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»Truth « and Fiction : Conspiracy Theories in Eastern European Culture and Literature
Peter Deutschmann;Jens Herlth;Alois Woldan;Peter Deutschmann;Jens Herlth;Al...
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2020; Vol. 00193
Several of the most prolific and influential conspiracy theories have originated in Eastern Europe. The far reaching influence of conspiracy narratives can be observed in recent developments in Poland or with regard to the wars waged in Eastern Ukraine and in former Yugoslavia. This volume analyses the history behind this widespread phenomenon as well the role it has played in Eastern European cultures and literature both past and present.
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Daniel Cash;Daniel Cash
In 2020, the G20 proposed a solution for the debt-related issues affecting the world's...
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2023
In 2020, the G20 proposed a solution for the debt-related issues affecting the world's poorest countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, their initiatives have failed to meet their objectives. The author argues that the reason for this failure is the inability to bring sovereign countries to the table to re-negotiate their debt agreements with private creditors as they fear credit rating agencies and the prospect of a downgrade. The author refers to this as the ‘credit rating impasse'. This book proposes a novel solution. The author asserts that there is a need in the literature to unpick the dynamic that exists and creates that impasse, namely the pressures that exist between sovereign states, private creditors, credit rating agencies, and the geo-political backdrop that is massively influential in the dynamic, that is, the adversarial relationship between China and the US. This book addresses the recent history of debt treatment for poorer countries and related successes and failures: COVID-19-related issues and the development of the Debt Service Suspension Initiative and the Common Framework for Debt Treatment. This book examines the reasons for their failure by analysing the positions of the sovereign states, the division between private and official creditors and between multilateral institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank, credit rating agencies, and the competing political entities of China and the US. It presents a wider picture of the systemic underpinnings to such debt-related issues and, when examined through a geo-political perspective, the subsequent chances of future debt treatment-related successes. Licence line: The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Far From the Truth : Distance, Information, and Credibility in the Early Modern World
Michiel van Groesen;Johannes Müller;Michiel van Groesen;Johannes Müller
Information and knowledge were essential tools of early modern Europe's global ambitio...
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Far From the Truth : Distance, Information, and Credibility in the Early Modern World
2024
Information and knowledge were essential tools of early modern Europe's global ambitions. This volume addresses a key concern that emerged as the competition for geopolitical influence increased: how could information from afar be trusted when there was no obvious strategy for verification? How did notions of doubt develop in relation to intercultural encounters? Who were those in the position to use misinformation in their favour, and how did this affect trust? How, in other words, did distance affect credibility, and which intellectual and epistemological strategies did early modern Europe devise to cope with this problem? The movement of information, and its transformations in the process of gathering, ordering, and disseminating, makes it necessary to employ both a global and a local perspective in order to understand its significance. The rise of print, leading to various new forms of mediation, played a crucial role everywhere, inspiring theories of modernization in which media served as agents of new connections and, eventually, of globalization. Paradoxically, during the entire period between 1500 and 1800, the demise of distance through various strategies of verification coincided with constructions of otherness that emphasized the cultural and geographical difference between Europe and the worlds it encountered. Ten leading scholars of the early modern world address the relationship between distance, information, and credibility from a variety of perspectives. This volume will be an essential companion to those interested in the history of knowledge and early modern encounters, as well as specialists in the history of empire and print culture. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Language and Truth in North Korea
Sonia Ryang;Sonia Ryang
In this innovative and persuasive volume, Sonia Ryang offers new ways to think about N...
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Language and Truth in North Korea
2021
In this innovative and persuasive volume, Sonia Ryang offers new ways to think about North Korea and how truth emerges over decades from within a dominant discourse. It explores four discrete yet mutually related domains of discourse: North Korea's literary purge of the 1950s–1960s; its state-initiated linguistic reforms of the 1960s–1980s; stories from a people's chronicle, more than one hundred volumes in length, documenting interactions with the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung; and the multivolume memoirs of the Great Leader himself, published in the 1990s. These texts are heterogeneous in terms of authorship, style, purpose, and genre, and many have never before been explored in Anglophone studies of North Korea. All have contributed to consolidating a North Korean regime of truth , bringing into existence a set of assumptions and shared understandings that have been regarded as true over the last half century.Basing her work on a study of these linguistic and discursive domains, Ryang explores the ways in which power, truth , and self are indissolubly connected by function as well as efficacy and how language plays a key role in sustaining their validity. The Kim Il Sung era, from 1945 to Kim's death in 1994, forms the basis of the book, but the way truth emerged and was sustained during these decades provide important insight into how we can comprehend North Korea today. Rather than view the country as an ideological entity in order to expose its falsehood, so to speak, thinking critically about what it sees as true yields a far more productive outcome for scholarly analysis as well as general understanding. Language and Truth in North Korea will find a ready audience among those interested in North Korea from a wide variety of disciplines, including the social sciences, history, philosophy, and theology.
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Truthfulness and falsehood--Korea (North) - Korean language--Political aspects--Korea (North) - Korean language--Korea (North)--Discourse analysis - Language policy--Korea (North)Content provider:
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Caring to Notice: Sera Waters' Disentangled Pasts, Attentive Reparation and Truth -Telling Toward Survivable Futures.
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Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts
Anke Finger;Manuela Wagner;Anke Finger;Manuela Wagner
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Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts
2023
In this book, authors engage in an interdisciplinary discourse of theory and practice on the concept of personal conviction, addressing the variety of grey zones that mark the concept. Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts discusses where our convictions come from and whether we are aware of them, why they compel us to certain actions, and whether we can change our convictions when presented with opposing evidence, which prove our personal convictions'wrong'. Scholars from philosophy, psychology, comparative literature, media studies, applied linguistics, intercultural communication, and education shed light on the topic of personal conviction, crossing disciplinary boundaries and asking questions not only of importance to scholars but also related to the role and possible impact of conviction in the public sphere, education, and in political and cultural discourse. By taking a critical look at personal conviction as an element of inquiry within the humanities and social sciences, this book will contribute substantially to the study of conviction as an aspect of the self we all carry within us and are called upon to examine. It will be of particular interest to scholars in communication and journalism studies, media studies, philosophy, and psychology. The Open Access version of this book has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003187936/bias-belief-conviction-age-fake-facts-anke-finger-manuela-wagner
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Belief and doubt - Fake news - TruthContent provider:
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Improvising Reconciliation : Confession after the Truth Commission
Ed Charlton;Ed Charlton
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Improvising Reconciliation : Confession after the Truth Commission
2021
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Improvising Reconciliation is prompted by South Africa's enduring state of injustice. It is both a lament for the promise, since lost, with which non-racial democracy was inaugurated and, more substantially, a space within which to consider its possible renewal. As such, this study lobbies for an expanded approach to the country's formal transition from apartheid in order to grapple with reconciliation's ongoing potential within the contemporary imaginary. It does not, however, presume to correct the contradictions that have done so much to corrupt the concept in recent decades. Instead, it upholds the language of reconciliation for strategic, rather than essential, reasons. And while this study surveys some of the many serious critiques levelled at the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1996-2001), these misgivings help situate the plural, improvised approach to reconciliation that has arguably emerged from the margins of the cultural sphere in the years since. Improvisation serves here as a separate way of both thinking and doing reconciliation. It recalibrates the concept according to a series of deliberative, agonistic and iterative, rather than monumental, interventions, rendering reconciliation in terms that make failure a necessary condition for its future realisation.
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Reader in Trinitarian Theology
Henco van der Westhuizen;Henco van der Westhuizen
“Speaking God today … signifies assuming the task constitutive of the discipline of sy...
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Reader in Trinitarian Theology
2022
“Speaking God today … signifies assuming the task constitutive of the discipline of systematic theology. … A relational God who lives in ex-static self-giving, creates Christian communities of hospitality and generosity, and offers a healing vision of truth , goodness, and beauty. Speaking the Triune God extends the promise of the benediction, May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Spirit be with you all.” Rian Venter In this first volume on doing Theology in South Africa, Henco van der Westhuizen assembled an array of articles by South African theologians on Trinitarian Theology from 1976 to today.
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Still Life with Bones : Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
Alexa Hagerty;Alexa Hagerty
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Still Life with Bones : Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
2023
New York Times Book Review Editors'Choice • An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims'families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice. “Absorbing... multifaceted and elegiac... Still Life with Bones captures the ethos that drives the search—often tireless and against the odds—for truth .”—The New York Times WINNER OF THE JUAN E. MÉNDEZ BOOK AWARD • A NEW YORKER AND BOOKPAGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR“Exhumation can divide brothers and restore fathers, open old wounds and open the possibility of regeneration—of building something new with the ‘pile of broken mirrors'that is memory, loss, and mourning.”Throughout Guatemala's thirty-six-year armed conflict, state forces killed more than two hundred thousand people. Argentina's military dictatorship disappeared up to thirty thousand people. In the wake of genocidal violence, families of the missing searched for the truth . Young scientists joined their fight against impunity. Gathering evidence in the face of intimidation and death threats, they pioneered the field of forensic exhumation for human rights. In Still Life with Bones, anthropologist Alexa Hagerty learns to see the dead body with a forensic eye. She examines bones for marks of torture and fatal wounds—hands bound by rope, machete cuts—and also for signs of identity: how life shapes us down to the bone. A weaver is recognized from the tiny bones of the toes, molded by kneeling before a loom; a girl is identified alongside her pet dog. In the tenderness of understanding these bones, forensics not only offers proof of mass atrocity but also tells the story of each life lost. Working with forensic teams at mass grave sites and in labs, Hagerty discovers how bones bear witness to crimes against humanity and how exhumation can bring families meaning after unimaginable loss. She also comes to see how cutting-edge science can act as ritual—a way of caring for the dead with symbolic force that can repair societies torn apart by violence.Weaving together powerful stories about investigative breakthroughs, histories of violence and resistance, and her own forensic coming-of-age, Hagerty crafts a moving portrait of the living and the dead.
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"IMPROVE YOUR PRIVILEGES WHILE THEY STAY": A GUIDE TO IMPROVE THE PRIVILEGES OF U.S. CITIZENSHIP FOR EVERYBODY.
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Schroeder, Joshua J.
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Touro Law Review. 2024, Vol. 39 Issue 2, p657-735. 79p.
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"IMPROVE YOUR PRIVILEGES WHILE THEY STAY": A GUIDE TO IMPROVE THE PRIVILEGES OF U.S. CITIZENSHIP FOR EVERYBODY.
Touro Law Review. 2024, Vol. 39 Issue 2, p657-735. 79p.
In 1767, the young Phillis Wheatley wrote from her position of slavery in the Wheatley home of Boston to "ye sons of Science" at Harvard College, telling them to "[i]mprove your privileges while they stay." She beheld the startling privileges of learning and discovery bestowed upon an elite group of young, rich white men in Boston and celebrated their privileges. Neither did she scorn those whose luck had placed a bounty of privilege upon their laps, for she likely planned to share in that bounty herself, one day. When she was only 13 or 14, Wheatley sublimely encouraged grown men to improve: "Caress, redeem each moment, which with haste / Bears on its rapid wing Eternal bliss." Years later, Wheatley showed white Bostonians how to improve their privileges by her own example, when she secured her place as the John Milton of the American Revolution. In order to improve her privileges in this way, she had to print her books in England and import them into America for sale. After Wheatley's revolutionary successes, the framers of the Patent & Copyright Clause, James Madison and James Wilson, seemed to take preexisting author owned copyrights in America for granted. But without Wheatley's specific fashion of improving her own privileges internationally, there really was no such thing as preexisting common law (i.e., author owned) copyrights in England. Phillis Wheatley was the first to redeem Milton's poetry by claiming it for the side of heaven in the United States. The lords and judges of England guessed at the basis for common law in the attestation of an author's name, but their common law theories were all desolated by the House of Lords in 1774. Also, the printers of Boston likely would not have invited Wheatley to print as the owner of her own works so she sought an international deal. Luckily for all, Wheatley managed to print and export her books from London to America before 1774. Eventually, the privileges of the arts and sciences were opened to women and Black people respectively throughout the United States under the auspices of Wheatley's original copyright. Many gradually inherited the privileges of the few, and Wheatley intended the privileges she represented to be shared more broadly still throughout the earth. This article is dedicated to the international expansion of U.S. citizenship privileges, by following the advice of Phillis Wheatley to improve our privileges while they stay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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BOYCOTTS: A FIRST AMENDMENT HISTORY.
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HALPERN, JOSH;BEN DOR, LAVI M.
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Anti-boycott laws are more popular and pervasive today than ever before. More than hal...
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BOYCOTTS: A FIRST AMENDMENT HISTORY.
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. Spring2024, Vol. 47 Issue 1, p95-165. 71p.
Anti-boycott laws are more popular and pervasive today than ever before. More than half of U.S. states have "anti-BDS laws" that prohibit recipients of public contracts and state investment from boycotting the State of Israel. And almost as many have proposed or passed "anti-ESG" rules that restrict boycotts of fossil fuels, firearms, and other contested industries in similar ways. These controversial rules have triggered a fierce debate--and nationwide litigation--over whether the First Amendment includes a "right to boycott." This Article is the first to take up the question from a historical standpoint. Examining the boycott's constitutional status from before the Founding to the present era, we find that state actors have consistently treated the boycott as economic conduct subject to governmental control, and not as expression presumptively immune from state interference. Before the Founding, the colonists mandated a strict boycott of Britain, which local governmental bodies enforced through trial proceedings and economic punishments. At common law, courts used the doctrine of conspiracy to enjoin "unjustified" boycotts and hold liable their perpetrators. And in the modern era, state and federal officials have consistently compelled participation in the boycotts they approved, while prohibiting participation in the ones they opposed. The Article concludes that modern anti-boycott laws not only fit within, but improve upon, this constitutional tradition. As the Supreme Court's 1982 decision in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware illustrates, the common-law approach risks violating the First Amendment if applied to restrict not only the act of boycotting or refusing to deal, but also the expressive activities that accompany such politically motivated refusals. Modern anti-boycott laws minimize that problem by surgically targeting the act of boycotting while leaving regulated entities free to say whatever they please. Hence, from the standpoint of history, these laws reflect First Amendment progress, not decay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Ways of Seeking : The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation
Emily Drumsta;Emily Drumsta
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Ways of Seeking : The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation
2024; Vol. 00006
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Ways of Seeking, Emily Drumsta traces the influence of detective fiction on the twentieth-century Arabic novel. Theorizing a “poetics of investigation,” she shows how these novels, far from staging awe-inspiring feats of logical deduction, mock the truth -seeking practices on which modern exercises of colonial and national power are often premised. Their narratives return to the archives of Arabic folklore, Islamic piety, and mysticism to explore less coercive ways of knowing, seeing, and seeking. Drumsta argues that scholars of the Middle East neglect the literary at their peril, overlooking key critiques of colonialism from the intellectuals who shaped and responded through fiction to the transformations of modernity. This book ultimately tells a different story about the novel's place in the constellation of Arab modernism, modeling an innovative method of open-ended inquiry based on the literary texts themselves.
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Modernism (Literature)--Arab countries--20th century - Arabic fiction--20th century--History and criticism - Arabic poetry--20th century--History and criticism - Detective and mystery stories, Arabic--20th century--InfluenceContent provider:
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Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics
Benjamin Abrams;Peter Robert Gardner;Benjamin Abrams;Peter Robert Gardner
When we observe protest marches, striking workers on picket lines, and insurgent movem...
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Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics
2023
When we observe protest marches, striking workers on picket lines, and insurgent movements in the world today, a litany of objects routinely fill our field of vision. Some such objects are ubiquitous the world over, like flags, banners , and placards. Others are situationally unique: Who could have anticipated the historical importance of a flower placed in the barrel of a gun, a flaming torch, a sea of umbrellas, a motorist's yellow vest, a feather headdress, an AK-47, or a knitted pink hat? This book explores the “stuff” at the heart of protests, revolutions, civil wars, and other contentious political events, with particular focus on those objects that have or acquire symbolic importance. In the context of “contentious politics” (disruptive political episodes where people try to change societies without going through institutions), certain objects can divide and unite social groups, tell stories, make declarations, spark controversy, and even trigger violent upheavals. This book draws together scholars from a variety of fields to discuss symbolic objects in contentious politics: their meanings, uses, functions, and social responses. In bringing these phenomena together, this book offers a serious, distinctive, and cohesive theoretical contribution that draws upon diverse scholarly work in order to form the building blocks for future inquiry in the field. The aim is not merely to “close the gap” in the literature, but to create space in the field for further and more fruitful inquiry.
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Symbolism in politics--Case studies - Political culture--Case studies - Social conflict--Case studiesContent provider:
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In Defense of Free Speech in Universities : A Study of Three Jurisdictions
Amy T.Y. Lai;Amy T.Y. Lai
In this book, Amy Lai examines the current free speech crisis in Western universities....
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In Defense of Free Speech in Universities : A Study of Three Jurisdictions
2023
In this book, Amy Lai examines the current free speech crisis in Western universities. She studies the origin, history, and importance of freedom of speech in the university setting, and addresses the relevance and pitfalls of political correctness and microaggressions on campuses, where laws on harassment, discrimination, and hate speech are already in place, along with other concepts that have gained currency in the free speech debate, including deplatforming, trigger warning, and safe space. Looking at numerous free speech disputes in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, the book argues for the equal application of the free speech principle to all expressions to facilitate respectful debates. All in all, it affirms that the right to free expression is a natural right essential to the pursuit of truth , democratic governance, and self-development, and this right is nowhere more important than in the university.
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Academic freedom - Education, Higher--Political aspects - Freedom of speech - Freedom of speech--Great Britain - Freedom of speech--United States - Freedom of speech--CanadaContent provider:
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Ancient Rome : Facts and Fictions
Monica M. Bontty;Monica M. Bontty
This book shares little-known facts from and excerpts of primary source documents to c...
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Ancient Rome : Facts and Fictions
2020
This book shares little-known facts from and excerpts of primary source documents to correct popular misconceptions about Ancient Rome and to show how those misconceptions became widespread.Roman personalities and history have always had a larger-than-life profile in American popular culture, but most people think of this ancient civilization as merely decadent, cruel, and elitist. Most of our stereotypical conceptions of the empire and its people, however, are wrong. This book corrects popular misconceptions about the ancient Roman world, thus making ancient history relevant and accessible to modern readers and allowing modern critics of American politics and society to draw accurate comparisons.Each chapter discusses how a particular misconception developed, spread, and evolved into what we now believe to be the historical truth . Topics discussed include crucifixion, the destruction of Carthage, Julius Caesar's last words, and Roman hygiene. Excerpts from primary source documents provide evidence of both the rise of the historical fictions and the truths behind the myths.
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Gerrish, Brian A.
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Interpretation. January 2003, Vol. 57 Issue 1, p45, 14 p.
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Property and Sovereignty in America: A History of Title Registries & Jurisdictional Power
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Yale Law Journal. March, 2024, Vol. 133 Issue 5, p1487, 95 p.
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Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age : The Poetics of History
Sofie Kluge;Sofie Kluge
Golden Age departures in historiography and theory of history in some ways prepared th...
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Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age : The Poetics of History
2021
Golden Age departures in historiography and theory of history in some ways prepared the ground for modern historical methods and ideas about historical factuality. At the same time, they fed into the period's own'aesthetic-historical culture'which amalgamated fact and fiction in ways modern historians would consider counterfactual: a culture where imaginative historical prose, poetry and drama self-consciously rivalled the accounts of royal chroniclers and the dispatches of diplomatic envoys; a culture dominated by a notion of truth in which skilful construction of the argument and exemplarity took precedence over factual accuracy. Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age: The Poetics of History investigates this grey area backdrop of modern ideas about history, delving into a variety of Golden Age aesthetic-historical works which cannot be satisfactorily described as either works of literature or works of historiography but which belong in between these later strictly separate categories. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism - Historiography--Spain--History--16th century - Literature and history--Spain - Historiography--Spain--History--17th century - History in literatureContent provider:
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Abraham Kuyper and some of his Critics
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Journal for Christian Scholarship. July, 2023, Vol. 58 Issue 3-4, p57, 37 p.
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Journal for Christian Scholarship. July, 2023, Vol. 58 Issue 3-4, p57, 37 p.
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"Avenging the Nation". Freedom of the Press and Constitutional Deliverance in Trollope's Palliser Novels.
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Pólemos (2035-5262); Apr2024, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p41-63, 23p
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"Avenging the Nation". Freedom of the Press and Constitutional Deliverance in Trollope's Palliser Novels.
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This essay examines the notion of constitutional deliverance within the Victorian settlement. The expression points to the way constitutional arrangements react to threats that may disrupt the politico-legal order. Rooted in constitutional morality, it entails executing justice, restoring order, and protecting individuals' rights and freedoms. To this end, it analyses Phineas Finn, Phineas Redux, and The Prime Minister, i.e. three of the six Anthony Trollope's Palliser Novels, and explores whether the freedom of the press executed constitutional deliverance in the Victorian era. The essay will focus on Mr Quintus Slide, the editor of the People's Banner , whose acts of moralisation seem to fit into the (political and biblical) notion of deliverance. The article argues that Slide used the press not to deliver the Nation, but to avenge his own interests. In so doing, he contradicted the idea of constitutional deliverance as embedded in Parliament, where the anointed Monarch summons His body politic to execute justice and protect it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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The Tale of Matsura : Fujiwara Teika’s Experiment in Fiction
Wayne Lammers;Wayne Lammers
Fujiwara Teika is known as the premier poet and literary scholar of the early 13th cen...
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The Tale of Matsura : Fujiwara Teika’s Experiment in Fiction
2020
Fujiwara Teika is known as the premier poet and literary scholar of the early 13th century. It is not so widely known that he also tried his hand at fiction: Mumyozoshi (Untitled Leaves; ca. 1201) refers to “several works” by Teika and then names Matsura no miya monogatari (The Tale of Matsura; ca. 1190) as the only one that can be considered successful. The work is here translated in full, with annotation. Set in the pre-Nara period, The Tale of Matsura is the story of a young Japanese courtier, Ujitada, who is sent to China with an embassy and has a number of supernatural experiences while there. Affairs of the heart dominate The Tale of Matsura, as is standard for courtly tales. Several of its other features break the usual mold, however: its time and setting; the military episode that would seem to belong instead in a war tale; scenes depicting the sovereign's daily audiences, in which formal court business is conducted; a substantial degree of specificity in referring to things Chinese; a heavy reliance on fantastic and supernatural elements; an obvious effort to avoid imitating The Tale of Genji as other late-Heian tales had done; and a most inventive ending. The discussion in the introduction briefly touches upon each of these features, and then focuses at some length on how characteristics associated with the poetic ideal of yoen inform the tale. Evidence relating to the date and authorship of the tale is explored in two appendixes.
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Kretek Capitalism : Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia
Marina Welker;Marina Welker
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Kretek Capitalism : Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia
2024; Vol. 00013
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Indonesia is the world's second-largest cigarette market: two out of three men smoke, and clove-laced tobacco cigarettes called kretek make up 95 percent of the market. Each year, more than 250,000 Indonesians die of tobacco-related diseases. To account for the staggering success of this lethal industry, Kretek Capitalism examines how kretek manufacturers have adopted global tobacco technologies and enlisted Indonesians to labor on their behalf in fields and factories, at retail outlets and social gatherings, and online. The book charts how Sampoerna, a Philip Morris subsidiary, uses contracts, competitions, and gender, age, and class hierarchies to extract labor from workers, influencers, artists, students, retailers, and consumers. Critically engaging nationalist claims about the commodity's cultural heritage and the jobs it supports, Marina Welker shows how global capitalism has transformed both kretek and the labor required to make and promote it.
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Capitalism--Indonesia - Tobacco workers--Indonesia - Cigarette industry--Indonesia - Clove (Spice)--Indonesia - Labor--Indonesia - Tobacco use--IndonesiaContent provider:
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The Dialectic of Ressentiment : Pedagogy of a Concept
Sjoerd van Tuinen;Sjoerd van Tuinen
Drawing upon a wide variety of authors, approaches, and ideological contexts, this boo...
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The Dialectic of Ressentiment : Pedagogy of a Concept
2024
Drawing upon a wide variety of authors, approaches, and ideological contexts, this book offers a comprehensive and detailed critique of the distinct and polemical senses in which the concept of ressentiment (and its cognate'resentment') is used today. It also proposes a new mode of addressing ressentiment in which critique and polemics no longer set the tone: care. Contemporary tendencies in political culture such as neoliberalism, nationalism, populism, identity politics, and large-scale conspiracy theories have led to the return of the concept of ressentiment in armchair political analysis. This book argues that, due to the tension between its enormous descriptive power and its mutually contradicting ideological performances, it is necessary to ‘redramatize'the concept of ressentiment. By what right do we possess and use the concept of ressentiment, and what makes the phenomenon worth knowing? Inspired by Marxist political epistemology, affect theory, postcolonialism, and feminism, the book maps, delimits, and assesses four irreducible ways in which ressentiment can be articulated: the ways of the priest, the physician, the witness, and the diplomat. The first perspective is typically embodied by conservative (Scheler, Girard) and liberal (Smith, Rawls) political theory; the second, by Nietzsche, Deleuze and Foucault; whereas the standpoint of the witness is found in the writings of Améry, Fanon and Adorno; and the diplomat's is the author's own, albeit inspired by philosophers such as Ahmed, Stiegler, Stengers, and Sloterdijk. In producing a dialectical sequence between all four typical modes of enunciation, the book demonstrates how the first three reinterpretations of ressentiment are already implied in the theater set up in Nietzsche's late polemical books, while the fourth proposes a line of flight out of it. The Dialectic of Ressentiment will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in critical theory, social and political philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, history, literature, political science, anthropology, and Nietzsche scholarship. It will also appeal to anyone interested in the politics of anger, discourse ethics, trauma studies, and memory politics. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
