scholarly journals Continuity and Rupture: Comparative Literature and the Latin Tradition

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-389
Author(s):  
Paul White
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
National Borders

Studies of the Latin tradition played a major role in the formation of Comparative Literature as a discipline. In spite of their shared origins, the disciplines of Neo-Latin studies and Comparative Literature are today rarely brought into dialogue with one another. This article argues that such dialogues can be mutually productive, and that Neo-Latin literature exemplifies, and itself engages with, some of the key problems at issue in the latest dispensations of Comparative Literature. Ideas of cosmopolitanism and transnationalism, of bilingualism and the dynamic interactions between languages, energized Neo-Latin writing (and energize Neo-Latin studies today). Writers in the post-classical Latin tradition devoted great efforts to working through many of the problems and dichotomies that interest comparatists today: from defining the ‘literary’, to asking what it means for literary forms and a literary language to cross historical, cultural, and national borders. Using the classical theme of recusatio (‘refusal’) as a case study, I explore the ways in which Neo-Latin writers thematized in their writing a sense of the continuity and universality of literature which was nevertheless always threatened by rupture and fragmentation.

White Writers, Race Matters

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory S. Jay
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
The Social ◽  
White Writers ◽  
American Literary History ◽  
Taking Action

White liberal race fiction has been an enduringly popular genre in American literary history. It includes widely read and taught works such as Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird along with period bestsellers now sometimes forgotten. Hollywood regularly adapted them into blockbusters, reinforcing their cultural influence. These novels and films protest slavery, confront stereotypes, dramatize social and legal injustices, engage the political controversies of their time, and try to move readers emotionally toward taking action. The literary forms and arguments of these books derive from the cultural work they intend to do in educating the minds and hearts, and propelling the actions, of those who think they are white—indeed, in making the social construction of that whiteness readable and thus more susceptible of reform. The white writers of these fictions struggle with their own place in systems of oppression and privilege while asking their readers to do the same. The predominance of women among this tradition’s authors leads to exploring how their critiques of gender and race norms often reinforced each other. Each chapter provides a case study combining biography, historical analysis, close reading, and literary theory to map the significance of this genre and its ongoing relevance. This tradition remains vital because every generation must relearn the lessons of antiracism and formulate effective cultural narratives for passing on the intellectual and emotional tools useful in fighting injustice.

Poetics and subjectivities between classicism and Romanticism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Kahn ◽  
Mark Lipovetsky ◽  
Irina Reyfman ◽  
Stephanie Sandler
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Russian Poetry ◽  
Development Of Identity ◽  
Further Development

In the context of Sentimentalism in the 1770s, literary culture opened up to representations of human subjectivity. The chapter considers genres of poetry devoted to the themes of pleasure, death, and posterity. It also considers the spaces of poetry and modes of exchange, whether through the album, the salon, and the verse epistle. Two case studies explore the use of different literary forms in the further development of identity, individual and also authorial. The first looks at Radishchev’s experiment in writing a fictional diary as a psychological exercise. The second examines the tradition of imitation of Horace’s Monument poem in Russian poetry in the eighteenth century as well as by later poets, such as Pushkin and Brodsky. The case study shows how these Russian versions express changing ideas about imitation and originality as well as poets’ concern with posterity.

Speaking Italian with a Swiss-German Accent: Walter Ballmer and Swiss Graphic Design in Milan

Design Issues ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-41
Author(s):  
Chiara Barbieri ◽  
Davide Fornari
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Graphic Design ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Specific Time ◽  
Swiss German ◽  
Graphic Designer ◽  
National Borders

The article employs Walter Ballmer's experience as a Swiss graphic designer working in Milan in the second half of the twentieth century as a case study to think about national design discourses outside national borders, show their constructed nature, and explore their impact on individual lives and careers. Drawing on primary sources collected in the archive and through interviews, it maps out the socio-cultural network that gave meaning to Swiss graphic design and questions how this was perceived, understood, and performed in a specific time and place by Ballmer, his assistants, the broader graphic design community, and his clients.

Interpretation and working through in psychotherapy of children: A case study

1972 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-102
Author(s):  
Maurice J. Rosenthal ◽  
Sritham Thanaphum
Keyword(s):  
Working Through

Process Improvements to Decrease Pharmacy Turnaround Time

2001 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 750-752
Author(s):  
Gary F. Kilsdonk ◽  
Lori W. Henke ◽  
Diana L. Perley
Keyword(s):  
Community Hospital ◽  
Turnaround Time ◽  
Order Entry ◽  
Pharmacy Staff ◽  
Staff Morale ◽  
Process Improvements ◽  
Working Through

This case study will describe the steps taken to improve pharmacy turnaround times at a 450-bed community hospital. Working through a pharmacy/nursing committee, the pharmacy implemented changes to streamline the order entry process and reorganize workflow. An upgrade of unit-based dispensing cabinets improved floorstock levels and pharmacy control over this stock. Gains were made by faxing medication orders to pharmacy and by decentralizing pharmacy staff during peak hours. Turnaround times ranged between 80 to 147 minutes before the changes and 26 minutes to 33 minutes following the changes. Pharmacist turnover decreased and staff morale improved.

A Biographical Case Study of a Victimizer's Daughter's Strategy: Pseudo-Identification With the Victims of the Holocaust

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Rosenthal ◽  
Dan Bar-On
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Behavioral Sciences ◽  
The Real ◽  
Repair Strategy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Working Through ◽  
The Holocaust

Abstract Previous studies have shown that many children of former Nazi perpetrators either identify with their parents by denying their atrocities, by distancing them-selves emotionally from their parents, or by acknowledging their participation in the extermination process. Through a hermeneutical case study of the narrated life story of a Euthanasia physician's daughter, a type of strategy, which we defined as pseudo-identification with the victim, is reconstructed. The results of the analysis suggest that this is a repair strategy. Putting oneself in the role of one's parents' victim provides refuge from acknowledging possible identification with Nazism and its idols, as well as identifying oneself with the real victims of one's parents. In this case, the psychological consequences of this strategy are described: The woman still suffers from extermination anxieties which block further working through of the past. (Behavioral Sciences)

scholarly journals Pentecostals and the pulpit: A case study of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marius Nel
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Worship Service ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Pentecostal Churches ◽  
Apostolic Faith Mission ◽  
Comparative Literature Study

In general, early Pentecostals did not use any pulpits in their halls in order to underline their emphasis that each believer is a prophet and priest equipped by the Holy Spirit with gifts for the edification of other members of the assembly. All participated in the worship service by way of praying, prophesying, witnessing and bringing a message from God. From the 1940s, Pentecostals in their desire to be acceptable in their communities formed an alliance with evangelicals, accepted their hermeneutical viewpoint and built traditional churches in accordance with the Protestant tradition. From the 1980s, the pulpit started disappearing from the front of Pentecostal churches. This is explained in terms of new alliances that Pentecostals made with neo-Pentecostalist churches and a new hermeneutical viewpoint. The hypothesis of the article is that the Pentecostal stance towards the pulpit was determined by its hermeneutical perspectives. It is described by way of a comparative literature study and applied to a specific case study, the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa.

Frustration Is a Feature

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 519-524
Author(s):  
Brandon Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Emotional Work

This article argues that the primary role of the instructor is to help students understand and work with the difficult emotional states that arise from struggling to learn. Drawing on Sianne Ngai’s theorization of “ugly feelings” and using his own experience with digital humanities instruction as a case study, the author offers ways to center emotional work, especially work involving frustration and anxiety, in the classroom. Asking students to develop failed prototypes and reflect on the process, for example, can provide them with a better sense of what it might mean to succeed. Giving the same exercise twice, with artificially imposed difficulties the second time, might help them learn concrete steps for working through mounting irritation. In short, frustration and anxiety are not things that emerge from time to time—they are ever-present. The author argues that it is the job of instructors to develop ways to prepare students not for the unexpected failure but for the inevitable frustration that comes even with success.

The Myth of Televisual Ubiquity

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 691-705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Stewart
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Video On Demand ◽  
On Demand ◽  
National Borders

Popular and journalistic discussions of television often present a rhetoric, which suggests that television has become ubiquitous, any content being able to be watched anytime, anywhere. This article argues that this represents a myth of televisual ubiquity, which neglects the role still played by national borders and which makes assumptions about the types of television of interest to people. By accepting the myth of televisual ubiquity, we are making assertions about the television experience of some viewers over others, as well as creating a distinction of which television can be seen to have lasting importance. The article analyzes the components of the myth of televisual ubiquity and draws them together to consider a case study, video on demand in New Zealand.

scholarly journals PEOPLE MANAGEMENT AS A STRATEGIC TOOL FOR ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENThttp://dx.doi.org/10.5585/riae.v9i1.1652

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-55
Author(s):  
Nildes Pitombo Leite ◽  
Lindolfo Galvão de Albuquerque
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Multinational Company ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
Management Change ◽  
Top Executives ◽  
Carbon And Graphite

This article investigates the confluences and the dynamic interactions among people management, change strategy, and organizational development. It reports an exploratory, qualitative study: a case study involving a multinational company focused on the development and manufacture of carbon and graphite products. Primary data was collected through interviews involving five top executives, six managers, four sales/marketing persons, four staff, and seven representatives from operations. Secondary data was obtained from company documents. Based on content analysis from the interviews, it was concluded that the management of people in this organization was used as a tool for organizational development.

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