scholarly journals NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVES IN THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER BY CARSON MCCULLERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 08-12
Author(s):  
Duan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
American South ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Literary Creation ◽  
Carson Mccullers ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Narrative Skills ◽  
Narrative Perspective ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Gerard Genette

Spiritual isolation and loneliness have always been the main topic of the works of the southern American writer Carson McCullers. Her superb literary creation lies in that, she not only integrates the theme of loneliness between lines of her works, but also strongly echoes and deepens that theme by use of brilliant narrative skills. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is such a masterpiece on loneliness, decorated and permeated with exquisite narrative strategy. By means of the narrative theories of Gérard Genette and Shen Dan, and with NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE as the starting point, the present paper tries to study the unique narrative strategy framed within this work. This paper points out that, McCullers’ portray of characters from many aspects, and her narration from multiple perspectives in this work, not only greatly exalt the work’s narrative tension and aesthetic effect, but also deeply reflect the internal perplexity and solitary state of mind of those people living in American South after the Civil War.

scholarly journals Metalepsa jako strategia narracyjna w dziełach literackich i filmowych (analiza zjawiska na wybranych przykładach)

2015 ◽  
pp. 384-475
Author(s):  
Magdalena Karkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Forbidden Transition ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Gerard Genette ◽  
Ontological Uncertainty

Logically forbidden transition, the impossible transgression, fictional characters moving through the boundaries between levels of (un)reality and the attempt to cross the ‘frames’ of artistic presentation constitute the essence of the subject of this dissertation: the metalepsis. This term, originally derived from the rhetoric, was annexed to narratology field in 1972 by a French theoretician, Gérard Genette. In his book Figures III, he described a narrative metalepsis (ʻla métalepse narrativeʼ) as ʻany intrusion by the extradiegetic narrator or narratee into the diegetic universe (or by diegetic characters into a metadiegetic universe, etc.), or the inverse.ʼ The definition became a starting point for further research on metalepsis, which in recent years has gained particular popularity in Western Europe. It was noticed that metalepsis is particularly characterized by the comic potential and Woody Allen’s movie ‘Purple Rose of Cairo’ is a perfect example of it. However, the influence range of this figure seems to go far beyond the mere evocation of emotions. The analyzed examples of the use of metalepsis as a narrative strategy, for example a short story written by Julio Cortázar The Continuity of Parks, have emphasized the specificity of impact of this figure on the recipient. By corresponding with such phenomena as ʻmise en abymeʼ or ʻtext in the textʼ, metalepsis draws attention to the recipients, the readers or the viewers themselves and puts them in ontological uncertainty concerning their own existence. Since heroes of the fictional worlds can move between levels of diegesis, leave the novel or the cinema screen, read the book about their own fate or suddenly realize that they are the imaginary creatures created by some higher creative’s instance and ruled by a higher order, then how can we be sure that we are for r e a l ?

scholarly journals Negotiating Quality for Social Work: A Participatory Research Project in South Tyrol

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 505-514
Author(s):  
Walter A. Lorenz ◽  
Silvia Fargion ◽  
Urban Nothdurfter ◽  
Andrea Nagy ◽  
Elisabeth Berger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
South Tyrol ◽  
Starting Point

Purpose: The measurement of quality in social work practice has become an area of growing interest and relevance in the social services field. Our starting point is that quality in interventions with human beings has to be defined in ways that incorporate the multiple perspectives of all the subjects involved. Methods: The study, adopting qualitative and quantitative methods, explored issues of quality in social services provision in South Tyrol in Italy from the point of view of the main stakeholders. Results: It was possible to identify four dimensions of quality that stakeholders considered important: the political role of practitioners, the ability to take an active role in the organization, the capacity to connect with other professionals, and the quality of direct relationships with users. Conclusions: Results provide an understanding of the common and differing expectations evident in stakeholders’ perspectives and ideas for better quality systems

Multiple temporal perspectives extend sustainable competitiveness

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 1600-1624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Klassen ◽  
Sara Hajmohammad
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Operations Management ◽  
Process Time ◽  
Temporal Orientation ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Short Termism

Purpose In operations and supply chain management, time is largely one-dimensional – less is better – with much effort devoted to compressing, efficiently using, and competitively exploiting clock-time. However, by drawing on other literatures, the purpose of this paper is to understand implications for the field of operations management if we also emphasize how humans and organizations experience time, termed process-time, which is chronicled by events and stages of change. Design/methodology/approach After a brief review, the limitations of the recurrent time-oriented themes in operations management and the resulting short-termism are summarized. Next, sustainability is offered as an important starting point to explore the concept of temporality, including both clock- and process-time, as well as the implications of temporal orientation and temporal conflict in supply chains. Findings A framework that includes both management and stakeholder behavior is offered to illustrate how multiple temporal perspectives might be leveraged as a basis for an expanded and enriched understanding of more sustainable competitiveness in operations. Social implications Research by others emphasizes the importance of stakeholders to competitiveness. By recognizing that different stakeholder groups have varying temporal orientations and temporality, managers can establish objectives and systems that better reflect time-based diversity and diffuse temporal conflict. Originality/value This paper summarizes how time has been incorporated in operations management, as well as the challenges of short-termism. Sustainability forms the basis for exploring multiple perspectives of time and three key constructs: temporal orientation, temporality, and temporal conflict. A framework is proposed to better incorporate temporal perspectives as a basis for competitiveness in operations and supply chain management.

A Sketch of the Off ences Committed under the Provoked Temporary Insanity in Common Law Countries

Law and World ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-166
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Law System ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Actus Reus ◽  
The Common ◽  
Temporary Insanity

● In common law countries, which as a rule do not have codified criminal legislation, or where it exists, offences committed under the provoked temporary insanity are not treated as a separate type of wrongdoing (delictum sui generis). Criminal theory and practice considers them as a particular example of privileged homicide related to manslaughter but not the murder. ● Actus reus of offences committed under the provoked temporary insanity (as a kind of privileged homicide) consists of following objective elements: a) conduct, result (i.e. death), causal link between them and any other facultative element; b) provocative behavior committed by the victim; c) causal link between the victim’s behavior and the perpetrators provoked conduct (double causation). ● Mens rea of the offences in question pertains to both subjective elements characteristic to manslaughter: a) recklessness and b) extreme temporary emotional excitement, which might be either explained or justified on rationale basis. The verification of rationality depends on the “reasonable man” standard and how would he behave in the same situation. ● As a starting point, for the classification of mental element traditionally is applied M’Naghten case. Although it focuses on the perpetrator’s capacity to understand wrongfulness of conduct, to be responsible for his crimes, it can be directly applied to the offences, committed under the provoked temporary insanity considered as a serious situational disorder of activity of psychic or state of mind. ● Legal regulation of an offences committed under the provoked temporary insanity is entirely differently constructed within the common law countries in comparison with other legal systems, including Georgian Penal Code. The common law approach is hard to be considered as a successful one, as it is not always efficient in terms of theoretical and practical considerations. ● The main shortcoming of common law system is related to its ambiguity, derived from abundance of value judgments, tests, fictions and criteria.

“Follow Me, Comrades in Flight, into the Depths!”

2015 ◽  
pp. 216-231
Author(s):  
Maja Murnik
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Second Life ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Body Schema ◽  
The Body ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
State Of Mind

The chapter discusses the changes the body has been subjected to in the 21st century and especially when it enters the digital worlds. The starting point for the reflection of the body today is its floating position in contemporary mixed and augmented reality. By deploying the notions of ‘body image' and ‘body schema,' elaborated by French phenomenologist M. Merleau-Ponty, various features of digital embodiment are discussed. After discussing several forms of the techno-modelled body (also mentioning the issue of life addressed in it), the chapter turns to the examples of body-related performance art in the virtual world of Second Life that explicitly raise questions about the body in the digital world, and within Second Life in particular (the examples discussed are: Synthetic Performances and I know that it's all a state of mind by 0100101110101101.ORG, Come to Heaven by Gazira Babeli and ZeroG SkyDancers by DanCoyote, etc.).

Cries of the Mob in the Pogroms in Rzeszów (June 1945), Cracow (August 1945), and Kielce (July 1946) as a Source for the State of Mind of the Participants

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 553-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Tokarska-Bakir
Keyword(s):  
National Socialism ◽  
National Party ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Blood Libel ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
Anti Jewish ◽  
Intensive Search ◽  
Made In

Although the starting point for all the Polish postwar pogroms (save for one) was a blood libel, this particular motif did not attract the historians’ attention until recently. Theories on plots devised by “Soviet advisors” or “Zionists” enjoyed an incomparably greater popularity. This article, based upon the documentation of the Rzeszów and Kielce pogroms, the most recent ethnographic resources (2005—2009), the documentation used in Marcel Łoziński’s documentary Świadkowie ( The Witnesses; made in 1980s), and an intensive search at the National Remembrance Institute (IPN), reveals a uniform social-mental formation of those partaking in the pogroms—the attackers and militiamen disciplining them, public prosecutors, and judges. All of them—including militiamen and Security Service officers—were subject to a blood libel suggestion. Traces of this thread have survived till this day in some segments of Polish society—not only in the countryside population, despite any appearances. This article aims at showing how an anti-Jewish alliance was getting formed in the first years after the liberation, on the grounds of a gradually strengthening “Polish national socialism,” and along with it, a synthesis of religious anti-Semitism (Jew as a “kidnapper/bloodsucker”) and a modern anti-Semitism (Jew as a “capitalist/bloodsucker” and “Judeo-communists” contaminating a sound national/party organism).

scholarly journals ‘The house’ as a framing device for public engagement in STEM museums

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Whiteley ◽  
Anette Stenslund ◽  
Ken Arnold ◽  
Thomas Söderqvist
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
The Public ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Family Resemblances ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Uk

In the last five to ten years, several science, technology, engineering and medicine (STEM) museums have been experimenting with new forms of public engagement, aiming to be places for curiosity-driven investigation of the cultures of science via multiple perspectives, bringing artists, scientists, researchers, clinicians, members of the public and others together. Yet these diverse and rapidly evolving sites lack a clear definition of their family resemblances – something we argue is crucial for better understanding, advocating, and evaluating what they do. As a starting point for this definitional project we propose ‘the house’ as a metaphor and framing device for public engagement in STEM museums, grounded in experiences at Medical Museion in Denmark and Wellcome Collection in the UK. We further suggest that a Goldilocks principle – the notion of lying between two poles of a continuum in a ‘just right’ position – captures several key features of what it is about the idea of a house that resonates with the approach to public engagement in these museums.Key words: STEM museums, science communication, public engagement, house.

Battle of the sketches: Short form and feminism in the comedy mode

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-377
Author(s):  
Stayci Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Short Form ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Sketch Comedy ◽  
Women Writing ◽  
Female Writers ◽  
Challenges And Strategies ◽  
Female Experience

The screenwriting of sketch comedy and, in particular, how female writers of sketch comedy engage with this form to illuminate female experience, are topics not yet widely theorized. This article reviews the scholarship, in order to bring together histories, definitions and distribution of sketch comedy from which to investigate how this form of comedy screenwriting can contribute to feminisms that ‘engage openly and playfully with humor and irony as weapons of choice’ (Willet et al. 2012). Drawing on anecdotal accounts and available archives from A Black Lady Sketch Show (2019–present), French and Saunders (1987–present), Inside Amy Schumer (2013–present), Wood & Walters (1981–82) and others, this article considers these against the theories of writing sketch comedy to draw some conclusions on how this short form, combined with its most popular form of distribution, can accommodate multiple perspectives and serve their audiences. This article offers itself as a starting point in identifying the unique challenges and strategies for women writing sketch comedy, and the possibilities offered by the form more broadly, while highlighting the need for further empirical exploration of the creative practice of female sketch comedy writers, and further critical attention to short form comedy screenwriting.

Kobieta przy (filmowym) stole. Wegetarianizm, polityka mięsa i płeć kulturowa

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (56) ◽  
pp. 40-52
Author(s):  
Marzena Kubisz
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Meat Consumption ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Romantic Comedy ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Meat Eating ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Good Wife ◽  
And Gender

The article explores cinematic representations of vegetarianism and meat-eating in the context of the blockbuster British romantic comedy Notting Hill (1999) and one of the episodes of the American legal drama The Good Wife, entitled The Red Meat. The article approaches the acts of meat consumption and its refusal performed by female characters from the perspective the sexual politics of meat whose major principles have been analyzed by Carol J. Adams in her 1990 work. The analysis of the representation of the relation between meat (consumed or rejected) and gender proposed in the article displays a twofold function it may perform in a cultural text: it may be used as a narrative strategy which helps complete a psychological portrait of a character and as a starting point to explore a changing status of vegetarianism in contemporary culture. Suspended between rejection and desire, animal meat served, as food becomes a focus of gender and identity inscribed in a broader context of the question of subjectivity of non-human animals.

Is it Time for Another Historiographical Revolution?

2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milton Gaither
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
American South ◽  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Comparative History ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The American South ◽  
Regional Comparisons ◽  
Two Alternatives

As I read through the fascinating ruminations of Drs. Albisetti, Finkelstein, Thelin, and Urban, it seemed to me that two basic points emerge, one conceptual and one methodological. Conceptually, Albisetti, Finkelstein, and Urban are asking historians of education to move away from national frames of reference to either a global, transcontinental purview (Albisetti and Finkelstein) or a small, local one (Urban). The two alternatives become complementary as we read on, however, for many examples given of such globalism are actually case studies on a small scale—the lives of single individuals in Finkelstein's case, and of single institutions in Albisetti's. Similarly, Urban's localism becomes the starting point for comparative history between one location (Alabama) and another (Georgia), which in turn expands into regional comparisons (the American South and other parts of the country) and institutional ones (Catholic and public systems). The portmanteau “globalocal,” or the commonplace “think globally, act locally” seem to capture this conceptual recommendation nicely.

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