The tragedian as critic: Euripides and early Greek poetics

2010 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 165-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Wright
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Early History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
The Social ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
Critical Reflections

AbstractThis article examines the place of tragic poetry within the early history and development of ancient literary criticism. It concentrates on Euripides, both because his works contain many more literary-critical reflections than those of the other tragedians and because he has been thought to possess an unusually ‘critical’ outlook. Euripidean characters and choruses talk about such matters as poetic skill and inspiration, the social function of poetry, contexts for performance, literary and rhetorical culture, and novelty as an implied criterion for judging literary excellence. It is argued that the implied view of literature which emerges from Euripidean tragedy is both coherent and conventional. As a critic, Euripides, far from being a radical or aggressively modern figure (as he is often portrayed), is in fact distinctly conservative, looking back in every respect to the earlier Greek poetic tradition.

scholarly journals The Uses of Art: Contemporary Changes in Cultural Consumption and the Function of Art

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birgit Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Social Function ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Cultural Consumption ◽  
Aesthetic Taste ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociology Of Art ◽  
The One ◽  
Aesthetic Concepts

In recent years aesthetics and cosmopolitanism have been linked in new ways. On the one hand, contemporary research in the sociology of art indicates an increasing openness and a potential cosmopolitanism in aesthetic taste and consumption. On the other hand, aesthetic concepts and ideals play an important but often implicit role in some of the theories of globalization and cosmopolitanism that inform cultural studies. By examining the interaction between these two tendencies and relating it to sociological and aesthetic theories, I will discuss the characteristics and the possible social implications of the apparent new openness. Does it indicate an increasing tolerance and commonality? Or does it rather point towards a new and more individualized understanding of the social function and legitimacy of art?

scholarly journals Eurípides: Suplicantes (838-954)

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-193
Author(s):  
Evandro Luis Salvador
Keyword(s):  
Social Function ◽  
The Other ◽  
Free Verse ◽  
Funeral Rites ◽  
The Social ◽  
War Dead

This text presents a free verse translation of the funeral rites (838-954) in Euripides’ The Suppliant Women. It is followed by a panoramic introduction highlighting the social function of the funeral for the war-dead. In this tragedy, Theseus fulfills the role of a commander and buries the majority of the Argive dead at Eleutherai, and it is Adrastus, along with Theseus, who conducts the funeral rites for the other five Argive heroes at Eleusis.

scholarly journals CINTA SEBAGAI RELIGIOUS PEACE BUILDING (Perspektif Muhammad Fethullah Gülen)

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Ahmad Kholil
Keyword(s):  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Function ◽  
The Other ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Absolute Truth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Double Function ◽  
The One

Sociologically, religion has a double function. On the one hand, religion can be a factor of social cohesion and harmony creation, but on the other hand it can also be a factor religious disharmony between people of different religions. This paper examines the views of  Fethullah Gülen on the social function of  religion that is based on love and peace. Differences of religion, according to him, is a consequence of the choice of each human being in order to establish the absolute truth based on how they believe. Therefore, differences in religion is not something scar y or even harmful for social life, as long as people are able to live in the light of love and peace.

Toward a Maoist Dream of the Red Chamber: Or, How Baoyu and Daiyu Became Rebels Against Feudalism

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-202
Author(s):  
Johannes Kaminski
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
The Other ◽  
Arranged Marriage ◽  
Love Story ◽  
The Qing Dynasty ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Chinese Literary Criticism

Mao Zedong’s views on literature were enigmatic: although he coerced writers into “learning the language of the masses,” he made no secret of his own enthusiasm forDream of the Red Chamber, a novel written during the Qing dynasty. In 1954 this paradox appeared to be resolved when Li Xifan and Lan Ling presented an interpretation that saw the tragic love story as a manifestation of class struggle. Ever since, the conception of Baoyu and Daiyu as class warriors has become a powerful and unquestioned cliché of Chinese literary criticism. Endowing aristocratic protagonists with revolutionary grandeur, however, violates a basic principle of Marxist orthodoxy. This article examines the reasons behind this position: on the one hand, Mao’s support for Li and Lan’s approach acts as a reminder of his early journalistic agitation against arranged marriage and the social ills it engenders. On the other hand, it offers evidence of Mao’s increasingly ambiguous conception of class.

Communication and Interculturality

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-72
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Suárez Villegas
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Intercultural Education ◽  
The Other ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
Integration Project

Citizenship as status implies the acknowledgment of individual rights as well as social ones. This very acceptance requires the consideration of all citizens as equal despite any personal difference and it represents an aim that is mostly dependent on the mass-media social function. The formal acknowledgment of the citizenship would be scarcely important if identity stereotypes and prejudice-based discrimination occurred during citizen's vital happenings. Today, citizenship must include the communicative dimension as part of the social integration project. Societies are every day more intercultural, and media play an essential role in representing the other. As part of a Grundtvig project on intercultural education, the author conducted an experience with journalistic ethics students of the Communication School at the University of Seville. From this experience, the author reflects on multiculturalism as a necessary tool in the training of future journalists.

scholarly journals A Reificação Da Religião: A Religião Da Sociologia / The Reification of Religion: Religion in Sociology

Numen ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oneide Bobsin
Keyword(s):  
Open Field ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Social Function ◽  
The Other ◽  
A Posteriori ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

RESUMOSem desconsiderar a contribuição da Sociologia da Religião, o texto pretende problematizar tendências científicas que, ao analisarem a função social das religiões nas sociedades modernas, elaboram um conhecimento reificado dos fenômenos religiosos. Esta problematização só é possível a posteriori porque é próprio das ciências questionarem a si e a seus pressupostos. Nesta perspectiva, o texto problematizará pressupostos teóricos marxistas e positivistas, revelando, de certa forma, compromissos com uma visão de mundo que pretende ser universal, mas que ignora os seus limites históricos e se fechaem si. A coisificação das religiões, que reduz o outro, o estranho, ao igual a si, é um risco permanente da análise dos acontecimentos e dos fenômenos. Neste horizonte provocativo, a Sociologia da Religião, como campo aberto, autoriza-nos a perguntar pela religião da sociologia. Desta forma, ela transcende a condição de objeto a que foi submetida. Palavras-chave: Reificação; religião; saberes ignorados.ABSTRACTWithout disregarding the contribution of the Sociology of Religion, this text seeks to problematize scientific tendencies that, as they analyze the social function of religion in modern societies, elaborate a reified knowledge of religious phenomena. This problematization is only possible a posteriori becauseit is proper to the sciences to question themselves and their presuppositions. In this perspective the text will problematize marxist and positivist theoretical presuppositions, revealing, in a certain form, commitments to a vision of the world that seeks to be universal, but ignores its historical limits and closes in on itself. The objectification of religions, that reduces the other, the foreign, as an equal to itself is a permanent risk in the analysis of happenings and phenomena. In this provocative horizon, Sociology of Religion, as an open field, permits us to ask about the religion of sociology. In this form, it transcends the condition of object to which it was submited.Keywords: Reification; religion, ignored knowledge

scholarly journals YY. Kryptonimy Jerzego Jankowskiego

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Baron-Milian
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern City ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Word ◽  
The One

The article is an attempt to interpret the only book published by Jerzy Jankowski, a forerunner of Polish futurism who is often overlooked in literary history related to the beginnings of the avant-garde movement. Tram wpopszek ulicy (Tram crossways on the street), published in 1920, is presented in terms of innovative phenomena in Polish and European poetry. Such a point of view reveals its precursory character, despite its passeism repeatedly diagnosed by critics. The key word and the starting point of the analysis is the first word of the title – tram, whose ambiguity makes it not only a sign of a modern city but also a metaphor of the construction of the entire book and its historical location. Further analysis leads to conclusions that, on the one hand, reveal the complicated meaning of the vitalistic futurist concept of life and, on the other, indicate aporias and tensions between symbolism and avant-garde, originality and repetition, materiality and spirituality, as well as aesthetics and the social function of art. These seem to be a hidden dimension of Jankowski’s work.

scholarly journals THE CONTENT ANALYSIS OF TEXTBOOK “PATHWAY TO ENGLISH” FOR 11th GRADE BASED ON SYLLABUS IN 2013 CURRICULUM

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-110
Author(s):  
Niken Noputri ◽  
Ridho Kurniawan ◽  
Diana Oktavia ◽  
Yahfenel Evi Fussalam
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Function ◽  
The Other ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Text Structures ◽  
The Social ◽  
11Th Grade

This research was conducted to find out whether the “Pathway to English” textbook of the 11th grade used by SMAN 1 Bungo fulfilled syllabus points at the first semester in the 2013 curriculum and how extras the textbook presented. The result showed that Pathway to English textbook fulfilled 12 of 16 items of basic competence and 5 from 6 items of learning material in syllabus points. 12 basic competences were provided in some exercises of 4 English skills. The learning materials were successfully developed and supported with materials about social function formed cooperating tasks, text structures were available and related the other rules of text structures, and also language features. However, this textbook had weakness about there were none available BC 3.3 (Analyzing the social functions, the structure and language features of expressing hopes, according to the contexts), BC 4.3 (Constructing spoken and written text to express hopes, according to its social functions, structure and language features), BC 4.5 (Editing formal invitation letter according to its social functions structure and language features) and BC 4.6 (Writing formal invitations, according to its social functions, structure and language features).

scholarly journals The Principle of Social Function of Land Cultivation Right in Agritourism Accommodation in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 271
Author(s):  
Lusia Savitri Diah Candrasari ◽  
Lego Karjoko
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Social Function ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Normative Study ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Land Cultivation ◽  
Plantation Company

The principle of social function as one of the principles of law enforcement in Indonesia supposes to be elucidated in the regulation of the obligation of Land Cultivation Right holder. Tourism accommodation held by the plantation company on the land under the Land cultivationright on one side, is unjustified by Agrarian Law, on the other side, Plantation law grants it. This writing aimed at evaluating the coherence of the regulation about the obligation of the holders of the land cultivation right towards the principle of social function. This writing could be categorized as a normative study with the statute and conceptual approach. The technique of data collection was literature study. Deductive-inductive syllogism and interpretation presented the analysis. This writing concluded that there had not been a coherence between the regulation about the obligation of the holders of Land cultivation right and the social function of Land cultivation right. This incoherence led to weak law enforcement.

Providing Freshmen with a Good “Starting-Block”

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 69-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikaël De Clercq ◽  
Charlotte Michel ◽  
Sophie Remy ◽  
Benoît Galand
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Student Adjustment ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Pivotal Phase ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Study Task ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Belonging ◽  
Intention To Persist

Abstract. Grounded in social-psychological literature, this experimental study assessed the effects of two so-called “wise” interventions implemented in a student study program. The interventions took place during the very first week at university, a presumed pivotal phase of transition. A group of 375 freshmen in psychology were randomly assigned to three conditions: control, social belonging, and self-affirmation. Following the intervention, students in the social-belonging condition expressed less social apprehension, a higher social integration, and a stronger intention to persist one month later than the other participants. They also relied more on peers as a source of support when confronted with a study task. Students in the self-affirmation condition felt more self-affirmed at the end of the intervention but didn’t benefit from other lasting effects. The results suggest that some well-timed and well-targeted “wise” interventions could provide lasting positive consequences for student adjustment. The respective merits of social-belonging and self-affirmation interventions are also discussed.

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