1. The Process of Persuasion: A Rhetorical-Critical Model for Studying Prophetic Literature

2014 ◽  
pp. 37-65
Keyword(s):  
Prophetic Literature ◽  
Critical Model

Beneath Improvisation

2019 ◽  
pp. 759-780
Author(s):  
Vijay Iyer
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Black Studies ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Institutional Racism ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
The West ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Western Art ◽  
Critical Model

Improvisation has been construed as Western art music’s Other. This chapter urges music theorists to take the consequences of this configuration seriously. The decision to exclude improvisation as inherently unstable is not neutral, but is bound up with the endemic racism that has characterized social relations in the West and that is being brought to the fore in Black Lives Matter and other recent social and political movements. Traditional music theory is not immune from such institutional racism—its insistence on normative musical behaviors is founded on the (white) phallogocentrism of Western thought. Does the resurgent academic interest in improvisation offer a way out? No, at least not as it is currently studied. Even an apparently impartial approach such as cognitive science is not neutral; perception is colored by race. To get anywhere, this chapter argues, improvisation studies must take difference seriously. Important impetus for a more inclusive critical model comes from such fields as Black studies, Women’s studies, subaltern studies, queer studies, and disability studies.

Jeremiah and Inner Biblical Exegesis

2021 ◽  
pp. 281-308
Author(s):  
Dalit Rom-Shiloni
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Exegesis ◽  
Separate Spheres ◽  
Prophetic Literature ◽  
Literary Evolution ◽  
The Many

Bringing inner biblical exegesis as a methodology to the study of Jeremiah has opened venues to discuss Jeremiah in two quite separate spheres: The book and its literary evolution, as well as the prophetic activity in its early oral-written stages. This chapter is aimed at presenting the great benefits and the many pitfalls that these cross-lines (of methodology and Jeremiah) provide for the study of the prophetic book, and not least, for the basic methodological presumptions of inner biblical exegesis as part of the study of intertextuality in prophetic literature. Focusing on interpretive (i.e., adaptation/actualization) techniques within the plethora of intertextual relationships, this chapter takes the utilization of pentateuchal traditions (rarely, texts) in Jeremiah as a case study, and calls to question some of the basic scholarly assumptions concerning Jeremiah: the differences of style (poetry and prose) and the options to differentiate the prophet from his followers/tradents/editors.

Becoming Caliban

2016 ◽  
pp. 708-723
Author(s):  
Lauren Eriks Cline
Keyword(s):  
Skin Disease ◽  
Stage Performances ◽  
Critical Model

Caliban’s semantic slipperiness derives from page descriptions and stage performances that excessively mark Caliban’s bodies with vilifying language, while at the same time destabilizing the referential value of that language through their very excessiveness. ‘Fish’, ‘beast’, and ‘Hag-seed’ spawn the incoherent stage signs of fins, fur, scales, and skin disease. Following monstrous vectors of contagion along rhizomatic lines, my readings will concern themselves with the de- and re-territorializations of Caliban’s bodies on page and stage: first by focusing on the tracings of language that inscribe Caliban’s identity, and second by mapping the movements of ‘becoming-animal’ and ‘becoming-imperceptible’ that signal his lines of flight. I ultimately argue for the usefulness of Caliban’s monstrous becomings not as a finished analytical product but as a working critical model: an exercise in treating the fragmentation and opacity of the performing body not as a limitation but a possibility.

scholarly journals SU(3) quantum critical model emerging from a spin-1 topological phase

2016 ◽  
Vol 93 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen-Jia Rao ◽  
Guo-Yi Zhu ◽  
Guang-Ming Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Topological Phase ◽  
Quantum Critical ◽  
Critical Model

scholarly journals Observed Diurnal Cycle Climatology of Planetary Boundary Layer Height

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (21) ◽  
pp. 5790-5809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuyan Liu ◽  
Xin-Zhong Liang
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Planetary Boundary Layer ◽  
Diurnal Cycle ◽  
Surface Characteristics ◽  
Planetary Boundary Layer Height ◽  
Layer Height ◽  
Boundary Layer Height ◽  
Tropical Oceans ◽  
Critical Model ◽  
Fine Resolution

Abstract An observational climatology of the planetary boundary layer height (PBLH) diurnal cycle, specific to surface characteristics, is derived from 58 286 fine-resolution soundings collected in 14 major field campaigns around the world. An objective algorithm determining PBLH from sounding profiles is first developed and then verified by available lidar and sodar retrievals. The algorithm is robust and produces realistic PBLH as validated by visual examination of several thousand additional soundings. The resulting PBLH from all existing data is then subject to various statistical analyses. It is demonstrated that PBLH occurrence frequencies under stable, neutral, and unstable regimes follow a narrow, intermediate, and wide Gamma distribution, respectively, over both land and oceans. Over ice all exhibit a narrow distribution. The climatological PBLH diurnal cycle is strong over land and oceans, with a distinct peak at 1500 and 1200 LT, whereas the cycle is weak over ice. Relative to midlatitude land, the PBLH variability over tropical oceans is larger during the morning and at night but much smaller in the afternoon. This study provides a unique observational database for critical model evaluation on the PBLH diurnal cycle and its temporal/spatial variability.

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