scholarly journals Tireur olympique/embusqué : récit sportif et fiction de la guerre dans Robert Mitchum ne revient pas de Jean Hatzfeld

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-70
Author(s):  
Pierre Vaucher
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Fiction ◽  
Bosnian War ◽  
Military Engagement ◽  
War In Literature ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Accepted Form

Abstract We would like to focus on the relationship between sport and war in literature by interrogating military engagement as an accepted form of violence. To address this issue, we analyse a narrative fiction by Jean Hatzfeld, entitled Robert Mitchum ne revient pas [Robert Mitchum is not coming back], which is based on the Bosnian War. By mixing sport, war and journalism, the author discusses the challenges of war testimony, between fascination with violence and pacifism.

scholarly journals When frames collide: ‘Ethnic war’ and ‘genocide’

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 434-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Hammond
Keyword(s):  
News Coverage ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
News Frames ◽  
Bosnian War ◽  
War And Conflict ◽  
Ethnic War ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the problem of how to interpret competing, clashing or contradictory news frames in coverage of war and conflict, focusing on the reporting of the 1992–1995 Bosnian war. ‘Ethnic war’ and ‘genocide’ featured as competing news frames in news coverage of Bosnia and several subsequent conflicts, and are often understood to be contradictory in terms of their implied explanations, moral evaluations and policy prescriptions. The author questions the assumptions that many journalists and academics have made about these frames and the relationship between them. He asks how we can make sense of clashing or contradictory scholarly analyses of these competing frames and considers a number of broader issues for framing analysis: the significance of historical context for understanding the meaning of particular framing devices, the importance of quantification in framing analysis and the role of influential sources in prompting journalists to adopt particular frames.

scholarly journals Melodrama and Narrative Fiction: Towards a Typology

2014 ◽  
Vol 132 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Straub
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Narrative Fiction ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Prose Narratives ◽  
Narrative Prose ◽  
Anglophone World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Abstract Recent research on melodrama has stressed its versatility and ubiquity by approaching it as a mode of expression rather than a theatrical genre. A variety of contexts in which melodrama is at work have been explored, but only little scholarly attention has been paid to the relationship between melodrama and novels, short stories and novellas. This article proposes a typology of melodrama in narrative prose fiction, examining four different categories: Melodrama and Sentimentalism, Depiction of Melodramatic Performances in Narrative Prose Fiction, Theatrical Antics and Aesthetics in Narrative Prose Fiction and Meta-Melodrama. Its aim is to clarify the ways in which melodrama, ever since its early days on the stages of late eighteenth-century Europe, has interacted with fictional prose narratives, thereby shaping the literary imagination in the Anglophone world.

Clausewitz, Die Politik, and the Political Purpose of Strategy

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-72
Author(s):  
Beatrice Heuser
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Military Policy ◽  
Political Purpose ◽  
Narrow Definition ◽  
Military Engagement ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
New Tradition

Clausewitz’s writings stand in two traditions. On the one hand, with his own very narrow definition of strategy, “Strategy is the use of the [military] engagement for the purpose of the war,” he continued a tradition that goes back to Paul-Gédéon Joly de Maizeroy and beyond him to Byzantine Emperor Leo VI. It is not least because of Clausewitz’s espousal of this tradition that this narrow definition still dominated Soviet thinking. On the other hand, Clausewitz stood in a new tradition reflecting on the relationship between a political purpose of the war itself. This goes back to Guibert, Kant, Rühle von Lilienstern but also a long-forgotten anonymous work probably written by Zanthier. This dwelt on the bureaucratic process of strategy-making in the interface between (politically dominated) foreign policy and (hardware- and means-dominated) military policy. It is ultimately to the latter tradition that we owe his reflections on the domination of political considerations captured in his famous line about war being the continuation of politics by other means. This in turn is the foundation on which most other reflections on grand strategy have been built.

Criminological Cinema

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-134
Author(s):  
Rafe McGregor
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Narrative Fiction ◽  
Social Harm ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
Hollywood Film ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Audience Size

The purpose of this chapter is to explain the relationship between pedagogic and aetiological value within the criminology of narrative fiction. The chapter’ focus is on criminological cinema – Hollywood feature films that take crime or social harm or the control of crime or social harm as their subject – on the basis of the relevance of audience size to pedagogic value. Pedagogic value is a function of accessible communication and audience engagement and both of these features are enhanced by the characteristic realism of the cinematic mode of representation and the mythic storytelling characteristic of the Hollywood film industry. The chapter concludes with a demonstration of pedagogic value that employs Martin Brest’s Beverly Hills Cop (1984) as a case study.

Microfoundations

2018 ◽  
pp. 44-66
Author(s):  
Keren Yarhi-Milo ◽  
Joshua D. Kertzer
Keyword(s):  
International Conflict ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Mechanical Turk ◽  
Amazon Mechanical Turk ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Military Engagement ◽  
Domestic Support ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter presents two cross-national survey experiments that explore the relationship between self-monitoring characteristics, beliefs about the efficacy of force, and concerns for reputation for resolve. The first survey consists of two thousand American adults recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), whereas the second survey is conducted on a nationally representative sample of Israeli Jewish adults. Obtaining almost identical results in each study, the chapter found that the interaction between self-monitoring and general predispositions toward the use of force produces systematic differences in support for the use of force. These findings carry significant implications for the ability of leaders to mobilize domestic support for the use of force: when leaders are able to frame an international conflict in reputational terms, a segment of the population that would not otherwise be convinced about the use of force is likely to become more supportive of military engagement.

The genealogy of the boukoloi: how Greek literature appropriated an Egyptian narrative-motif

2000 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 106-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Rutherford
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Single Motif ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Egyptian Literature ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Greek Novel

The subject of this paper is the relationship between the Demotic Egyptian Inaros-Petubastis Cycle and the Greek novel. I will not argue that the Greek novel as a whole arose from Egyptian literature; that theory has been rightly laid to rest by scholars working in the area, most recently by Susan Stephens and the late Jack Winkler in their edition of the fragments of the novel. What I want to do, rather, is to draw attention to a single motif that might have made its way from Egyptian narrative fiction to the Greek novel; to explore the background of this motif in Egyptian literature; and to discuss the mode through which this motif was appropriated by the Greek novelists. This motif concerns the boukoloi, outlaw shepherds who inhabit the Egyptian Delta and oppose central Egyptian authority.

Does Peacekeeping Work? A Disaggregated Analysis of Deployment and Violence Reduction in the Bosnian War

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Costalli
Keyword(s):  
Civil Wars ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Local Variation ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Violence Reduction ◽  
Bosnian War ◽  
Troop Deployment ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Peacekeeping Missions ◽  
The Relationship

Cross-country empirical studies have reviewed many aspects of peacekeeping missions, but the findings on their effectiveness diverge. This article draws on recent empirical literature on civil wars using a disaggregated approach, addressing the effectiveness of peacekeeping by examining the local variation in UN troop deployment and violence in the Bosnian civil war. The relationship between the intensity of local violence and troop deployment across Bosnian municipalities and peacekeeping effects on the intensity of subsequent violence are examined with a matching approach. The results indicate that although peacekeeping ‘works’, since it is deployed where the most severe violence takes place, peacekeepers have little effect on subsequent violence. This is consistent with research highlighting the obstacles to UN missions in addressing their objectives.

A Compact and Easily Accepted Continuous Model for the Elastic-Plastic Contact of a Sphere and a Flat

2012 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi Qian Wang
Keyword(s):  
Contact Area ◽  
Continuous Model ◽  
Elastic Plastic ◽  
Total Displacement ◽  
Plastic Regime ◽  
Plastic Displacement ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Accepted Form

This paper presents a compact and easily accepted continuous model for the elastic-plastic contact of a sphere and a flat, including the relationships of load and contact area versus displacement and the relationship between the residual plastic displacement and the total displacement. The relationships of load and contact area versus displacement hold in the elastic and elastic-plastic regime. The relationship between the total displacement and the residual plastic displacement, that is the total displacement to the power of 1/2 is linear with the residual plastic displacement to the power of 1/2, has a compact and easily accepted form.

scholarly journals Effects of exposure to literary narrative fiction

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah N. M. De Mulder ◽  
Frank Hakemulder ◽  
Rianne van den Berghe ◽  
Fayette Klaassen ◽  
Jos J. A. van Berkum
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
Cumulative Effects ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Narrative Fiction ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Gap Filling ◽  
Bayesian Analyses ◽  
Lifetime Exposure ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Literary Narrative

Abstract Literary narrative fiction may be particularly effective in enhancing Theory of Mind (ToM), as it requires readers to contemplate author and character intentions in filling the literary ‘gaps’ that have been suggested to characterise this fiction type. The current study investigates direct and cumulative effects of reading literature on ToM using confirmatory Bayesian analyses. Direct effects were assessed by comparing the ToM skills of participants who read texts that were manipulated to differ in the amount of gap filling they required. Cumulative effects were assessed by considering the relationship between lifetime literary fiction exposure and ToM. Results showed no evidence for direct effects of reading literature on ToM. However, lifetime literary fiction exposure was associated with higher ToM, particularly cognitive ToM. Although reading a specific piece of literary fiction may thus not have immediately measurable effects on ToM, lifetime exposure to this fiction type is associated with more advanced ToM.

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