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Essi, Cedric. „Queer Genealogies across the Color Line and into Children’s Literature: Autobiographical Picture Books, Interraciality, and Gay Family Formation“. Genealogy 2, Nr. 4 (20.10.2018): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy2040043.
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Life writing scholar Julia Watson critiques the practice of genealogy as “in every sense conservative” (300) because it traditionally charts and enshrines a family’s collective biography through biologistic, heteronormative, and segregated routes. My Americanist contribution, however, zooms in on a recent development of autobiographical works that establish narratives of origin beyond normative boundaries of race and heterosexual reproduction. A number of predominantly white queer parents of black adoptees have turned their family history into children’s read-along books as a medium for pedagogical empowerment that employs first-person narration in the presumable voice of the adoptee. In Arwen and Her Daddies (2009), for instance, Arwen invites the reader into a story of family formation with the following opening words: “Do you know how I and my Dads became a family?” My analysis understands these objects as verbal-visual origin stories which render intelligible a conversion from differently radicalized strangers into kin. I frame this mode of narration as ‘adoptee ventriloquism’ that might tell us more about adult desires of queers for familial recognition than about the needs of their adopted children.
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Goar, Carla, Jenny L. Davis und Bianca Manago. „Discursive Entwinement: How White Transracially Adoptive Parents Navigate Race“. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 3, Nr. 3 (18.10.2016): 338–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2332649216671954.
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Through 47 interviews with 56 White parents who attend culture camps, the authors analyze race discourse and practices in transracially adoptive families. The authors document parents’ use of two discursive frames, colorblindness and race consciousness, and find that small subsamples of parents use either race consciousness or colorblindness exclusively, while the majority (66 percent) entwine the two discursive frames together. Because the sample is drawn from culture camps, which emphasize race and ethnicity, this sample begins with some degree of racial attunement. As such, the continued presence of colorblindness among the sample indicates the deep rootedness of White hegemonic logic. However, the emergence of race consciousness indicates the potential for White transracially adoptive families to engage race critically. Moreover, the analyses draw a clear line between how parents articulate racial understandings in their interviews and the ways parents report talking about race and racism with their children. These findings are directly relevant to ongoing debates about the ethics of transracial adoption and racial identity development among transracial adoptees. More generally, these findings speak to the ways Whites’ racial understandings are constrained, but not determined, by a history and biography of privilege.
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Roberge, Marc-André. „Opus sorabjianum : les joies et les souffrances d’un biographe“. Articles 35, Nr. 1 (14.02.2017): 105–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1038946ar.
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La recherche, la rédaction et la publication de la première biographie du compositeur, pianiste et critique anglais Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892–1988), parue en 2013 sous la forme d’un fichier au format PDF sur le Sorabji Resource Site, site documentaire géré par son auteur, a représenté un projet d’envergure qui s’est étalé sur de nombreuses années. L’article consiste en une visite individuelle guidée dans l’atelier du biographe permettant de constater l’ampleur des défis, les techniques de recherche mises en oeuvre, les difficultés rencontrées et les solutions adoptées pour arriver à fournir au lecteur ce qui a semblé la façon idéale de jeter une base solide pour toute recherche future.
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Finnane, Antonia. „The Origins of Prejudice: The Malintegration of Subei in Late Imperial China“. Comparative Studies in Society and History 35, Nr. 2 (April 1993): 211–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500018351.
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The convention for introducing biography in the Chinese textual tradition is to identify the subject not only by his name but also by his native place. The classic formula used for this purpose is set out in the preface to “The True Story of Ah Q,” in which Lu Xun remarks that “when writing biography, it is the usual practice to begin ‘so-and-so, from such-and-such place’ ” (Lu 1959 [1921]: 93). This formula was adopted in official documents, popular stories, obituaries and tomb epitaphs as well as in formal biographies or biographical notices. There were variations in its form, in which the person was identified as being “native of this place, living in that place” or “originally of this place, now of that place.” But in any event, a man was, and still is, normally identified by both his personal name and the name of his place of origin, just as a woman was usually identified by the names of her father and her husband. The problem for Lu Xun as fictional biographer was that Ah Q's name was a matter of debate and his place of origin unknown: He floated unmoored through Chinese society.
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White, Nick. „Gitta Sereny and Albert Speer's ‘Battle with Truth’ on the London Stage“. New Theatre Quarterly 17, Nr. 2 (Mai 2001): 170–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00014573.
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Prompted by the investigative journalist Gitta Sereny's biography Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth, two recent productions, Esther Vilar's Speer and David Edgar's Albert Speer, have set out to explore the reputation of Hitler's architect and later Minister of Armaments and War Production, Albert Speer, the only leading Nazi to acknowledge his guilt at the Nuremberg Trials. The plays, like the biography, are concerned with the extent of Speer's knowledge of the ‘Final Solution’ during his career in the Nazi hierarchy, and consequently with the integrity of the stance he adopted at Nuremberg and thereafter – that is, of his claim of guilt by association and omission rather than by active participation. In her biography, Sereny claims that as a result of her association with Speer he eventually acknowledged his guilt to her, and was repentant. But Nick White believes that the evidence – much of it unearthed by Sereny herself – suggests otherwise, and that Sereny had failed to acknowledge that between 1978 and his death in 1981 Speer consistently deceived her about crucial aspects of this evidence. How successful are Vilar and Edgar in their quite different dramatic sifting, not only of the public persona of Speer, but also of the interpretation granted their subject by the biographer upon whom their plays, to a lesser and greater degree, depend? Nick White has taught at City University, London, and his PhD dissertation, ‘In the Absence of Memory? Jewish Fate and Dramatic Representation: the Production and Critical Reception of Holocaust Drama on the London Stage, 1945–1989’ (1998) has been followed by a companion volume of criticism, articles, and letters, The Critical Reception of Holocaust Drama on the British Stage, 1939–2000.
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Jordaan, Annette. „Die ‘moeilike reis’: Die skryf van ’n lewensverhaal oor ’n kontroversiële broer“. Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 50, Nr. 3 (18.05.2018): 121–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tl.v50i3.5116.
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The essay reflects on the “difficult journey” undertaken when the essay writer was tasked to write the life story of her adoptive brother, the late lieutenant-general Lothar Neethling (1935–2005). His life story is a remarkable one: the author’s parents adopted this German war orphan in 1948 in his early teens; he became an exceptionally well qualified scientist and at the age of 35 he became the head of the South African Police Force’s forensic laboratory. The laboratory was instrumental in solving many crime-related cases during the period of National Party rule. Towards the end of 1989 newspaper reports implicated Neethling personally as the source of poison used against African National Congress activists. Although he ultimately won his case of defamation on appeal against these newspapers he was not exonerated unconditionally. The biographer reflects on her approach in writing his biography, the difficulties of balancing kindred loyalty, personal and collegial affinities and her objective to portray the life of a complex human being.
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Rohrbacher, David. „Physiognomics in Imperial Latin Biography“. Classical Antiquity 29, Nr. 1 (01.04.2010): 92–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ca.2010.29.1.92.
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A distinctive feature of the biographies of Suetonius is his methodical and detailed description of the physical appearances of the emperors. This feature was adopted by two fourth-century Latin writers, Ammianus Marcellinus and the anonymous author of the Historia Augusta. This study will explore how ancient theories of the relationship between appearance and character intersect with the physical descriptions of emperors the authors provide. These authors reveal themselves to be engaged with contemporary approaches to the question without being bound by any one theory, and thus presuppose a readership for whom physiognomic questions were both interesting and debatable. The approaches of the authors to this minor feature in their work also offer broader insight into their biographical style and purpose.
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Topan, Farouk. „Biography Writing in Swahili“. History in Africa 24 (Januar 1997): 299–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3172032.
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Any meaningful assessment of biography and autobiography writing among the Swahili as a historical source needs to take at least three factors into consideration. The first is the influence of Arab literary traditions on the emergence of the genre on the East African coast; the second is the relationship between literacy and orality, and its implication for writing and narration in an African context. The role of colonialism, and the introduction of the Western “mode” of biography and autobiography writing, forms the third factor. The aim of the paper is to survey these factors, not chronologically, but as part of a general discussion on the notion and status of the genre in the Swahili context.Swahili interface with Arabic as an essential ingredient of Islamic practice laid the foundation for the development of literate genres on the East African coast, among them the biographical and the historical. In the process, Swahili adopted styles of narrative expression which are reflected in the terms employed for them. The most common are habari (from the Arabic khabar) and wasifu (from wasf). In its original usage, khabar denoted a description of an event or events that were connected in a single narrative by means of a phrase such as “in that year.” It lacked a genealogy of narrators, and the form was stylistically flexible to include verses of poetry relevant to the events. In Swahili the current meaning of the word habari is “information” and “news” (and, hence, also a greeting) but, as a historical genre, it has been used in two ways. The first is in relation to the history of the city-states recounted through documents whose titles include the word, khabari/habari, (or the plural, akhbar in Arabic), usually translated as “chronicle(s).”
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Tierling-Śledź, Ewa. „Bio/hagio/grafie czasu Zagłady – przypadek Stanisławy Leszczyńskiej“. Polish Biographical Studies 1, Nr. 9 (31.12.2021): 112–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/pbs.2021.06.
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The main thesis of this article is that the concept of “bio/hagio/graphy” is the key to understanding the communication mechanisms of the narrative on historical figures regarded as national heroes and/or saints of the Catholic Church in the context of recent Polish history. The author of this text, perceiving biography as a set of narrative practices, notices that in “bio/hagio/graphy” these practices are subordinate to the hagiographic attitude towards the protagonist of the story adopted by the author of the work. This phenomenon is exemplified by the process of shaping bio/hagio/ graphic narrative about Stanisława Leszczyńska. Various stages of reconstructing the biography of the “midwife from Auschwitz” were distinguished, in which the biographical narrative evolved from autobiographical testimony through hagiographic practices of the religious community to the popular circulation of literature, not necessarily of confessional nature.
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Mohammed, Yousif, und Marwan Tawfeeq. „The use of Industrial Posters and Graphic Expressions in acquiring the concepts of the Prophet's biography for Students of Qur’anic Science and Islamic Education“. Islamic Sciences Journal 13, Nr. 1 (17.03.2023): 360–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/jis.22.13.1.2.14.
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The world is witnessing tremendous development and progress in all areas of life, including the field of education and the means used in it. Therefore, the researchers sought to identify the use of (industrial) murals and graphic expression and their impact on acquiring the concepts of the Prophet’s biography among students of the Department of Quranic Sciences and developing their altruistic behavior to learn from the material. The researchers designed a partial controlled experimental design and intentionally selected a sample of second-year students in the Department of Qur’anic Sciences at the College of Education for Human Sciences, Tikrit University, and on the classroom platform for e-learning. The sample consisted of (77) students who were divided into three classes, and by (27) students for the first experimental group, (25) students for the second experimental group, and (25) students for the third control group. The researchers rewarded the research groups as mentioned in the limits of the research. The research subject (the Noble Biography of the Prophet for the second stage in the departments of Quranic sciences and Islamic education), and in the light of its content, the researchers identified the Islamic concepts from the Biography of the Prophet, which numbered (14) concepts, and in light of it, the researchers prepared behavioral goals numbering (60) behavioral goals, and prepared plans Teaching, the researchers prepared a test for acquiring the concepts of the Prophet's biography of the type (multiple choice) of (30) paragraphs. The two researchers verified the apparent validity, the content validity, its discriminatory strength and the difficulty coefficient, and extracted its stability using the Pearson correlation coefficient, which amounted to (0.84). The two researchers adopted the Altruistic Behavior Scale of Al-Daoudi (2004), the researchers studied the two research groups themselves, and after completing the experiment, the researchers applied the test of acquiring concepts in the Prophet’s biography and the dimensional altruistic behavior scale on the research groups, and after completing the application, the data were statistically treated using the SPSS computer program. The fourth chapter includes the conclusion and in the fifth chapter, the researchers concluded, recommended and make the suggestions.
Dissertationen zum Thema "Adoptees – Biography"
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Rizzo, Steven. „God's Perfect Timing“. Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12193/.
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When I was thirty-three years old, I discovered I was an adoptee. In this memoir of secrecy and love, betrayal and redemption, I reflect on my early experiences as a doted-on only child firmly rooted in the abundant love of my adoptive family, my later struggles with depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder, my marriage to a fellow-adoptee, my discovery of my own adoption and the subsequent reunion with my birth family, my navigation through the thrills and tensions of newly complicated family dynamics, and my witness to God's perfect timing through it all.
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Feinstein, Carla Fran. „Dying to Know“. PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1318.
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Ceridwen, Spark, und Cuthbert Denise, Hrsg. Other people's children: Adoption in Australia. North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Pub., 2009.
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Guardiano, Christine. Spiritual journey: Story of an adopted child. Melville, NY: Christine Guardiano Pub., 2006.
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Risley, Marius B. Olive Risley Seward: A personal impression. [Hartford, Conn.(?)]: Risley Family Association, 1988.
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Mylläri, Anu Rohima. Adoptoitu. Helsingissä: Otava, 2005.
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Bardill, Lilly. Lasse mich wieder Mensch sein: Erinnerungen eines Adoptivkindes. Chur: Terra Grischuna, 1994.
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Shideler, Martha. Coming together: An adoptee's story. Springdale, Arkansas: TigerEye Publications, 2011.
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Singleton, Margaret. Box in the closet: My journey to claim who i am. [Place of publication not identified]: Trafford On Demand Pub, 2011.
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1967-, Miró Asha, Hrsg. Las dos caras de la luna. 3. Aufl. [Barcelona]: Lumen, 2004.
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Reunion. Auckland, N.Z: Penguin, 1988.
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Blue-eyed son: The story of an adoption. London: Macmillan, 2004.
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„A Number of Special Aspects of the Construction of Biography and Identity in the Adoptive Family“. In The Adopted Child, 237–72. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315130866-5.
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Donaldson, Ian. „National Biography and the Arts of Memory: From Thomas Fuller to Colin Matthew“. In Mapping Lives. British Academy, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197263181.003.0005.
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The arts of memory and of biography have always been closely related. For instance, the memoir, which is an act of remembrance, has a double sense: it looks at the past and to the future, selecting from the stream of memories to form an enduring record called memorial by which events and people can be remembered in the years to come. In Restoration England, memoirs and memorials were popular forms when the word ‘biography’ first appeared. During this period there was an intense interest in the chronicling of the lives of those who contributed much to political and religious events. This commemoration of lives, which gained momentum in Restoration England, was an ancient enterprise. Biographies were regarded as durable monuments wherein the idea of remembrance took an important place. This attributed significance made those endowed with powerful memories venerated people. This chapter discusses the remarkable memorialists of the period. It looks at the career of Reverend Dr. Thomas Fuller as a biographer and as an author of many historical works. Fuller exhibited a photographic memory and an inclination to the memorization of long passages. In addition to this technique, he also adopted a rule that assisted memory; he employed the methodical distribution of facts into discrete locations. As for his biographical methods, Fuller considered two factors: the sense of pragmatism, and the sense of piety.
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Clair, William St. „The Biographer as Archaeologist“. In Mapping Lives. British Academy, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197263181.003.0013.
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Numerous literary biographies of famous authors were normally shaped by the quantity and the nature of the surviving primary documentary evidences such as diaries, letters, notes of constructions, and descriptions of the commentaries. These sources not only shaped the nature of the biographies but also the biographical method adopted. This chapter discusses the nature of the biographical evidence. It examines how biographers who regard their work primarily as an historical investigation can deal with the hard and immovable fact that the sources on which they necessarily rely are normally likely to provide an unrepresentative record of the patterns of the lived life.
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Fogelberg Rota, Stefano. „Cristina di Svezia eroina nella Historia di Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato del 1656“. In La res publica di Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato (1606-1678) Storiografia, notizie, letteratura. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-627-5/003.
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Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato’s Historia (1656) is not only arguably the first biography of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626‑1689) but it also provides a model for the interpretation of her life that influenced biographers over three centuries. This essay investigates Gualdo’s rhetorical strategies and their connection with Christina’s propagandistic aims. Focus is devoted to the author’s conjoint explanation of her abdication and conversion to Catholicism according to which the first is the result of the second; an interpretation that forgoes other reasons for her renunciation of the throne and that would be largely adopted by later biographers.
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Looseley, David. „Introduction“. In Édith Piaf, 15–24. Liverpool University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781781382578.003.0001.
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This chapter introduces the question of Piaf’s meanings 100 years after her birth. It discusses the problematic nature of Piaf’s biography and opts for an alternative mode of analysis defined as cultural history, examining the singer as cultural phenomenon. It briefly surveys the existing literature on Piaf in order to clarify what distinguishes the approach adopted in the book. This approach is characterised as a critical analysis of the Piaf legend and of issues of cultural memory, Frenchness, and the transnational circulation of Piaf’s meanings. It also includes a consideration of the author’s own ethnographic distance.
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Orr, Leah. „The Author as Subject“. In Publishing the Woman Writer in England, 1670-1750, 144–93. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192886293.003.0004.
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Abstract This chapter examines representations of women writers in autobiography and biography as well as images of women writers in portraits and frontispieces. It argues that women’s lives are often adapted to present them as though they are like the characters or readers of their work. Representations of women writers are therefore rhetorical rather than historical and should be read alongside their works rather than as factual reports of their lives. It concludes with an examination of the autobiography of Laetitia Pilkington, in which she adopts several contrasting, popular models for a woman writer for rhetorical effect: a poet, a coterie writer and reader, and a subscription- and patronage-hunter.
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Leszczyński, Rafał Marcin. „Całożyciowe uczenie się Pawła Hulki-Laskowskiego (1881–1946) – stymulatory i bariery“. In Biografie i uczenie się, „Biografia i badanie biografii”, t. 4. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/7969-451-8.06.
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This paper presents the biography of Pawel Hulka-Laskowski, an evangelical writer from Żyrardów. It is an excellent example of man’s ability to overcome social and cultural conditioning as well as that of self-development and lifelong learning process. Despite his working- class background and thus low cultural capital, as well as poverty (obstacles), Hulka managed to independently study the secondary school curriculum and get into Heidelberg University. His abilities, ambition, diligence and biographical competencies (stimuli) allowed him to become one of the best-known writers, translators and comparative religion experts in the pre-war Poland. His Reformed evangelical background was one of the factors stimulating his development and lifelong learning. It was precisely because of Evangelicalism that he came into contact with high culture already as a child and adopted evangelical work ethos that stimulated his self-development and constant learning.
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Harper, Steven C. „Gone Are the Days“. In First Vision, 247–58. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0029.
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Richard Bushman’s 2005 biography of Joseph Smith incorporated the findings of the New Mormon history. Bushman saw changes over time in Smith’s vision accounts and granted the critics that point, just not their interpretation that it meant Smith did not experience what he claimed. Bushman did not question whether Smith told the truth about his vision, only what truth he told he time he recorded it. Bushman’s Joseph Smith is therefore not the deceived or deceiving one of Fawn Brodie or Wesley Walters, but neither is he the simplified teenage prophet of the movies and manuals. Though initially barred from use in LDS religious education curriculum, provided the standard interpretation of Smith’s first vision adopted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by 2018. This was most evident in “First Vision Accounts” and Saints: The Standard of Truth, volume 1—products espoused and promoted by LDS leaders.
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Kadish, Doris. „Foreword“. In The Secular Rabbi, 1–6. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800859661.003.0001.
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This chapter begins with the book’s point of departure, the love affair my mother had with Philip Greenberg, who adopted the pen name Philip Rahv. It presents the book as part biography, part history, part literary analysis, part cultural studies, and part memoir. It identifies the key components of the book: textual analyses woven together with historical accounts, genealogy, memoirs by Rahv’s colleagues, friends, and associates, interviews with persons who knew him, and the abundant body of secondary scholarship devoted to the New York intellectuals, the history of Partisan Review, and Jewish studies. In keeping with the feminist notion of positionality, this chapter addresses the issue of what it means for a 21st-century woman to write about an author who unquestionably belongs to “the world of our fathers,” to use the title of Irving Howe’s magisterial study of Eastern European Jews in America.
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Robinson, Elizabeth C. „Conclusion“. In Urban Transformation in Ancient Molise, 293–312. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190641436.003.0007.
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This chapter emphasizes the elements of continuity that have emerged from the consideration of multiple types of evidence. It answers the three questions posed in the introduction, and refers back to the three theoretical models adopted in the analysis. It discusses the ways that the results of this site biography differ from previously published studies while at the same time providing a synthesis of Larinum’s history from 400 bce to 100 ce. It then examines the ways in which Larinum is representative or anomalous when compared to other Italian towns. It also compares this local-level case study of Larinum to the conclusions of other local-level studies, especially ones that focus on the site of Taranto. It concludes by making the case for the creation of more local-level site biographies, using the study of Larinum as a model. It pushes the field of Roman conquest studies toward a new paradigm of social change that is contingent on highly specific, local issues, rather than global movements.