Product of Her Mother’s Imagination

Prima Donna ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 67-88
Author(s):  
Paul Wink
Keyword(s):  
Physical Appearance ◽  
Gifted Child ◽  
The World ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship

This chapter, “Product of Her Mother’s Imagination,” probes the origins of Callas’s life-long conviction that she was celebrated not for her intrinsic worth but for her exceptional talent. Callas developed early in life an ambition to become a celebrated artist, one that she pursued with fierce dedication and commitment. Yet throughout her life she maintained that her career had been imposed upon her, that her mother compelled her to sing professionally, and this lingering view led to an ambivalent relationship with the world of opera. Callas’s sense of superiority derived from being celebrated by her mother as a gifted child but coincided with feelings of vulnerability and inferiority reflecting her perception that she was loved only because of her voice. Her feelings of being unloved and inferior were further exacerbated by her mother’s favoring of Maria’s older sister Jackie and the emphasis placed on physical appearance in the Callas household.

scholarly journals The Problem of Ethnicity in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 151-157
Author(s):  
Sofior Rahman Pramanik
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Physical Appearance ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
The World ◽  
Major Ethnic Group ◽  
And Behavior

Ethnicity is a worldwide matter and is based on a cluster of personality originated from some ancestry and shares some common traits like language, culture, religion, rite and rituals of the society. Belonging to the same inherited status every member of the ethnic group share same dress -style and have similar physical appearance. "Ethnicity refers to a group of people who are of the same origin, history, values , attitude and behavior[1].In every nation throughout the world, there are some ethnic group. Afghanistan is such a country where there is a large number of ethnic group like - Pashtuns, Hazara, Tajik, Uzbek, Aimak, Turkman,and Beloch etc. Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner set in Afghanistan and U.S.A. depicts the two major ethnic group of Afghanistan-Pashtuns and Hazara along with their social, cultural and religious conflict. In "The Kite Runner "the Pashtuns the largest ethnic group of the nation, run the country and have the power in their hands whereas Hazara are small in group are slave to them.

scholarly journals Proper recognition: Personhood and symbolic capital in contemporary sociology

2020 ◽  
pp. 001139212093294
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Mead
Keyword(s):  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Philosophy Of Perception ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Contemporary Sociology ◽  
The World ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
The Way

Sociologists maintain an ambivalent relationship to the category of the person, even more so at a time when the category is deemed insufficient for analysis yet appears increasingly significant within the world it purports to capture. This article begins with this ascending significance of the person in the neoliberal world of work, where the personal accumulation of skills and devolution of responsibility to individuals are privileged. Theoretical approaches to personhood attempt to respond to these changed conditions, with the work of Pierre Bourdieu often thought incapable of properly explaining such contemporary phenomena. In response, this article approaches personhood through the frame of Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic capital, those properties ‘misrecognized’ as belonging to the person when they are in fact the product of relations in which the person is enmeshed. A reconstruction of the concept in the sociologist’s work, along with analyses of its implications for a philosophy of perception and for ideology, will show the way for an unexpected approach both to Bourdieu’s own work, reframed through the concept of symbolic capital, and to personhood, which is revealed to be a profoundly and paradoxically relational notion.

“This Is Our Threnody”

2018 ◽  
pp. 140-162
Author(s):  
Eli Jelly-Schapiro
Keyword(s):  
Global History ◽  
Colonial Modernity ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
Roberto Bolano ◽  
Global Reach

Using moments of putative rupture as a lens onto the past and the world, the fiction of Roberto Bolaño articulates two genealogies—the hemispheric (and global) history of neoliberal counterrevolution and the planetary history of capitalist, colonial modernity. Revealing the histories cast in shadow by the global reach of capital and empire, Bolaño’s work, this chapter demonstrates, simultaneously meditates on literature’s ambivalent relationship to cultures of historical erasure. Literature, Bolaño’s fiction insists, is both one mechanism through which the blank spots in our vision are formed and normalized, and one urgent site of resistance to the apparatuses of fetishism and reification.

Prima Donna

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Wink
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Older Men ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
The World ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

Prima Donna: The Psychology of Maria Callas explores the psychological mechanisms behind the hypnotic power of Callas’s artistry and her tragic life story. Advances in developmental psychology and the concept of narcissism are used to shed light on Callas’s puzzling personal deterioration during the last nine years of her life. Although precipitated by the trauma and shame over being abandoned by Aristotle Onassis and the precipitous deterioration of her voice, Callas midlife disintegration reflects deeper psychological vulnerabilities. Throughout her life, Callas’s lingering view that her career had been imposed upon her and that her mother compelled her to sing professionally led to her ambivalent relationship with the world of opera. Callas’s sense of superiority, derived from being celebrated for her special talent, coincided with feelings of vulnerability and inferiority embedded in her realization that she was celebrated not for her intrinsic worth but for her exceptional talent. Lacking a cohesive and integrated sense of self, she sought affirmation and vitality from merger with adoring audiences and older men, including her husband Battista Meneghini and her long-term partner Onassis. The propensity to fuse her identity with stage roles contributed to her artistic greatness, but envy and the lack of an intrinsic sense of meaning and worth enhanced her vulnerability to life’s vagaries.

Virgil's metamorphoses: myth and allusion in the Georgics

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 36-61
Author(s):  
Monica Gale
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship

felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas 490atque metus omnis et inexorabile fatumsubiecit pedibus strepitumque Acherontis auari.fortunatus et ille deos qui nouit agrestisPanaque Siluanumque senem Nymphasque sorores. (Geo. 2.490–4)[Happy is he who has been able to learn the causes of things, andhas trampled underfoot every fear, and unyielding Fate, and the dinof greedy Acheron. Fortunate, too, is he who knows the rustic gods,Pan and old Silvanus and the sister Nymphs.]In these famous words, Virgil expresses his ambivalent relationship with his great didactic model, Lucretius. The double makarismos suggests a declaration of allegiance to two incompatible views of the world: the rationalist philosophy of Epicurus and a nostalgic longing for the simple rustic piety which the Romans of the late Republic and early Empire were so fond of attributing to the farmer and the countryman.

Parenting the Gifted: Developing Your Child's Talent in the Real World: Dealing with the Juxtaposition between Ideal and Actual Gifted Education

2007 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Riedl Cross
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Gifted And Talented ◽  
Gifted Education ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
Gifted Child ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World

Is there a best way to parent your gifted child? This is what most parents of gifted children want to know as they enter the world of gifted literature. When I worked briefly for a Web site answering parents' questions as a gifted and talented “expert,” the question I received most frequently in one form or another was, “What should I be doing for my gifted child?” As a parent of four gifted children, this is my question, too.

scholarly journals Limitations in Pigeon Keeping: A Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-105
Author(s):  
M. Ashraful Kabir
Keyword(s):  
Physical Appearance ◽  
Nutritious Food ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The World ◽  
Remarkable Progress

Pigeons are showing remarkable progress with more profit. This sector has many potential markets in the country. After visiting some pigeon houses, many limitations have been come out. Many rearers collect pigeons based on only physical appearance, and in the long run, they cannot get pure offspring. King pigeon is considered a table breed in the world but in Bangladesh rearers keep them as a common fancy item. Pigeons do not get their nutritious food from the owners. Result suggests that many rare pigeons are caught by predators and due to unwanted dirt in those lofts birds are affected by many diseases. Some remarkable farms are showing quality environment in their lofts and getting desirable profit.

scholarly journals On Being Ugly: An Analysis of Arundhati Roy’s Beauty Norms in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

2018 ◽  
Vol III (I) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Noreen Zainab ◽  
Aisha Jadoon ◽  
Amna Saeed
Keyword(s):  
Social Perception ◽  
Physical Appearance ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Standards ◽  
The World ◽  
Beauty Norms

Beauty in the world of art is one of the most celebrated ideas. In this paper, Arundhati Roy’s novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is analyzed with reference to one of its major character, Anjum, an ugly transgender. Adopting the theoretical framework of Halberstam (2005) this paper argues that the physical appearance, either ugly or beautiful, shapes the attitudes of people towards each other. People, who are considered ugly according to social standards, suffer harassment and abuse at various stages of their life in different ways. Therefore, this paper contends the popular social perception that equates the absence of harmony and beauty in the appearance of an individual with the absence of the humane soul and morality of character.

Changing Our Minds: Legal History Meets the World Wide Web

1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 385-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard J. Hibbitts
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Legal History ◽  
World Wide ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
The World ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship

Legal historians have had an ambivalent relationship with new technology. As students and spokespersons of the somewhat-stodgy legal past, our sympathies have predictably been with traditional methods of doing things rather than with the latest and greatest devices of our own age. In the twentieth century we have tended to champion writing and books more than radio, television, and computers. Today we may use new tools to help us create our scholarship and even to help us teach, but like most of our academic colleagues in law and in history we generally employ those tools as extensions of established media instead of exploiting their potential to deploy information and develop ideas in new ways.

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