scholarly journals The Gothic as a Practice: Gothic Studies, Genre and the Twentieth Century Gothic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Timothy Graham Stanford Jones
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Joyce Carol Oates ◽  
Reading Practice ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
American Gothic ◽  
Argumentative Strategies ◽  
Literary Practices ◽  
The Way ◽  
Gothic Studies

<p>Gothic studies, the specialist academic field that explores the Gothic text, has developed substantially over the last twenty-five years. The field often frames the Gothic as a serious literature, involved in historic discourse, and having special psychological acuity; this thesis suggests that there are a number of problems with these argumentative strategies, and that the academy now makes claims for the Gothic that are discontinuous with how this popular genre is understood by most readers. While Gothic studies is the study of a genre, curiously, it has seldom engaged with theorisations of genre. Nevertheless, an understanding of what genre is, and how it alters reading practice, is crucial to understanding the Gothic text. This thesis attempts to reconcile and develop a number of disparate approaches to genre through Pierre Bourdieu's notion of habitus. It argues that genre is not a set of textual conventions but a group of procedures that facilitate and modify both writing and reading practices. Consequently, genres like the Gothic should be seen as discrete historicised phenomena, which retain a cohesive practical sense of how they ought to be performed before they hold discursive properties. Rather than arguing for the literary value of the Gothic, this thesis understands the genre as a popular practice. The consequences of this theorisation of the Gothic are explored in case studies of particular moments in three separate Gothic fields. Firstly, the American Gothic of the mid-nineteen-eighties, particularly Stephen King's It, Joyce Carol Oates' Mysteries of Winterthurn, and Toni Morrison's Beloved, facilitates a discussion of the relationship between Gothic and literary practices. The Gothic text has its origins in 'lowbrow' popular culture, even as it sometimes aspires to 'highbrow' literary performances. Secondly, the English Gothic of the nineteen-sixties is used to stage a discussion of both the way that readers become involved and immersed in the Gothic text, creating a distinct subjunctive 'world', and of the way that Gothics define themselves in relation to each other. The discussion refers to Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out, which heavily influenced the field, as demonstrated in works by Susan Howatch, Kingsley Amis, Robert Aickman and Mervyn Peake. Wheatley's depiction of the black mass became a key Gothic procedure, and can be read as this particular field's metaphor of its own practice. Thirdly, New Zealand's underdeveloped Gothic field provides a venue to explore the Gothic's relationship with nation and national literature, and how the practice is involved in landscape. Frank Sargeson's stories and his novella The Hangover, together with Janet Frame's A State of Siege are texts authored by canonical New Zealand writers that participate in a local Gothic, although their participation in popular genre has been little recognised. This thesis argues that the Gothic is a commonsense cultural practice, facilitated through the canniness of habitus.</p>

scholarly journals The Gothic as a Practice: Gothic Studies, Genre and the Twentieth Century Gothic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Timothy Graham Stanford Jones
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Joyce Carol Oates ◽  
Reading Practice ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
American Gothic ◽  
Argumentative Strategies ◽  
Literary Practices ◽  
The Way ◽  
Gothic Studies

<p>Gothic studies, the specialist academic field that explores the Gothic text, has developed substantially over the last twenty-five years. The field often frames the Gothic as a serious literature, involved in historic discourse, and having special psychological acuity; this thesis suggests that there are a number of problems with these argumentative strategies, and that the academy now makes claims for the Gothic that are discontinuous with how this popular genre is understood by most readers. While Gothic studies is the study of a genre, curiously, it has seldom engaged with theorisations of genre. Nevertheless, an understanding of what genre is, and how it alters reading practice, is crucial to understanding the Gothic text. This thesis attempts to reconcile and develop a number of disparate approaches to genre through Pierre Bourdieu's notion of habitus. It argues that genre is not a set of textual conventions but a group of procedures that facilitate and modify both writing and reading practices. Consequently, genres like the Gothic should be seen as discrete historicised phenomena, which retain a cohesive practical sense of how they ought to be performed before they hold discursive properties. Rather than arguing for the literary value of the Gothic, this thesis understands the genre as a popular practice. The consequences of this theorisation of the Gothic are explored in case studies of particular moments in three separate Gothic fields. Firstly, the American Gothic of the mid-nineteen-eighties, particularly Stephen King's It, Joyce Carol Oates' Mysteries of Winterthurn, and Toni Morrison's Beloved, facilitates a discussion of the relationship between Gothic and literary practices. The Gothic text has its origins in 'lowbrow' popular culture, even as it sometimes aspires to 'highbrow' literary performances. Secondly, the English Gothic of the nineteen-sixties is used to stage a discussion of both the way that readers become involved and immersed in the Gothic text, creating a distinct subjunctive 'world', and of the way that Gothics define themselves in relation to each other. The discussion refers to Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out, which heavily influenced the field, as demonstrated in works by Susan Howatch, Kingsley Amis, Robert Aickman and Mervyn Peake. Wheatley's depiction of the black mass became a key Gothic procedure, and can be read as this particular field's metaphor of its own practice. Thirdly, New Zealand's underdeveloped Gothic field provides a venue to explore the Gothic's relationship with nation and national literature, and how the practice is involved in landscape. Frank Sargeson's stories and his novella The Hangover, together with Janet Frame's A State of Siege are texts authored by canonical New Zealand writers that participate in a local Gothic, although their participation in popular genre has been little recognised. This thesis argues that the Gothic is a commonsense cultural practice, facilitated through the canniness of habitus.</p>

Humans and the Environment

2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Environmental Archaeology ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

The environment has always been a central concept for archaeologists and, although it has been conceived in many ways, its role in archaeological explanation has fluctuated from a mere backdrop to human action, to a primary factor in the understanding of society and social change. Archaeology also has a unique position as its base of interest places it temporally between geological and ethnographic timescales, spatially between global and local dimensions, and epistemologically between empirical studies of environmental change and more heuristic studies of cultural practice. Drawing on data from across the globe at a variety of temporal and spatial scales, this volume resituates the way in which archaeologists use and apply the concept of the environment. Each chapter critically explores the potential for archaeological data and practice to contribute to modern environmental issues, including problems of climate change and environmental degradation. Overall the volume covers four basic themes: archaeological approaches to the way in which both scientists and locals conceive of the relationship between humans and their environment, applied environmental archaeology, the archaeology of disaster, and new interdisciplinary directions.The volume will be of interest to students and established archaeologists, as well as practitioners from a range of applied disciplines.

scholarly journals La literatura se acompasa a la nación. Rómulo Gallegos y su Venezuela moderna

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-242
Author(s):  
Mónica Marinone
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
The Public ◽  
Moral Improvement ◽  
Romulo Gallegos ◽  
Xixth Century ◽  
Deep Conviction ◽  
The Way

Rómulo Gallegos was a chronicler of his place and time. The charm projected on his spirit by the stories of an optimistic modernity led his firm hand in the design of an image of a modern nation for Venezuela, inspired by the possibility of progressive knowledge, social and moral improvement, and the re-establishment  of a policy associated to virtue and law. An acknowledgement of foundations was inherent to that charm, as well as the notion of model, so dear to the western tradition that demanded quality, insisted on values, and recommended or prescribed lifestyles, two axes of a project that could be achievable due to the best regulatory device, Education. In this article I examine how writing was for Gallegos a cultural practice essentially associated to these axes and to that device because of its mission character and its possibility to organize multiple or complex realities. This cultural practice was also the way to canalize its programmatic pulse through performative statements that showed the Venezuelan reality and made the public believe what that reality was like in the view of a group that even standing against-power, enjoyed part of the monopoly of the discursive production of that reality. From this position I focus on Pobre negro (1937) and I establish its connection to some XIXth century scholars through the élan pédagogique or bequest of the Illustration, in the deep conviction that “education could do everything”.

scholarly journals Virtual exchange: Romania and Hungary 100 years later

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Andra Cioltan-Drăghiciu ◽  
Daniela Stanciu
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Method ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Way

The aim of this Virtual Exchange (VE) project was to bring together students from the Andrássy Gyula German speaking university (AUB) in Budapest, Hungary, and Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu (LBUS), Romania, in order for them to get to know their neighbors and reflect on the way the end of WWI is remembered 100 years later. In this case study, we discuss the way we conceived the three iterations of the VE (2018-2020), the challenges we faced on different levels, as well as the value of this teaching method for the academic field of history.

Cultural heritage and creation: acquiring, cataloguing and promoting livres d’artistes in French public libraries

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
Sonja Graimprey
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Essential Step ◽  
Special Library ◽  
The Way ◽  
Library Collections

The term ‘livres d’artistes’ hides from view creative artworks, whose presence in special library collections is justified by their artistic and literary value but also by their value as witness of their times. After defining the content of these collections, this article analyses the way ‘livres d’artistes’ are managed. Because they are different from all other books, they struggle to find their public. Active promotion is thus an essential step in making them properly influential.

scholarly journals El Diario de Francisca: Representaciones infantiles sobre la violencia política en la vida cotidiana durante los 70 / Francisca’s private diary: Childhood representations of political violence in everyday life during the 70s

2018 ◽  
pp. 16-26
Author(s):  
Daniela Jara
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
La Niña ◽  
Military Coup ◽  
La Nina ◽  
Sociedad Civil ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Way ◽  
Violencia Politica

En este artículo se propone una lectura del Diario de Francisca, un registro autobiográfico escrito en plenos días de la Unidad Popular y el golpe de Estado por una niña de 11 años, miembro de una familia urbana de clase media alta. Luego de situar brevemente al diario íntimo o de vida como una práctica cultural propia de la modernidad, se analiza la manera en que el texto ilumina las operaciones a través de las cuales la niña va habitando el mundo, entramadas en dinámicas socio-afectivas mediadas, interrumpidas o potenciadas por la clase. Se sugiere que las representaciones infantiles articuladas en la escritura del diario íntimo muestran diversos aspectos de la producción y transmisión de la memoria de la violencia política, y de la relación con los contextos de su producción. El Diario describe una escena de la violencia política en que ésta, lejos de producirse de manera intempestiva, ya estaba instalada en las formas de la vida cotidiana de la Unidad Popular (UP).  Así, la voz de la niña nos permite ver cómo la violencia política está en parte instalada y cómo va instalándose en la sociedad civil durante la UP, ya no sólo entre víctimas y perpetradores, sino también entre los niños, quienes participan de ésta, la negocian y recrean o reproducen. Palabras claves: diario íntimo, violencia política, representaciones infantiles AbstractThis article focuses on Francisca's Diary, an autobiographical record written during the Unidad Popular (UP) period, more specifically in 1973. Francisca, an 11 year old girl, member of an urban middle-class family, witnesses the military coup and produces an intimate account of the events. After briefly situating the personal diary as a cultural practice typical of modernity, I will reflect on the way in which the text illuminates the operations through which the girl inhabits the world, embedded in socio-affective dynamics, interrupted or enhanced by social class. I suggest that Francisca’s Diary sheds light on various aspects of the production and transmission of the memory of political violence, the role of children representations and their relationship with the contexts in which they are produced. Also, I suggest that the Diary portraits a scene in which political violence was already embodied in the everyday life during the UP, no longer as a monopoly of victim and perpetrator agents. Rather I draw attention to the way in which the child negotiates, reproduces, represents and resists violence.Keywords: private diary, political violence, childhood representations

Sport, modernity and nation building: The Indonesian National Games of 1951 and 1953

2008 ◽  
Vol 164 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Brown
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Inherent Part ◽  
The Way

The study of sport – its social, political, cultural and economic aspects – is a well-established academic field, scholars widely acknowledging its significance in understanding how a society is organized and understood. As Perkin (1992:211) puts it: The history of societies is reflected more vividly in the way they spend their leisure than in their politics or their work […] the history of sport gives a unique insight into the way a society changes and impacts on other societies it comes into contact with and, conversely, the way those societies react back to it. Sport has a particular resonance in considerations of the emergence of modern nation-states out of colonialism, given the connections between the diffusion of modern sports around the world and the colonial experience. Although virtually all societies played games of various kinds, competitive, rule-based sports are essentially modern, western phenomena, dating back no further than the nineteenth century. Their spread through the world coincided with, and in many respects was an inherent part of, the expansion of western colonialism. In the British Empire in particular, sport was seen as reflecting the essential values and characteristics of the British race which justified the existence of colonialism. Wherever the British went, they took their sports with them, together with the social mores they represented.

Configuring Missiology: Reading Classified Bibliographies as Disciplinary Maps La configuration de la missiologie lire les bibliographies organisées comme des cartes de disciplines scientifiques Missiologie strukturieren: Das Lesen klassifizierter Bibliografien als Karten der Disziplin Configurar Misiología: Leer Bibliografías Clasificadas como Mapas Disciplinarios

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Skreslet
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Leadership Studies ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
The Past ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
The Way

AbstractAs the academic field of missiology has matured over the past century, nearly everything about the discipline became more complex. Clearly, the field has expanded beyond the boundaries of applied theology. Among its practitioners today are both secular observers and scholars who are themselves actively involved in world missionary efforts. In no other part of the typical seminary curriculum, perhaps, do the concerns of so many different academic fields naturally intersect, including history, linguistics, anthropology, sociology of religion, communications, education, leadership, studies of organizational behavior and, of course, all of the theological sciences. With such a broad range of potential themes to pursue and so many scholarly conversation partners to engage, missiologists may be tempted to envision their field of study as an inchoate collection of all human knowledge. This article argues otherwise by proposing a detailed framework in outline form for the discipline, by which the main divisions and most central topics of the field can be indicated. To prepare the way for this new proposal, several existing classified bibliographies related to missiology are analyzed. Avec la maturation du champ de la missiologie scientique au cours du siècle passé, presque tous les éléments de cette discipline sont devenus plus complexes. Le champ s'est clairement étendu au-delà des frontières de la théologie appliquée. Aujourd'hui on trouve parmi ses praticiens aussi bien des observateurs laïques que des érudits eux-mêmes activement engagés dans le travail missionnaire mondial. Probablement nulle part ailleurs, dans le programme type des séminaires, ne se croisent naturellement autant de champs scientifiques différents tels que l'histoire, la linguistique, l'anthropologie, la sociologie des religions, les communications, l'éducation, la formation des responsables, les études institutionnelles, et bien sûr toutes les sciences théologiques. Avec un tel éventail de thèmes à travailler et tant de partenaires possibles d'échange académique, les missiologues pourraient être tentés de considérer leur champ d'étude comme un ensemble embryonnaire de tout le savoir humain. Cet article propose au contraire un cadre schématique détaillé pour cette discipline, indiquant les principales divisions et les sujets les plus centraux de son champ. En vue de cette nouvelle proposition, il analyse plusieurs bibliographies organisées déjà existantes en lien avec la missiologie. Im Maße, in dem das akademische Feld der Missiologie in Laufe des vergangenen Jahrhunderts reifte, ist fast alles in dieser Disziplin komplexer geworden. Offensichtlich hat sich das Feld über die Grenzen der angewandten Theologie hinausentwickelt. Unter ihren Betreibern finden sich heute sowohl weltliche Beobachter wie auch Gelehrte, die selbst aktiv an den Anstrengungen der Weltmission teilnehmen. Wahrscheinlich in keinem anderen Teil eines Standard-curriculums eines Seminars kreuzen sich zwanglos so viele Fragestellungen von verschiedenen akademischen Gebieten, einschließlich Geschichte, Linguistik, Anthropologie, Religionssoziologie, Kommunikationswissenschaft, Erziehung, Leitungsfunktion, Studien von Organisationsverhalten und selbstverständlich alle theologischen Wissenschaften. Mit einer solchen Bandbreite von möglichen Themen, die angesprochen und mit wissenschaftlichen Gesprächspartnern verfolgt werden können, sind die Missiologen versucht, ihr Arbeitsgebiet als eine anfängliche Sammlung allen menschlichen Wissens zu betrachten. Dieser Artikel argumentiert für eine andere Sichtweise und schlägt in Grundrissen einen detaillierten Rahmen für diese Disziplin vor, der die hauptsächlichen Trennlinien und wichtigsten Zentralfragen in diesem Gebiet auflistet. In der Vorbereitung zu diesem neuen Vorschlag werden verschiedene vorhandene klassifizierte Biblio-graphien zur Missiologie untersucht. Como el campo académico de misiología ha madurado a través del siglo pasado, casi todo sobre la disciplina llegó a ser más complejo. Claramente, el campo ha extendido más allá de los límites de teología aplicada. Entre su practicantes hoy son observadores seculares y eruditos que están metidos activamente en el mundo de los esfuerzos misioneros. Quizás en ninguna otra parte del plan de estudios típicos del seminario cortan naturalmente los intereses de tantos campos académicos, incluso historia, lingüística, antropología, sociología de religión, comunicaciones, educación, dirigencia, estudios de la conducta organizativa y, por supuesto, todo de las ciencias teológicas. Con tantos temas potenciales para perseguir y tantos compañeros de conversación eruditos, los eruditos de misiología se tientan a prever su campo de estudio como una colección incoherente de todo conocimiento humano. Este artículo argumenta lo contrario proponiendo un marco detallado en líneas generales para la disciplina, en el que se pueden indicar las divisiones principales y tópicos más centrales del campo. Preparar el camino para esta propuesta nueva, se analizan varias bibliografías clasificadas actuales que están relacionadas con misiología.

Fighting the Good Fight: The Insurance Defense Litigator

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-355
Author(s):  
Daniel E. Cummins
Keyword(s):  
Law School ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Civil Litigation ◽  
Personal Injury ◽  
Defense Attorneys ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

Abstract‘Fighting the good fight’ is how some insurance defense attorneys view their position in civil litigation law as they work towards reasonable resolutions of personal injury damages claims and take the frivolous cases all the way to verdict. This writer was requested to analyze the day-to-day practice of an insurance defense litigator in tort matters. The focus of the paper was to provide those in the legal academic field with insight into defense litigation in the tort arena of personal injury matters. This paper endeavors to provide that insight along with suggestions as to areas of training that law students may benefit from if offered in law school to prepare them for the practice of law.

scholarly journals The Entanglement of Nation and Epistemology: Glances into the Backyard of Academic Dignity

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Fox
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Education Research ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
The United States ◽  
The West ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
The World ◽  
Thought Styles ◽  
The Way

This article addresses the phenomenon of ‘national epistemologies’ that areunderstood as particular ways to think about the world, both enabled and restrictedby national(ist) ideologies as cultural thesis about distinct commonality andtogetherness. With regard to methodology, the article describes on a general levelhow these ‘national epistemologies’ can be identified and particularly how theirdevelopment as nationally idiosyncratic ways of conceptualizing and conductingresearch can be explained, taking the academic field of education as an example. Theexistence of such distinct national research thought styles can be detected, at leastin the West: in the United States, in France, in England and in Germany. Thereby,imperial aspirations of these nationally connoted and configured phenomena cometo the fore, indicating their efforts of spreading from epistemologically strongernation(-state)s into weaker ones in the way of ‘travelling ideas’. Starting from thethought style represented by German Idealism, two major reasons or purposes forthese travels can be distinguished: One ‘by invitation’ and one ‘as occupation’, asrepresented by the case of Austria.Key words: Austria; education research; national epistemologies; nationalism;travelling ideas.

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