Roman Biography in The Medieval West

2020 ◽  
pp. 546-561
Author(s):  
Lars Boje Mortensen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
French Translation ◽  
Fictional Narratives ◽  
Positive Focus ◽  
Focus Point

This chapter focuses on medieval biography in the Latin world, with a special focus on the period c. 1050–c. 1220. An overwhelmingly large part of the life-writing that survives from the medieval West—whether in chronicles, fictional narratives, letters, or Lives—sets out to display virtues as a source of admiration and inspiration. Such Lives presented ideals that were held up as a high standard and as an entirely positive focus point for the cultural memory of a group. It is shown, however, that especially the inspiration from Sallust’s Jugurtha and Catilina facilitated more complex portraits, especially in historiography, here exemplified through Adam of Bremen’s portrait of archbishop Adalbert of Hamburg-Bremen (1043–1072). The power and persistance of classical Latin ‘anthropological’ concepts are furthermore demonstrated through a comparison of William of Tyre’s ruler portraits in his Chronicon (c. 1184) and its French translation, Éracles (c. 1220).

scholarly journals Kultusz, pletyka, emlékezet

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert Baranyai
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Love Life ◽  
The Way

The paper analyzes Krisztián Nyáry’s popular Facebook posts and volumes (This is the way they loved, Part One; Part Two) depicting the love life of Hungarian writers and poets. I explore how the short texts dealing with the love adventures of authors are defined by memory, which, in turn, is formed by cultic interpretation (with special focus on the Facebook posts). On the other hand, the popularity of posts is interpreted by describing the function of gossip and by Jan Asssman’s theory of communicative and cultural memory. The two formats of publishing the texts is compared, though only tangentially, with the aim of discovering the way the reception of texts change in relation to the different medial contexts.

Proximal and distal deictics and the construal of narrative time

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-415
Author(s):  
Barbara Dancygier
Keyword(s):  
Past Tense ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Narrative Fiction ◽  
Fictional Narratives ◽  
Narrative Time ◽  
Temporal Adverbs

AbstractThis paper proposes an approach to narrative deixis which offers a coherent analysis of the respective roles of proximal and distal deictic expressions (demonstratives as well as temporal and locative adverbs). The paper starts by arguing that fictional narratives require an approach to deixis which modifies a number of broadly held assumptions, especially as regards the interaction between tense and other deictic forms. It then considers the widely discussed instance of the temporal adverb now in the context of Past Tense. The second part of the paper gives special focus to demonstratives in narrative fiction, showing their role in temporal construals. It argues that both temporal and demonstrative expressions are primarily used to serve narrative viewpoint construction (which includes but is not limited to temporal viewpoint). Examples from several novels are then used to show how the proximal and distal choices of demonstratives, temporal adverbs and locative adverbs structure narrative viewpoint, including narrative representation of character experience. The paper concludes by proposing that in the context of fictional narratives the proximal/distal contrast is more relevant to meaning emergence than individual aspects of deixis, and that the construal of time can be achieved through the whole spectrum of deictic forms, not just tense and temporal adverbs such as now and then.

scholarly journals Mapping Environmental Memory Through Literature: A Conversation with Emily Lethbridge and Steven Hartman

2021 ◽  
pp. 269-291
Author(s):  
C. Parker Krieg ◽  
Emily Lethbridge ◽  
Steven Hartman
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Research Networks ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Knowledge Communication

This chapter is an interview with two literary scholars, whose research in Icelandic and North Atlantic environmental history has led to the creation of new digital tools and interdisciplinary research networks. From the Icelandic sagas and place names, to new discoveries of medieval and early modern life writing, their distinct paths converge on the study of culture as both a repository and medium of environmental knowledge, communication, and cultural memory.

Ezekiel as Trauma Literature

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Poser
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Core Element

This chapter analyzes the book of Ezekiel as a theological involvement with the besiegement, conquest, and destruction of Jerusalem at the beginning of the sixth century bce, and with the related mass deportations in 597 and 587 bce. After describing the typical features of trauma literature, this chapter identifies and examines some of the book’s traumatic discourses, with a special focus on the tropes of eating and drinking. It explains how the depicted scenes function to articulate the concrete bodily dimensions of the horrors of war, embedding the experience of famine as a core element in the siege’s cultural memory.

Ageing like a supermodel: Negotiating body in the celebrity ‘self-life writing’

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marija Geiger Zeman ◽  
Zdenko Zeman
Keyword(s):  
Life Writing ◽  
The Body ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Multiple Views ◽  
Temporal Perspective ◽  
Self Presentations

In the modelling profession, ageing is a multi-challenging process. By analysing the auto/biography Becoming by Cindy Crawford and Katherine O´Leary, the ageing issues prove to be particularly stimulating. Crawford views her private and professional, internal and external self through a temporal perspective. The special focus of the analysis is a relationship to the body exposed to multiple views. In this context, the auto/biographical text becomes a relevant and stimulating document for questioning (self)presentations of ageing female celebrities, analysing the production of new cultural notions of appropriate ageing and transformations of beauty ideology that creates new (unrealistic) standards, norms and expectations.

Current concepts of the interventional treatment of proximal supraaortic vessel stenosis

VASA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 313-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernemann ◽  
Bender ◽  
Melms ◽  
Brechtel ◽  
Kobba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Strategies ◽  
Carotid Bifurcation ◽  
Current Treatment ◽  
Long Term Results ◽  
Clinical Indication ◽  
Interventional Treatment ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Brachiocephalic Artery ◽  
Treatment Concepts ◽  
Angioplasty And Stenting

Interventional therapies using angioplasty and stenting of symptomatic stenosis of the proximal supraaortic vessels have evolved as safe and effective treatment strategies. The aim of this paper is to summarize the current treatment concepts for stenosis in the subclavian and brachiocephalic artery with regard to clinical indication, interventional technique including selection of the appropriate vascular approach and type of stent, angiographic and clinical short-term and long-term results and follow-up. The role of hybrid interventions for tandem stenoses of the carotid bifurcation and brachiocephalic artery is analysed. A systematic review of data for angioplasty and stenting of symptomatic extracranial vertebral artery stenosis is discussed with a special focus on restenosis rate.

The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS)

2013 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elise S. Dan-Glauser ◽  
Klaus R. Scherer
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
French Translation ◽  
French Version ◽  
Inappropriate Behaviors ◽  
Initial Validation ◽  
Difficulties In Emotion Regulation ◽  
Instrument Measuring ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Psychopathological Disorders

Successful emotion regulation is a key aspect of efficient social functioning and personal well-being. Difficulties in emotion regulation lead to relationship impairments and are presumed to be involved in the onset and maintenance of some psychopathological disorders as well as inappropriate behaviors. Gratz and Roemer (2004 ) developed the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), a comprehensive instrument measuring emotion regulation problems that encompasses several dimensions on which difficulties can occur. The aim of the present work was to develop a French translation of this scale and to provide an initial validation of this instrument. The French version was created using translation and backtranslation procedures and was tested on 455 healthy students. Congruence between the original and the translated scales was .98 (Tucker’s phi) and internal consistency of the translation reached .92 (Cronbach’s α). Moreover, test-retest scores were highly correlated. Altogether, the initial validation of the French version of the DERS (DERS-F) offers satisfactory results and permits the use of this instrument to map difficulties in emotion regulation in both clinical and research contexts.

Social Psychology and Noninvasive Electrical Stimulation

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo S. Boggio ◽  
Gabriel G. Rêgo ◽  
Lucas M. Marques ◽  
Thiago L. Costa
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Neuroscience ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Social Pain ◽  
Substantial Evidence ◽  
Social Decision ◽  
Correlational Research ◽  
Neuroscience Research ◽  
Social Decision Making ◽  
Brain Behavior

Abstract. Social neuroscience and psychology have made substantial advances in the last few decades. Nonetheless, the field has relied mostly on behavioral, imaging, and other correlational research methods. Here we argue that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is an effective and relevant technique to be used in this field of research, allowing for the establishment of more causal brain-behavior relationships than can be achieved with most of the techniques used in this field. We review relevant brain stimulation-aided research in the fields of social pain, social interaction, prejudice, and social decision-making, with a special focus on tDCS. Despite the fact that the use of tDCS in Social Neuroscience and Psychology studies is still in its early days, results are promising. As better understanding of the processes behind social cognition becomes increasingly necessary due to political, clinical, and even philosophical demands, the fact that tDCS is arguably rare in Social Neuroscience research is very noteworthy. This review aims at inspiring researchers to employ tDCS in the investigation of issues within Social Neuroscience. We present substantial evidence that tDCS is indeed an appropriate tool for this purpose.

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