Kingship at Play

Rhizomata ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Magali Année
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Political Message ◽  
B 52

AbstractDo the early Greek poets and thinkers really “play” with their language? What sort of “play” should we expect from part of the professional craftsmen they were of a basically sound language? What did imply their awareness of the phono-syllabic nature of Greek language? And what about Heraclitus in particular, who is most concerned among them with the intrinsic virtues of Greek discourse (λόγος)? An analysis of fr. 22 B 52 DK within the melodic and sonic state of archaic Greek language reveals, instead of “play of words”, a rather spontaneous phenomenon of phono-syllabic generation, that is as necessary for the political message of Heraclitus’ fragment as the meaning of each of its words and their superficial syntactic organization.

Gabriele d’Annunzio’s Notturno, the book of the Italian war: Political commitment, national regeneration and its ideological roots

2021 ◽  
pp. 001458582110054
Author(s):  
Guylian Nemegeer ◽  
Mara Santi
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Political Message ◽  
Political Project ◽  
Political Value ◽  
Cultural Message

This article argues that Gabriele d’Annunzio’s Notturno conveys a conscious political and cultural message which is consequent of his long-lasting political commitment to the nation. This political value of the book has been mainly overlooked. Therefore, the first part of the article shows the locations of the political and war-related content, and how the book can be considered as a war diary. Moreover, the first part of the article relates the Notturno to d’Annunzio’s political project for the nation at the time when the book was composed (1915–1921). The aim of this part is to dispel the enduring critical misinterpretation of the Notturno as an intimate collection of memories and visions and to foreground its national value. The second part of the article addresses the roots of the Notturno’s political message from a literary point of view by relating it to the national commitment underlying d’Annunzio’s works since the 1880s. This commitment is based on the revalorization in the author’s literary works of the Italian national past, in particular of the 16th century, where d’Annunzio continues and renews the national storytelling of the Risorgimento.

Political Messaging in Digital Spaces

2017 ◽  
pp. 72-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
Political Candidates ◽  
Political Message ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Digital Spaces

Political messaging is adapting to new digital spaces. However, the power of citizens through the use of this digital spaces is still unknown. Many citizens criticize political candidates using Facebook or Twitter, others build networks in Snapchat and some others try to collaborate with candidates using Periscope or WhatsApp. This research is focused in understanding this adaptation of political message on this platforms, analyzing the case of the presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto (PRI) in Mexico who won the presidency with a large participation but without the support of Twitter users. After two online protests against this presidential candidate - #IamnotProletariat and #Iam132 – political image could have been undermined and voters could have thought differently. But this was not the case and despite of this, the candidate won. The challenge to understand this online protest and its link to the political message is addressed in this paper.

scholarly journals And a Threefold Cord: La Guma’s neglected masterpiece?

Literator ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-80
Author(s):  
G. Cornwell
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Class Inequality ◽  
Publication History ◽  
Artistic Integrity ◽  
Economic Exploitation ◽  
Political Message

For a variety of reasons (including its publication history), Alex la Guma’s second novel And a Threefold Cord (1964) has long been neglected by readers and critics. This essay seeks to redress this situation by offering a reading of the novel that demonstrates its artistic integrity. Like A Walk in the Night, And a Threefold Cord avoids the overt propagandizing that arguably mars La Guma’s later work. The political “message” of the text is shown to emerge organically from events that unfold in its presented world. And a Threefold Cord is set in a Cape Flats shantytown, and it analyses the predicament of the shanty dwellers in terms of class inequality and economic exploitation, rather than in terms of racial discrimination. This ensures the novel’s continuing relevance in a South Africa where far too many people are inadequately housed in ever-growing “informal settlements”.

scholarly journals Raíces del Brasil y sus intérpretes, ochenta años después: una crítica historiográfica de la visión democrática y autoritaria de las interpretaciones del ensayo histórico = Roots of Brazil and its Analysts, Eighty Years after: a Historiographical Criticism of the Democratic and Authoritarian Vision about the Interpretations of the Historical Essay

2019 ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Daniel Machado Bruno
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Essay ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Political Message ◽  
New Research ◽  
Original Edition ◽  
Made In ◽  
What Matters

Durante los últimos años, el libro Raíces del Brasil y su autor, Sergio Buarque de Holanda, inscripto en el canon del pensamiento social brasileño como uno de los principales intelectuales pensadores y articuladores de la nación, han recibido por parte de la historiografía aportes en una fortuna crítica que revisita su interpretación y destaca nuevas posibilidades de entender la revisión que el propio autor realizó a partir de la segunda edición del texto, aspecto que, hasta ese momento, estaba al margen de los argumentos políticos movilizados por sus intérpretes de ciencias sociales. Formando parte de ese conjunto de nuevas investigaciones, este artículo tiene el objetivo principal de discutir la producción historiográfico-política contemporánea que se dedica a explicar los cambios introducidos en Raíces del Brasil, problematizando las clasificaciones del texto de acuerdo con las visiones políticas liberal-democráticas, radical-democráticas y, más recientemente, de lecturas que le atribuyen posturas que se aproximan al conservador-autoritarismo de los años 1930.AbstractSérgio Buarque de Holanda, author of Roots of Brazil, has been interpreted by his critics as one of main intellectual thinkers of the proccess to brazilian national construction. During the last years, his critical fortune revisited the book to start a reevaluation of its political message. In this perspective, the analysts emphasized the need to analyze the author’s revision after the second edition of the text, an aspect that, until that moment, was outside the political arguments mobilized by its interpreters of social sciences. As a part of this set of new research, this article has the main objective of discussing the contemporary historiographic-political production that is dedicated to explain changes made in Roots of Brazil, in order to problematize the classifications of the text according to liberal-democratic political visions, radical-democratic or, more recently, readings that attribute positions that approach the conservative-authoritarianism of the 1930s.We intend to show that proposing an explanation of the reasons that guided the revision of the original 1936 version of this classic text requires advancing beyond the orbit of political arguments, since, rather than defining the essence of its original edition and thinking in the possibility of defining also its revised and «final» versions, what matters, above all, is to understand the logic of the movement that this revision gave to the construction of the discourse that emanates from it, once it is considered one of the key texts to interpret this country.

scholarly journals Literature and National Consciousness of the Greek Minority in NorthernEpirus

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Anteia Frantzi
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Socialist Realism ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Literary Output

<p>The first period of Albanian rule in Northern Epirus, from 1912 to 1945, witnessed a continuation of the oral tradition enriched by the experience of the unceasing struggle for liberation. It should be stressed that what we now call "literature of the ethnic Greek minority of Albania" is in fact nothing but an integral part of Greek literature. It is the literary output of the Greek inhabitants of the area who, despite the adverse political developments that left them outside the borders of the Greek state, maintained their creativity and their Greek identity. From 1945 onwards, with the establishment of the People's Republic of Albania, any attempt to assess the literature of the Greek minority in Northern Epirus stumbles upon the political and national dichotomy of the land and its people. Firstly, the writers who identified themselves with the Communist ideals were following the principles of Socialist Realism. Secondly, those who followed a path of silent resistance and struggled for the preservation of the Greek language reverted to allegory and cryptic writing.</p>

scholarly journals Islamic Symbols on Political Messages in Newspapers in Riau (Study in Regional Head Election 2017)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhd Ar. Imam Riauan ◽  
Syukur Kholil ◽  
Ahmad Thamrin Sikumbang
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Political Messages ◽  
Social Construction Theory ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Message

: This study seeks to find the process of constructing Islamic symbols in the political message of newspapers in Riau. The symbol of Islam in question is a symbol of Islam exposed by newspapers in Riau during the campaign of the regional head election of Pekanbaru City starting from October 26, 2016 to February 11, 2017. The theory used in this study is social construction theory, by Peter L .Berger and Thomas Luckmann. Peter L.erger who at the beginning of his development, this theory is a constructivist study in sociology to understand the interactions created by individuals as members of society in a continuous manner becomes a reality that is experienced together in social life. This research uses a constructivist approach to understand how the process of constructing Islamic symbols in political messages. The subjects of this study were 5 candidates for regional head of Pekanbaru City who were actively exposed by the media and used Islamic symbols in various campaign activities during the Campaign from 26 October 2016 to 11 February 2017. The object of the research was the construction of Islamic symbols exposed to newspaper in Riau. The results of this study indicate that the construction process is divided into two, namely the construction process that occurs because it is caused by the process of finding data and facts about the needs of the community and the construction process that appears as the identity of prospective regional heads.

scholarly journals Mitologi Dalam Video Game: Pesan-pesan Politik Dalam Video Games Amerika Serikat

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Fajriannoor Fanani
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Messages ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Political Message

<p><em>Video Game, especially in Indonesia, has been long seeing as kid toy with minimum or no psychological impact to the player. This view is a serious mistake since video game able to transmit violence message to political message into their audience or player. Political message especially is very omnipresent in such game as Red Alert, Generals and others FPS or RTS games. The message on these games is higly political and contains political views the developer has. This writing tries to read the political messages on games like Red Alert and Counter Strike to find myth the developer create or believe and search out why these myths is present. Barthes analysis on semiotics were used to read not only the denotative meaning of the message, but also find the connotative message and finaly find the myths wrapped around the games.</em></p>

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