Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 223-228
Author(s):  
Peter Fifield
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social World ◽  
Simple Extension ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
Literary Experience

The closing remarks restate the importance of illness to modernism, arguing that it is defamiliarization rather than diagnosis that is central to modernist illness. Literary modernism demonstrates an investment in non-normative bodies and their experience, not as case studies or symbols, but as lived objects that overspill medical classifications. Modernism’s careful attention to such variety and nuance is passed on to the reader, for whom the literary experience of other subjects is thus neither a simple extension of our own embodiment, nor wholly out of our imaginative ambit. Modernism shows the ill subject as other, but also embedded in a social world in which they play a full and lively role.

Emotionally Perilous Paths

Save My Kid ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 173-192
Author(s):  
Amanda M. Gengler
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Critically Ill ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Social World ◽  
Critically Ill Children ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right

Chapter 8 grapples with the implications of the author’s findings from her case studies. It highlights how the quest for hope can save lives when it brings families of critically ill children to the “right” treatment; how it can garner families and their children “microadvantages” throughout the treatment process; how it can help everyone involved express the depth of their care; how it can change how families engage with the social world around them; and how it can sometimes breed additional pain, suffering, turmoil, and regret.

Relocating the Thirteenth-Century Refrain: Intertextuality, Authority and Origins

2010 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Saltzstein
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Strong Connection ◽  
Ars Amatoria

This article provides a revisionist account of thirteenth-century refrain use, challenging the presumed connection between the refrain and oral song traditions. The distribution patterns in the surviving sources reveal no strong connection between refrain use and the rondet, the song genre often posited as the refrain's point of origin. Further, a significant corpus of refrains circulated only within the motet repertory, independently of monophonic song. Close comparison of refrain concordances in surviving sources reveals careful attention on the part of composers and scribes to the preservation of their melodic identity. Together, these findings suggest new contexts for understanding the refrain. The author relocates refrain use within clerical practices of quotation, particularly auctoritas, exploring case studies in which refrains are interpreted exegetically. In motets, chansons avec des refrains and a vernacular translation of Ovid's Ars amatoria, refrains are treated as sources of vernacular knowledge and objects of commentary.

scholarly journals The And of Modernism: On New Periodizations

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-468
Author(s):  
Niall Gildea ◽  
David Wylot
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Recent Trend ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Contemporary Fiction ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
Anglophone Literature ◽  
Aesthetic Practice ◽  
Present Understanding

The study of literary modernism is in the ascendant in the academy. From alternate modernisms, to neomodernisms, to metamodernism and global modernisms, modernism scholarship has evolved through a configuration of modernism into a cross-cultural and inter-generational aesthetic practice. This article critically examines the periodizing logic implicit in this new modernism scholarship, specifically as it pertains to the study of what is loosely called ‘neomodernism’, which we suggest presents a notable development in literary history for accounts of contemporary fiction and postmodern culture. We are principally interested in a recent trend we observe in modernism literary criticism concerning the futurization of the object (literary modernism), and of critical work thereupon. This work, which specifically addresses developments in contemporary Western Anglophone literature, seeks to extend the project of modernism (sometimes called its ‘promise’) into the present, understanding it as the principal agency in literary distinction and merit. We examine this criticism through a series of case studies, and discern three interconnecting strands in neomodernist criticism – three ways of futurizing modernism, and of self-futurizing modernism criticism.

News for free in the late-modern metropolis: An exploration of differentiated social worlds

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Lamour
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
Evening Peak

The free daily papers, Metro and 20 Minutes, originally from Scandinavia, have conquered many national markets with a single recipe: short, illustrated and easily consumed content distributed in large urban areas during the morning or evening peak hours. However, could one say that the urban news mediatized by this press is structured according to the standardized infotainment and sensationalism objectives that are often associated with the commercial media? The research based on three case studies shows that these publications, which have a single logo and format worldwide, develop a specific, place-bound editorial line of exposing the most important risks perceived within late-modern cities by its reporters and their audiences. Interactionism and, more precisely, the ‘social world’ approach to a profession can help understand these differentiated representations of metropolitan dangers by offering a more place-bound and socio-anthropological perspective of journalism.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Kutz
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

Based on two case studies, one of accusation of incest in the Trobriand Islands, the other of suspicion of theft in the Bronx, the prologue questions the foundational relationship between crime and punishment. Fassin’s approach to the social world—not as it ought to be but as it actually is—opens the way to a critical engagement with moral philosophy and legal theory. It is all the more necessary since contemporary societies are going through an unprecedented punitive moment.

Causation in the Social Sciences

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Kincaid
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social World ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
General Theme ◽  
The Social

Because of the obstacles to experimentation and because of the complexity of the social world, the social sciences present fertile grounds for investigating issues surrounding causation. This article aims to sketch a number of issues and only secondarily argues for particular positions. It approaches the issues that are discussed with some general background assumptions that frame the issues and are also supported by the topics discussed. Those assumptions concern the nature of causal claims in general, more specifically, questions about the extent to which our understanding of causation can be perfectly general. It presents a number of issues about the ontology and epistemology of causation in the social sciences. The general theme is that these issues cannot be decided in the abstract but must pay careful attention to the empirical presuppositions made and the kinds of evidence for them.

Modern Print Artefacts

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Collier
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Visual Appearance ◽  
The Press ◽  
Paper Quality

Modern Print Artefacts examines the workings of literary value at the turn of the twentieth century through case studies of British periodicals and print genres. It argues that the materiality of print artefacts—including characteristics such as typography, paper quality, visual appearance, and organization—was both a sign and a generator of literary value in this period. Indeed, the materiality of print artefacts was particularly visible in these years, Collier argues, as literary modernism and growth in publishing and the press destabilized the landscape of literary value. The book traces these dynamics in the cases of three periodicals—the Illustrated London News, John O’London’s Weekly, and the London Mercury—and in the poetry anthology as a genre. In total, the book constitutes both a theorization and an empirical account of the workings of literary value in Britain in these years.

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