'A most venerable ruin': word, image and ideology in Guest's Geraint the son of Erbin

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-72
Author(s):  
Sioned Davies
Keyword(s):  
Word And Image ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Paradigms

Lady Charlotte Guest's translation of Geraint the son of Erbin, published as part of a threevolume edition in 1849, was illustrated by the wood-engraver Samuel Williams. Drawing on theoretical paradigms from illustration studies, the relationship between word and image is explored, highlighting how illustrations create a complex dialogic relation between image and text. Questions are then raised as to why, in Guest's second edition of the tale, in 1877, changes and adjustments were made, specifically to those elements related to the ruins of Cardiff Castle. The wider implications of choices relating to the placement of images and the producing of captions, existing as they do in a liminal zone, located between the image and the text, are demonstrated.

scholarly journals The Imagination and Its Technological Destiny

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pietro Montani
Keyword(s):  
Critical Philosophy ◽  
Word And Image ◽  
Human Conduct ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Electronic Technologies

AbstractThe tradition of Kant’s critical philosophy developed the concept of imagination rigorously and productively. In this article, I shall defend the suitability of placing this concept in a paleoanthropological frame and linking it to the cognitive practices – predominantly sensorimotor, interactive and those directed at the emergence of technologies – which preceded and prepared for the advent of articulated speech. Special attention will be paid to the internalization processes of these practices and their effects on human conduct. On the basis of this discussion, I shall defend the theory by which the advent of denotative articulated speech entailed a profound reorganization of the technical performances attributable to the imagination and the relative internalization processes. Moreover, the origin of articulated speech inaugurated a singular story, that of the relationship between word and image. In my conclusions, I shall describe a major outcome of this within the framework of the new electronic technologies.

Changing times, changing perspectives: Reconciling ‘transition’ and ‘cultural’ perspectives on youth and young adulthood

2011 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Furlong ◽  
Dan Woodman ◽  
Johanna Wyn
Keyword(s):  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Opportunity Structures ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Changing Times ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Paradigms

This article explores the changing relationship between the ‘transitions’ and ‘cultural’ perspectives in youth studies. Changes in the relationship between the two approaches are currently being driven by shifting theoretical paradigms that place a greater weight on reflexive life management, thereby making it more difficult to maintain a theoretical distinction between structural and cultural analysis. Indeed, we argue that relationships between the two approaches are showing signs of convergence, partly as a consequence of the emergence of new ways of managing life contexts which frequently involve the blending of contexts, the search for new meanings and a changing sense of self in time. We trace the trends in the relationship between the ‘transitions’ and ‘cultural’ perspectives against the backdrop of changing opportunity structures. Focusing on contemporary contexts, we explore some of the ways in which recent socio-economic changes challenge traditional ways of interpreting subjectivities. We conclude by exploring the ways in which the sociology of youth can move forward using a social generation approach.

scholarly journals Material evidence? Re-approaching elite women’s seals and charters in late medieval Scotland

2021 ◽  
Vol 150 ◽  
pp. 301-326
Author(s):  
Rachel Meredith Davis
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Word And Image ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
Different Types ◽  
19Th And 20Th Century ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Material Evidence ◽  
Insight Into

Medieval Scottish women’s seals remain largely unexplored compared to the scholarship on seals and sealing practice elsewhere in medieval Britain. This article has two chief aims. First, it seeks to demonstrate the insufficiencies of the 19th- and 20th-century Scottish seal catalogues as a mediated record of material evidence and the use of them as comprehensive and go-to reference texts within current research on late medieval Scotland. This includes a discussion of the ways in which medieval seals survive as original impressions, casts and illustrations and how these different types of evidence can be used in the construction and reconstruction of the seal’s and charter’s context. Second, this paper will explore the materiality and interconnectedness of seals and the charters to which they are attached. A reading of these two objects together emphasises the legal function of the seal and shows its distinctive purpose as a representational object. While the seal was used in con-texts beyond the basic writ charter, it remained a legally functional and (auto)biographical object, and, as such, the relationship between seal and charter informs meaning in representational identities expressed in both. The article will apply this approach to several examples of seals belonging to 14th- and 15th-century Scottish countesses. Evidence reviewed this way provides new insight into Scottish women’s sealing practice and female use of heraldic device. The deficiencies of assuming women’s design to be formulaic or that their seals can be usefully interpreted in isolation from the charters to which they were attached will be highlighted. The interconnectedness of word and image conveyed personal links and elite ambitions, and promoted noble lineage within the legal context of charter production.

scholarly journals Máquinas de la memoria: Emblemática y Semiótica

2021 ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
María del Carmen Fernández Galán Montemayor
Keyword(s):  
Generative Model ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Complex Interdependence ◽  
Word And Image ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Artificial Memory ◽  
Verbal Representations ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACT: The relationship between word and image has been researched from different theoretical perspectives. The emblem, as a hybrid textual type, has been approached from the perspectives of iconography and epigraphy in the analysis of the variety of genres derived from the triplex model, like the heavily codified languages of mute emblems and baroque hieroglyphs. The rhetorical procedures and traditions involved in the production and reception of these symbolic machines utilize the exemplum and the allegory, going through the progymnasmata, as the main strategies in the connection of iconic and verbal representations. The purpose of this work is to describe the emblem from a semiotic point of view and explore the relationship between emblematics and the theatres of artificial memory as categories that allow the explanation of the complex interdependence between the visual and the verbal in its mnemotechnical function, where the effectiveness of the repertoire of symbol is built in museums of the imaginary. This takes the visual grammars of semiotics as well as the anthropology of writing as a starting point to propose a generative model of reading.   KEYWORDS: Emblematics; Semiotics; Symbolism; Hieroglyph; Memory.   RESUMEN: La relación entre palabra e imagen ha sido estudiada desde distintas perspectivas teóricas. En el caso del emblema, como tipo textual híbrido, se ha abordado desde la iconografía y la epigrafía en el análisis de la variedad de géneros derivados del modelo triplex, como los lenguajes altamente codificados de los emblemas mudos y los jeroglíficos barrocos. Los procedimientos retóricos y tradiciones implicados en la producción y recepción de estas máquinas simbólicas tienen como principales estrategias el exemplum y la alegoría pasando por los progymnásmata, en la conexión de representaciones icónicas y verbales. El propósito de este trabajo es caracterizar el emblema desde el punto de vista semiótico y explorar la relación entre la emblemática y los teatros de la memoria artificial como categorías que permiten explicar la compleja interdependencia de lo visual y lo verbal en su función mnemotécnica donde la eficacia de los repertorios de símbolos se erige en museos del imaginario. Lo anterior a partir de las gramáticas visuales de la semiótica y de la antropología de la escritura para proponer un modelo generativo de lectura.   PALABRAS CLAVES: emblemática; semiótica; jeroglífico; memoria.

The Painting (Composition)

2021 ◽  
pp. 149-170
Author(s):  
Martin Eisner
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Tristram Shandy ◽  
Word And Image ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
De Vulgari Eloquentia

This chapter scrutinizes the challenges editors confronted in their typographical composition of Dante’s poem with two beginnings. Should the first beginning be followed by the rest of the poem and then the second beginning or both beginnings and then remaining verses? The various solutions proposed in the early printed editions, nineteenth-century translations, and early modern manuscripts, show the complexity of Dante’s own poetic strategy in this poem on the anniversary of Beatrice’s death, which aims to defeat time and overcome Beatrice’s death by adding more time. Exploring the persistence of this issue in the most recent editions, the chapter considers the poem in light of Dante’s decision to represent himself in the prose as painting an angel. Connecting this remark to Dante’s reflections on angels and representation in the De vulgari eloquentia and the Commedia, this chapter examines Dante’s thinking about the materiality of texts and the relationship between word and image in the context of a larger tradition that stretches from Augustine and Petrarch to Sterne’s Tristram Shandy.

scholarly journals The strategic development of physiotherapy in South Africa paper 1: Some theoretical concepts which relate to organisational change

2000 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
P. Bowerbank
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Open Systems ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
Systems Framework ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Paradigms

This is the first of two papers which examine the relationship between professional organisations and organisational change. Different theoretical paradigms for change are outlined against the historical development of the physiotherapy profession in South Africa. An evolutionary approach using an open systems framework emphasises the need for constant interaction by the physiotherapy profession with the external environment. Some of the responses by the physiotherapy profession to the changing events and shifts in the external environment are discussed and some strategic recommendations for the continuing sustainability of the profession are made.

scholarly journals Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer’s Danae Tycjana Within the Framework of Schopenhauer’s Philosophy: Reading Ekphrasis Through the Prism of Aesthetic Experience

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-65
Author(s):  
Bartosz Swoboda
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
Western Art ◽  
Word And Image ◽  
The Relationship

This article aims to discuss the relationship between word and image in literary works devoted to the so-called ekphrasis. The present research is organised as follows: I first discuss the concept of contemplative aesthetic experience as elucidated in Schopenhauer’s philosophy, and then provide some theoretical reflections on its current interpretations; in the second part, I try to examine the poem Danae Tycjana from III Seria Poezji (1898), by the Polish modernist poet Kazimierz  Przerwa-Tetmajer, through the lens of the concept of contemplative aesthetic experience. The analysis here carried out within the theoretical framework presented contends that the rhetorical device of ekphrasis should be understood as verbalisation of aesthetic aspects and experience. The last part of this paper investigates Titian’s painting Danaë (1545-1546, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples), one of several examples of the genre of erotic mythologies in Western art popularized by Titian, as the foundation for Tetmajer’s aesthetic experience and source of ekphrasis.

scholarly journals REVELATORY POTENTIAL OF THE WORD IN THE LIGHT OF D.A. PRIGOV’S “STIKHOGRAMMY”

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-85
Author(s):  
N. Albanese ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Soviet Power ◽  
Word And Image ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Totalitarian Regimes ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

The role of the word in totalitarian regimes is crucial, as governments use it to control the masses and to create their own truth and reality. What lies behind this is complete void, which becomes the ground for the Conceptualist movement focusing on the relationship between subject and language. D.A. Prigov is one of the most prominent representatives of conceptualism. His Stikhogrammy, published for the first time in 1985, can be positioned at the junction of verbal and visual art and, combining word and image, they reveal the truth behind the discourse made by Soviet power, by classical literature and the mainstream. The purpose of this article is to show, on the basis of several selected stikhogrammy, the attitude of D.A. Prigov towards the loss of values and how this loss becomes the basis of the project to create a Gesamtkunstwerk.

Auf der Suche nach einer komplexen Friedenslogik –Versuch einer metatheoretischen Verortung undNeuorientierung

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-163
Author(s):  
Wilfried Graf
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Dialogical Logic ◽  
Logic Of Action ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Paradigms ◽  
Different Levels

The dualistic juxtaposition of the logic of peace and the logic of security is necessary for the political debate but not sufficient to overcome the dominance of the security approach in political theory and practice. This article seeks to broaden and deepen the understanding of the relationship between the logic of peace and the logic of security on different levels of meaning. Firstly, this relationship is explored on the level of meaning of a logic of action and intervention. Secondly, this relationship is discussed on the level of meaning of a logic of research and the meta-theoretical paradigms on which the logic of action is constructed. Thirdly, this relationship is further reflected on the level of meaning of a logic of thought and rationality. Founded in a philosophy of complexity a dialogical “logic of complexity” is proposed as a metaparadigm for a complex logic of peace that is both critical and integrative of the logic of security.

Picturing Identity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hertha D. Sweet Wong
Keyword(s):  
Leslie Marmon Silko ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
First Century ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Word And Image ◽  
Autobiographical Work ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Autobiography Studies ◽  
The Relationship

In this book, Hertha D. Sweet Wong examines the intersection of writing and visual art in the autobiographical work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American writers and artists who employ a mix of written and visual forms of self-narration. Combining approaches from autobiography studies and visual studies, Wong argues that, in grappling with the breakdown of stable definitions of identity and unmediated representation, these writers-artists experiment with hybrid autobiography in image and text to break free of inherited visual-verbal regimes and revise painful histories. These works provide an interart focus for examining the possibilities of self-representation and self-narration, the boundaries of life writing, and the relationship between image and text. Wong considers eight writers-artists, including comic-book author Art Spiegelman; Faith Ringgold, known for her story quilts; and celebrated Indigenous writer Leslie Marmon Silko. Wong shows how her subjects formulate webs of intersubjectivity shaped by historical trauma, geography, race, and gender as they envision new possibilities of selfhood and fresh modes of self-narration in word and image.

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