Of Travellers, Messengers and Foundlings – Fictionality, Authorship, and Textual Property in Thomas More’s Paratexts

Moreana ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (Number 205- (3-4) ◽  
pp. 17-44
Author(s):  
Gabriela Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
One Step

Paratexts have attracted increasing attention in recent scholarship as an especially privileged tool for managing the reception of a text in early print culture, and Thomas More was certainly an exceptionally versatile user of this strategic publishing device. Not only does he make ample use of conventional paratextual techniques such as prefaces, marginal glosses and commendatory poems, he also takes the medium one step further by making his paratexts part of the narrative setting of his works, especially in the literary dialogues. In creating a plethora of (semi-)fictional voices and contexts, he effectively blurs the line between text and context, fact and fiction, and author and editor/printer. While this textual game of hide-and-seek has been extensively studied in Utopia and has often been seen as a typically ‘humanist’ feature of the text, the present article explores similar techniques throughout More’s work, thus overcoming the alleged rift between his pre- and post-reformation writings.

scholarly journals Composing Arugat ha-Bosem: How Piyyut Commentary Became Associated with Ḥasidei Ashkenaz

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Hollender
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Open Book ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
New Research ◽  
Hasidei Ashkenaz

AbstractBased on Ivan Marcus’s concept of “open book” and considerations on medieval Ashkenazic concepts of authorship, the present article inquires into the circumstances surrounding the production of SeferArugat ha-Bosem, a collection of piyyut commentaries written or compiled by the thirteenth-century scholar Abraham b. Azriel. Unlike all other piyyut commentators, Abraham ben Azriel inscribed his name into his commentary and claims to supersede previous commentaries, asserting authorship and authority. Based on the two different versions preserved in MS Vatican 301 and MS Merzbacher 95 (Frankfurt fol. 16), already in 1939 Ephraim E. Urbach suggested that Abraham b. Azriel might have written more than one edition of his piyyut commentaries. The present reevaluation considers recent scholarship on concepts of authorship and “open genre” as well as new research into piyyut commentary. To facilitate a comparison with Marcus’s definition of “open book,” this article also explores the arrangement and rearrangement of small blocks of texts within a work.

scholarly journals Developing the Program Evaluation Utility Standards: Scholarly Foundations and Collaborative Processes

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald B. Yarbrough
Keyword(s):  
Program Evaluation ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Educational Evaluation ◽  
Évaluation De Programme ◽  
The Third ◽  
Mise En Œuvre ◽  
Collaborative Processes ◽  
Recent Scholarship

Developing the third edition of the program evaluation utility standards required multilevel collaborations among task force members, members of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, sponsoring organizations, and hundreds of involved stakeholders. The scholarship on evaluation use, influence, and collaboration was foundational for the utility standards and materials accompanying them and equally important for informing the processes guiding utility standards development. This article emphasizes the foundational role of this recent scholarship and the roles played by all who collaborated in planning and implementing the utilitystandards development processes.Il a fallu une collaboration à toutes sortes de niveaux entre les membres du groupe de travail, les membres du Comité mixte sur les normes d'évaluation en éducation, les organisations commanditaires et des centaines d’intervenants pour arriver à la troisième édition des normes d’utilité en évaluation de programme. Les normes d’utilité et les documents connexes ont leur fondement dans les recherches sur l’utilisation, l’influence de l’évaluation, et la collaboration, recherches qui ont eu un impact important sur les processus qui ont guidé l’établissement des normes d’utilité. Le présent article met l’accent sur le rôle fondamental de ces recherches récentes et sur les rôles joués par toutes les personnes qui ont contribué à la planifi cation et à la mise en oeuvre des processus d’élaboration des normes d’utilité.

scholarly journals El uso de subtítulos pasivos y activos en la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras: una revisión de las posibilidades didácticas de ambos recursos

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-250
Author(s):  
Gloria Torralba-Miralles
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Teaching Tool ◽  
One Step ◽  
Audiovisual Translation

After years of rejection and criticism blaming on their entertaining nature as a source of distraction within the classroom, in recent decades audiovisual translation has been accepted as a tool for language learning. Real-life needs have shown that watching subtitled audiovisual materials enhances language acquisition and foster varied skills, so that it has gained a place in the classroom. Recently, one step forward has been taken in the use of this resource, moving from passive subtitles to active subtitling, in order to turn the target receiver —the foreign-language student— into a subtitler. The present article reviews the didactic possibilities of both activities, analyses the benefits of active subtitling, and presents some subtitling programmes whose features make them feasible for use as a teaching tool.

Troubling the Troublemakers Three Challenges to Post-Qualitative Inquiry

2021 ◽  
pp. 194084472110526
Author(s):  
Jesper Aagaard
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Current State ◽  
One Step

In recent years, a number of prominent scholars have criticized the current state of qualitative research and advocated a paradigm of post-qualitative inquiry (PQI). Incorporating insights from new materialism, PQI seeks to trouble what it calls conventional humanist qualitative methodology (CHQM). Although sympathetic to this overall project, the present article identifies and discusses three challenges in current PQI, namely the roles it ascribes to theory, to data, and to writing. It is argued that PQI risks succumbing to 1) theory-centrism, 2) researcher deletion, and 3) meta-reflexivity. By pinpointing these three challenges, the article hopes to nudge PQI one step further in its continuous theoretical “becoming.”

scholarly journals DIKTYS OF CRETE

2012 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 58-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Gainsford
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Comprehensive List ◽  
Trojan War ◽  
High Profile ◽  
General Overview ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Modern Thought

‘Diktys of Crete’ is a fictionalised prose account of the Trojan War. It does not enjoy a high profile in modern thought, but looms large in Byzantine and mediaeval histories of the Troy matter. Although the ‘Latin Dictys’ has enjoyed a moderate revival in recent scholarship, the Byzantine testimony to Diktys is still badly neglected. The present article focuses on: (1) a general overview of the Greek Diktys, including up-to-date information on dating; (2) a comprehensive list of witnesses to Diktys (the first list of its kind for over a century, and the first ever in English); (3) some problems relating to Book 6 of the ‘Latin Dictys’; and (4) an overview of theSisyphosfrage, that is, the question of the role of ‘Sisyphos of Kos’ in the transmission of the Greek Diktys.

“Imagined Identities, Imagined Nationalisms: Print Culture and Egyptian Nationalism in Light of Recent Scholarship.” A Review Essay of Israel Gershoni and James P. Jankowski,Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930–1945, Cambridge Middle East Studies (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995). Pp. 297

1997 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Smith Charles
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Third World ◽  
The West ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Middle East Studies ◽  
Modern Era

Anthony D. Smith has argued that the idea of the “nation-state” conflates two historical and ideological processes that, even with Western European history serving as the paradigm, were often distinct. Nor was there any uniform evolution in these processes from one stage to the other. For Smith this has meant that “Eastern Europe and the Third World have all been trying to imitate a rather singular model whose ethnic homogeneity, like its parliamentary institutions, simply cannot be transplanted. They have been pursuing a Western mirage … [where] even in the West, the much soughtafter marriage of state and ethnie has not turned out to be all that happy and enduring.” Smith assumes that true nations are based onethnie, meaning a shared memory of culture, language, and history identified with specific territory stretching into the past that creates both a bond within the group, the precursor to nationhood, and a sense of distinction against other such groups. Here he opposes those whom he calls the “modernists,” who may argue with one another about what constitutes nationalism but agree that it reflects the development of nationhood in the modern era and is not an inevitable extension of ancient historical and cultural bonds.

Ezekiel At the Turn of the Century

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Risa Levitt Kohn
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
The State ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Literary Relations ◽  
State Of The Field

Recent scholarship has helped illuminate historical circumstances sur rounding the Israelite Exile. As a result, the book of Ezekiel has gained renewed interest. As a prophet of the Exile, Ezekiel is recognized as an important and liminal figure in the evolution of Israelite theology. In the 1994 volume of Currents, Pfisterer Darr surveyed the state of the field of Ezekiel studies. The present article identifies and examines several emerg ing trends in Ezekiel scholarship since the publication of Pfisterer Darr's study, including literary relations in Ezekiel, the psychology of the prophet, Ezekiel's sign-acts, adulterous Jerusalem (Ezek. 16; 23), corporate and indi vidual responsibility (Ezek. 18), and recent scholarship on Ezek. 40-48.

Triptych on Sir Thomas More : A Review of Recent Scholarship

Moreana ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 18 (Number 71-7 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 115-126
Author(s):  
Clare M. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Thomas More ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Sir Thomas More

Serto before Serto: Reexamining the Earliest Development of Syriac Script

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-63
Author(s):  
Michael Penn ◽  
R. Jordan Crouser ◽  
Philip Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Visual Analytics ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Large Data Sets ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Digital Analysis ◽  
Sequential Development ◽  
Recent Scholarship

Abstract Scholars have traditionally categorised early Syriac manuscripts as either Estrangela or Serto. The same categories dominate the prevailing narrative of how Syriac script is thought to have developed. Most see Estrangela as the earliest strata of Syriac and Serto as a later development. More recent scholarship explores how early manuscripts support neither this stark division between script styles nor a sequential development. Of particular challenge to this paradigm are a series of securely dated colophons and notes which use a script style different than the main part of the text. But previous work has looked at only five examples of this phenomenon. By expanding this investigation to 30 examples and drawing upon a recent compiled digital corpus of over 100,000 early Syriac letter forms, the present article explores how large data sets, digital analysis, and visual analytics can help one better understand the development of Aramaic scripts.

Palaeography, Precision and Publicity: Further Thoughts on P.Ryl.iii.457 (P52)

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-499
Author(s):  
Brent Nongbri
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Third Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
Recent Scholarship

P.Ryl.iii.457, a papyrus fragment of the gospel of John known to New Testament scholars as P52, is regularly publicised as the earliest extant Christian manuscript and forms a central part of the Rylands collection. Yet the date generally assigned to the fragment (‘about 125 ad’) is based entirely on palaeography, or analysis of handwriting, which cannot provide such a precise date. The present article introduces new details about the acquisition of P52, engages the most recent scholarship on the date of the fragment and argues that the range of possible palaeographic dates for P52 extends into the third century.

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