scholarly journals Time as the Rhythm of Theoretical Practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-200
Author(s):  
Istvan Berszan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Studies ◽  
Poetic Language ◽  
Literary Reading ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Positive Data ◽  
Theoretical Thinking

Many scholars would agree today that no theory is timeless. But they would probably mean the historicity of theoretical thinking, including the concepts and preconceptions of time propagated by theoretical literary studies. In this paper, I will investigate a usually ignored but unavoidable problem: the rhythmic dimension of theorising. How do those practices, to which different theoretical attempts are linked, influence their orientation in time(s)? Gathering positive data of the past in positivism, revealing the work of formal devices of poetic language in formalism, following a rhetorical change in postmodernism or reducing every kind of change to historical construction are not only ideological patterns but practical rhythms considered as paradigmatic for other – and sometimes for all – happenings. Based on practice-oriented physics, I propose research of time projections by which literary reading and writing are transposed to the kinetic spaces of certain theoretical practices.

Biography and Autobiography

2021 ◽  
pp. 211-224
Author(s):  
Laura Marcus
Keyword(s):  
Life Writing ◽  
Crucial Aspect ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Milieu ◽  
The Waves ◽  
Jacob's Room

This chapter explores the centrality of biography and autobiography to Woolf’s reading and writing life, and to her cultural milieu, in which experiments in life-writing were a crucial aspect of the modernist reaction against the Victorian era. It examines Woolf’s deep engagement in her fiction with life-writing forms, from the bildungsroman of The Voyage Out to the play with conventional biographical forms of Jacob’s Room, Orlando, The Waves, and Flush and the autobiographical foundations of To the Lighthouse. It also examines her biography of Roger Fry, and her own experiment in memoir-writing, the posthumously published ‘A Sketch of the Past’, in the context of concerns with the nature of memory, identity, and sexuality.

Hand-Written Road Maps to Multi-Dimensional Space

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
István Berszán ◽  
Philip Gross
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Literary Reading ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Attention System ◽  
Road Maps ◽  
Collaborative Space ◽  
Literary Practices ◽  
Time Projection

Abstract In their article “Hand-Written Road Maps to Multi-Dimensional Space” István Berszán and Philip Gross investigate the heightened alertness of literary reading and writing in an interview with Gross, the prize-winning British poet and professor of creative writing. After the presentation of the interviewee Berszán ask him questions concerning the kinetic spaces of his literary practices. The itinerary follows issues like place, temporality of occurrences, attention, system and ecology, metaphor, time projection, gesture-resonance and collaboration. Gross seems to be as good a creative playmate during the discussion as he was for children, students, artists or readers who met him in a „collaborative space between”: his answers turn the questions both into hunter and quarry.

(Hi)story Telling in the Books of Samuel

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachelle Gilmour
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Literary Reading ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Narrative Studies ◽  
Books Of Samuel ◽  
2 Samuel

This chapter introduces the books of Samuel from three angles. The first angle is an overview of its content and macro-structures. Close attention is paid to the patterns in its narrative: the rise and fall of Israel’s leadership and the comparisons and contrasts between these leaders. Second, the focus shifts from the books themselves to the methods of reading them, tracing the development of narrative studies in Samuel. It advocates the integration of final form readings with investigation into historical and source-critical questions of the book, each informing and developing the other. Finally, an example of this integration is demonstrated in a narrative reading of the story of Shimei, David, and Joab in 2 Samuel 20 through the lens of its characteristics of historiography: causation, meaning, and evaluation. Attention to these categories deepens our literary reading, highlighting its values and conception of significance in the past.

scholarly journals (Language Modernity and modern in the reflections of the wings of silence of the poet (Hamid Abdul Samad al-Basri: اللغة حداثتها وحديثها في تأملات أجنحة الصمت للشاعر (حامد عبد الصمد البصري)

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Worod Hamed Abdul Samad
Keyword(s):  
Poetic Language ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fantasy World ◽  
Spontaneous Behavior ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Selection Of

There is no doubt that his words industry and distinctiveness in the selection of meanings for the formulation of meaning may have contributed to the elaboration of poetic language ideas through text vocabulary, and to allocate the aesthetic with its own standards led to perceptions of a more profound, and more comprehensive eloquence .This is exemplified by the reflections of Hamid Al- Basrawi between Single divulge, and other harbor and everything in between lies your taste, as it formed the language of the manifestations of memory, qualifying on the past and charged the reality that clinch meaning through those narrow lanes, barbed, the continuity of a sense of the past is only a translation of the poet's life conscious of reality through them, because the reality is often a deadlock to focus upon hassles and continuous effort, the escape to a fantasy world and the anniversary is a movement and vitality that will restore the poet and the receiver to a hidden phenomenon worlds, between the points (ego), (they are) and (we), artistic the vision specifically lies in the spontaneous behavior that brought him poet and vocabulary that guided the meaning of the privacy of its model and method put forward and how awareness of the breakdown of titles ranging from the first poem in the book until the conclusion as such an integrated living units in the context of essentially poetic duplicates the former by later.

The right hemisphere: neuropsychological functions

1986 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 693-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth M. Heilman ◽  
Dawn Bowers ◽  
Edward Valenstein ◽  
Robert T. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Disorders ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Right Hemisphere Damage ◽  
Right Hemisphere Dysfunction ◽  
Neuropsychological Functions ◽  
The Right ◽  
Fine Print

✓ In the past two to three decades, clinicians and neuroscientists have been studying the functions of the right hemisphere. Neither hemisphere seems to be dominant in the absolute sense. Each appears to be specialized and is dominant for different functions. However, most functions require the cooperation of both hemispheres. When one is damaged, the other can often compensate for the damaged one. Lesions of the left hemisphere are associated with language (speech, reading, and writing) and praxic disorders, and lesions of the right hemisphere can result in visuospatial, attentional, and emotional disorders. The authors review some of the major behavioral disorders associated with right hemisphere dysfunction and concentrate on three major types of disorders — visuospatial, attentional, and emotional. Although not all the behavioral defects associated with right hemisphere damage can be subgrouped under these three types, they are the ones most often associated with right hemisphere lesions.

Hong Kong Literary Landscape: A MediaWiki for literary reading and writing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo F. H. Ma ◽  
L. M. Mak
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Literary Reading ◽  
School Students ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Junior Secondary School ◽  
Chinese University

For almost three decades, literary walk has been used by various education and public institutions in Hong Kong as an effective way to promote reading and writing to secondary school students. Funded by the Standing Committee on Language Education and Research of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government in 2013, the Hong Kong Literature Research Centre (HKLRC) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library (CUHK Library) jointly kicked off a two-year proposal entitled “Fun with Learning Chinese Language through Literary Walk” aimed at promoting literary reading and writing skills to junior secondary school students in Hong Kong. In this paper, the authors discuss a key deliverable of this project, the Hong Kong Literary Landscape MediaWiki, jointly developed by the HKLRC and the CUHK Library, which provides literary walk materials on the wiki platform including video clips, critically selected literary works, literary maps, creative writings of the student participants, and so on. Apart from the project participants, the Hong Kong Literary Landscape MediaWiki is also a useful tool for other secondary school teachers, students, and a wider group of audience in the Hong Kong community.

Going Forward to the Past: The Future of Literary Studies in Australian Universities

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-16
Author(s):  
Patrick Buckridge
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Reading Groups ◽  
Head Of School ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Imminent Death ◽  
To Come ◽  
Australian Universities

The imminent death of the study of past literature in Australian universities has been pronounced many times since the 1980s. It seems to have been taking several decades to die, but its time may finally be upon us. When I first joined Griffith Humanities in 1981, the then Head of School, David Saunders, told me that though he might wish it otherwise, the literature of the past wouldalwaysbe studied in universities — if only because there was so much of it and because, like Everest, it was simply ‘there’. I now think he may have been wrong. It is likely enough, in my view, that some — mainly older — peoplewillkeep reading, studying and discussing the literary tradition for a long time to come: in reading groups, U3A classes and the like. More about that later. But I doubt if anyone will be doing it in Australianuniversitiesfor very much longer.

Building Asian Canadian Literary Studies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor Ty
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
American Literature ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Canadian Literature ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Statistics Canada

Asian Canadian Literary Studies is a relatively new field of study which began in the mid to late 1990s. Even though literature written by Chinese, Japanese, and South Asian Canadians had been published in literary magazines and anthologies since the 1970s, the identification of a distinct body of works called “Asian Canadian literature,” as Donald Goellnicht has noted (in “A Long Labour”), began only when there was a sociopolitical movement focused on identity politics. The literature includes early experiences of Chinese in Gum San or “gold mountain”; Japanese Canadian internment during the Second World War; South Asian Canadians diasporic writing from former British colonies like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Trinidad, Guyana, Tanzania, and Kenya; feminist experimental and genre writing; and writing from the post-1975 wave of first- and 1.5-generation immigrants and refugees. Early 21st-century works have moved from mainly autoethnographic stories to those that include larger sociocultural concerns, such as poverty, domestic violence, the environment, lesbian, queer, and transgender issues, and other intersectional systems of oppression that face Asian Canadians and other marginalized groups. Genres include memoirs, films, short stories, autobiographies, realist novels, science fiction, graphic novels, poetry, plays, and historical novels. In the past, without naming the field “Asian Canadians,” many critics have engaged with Asian Canadian literary texts. For example, articles and chapters about Joy Kogawa’s Obasan can be found in journals and books on Canadian, postcolonial, ethnic, and Asian American literature. South Asian Canadian literature also has strong links with postcolonial studies and institutions, such as the book publisher TSAR Publications, which began as the literary journal, The Toronto South Asian Review. In Canadian English usage, Asian usually refers to people from East and Southeast Asian while the term South Asian Canadian is a subgroup of Asian Canadian, according to Statistics Canada. In literary studies, it has only been in the past ten or fifteen years that the term “Asian Canadian” is used as a pan-ethnic term for all peoples who are originally from or have roots in Asia.

Humanistic and Renaissance Studies in Review

Traditio ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 451-462
Author(s):  
Sesto Prete
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Precise Form ◽  
The Past ◽  
Renaissance Studies ◽  
Scientific Approach

In the past few years, literary studies on Humanism and the Renaissance have commanded ever-increasing attention. The research displays, broadly, two marked trends: one segment, which stations itself in the ranks of scholars such as Burckhardt, Voigt, De Sanctis, Gaspary, and others, interprets the intellectual and spiritual atmosphere of the era; the other uncovers new texts or, keeping step with the modern scientific approach to the study of manuscripts, reedits in more precise form already known texts — this group is dominated by the name of Sabbadini. In the following pages, several books which have appeared in the last few years will be assessed with a view toward their contributions in both areas.

Anatomizing the Past: Physicians and History in Renaissance Culture*

2000 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Siraisi
Keyword(s):  
Medical Culture ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Culture

In many different ways Renaissance physicians concerned themselves with the reading and writing of history. This article examines the role of historical interests in learned medical culture and the participation of physicians in the broader historical culture of the period.

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