Mimowolna sylwa. O książce Anny Kaszuby-Dębskiej „Bruno. Epoka genialna”

Schulz/Forum ◽

10.26881/sf.2020.16.06 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 121-136

Author(s):

Marcin Romanowski

Keyword(s):

Critical Discussion ◽

Extensive Discussion ◽

Cultural Contexts ◽

Dominant Theme ◽

Lack Of Control ◽

Dense Tissue ◽

Authorial Voice

The article offers a critical discussion of Anna Kaszuba-Dębska’s book Bruno. Epoka genialna [Bruno. The Age of Genius]. The reviewer argues that the main feature of Kaszuba-Dębska narrative is its heterogeneity; it manifests itself through the renouncement of the authorial voice, which it replaced by a dense tissue of quotations, as well as through the extensive discussion of cultural contexts and the lack of a consistently outlined dominant theme organizing the course of the protagonist’s life. For this reason, the reviewer regards Kaszuba-Dębska’s publication as a text reminiscent of a silva rerum (cf. commonplace book), whose heterogeneity, however, seems to stem from the author’s lack of control over her material, rather than from an attempt to cross the borders of the biographical genre.

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Report on the Premods Workshop: Culture/Cultural History, University of Turku, Finland

Cultural History ◽

10.3366/cult.2016.0110 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 81-91

Author(s):

Heta Aali ◽

Henna Karppinen-Kummunmäki ◽

Niina Lehmusjärvi ◽

Anne Närhi ◽

Mari Tiihonen

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Cultural History ◽

Doctoral Students ◽

Gender Politics ◽

Critical Discussion ◽

Discussion Session ◽

Academic Institutions ◽

Extensive Discussion ◽

The Third ◽

The University

The Premods network (PREMODern Doctoral Students) at the University of Turku, Finland, organized a three-day workshop, which took place in September, focusing on the themes, definitions and problems of cultural history within the context of Nordic medieval and early modern historical studies and academic institutions. All participants and organizers of the network were doctoral students. The workshop was organized as a series of discussion sessions in which the participants were divided into four groups. Based on the participants' submitted papers, the themes for the first discussion session were gender, politics, communication and religion. For the second session all four groups were asked to reflect on the question ‘What is cultural history?’. The third (and final) discussion was entitled ‘The Problems/Basics of Cultural History’ and comprised four different themes: sources, theory, methods and ethics of cultural history. The workshop revealed the need for extensive discussion on the special characteristics of the whole field of cultural history in order to deconstruct the bias associated with the field. The direction of cultural history evoked debates, particularly about its all-encompassing nature. Mainly owing to these two previous points, the usefulness of cultural history inspired critical discussion among the participants.

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Dansk nytestamentlig forskning i 1980'erne

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift ◽

10.7146/rt.v0i19.5341 ◽

1991 ◽

Author(s):

Per Bilde

Keyword(s):

New Testament ◽

Critical Discussion ◽

Cultural Contexts ◽

The New Testament

This survey is an attempt to contribute to a much needed discussion of how to improve the quality of Danish New Testament research with the overall aim to make it more attractive to a wider circle of educated Danish readers. In other words, this survey is meant as an attempt to call Danish New Testament scholars to a self-critical discussion of the ways and lines Danish New Testament research has taken in the 1980s wehre, in my opinion, it has lost some of its earlier contact with both the academics and the general Danish public. In the article, Danish New Testament scholarship in the 1980s (and, to some extent, also in the 1970s and 1960s) is surveyed and examined critically. the "medicine" which is suggested to "cure the disease" is - to a greater extent, and by using the results of other related disciplines - to place the various examinations and interpretations of the New Testament and christian beginnings in wider historical and cultural contexts.

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The logoi of Philosophers in Lucian of Samosata

Classical Antiquity ◽

10.1525/ca.2010.29.2.250 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 250-277 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Karin Schlapbach

Keyword(s):

Roman Empire ◽

Second Sophistic ◽

Lucian Of Samosata ◽

The Core ◽

Lack Of Control ◽

Underprepared Student ◽

The Impact ◽

Authorial Voice ◽

Positive Character

This paper explores Lucian's presentation of the philosopher as a creator of discourse. In particular, the paper argues that the lack of control over the discourse, once it is passed on, is at the core of Lucian's treatment of philosophers. An analysis of this eminently Platonic problem allows the interpretation both to go beyond the simplistic view that Lucian has no real philosophical interest at all but merely follows the Second Sophistic trend of subordinating philosophy to rhetoric, and to qualify the idea that the dissolution of the authorial voice represents a sense of rupture experienced on the margins of the Roman empire. More importantly, this approach opens up new possibilities to understand two portraits of philosophers in Lucian's oeuvre that stand out for their positive character, Nigrinus and Demonax. While the latter work depicts a philosopher who uses words sparingly, but ideally enables a cognitive progress in the interlocutor, the former—a portrait of a “Platonist”—stages the breakdown of philosophical teaching by focusing on the impact of the philosopher's discourse on an underprepared student. The paper argues that Lucian, while posing as a reader of Plato in shaping his characters, raises the question of whether Plato himself succeeded as a philosophical writer, or whether in Lucian's eyes Plato's success as a writer was perhaps also his failure as a philosopher. But rather than shaping his own texts in opposition to philosophy, Lucian, like Plato, explores untrodden literary ways of addressing the most fundamental of philosophical problems, namely philosophy's expression in language.

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Experiences With and Lessons Learned From Developing, Implementing, and Evaluating a Support Program for Older Hearing Aid Users and Their Communication Partners in the Hearing Aid Dispensing Setting

American Journal of Audiology ◽

10.1044/2020_aja-19-00072 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (3S) ◽

pp. 638-647 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Janine F. J. Meijerink ◽

Marieke Pronk ◽

Sophia E. Kramer

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Hearing Aid ◽

Critical Discussion ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Research Note ◽

Support Program ◽

Large Sample Size ◽

Long Term Effects ◽

Communication Program ◽

Communication Partners

Purpose The SUpport PRogram (SUPR) study was carried out in the context of a private academic partnership and is the first study to evaluate the long-term effects of a communication program (SUPR) for older hearing aid users and their communication partners on a large scale in a hearing aid dispensing setting. The purpose of this research note is to reflect on the lessons that we learned during the different development, implementation, and evaluation phases of the SUPR project. Procedure This research note describes the procedures that were followed during the different phases of the SUPR project and provides a critical discussion to describe the strengths and weaknesses of the approach taken. Conclusion This research note might provide researchers and intervention developers with useful insights as to how aural rehabilitation interventions, such as the SUPR, can be developed by incorporating the needs of the different stakeholders, evaluated by using a robust research design (including a large sample size and a longer term follow-up assessment), and implemented widely by collaborating with a private partner (hearing aid dispensing practice chain).

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