Greek History

2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-129
Author(s):  
Kostas Vlassopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Structuralist Approach ◽  
Greek History ◽  
Four Books ◽  
Popular Subject

The interaction between Greeks and non-Greeks is an increasingly popular subject among Greek historians, as shown by four important books reviewed here: their significance lies in the various challenges that they pose to the still dominant structuralist approach, which focuses on polarity and alterity and privileges certain discourses in literary texts over the diversity encountered when one examines the totality of the evidence. All four books put at the centre of their attention the significance and consequences of real-life encounters and interactions between people of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

scholarly journals Literature in efL: Beyond language learning

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 234
Author(s):  
Luis Jesús Rincón
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Private School ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Value Judgments ◽  
Willingness To Use

This article presents the results of a qualitative research which looks into the field of literature in EFL. Seventh grade students of a private school in Bogota took part in the research. Data was collected by means of audio recordings of small group discussions, teacher´s journal, and responses to literature logs. The results show that the connections that EFL learners make with literary texts enrich their interpretations, analysis and value judgments of experiences and real life events. Furthermore, critical thinking skills are potentiated. In addition to this, literary texts bring up appealing and meaningful topics in the classroomenhancing students´ motivation and willingness to use the target language.

scholarly journals Postcolonial Literature and World Englishes: A Corpus-Based Approach of Modes of Representation of the Non-Standard in Writing

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Percillier ◽  
Catherine Paulin
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Postcolonial Literature ◽  
World Englishes ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Modes Of Representation ◽  
Linguistic Means

The present study investigates the representation of non-standardised varieties of English in literary prose texts. This is achieved by creating and annotating a corpus of literary texts from Scotland, West Africa, and Southeast Asia. The analysis addresses two major topics. Firstly, the extent of representation reveals clearly distinct feature profiles across regions, coupled with varying feature densities. Feature profiles are also relevant to individual characters, as certain traits such as social status, ethnicity, or age can be signalled by linguistic means. The second topic, accuracy of representation, compares the features observed in literary texts with descriptions of the actual varieties, and suggests that representations of varieties may differ from their real-life models in the sense that highly frequent features may be absent from texts, while less frequent but more emblematic ones, or even invented ones, may be used by authors to render a variety of English in their texts.

scholarly journals READING AND LITERARY EDUCATION IN IST-IIIRD CLASSES OF PRIMARY SCHOOL AS A SOURCE OF MULTI-ACTIVITY OF STUDENTS

2016 ◽  
pp. 58-69
Author(s):  
Teresa Yanitska-Panek
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Education ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Narrative Description ◽  
Attitudes Towards Reading

Literary education is very important in the process of forming the personality of the individual. It is necessary to implement a number of conditions in order to student’s contact with literature was a great experience. Reading can be seen as a way of man’s existence in the world of symbols and information. Reading can also be a medium through which cultural content reaches to the recipient and enrich and improve his language and engage him emotionally. Reading is an act of great importance, austerity and effort, and at the same time it is an act of preparing the reader and the recipient to the reflection.Many authors emphasize the value of reading, inspired many motives. The authors draw attention to the different attitudes towards reading of the text which have been described by Lech Witkowski, philosopher and pedagogue in 2007. Eight status of the text in the course of reading are specific hints for teachers and non-pedagogical readers how to treat the text. The philosopher’s look on the function of reading puts this ability in a variety of contexts and makes that people interested in reading can become seekers and creative.The reading is determined the following learning outcomes: student reads fluently, correctly, fluently and expressively aloud texts consisting of words discussed during classes. These texts relate to real-life experiences of children and cognitive expectations. A student also understands short texts read silently; student correctly reads aloud texts written own in a notebook and texts stored on a PC. The student working with text by searching for the most beautiful piece. He is also able to distinguish in literary texts the forms such as narrative, description and dialogue.

scholarly journals Rethinking literary education in the digital age

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-589
Author(s):  
Alexandra Milyakina
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
School Education ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Recreational Reading ◽  
Comic Strips ◽  
Literary Education ◽  
Literary Experience

This paper discusses the perspectives of literary education in the context of the transforming of the notions of literature, reading, and learning. While everyday semiotic practices are becoming increasingly digital and multimodal, school education in most countries is still largely focused on mediating original literary texts in print and their established interpretations. Less conventional sources of literary information – brief retellings, comic strips, memes, social media posts – tend to make up a large part of the students’ semiotic environment; yet these are usually dismissed by school education as inaccurate and irrelevant. Cultural semiotics, however, allows regarding pulverized versions of texts as a part of a natural educational system – the culture itself. A holistic approach allows not only integrating everyday semiotic practices into a school curriculum, but also revealing the inherent multimodality, transmediality, and creativity of the literary experience. The paper explores possible implications of semiotics in three aspects of literary education: multimodality and heterogeneity of literary experience; influence of digital media on the perception habits; reading as a creative building of a whole from different fragments. The overarching goal is to enrich school education through a deeper understanding of literary experience and a widening of the spectrum of acknowledged tools, formats and media. The theoretical survey is supported by real-life examples from school practice and recreational reading.

scholarly journals Literary texts and artistic images in modern ground architecture

2019 ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Liudmyla Kornieieva ◽  
Maryna Diachenko
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Modern World ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
The Real ◽  
Artistic Activity ◽  
Artistic Images ◽  
The One ◽  
Modern Artists

The article focuses on the image of ground that had various meanings in the human culture from ancient times. On the one hand, it was a place of living that provided people with all means necessary for their physical survival and had an exclusively material value. On the other hand the ground was a part of myth; it was a subject of philosophical (or would-be philosophical) reflections. Step by step, humanity learned to perceive ground from artistic and aesthetic perspectives: as a place that sometimes could be beautiful by itself and sometimes needed to be decorated by people. In the modernity, the ground is more often viewed not only as a surface or a place for artistic work but as an environment or even a material for the latter. Inhabitants tend to decorate not only its aboveground but also its underground surroundings. This tendency has resulted in introduction of the modern high-tech underground buildings and the phenomenon of ecological ground architecture formation. In field of the visual design, the new approach to ground as a material for artistic activity emerged. The article presents a hypothesis that historical traditions contributed to the modern land architecture to a lesser degree. In the past the ground architecture was often awkward, pragmatic, and artistically inconsistent. It was a result of some specific materials, technological and climate conditions which people faced. At the same time, in folklore and fiction literature the aboveground and underground environments, including houses, were often depicted as artistically attractive. Therefore, for modern artists, the popular verbal and visual images of underground buildings serve as a rich source for inspiration in their work on the real-life projects in the field of ground architecture. The names and design features of some projects attest this idea. For instance, the modular “Hobbit House” created by the Green Magic Homes company makes an appeal to the literary works by J. R. R. Tolkien. The links between the modern ground architecture, literary texts and artistic images demonstrate that in the modern world not only the real life influences art, but virtual imaginative worlds begin to form the space of the reality itself.

"You're only as healthy as you fell". Scrittura e interstestualitŕ in Taxi driver di Martin Scorsese

IKON ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 295-321
Author(s):  
Franco Lonati
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Ronald Reagan ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Taxi Driver ◽  
Martin Scorsese ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Journal Entries

- The goal of this paper is to analyse the famous Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver (1975) with an interdisciplinary approach and from a double perspective: on the one hand, it examines the narrator's forms of expression chiefly focusing on the written documents, the journal entries and the autobiographical references in the movie. I also consider the way the director uses these documents in order to trace the twisted psychology of the antihero Travis Bickle, the main character in the movie, played by Robert De Niro; on the other hand, this study investigates the film from an intertextual perspective, centering on how the filmic ‘text' uses the many other ‘texts' to which it constantly alludes: literary texts (among the others, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground and Thomas Wolfe's God's Lonely Man), cinematic texts (for instance, Orson Welles's Citizen Kane and John Ford's The Searchers), musical texts (songs by Kris Kristofferson and Jackson Browne), or, in some cases, even facts from real life (for example, the attempted assassinations of prominent politicians), not to mention the many autobiographical clues disseminated in the film by screenwriter Paul Schrader, director Martin Scorsese and even by Robert De Niro himself, through his peculiar performance. The result is a compound structured film which makes use of sophisticated narrative and expressive modes. A film not only inspired by its sources but also able, in its turn, to influence the work of other filmmakers and, paradoxically enough, even to affect real life: it's the case of John Hinckley jr who, obsessioned by Taxi Driver, attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan in an effort to impress actress Jodie Foster, who had played the role of an underage prostitute in the film. All these aspects, together with its unquestionable technical qualities, make Taxi Driver one of the most significant films of a golden age for American filmmaking.

Digital Voodoo: Who Does What?

Pólemos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-129
Author(s):  
Paola Carbone ◽  
Giuseppe Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Generation Process ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Common People ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
Ethical Choices ◽  
The Law

AbstractIt is obvious that AI is marking its entry onto the global scene. Anyway, since any AI is supposed to perform a task in such a way that the outcome would be indistinguishable from the outcome of a human agent working to achieve the same task, it is more and more difficult to recognize its presence in our daily life. Issues of transparency and ethics are crucial not only to be aware of the presence of an AI, but mostly to know how the algorithm is actually working and to verify the ‘quality’ of its dataset. It is important to realize that only the engineers know what an AI does, even if it enacts actions in real life. For common people, and even for regulators, it may turn out to be a digital voodoo that goes far beyond their understanding. Who does what? That is the question.The first part of the essay discusses the claims of “digital philosophy” (or “digital ontology”) under the light of legal analysis. The assumption that humankind and “intelligent” machines share the same digital/algorithmic ontology (as parts of an all-encompassing “digital universe”) could deprive the law of its ethical and emotional foundations. A sound regulation of both the circulation of digital information and AI requires adequate knowledge of technology (transparency) and the capacity to make ethical choices based on wide social consensus, in order to safeguard the fundamentally “human” nature of the law.The second part of the essay is an inquiry into AI as a machine-writing system, that is into the capacity of an AI to produce literary texts. Three examples will be discussed and a comparison to electronic literature will be pointed out. What seems to be fundamental is the idea of a literary output stuck on the very moment of its generation (process of writing) which is conceived by the reader as an anaesthetic experience. More than creativity, it is the perception of creativity that rules such literary works. This literary production can make readers aware of the power of an underlying algorithm.

scholarly journals Implikasi Diskursus Kristianitas dalam Serat Dharmogandhul dan Pemikiran Kiai Ibrahim Tunggul Wulung terhadap Komunitas Kristen Tegalombo Pati

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-266
Author(s):  
Reni Dikawati ◽  
Sariyatun Sariyatun ◽  
Warto Warto
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
The Real ◽  
Life Context

Javanese Christianity construction is not only built on the basis of biblical interpretation. Discourse and knowledge contained in literary texts show the existence of acceptance capacity, communication patterns and adjustments to the cultural context, as well as the important role of the agency. Dharmogandul manuscript is a text that is part of the construction of ideas, values, ideas, about Christianity that is understood by Javanese people. This study aims to examine the dynamics of the Dharmogandul fiber texts and discourses with genealogy approaches, connect and compare with the thoughts of Kiai Ibrahim Tunggul Wulung as a real life context, as well as psychological figures that provide worldview to the Christian community in Tegalombo, Pati. Exploring Dharmogandul fiber genealogy shows that the text originated from the concept of religiosity, in the historical development there was a shift in the meaning of Dharmogandul fiber in syncretic direction, until it became attached and became part of the comparison of formalistic religion. The results of the study showed some contradictions and comparisons in accommodating the discourse of meeting several religions in the Dharmogandul fiber with the real conditions of the Tegalombo Christian community. [Kontruksi Kristen Kejawen tidak hanya dibangun atas dasar penafsiran kitabiah. Wacana dan pengetahuan yang termuat dalam teks sastra menunjukkan adanya kapasitas penerimaan, pola komunikasi, dan penyesuaian konteks kultur, serta peran penting agency. Serat Dharmogandul merupakan salah satu teks yang menjadi bagian dari kontruksi ide, nilai dan gagasan mengenai kekristenan yang dipahami masyarakat Jawa.  Penelitian  ini bertujuan  menelaah dinamika teks dan wacana serat Dharmogandul dengan pendekatan geneologi serta menghubungkan dan membandingkannya dengan pemikiran Kiai Ibrahim Tunggul Wulung sebagai real life context, sekaligus figur psikologis yang memberikan worldview terhadap komunitas Kristen di Tegalombo, Pati. Jelajah geneologi serat Dharmogandul menunjukkan bahwa teks berawal dari konsep religiusitas kemudian bergesr ke arah sinkretis lalu menjadi bagian dari perbandingan agama formal. Hasil penelitian menujukkan pertentangan dan perbandingan dalam mengakomodasi wacana perjumpaan beberapa agama dalam serat Dharmogandul dengan kondisi riil komunitas Kristen Tegalombo.]

Feminist Voice in Abhi Subedi's Agniko Katha

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-22
Author(s):  
Indira Acharya Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Feminine Gender ◽  
Real Life Situation ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
Eternal Feminine

This article analyzes Abhi Subedi's play, Agniko Katha, from a feminist perspective. Feminist critics blame that the classics of literature are partly responsible for creating and perpetuating the myth about 'eternal feminine.' They claim that there are only two images available for women in patriarchal literature. One is the image of a virtuous passive woman and the other is the promiscuous selfish woman. The author of such literary texts rewards the virtuous woman whereas they punish the promiscuous one. Feminists argue that the underlying message of this method is: if a woman wants to survive in patriarchy she must act feminine. This effects women in their real life situation for they tend to perform feminine gender roles though they are disadvantageous to them. Thus, they protest the stereotype depiction of female characters in literary and other cultural texts. The article argues that Subedi defies the traditional notion of femininity and creates new roles for his female characters. The protagonist of the play denies to play her assigned feminine role and searches for a new role for her. She questions and protests the patriarchal gender roles which are bias against women. Thus, it is relevant to explore the feminist voice in the text. The finding of the article suggests that women, too, have the potentiality to create new roles for themselves and bring change into society.

scholarly journals Design Thinking as a Mindset Shift for Innovation in Healthcare

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (74) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrizia Marti ◽  
Flavio Lampus ◽  
Annamaria Recupero ◽  
Lorenzo Franchi ◽  
Cecilia Goracci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Analytical Thinking ◽  
Design Case ◽  
Design Theories ◽  
Popular Subject ◽  
Design Case Study

Design Thinking is a human-centred approach to problem solving and innovation that exploits design theories and methods to solve ill-defined problems. Recently it has been a popular subject of real-life applications in research and industrial endeavours for its original way to combine creative and analytical thinking, what is desirable from a human viewpoint with what is technologically feasible. This paper focuses on the application of Design Thinking in paediatric orthodontics. Through the analysis of a design case study, the paper picks up the threads of the challenges of devising a facemask for maxillary malocclusion. The case study shows how a Design Thinking mindset can make a holistic and creative approach flourishing, bringing together different competences at any stage of the design process. The methods of design allowed to translate the different languages of the stakeholders into a single narrative where the people’s journeys are clearly depicted, monitored, and supported.

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