Self as One and Many Narratives

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Joseph Ulatowski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Narrative Self ◽  
Inner Self ◽  
One And Many ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Work And Life

There are different approaches to the narrative self. I limit myself to one approach that argues narratives have an important role to play in our lives without it being true that a narrative constitutes and creates the self. My own position is broadly sympathetic with that view, but my interest lies with the question of whether there is truth in the claim that to create one’s self-narrative is to create oneself. I argue that a self-narrative may be multiply realised by the inner self—impressions and emotions—and the outer self—roles in work and life. I take an optimistic attitude to the idea that narrative provides a metaphor that may stimulate insight into the nature of self if we accept a plurality of narrative selves. This paper mines a vein of research on narratives for insights into selves without being bewitched into accepting implausible conclusions.

The Relationship between Seeker and Spiritual Guide as portrayed in contemporary Western Sufi Autobiographies

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-332
Author(s):  
Kate Zebiri
Keyword(s):  
Life Writing ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Self ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Continuity And Discontinuity

This article aims to explore the Shaykh-mur?d (disciple) or teacher-pupil relationship as portrayed in Western Sufi life writing in recent decades, observing elements of continuity and discontinuity with classical Sufism. Additionally, it traces the influence on the texts of certain developments in religiosity in contemporary Western societies, especially New Age understandings of religious authority. Studying these works will provide an insight into the diversity of expressions of contemporary Sufism, while shedding light on a phenomenon which seems to fly in the face of contemporary social and religious trends which deemphasize external authority and promote the authority of the self or individual autonomy.

Die Eigen-Werte der Literatur

2009 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-119
Author(s):  
Matthias Bickenbach
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Literary Writing ◽  
Self Organisation ◽  
Insight Into

Eine der zentralen Fragen moderner Poetik ist, wie der Werkentstehungsprozeß von kreativer Materialfülle zur ästhetischen Bestimmtheit des Erzählten als autonomem Kunstwerk übergeht. Sten Nadolnys Poetikvorlesung gibt überraschende Einsichten in die Selbstorganisation von Steuerungsbewegungen, die noch unterhalb der Ebene des Schreibens liegen und die als Theorie der Eigenwerte in der Literatur herauszustellen ist. One of the central questions in modern poetics is, how literary writing proceeds from the creative richness of its material to an aesthetic determination as autonomous art. Sten Nadolnys lectures on his poetics enable an astonishing insight into the self-organisation of operations beyond writing, which can be considered as a theory of self-values in literature.

Speed vs. comfort: Testing the efficacy of a single question for predicting transit users’ route choices

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph John Pyne Simons ◽  
Ilya Farber
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Efficient Method ◽  
Choice Task ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Single Item ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Single Question ◽  
Insight Into

Not all transit users have the same preferences when making route decisions. Understanding the factors driving this heterogeneity enables better tailoring of policies, interventions, and messaging. However, existing methods for assessing these factors require extensive data collection. Here we present an alternative approach - an easily-administered single item measure of overall preference for speed versus comfort. Scores on the self-report item predict decisions in a choice task and account for a proportion of the differences in model parameters between people (n=298). This single item can easily be included on existing travel surveys, and provides an efficient method to both anticipate the choices of users and gain more general insight into their preferences.

Women and Agency in Bankim’s Rajmohan’s Wife and Tagore’s The Home and The World

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manju Dhariwal ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Self ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
English Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Status Of Women

Written almost half a century apart, Rajmohan’s Wife (1864) and The Home and the World (1916) can be read as women centric texts written in colonial India. The plot of both the texts is set in Bengal, the cultural and political centre of colonial India. Rajmohan’s Wife, arguably the first Indian English novel, is one of the first novels to realistically represent ‘Woman’ in the nineteenth century. Set in a newly emerging society of India, it provides an insight into the status of women, their susceptibility and dependence on men. The Home and the World, written at the height of Swadeshi movement in Bengal, presents its woman protagonist in a much progressive space. The paper closely examines these two texts and argues that women enact their agency in relational spaces which leads to the process of their ‘becoming’. The paper analyses this journey of the progress of the self, which starts with Matangini and culminates in Bimala. The paper concludes that women’s journey to emancipation is symbolic of the journey of the nation to independence.

Vibration-Induced Loosening Performance of Preloaded Threaded Fasteners

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianjie Yang ◽  
Sayed Nassar
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Model ◽  
Excitation Amplitude ◽  
The Self ◽  
Transverse Displacement ◽  
Transverse Loading ◽  
Threaded Fasteners ◽  
Bolt Preload ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Number Of Cycles ◽  
Insight Into

In an effort to establish a theoretical outline of a criterion for preventing the vibration-induced loosening of preloaded threaded fasteners, this paper provides an experimental and analytical insight into the effect of the initial bolt preload and the excitation amplitude on the self loosening performance of cap screw fastener. A nonlinear model is used for predicting the clamp load loss caused by the vibration-induced loosening of cap screw fasteners under cyclic transverse loading. Experimental verification was conducted on the twisting torque variation and the effect of the preload level and transverse displacement amplitude. Comparison of the experimental and analytical results on the clamp load loss with the number of cycles verifies that the proposed model accurately predicts self-loosening performance.

scholarly journals Lanthanide Homobimetallic Triple-Stranded Helicates: Insight into the Self-Assembly Mechanism

2004 ◽  
Vol 2004 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mourad Elhabiri ◽  
Josef Hamacek ◽  
Jean-Claude G. Bünzli ◽  
Anne-Marie Albrecht-Gary
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
The Self ◽  
Assembly Mechanism ◽  
Insight Into

scholarly journals Telling the Untellable: Negotiating Maternal Bereavement in Sophie Daull's Camille, mon envolée (2015)

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-185
Author(s):  
Julie Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Infection ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Self ◽  
Traumatic Loss ◽  
Death Scene ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Mother Figure ◽  
Maternal Motivation ◽  
Insight Into

Sophie Daull's Camille, mon envolée (2015) is an autobiographical depiction of the sudden and traumatic loss of an only daughter (Camille) due to an undetected fatal bacterial infection. It is recounted uniquely from the maternal point of view and directly addresses the daughter throughout. It concerns an incredibly recent bereavement as the writing of the text, the author tells us, commences just one week after the daughter's death. Camille, mon envolée is a markedly intimate and brutally honest account of a mother who is an active witness to and, one could argue, participant in her daughter's agonizing death scene. The text captures the sense of powerlessness that is experienced by the mother, the incomprehensibility of the loss, the self-blame, and, finally, the coming to terms with it and the learning to live on, not without guilt, however. It also offers insight into maternal motivation for writing such a text, ranging from a quest for understanding and an outlet for grief, to a desire to preserve the daughter's memory. Furthermore, through close examination of the physical, psychological and social impact of the death of a child on mother figure subjectivity, Camille mon envolée successfully traces out for the reader the very specific characteristics of maternal bereavement and its overwhelmingly embodied nature. Finally, the text represents an engagement on the part of the grieving mother with what has been termed 'scriptotherapy' in a bid to negotiate this trauma and find a means, not only of remembering the daughter, but also of surviving the tragedy. In this respect, Camille, mon envolée is a text of resistance, where the unthinkable is confronted and the untellable bravely told.

scholarly journals Customer Safety Perception during a Self-Collection Process at IKEA Warehouse Self-Service

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 4678-4683
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Safety Issue ◽  
The Self ◽  
Customer Perception ◽  
Collection Process ◽  
Safety Perception ◽  
Shopping Experience ◽  
Self Service ◽  
Insight Into

This study examines the self-service management of IKEA warehouse. IKEA has managed to make its product and service more popular not only on price but by creating a unique shopping experience for the customer. The objective of this research is to investigate the customer perception towards the self-collection process at IKEA warehouse self-service. A quantitative method was adopted targeting the IKEA customer. 196 respondents participated in answering the questionnaire. The result of this study offers a preliminary insight into the safety issue of the warehouse self-service implementation.

scholarly journals Successful Against All Odds? – Margaret Fuller: The Self-Made Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Ad Americam ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 143-154
Author(s):  
Jolanta Szymkowska-Bartyzel
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
The Self ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Margaret Fuller ◽  
Cultural Model ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
The Times ◽  
Work And Life

Margaret Fuller was an American philosopher, writer, journalist and one of the first gender theorists. The article examines Fuller’s work and life in the context of 19th century American culture and social determinants influencing women’s lives. From a very early age, Fuller perceived her role in society different from the role designed for her as a biological girl by the cultural model of the times she lived in. The article focuses on Fuller’s achievements in the context of the self-made man/woman concept.

scholarly journals Mirror of Time: Temporality and Contemporaneity in the work of Jorge Luis Borges

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 75-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Donnelly
Keyword(s):  
Jorge Luis Borges ◽  
The Self ◽  
Structural Composition ◽  
Collective Structure ◽  
Historical Progress ◽  
Temporal Relationships ◽  
Insight Into

Borges recognized the cracking facade of modernity and the fragility of its monist absolutisms, its commitment to linearity, and its faith in historical progress.  By disavowing the ability of time to be contained within any collective structure of representation, Borges both refutes modernist conceptions of time and offers insight into recent theories of contemporaneity.  A contemporaneous reading of Borges opens lucid temporal relationships, challenges assumptions about the affinities between the self and time, allows for the existence of multiple temporal antimonies, and ultimately reveals the contemporaneous relationship between individual sensations of time of the collective structural composition of temporality.

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