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Capella, Claudia, Loreto Rodríguez, Ximena Lama, and Gretchen Beiza. "Passing on the experience of psychotherapy and healing." Narrative Inquiry 28, no. 1 (September 27, 2018): 119–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.17001.cap.
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Abstract Developed in the context of a larger research study on healing from sexual abuse, the present article analyzes written narratives (letters) produced by nine adolescents who have been victims of sexual assault and who successfully completed a specialized psychotherapy. Letters, directed to another child or adolescent starting their therapy in the same center, were analyzed using three integrated types of narrative analysis (thematic, structural and performative). Key findings show that narratives exhibit messages of hope and encouragement, and adolescents view themselves as agents involved in their own transformation. In their letters, they urge other young children and adolescents to become actively involved in their own healing process. Participants stress the role of psychotherapy and therapeutic support in their recovery from sexual abuse. Results are discussed highlighting the use of letters in clinical practice on adolescent sexual assault. Integration of multiple types of narrative analysis is discussed as a methodological support.
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Moynihan, Sinéad. "“Suspect-Proof”? Paranoia, Suspicious Reading, and the Racial Passing Narrative." American Literary History 34, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 272–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajab089.
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Abstract This short essay considers racial passing narratives in relation to the “postcritical turn,” highlighting the proliferating reappraisals of the practices of “suspicious” or “symptomatic” reading in literary studies and the extent to which passing narratives offer an opportunity to test some of the claims of this body of scholarship. The utility of the passing narrative for this critical project lies in its persistent, self-conscious foregrounding of reading practices. Revisiting passing narratives in light of postcritique reveals that symptomatic reading is not a monolithic practice; rather, there are multiple ways of reading suspiciously. Moreover, and more importantly, passing narratives disclose that what has now become an orthodoxy in postcritique—that attitudes such as “paranoia,” “suspicion,” and “vigilance” profoundly limit “the thickness and richness of our aesthetic attachments”—ignores contexts, like that of a passer in a white supremacist society, in which such strategies are not a choice but are essential for survival (Felski 17). The key question posed herein is: What forms of privilege enable a reader to relinquish her attachment to paranoia, suspicion, and vigilance; to opt for openness rather than guardedness, submission rather than aggression (21)? Narratives of racial passing provide one answer to that question. The key question posed herein is: What forms of privilege enable a reader to relinquish her attachment to paranoia, suspicion, and vigilance; to opt, as Rita Felski advocates, for openness rather than guardedness, submission rather than aggression?
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Reitan, Rolf. "Teorier om dufortællinger: En blindgyde?" K&K - Kultur og Klasse 39, no. 112 (December 25, 2011): 107–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kok.v39i112.15747.
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THEORIZING SECOND-PERSON NARRATIVES: A BACKWATER PROJECT? | In this paper Rolf Reitan proposes a closer look at three very different perspectives on second person narrative: Brian Richardson, Irene Kacandes, and Monika Fludernik have been classical references for some time, but they have never, according to Reitan, been seriously discussed. The paper begins by examining Kacandes’ intriguing concept of ‘radical narrative apostrophe’, and then discusses the three authors’ very different typological proposals. Borrowing Richardson’s idea of a Standard Form of second person narration, it returns to Butor’s La Modification to investigate the question of address (a pivotal question in Fludernik’s articles), which then leads to a strict definition of a prototypical “genre” of Standard Form narratives. Passing through conceptual landscapes of fiction, apostrophe, and postmodernism, some tricky questions concerning selfaddress,and some of Margolin’s analytic formulas, are considered. At last, by way of proposing a much needed subdivision of the Standard Form, Reitan discusses the strange narrating voice in La modification: not a narratorial voice, but a readerly voice created in the author’s writing.
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Scott, Julie-Ann. "Narrative Performance Research." Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 4, no. 3 (2015): 70–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2015.4.3.70.
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Through this autoethnographic essay I explore how a critical qualitative researcher's disclosure of her personal reactions to participants’ narratives can offer an opportunity to resist cultural marginalization. This opportunity requires a level of vulnerability and disclosure that can feel risky but is often necessary in the pursuit of identification and transformative understanding. Mapping my experience as it became tangible to me of my almost-(but not really)-passing physically disabled feminine body through conducting open-ended narrative research with similarly embodied participants creates a means of revealing and resisting compulsory able-bodiedness (its comforts and trappings) in daily performance.
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BRAUNER, DAVID. "Lorrie Moore Collection“A Little Ethnic Kink Is Always Good to See”: Jewish Performance Anxiety and Anti-passing in the Fiction of Lorrie Moore." Journal of American Studies 46, no. 3 (August 2012): 581–602. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875811001940.
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This essay explores the ways in which the performance of Jewish identity (in the sense both of representing Jewish characters and of writing about those characters’ conscious and unconscious renditions of their Jewishness) is a particular concern (in both senses of the word) for Lorrie Moore. Tracing Moore's representations of Jewishness over the course of her career, from the early story “The Jewish Hunter” through to her most recent novel, A Gate at the Stairs, I argue that it is characterized by (borrowing a phrase from Moore herself) “performance anxiety,” an anxiety that manifests itself in awkward comedy and that can be read both in biographical terms and as an oblique commentary on, or reworking of, the passing narrative, which I call “anti-passing.” Just as passing narratives complicate conventional ethno-racial definitions so Moore's anti-passing narratives, by representing Jews who represent themselves as other to themselves, as well as to WASP America, destabilize the category of Jewishness and, by implication, deconstruct the very notion of ethnic categorization.
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Bennett, Juda. "Toni Morrison and the Burden of the Passing Narrative." African American Review 35, no. 2 (2001): 205. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2903253.
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De Oliveira, Érico Fernando, and André Campos De Carvalho. "Análise da Narrativa do Jogo Eletrônico: Estrutura, Imaginário e Mito em Super Mário Bros." REVISTA PLURI 1, no. 2 (November 5, 2019): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.26843/rpv122019p46-54.
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Este artigo investiga a narrativa da franquia de jogos eletrônicos Super Mário Bros. a partir dos trabalhos de Campbell (2005), que nos fala da função dos mitos e da jornada do herói; Durand (2001), que trata do Imaginário como ferramenta para lidar com a angústia existencial (o tempo que passa e a morte que se aproxima inexoravelmente); Propp (1984), que executa extensa catalogação das estruturas narrativas existentes nos contos maravilhosos; e Todorov (2003), que se debruça sobre a questão da narrativa à partir da intriga e que investiga as variações possíveis à época para os romances do tipo policial. O corpus de trabalho são os títulos Super Mario Bros.(1985); Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988); Super Mario World (1990); Super Mario 64 (1996) e Super Mario Galaxy (2006).Palavras-chave: Super Mário Bros; Mito; Estruturas narrativas; percurso do herói; imaginário.AbstractThis article investigate the narrative in the Super Mario Bros. videogame franchising, since the works of Campbell (2005), about the functions of the myths and the journey of the hero; Durand (2001), about the Imaginarium as a tool to deal with human existential distress (the time passing by, and the approaching death, inexorable); Propp (1984), who makes an extense cataloguing of the narrative structures in the fairy tales; and Todorov (2003), on the matter of the narrative from the intrigue, and investigates the variations possibles at his time in the detective stories. Our corpus include the following titles: Super Mario Bros. (1985); Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988); Super Mario World (1990); Super Mario 64 (1996), and Super Mario Galaxy (2006).Keywords: Super Mário Bros; Myth; Narrative structure; Journey of the hero; imaginarium.
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Culbert, Samiran. "The Blackstar: Persona, Narrative, and Late Style in the Mourning of David Bowie on Reddit." Persona Studies 6, no. 1 (December 10, 2020): 43–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/psj2020vol6no1art944.
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This article considers how David Bowie’s last persona, The Blackstar, framed his death through the narratives of mourning it provoked on the social media site Reddit. The official narrative of death, through the media, and the unofficial narrative of death, through the fan, can contradict each other, with fans usually bringing their own lived experiences to the mourning process. David Bowie is a performer of personas. While Bowie died in 2016, his personas have continued to live on, informing his legacy, his work, and his death reception. Through the concepts of persona, narrative, authenticity, late style, and mourning, this article finds that Bowie’s Blackstar persona actively constructs fan’s interaction with Bowie’s death. Instead of separate and contradicting narratives, this article finds that users on Reddit underpin and extend the official narrative of his death, using Bowie’s persona as a way to construct and establish their own mourning. As such, Bowie’s last persona is further entrenched as one of authentic mourning, of a genius constructing his own passing. With these narratives, fans construct their own personas, informing how they too would like to die: artistically and with grace.
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Doughty, Ruth. "Manderlay (2005): Lars von Trier's narrative of passing." New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film 5, no. 2 (July 12, 2007): 153–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ncin.5.2.153_1.
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Bell, Vikki. "Show and Tell: Passing and Narrative in Toni Morrison's Jazz." Social Identities 2, no. 2 (June 1996): 221–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504639652303.
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Mazibuko, Nokuthula, and Ikechukwu Umejesi. "Blame it on alcohol: ‘passing the buck’ on domestic violence and addiction." Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies 4, no. 2 (June 25, 2015): 718. http://dx.doi.org/10.17583/generos.2015.1325.
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<p>Domestic violence against women is a serious health and safety problem facing women around the world. Scholars of domestic violence have identified demographic factors such as age, number of children, family structure, unemployment, substance abuse, stress factors within the family, male partner’s educational attainment and poverty, as closely associated with domestic violence. While these factors have gained scholarly recognition, there is a dominant narrative among victims of domestic violence that “alcohol is responsible” for abusive relationships in Mamelodi, a black township near Pretoria, South Africa. Using the empirical data from Mamelodi, this article probes the narratives of female victims of domestic violence. The paper uses qualitative data in its analysis.</p>
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GODFREY, MOLLIE. "Passing as Post-Racial: Philip Roth’s The Human Stain , Political Correctness, and the Post-Racial Passing Narrative." Contemporary Literature 58, no. 2 (2017): 233–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/cl.58.2.233.
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Norman, Brian. "Death and Futurity in Randall Kenan's Reinvention of the Passing Narrative." Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 23, no. 1 (January 2012): 52–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10436928.2012.649681.
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Harvey, Sandra. "The HeLa Bomb and the Science of Unveiling." Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 2, no. 2 (October 5, 2016): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v2i2.28803.
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This essay reads the narratives of HeLa cell contamination as accusations of racial and gender passing. It argues that the passing narrative is much more complex, rarely confined to an individual’s autonomous will, and far more entrenched in state building and concepts of social progress than previously considered. I urge us to move away from the desire of the passing subject, and back to our own to ask after the sort of anxiety, excitement, and panic that animate our attempts to see, classify, and regulate bodies. Thus, what becomes significant is an examination of an “ethics of knowing” within science. The paper draws on a collection of correspondence, lab notes, published articles, and newspaper clippings related to Henrietta Lacks and HeLa from the George O. Gey Collection at the Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (1918-1974) and articles on HeLa published in scientific journals, science journalism, and cultural studies articles (1950-present). In doing so, it traces the narratives of science (and its complex of industries—journalism and cultural studies) and HeLa’s passing. Tracing the reactions to HeLa contamination, the paper asks after the ways national, racial, and sexual desire, fantasy, anxiety, and paranoia have animated the cells through time. Particularly it examines the agency of HeLa, a cell line that is passed through race and genders and ideas of mortality, as it makes clear its own vital, creative, and destructive forces.
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Hegyi, Pál. "Distancing Gender in Contemporary Hungarian Fiction." Hungarian Cultural Studies 12 (August 1, 2019): 268–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2019.363.
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Representations of gender crossing go back to a rich tradition in Hungarian literature. The most conspicuous achievements for performing gender passing on the authorial plane are epitomized in such fictionalized female literary alter egos as Erzsébet Lónyay (Sándor Weöres), Lili Csokonai (Péter Esterházy), and Jolán Sárbogárdi (Lajos Parti Nagy). Providing a unique sensibility to seek out innovative forms that could accommodate interrogations into distancing gender, it is a legacy that finds continuation in the works of a new generation of young Hungarian prose writers. By conducting close-readings of literary pieces by two present-day writers, Pál Hegyi’s paper endeavors to give instances of how gender passing is transposed from the authorial plane to the level of narratives. The short stories “Karambol” [‘Crash’] by Ádám Berta and “Pertu” [‘On Intimate Terms’] by Edina Szvoren will be interpreted to adumbrate distancing narrative strategies for crossing gender boundaries.
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Cutter. "Skinship: Dialectical Passing Plots in Hannah Crafts' The Bondwoman's Narrative." American Literary Realism 46, no. 2 (2014): 116. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/amerlitereal.46.2.0116.
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Al-Shraah, Bassam M. "Passing Before ‘Passing’: The Ambivalent Identity of the Narrator in Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 13, no. 5 (February 28, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2017.v13n5p1.
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James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man is considered by many as an early seminal censure and commentary on the contested racial issue of African American in the United States of America. This paper argues that the ‘invisible’ protagonist of the Novel has passed for white as early as his childhood years. The narrator relinquishes his black identity for the conveniences and supremacy that the white identity entails. This paper brings to question the credibility of narrative in the novel; also, it proves that the narrator contradicts himself. The invisible narrator appears not to have a firm stance regarding the atrocities suffered by his own people—African Americans. People of color in the United States were caught between two cultures, identities, and lives. The un-named narrator has taken the least troubled road. He announces his passing for white at the end of the novel. This study contends that he has done so long time ago before he literally announces his passing.
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García Morgado, Mónica. "Colorism, Passing for White, and Intertextuality in Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half: Rewriting African American Women's Literary Tradition." Babel – AFIAL : Aspectos de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemá, no. 31 (December 16, 2022): 73–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.35869/afial.v0i31.4298.
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This article draws on various theories and studies about the color line, colorism, and racial passing in African American culture, history, and literature to examine the themes of colorism and passing for white in Brit Bennett’s 2020 novel The Vanishing Half. This article juxtaposes Bennett’s novel alongside earlier works written by twentieth-century African American women writers, underscoring Bennett’s intertextual influences, which include Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929), Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), and God Help the Child (2015). As Bennett revises and incorporates earlier novels into her own, she redeems tragic female characters such as Pecola Breedlove and Clare Kendry, highlights the persistence and damage of colorism, updates the passing narrative, and defies stereotypes about Black women. It concludes that in The Vanishing Half, Bennett proposes a fresh path for twenty-first-century African American fiction through the themes of colorism and passing for white in her rewriting of African American women’s literary tradition.
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Grober, Max. "‘A Steady Contempt of Life’: Suicide Narratives in Hume and Others." Journal of Scottish Philosophy 10, no. 1 (March 2012): 51–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jsp.2012.0027.
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In a letter of 1746, David Hume tells of the suicide of his kinsman Major Forbes. While Hume's account overtly presents the major's suicide as heroic, incorporating allusions to the Ajax of Sophocles and the lives of noble Romans such as Cato, the narrative context in which he places it, and the nature of narrative itself, call the wisdom of the act into question. In his essay ‘Of Suicide’, written a few years later, Hume largely avoids narrative examples. However, the small number of historical cases to which he does allude, and an implied narrative of suicide that emerges from context he supplies in passing, diminish the rhetorical force of his argument.
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Matthews, Justin L., and Teenie Matlock. "Understanding the Link Between Spatial Distance and Social Distance." Social Psychology 42, no. 3 (January 2011): 185–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000062.
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Why do people use spatial language to describe social relationships? In particular, to what extent do they anchor their thoughts about friendship in terms of space? Three experiments used drawing and estimation tasks to further explore the conceptual structure of social distance using friendship as a manipulation. In all three experiments, participants read short narratives and then drew what they imagined happened during the narrative and estimated passing time. Overall, the results of these exploratory studies suggest that the conceptual structure of friendship is linked to thought about space in terms of path drawing. Results are discussed in light of social distance and intercharacter interaction.
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Byrne, Janice, and Salma Fattoum. "Passing the Marshall’s Baton: A Narrative Analysis of Gender in Family Business Succession." Academy of Management Proceedings 2015, no. 1 (January 2015): 18497. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2015.18497abstract.
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Ashford, Tomeiko R. "Transfiguring Aesthetics: Conflation, Identity Denial, and Transference in “Passing Texts” of Black Narrative." Review of Black Political Economy 33, no. 2 (June 1, 2005): 89–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12114-005-1018-6.
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Muchiri, Joseph Mutitu. "Didactic and narrative methods of communicating breast cancer screening: a systematic review." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 6, no. 8 (July 26, 2019): 3644. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20193502.
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There is limited studies that have sought to understanding the processes and mechanisms through which stories influence health-related decisions and actions is critical to maximizing their effectiveness and developing appropriate applications for use in practice settings, more also studies that seek to interrogate the available evidence on the effectiveness of narratives in on seven correlates of behaviour change hence the current review. The main aim of this review was to conduct a comparative evaluation on effectiveness of didactic and narrative methods of cancer communication. Studies were included if they the study used empirical data whether the data was quantitative or qualitative discussing the use of narrative or didactic forms communication on cancer screening, if the study reported outcome of the intervention, if the study was on cancer screening, if the article was written in English language, and the article appeared in a peer-reviewed journal that was published before July 2017. The current systematic review evaluated evidence supporting narrative intervention in cancer communication in an attempt to increase the uptake of breast cancer screening as well as comparing narrative mode of communication with statistical mode of passing the information. Over all it was observed that there exist some evidence that narrative is efficacious in increasing breast cancer screening services. However there were a lot of inconsistences in the evidence adduced in these studies, a fact that warrant that more studies be done in this area of study.
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Kurnia, Ramona, Darnies Arief, and Irdamurni Irdamurni. "Development of Teaching Material for Narrative Writing Using Graphic Organizer Story Map in Elementary School." International Journal of Research in Counseling and Education 1, no. 1 (March 29, 2018): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.24036/009za0002.
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Most of materials used in narrative writing are not interested and not related to the writing process (pre-writing, when writing, and post writing). Our goal is to measure the effectiveness, practicality, and validity of the narrative writing material namely Graphic Organizer Story Map. We are doing research and development. We used 4-D model which consists of 4 stages: define, design, develop and disseminate. The validity test is obtained through the learning plan sheet on implementation, and the assessment of teachers and students responses. The effectiveness is obtained from activity, process assessment and result of narrative writing. We conducted an evaluation and obtained the “very valid”, “very simple” and “very effective”. We found the enhancement number of student who meet the passing grade on narrative writing. The teaching material for narrative writing with using Graphical Organizer Story Map is valid, simple and effective to use.
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Kozina, Slavica, Martin Kowalski, Mirela Vlastelica, Tonći Mastelić, and Josip A. Borovac. "Traumatic Memory of One’s Son Gone Missing in War: Content Analysis Using Krippendorff’s Alpha." SAGE Open 9, no. 1 (January 2019): 215824401983962. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244019839627.
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Our aim was to determine (a) how parents deal with experiences like having a son missing in war, and (b) what expectations they have in terms of outcomes. This qualitative study included 29 parents of 21 sons gone missing in war. We used content analysis singling out narrative patterns and coded these. We assessed intercoder reliability using Krippendorff’s alpha coefficient. Items passing the Krippendorff’s alpha threshold of ≥.50 were verified using Cronbach’s alpha. Three of five coders showed acceptable intercoder agreement on 23 of the 173 identified topics (13.3%; Krippendorff’s alpha: .50-.82). Cronbach’s alpha coefficient confirmed intercoder reliability of .7903. Fathers’ narratives differ from mothers’. Statistics are a valuable tool for identifying specific motifs in grieving narratives of parents who have lost their child. Content analysis can provide insights without interfering with authentic personal experience sparing interviewees from reliving the traumatizing experience.
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Hole, Rachelle. "Narratives of identity." Narrative Inquiry 17, no. 2 (December 31, 2007): 259–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.17.2.06hol.
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Living in the world as a Deaf person provides a different situatedness in which deaf individuals construct their identity. How does living in the world, different from the hearing majority, influence the ways deaf individuals go about the creative act of constructing identities? Traditionally, researchers of D/deafness have constructed identity categories in order to research identity and hearing loss. For example, there is a distinction made in the literature between deafness (written with a lower case ‘d’) — an audiological state related to having a hearing loss — and Deafness (written with an upper case ‘D’) — a marker of a culturally Deaf identity. This article is about how three women constructed narrative identities relating to hearing loss in life stories. And how they incorporated, resisted, and/or rejected various cultural discourses in narratives they told? Using a poststructural narrative analysis, I explore how identities relating to hearing status were shaped and limited by four discourses at work in the participants’ narrative tellings (discourses of normalcy, discourses of difference, discourses of passing, and Deaf cultural discourses). For example, I discuss how discourses of normalcy and discourses of difference led to the construction of identities based on opposites, in a binary relationship where one side of the binary was privileged and the opposite was “othered”, e.g., hearing/deaf, and Deaf/deaf. Finally, drawing on the work of Judith Butler, I conclude the article with a discussion of some theoretical implications that emerged from using a poststructural narrative analysis.
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Sun, Chloe. "Ruth and Esther: Negotiable space in Christopher Wright’s The Mission of God?" Missiology: An International Review 46, no. 2 (November 10, 2017): 150–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091829617737501.
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In the volume entitled The Mission of God, author Christopher J.H. Wright (2006) endeavors to search for a missional hermeneutic that unlocks the Bible’s grand narrative. The book’s comprehensiveness and extensiveness would be difficult to match in years to come. However, the books of Ruth and Esther are notably overlooked and mentioned only in passing. This glaring omission implies an insignificance and irrelevance of the two books in contributing to the hermeneutic of missions. Should these two books be included or excluded in the grand narrative of the mission of God? This paper positions Ruth and Esther at an indispensable place in a missional hermeneutic that nuances the intricacies of the Abrahamic covenant, the diaspora, and gender in God’s grand narrative.
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Fludernik, Monika. "Chronology, time, tense and experientiality in narrative." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 12, no. 2 (May 2003): 117–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947003012002295.
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Tense in narrative and non-narrative texts performs a variety of functions, not all of which are properly temporal or aspectual. In particular, tense relates to the passing of time (duration), sequentiality, chronology and the expression of subjectivity (frequently linked with aspect). In addition, tense is here argued to fulfil textual functions of foregrounding and backgrounding over and above plot-related foregrounding. The peculiarities of the use of tense in literary narrative can be illustrated by reference to texts in which the tenses chosen do not seem to obey any of the familiar rules of aspect or tense usage but seem to acquire a properly literary function. As one of many possible examples of such a literary use of tense, Ondaatje’s The English Patient is then analysed in detail. It will be argued that linguistic analysis of such a peculiar use of tense can help to explain why such texts are odd but that the purpose of the idiosyncrasy must be sought in literary effect and the artificial shaping of language as deliberate literary strategy.1
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Buonanno, Milly. "Thematic Issue on The End of Television (Not Yet): Editor’s Introduction." Media and Communication 4, no. 3 (July 14, 2016): 95–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v4i3.661.
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This editorial provides background considerations for challenging the long taken-for-granted narrative of the passing of television in the digital era, thus inviting scholars to re-interrogate the place of the medium in the new technology-saturated environment from perspectives that are not informed by the unquestioned assumption that the age of television is over.
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Gillman, Susan. "Micheaux's Chesnutt." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 114, no. 5 (October 1999): 1080–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/463467.
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Who is, or are, Micheaux's Chesnutt(s)? Which of Charles Chesnutt's post-Reconstruction novels may Oscar Micheaux be said to have adapted in his films? To such seemingly obvious questions, there are some obvious answers. It is well known that Micheaux directed two film versions of Chesnutt's tragic novel of racial passing, The House behind the Cedars (1900): the first, in 1924, is entitled House behind the Cedars and is a faithful adaption that encountered difficulties with the censors; the second is the recently rediscovered Veiled Aristocrats (1932), a remake with a happy ending. It is less well known that around the same time, Micheaux may also have arranged to purchase the rights to Chesnutt's Marrow of Tradition (1901), a novel on the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, race “riot,” with a parallel plot on the struggles in an interracial family over the legitimacy of the mulatto side. It is not clear whether the transaction was ever completed or whether the Marrow film was ever made. But together the two novels may be said to map the conflicting contours of and historical changes in representations of racial passing—not only Chesnutt's but also Micheaux's. Both novelist and filmmaker chart the crossing of the classic passing plot of discovery and subsequent acknowledgment or denial of “black blood,” which shapes both Chesnutt's and Micheaux's House behind the Cedars, with narratives of legitimacy—legal, social, and professional—central to Marrow of Tradition. In the process, the novel and the film suggest how the traditional tropes of racial uplift that undergird the search for middle-class respectability, in a kind of updated passing plot, should be thought of as an available narrative form rather than a coherent ideology.
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Manalu, Catri Novita F., Mila Kristi Sitopu, Ayu Paulina Silaban, and Natalia Widya Pasca Tarigan. "IMPROVING WRITING SKILL OF NARRATIVE TEXT BY USING SHORT VIDEO AT SMA NEGERI 1 SILAU KAHEAN." Journal of Languages and Language Teaching 9, no. 2 (April 22, 2021): 257. http://dx.doi.org/10.33394/jollt.v9i2.3501.
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Video technology in ELT has been increasingly used to help students to improve their language skills. Various videos are designed to present ELT materials. This study aims to investigate the use of short videos to improve students’ writing skills of narrative texts at the senior high school. This study is categorized as classroom action research. The data consist of qualitative and quantitative data. The instruments used to attain the qualitative data are observation and documentation, while the quantitative data are collected using writing tests. This study is carried out in two cycles. The use of short videos helps students understand the generic structures of narrative texts. During learning processes, students are asked to analyze the narrative structures from the introductory to the conclusion paragraph. The improvement of students’ narrative texts is made in the second cycle. The students’ writing achievement is 76.25 in the second cycle. The students’ achievement achieves the passing grade. Therefore, the use of short videos is able to improve students’ writing skills of narrative texts at the senior high school.
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Hanauer, David Ian. "Mourning Writing: A Poetic Autoethnography on the Passing of My Father." Qualitative Inquiry 27, no. 1 (January 20, 2020): 37–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800419898500.
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This poetic autoethnography explores the author’s experiences of the death of his father, processes of mourning, and ways of addressing through writing a difficult family legacy related to the Holocaust. Employing journal, narrative, poetic, and reflective research writing, this poetic autoethnography documents a twelve-week period in which the author’s father died and he traveled back to the place in which he was born to address the murder of his grandparents and deportation of his father on the Kindertransport. This study offers some insight into mourning and the long-lasting effects of familial trauma related to the Holocaust. In addition, this poetic autoethnography provides a model and example of how research writing can be used as part of a mourning process and as a way of exploring difficult personal contingencies.
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Shibaev, Maxim V. "DISCO ELYSIUM: THE MORPHOLOGY OF POLYPHONIC NARRATIVE." Articult, no. 3 (2022): 25–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2227-6165-2022-3-25-41.
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The author of the article focuses on the specifics of the text in Disco Elysium as one of the gameplay components. The dialogue with the virtual environment determines the peculiarity of this type of computer game. The work, which was the result of many years of work of developers, has become a synthetic genre in which interactive literature, CRPG and virtual book-games interact on equal terms. The polyphonic narrative plays a key role in this space. It is formed not only by the game itself, its plot and stories, but also by the player's internal dialogue with himself. The game as a medium, combining interactivity and text, demonstrates an unusual approach to the modern vision of not only the CRPG genre, but also the game as an art form. The multi-level narrative of Disco Elysium as a synthesis of game mechanics and in-game story, combined with the relevance of the topics covered by the game scenario, creates a deep and immersive work, one of the features of which is replay value. It becomes possible thanks to a wide freedom of choice and a variety of options for passing the story, each of which is unique in its own way. Taken together, Disco Elysium is a postmodern text that draws the reader into the story from different angles. The research task of the work is to analyze the features of the dialogue and polyphonic narration in the in-game text.
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Kheshti, Roshanak. "Cross-Dressing and Gender (Tres)Passing: The Transgender Move as a Site of Agential Potential in the New Iranian Cinema." Hypatia 24, no. 3 (December 2008): 158–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.01050.x.
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This article traces the historical becoming of the contemporary supersaturation of images of queer and transgendered Iran through the narrative and tropic devices introduced by filmmakers in the past twenty years. I argue that the censorship code enforced by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance is partly responsible for the formation of what has come to be a ubiquitous figure in the New Iranian cinema: the “cross-dressing” or “passing” figure. By performing close readings of Baran and Dokhtaraneh Khorshid—two films that are exemplary of a subgenre organized around the “cross-dressing” or “passing” figure—I identify a “transgender move”: a temporary space of political and agential potential that many spectators—both domestic and diasporic—seek in the post 1990s New Iranian cinema.
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Edsall, Benjamin A. "Hermogenes the Smith and Narrative Characterisation inThe Acts of Paul: A Note on the Reception of 2 Timothy." New Testament Studies 64, no. 1 (December 8, 2017): 108–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0028688517000248.
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The figures of Demas and Hermogenes in theActs of Paulare puzzling for their ambiguous relation with figures by the same name in 2 Timothy (and, for Demas, in Philemon and Colossians). The purpose of the present article is to question what personal biographical details present in the Thecla narrative contribute to larger issues of literary dependence, focusing in particular on the notice that Hermogenes is a ‘coppersmith’. Although several scholars explain this passing reference in terms of a confused literary dependence on previous Pauline traditions, it is rarely approached as a meaningful narrative feature. This personal detail, however, should be read for its contribution to the Thecla narrative in light of the wider early Christian view of ‘smiths’, running from the New Testament texts into the third century and later. When these elements are taken into account, the smith-notice is highlighted as characterising Hermogenes (and, by extension, Demas) negatively.
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Seif, Farouk Y. "Imaginary Dialogue with John Deely." American Journal of Semiotics 34, no. 1 (2018): 189–227. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ajs20189441.
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We live in a world of fact and a world of fancy, in the Peircean sense, telling real and imagined stories. In this Imaginary Dialogue with John Deely I compose narratives that integrate actual quotations from his seminal work and imaginative interpretation of our numerous conversations that took place over the years. Visiting John in May 2016 at the Latrobe Hospital and grieving his passing on January 7, 2017 were two cathartic and emancipating experiences that developed into this dialogical narrative as a commemorative manifestation of the exceptional life and the remarkable oeuvre of John Deely. It is inconceivable to separate Deely’s personal traits from his scholarly contributions as a great philosopher, semiotician, and a compassionate human being who not only graciously persevered through the semiotic paradox of life and death, but also gregariously played with many boundaries across space and time.
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Rugani, Marc V. "Cur Homo Deus? A Catholic Response to a Posthumanist Narrative." Religions 13, no. 9 (August 23, 2022): 770. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13090770.
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Yuval Noah Harari’s book Homo Deus has popularized and promoted the case for a posthumanist reading of universal history in the 21st century. Among the features of his narrative are atheism, a deterministic rejection of free will, and a hedonistic theory of value. Passing the seventieth anniversary of Humani Generis, Pius XII’s call for “seriousness, moderation and measure” when weighing and judging the conclusions of human science, including theories of evolution, remains relevant. With special attention to Anselm of Canterbury’s aptly titled Cur Deus Homo, this essay will identify and respond to several misrepresentations of key Christian doctrines which, when corrected, undermine the reliability of Harari’s narrative history and speculations. Rather than conceding Harari’s posthumanist conclusion that humanity’s path to divinity is a global, social agenda of biological and technological upgrade, I counterargue that Christian soteriology better responds to the deepest longings in human dissatisfaction through notions of grace and love manifest in the doctrines of incarnation and divine satisfaction.
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Sparkes, Andrew C. "Autoethnography and Narratives of Self: Reflections on Criteria in Action." Sociology of Sport Journal 17, no. 1 (March 2000): 21–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.17.1.21.
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A small number of sociologists of sport have opted to produce what have been defined as autoethnographies or narratives of self. These are highly personalized accounts that draw upon the experiences of the author/researcher for the purposes of extending sociological understanding. Such work is located at the boundaries of disciplinary practices and raises questions as to what constitutes proper research. In this paper, I explore this issue by focusing upon the criteria used by various audiences to pass judgment on an autoethnography/narrative of self that I submitted to, and eventually had published, in a leading journal. The problems of having inappropriate criteria applied to this work are considered, and the charge of self-indulgence as a regulatory mechanism is discussed. Reactions to a more trusting tale are then used to signal various criteria that might be more relevant to passing judgment upon this kind of tale in the future.
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Pausé, Cat. "Live to Tell: Coming Out as Fat." Somatechnics 2, no. 1 (March 2012): 42–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/soma.2012.0038.
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Fat individuals live in a fat phobic world. Individuals with a fat identity engage in identity management to negotiate the stigma surrounding fatness. Goffman proposed three forms of identity management: passing, covering, and withdrawing. More recently, scholars have proposed a fourth form of identity management: coming out. In this paper, I consider the usefulness of the four styles in managing the stigmatised identity of fatness. Special consideration is given to whether a fat identity may engage in passing. By integrating theory, literature, and my own experience, autoethnography allows me to identify important markers in my process of coming out as fat. I offer up my narrative as a contribution to the growing discourse on fat identity and stigma management. And in conclusion, I consider whether fat identity development, and coming out as fat, are developmental processes that can be characterised by stages.
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Olson, Dennis T. "Negotiating Boundaries." Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 51, no. 3 (July 1997): 229–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002096439605100302.
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The story of Israel's apostasy in Numbers 25 marks a turning point in the wilderness narrative: a passing generation fails to find a faithful alternative to rigid obedience and rebellious resistance to authority. Yet a new generation of God's people emerges who work out a series of compromises between respect for old traditions and engagement with new realities. This new generation provides a model that negotiates between a hermeneutic of consent and a hermeneutic of suspicion.
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Havercroft, Barbara. "The Trauma of Child Death: The Discourse of Mourning in Camille Laurens's and Laure Adler's Autobiographical Writings." Irish Journal of French Studies 19, no. 1 (December 9, 2019): 53–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.7173/164913319827945792.
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This article addresses a noteworthy development in French women's autobiographical texts of the extreme contemporary: the painful writing of mourning subsequent to the traumatic death of a child. Trauma theorists such as Cathy Caruth, Susan Brison, Shoshana Felman, and Dori Laub insist on the importance of the narration of the traumatic experience in the form of a 'meaningful [...] story' (Caruth, 1996: 117) enabling the object of the trauma to become the subject of her own story, and thus effecting a transformation of her status from passive victim to agential subject. If, however, trauma is beyond words and 'unspeakable' (in both senses of the adjective), how can one find the adequate discursive means to represent it, how can one transform the traumatic experience into a narrative? Drawing on theories of trauma and mourning, the article analyzes the ways in which two contemporary French writers, Laure Adler and Camille Laurens, deal with this daunting discursive dilemma, following the passing of their respective infants. Using various textual strategies, Adler and Laurens both succeed in narrating poignant accounts of loss, producing in each case a 'livre-tombeau' which is simultaneously a book of death and a book of life, allowing the deceased infant to live on through the writing of the trauma of mourning.
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Firnanda, Alfia Rachma, Mirjam Anugerahwati, and Suharyadi Suharyadi. "The Use of Padlet Application to Improve Students’ Writing Skill." Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan 6, no. 11 (November 30, 2021): 1679. http://dx.doi.org/10.17977/jptpp.v6i11.15106.
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<p class="Abstrak"><strong>Abstract:</strong> This classroom action research focused on determining how the Padlet application could improve the eleventh-grade students' ability to write narrative text during the Ilmu Budaya dan Bahasa 2020/2021 academic year at MAN 1 Pasuruan. This application was chosen by the researcher to stimulate the students' interest and motivation in learning English. The researcher discovered that 36 (90%) of the students could achieve a passing grade. It proved improvements from the minimum standard of mastery criteria to the final test. Based on the findings of this research, it is possible to conclude that using the Padlet application can improve the ability of eleventh grade students to write narrative text.</p><strong>Abstrak:</strong> Penelitian tindakan kelas ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana penggunaan aplikasi Padlet dapat meningkatkan kemampuan menulis naratif Kelas XI Ilmu Budaya dan Bahasa di MAN 1 Pasuruan Tahun Ajaran 2020/2021 untuk mempelajari cara penggunaan aplikasi Padlet. Peneliti memilih aplikasi ini untuk siswa agar tertarik dan termotivasi belajar bahasa Inggris. Peneliti menemukan bahwa 36 (90%) siswa mampu mencapai passing grade. Hal ini merupakan peningkatan dari standar minimal kriteria ketuntasan pada ujian akhir. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa penggunaan aplikasi Padlet dapat meningkatkan kemampuan menulis naratif pada siswa kelas I.
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Vaneskehyan, Kima. "Memory of the Thing and Simulative Temporality in Evgeniy Chizhov Novel “The Paradise Gatherer”." Stephanos Peer reviewed multilanguage scientific journal 53, no. 3 (May 31, 2022): 120–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.24249/2309-9917-2022-53-3-120-127.
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The paper examines the category of chronotope in the postmodern novel “The Paradise Gatherer” by Evgeniy Chizhov. The category of temporality is interpreted in a new light and presented as simulative. A detailed analysis of the concept “historical inversion” is completed; the transformation of temporality is presented in which time in the novel scatters, losing its attributes of present and future, thickening into the past and passing into the space of irreversible myth. Also, the paper addresses the chronotopes of main characters, conducts comparative analysis of large and small, personal and world narratives, and highlights the borders of the narrative space and time of main characters Kirill and Marina Lvovna. An essential part of the research is the reinterpretation of such categories as “thingism” and “the memory of the thing”. “A thing” is presented as a singulative point which structurizes time and reproduces the past. The concept “thing” is shown as a notion of the unity of space and time thickening into one specific, singulative point.
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Harp, Gillis. "Toward a Critical Historiography of the Episcopal Church." Journal of Anglican Studies 6, no. 2 (December 2008): 241–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1740355308097413.
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ABSTRACTHistorians of the Episcopal Church of the USA face the challenge of dealing with a tradition of in house ‘self-serving’ biographies and also of a Whiggish meta-narrative which privileged the Anglo Catholic reading of the history of ECUSA. This is similar to the challenge laid out by Diarmaid MacCulloch in relation to the English Reformation. This meta-narrative often read evangelicals out of the story. My book sought in part to correct this approach through a fresh analysis of Phillips Brooks' ministry and teaching. Within a broad tradition such as Anglicanism, argument about the past is part of the contemporary debate about identity in the tradition and of priorities in the present. That is very reasonable and a more candid engagement of the differences would serve everyone better than different perspectives passing each other like ships in the night.
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Dariva, Bruno Amaral. "Brevity and unity in Small Deaths." Short Film Studies 11, no. 2 (September 1, 2021): 183–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/sfs_00053_1.
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Short fiction films generally present brief and concise stories focused on a single character or dramatic moment. Following an episodic structure, Lynne Ramsay’s Small Deaths introduces a series of events from a young girl’s life. The film compresses the passing of time from childhood to early adult life into three delimited and crucial moments. Focusing on Lynne Ramsay’s fragmented storytelling, this article discusses the relations of brevity and unity with the segmented narrative of the film, ultimately emphasizing the role of repetition as a unifying factor.
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Buzzoni, Marco, and Valentina Savojardo. "Thought Experiments between Theology, Empirical Science, and Fictional Narrative." Religions 10, no. 6 (June 21, 2019): 393. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10060393.
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Starting from Fehige’s and Polkinghorne’s analyses of the analogies between theological and scientific thought experiments (TEs), the main aim of this paper is to clarify the distinctive character of theological TEs. For this purpose, we shall compare theological TEs with empirical and, although only in passing, with narrative TEs. In order to facilitate the comparison between scientific and theological TEs, the first part of the paper provides a brief outline of an account regarding TEs in the empirical sciences from the viewpoint of a functional, not material, a priori, which is in line with, if not the full letter, the spirit of Kant’s a priori. On the basis of this view, we shall investigate the most important difference (which is the source of many others) between theological and empirical TEs. In spite of the many similarities, the most important difference between empirical and theological TEs lies in the fact that theological TEs consider both empirical-descriptive and moral-normative contents from the point of view of a search for an absolute meaning beyond all relative and finite meanings. If we—developing a suggestion by Ernst Troeltsch—interpret this claim from the point of view of a purely functional “religious a priori”, we may conclude that theological TEs, which express a search for an absolute meaning, do not possess a priori contents, not even moral.
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Shah, Niral. "Race, Ideology, and Academic Ability: A Relational Analysis of Racial Narratives in Mathematics." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 119, no. 7 (July 2017): 1–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146811711900705.
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Background/Context There is evidence that race affects students’ learning experiences in mathematics, a subject typically thought of as “race-neutral” and “culture-free.” Research in psychology and sociology has shown that racial narratives (e.g., “Asians are good at math”) are pervasive in U.S. culture and play a critical role in shaping people's lived experiences. However, racial narratives have received little explicit attention in the mathematics education literature. Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the racial ideological context of mathematics education, specifically in terms of how students made sense of racial narratives about academic ability. Participants Thirty-five students identifying as Asian, Black or African American, Latinx, Polynesian, White, and mixed race were interviewed. These students were recruited from four mathematics classrooms observed by the author at a racially diverse high school in Northern California. Research Design This qualitative study employed an ethnographic research design to gather data on the meanings students constructed around issues of race in the context of mathematics. Data Collection and Analysis A semistructured interview protocol was used to conduct individual interviews with each student participant. Field notes were taken during 130 hours of participant observation over the course of a school year. Interview transcripts and field notes were analyzed for instances in which participants invoked racial narratives. Each of these narratives was first coded by topic and by the racial group to which the narrative referred. Narrative clusters were then identified and analyzed in order to understand how the narratives were related to each other. Findings Students invoked a variety of racial narratives about both mathematical and nonmathematical topics (e.g., athletic ability, general intelligence, parenting practices). Importantly, students did not invoke these narratives in isolation. Instead, nearly all of these narratives were invoked in conjunction with at least one other narrative. This relationality among racial narratives shows how the academic abilities of learners from diverse racial backgrounds are constructed in relation to each other, often in ways that position non-Asian students of color as inferior in mathematics. Conclusions/Recommendations This article suggests the need for study designs and analytical approaches that theorize race as a relational construct that transcends the Black-White paradigm. Further, this article challenges researchers and practitioners to reconsider boundaries between what is deemed “mathematical” and “nonmathematical” in classroom discourse, specifically with respect to sociopolitical phenomena like race. Two African American boys, Will and Derrick, wait patiently as their math teacher circulates the room. She is passing back the results of the latest math test. Will receives his grade: He earned an ‘A.’ Derrick sees Will's grade and exclaims: “Oh you're hecka smart in math! You must have some Asian in you!”
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Starkowski, Kristen H. "“Still There”: (Dis)engaging with Dickens's Minor Characters." Novel 53, no. 2 (August 1, 2020): 193–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00295132-8309551.
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Abstract More can be done in minor character studies to account for the strong sense of being that emerges at the edges of the nineteenth-century novel. By pairing traditional readings of the minor character in narrative theory with sociologist Erving Goffman's writings on disengagement, this article offers a different perspective on the competition for narrative attention as we know it. For example, when disengagement is taken into account, Alex Woloch's losers in the competition for narrative attention become winners in the formulation of a fulfilling social life. Dickens's minor characters take part in central spaces while not being contained by them. Their distance from main scenes and settings, captured in passing by a gaze that has no interest in registering these elsewheres in any level of depth, has the effect of making minor characters appear strange, memorable, or other, even though their worlds are quite rich. But Dickens's minor characters define the ingenuity of counterintuition, pointing toward a suppressed energy that belies the flatness of a minor character. Drawn with care, these characters build alternative, codependent ways of surviving on the edges of the characterological field.
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Mordey, Delphine. "Auber's Horses: L'Annee terrible and Apocalyptic Narratives." 19th-Century Music 30, no. 3 (2007): 213–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncm.2007.30.3.213.
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On 13 May 1871 Auber died. His passing was blamed on the horrors of the Franco-Prussian War, Siege and Commune, and provided a powerful symbol of the end of an era. Indeed, the idea that the debacle of 1870-71 caused a rupture in French music, one embodied in Auber's death, continues to influence music histories; political events are thought to mark a clear turning point away from the operettas of the Second Empire to the more serious works associated with the Third Republic. This notion of a turning point has much to recommend it, but the accepted history may ultimately be better viewed as an example of an apocalyptic narrative; after the event, the infamous frivolity of Napoleon III's era was seen to have led, inexorably, to defeat in the War, and to steep cultural change. I argue that this narrative was retrospectively constructed by contemporary music critics dissatisfied with existing French musical culture. The siege, the Commune, and the "timely" death of Auber were used as a means of bolstering demands for change: if the nation were to recover, she would have to change her ways, musical and otherwise. This constructed narrative obscures the picture suggested by primary sources; that not only had changes begun before the war, but that light-hearted forms continued to flourish afterward. It is clearly a narrative in need of historical revision.
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Motta, Franco, and Eleonora Rai. "Jesuit Sanctity: Hypothesizing the Continuity of a Hagiographic Narrative of the Modern Age." Journal of Jesuit Studies 9, no. 1 (January 11, 2022): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22141332-09010001.
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Abstract The introduction to this special issue provides some considerations on early modern sanctity as a historical object. It firstly presents the major shifts in the developing idea of sanctity between the late medieval period and the nineteenth century, passing through the early modern construction of sanctity and its cultural, social, and political implications. Secondly, it provides an overview of the main sources that allow historians to retrace early modern sanctity, especially canonization records and hagiographies. Thirdly, it offers an overview of the ingenious role of the Society of Jesus in the construction of early modern sanctity, by highlighting its ability to employ, create, and play with hagiographical models. The main Jesuit models of sanctity are then presented (i.e., the theologian, the missionary, the martyr, the living saint), and an important reflection is reserved for the specific martyrial character of Jesuit sanctity. The introduction assesses the continuity of the Jesuit hagiographical discourse throughout the long history of the order, from the origins to the suppression and restoration.