From Source to Allusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 203-210
Author(s):  
Su Fang Ng
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Intercultural Relations ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Intercultural Encounters ◽  
Alexander Romance ◽  
Literary Reception

This chapter examines the synchronic renewals and the repurposing of Alexander the Great’s image in canonical English and Malay literatures. More specifically, it considers the transmission of the Alexander Romance and its common motifs into English and Malay as well as the shared strand of literary reception that link these traditions together as cousins rather than wholly separate. It also explores how both English and Malay literatures, invoking Alexander to mediate intercultural encounters, use him to fashion a vocabulary for a cultural politics of hybridity. More importantly, English and Malay literary traditions meet in connected themes mediated by Alexander and intersect in their shared deployment of him to figure intercultural relations arising from trade.

Cultural Voice and Strategies for Multicultural Education

1989 ◽  
Vol 171 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence O'connor
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Alternative Explanation ◽  
Pluralistic Societies ◽  
Educational Relationships ◽  
Intercultural Encounters ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Current approaches to multicultural education tend to ignore the cultural politics of educational relationships that rest at the heart of intercultural encounters. This essay uses the concept of “voice” to describe how individuals orient themselves to school discourses. The idea of “cultural voice” is developed to explain how the dynamics of culture groups reveal the critical relationship between the reconstruction of cultural principles and the development of the individual. This alternative explanation of the relationship between school discourse and cultural voice reinterprets the cultural politics of educational discourses and reassesses the impact of racism, sexism, and classism. From this discussion, the essay draws out a framework for multicultural education which focuses on the politics of educational relationships in pluralistic societies. It sketches out several teaching suggestions for a multivoiced, democratic, multicultural education that can counter cultural biases in schools.

The Story and the Myth of the Igor’ Tale

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 193-216
Author(s):  
Harvey Goldblatt
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Popular Song ◽  
Verbal Art ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
The People ◽  
Invented Tradition ◽  
History Of ◽  
European Thought ◽  
Editio Princeps ◽  
Literary Reception

Abstract Since its discovery in the 1790s and the publication of the editio princeps in 1800, the Igor’ Tale has been defined and examined in many different ways. The aim of the present study is to focus on the beginnings of literary reception (1800–1850) for this masterpiece of Old Rus’ verbal art. This study commences with the assertion that the history of the work’s interpretation serves a double purpose. This dual interpretive vision (1) is grounded in the twofold nature of literary history (i.e., in the distinction between literary history proper and literary reception), (2) obliges us to view the Igor’ Tale against a variety of cultural backdrops (including both medieval Western literary traditions and contemporary European thought), and (3) requires us to reflect on the importance of an emerging nationalist orientation and, in particular, of Herder’s underlying ideas of “national individuality” and “spirit of the people.” The present study treats the following interpretive motifs and their relevance for the analysis of the Igor’ Tale in the first half of the nineteenth century: (1) The Igor’ Tale as a Popular Song and Native Artistic Masterpiece; (2) Publication of the Igor’ Tale and its Reception by the Cultural Elite; (3) Interpretive Legacies of the Editio Princeps and the Place of N.M. Karamzin; and (4) From the Invented Tradition of Ossian to the National Spirit and Veneration of the Igor’ Tale.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-46
Author(s):  
Su Fang Ng
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Alexander The Great ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Alexander Romance ◽  
Greek Novel ◽  
Literary Networks

This chapter examines the parallel literary traditions of the mythic Alexander the Great in the Eurasian archipelagic peripheries of Britain and Southeast Asia, focusing on how Alexander stories were transmitted from late antiquity through the medieval period and transformed by early modern authors. It looks at the global literary networks linking the British and Southeast Asian peripheries, along with their receptions of the Greek novel Alexander Romance. It also explores how Alexander was appropriated into English and Malay literatures and how both literary traditions connected him to the material culture and imagined presence of foreign others as part of their intercultural resonances. Finally, it describes how the myth of Alexander became intertwined with alterity and foreign relations at the two ends of the Eurasian trade routes, how he became associated with long-distance trade, and how he influenced the self-representation of emerging maritime empires.

scholarly journals Academic Mobility and Intercultural Pathways for Knowledge Transfer

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liudmila Kirpitchenko
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Intercultural Relations ◽  
University Staff ◽  
Academic Mobility ◽  
Pilot Survey ◽  
Intercultural Encounters

This article focuses on academic mobility with the view of examining intercultural relations and knowledge flows. Academic mobility refers to the global mobility and exchange of tertiary students and university staff, which is a growing phenomenon worldwide. This article seeks to highlight additional possibilities for exploring effective intercultural pathways for knowledge mobility, translation and transfer that are created through academic mobility. Academic migrants in particular have been acknowledged as important agents of intercultural knowledge transfer, interchange and knowledge creation. This paper sets up the theoretical parameters for exploring intercultural knowledge flows within academic mobility. It explores diverse aspects of intercultural encounters to reveal underlining conditions for effective knowledge transfer and knowledge creation between cultures. The theoretical notions and ideas discussed provide the foundations for subsequent ethnographic research which form the basis of this paper: a pilot survey conducted among academic migrants at two international educational institutions in Italy. This survey sought to analyse empirical manifestations of cosmopolitanism in everyday intercultural academic interactions, as preconditions for successful knowledge transfer, interchange and ultimately, knowledge creation.

scholarly journals Mutual Intercultural Relations among University Students in Canada

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongxia Gui ◽  
Saba Safdar ◽  
John Berry
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
International Students ◽  
University Students ◽  
Intercultural Relations ◽  
Domestic Students ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Intercultural Encounters

Over 304,000 international students studied in Canadian universities in 2013 (CIC, 2014). In addition to their academic success, one important feature of their stay in Canada is the quality of the intercultural relations, and the adaptations they make during their stay. The present study sought to understand the intercultural relations, acculturation and adaptation of both international students and Canadian students. Fifty-seven international (all from China) and 68 domestic students were drawn from several Canadian universities. Cluster analysis generated two clusters for international students (integration and diffuse) and two for Canadian students (multiculturalism and melting pot). International students in the integration cluster were more tolerant and better adapted than those in the diffuse cluster. Similarly, Canadian students in the multiculturalism cluster were also more tolerant and better adapted than those in the melting pot cluster. Implications of these findings for preparing international and Canadian students for their intercultural encounters were discussed.

scholarly journals Wymiary analizy relacji międzykulturowych

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1(1)) ◽  
pp. 27-55
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Paleczny
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Intercultural Relations ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
Intercultural Encounters

Analytical Dimensions of the Intercultural RelationsIn the globalizing world contacts and connections among individuals and groups, communities and nations, businesses and enterprises undergo constant changes and modifications. The technological progress and technological development, including inter alia IT and modes of transport, make the intercultural encounters easier, faster and more common. This in turn creates a broad spectrum of cultural constellations seen in various dimensions of human activity. The article provides a well-developed proposition of an analysis constructed specifically for cultural studies, particularly dedicated to intercultural relations.

Mutual intercultural relations among immigrant and autochthonous youth in Italy. Testing the integration, multiculturalism, and contact hypotheses

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristiano Inguglia ◽  
Pasquale Musso ◽  
Paolo Albiero ◽  
Rosalinda Cassibba ◽  
Nicolò Maria Iannello ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Relations
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