Artistic Expression through (Re)Creation: Children’s Play Songs in Ghana

Utafiti ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-64
Author(s):  
Helen Yitah
Keyword(s):  
Creative Expression ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
Creative Agency ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Creative Resistance ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The Aesthetic

Abstract This paper examines rural Ghanaian children’s creative performance of play songs in the context of recent scholarship on children’s rights in children’s literature. This scholarship, which has focused mainly on written literature in western contexts, seeks to give serious literary attention to children’s creative expression and thereby uphold their rights to contribute to the artistic life and culture of their societies. Kasena children of northern Ghana exhibit creative agency in adapting traditional play songs to new situations, as they re-create and reinterpret communal idioms, imagery and symbols, thus generating new forms, new concepts and new meanings. I illustrate the aesthetic qualities and transgressive features of this phenomenon by drawing on relevant indigenous Kasem concepts about art and creative resistance. If taken seriously, this dynamic heritage of children’s poetry can help us see emerging play genres as an affirmation of children’s creativity, and prompt a redefinition of ideas about childhood.

scholarly journals Facebook for Facebook's Sake

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-38
Author(s):  
Kevin Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Digital City ◽  
Aesthetic Movement ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Take Back ◽  
Facebook Usage ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Art For Art's Sake ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Central Claim

The affective labour debate has become mainstream in communications studies. In this paper, I The affective labour debate has become mainstream in communications studies. In this paper, I suggest the Aesthetic Movement of the late 19th century as inspiration for how users can use Facebook with the knowledge that their data is being used for profit. I present Facebook usage as art, creating an analog with aesthete Oscar Wilde’s essay, “the critic as artist” (1891/2010), where he presents critics as artists. Other theorists, especially Walter Benjamin provide grounding for making the argument that Facebook usage is an artistic expression. I then turn to my inversion of Walter Pater’s “art for art’s sake”, the seminal idea of Aestheticism and propose Facebook for Facebook’s sake as a method for Facebook use. While more advanced remuneration concepts have yet to arrive with such force that they could provide the proper payment to users, Facebook for its own sake is a way to appreciate Facebook’s beauty in the meantime. Baudelaire and Debord’s psychogeographic theories provide methods for navigating cities that I apply to examine Facebook as a digital city. The central claim of this paper is the following: By using Facebook for Facebook’s sake, users take back some of the dignity taken away from them in the exploitation of free labour. Finally, I turn to critiques of Aestheticism and how contemporary software might provide insight into using Facebook in an ethical manner. Users will have to consider each action differently; how would liking something affect users’ artistic expression of themselves? In this way, while the affective labour debate continues, users can use Facebook for its own sake.

scholarly journals КОМУНІКАТИВНІ СТРАТЕГІЇ ДМИТРА ДОНЦОВА

2020 ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
V. Kolkutina
Keyword(s):  
Public Speaking ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Semantic Level ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Communicative Strategy ◽  
Rhetorical Questions ◽  
Literary Phenomenon ◽  
Communicative Processes

<div><em>Dmitry Dontsov’s communicative strategy is explored in the article, taking into account the national and philosophical ideas inherent to his thinking. Grounding on the material of the literary-critical essays of the publicist, it turns out that Dontsov’s communicative strategy according to the content is ethosophysical and holistic. It’s a national-existential phenomenon in the history of Ukrainian literary studies of the twentieth century. The communicative processes reflected in the essays «Crisis of our literature», «Our literary ghetto» are formed in a single communicative paradigm and include: the event, communicative situation, intonational tone, axiological author’s commentary and a special national-centric and hermeneutical way of representation of the situation.</em></div><p><em>The nationalist interpretation of the thinker is essentially national-philosophical (national), but at the same time it is literary with typical for this kind of experience, with the predominance of coherently-semantic level of cognition and evaluation over the formal-aesthetic. As a result of cognition happends the transcoding of an idea from the language of art into the language of philosophy in the search of the national-philosophical equivalent of a literary phenomenon. In most cases, this is based on two intentions: the search for protection and assertion of one’s own national identity, and the cultural and political realization of the national idea. At the same time, the aesthetic level of a literary phenomenon is evaluated. </em></p><p><em>The following characteristics of the literary-critical text are highlighted and substantiated: the text as a receptive expression that can be interpreted freely, conceptually transforms information, constructing new meanings through interesting dialogical models, rhetorical questions, pre-planned line of speech behavior, public speaking behavior, which is necessarily intended to avoid any one-sided narrative or ambiguity of perception, openness and comprehension.</em></p><p><strong><em>Key words:</em></strong> <em>communicative strategy, text, literary-critical discourse, communicative processes, national philosophy, hermeneutics.</em></p><p><strong> </strong></p>

scholarly journals L'ereignis, Le Mot-Directeur De La Pensée De Heidegger

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 234
Author(s):  
Pascal Dieudonné Roy-Ema
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
German Language ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Time And Being ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

For over sixty years (from 1910 to 1973), Martin Heidegger carried out a work of thought which led him to create a large quantity of neologisms. It also led him to create a new use of idioms in the German language. This was regarded as a renewed vocabulary. His study bears new meanings and expresses the philosopher's work of thought and the new concepts he proposes. Among them is the Ereignis that this text proposes to question the content. The Ereignis is what makes time and being belongs to each other. It is the relationship of all the relations engendered by this co-membership. This is made possible by the difference installed at the heart of the same. Heidegger himself admitted that the Ereignis was the keyword of his whole thought since the early 1930s. It is the word-director of his thought.

scholarly journals THE HOBBESIAN TURN

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (55-56) ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Joseph Margolis
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Creative Expression ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Western Politics

The “Hobbesian turn” is an invention out of whole cloth, a device by which to oppose the usually supposed autonomy of the aesthetic, the moral, the political, and the factual; to recover the collective holism of civilizational (or enlanguaged cultural) life; to feature the existential historicity of the human career, which is incompatible with any strict universalism and all the forms of transcendentalism; hence, also, to feature the adequacy of a contingent Lebensform in collecting the affinities of creative expression and agentive commitment within the terms of human solidarity; to abandon strict universality and necessary synthetic truths; and to favour the fluxive world of pragmatist construction rather than the indemonstrable fixities of rationalism and transcendentalism. The article proceeds largely by examining aspects of Picasso’s career and the history of Western politics spanning the sixteenth century to the present.

Proletarian Modernism: Film, Literature, Theory

PMLA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 134 (5) ◽  
pp. 1056-1075
Author(s):  
Benjamin Kohlmann
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Alternative Route ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Literature Theory ◽  
Opening Up

This article identifies a body of work—films, literary texts, and theories of the aesthetic—that can help us reopen the question of what it means for an artwork to project a vision of classlessness. The article begins by focusing on early-twentieth-century proletarian modernism, in particular in the cinematic work of Sergey Eisenstein and in British literary works that repurposed Woolfian and Joycean styles during the later interwar years. Proletarian modernism, I argue, highlights an alternative route taken by modernist literature and art: unlike the late modernists feted in much recent scholarship, proletarian modernists aimed to retool modernism, opening up new and global political futures for it rather than anticipating its end. The article concludes by showing that the cultural genealogy of proletarian modernism mapped out here doubles as a prehistory of contemporary aesthetic theory: it enables us to recognize the significant political and theoretical erasures that structure recent accounts of art's democratic potential.

scholarly journals El silencio como límite: en torno a la afirmación estética de la memoria traumática = Silence as a Limit: Regarding the Aesthetic Affirmation of Traumatic Memory

2018 ◽  
pp. 413
Author(s):  
Rocío Garriga Inarejos
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Traumatic Memory ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Artistic Representation ◽  
The Aesthetic

Después de la tragedia del Holocausto surgieron enormes interrogantes respecto a la pertinencia de su representación artística. En los estudios que se han realizado al respecto pueden distinguirse dos tendencias: una se dio en los años 60-80, y la otra, que comenzó en la década de los 90, continúa extendiéndose hoy. Abordar este tipo de temas conlleva afrontar la cuestión del silencio y valorar toda una serie de aspectos éticos relacionados con la expresión artística. Cabe preguntarse cuál es el alcance que tiene esta noción para las artes.After the tragedy of the Holocaust, emerged huge questions about the appropriateness of its artistic representation. Can be distinguished two tendencies in the studies that have been done about it: one was in the years 60-80, and the other, which began in the 90s, continues today. Addressing such issues involves to deal with the question of silence and assess a some ethical aspects related to artistic expression. One should ask what is the scope that has this notion in the arts.

Interpreting The Concept Of Politics In Terms Of Prefixation

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-178
Author(s):  
Irina Zhurbina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Greek Tradition

The article analyzes the revision of the concept of politics caused by the exhaustion of the ideological paradigm. In modern philosophy politics acquires new meanings through prefixing, resulting in the emergence of such concepts as archi-politics, para-politics, ultra-politics, trans-politics, or bio-politics. These new concepts close the philosophical source of politics laid by the Greek tradition. The departure from philosophy as the source of politics is completed with the idea of police, in which prefixing as a way of conceptualizing politics reaches the linguistic limit. However, modern philosophy encompasses a more positive attitude, which is linked to the hermeneutic tradition of philosophizing of Heidegger and Gadamer that focuses on the preservation of thought and language in the source of political existence.

scholarly journals PECULIARITIES OF INTERTEXT AND INTERCULTURE PARADIGM OF JOSEPH ROT PROSE

2019 ◽  
pp. 283-291
Author(s):  
T. P. Monolatii
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Additional Dimension ◽  
Good Representative ◽  
The Arts ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Joseph Roth

The article analyses interpretation of Joseph Roth prose in the context of intertextuality as a literary means. It is determined by the author’s strategy and studied the aesthetic issues that are fundamental to his work. Intertextuality proves a postmodern phenomenon of reinterpretation of classic and new texts, giving them new meanings and establishing parallels with modern literature, which is reflected in an adequate interpretation of their genre and stylistic forms, the interpretation of philosophical concepts, iconic fictional and aesthetic phenomena. So in fiction there is an additional dimension – intercultural component of the artistic world of the text. This theoretical approach is extremely productive, especially in the study of works of those authors; the arts are rooted in different spheres of human existence, formed on the border of their own cultures, languages, historical and national traditions. A good representative of “intercultural” narrative strategy is Joseph Roth. Thus, under conditions of intertextual interaction, the literary work becomes part of a broad intertextual space that covers not only literary, but also outside of literature forms of expression, and any text is in various “dialogical” relations with other texts that fill this space with different language codes that are represented in this space.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. xiv-16
Author(s):  
Keith Newlin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
New Woman ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Literary Realism ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
American Literary Realism

The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism offers thirty-five original chapters with fresh interpretations of the artistic and political challenges of representing life accurately. Organized by topic and theme, the chapters draw on recent scholarship in literary and cultural studies to offer an authoritative and in-depth reassessment of major and minor figures and the contexts that shaped their work. One set of chapters explores realism’s genesis and its connection to previous and subsequent movements. Others examine the inclusiveness of representation, the circulation of texts, and the aesthetic representation of science, time, space, and the subjects of medicine, the New Woman, and the middle class. Still others trace the connection to other arts—poetry, drama, illustration, photography, painting, and film—and to pedagogical issues in the teaching of realism.

Ekspresi Seni dalam Islam Kajian atas Pemikiran Ismail Raji Al-Faruqi

SUHUF ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-287
Author(s):  
Masmedia Pinem
Keyword(s):  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
Literary Arts ◽  
The Aesthetic

This paper tries to explain the monotheism and artistic expression in Islam which is offered by al-Faruqi. This study focuses on the monotheism as themain objectives of the Islamic worldview. Furthermore, the aesthetic and artistic expression is part of the monotheism that aims  to take societies or humankind to aware of the transcendent ideas. The idea of monotheism is an expression of the beautiful values (idea of  beauty) which is objective, transcendent, mystical, and inexpressible, and the idea of beauty (idea of beautifulness) that are subjective, expressive, and cultural understanding. The thought of al-Faruqi shows that literary arts, calligraphy, ornaments, music, and the art of space are inseparable from the monotheism as the Islamic worldview.

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