scholarly journals Changing Attitudes to the Past: Lieux de Mémoire and Contested Histories

2017 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-639
Author(s):  
Peter Catterall
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Changing Attitudes

scholarly journals Bloody Women: How Female Authors Have Transformed the Scottish Contemporary Crime Fiction Genre

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-71
Author(s):  
Lorna Hill
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
Crime Novel ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Changing Attitudes

Abstract This study will explore the role of female authors in contemporary Scottish crime fiction. Over the past thirty years, women writers have overhauled the traditionally male dominated genre of crime fiction by writing about strong female characters who drive the plot and solve the crimes. Authors including Val McDermid, Denise Mina and Lin Anderson are just a few of the women who have challenged the expectation of gender and genre. By setting their novels in contemporary society they reflect a range of social and political issues through the lens of a female protagonist. By closely examining the female characters, both journalists, in Val McDermid’s Lindsay Gordon series and Denise Mina’s Paddy Meehan series, I wish to explore the issue of gender through these writers’ perspectives. This essay documents the influence of these writers on my own practice-based research which involves writing a crime novel set in a post referendum Scotland. I examine a progressive and contemporary Scottish society, where women hold many senior positions in public life, and investigate whether this has an effect on the outcome of crimes. Through this narrative, my main character will focus on the current and largely hidden crimes of human trafficking and domestic abuse. By doing this I examine the ways in which the modern crime novel has evolved to cross genre boundaries. In addition to focusing on a crime, the victims and witnesses, today’s crime novels are tackling social issues to reflect society’s changing attitudes and values.

scholarly journals Changing Attitudes Toward Influenza Vaccination in U.S. Kidney Transplant Programs Over the Past Decade

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 1637-1641 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. James Chon ◽  
Pradeep V. Kadambi ◽  
Robert C. Harland ◽  
J. Richard Thistlethwaite ◽  
Bradford L. West ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Influenza Vaccination ◽  
Kidney Transplant ◽  
The Past ◽  
Changing Attitudes

scholarly journals Features of Experiencing a Spiritual Crisis and Attitudes to Self in Persons with Spinal Injury

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-64
Author(s):  
I.V. Vachkov ◽  
M.A. Odintsova ◽  
O.A. Tristan
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Spinal Injury ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Spinal Injuries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Spiritual Crisis ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Real Self

The article presents the results of the study of the specifics of spiritual crisis experience and attitudes to Self in persons with spinal injury (N=65) and conventionally healthy respondents (N=63). The characteristics of spiritual crisis most typical of people with spinal injury were: dissatisfaction and loneliness attributed to the past, present, and future; and suffering attributed to the past. The categories of dissatisfaction, loneliness, and suffering were heterogeneous, as reflected in texts produced by people with spinal injuries and healthy people of different sex and age. Groups distinguished by time elapsed since injury did not differ on quantitative signs of spiritual crises but differed qualitatively in their experiences of dissatisfaction, loneliness, and suffering. People who had lived with the injury longer often experienced uselessness, and a lack of contacts, attention, and support; they were disposed to self-flagellation and guilt. Their attitude to Self reflected in the texts of fairy tales. Healthy controls wrote simple fairy tales describing the interaction of the Real Self and Ideal Self. By contrast, people with spinal injuries focused their stories on emotional experiences of their attitude to Self (complicated fairy tales) or finding meaning, accepting oneself and life in all its fullness and variety (complex fairy tale). Counseling people with a spinal injury, one should take into account both gender and age of the injured person and the potential of the fairy tale itself, which becomes a resource in the experiencing of spiritual crisis and in changing attitudes to Self.

The Music Behind the Mask: Rossini’s Uncanny Salon

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-114
Author(s):  
Simon Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Old Age ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
Nineteenth Century France ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
A Site ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Shed Light

Despite receiving scant attention from scholars and performers, Rossini’s Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age), written between 1857 and 1868 for his private salon, have a unique and expressive stylistic language. In these works, the composer gives musical voice to the uncanny discourses that emerged around the idea of his “creative death.” This paper establishes how Rossini’s return to composition functioned as a musical “exhumation,” with his compositional activities functioning as a site for broader discourses about disease, aging, and death in nineteenth-century France. Close readings of visual depictions of Rossini by Eugène Delacroix and Antoine Etex shed light on changing attitudes toward the composer, which coincided with broader aesthetic shifts taking place at the time. The tensions engendered by Rossini’s precarious status as both living and dead, and his nostalgic relationship to the past, constitute a kind of doubleness that can be heard in his late compositions. Bringing together cultural history and musical analysis, I show that the privacy of Rossini’s salon gave rise to music with unique signifying potential that has not yet been duly acknowledged.

scholarly journals Changing attitudes toward needle biopsies of breast cancer in Shanghai: experience and current status over the past 8 years

2015 ◽  
pp. 2865 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuang Hao ◽  
Zhe Bin Liu ◽  
Hong Ling ◽  
Jia Jian Chen ◽  
Ju Ping Shen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
The Past ◽  
Changing Attitudes

Indian Writings on Early History and Archaeology of Southeast Asia: A Historiographical Analysis

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kishor K. Basa
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Early History ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Changing Attitudes

“The recognition as well as interpretation of archaeological evidence will always be biased and incomplete. There can be no archaeologically achieved final truths or wholly objective interpretations. But to recognize such limitation is not to reduce the subject to a set of mere perceptual constructs. Archaeology is a societal activity that embodies both the residues of its past and its changing attitudes towards the past. We call the residues evidence and the attitudes interpretation. The continuing dialogue between the two enables archaeology, always open to new questions, to reveal new knowledge.”

Changing Attitudes Towards the Ottomans in Romanian Historiography

1995 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 119-128
Author(s):  
Mihai Miroiu
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Awareness ◽  
Changing Attitudes

Students of Eastern European affairs have pointed out that this part of the world shares in considerable measure the historical mode of thinking about itself; its self-perception is, in part at least, provided by its historical awareness and a tradition of historiography, that is, the past as organized and interpreted by the historian (Roberts, 1970). Unlike other societies, in which the historical component of self-identification is not at all prominent, its place being taken either by a set mythology or by all-embracing religious or legal norms, Eastern European societies have developed a historiographical tradition. It can truly be said that they have been obsessively preoccupied by history and the main reason for this obsession is that for over four hundred years these societies were an integral part of the Ottoman empire.

scholarly journals Impacting attitudes towards gambling: A prison gambling awareness and prevention program

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Nixon ◽  
Gordon Leigh ◽  
Nadine Nowatzki
Keyword(s):  
Correctional Facility ◽  
Skill Score ◽  
Prison Inmates ◽  
South Oaks Gambling Screen ◽  
Cognitive Error ◽  
The Past ◽  
Error Recognition ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Problem Or Pathological Gambling ◽  
Frequency Score

Research indicates that approximately one third of prison inmates meet the criteria for problem or pathological gambling (Williams, Royston, & Hagen, 2005). However, despite this rate being among the highest of all gambling populations (Walters, 1997; Shaffer & Hall, 2001), there appears to be a lack of prison gambling awareness and prevention programs. This study sought to develop, implement, and evaluate one such program at the Lethbridge Correctional Facility in Alberta, Canada. Forty-nine inmates completed a six-session program over 18 months. Gambling screen results revealed a significant increase in cognitive error recognition, and attitudes towards gambling became significantly more negative. The program did not render any significant differences in math skill score, Canadian Problem Gambling Index (CPGI) score, or past-year South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) score. Changes in the past-year frequency score approached significance. This study suggests that programs of this kind can be effective for inmate populations, particularly in changing attitudes towards gambling.

Companionate Marriage across the Century’s Turn

2018 ◽  
pp. 175-198
Author(s):  
Melanie V. Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Past ◽  
Attitudes Toward Marriage ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Companionate Marriage ◽  
Cautionary Tales ◽  
Changing Attitudes

The struggle to realize companionate marriage appears as a central conflict in literary works by Anglo-American, African American, and ethnic American writers, who grapple with the issues raised by new ideologies and cultures of marriage. Drawing from cultural history that includes Lindsey and Evans’s volume, The Companionate Marriage (1927), and responses to it as well as a range of literary marriages that demonstrate the power of the companionate ideal, this piece charts the interaction between changing attitudes toward marriage in life and literature. As the range and complexity of opinions circulating around this issue demonstrate, the ostensibly “modern” question of equality in marriage had been debated as far back as the mid-nineteenth century. By contrast, later, more modern narratives increasingly turn to depictions of non-companionate, patriarchal arrangements, which offer both cautionary tales about the past and counter a trenchant idealism about the companionate model.

Time in Ancient Stories of Origin

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anke Walter
Keyword(s):  
Historical Time ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Past ◽  
Archaic Greece ◽  
Christian Literature ◽  
Hellenistic Greece ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Attention To Detail

Greek and Roman stories of origin, or aetia, provide a fascinating window onto ancient conceptions of time. Aetia, which pervade ancient literature at all its stages, are inherently about time: they connect the past with the present by telling us which aspects of the past survive “even now” or “ever since then”. Yet while the standard aetiological formulae remain surprisingly stable over time, the understanding of time that lies behind stories of origin undergoes profound changes. By studying a broad range of texts and by closely examining select stories of origin from archaic Greece, Hellenistic Greece, Augustan Rome, and early Christian literature, this book traces the changing forms of stories of origin and the underlying changing attitudes to time: to the interaction of the time of gods and men, to historical time, to change and continuity, as well as to a time beyond the present one. The book provides a model of how to analyse the temporal construction of aetia, by combining close attention to detail with a view towards the larger temporal agenda of each work. In the process, the book provides new insights both into some of the best-known aetiological works of antiquity (e.g. by Hesiod, Callimachus, Vergil, Ovid) and lesser-known ones (e.g. Ephorus, Prudentius, Orosius). Aetia, it is shown, do not merely convey factual information about the continuity of the past, but they implicate the present in ever new complex messages about time.

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