with those of middling strata of rural England. Consumption is often viewed as a female activity, and the book looks in detail at who managed the provisioning, purchases and work within the household, how spending on sons and daughters differed, and whether men and women attached different cultural values to household goods. This single household’s economy provides a window onto some of most significant cultural and economic issues of early modern England: innovations in trade, retail and production, the basis of gentry power, social relations in the countryside, and the gendering of family life.Less
Lady Alice Le Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk kept a continuous series of household accounts from 1610 to 1654. This book uses the Le Stranges’ rich archive to imaginatively reconstruct the material aspects of family life. This involves looking not just at purchases but also at home production and gifts; and not just at the luxurious but also at the everyday consumption of food and medical care. Consumption is viewed not just as material culture, but as a process involving household management, acquisition and appropriation, a process which created and reinforced social links with craftsmen, servants, labourers and the local community. It is argued that the county gentry provide a missing link in histories of consumption: connecting the fashions of London and the royal court with those of middling strata of rural England. Consumption is often viewed as a female activity, and the book looks in detail at who managed the provisioning, purchases and work within the household, how spending on sons and daughters differed, and whether men and women attached different cultural values to household goods. This single household’s economy provides a window onto some of most significant cultural and economic issues of early modern England: innovations in trade, retail and production, the basis of gentry power, social relations in the countryside, and the gendering of family life.
David Simpson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226922355
- eISBN:
- 9780226922362
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226922362.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
In our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger—the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor—carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are “different” has ...
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In our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger—the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor—carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are “different” has become particularly strong. But arguments about the stranger are not unique to our time. This book locates the figure of the stranger and the rhetoric of strangeness in romanticism and places them in a tradition that extends from antiquity to today. It shows us that debates about strangers loomed large in the French Republic of the 1790s, resulting in heated discourse that weighed who was to be welcomed and who was to be proscribed as dangerous. Placing this debate in the context of classical, biblical, and other later writings, the book identifies a persistent difficulty in controlling the play between the despised and the desired. It examines the stranger as found in the works of Coleridge, Austen, Scott, and Southey, as well as in depictions of the betrayals of hospitality in the literature of slavery and exploration—as in Mungo Park’s Travels and Stedman’s Narrative—and portrayals of strange women in de Staël, Rousseau, and Burney. Contributing to a strain of thinking about the stranger that includes interventions by Ricoeur and Derrida, the book reveals the complex history of encounters with alien figures and our continued struggles with romantic concerns about the unknown.Less
In our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger—the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor—carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are “different” has become particularly strong. But arguments about the stranger are not unique to our time. This book locates the figure of the stranger and the rhetoric of strangeness in romanticism and places them in a tradition that extends from antiquity to today. It shows us that debates about strangers loomed large in the French Republic of the 1790s, resulting in heated discourse that weighed who was to be welcomed and who was to be proscribed as dangerous. Placing this debate in the context of classical, biblical, and other later writings, the book identifies a persistent difficulty in controlling the play between the despised and the desired. It examines the stranger as found in the works of Coleridge, Austen, Scott, and Southey, as well as in depictions of the betrayals of hospitality in the literature of slavery and exploration—as in Mungo Park’s Travels and Stedman’s Narrative—and portrayals of strange women in de Staël, Rousseau, and Burney. Contributing to a strain of thinking about the stranger that includes interventions by Ricoeur and Derrida, the book reveals the complex history of encounters with alien figures and our continued struggles with romantic concerns about the unknown.
Elizabeth Elkin Grammer
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195139617
- eISBN:
- 9780199834242
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195139615.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Each of these spiritual autobiographers looks to her audience as she constructs herself in language, just as she had looked to her listeners in her effort to spread the good news of the gospel. She ...
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Each of these spiritual autobiographers looks to her audience as she constructs herself in language, just as she had looked to her listeners in her effort to spread the good news of the gospel. She draws upon the popular languages of her day—domesticity, competitive individualism, evangelicalism and biblical typology—in her effort to explain a “female stranger” to her culture. In doing so she worked, consciously or not, to alter traditional gender expectations, to reconstruct forms of womanhood for her nineteenth‐century readers, to create a place for the female itinerant preachers who might follow in her footsteps. She also reveals, if only between the lines, a certain anxiety, as if she suspected that hers was an impossible project, that cutting and pasting a textual identity with words and images would only partially describe a “stranger” to her culture. Thus, these autobiographers inevitably depend upon their readers—converts?—to help create the interpretive community in which their story would someday make sense.Less
Each of these spiritual autobiographers looks to her audience as she constructs herself in language, just as she had looked to her listeners in her effort to spread the good news of the gospel. She draws upon the popular languages of her day—domesticity, competitive individualism, evangelicalism and biblical typology—in her effort to explain a “female stranger” to her culture. In doing so she worked, consciously or not, to alter traditional gender expectations, to reconstruct forms of womanhood for her nineteenth‐century readers, to create a place for the female itinerant preachers who might follow in her footsteps. She also reveals, if only between the lines, a certain anxiety, as if she suspected that hers was an impossible project, that cutting and pasting a textual identity with words and images would only partially describe a “stranger” to her culture. Thus, these autobiographers inevitably depend upon their readers—converts?—to help create the interpretive community in which their story would someday make sense.
John Van Seters
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195153156
- eISBN:
- 9780199834785
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195153154.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
Within the second half of the code are social and humanitarian commandments concerned with the poor, the widow and orphan, and the stranger who are not to be exploited, but must be supported by ...
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Within the second half of the code are social and humanitarian commandments concerned with the poor, the widow and orphan, and the stranger who are not to be exploited, but must be supported by social welfare. These concerns are expressed in regulations regarding the practice of usury, fair treatment in a court of law, fair labor practices, and animal welfare. There are various apodictic prohibitions and injunctions on religious matters, including one that has been linked to the practice of child sacrifice, to which special attention is given. The last group of religious injunctions deals with the Sabbath and festival laws. Many of the laws within this half of the Covenant Code have their counterparts within the other biblical codes, as well as the larger biblical tradition, which call for careful comparative analysis.Less
Within the second half of the code are social and humanitarian commandments concerned with the poor, the widow and orphan, and the stranger who are not to be exploited, but must be supported by social welfare. These concerns are expressed in regulations regarding the practice of usury, fair treatment in a court of law, fair labor practices, and animal welfare. There are various apodictic prohibitions and injunctions on religious matters, including one that has been linked to the practice of child sacrifice, to which special attention is given. The last group of religious injunctions deals with the Sabbath and festival laws. Many of the laws within this half of the Covenant Code have their counterparts within the other biblical codes, as well as the larger biblical tradition, which call for careful comparative analysis.
Jane Whittle and Elizabeth Griffiths
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199233533
- eISBN:
- 9780191739330
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199233533.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
After defining the term ‘consumption’, Chapter 1 offers an overview of the history of consumption in early modern England. It explores how consumption and gender intersect and the special place of ...
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After defining the term ‘consumption’, Chapter 1 offers an overview of the history of consumption in early modern England. It explores how consumption and gender intersect and the special place of the gentry as a class of consumers. It provides context for the detailed study that follows with a brief history of the Le Strange family and a description of the locality in which they lived in north-west Norfolk. The research methods based on the detailed study of household accounts supplemented with other information from the archives are outlined.Less
After defining the term ‘consumption’, Chapter 1 offers an overview of the history of consumption in early modern England. It explores how consumption and gender intersect and the special place of the gentry as a class of consumers. It provides context for the detailed study that follows with a brief history of the Le Strange family and a description of the locality in which they lived in north-west Norfolk. The research methods based on the detailed study of household accounts supplemented with other information from the archives are outlined.
Jill Duerr Berrick
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195322620
- eISBN:
- 9780199864607
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195322620.003.0005
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families, Social Policy
Kinship foster care — subsidized care provided by relatives — has ushered in a wholesale shift in philosophy where the stark lines between family and stranger have blurred. As kinship care has grown ...
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Kinship foster care — subsidized care provided by relatives — has ushered in a wholesale shift in philosophy where the stark lines between family and stranger have blurred. As kinship care has grown in prominence, new efforts to develop permanency options for children with kin have expanded. One of these options, subsidized kinship guardianship, allows the custodial rights of the child to be transferred from the state to an adult caregiver. Subsidized guardianship with relatives is complicated. It does not fit the traditional paradigm of stranger-based guardianship, and thus certain assumptions about the degree of distance between and protection from the birth parent and child may not necessarily fit. This chapter suggests that subsidized guardianship with relatives should be expanded, but should not be developed in a no-strings-attached policy environment. Efforts to develop monitoring mechanisms that ensure children’s custody arrangements remain safe and intact following case closure are essential.Less
Kinship foster care — subsidized care provided by relatives — has ushered in a wholesale shift in philosophy where the stark lines between family and stranger have blurred. As kinship care has grown in prominence, new efforts to develop permanency options for children with kin have expanded. One of these options, subsidized kinship guardianship, allows the custodial rights of the child to be transferred from the state to an adult caregiver. Subsidized guardianship with relatives is complicated. It does not fit the traditional paradigm of stranger-based guardianship, and thus certain assumptions about the degree of distance between and protection from the birth parent and child may not necessarily fit. This chapter suggests that subsidized guardianship with relatives should be expanded, but should not be developed in a no-strings-attached policy environment. Efforts to develop monitoring mechanisms that ensure children’s custody arrangements remain safe and intact following case closure are essential.
Angela Smith
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198183983
- eISBN:
- 9780191674167
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198183983.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Because margins are dangerous, they are also places of revelation. Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf recur in their letters to the magnetism as well as the terror of the overcrossing, of being ...
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Because margins are dangerous, they are also places of revelation. Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf recur in their letters to the magnetism as well as the terror of the overcrossing, of being on a landing on strange stairs where the everyday consciousness becomes aware of the foreigner within. This final chapter considers two short stories, Woolf’s ‘An Unwritten Novel’ and Mansfield’s ‘The Stranger’, in both of which a journey becomes the medium for inner exploration. In each case the liminal experience is transitory, though one of the stories also implies that writing itself offers what Turner describes as liminal communitas, a place of habitation, where the bonds are egalitarian and direct, non-rational. In both fictions, the foreigner looms out of the mist, the liminal space beyond borders of definition, and is recognised as part of the self; this perhaps partially explains why both Woolf and Mansfield recur to colonisation and empire.Less
Because margins are dangerous, they are also places of revelation. Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf recur in their letters to the magnetism as well as the terror of the overcrossing, of being on a landing on strange stairs where the everyday consciousness becomes aware of the foreigner within. This final chapter considers two short stories, Woolf’s ‘An Unwritten Novel’ and Mansfield’s ‘The Stranger’, in both of which a journey becomes the medium for inner exploration. In each case the liminal experience is transitory, though one of the stories also implies that writing itself offers what Turner describes as liminal communitas, a place of habitation, where the bonds are egalitarian and direct, non-rational. In both fictions, the foreigner looms out of the mist, the liminal space beyond borders of definition, and is recognised as part of the self; this perhaps partially explains why both Woolf and Mansfield recur to colonisation and empire.
Simon Palfrey
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780226150642
- eISBN:
- 9780226150789
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226150789.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
A short thought-experiment asking us to imagine a series of propositions: a nothing come to life, one that moves into places, takes on form, then becomes nothing again; a brush-stroke repeated over ...
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A short thought-experiment asking us to imagine a series of propositions: a nothing come to life, one that moves into places, takes on form, then becomes nothing again; a brush-stroke repeated over and over again, each one containing the same anguish; a sound that is both a scream and silent, which then becomes a body. These are the nightmare conditions of being-Edgar, a figure who is at once ghosted by half-familiar myths, and a stranger.Less
A short thought-experiment asking us to imagine a series of propositions: a nothing come to life, one that moves into places, takes on form, then becomes nothing again; a brush-stroke repeated over and over again, each one containing the same anguish; a sound that is both a scream and silent, which then becomes a body. These are the nightmare conditions of being-Edgar, a figure who is at once ghosted by half-familiar myths, and a stranger.
Andrew Gurr
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198129776
- eISBN:
- 9780191671852
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198129776.003.0015
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies, Drama
Too little is known about the involvement in playing of the Lancashire Stanleys, the earls of Derby, and especially about Lord Strange, ...
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Too little is known about the involvement in playing of the Lancashire Stanleys, the earls of Derby, and especially about Lord Strange, Ferdinando Stanley, who became the fifth earl of Derby a few months before his death in 1594. The Stanleys were the largest landowners in Lancashire, and they liked plays: most of the major playing companies made regular visits to perform at their great houses. It was a family packed with historically famous names, which had exercised a peculiar if marginal role in Tudor government. One of the main questions is the Stanleys’ religious allegiances. The Puritans might have associated the Stanley enthusiasm for plays with an enthusiasm for ritual and the rites of the Catholic church. Whether that had anything to do with the strong Stanley tradition of patronizing playing companies there is no way of knowing. This chapter looks at the history of Strange’s/Derby’s Men and Pembroke’s Men, their performances, the plays they performed, the playhouses where they performed, their playing sharers, and their travelling records.Less
Too little is known about the involvement in playing of the Lancashire Stanleys, the earls of Derby, and especially about Lord Strange, Ferdinando Stanley, who became the fifth earl of Derby a few months before his death in 1594. The Stanleys were the largest landowners in Lancashire, and they liked plays: most of the major playing companies made regular visits to perform at their great houses. It was a family packed with historically famous names, which had exercised a peculiar if marginal role in Tudor government. One of the main questions is the Stanleys’ religious allegiances. The Puritans might have associated the Stanley enthusiasm for plays with an enthusiasm for ritual and the rites of the Catholic church. Whether that had anything to do with the strong Stanley tradition of patronizing playing companies there is no way of knowing. This chapter looks at the history of Strange’s/Derby’s Men and Pembroke’s Men, their performances, the plays they performed, the playhouses where they performed, their playing sharers, and their travelling records.
Mona Siddiqui
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780300211863
- eISBN:
- 9780300216028
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300211863.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
This chapter examines two scriptural passages which have been used to speak of the unifying figure of Abraham as the father of the Semites and the leading figure of hospitality: Genesis 18:1–10 from ...
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This chapter examines two scriptural passages which have been used to speak of the unifying figure of Abraham as the father of the Semites and the leading figure of hospitality: Genesis 18:1–10 from the Bible and Q51:24–30 from the Qur'ān. Abraham has become the prototype of hospitality especially in interreligious encounters. He is considered not only the physical father not only of Arabs and Jews, but also the moral and spiritual father of all Christians and Muslims. This chapter discusses the act of hospitality in relation to the act of giving and cites several examples of individuals who reached the highest point of generosity and hospitality in the pre-Islamic period. It also explores the multiple ways of understanding charity and generosity in the Islamic world, along with Christian reflections on hospitality in relation to the obligation to welcome a stranger.Less
This chapter examines two scriptural passages which have been used to speak of the unifying figure of Abraham as the father of the Semites and the leading figure of hospitality: Genesis 18:1–10 from the Bible and Q51:24–30 from the Qur'ān. Abraham has become the prototype of hospitality especially in interreligious encounters. He is considered not only the physical father not only of Arabs and Jews, but also the moral and spiritual father of all Christians and Muslims. This chapter discusses the act of hospitality in relation to the act of giving and cites several examples of individuals who reached the highest point of generosity and hospitality in the pre-Islamic period. It also explores the multiple ways of understanding charity and generosity in the Islamic world, along with Christian reflections on hospitality in relation to the obligation to welcome a stranger.
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781781381830
- eISBN:
- 9781781382363
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781381830.003.0016
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter uses Don Coscarelli's the science fiction (sf)/horror mash-up Bubba Ho-tep (2002) to propose that sf, fantasy, and indeed cult films of all stripes are both literal and figurative ...
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This chapter uses Don Coscarelli's the science fiction (sf)/horror mash-up Bubba Ho-tep (2002) to propose that sf, fantasy, and indeed cult films of all stripes are both literal and figurative ‘strange attractors’, that is, they literally attract due to their strangeness. Not only is the cult film retroactively constituted as such based on fan response, but more particularly because it produces and regulates the turbulence, eddies, and whirlpools of a kind of chaotic desire that marks the cult — a desire that, in going ‘beyond all reason’, manifests itself both on the level of conscious intellectualization and on the level of affect, that is, the experience of feeling or emotion. What one loves in the cult film is something more than the film — it is the idea of the film as well as the affect produced by the film, the ‘visceral forces beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing, vital forces insisting beyond emotion’.Less
This chapter uses Don Coscarelli's the science fiction (sf)/horror mash-up Bubba Ho-tep (2002) to propose that sf, fantasy, and indeed cult films of all stripes are both literal and figurative ‘strange attractors’, that is, they literally attract due to their strangeness. Not only is the cult film retroactively constituted as such based on fan response, but more particularly because it produces and regulates the turbulence, eddies, and whirlpools of a kind of chaotic desire that marks the cult — a desire that, in going ‘beyond all reason’, manifests itself both on the level of conscious intellectualization and on the level of affect, that is, the experience of feeling or emotion. What one loves in the cult film is something more than the film — it is the idea of the film as well as the affect produced by the film, the ‘visceral forces beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing, vital forces insisting beyond emotion’.
Derek Hughes
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198119746
- eISBN:
- 9780191671203
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198119746.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Drama, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
This book traces patterns of diversity that gradually shift in their composition and proportions, and a number of interlinked motifs become evident. It is noteworthy that, after 1688, contented Whigs ...
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This book traces patterns of diversity that gradually shift in their composition and proportions, and a number of interlinked motifs become evident. It is noteworthy that, after 1688, contented Whigs such as Thomas Shadwell and Libber resurrect fixity of place as an important moral and social symbol, and that, partly in consequence, the stranger once more becomes a dramatically potent figure. It is equally noteworthy, however, that it was not only melancholy Jacobites such as John Dryden who continued the portrayal of human dislocation: it is a fundamental state in the plays of William Congreve and John Vanbrugh, and Congreve more than anyone else inherits the youthful Dryden's interest in the isolated consciousness. This is not a book on the diverse and changing relationship between consciousness and the exterior world in Restoration drama, but it does assume that the dramatists' creative personalities are fundamentally influenced by their interpretation of this relationship, in all its multitude of implications.Less
This book traces patterns of diversity that gradually shift in their composition and proportions, and a number of interlinked motifs become evident. It is noteworthy that, after 1688, contented Whigs such as Thomas Shadwell and Libber resurrect fixity of place as an important moral and social symbol, and that, partly in consequence, the stranger once more becomes a dramatically potent figure. It is equally noteworthy, however, that it was not only melancholy Jacobites such as John Dryden who continued the portrayal of human dislocation: it is a fundamental state in the plays of William Congreve and John Vanbrugh, and Congreve more than anyone else inherits the youthful Dryden's interest in the isolated consciousness. This is not a book on the diverse and changing relationship between consciousness and the exterior world in Restoration drama, but it does assume that the dramatists' creative personalities are fundamentally influenced by their interpretation of this relationship, in all its multitude of implications.
Heidi Keller and Kim A. Bard (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262036900
- eISBN:
- 9780262342872
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262036900.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
It is generally acknowledged that attachment relationships are important for infants and young children, but there is little clarity on what exactly constitutes such a relationship. Does it occur ...
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It is generally acknowledged that attachment relationships are important for infants and young children, but there is little clarity on what exactly constitutes such a relationship. Does it occur between two individuals (infant–mother or infant–father) or in an extended network? In the West, monotropic attachment appears to function as a secure foundation for infants, but is this true in other cultures? This volume offers perspectives from a range of disciplines on these questions. Contributors from psychology, biology, anthropology, evolution, social policy, neuroscience, information systems, and practice describe the latest research on the cultural and evolutionary foundations on children’s attachment relationships as well as the implications for education, counseling, and policy.
The contributors discuss such issues as the possible functions of attachment, including trust and biopsychological regulation; the evolutionary foundations, if any, of attachment; ways to model attachment using the tools of information science; the neural foundations of attachment; and the influence of cultural attitudes on attachment. Taking an integrative approach, the book embraces the wide cultural variations in attachment relationships in humans and their diversity across nonhuman primates. It proposes research methods for the culturally sensitive study of attachment networks that will lead to culturally sensitive assessments, practices, and social policies.Less
It is generally acknowledged that attachment relationships are important for infants and young children, but there is little clarity on what exactly constitutes such a relationship. Does it occur between two individuals (infant–mother or infant–father) or in an extended network? In the West, monotropic attachment appears to function as a secure foundation for infants, but is this true in other cultures? This volume offers perspectives from a range of disciplines on these questions. Contributors from psychology, biology, anthropology, evolution, social policy, neuroscience, information systems, and practice describe the latest research on the cultural and evolutionary foundations on children’s attachment relationships as well as the implications for education, counseling, and policy.
The contributors discuss such issues as the possible functions of attachment, including trust and biopsychological regulation; the evolutionary foundations, if any, of attachment; ways to model attachment using the tools of information science; the neural foundations of attachment; and the influence of cultural attitudes on attachment. Taking an integrative approach, the book embraces the wide cultural variations in attachment relationships in humans and their diversity across nonhuman primates. It proposes research methods for the culturally sensitive study of attachment networks that will lead to culturally sensitive assessments, practices, and social policies.
Ardis Butterfield
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199574865
- eISBN:
- 9780191722127
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199574865.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature, European Literature
Takes us into the urban culture of London. It situates Chaucer's accounts of mercantile behaviour and speech – notably the Shipman's Tale and the portrait of the Merchant in his General Prologue as ...
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Takes us into the urban culture of London. It situates Chaucer's accounts of mercantile behaviour and speech – notably the Shipman's Tale and the portrait of the Merchant in his General Prologue as well as his Tale – within the busily multilingual world of city trade. London English, as evidence in the guild and other official records indicates, fought for recognition amongst other linguistic communities seeking power and influence in the city. Attention is given to the wider cultural and linguistic meaning attached to Flemish through the cross‐channel activities of merchants. Through tracing puns and other examples of cross‐linguistic influence, Chaucer's English is placed within the sometimes violently competitive multilingualisms of a fractured, intermittently cohesive urban community in which many forms of alliance between family, friend, mercenary, stranger, and foreigner were under pressure.Less
Takes us into the urban culture of London. It situates Chaucer's accounts of mercantile behaviour and speech – notably the Shipman's Tale and the portrait of the Merchant in his General Prologue as well as his Tale – within the busily multilingual world of city trade. London English, as evidence in the guild and other official records indicates, fought for recognition amongst other linguistic communities seeking power and influence in the city. Attention is given to the wider cultural and linguistic meaning attached to Flemish through the cross‐channel activities of merchants. Through tracing puns and other examples of cross‐linguistic influence, Chaucer's English is placed within the sometimes violently competitive multilingualisms of a fractured, intermittently cohesive urban community in which many forms of alliance between family, friend, mercenary, stranger, and foreigner were under pressure.
Lynn Schofield Clark
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199899616
- eISBN:
- 9780199980161
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199899616.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
This chapter introduces the main themes that structure this book: class, risk, and the role of communication media in creating and sustaining class-related cultural distinctions. The book's ...
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This chapter introduces the main themes that structure this book: class, risk, and the role of communication media in creating and sustaining class-related cultural distinctions. The book's perspective on the role of risk in relation to technology and parenting is closely related to our experiences of economics and social class. Because news and entertainment media aim to appeal to the wealthiest demographic, norms of parenting in advice manuals and in other media are focused on the upper middle class parenting value of “expressive empowerment”. The media-driven definition of middle class life also supports the culture of fear that pervades discussions of technology and leisure and sees media as a distraction. This chapter discusses the relationship between risk and digital/mobile media to get a clear perspective about what is new in the new media environment, how sociologists review these new situations in relation to society-wide heightened risk, how parents and young people address themselves to these new situations.Less
This chapter introduces the main themes that structure this book: class, risk, and the role of communication media in creating and sustaining class-related cultural distinctions. The book's perspective on the role of risk in relation to technology and parenting is closely related to our experiences of economics and social class. Because news and entertainment media aim to appeal to the wealthiest demographic, norms of parenting in advice manuals and in other media are focused on the upper middle class parenting value of “expressive empowerment”. The media-driven definition of middle class life also supports the culture of fear that pervades discussions of technology and leisure and sees media as a distraction. This chapter discusses the relationship between risk and digital/mobile media to get a clear perspective about what is new in the new media environment, how sociologists review these new situations in relation to society-wide heightened risk, how parents and young people address themselves to these new situations.
