scholarly journals A tale of two Dickenses: Or, learning as fact, fiction and play

2021 ◽  
pp. 147821032110409
Author(s):  
David Rudrum
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Educational Experience ◽  
Free Play ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Literary Education ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
Small Industry ◽  
Insight Into

Over the years, a small industry has sprung up dedicated to preserving writers’ homes and birthplaces, offering the chance to see first-hand the circumstances under which their key texts were written. Experiencing an insight into, say, Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage, or Hardy’s Wessex cottage, or the Bronte parsonage in Haworth, is widely held to be an educational experience, enhancing our appreciation of the link between the life and work of the author in question. Axiomatically – and simplistically – literary heritage sites like these might seem to offer the “truth” behind the “fiction”, by showing the visitor the “real” world behind the “imaginative” writing. Thus, the educational experience they offer is often said to consist in providing an insight into context (historical/biographical, landscape and setting, etc.). This study sets out to challenge this assumption. As case studies, it will discuss two very (very!) different literary heritage sites: the Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum in Portsmouth and the now-defunct literary theme park Dickens World, which finally closed its doors in 2016. The former offers a biographical and historical interpretation of Dickens, ostensibly grounded in reality and truth – although the truth claims made for the museum are shown to be somewhat contestable. The latter appealed far more to the imagination, and to ‘free play’ with the text, than it did to truth. Obviously, these sites involve two completely different conceptions of what it is to provide an experience of literary education. The two are compared and contrasted, with passing reference to thinkers such as Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Kendall Walton and Mikhail Bakhtin, with a view to challenging and dismantling the commonsensical view that the educational value of literary heritage sites consists in revealing the truth behind the fiction.

Purity and Danger in Fin-de-Siècle Culture: A Psycho-historical Interpretation of Wagner, Stoker and Zola

Tekstualia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (63) ◽  
pp. 7-22
Author(s):  
Arnold Labrie
Keyword(s):  
Political Change ◽  
Bram Stoker ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Cultural Reform ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
Mary Douglas ◽  
Religious Meaning ◽  
Purity And Impurity ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Formal Distinction

According to the anthropologist Mary Douglas, the quest for purity is usually accompanied by fears of change, ambiguity and transgression. Translating Douglas’ insights into historical terms, one may assume that sensibilities about what is pure and what is impure grow stronger during times of intense social and political change, as exemplifi ed by the stormy decades around 1900. This period was characterized by a profound identity-crisis and at the same time was marked by a quest for purity. One may think of a deepened concern for hygiene, of the rise of racist movements, but also of an intense longing for cultural reform and regeneration. Notwithstanding their many differences, these phenomena are linked through their concern for the formal distinction between what is pure and what is impure. A study of the work of Wagner, Bram Stoker and Zola gives some insight into the language of purity, serves to show the religious meaning of formal categories of purity and impurity, and makes it clear that the quest for purity in one area is related to the quest for purity in another area.

scholarly journals Project-Based Learning: A Case for Situated Translation

2006 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1098-1111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Kiraly
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Educational Experience ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Translator Education ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract The author proposes replacing the folk theoretical ‘conduit’ view of learning that still predominates in Translator Education with a principled understanding of cognitive and learning processes for the design of learning events in Translator Education. A collaborative, project-based educational experience is presented by way of illustration. In conclusion, an argument is made for studying collaborative learning events to gain insight into the multi-facetted nature of the learning process as well as of the translation process itself.

scholarly journals Cultural Tourism and Community Engagement: Insight from Montenegro

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-178
Author(s):  
Ilija Moric ◽  
Sanja Pekovic ◽  
Jovana Janinovic ◽  
Đurđica Perovic ◽  
Michaela Griesbeck
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Management Issues

Abstract Background: Cultural tourism in Montenegro is growing, mostly due to the integral growth and development of tourism products. However, an in-depth insight into the relationship between cultural tourism and community engagement is missing. Objectives: The paper aims to examine the relationship between cultural tourism development and community engagement in Montenegro. Methods/Approach: Using the extensive literature, available secondary data, and an analysis of relevant policies, the paper explores new possibilities for diversifying tourism offer at heritage sites, by engaging volunteers, enhancing understanding of the socio-historical background, promoting the usage of digital tools, partnering with relevant stakeholders, introducing innovative funding tools and schemes. Results: Several management issues associated with heritage tourism and community participation are acknowledged. Conclusions: Key findings indicate the need for a systemic, dynamic, and innovative framework for sustainable and highly impactful heritage tourism in Montenegro, which policymakers, heritage ventures, and other stakeholders might use to strengthen community engagement and development at the heritage sites.

The Crimean War and (Self-)Sacrifice in Mid-Victorian Fiction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan-Melissa Schramm
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Crimean War ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Victorian Fiction ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
War Effort ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Insight Into

Charles Dickens was among those writers who responded to the tragic losses of the Crimean War with renewed attention to the cultural significance of sacrifice. He followed the war effort with care, protesting publicly about the bureaucratic bungling that had cost British lives in Sebastopol. His novels written immediately after the cessation of the war provide us with insight into the aesthetic uses of different models of sacrifice. In Little Dorrit (1856), Dickens explores the vocation of self-sacrifice popularized by feminine service in the war; in A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens depends upon the dynamics of barbaric sacrifice to achieve closure as the Christlike Sidney Carton lays down his life for his brother man on the scaffold. This chapter draws upon the work of the theologians Nancy Jay and Yvonne Sherwood to probe the contradictions inherent in Victorian imaginings of sacrifice—both Protestant and Catholic, male and female.

Vico, Giambattista (1668–1744)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon Pompa
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Theory Of Knowledge ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
Comparative Linguistics ◽  
New Science ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Degree Of Certainty ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
Insight Into

Vico lived in a period in which the successes of the natural sciences were frequently attributed to the Cartesian method of a priori demonstration. His own first interest, however, was in the cultivation of the humanist values of wisdom and prudence, to which this method was irrelevant. Initially, therefore, he sought a methodology for these values in the techniques of persuasion and argument used in political and legal oratory. But he soon came to believe that the Cartesian method was too limited to explain even the advances in the natural sciences and developed an alternative constructivist theory of knowledge by which to establish the degree of certainty of the different sciences. Wisdom and prudence, however, came low on this scale. Through certain historical studies in law, he became convinced that, although there were no eternal and universal standards underlying law at all times and places, the law appropriate to any specific historical age was dependent upon an underlying developmental pattern of social consciousness and institutions common to all nations except the Jews after the Fall. His New Science (1725, 1730 and 1744) was a highly original attempt to establish this pattern, originating in a primeval mythic consciousness and concluding in a fully rational, but ultimately corrupt, consciousness. He believed that knowledge of the pattern would enable us to interpret a wide range of historical evidence to provide continuous and coherent accounts of the histories of all actual gentile nations. The primacy of consciousness in the pattern led him to claim that there must be a necessary sequence of ideas upon which institutions rested, which would provide the key to the historical interpretation of meaning in all the different gentile languages. He supported this conception by extensive comparative anthropological, linguistic and historical enquiries, resulting most famously in his interpretation of the Homeric poems. He also advanced a more developed account of his earlier theory of knowledge, in which the work of philosopher and historian were mutually necessary, to show how this conception of ‘scientific history’ was to be achieved. Vico believed that the knowledge that wisdom and prudence vary in different historical ages in accordance with an underlying pattern could provide us with a higher insight into those of our own age and enable us to avoid a collapse into barbarism which, in an over rational age in which religious belief must decline, was more or less inevitable. Unfortunately, the metaphysical status of his pattern rendered this impossible. Much of his thought was expressed in a context of theological assumptions which conflict with important aspects of his work. This has given rise to continuous controversy over his personal and theoretical commitment to these assumptions. Despite this, however, his conceptions of the historical development of societies, of the relation between ideas and institutions, of social anthropology, comparative linguistics and of the philosophical and methodological aspects of historical enquiry in general, remain profoundly fruitful.

scholarly journals Sister talk: Investigating an older sibling’s responses to verbal challenges

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 340-360
Author(s):  
Joanna Friedland ◽  
Merle Mahon
Keyword(s):  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Free Play ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Privileged Information ◽  
Sibling Interaction ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Defence Strategies ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Older Sibling

Children’s linguistic and social skills develop through play with siblings, but there is little research into sibling interaction using naturally occurring data. This conversation analytic case study presents an evidence-based account of how an older sibling responds to verbal challenges from her younger sibling during free play at home. The older sibling employs prosodic, rhetorical and linguistic devices to deflect challenges while avoiding conflict. She does this by acknowledging the grounds of the challenge, before invoking privileged information or epistemic differences to reject it. Structurally, the older sibling inserts extended digressions which obfuscate challenges by engaging the challenger and switching topic. These phenomena blur the traditional accept/reject response dichotomy. The findings provide insight into the complexity of a 5-/6-year-old’s challenge-defence strategies and highlight the importance of face preservation and mitigation of disagreement. We propose that the ability to respond to challenges while maintaining intersubjectivity is a component of communicative competence.

scholarly journals The Novel as Art: Perspectives From Bakhtin and Lawrence

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
Chiranjibi Kafle
Keyword(s):  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Scholarship ◽  
Poetic Discourse ◽  
Theoretical Tool ◽  
Literary Heritage

Literary world continued to face a clash of opinion for long as to whether the popular genre, the novel, should be regarded as representing artistic literary heritage. As literary scholarship often traced a line separating poetic discourse from the novelistic discourse, readers as well as scholars were in a state of dilemma whether to recognize the novel as artistic genre. However, with authors like DH Lawrence and critics like Mikhail Bakhtin, the confusion no longer needs to hound us. This article is an attempt to see why and how the novelistic discourse is fit enough tobe considered artistic discourse and the novel an artistic genre of literature. As a methodology to look into the issue, scholarly perspectives forwarded by Mikhail Bakhtin and DH Lawrence have been taken into consideration. Bakhtin’s concept of ‘heteroglossia’ and Lawrence’s ‘wholeness of life’ have been adopted as the basic theoretical tool while the textual references are mainly based on their essays entitled “Discourse in the Novel” and “Why the Novel Matters,” respectively. The article concludes that Bakhtin's appreciation of novelistic discourse as something that enabled the "representation of heteroglossia…," and Lawrence's description of the novel as the “book of life” are both equally potent scholarly defenses establishing the novel as artistic genre.

Cultural Heritage and Tourism Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 194-204
Author(s):  
Jyoti Kumar Chandel ◽  
Priyanshu Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Average Growth ◽  
World Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter aims to offer valuable insight into different aspects of cultural heritage, heritage tourism, and status of cultural tourism development in the state of Rajasthan, India. Status of UNESCO World Heritage sites has been examined from the trends of visitors and revenue generation. Results of data analysis indicate the very slow annual average growth rate of international tourists to UNESCO World Heritage sites while for domestic tourists, this rate is encouraging and progressive. Institutional set up to manage heritage in Rajasthan has been examined. Important challenges faced by heritage have been described.

Social, Ethical and Legal Issues of Data Mining

Data Mining ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 395-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack S. Cook ◽  
Laura L. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
The Road ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Legal Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
Improper Use ◽  
Small Industry ◽  
Ethical And Legal Issues ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter highlights both the positive and negative aspects of Data Mining (DM). Specifically, the social, ethical, and legal implications of DM are examined through recent case law, current public opinion, and small industry-specific examples. There are many issues concerning this topic. Therefore, the purpose of this chapter is to expose the reader to some of the more interesting ones and provide insight into how information systems (IS) professionals and businesses may protect themselves from the negative ramifications associated with improper use of data. The more experience with and exposure to social, ethical, and legal concerns with respect to DM, the better prepared you will be to prevent trouble down the road.

Externalities and Public Goods in the Talmud

2010 ◽  
pp. 106-126
Author(s):  
Ephraim Kleiman
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Negative Externalities ◽  
Economic Relationships ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Modern Sense

Insofar as their literary heritage suggests the ancients did not, as a rule, indulge in explicit economic theorizing. This article examines the Talmudic Sages' views of the causes underlying the existence of externalities and of public goods and of the remedies offered for them, which also reveal the taxation principles to which they subscribed. The Talmud does not contain any explicit economic analysis in the modern sense of the word. But many of its rules pertain to economic phenomena and their formulation and discussion required some insight into economic relationships that went beyond the simply commonsensical one. This article also discusses negative externalities known as torts. This article further encapsulates the Talmud's view of Torts and Externalities. The civil law sections of the Talmud deal extensively with torts. Aspects such as sharing the burden of billeting are explained in details. This article also draws a comparison between the Talmuds and the Roman Laws.

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