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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Barbara Johnson and Deconstruction in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis is a note on the changing definition of deconstruction and the critical priorities surrounding the concept of difference in two of Barbara Johnson’s works, ‘The Critical Difference’ (1980) and ‘A World of Difference’ (1987).
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Enchanting Literary Modernity: Idris Bazorkin’s Postcolonial Soviet Pastoral (The Modern Language Review, 2020) in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis article introduces the Ingush writer Idris Bazorkin. Bazorkin’s novel Dark Ages (1968) is examined as a pastoral novel that cultivates a Soviet style of postcolonial reflection on the cultural and historical memory of colonial rule.
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Thank you Rebecca Ruth Gold. The comparisons you draw between the novels of Thomas Hardy and Idris Bazorkin’s novel provide us with a picture of a complicated pastoral and sophisticated critique of colonialism (and, as you suggest, by implication the Soviet regime). At one point, the article contrasts Hardy’s “dense palimpsests of multiply…[Read more]
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Dear Francois, Many thanks for sharing your thoughts and questions! Yes, I think you are correct. In both Hardy (esp. The Woodlanders) and Bazorkin, the landscapes are part of the plot itself. I don’t think one can begin to understand the literature of the Caucasus without reflecting deeply on the way in which mountains frame our sense of humans’…[Read more]
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As we exchange remarks about the impetus and impact of time & place in the generation of ecocritical discourse, I am reminded of Bakhtin’s notion of chronotope. There is a certain imbrication of time, place and person and the question, for me, of who has access to the ecopoetical sublime and when. I wonder if the literary theory derived from…[Read more]
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Thanks so much, Francois, for the thought-provoking questions and suggestions! I look forward to continuing the conversation!
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Notes from Northrop Frye ‘Anatomy of Criticism’ (A Post-Mortem of the Anatomy) in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoNotes from Northrop Frye´s seminal volume in archetypal/anthropological criticism, “Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays” (Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1957. Rpt. 1971. 383 p). Notes taken by J. A. García Landa c. 1985, edited with illustrations for online publication 2018-20. Parenthetical pagination numbers refer to the quotations and text f…[Read more]
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Falilat Olu Alabi deposited BEYOND THE BOOK: Public Libraries as Social Prescription Hubs: A case study of a London Public Library in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoPurpose: – The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the impact of public library activities on the health and wellbeing of library users. Concentrating on five library activities; knit and knit, rhyme time, learn my way, reading group and adult craft and calming colouring. It seeks to examine the implementation of the joint action path…[Read more]
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Meili Steele deposited Hiding from History, Introduction, ch 3 in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis book challenges an assumption at the heart of contemporary theoretical debates: that it is impossible to reason through history. Steele believes that two influential schools of contemporary thought “hide from history”: liberal philosophies of public reason as espoused by such figures as Jürgen Habermas, John Rawls and Martha Nussbaum and stru…[Read more]
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Claire Clivaz deposited Digitized and Digitalized Humanities: Words and Identity in the group
Digital Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis paper analyses two closely related but different concepts, digitization and digitalization, first discussed in an encyclopedia article by Brennen and Kreiss in 2016. Digital Humanities mainly uses the first term, whereas business and economics tend to use the second to praise the process of the digitalization of society. But digitalization…[Read more]
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Metehan Karakurt deposited Foucault’da Özne, İktidar ve Şiddet İlişkisi in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoMichel Foucault’nun çalışmalarının merkezi noktalarından birisini, Batı kültüründe insanların, özneye dönüştürülmesinin tarihini ortaya çıkarmak oluşturmaktadır. Diğerini ise, özneye dönüştürme tekniklerine karşı verilen mücadeleler, çeşitli iktidar tekniklerinin dayattığı bireysellik ve kimlikten kurtulmanın, özgürleşmenin imkânı oluşturmaktadır.…[Read more]
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Metehan Karakurt deposited Politikayı Hannah Arendt’le Birlikte Yeniden Düşünmek in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoModern politika tanımlarında hâkim kavramlardan söz etmek olasıdır. Bu kavramlar arasında; iktidar, şiddet, hiyerarşi, güvenlik, kaynak dağıtımı öne çıkanlardır. Politika, birçoklarına göre, iktidarın ve gücün nasıl dağıtıldığı ve kullanıldığıyla ilgilidir. Politika, salt iktidarla ilişkili bir biçimde tanımlandığında, şiddet, politikanın…[Read more]
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Danielle Skjelver started the topic Call for Peer Reviewers in the discussion
Digital Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe History of Applied Science & Technology Open Access Textbook editors seek peer reviewers for all regions and all periods.
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Danielle Skjelver started the topic Call for Africa Editor in the discussion
Digital Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe History of Applied Science and Technology Open Access Textbook editors are seeking an Africanist to join our team.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited La gestión de la realidad mediante la atención: Como una burbuja in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoSpanish Abstract: Partiendo de un madrigal de William Drummond of Hawthornden, comentamos el papel estructurador que desempeñan en la generación y gestión de la realidad los marcos interaccionales de referencia definidos por Goffman, en tanto que instrumentos de gestión de la atención colectiva. Es la capacidad de la mente humana para comb…[Read more]
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D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited The Nous of the Partial Soul in Proclus’ Commentary on the First Alcibiades of Plato in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoIn this paper I will examine Proclus’ Commentary on the First Alcibiades of Plato in order to shed light on his doctrine of the partial soul’s nous. Proclus’ epistemology is in many ways the heart of his system. The human soul is a microcosm, and because each of its faculties corresponds to one or other order of the macrocosm, the soul’s knowled…[Read more]
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D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited The Soul and the Virtues in Proclus’ Commentary on the Republic of Plato in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoIn the 7th essay of his Commentary on the Republic of Plato, Proclus supplies the elements of a fairly robust Neoplatonic political philosophy. In general he agrees with Plato’s account of the tripartite soul and the four cardinal virtues, while introducing important nuances into the theory. The idea of the dominance of one part of the soul over a…[Read more]
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