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Biesterfeldt, Hinrich. "Franz Rosenthal’s Half an Autobiography." die welt des islams 54, no. 1 (2014): 34–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700607-00541p03.
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Franz Rosenthal (1914-2003), one of the outstanding scholars of Semitic languages, Arabic and Islamic history of the past century, has described himself as an Orientalist, whose task is “to look beyond the culture in which one is rooted to other cultures whatever their geographical location with respect to Europe, in order to learn about and understand them and to try to spread the knowledge thus acquired”. This simple-sounding approach is qualified by a vast knowledge of the appropriate literary sources and a keen sense for the truly significant topic that characterize all of Rosenthal’s works. His memoir discusses these aspects, as well as the profile and outlook of Near Eastern Studies, particularly in relation to neighboring disciplines, and the roles of philology and language teaching. What is at least as interesting as this discussion is an autobiographical account of Rosenthal’s family, his school and university years in Berlin, of his emigration to the United States, and his career up to his arrival at Yale University – a memoir which illuminates his work and his convictions and which tells a story of “cruelly turbulent times” that changed the lives of many scholars and opened up new ways of scholarship.
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Schmidt, Siegfried J. "Past: Notes on Memory and Narration." Empirical Studies of the Arts 7, no. 2 (1989): 191–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/1lj0-bjt6-xmx5-lrxy.
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Memory is a crucial topic not only for psychology but also for literary studies. The conceptualization of notions as narration, biography or autobiography immediately depends on how memory and the process of remembering are theoretically modeled. This article presents a short survey on concepts of memory, concentrating on constructivist approaches, and their impact on concepts of time, history, and narration in literary studies.
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Wulff, Helena. "Coda." Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 31, no. 2 (2022): v—x. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2022.310201.
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Celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the first publication of the volume Anthropology and Autobiography (1992) edited by Judith Okely and Helen Callaway, AJEC 31(1) features an inspiring special issue devoted to this topic, then and now. Starting from the beginning, we learn about the appalling resistance Judith Okely faced when she suggested Anthropology and Autobiography as a theme for the 1989 ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK) Conference. The idea to include the experience of the fieldworker, his or her emotional reactions, and issues related to gender, age and race – in the research and later even the use of “I” in the writing – came from the ‘writing culture’ movement in the United States. This early resistance against reflexivity and autobiography in British anthropology can be understood as a generational intolerance of American intellectual influence. As Ernest Gellner (1988: 26) suggested in a review of Clifford Geertz’ Works and Lives: My own advice to anthropology departments is that this volume be kept in a locked cupboard, with the key in the possession of the head of department, and that students be lent it only when a strong case is made out by their tutors.
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Kleege, Georgina. "Reflections on Writing and Teaching Disability Autobiography." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 120, no. 2 (2005): 606–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812900167987.
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The standard charge activists and scholars make against disability autobiographies is that they reinforce cultural stereotypes and hinder social change. These texts, such critics argue, perpetuate the notion that disability is a personal tragedy that happens to an individual rather than a set of cultural structures and practices that affect many individuals. As a writer and reader of disability autobiography, I believe it is possible to use one's personal experiences to comment on the culture one inhabits. I do not intend here, however, to defend or condemn specific authors or works or to debate the value of these texts as a facet of a social-change movement. I offer instead an impressionistic account of a course on disability autobiography that I taught at Berkeley recently. What stands out in my memory of the course has to do less with students' responses to particular texts and more with interactions among the students or between the students and me that often seemed peripheral to the topic at hand. This is, then, an autobiographical essay, a series of vignettes and portraits, rendered in all the randomness of lived experience. But it will, I hope, raise issues that are central to disability activism and disability studies.
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I, Lois Sara Joice, and B. Sivakami. "Self-Reflexivity in Baby Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke: A Phenomenological Approach." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 12, no. 8 (2022): 1577–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1208.13.
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Space is man-made socially constructed locations, without which they cannot have a comfortable life. Reflecting on the life experiences of the people who exist in the margins of the society, autobiography appears to be the appropriate genre that reflects the lived experiences of the characters as they live through them. It reflects not only the author's personal experiences but also the people whom they meet in their lifeworld. In other words, it is a narration of both individual and collective lived experiences. Dalit writing in Indian literature has become the most controversial topic in recent times, taking autobiography as its predominant form of writing. This paper attempts to explore Baby Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke as a self-reflexive narrative. The characters experience extreme humiliation in the public and private spheres of their lives. The purpose of the paper is to categorise their absolute humiliation experience using Van Manen’s lifeworld existentialism and self-reflexivity as a theoretical framework.
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Turner, Peter. "Hagiography and Autobiography in the Late Antique West." Studies in Church History 47 (2011): 41–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s042420840000084x.
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Peter Brown’s classic essay of 1971, ‘The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity’, is celebrated for applying the tools of sociology and anthropology to the study of late antique sanctity. It strove to remove holy men from the distorting literary texts through which we know them, and to place them instead in a rich context of everyday concerns. My starting point here, however, is not the essay itself but a no less interesting critique of it subsequently made by the author himself. In 1998, Brown offered a number of pieces of advice he would now give to a younger self embarking on the same topic. In 1971, he claimed, he had unwittingly colluded with the hagiographical texts by presenting holy men in dramatic, epic terms. Focusing on what holy men did for society, he had observed the phenomenon from a purely third-person perspective, and had neglected their own personal quest for sanctity. Although he had located the holy man’s activity in the everyday, he had effectively conceded that the ultimate locus of the holy man’s holiness — his superior understanding — was unknowable.
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Y. Gashi, Agron. "Fact and Fiction in Autoconfession: A Theoretical Confrontation." Journal of Educational and Social Research 11, no. 6 (2021): 105. http://dx.doi.org/10.36941/jesr-2021-0132.
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The formulation of the topic fact and fiction in auto-confession is a result of earlier research in which the greatest theoretical confrontation takes place in the area of autobiographical prose. This paper investigates and explores issues with which contemporary poetics is faced regarding the concepts in question, especially when they coexist within a work concerned either with genre codification or with undefined status (i.e. hybrid genre). Such discussions are often accompanied by great dilemmas on whether auto-confessional texts such as autobiography or autobiographical prose should be considered fact or fiction. Being a fierce confrontation, especially for a genre that is considered a compromising genre in which the facts are weaved according to the fictional practice, this paper proposes that a double reading (fact-fiction) will highlight issues that are essential to interpret and decode a text of autoconfessional premises and, beyond that, a codification of the genre when dilemmas grow and become even larger: in fiction, nonfiction, novel, autobiographical novel, autobiography, etc.
 
 Received: 27 January 2021 / Accepted: 2 September 2021 / Published: 5 November 2021
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Zaretskiy, Yury. "Early Russian Autobiography: Old Texts, New Readings." European Journal of Life Writing 3 (June 20, 2014): 44–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.5463/ejlw.3.113.
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The article discusses research perspectives in the study of Russian pre-modern first-person writings that are commonly called autobiographies. Its first part starts with definitions of what is “early russian” and “autobiographical,” briefly introduces six texts, gives a condensed review of the approaches to the study of these texts by literary and cultural historians from 1950s to the present, and concludes with suggestion of some new perspectives to their analysis. The article argues that re-questioning of early Russian autobiographical writings is prompted by some recent important changes in the humanities and social sciences and by some insights from historians and literary scholars who study first- person texts of the Western tradition. The second part of the article is a case- study that examines one autobiographical text, The Life (Zhitie) of monk Epifanii (? – 1682) and focuses on one topic: representation of the hero/author’s pain and healing. The analysis of this representation is conducted in relation to concrete social and political contexts of the text. The study concludes that con- textualizing pre-modern first-person narratives as social activities embedded in historically specific reality helps in better understanding of their meanings. Abstract in RussianРанняя русская автобиография: Старые тексты, новые прочтения В статье рассматриваются перспективы изучения древнерусских сочинений от первого лица, которые обычно называют автобиографиями. Ее первая часть начинается с определения понятий «древнерусские» и «автобиографические» затем дает краткие характеристики шести текстов, содержит сжатый обзор подходов к изучению этих текстов историками литературы и культуры с 1950-х гг. по настоящее время и завершается предложением возможных новых направлений их исследований. В статье утверждается, что новые вопросы к древнерусским автобиогра-фическим сочинениям диктуются недавними важными переменами в социальных и гуманитарных науках, а также результатами, полученными историками и литературоведами, изучающими сочинения от первого лица в западноевропейской традиции. Вторая часть статьи представляет собой кейс-стади, рассматри-вающий один текст, «Житие» инока Епифания (? – 1682), и сосредотачивающий внимание на одной теме: репрезентациях героем/автором боли и исцеления. Анализ этих репрезентаций осуществляется в связи с конкретными социальными иполитическими контекстами появления сочинения Епифания. Этот анализ приводит к заключению о том, что контекстуализация ранних рассказов от первого лица как социальных действий, укорененных в исторически обусловленной действительности, способствует лучшему пониманию их смыслов.
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Lénárt-Cheng, Helga. "A Multilingual Monologue: Alexander Lenard’s Self-Translated Autobiography in Three Languages." Hungarian Cultural Studies 7 (January 9, 2015): 337–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2014.3.
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The paper investigates the question of self-translation in the work of Alexander Lenard (Lénárd Sándor). Lenard, a polyglot writer and translator, rewrote his autobiography three times, in three different languages (in German, English, and Hungarian). This process of self-translation created a fascinating web of autobiographical texts, which invite a multiscopic reading. Following in the footsteps of 18th century parodists, Lenard challenges a great number of protocols associated with life-writing. The most important among these is the authority of the proper name as a guarantee of autobiographical authenticity. To challenge the authority of the proper name Lenard purposely multiplies his own authorial identities, for example by claiming that “A. L. is only a pseudonym.” Thus, the word ‘self-plagiarism’ acquires in Lenard’s case a double meaning, implying both that the author plagiarizes his own text and that he plagiarizes his own self. The paper explains why existing theories of self-translation cannot be applied to Lenard’s texts, and why his unique case can enrich future studies of this topic.
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de Jonge, Julia, Serena Demichelis, Simone Rebora, and Massimo Salgaro. "Operationalizing perpetrator studies. Focusing readers’ reactions to The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell." Journal of Literary Semantics 51, no. 2 (2022): 147–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jls-2022-2057.
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Abstract Within the field of Holocaust Studies the last decade has witnessed a turn to the figure of the perpetrator, who had hitherto received little attention due to ethical, legal and psychological reasons. A similar turn can also be observed in connection with the study of empathy. In this context, the concept of “negative empathy,” intended as a sharing of emotions with morally negative fictional characters, has become an increasingly discussed topic. For research in this area, the novel The Kindly Ones (2006) by Jonathan Littell takes up a privileged position in light of its intrinsic literary quality and due to its commercial and critical success. This novel recounts the memories of an SS-officer, Maximilian Aue, who participated in the Shoah. We have carried out an experiment using some passages of this novel to test the empathic reactions of (104) readers. Passages were presented under either of two conditions: as a fictional text or as part of an autobiography. Results showed that fictionalization has a significant effect on moral disengagement; readers who read the narrative presented to them as fictional experienced higher levels of moral disengagement compared to readers in the autobiography condition. Moreover, higher levels of moral disengagement led to significantly higher levels of empathy for the protagonist of the novel.
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Lushkin, Sergei S. "PERSONAL STORYTELLING IN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL COMICS: FORMS OF REPRESENTATION." Articult, no. 1 (2022): 34–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2227-6165-2022-1-34-41.
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The article provides to the problem of identity in autobiographical comics. In the recent years authors of comics have been increasingly addressing the topic of identity search, putting autobiography in the foreground. This study attempts to identify the most distinctive narrative strategies in autobiographical comics and to contextualise them within a new research field, one in which the authors' “experiments” in personal narrative are realised. The focus is on the two main methods of autobiographical storytelling employed in the work of comics. One is structured narrative and the other has more literary references and is similar to literary prose. The comparison of these methods has led to the question of the true identity of the author in the works he creates.
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Witczak, Patryk. "Образ города в прозаическом творчестве Нины Берберовой". Acta Neophilologica 1, № XXII (2020): 91–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/an.5220.
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Nina Berberova – a representative of the first wave of Russian emigration – is known primarily as the author of the famous autobiography Kursiv moy. Berberova’s prose of the 1920s and 30s is the main topic of this article, in which the author refers to the tradition of Russian literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The urban text created by Nina Berberova is considered in the paper as a hypertext; the author distinguishes the features of this textual formation and provides the exam-ples. This urban text is interpreted not as scattered fragments but as an integrated whole. The researcher tries to identify the interpreting code of a “Parisian text” of the first emigration wave closely associated with the myth which organizes this urban text.
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García López, R., J. M. Gota Garcés, J. García Jiménez, J. E. Muñoz Negro, and L. Gutiérrez-Rojas. "A case for considering differences between organic and psychogenic amnesia." European Psychiatry 41, S1 (2017): S683. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.1187.
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IntroductionMedical record, general examination, laboratory findings, neuropsychological interview and multidisciplinary consideration are essential to establish differencial diagnosis and correct approach in amnesic episodes.AimTo describe differences between organic and psychogenic anterograde amnesia.MethodsSingle case report and literature review.ResultsA 51-year-old man with only diagnosis of DM I, single, a good relationship with his family, without any personal or familiar psychiatric or neurological history, came to the hospital emergency department brought by his sisters referring disorientation, acute memory loss and mood changes, prevailing indifference to the situation for the last three days. After general exploration, including psychopatological examination and higher brain functions study, we arrived to the conclusion that the patient suffered from anterograde short-term severe amnesia as the only symptom, with evident conservation of autobiographic memory. The family referred as a possible stressor factor his mother's recent transfer to a different city, which had caused constant repeated questions about her location. Given the questionable presentation and trigger we shared the case with the neurologist, who ordered an array of tests to rule out any organic cause (LP, CT, MRI…), obtaining as a final result a diagnosis of limbic encephalitis, treated and effectively solved in two weeks with high-dose glucocorticoids.ConclusionCertain features of the symptoms exploration in amnesic episodes such as reiterative questioning about a specific topic, a non-modified autobiography or the absence of a clear traumatic precipitant factor, are essential for a correct approach and may lead the clinic to an organic evaluation.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
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Savinel, Christine. "Contingency as Medium in Gertrude Stein." Synthesis: an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies, no. 11 (October 18, 2019): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/syn.20892.
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Gertrude Stein questions the event as an external and contingent accident, to be at least subsumed within the continuum of thinking —the untimely flux of interiormeditation and creation. Throughout her prolific production, one of Stein’s majorattempts was to do away with the event in literature, to dispense with it, to play against it. Stein pointedly selected as her topic the contingency of life within historical time, in her several autobiographical texts from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1932) to Wars I Have Seen (1944). Wars I Have Seen proves to be a singular work which helps us realise the process through which Stein resists historical contingency. As this essay argues, Wars I Have Seen gives us a remarkable vision of Stein trying to resist the pressure of History, and a vision of literature trying to hold at bay the contingency of events.
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Prasad, Onkar, and Sumahan Bandyopadhyay. "Application of Autographic Method as an Additive Tool in Anthropological Research." Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man 13, no. 2 (2013): 259–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972558x1301300204.
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One basic feature of anthropological fieldwork tradition has been the engagement in the study of ‘other culture’. The change of this engagement with anthropologists’ ‘coming home’ entails some reorientation of methodological issues. An anthropologist who is generally an outsider and has limited time at his disposal to conduct field work and study a particular culture, can make use of a method as an additive tool for gathering information and its interpretation which we call ‘Autographic’ simultaneously by using other conventional techniques of data collection. Autography is different from autobiography or reflexive ethnography. Here, the literate informant who is also an insider of the community under study writes on a topic himself. Then a formally negotiated text emerges. In the present paper the potential of application of this method in anthropology has been discussed with the discursive critique which it invites automatically.
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Jabłkowska, Joanna. "Autobiographisches Schreiben in Alfred Anderschs Prosa der 50er Jahre." Studia Germanica Posnaniensia, no. 37 (April 5, 2017): 121–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/sgp.2016.37.11.
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Alfred Andersch´s autobiographical texts from the 1950s have been heavily criticized in recent literature on the topic. W.G. Sebald´s essay about Andersch was of crucial importance. The details of Andersch´s stay in the Dachau concentration camp as well as the writer´s motivation to desert at the end of the war were questioned. The article aims at a new reading of Andersch´s autobiographical texts with regard to their credibility. It compares the early short story Flucht in Eturien with the autobiography Die Kirschen der Freiheit and a few less known texts. The analysis leads to the conclusion that Andersch “re-wrote” his biography as a creation that fulfils unconscious wishes of a whole generation. His intention was to adapt the image of decent young men of antifascist beliefs whose only guilt was the loyalty to their comrades.
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Morariu, Iuliu-Marius. "An interdisciplinary genre in the Theological Literature: the spiritual autobiography and its landmarks for the Orthodox space." Journal of Education Culture and Society 9, no. 1 (2018): 145–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs20181.145.150.
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Aim/Thesis. Important for all the Christian confessions, spiritual autobiography has, unfortunately until now, been insufficiently investigated and highlighted by contemporary researchers.
 Concept/Methods. Therefore, using information from sources like Confessions of Saint Augustin, but also recent works like the one of Saint Silouan from Athos, Saint John of Kronstadt or Nicolas Berdiaev, using these representative sources for the Orthodox sphere and other volumes, studies and articles, we will try to analyse this genre, to emphasise its interdisciplinary valences, and to show which are landmarks in the Orthodox sphere. We will also try to present its particularities here, its common points with other confessional spheres (Catholic or Protestant), and its practical importance for the Christian life. The information provided by the aforementioned sources will be investigated using deductive, analytic, and inductive methods (and also, the narrative one when the situation will request it).
 Results and conclusion. The investigation will show to the reader why, despite of the fact that is a peripheral genre of Theological literature, spiritual autobiography is important for investigation and it helps to create bridges between different spiritualties and investigation domains, but also its potential practical use.
 Originality/Cognitive value. The analysis is also important because there we will show that, a long time before the rediscovering of subjectivism and subjectivity in literature (which happened in the 20th century, with Modernism), in the theological space this topic was not only known but also valorised in this genre. As methods, we will both use the deductive and the analytic, but we will also not neglect the narrative one.
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Santagati, Mariagrazia. "Turning Migration Disadvantage into Educational Advantage. Autobiographies of Successful Students with an Immigrant Background." RASE: Revista de la Asociación de Sociología de la Educación 11, no. 2 (2018): 315. http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/rase.11.2.12495.
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The article focuses on unexpected pathways of successful students with an immigrant background, in order to investigate the implication of this phenomenon from a theoretical, methodological and empirical point of view. After a review of the main sociological studies on “immigrant optimism” towards educational success, I will reflect on biographical approach, particularly suitable to study this topic. A on-going research project based on the collection of educational autobiographies of successful immigrant-origin students, attending upper secondary schools in Northern Italy, is presented. Then, the story of Destiny, a 16 years-old girl with Moroccan origin, is used as a case study to explore transformative actions that lead second-generation students to educational success and to identify the social logic enrolled in a single case. Destiny, with the support of parents and teachers, shows the capacity to turn the disadvantage of migration into an educational advantage, through specific strategies developed to contrast adversities and inequalities, assuming education to handle social constraints. In Destiny autobiography, migration reveals its nature of biographical resource and its important role to lead disadvantaged students to excellent school outcomes: migration appears as a an experience of familiar sufferance and failure, but also a source of a biographical learning; a chance of reflexivity on failure and of awareness of disadvantage; an experience that transmit and foster non-cognitive skills, that are strong predictor of educational success. The methodological choice of “educational autobiography” is thus considered crucial to track new narratives and discourses on ethnic inequalities in education.
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Rolliston, Christopher. "Collingwood and the Relation between Theory, Practice and Values in Historical Thinking." Journal of the Philosophy of History 3, no. 2 (2009): 146–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187226309x434849.
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AbstractIn texts such as An Autobiography, Collingwood asserts that historical thinking as he understood it effects a "rapprochement" between theory and practice or even a "negation" of this traditional distinction, a thesis that would seem to place him on the opposite side of the debate about the place of values in historical research to figures such as Max Weber, who famously argued for history and the social sciences being "value free" disciplines. This article then investigates this apparent contrast, taking a critical approach to the arguments Collingwood propounds on the topic across a range of his later writings. After noting the curiously limited nature of these arguments however, Collingwood's self-styled "historical" conception of duty is discussed to show that in fact, his position on the place of values in historical research was indistinguishable to Weber's, since at the centre of both is the doctrine that judgements about what to do can never be simply deduced from scholarly study, but instead must be willed in practice itself.
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Chou, Eva Shan. "“A Story about Hair”: A Curious Mirror of Lu Xun's Pre-Republican Years." Journal of Asian Studies 66, no. 2 (2007): 421–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911807000551.
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This article examines the subject of queues in the life and writings of Lu Xun (1881–1936), the most prominent figure in modern Chinese literature. The long-standing reluctance of readers and critics to associate this backward hairstyle with Lu Xun's iconic figure has restricted our understanding of the topic to two well-known satirical portraits in his short fiction, Ah Q and Sevenpounder. This article, however, proposes that the queue is of more than satiric interest—that the author's own experience raises fundamental questions about how he discloses and transmutes certain experiences in his writings. Starting from some little-studied events featuring queues in his pre-Republican years and a puzzling short story that recounts them, this essay analyzes the queue's autobiographical connections and their varied literary manifestations. It also makes a case for reexamining the uses of autobiography for a writer whose life story is an important part of his influence.
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Harrán, Don. "“Dum Recordaremur Sion”: Music in the Life and Thought of the Venetian Rabbi Leon Modena (1571–1648)." AJS Review 23, no. 1 (1998): 17–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0364009400010023.
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To gauge the breadth of the topic, it should be said at the outset that music occupied a central place in the thought of Leon Modena and that Modena was not just another rabbi in early seventeenth-century Venice, but, among Italian Jews, perhaps the most remarkable figure of his generation. His authority as a spokesman for his people rests on his vast learning, amassed from a multitude of sources, ancient, modern, Jewish, and Christian. He put his knowledge to use in an impressive series of over forty writings. They comprise often-encyclopedic disquisitions on subjects as diverse as Hebrew language and grammar, lexicography, Jewish rites and customs, Kabbalah, alchemy, and gambling, to which one might add various plays, prefaces, rabbinic authorizations, translations, editions, at least four hundred poems (among them epitaphs), a highly personal autobiography, and numerous rabbinical responsa. Of his responsa, two concern music, the earlier of the two amounting to an extended essay on its kinds and functions.
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Zinov'eva, Irina Viktorovna. "Rein Müllerson in the international law: retrospectives and prospects." Litera, no. 9 (September 2021): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2021.9.36353.
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This article is dedicated to reconsideration of the ideas of the prominent Soviet, Russian, Estonian and international legal expert Rein Müllerson, which he introduced to the theory and practice of international law. The relevance of this research is substantiated by the contribution made by Professor Rein Müllerson to the Soviet system, as well as the contribution he continues to make to the modern domestic, foreign, and universal doctrine of international law. In 201, the author of multiple articles and monographs that are published in different languages and countries, Professor Rein Müllerson released his summarizing work – the autobiography “Living In Interesting Times: Curse or Chance?”, which in reality is not an autobiography. This monograph, which determines the topic of this research, is dedicated to the most relevant issues of international law and international relations, which underlie the scientific reflections in the latest published work of Professor Müllerson. The goal of this article lies in the analysis of manifestation of subjective realism and new philosophy of modern international law declared in the 2021 monograph. Using such instruments of the modern researcher of international relations as liberalism and democratization, globalization and regionalization, correlating the theory built in the Soviet scientific paradigm with the practice tested in the UN structures, he brought the international law to a higher level of comprehension, as a complex system of regulators of multinational behavior. The neutral and non-politicized views of Professor Müllerso answers on the majority of modern international problems, along with his vast experience in practical implementation of legal norms, should be duly appreciated by present and future generations of researchers interested in building a new world – free from warfare and confrontations.
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Tekenova, Ulyana N. "The topic of “WW2 rear” childhood in Altai literature of the second half of the 20th century (on the example of the works of Lazar’ Kokyshev, Boris Ukachin, Dibash Kainchin, etc.)." Vestnik of Kostroma State University 27, no. 3 (2021): 210–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2021-27-3-210-216.
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The article is based on the works of Altai writers of the second half of the XX century. (Lazar’ Kokyshev, Boris Ukachin, Shatra Shatinov, Dibash Kainchin) The author made an attempt to investigate the theme of memory and the theme of wartime childhood. The work examines the spiritual values of the generation of poets and prose writers who began their career in the 1960s ‟thaw” years. The author's field of vision includes works united by the image of a wartime childhood in the distant rear, the article attempts to fit the material under study into the context of the main trends in the Altai literary process of the indicated period. Attention is paid to autobiography and retrospective point of view, motifs of life and death, hunger and cold. In the works of some writers, a combination of artistic and journalistic principles is noted, the illumination of harsh reality through the eyes of adolescents.
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Isaeva, Mariya G. "Code switches to the sicilian dialect in G. Culicchia's novel «Sicilia, o cara. Un viaggio sentimentale»." Verhnevolzhski Philological Bulletin 1, no. 24 (2021): 121–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.20323/2499-9679-2021-1-24-121-127.
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The aim of this article is to identify the pragmatic functions of code-switching to the Sicilian dialect of the Italian language in the autobiography of the contemporary Italian writer G. Culicchia. Code switches studied by contact linguistics are the embedded language units of different levels in the matrix language utterance. The author uses I. Y. Mishintseva and G. N. Chirsheva's classification of pragmatic functions for studying code switches in literary works. The foreign language units in G. Culicchia’s work perform two groups of functions: functions characteristic of fiction (creating the effect of communication in the Embedded Language in the literary work) and those characteristic of spoken language (topic-related, metalinguistic, citing and emotional functions). The topic-related function of codeswitches is used to convey Sicilian culture realities as well as the direct speech of the author’s Sicilian relatives. The metalinguistic function of the code-switches under analysis involves introducing the reader to pronunciation and lexical features of the Sicilian dialect. The citing function means the author’s citing of Sicilian proverbs and sayings. The emotional function consists in expressing the author’s emotions and feelings towards Sicily and Sicilian relatives. Thus, the pragmatic functions show that the code-switches under analysis are the source of subjective and objective information in the novel. The Sicilian code-switches have a graphic feature in the novel: all of them are printed in italics. The italic type as a graphic stylistic device is used to logically separate Sicilian words from Italian lexis, to convey emotions, to separate the author’s Italian speech from the other characters’ Sicilian dialect.
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Bezborodov, Yury. "Rein Müllerson in the international law: retrospectives and prospects." Международное право, no. 2 (February 2021): 49–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2644-5514.2021.2.35429.
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This article is dedicated to reconsideration of the ideas of the prominent Soviet, Russian, Estonian and international legal expert Rein Müllerson, which he introduced to the theory and practice of international law. The relevance of this research is substantiated by the contribution made by Professor Rein Müllerson to the Soviet system, as well as the contribution he continues to make to the modern domestic, foreign, and universal doctrine of international law. In 201, the author of multiple articles and monographs that are published in different languages and countries, Professor Rein Müllerson released his summarizing work – the autobiography “Living In Interesting Times: Curse or Chance?”, which in reality is not an autobiography. This monograph, which determines the topic of this research, is dedicated to the most relevant issues of international law and international relations, which underlie the scientific reflections in the latest published work of Professor Müllerson. The goal of this article lies in the analysis of manifestation of subjective realism and new philosophy of modern international law declared in the 2021 monograph. Using such instruments of the modern researcher of international relations as liberalism and democratization, globalization and regionalization, correlating the theory built in the Soviet scientific paradigm with the practice tested in the UN structures, he brought the international law to a higher level of comprehension, as a complex system of regulators of multinational behavior. The neutral and non-politicized views of Professor Müllerso answers on the majority of modern international problems, along with his vast experience in practical implementation of legal norms, should be duly appreciated by present and future generations of researchers interested in building a new world – free from warfare and confrontations. The article employs historical analysis, comparative method, methods of legal research and interpretation.
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Buchholtz, Mirosława. "Biblioteka Henry’ego Jamesa: między katalogiem a kowadłem." Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo, no. 9(12) cz.2 (July 4, 2019): 155–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.32798/pflit.127.
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This article looks back to the book The Library of Henry James published in 1987 by James’s most renowned and possessive biographer Leon Edel and the biographer’s friend, the independent scholar Adeline Tintner. While Edel outlines the history of James’s book collection in his house in Great Britain, Tintner offers examples of James’s use of the trope of library in his fiction. In between the two essays, the two authors included a catalog of James’s collection in Rye, indicating the location of all the items as of 1987. This article relies on the information provided in Edel and Tintner’s book, to which little has been added since, and offers a theoretical and historical approach to the topic of library in the context of Henry James’s biography and literary heritage. The article gives theoretical ramifications to the findings of Edel and Tintner by distinguishing between the three meanings of “library:” a physical space, a cataloged collection, and a literary trope. It also juxtaposes Edel’s biographical-historical essay and Tintner’s literary analysis with the autobiography of Henry James, in which the library emerges as a place partaking of several traditions: patriarchy, the process of initiation and maturation along with social and national self-fashioning.
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Hurtado Rúa, Luz Stella. "Valores culturales e identidad nacional en Largo ha sido este día de José Manuel Crespo." Studia Romanistica 21, no. 2 (2021): 19–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.15452/sr.2021.21.0007.
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Cultural Values and National Identity in Largo ha sido este día by José Manuel Crespo. The main topic of this paper is the exposition of some of the cultural values and certain characteristics of national identity shown in the autobiography Largo ha sido este día [It’s been a long day] (1987), by the Colombian writer José Manuel Crespo. The research is based on the analysis and interpretation of the various elements that compose the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels of the work and, especially, on the role played by individual and collective memory for the organization of the narrative discourse. The features exposed are related to Ciénaga (the author’s birthplace), in which the importance of the social group that surrounds the writer’s environment and the influence of oral testimony are discovered, as well as certain words related to fauna and flora. Within the autobiographical space, customs and traditions of the period in question (1940s and 1950s) and the acquisition of knowledge through the discourse exposed by all the characters referred to, are linked. The author manifests through this work not only personal aspects of his childhood, but also the transcendence of the culture of Ciénaga when he evokes features that allow knowing facts that affect national memory and identity
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Thompson, Amy S. "My many selves are still me: Motivation and multilingualism." Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching 10, no. 1 (2020): 159–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/ssllt.2020.10.1.8.
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Two concepts of multilingualism that relate to the selves aspect of Dörnyei’s (2009) L2 motivational self system (L2MSS) are highlighted in this article: Thompson’s concept of perceived positive language interaction (PPLI) and Henry’s notion of the ideal multilingual self. With the dynamic model of multilingualism informing both concepts (Herdina & Jessner, 2002; Jessner, 2006, 2008), the intangible advantage that multilingual speakers have over monolingual speakers is clearly articulated in the discussion of this topic. The interconnectivity of language systems is an inherent aspect of the DMM; as such, both Thompson with PPLI and Henry with the ideal multilingual self incorporate the DMM as a framework to indicate the fluid nature of these constructs as additional language learning experiences are added to the system over time. This article further explores the dynamicity of multilingual learners’ language systems and the influences that induce change. Specifically, data from Thompson’s (2017b) study on LOTE learners are re-examined to explore this question. Additionally, excerpts from Natasha Lvovich’s (1997) The Multilingual Self, an autobiography of an L1 Russian speaker, are analyzed to present different possible models of incorporating the multilingual self and PPLI. The article ends with a discussion of an inherently multilingual context, as well as thoughts regarding the possibility of different types of future selves.
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DRONOV, Ivan Sergeevich. "ACADEMIC DISCOURSE TEACHING IN CASE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING OF STUDENTS IN LINGUISTICS SPECIALIZATION." Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities, no. 175 (2018): 45–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2018-23-175-45-51.
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Academic discourse education in case of foreign language education is one of the most important components of forming foreign language communicative competence focused on forming certain professional skills and abilities of linguistics students. We propose the definition of the term academic discourse, which refers to the process and result of a normatively organized professionally oriented verbal and written interaction for educational purposes, possessing both linguistic and extralinguistic properties. The nomenclature of the skills of oral and written acade-mic discourse developed among students at different stages of education includes the following skills in written speech: writing an essay on a given topic, a paper, a summary, an autobiography, a text of a speech or a report, drawing up a poster report, writing a term paper, a scientific article and diploma qualification thesis. The nomenclature includes speaking skills, such as learning to speak at seminars, conferences, educational discussions, presentations, presentation of coursework and diploma thesis, participation in discussion of lecture questions. Characteristics of academic discourse on the components proposed by V.I. Karasik: participants in the internal stage of scientific communication with a division into agents and clients, chronotype, aim, value, strategy with optional tasks, materials, genre features, precedent texts and discursive formulas are developed in the study. We develop the subject content of teaching academic discourse to students in linguistics specialization.
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Biffi, Elisabetta, and Franca Zuccoli. "Researching oneself through the collage." Contemporary Educational Researches Journal 5, no. 1 (2015): 01. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/cerj.v5i1.8.
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This paper will present a methodological reflection on how some artistic techniques can became for the individuals the opportunity to think of themselves in an auto-‐biographical way. In particular, this paper will focus on the collage. Collage is a technique based on a mixing of images, verbal text and other elements that starts with the analysis of an existing state of affairs, proceeds to deconstruct it, and finally to construct a new product juxtaposing different languages. In this sense, making a collage of the learning process engage the authors in a self-‐narrative process with the potential to enhance reflexivity. First, this paper will underline the role of collage in the artistic background of our contemporary era, in order to explain how the artistic work can be a way to create and tell the own life story. At another level, using selected examples of researching and training experiences conducted by the authors in some educational contexts (as university, primary and high schools), this paper will show how the collage can become a techniques for constructing and eliciting meanings held by the subjects that would not be accessible by other means and that are important to define themselves, especially for adolescents and young adults involved in the difficult construction process of their identities. In light of the complexity of the topic, it is hoped that this paper will contribute to advancing understanding of the potential of arts as learning strategy in educational contexts. Keywords: Collage, art education, qualitative research, autobiography
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TIMIZHEV, Kh T., and N. B. BOZIEVA. "REFLECTION OF MORAL AND ETHICAL PROBLEMS IN THE PROSE OF L. BOZIEV." Kavkazologiya, no. 2 (2021): 205–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.31143/2542-212x-2021-2-205-216.
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The article presents an attempt to analyze the moral and ethical problems of modern society in the prose of Lyudin Boziev. The writer performed mainly in the genre of lyrical prose, so his "I" plays a significant role in his work. It also draws attention to the autobiography of his works, in which he reflected the feelings and thoughts of his generation – the "children of war"; the movement of time and the complexity of human relationships. The authors of the article connect the moral search of L. Boziev with the national character, which is changing intensively in the era of globalization. The relevance of the research topic is determined by its innovative nature, associated with the analysis of the unexplored works of the Kabardian prose writer. The purpose of the study is to identify the specifics of the artistic solution of moral and ethical problems in modern Kabardian prose based on the material of L. Boziev's novels "The Arrogant becomes Mean" and "The Road of Life". It is achieved by solving a set of tasks, including: the definition of the national and ethical origins of the concept of "morality", the study of the problems and poetics of the novels of L. Boziev, establishing their connection with the Adyghe mentality, identifying the problem of morality and the specifics of its artistic solution. The research involves a number of general scientific methods (generalization, analysis, synthesis, description). The results obtained can become a theoretical aid in the further study of the work of L. Boziev, as well as in determining the role of a bright creative personality in the evolution of artistic consciousness.
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Eltsova, Elena Vlasovna. "FEATURES OF THE ARTISTIC EMBODIMENT OF THE THEME OF WARTIME CHILDHOOD IN THE WORKS OF PROSE BY E. ZAGREBIN, I. TOROPOV." Yearbook of Finno-Ugric Studies 16, no. 2 (2022): 262–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2224-9443-2022-16-2-262-268.
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The article is devoted to the work of Finno-Ugric (Permian) writers of the second half of the 20 century E. Zagrebin, I. Toropov. Both of them belong to the generation of authors whose childhood and youth were spent during the Great Patriotic War. It is natural that the theme of wartime childhood is one of the most significant in the work of this generation of authors. Literary research, conducted on the material of the works of these writers devoted to this topic, made it possible to identify their main artistic features. It is autobiography, deep lyricism, emotionality, strengthening of the personal and subjective principles in the work, symbolization and metaphorization. In the course of a comparative literary analysis, it was established that the key and most significant in the works of this series is the motif of memory of the events of the past - memories of childhood during the war. The genres of short prose (story, prose miniature) allow authors to pay closer attention to the disclosure and solution of moral and philosophical problems, to address the personality of a growing person and his/her inner, spiritual world, to the psychology of a child and teenager. In addition, in the course of the study of the prose works by E. Zagrebin and I. Toropov, devoted to the war childhood theme, their lyrical character was identified and analyzed, as well as the image of the hero-narrator having the properties of a lyrical hero, romantic poetics and stylistics in the transfer of the inner world of a person. As a result of the study, it was concluded: the generation of writers who grew up during the war years not only continued, but also further developed the layer of literature on military subjects, the initiators of which were front-line writers.
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Pavlova, Svetlana Yu. "French lectures – 2022." Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philology. Journalism 22, no. 3 (2022): 361–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1817-7115-2022-22-3-361-364.
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The article presents a review of a three-day conference session “French lectures: teachers and students” (“Lectures françaises: maîtres et disciples”) as part of the 50th International scientific philological anniversary conference named after L. A. Verbitskaya, which took place on March 15–23, 2022, at St. Petersburg State University. The work of this session was dedicated to the memory of its founder, Tatyana Solomonovna Taymanova (1954–2020), who made a significant contribution to the development of the Russian and French literary and intellectual ties. This year the format of the “French lectures” has been transformed in order to expand the chronological framework and specify the theme range, which will be annually updated, according to the organizers’ design. The topic of the past breakout session – “Teachers and students” – focused the scientific discussion on the issue of the continuity of the ideas of writers, philosophers, literary scholars, on the impact of the poetics of one author on the oeuvre of others, on the reception of works in different types of art and national cultures. The presentations of the Russian and foreign participants addressed a wide range of works from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, various genres (fairy-tale, essay, novel, epistolary, autobiography, travelogue, comics), classical and modern French authors (J.-B. Moliere, Ch. Montesquieu, G. Sand, M. Proust, P. Claudel, Ch. Peguy, G. Perec, C. Laurens, Shan Sa, etc.), the reception and influence of the Russian writers and thinkers in France (F. M. Dostoyevsky, N. A. Berdyaev, A. S. Lappo-Danilevsky, M. I. Tsvetaeva), traditional and new approaches to the analysis of a literary text. “French lectures – 2022” have confirmed their status of an outstanding platform which promotes strengthening the scientific relationships and Russian and French interaction.
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Suryadi, Muhamad. "MY LEARNING SPEAKING JOURNEY USING TECHNOLOGY: MY MULTIMODAL PRACTICE EXPERIENCE." ISLLAC : Journal of Intensive Studies on Language, Literature, Art, and Culture 5, no. 1 (2021): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.17977/um006v5i12021p28-34.
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In recent years, Youtube is technology of video showing that consist a lot of content which is; music, vlog, science, lifestyle, education, tutorial, etc. This technology commonly used by human around the world. In the field of education, youtube can help me to gain my knowledge to be more developed, especially in learning speaking. I need to use my imagination, diligent, and also motivation to learn speaking using this technology. Furthemore, the purpose of this research, I conducted this study to discover how YouTube assisted me to practice my speaking ability. This study also explored the intersemiotic practice experience and This research used autobiographical narrative inquiry as the research design. Intersemiotic is meaning making from word to word that I have learnt on the field. I was conducting by daring system through mobile phone. By mobile phone I able to surfed the data from internet freely. Participant of this research was me as the narrator. I also used justification of my self to tell what I have took on my learning progress. Autobiography is kind of narrative inquiry that I take for my research. The data were collected by learning log, reflective journal, and documentation. After the data collected, I would itterative, emergent and interpretative the data.This analysis data related on my research The result of the data, i found a lot topic that able to enhance my speaking ability, by using documentation i able to monitor my improvement of speaking. And also by used learning log was really helpfull to guide me to classify word, vocabulary and sentence form. For the last one interpretative was a soul of my research. With interpretative I able to improve my speaking ability autonomously. By using some strategies that I have found in the journal.
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Antonov, Konstantin. "Problematizing the Idea of Eternal Hell Torments in Nikolai Berdyaev’s Philosophical Eschatology." Philosophy of Religion: Analytic Researches 6, no. 2 (2022): 89–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/2587-683x-2022-6-2-90-113.
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In the article based on the following works of N.A. Berdyaev: “The Destiny of Man. An Essay in Paradoxical Ethics”, “Creativity and Objectification. An Essay in Eschatological Metaphysics”, “Truth and Revelation. Prolegomena to the Criticism of Revelation”, and “Self-Knowledge: An Essay in Autobiography” the author analyzes the philosopher’s attitude to the idea of ‘eternal hell torments’. The author addresses the problems related to a rational reconstruction of Berdyaev’s thought, and argues for the possibility and necessity of philosophical discussion of theological problems. The relevant context for the development of Berdyaev’s thought on the topic is explicated, namely, the discourse on the problem of hell in Russian philosophy of the 19th and the early 20th centuries. It is demonstrated that if in “The Destiny of Man” Berdyaev points to the antinomian nature of the idea of hell and reproduces ‘the soul’s inner dialogue about hell’, distinguishing between the objective and subjective phrasing of the question, in the later works he gives a straightforward and systematic criticism of this concept, which includes several lines of argumentation: apologetic, psychological, historical-religious (that included speaking on the status of evangelical testimonies), sociological, ethical, and ontological. The author reconstructs the arguments proposed by Berdyaev along all of these lines and comes to the conclusion that, while completely rejecting the objective-ontological formulation of the issue of eternal hell torments, Berdyaev points to the reality of the existential experience of hell inherent in every person. The author concludes by summarizing the forms and aspects of the idea of hell, as considered in Berdyaev’s works, these are contrasted with the provisional results of modern discussions, and the need for theological understanding of Berdyaev’s interpretation of the idea of hell is indicated.
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Evrard, Renaud. "Charles Richet. A Nobel Prize Winning Scientist’s Exploration of Psychic Phenomena by Carlos S. Alvarado." Journal of Scientific Exploration 34, no. 3 (2020): 626–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.31275/20201823.
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Carlos S. Alvarado is a well-known specialist of the history of parapsychology, and also famous for his pedagogical skills mostly as an affiliate of the Parapsychology Foundation and the Alvarado and Zingrone Institute for Research and Education. Most of the material used in this book was already available online on his blog (https://carlossalvarado.wordpress.com) as it is a collection of previously published essays. I’m part of the people who publicly endorsed the book because Alvarado is clearly one of the most qualified authors able to deal with this topic, but here I will provide a complementary expertise based on my reading of the book and my own work on the history of French parapsychology (Evrard, 2016). (I’m also contributed to the Appendix E “Bibliography about and by Charles Richet with emphasis on psychic phenomena”, 119-132).
 Charles Richet (1850-1935) is a French physiologist (Nobel laureate 1913) who had contributed to many fields, among them psychology and psychical research. The book gathers six essays while trying to exhaustively cover these specific contributions through various glasses: a general overview of his interest in psychic phenomena (Chap. 1, 1-26), a discussion of his metapsychic autobiography (Chap. 2, 27-44), an analysis of his early ideas on mental suggestion and his pioneering use of probabilities in human sciences (Chap. 3, 45-54), his various attempts to create gateways between psychology and psychical research (Chap. 4, 55-66), a review of his masterpiece The traité de métapsychique (Chap. 5, 67-84), and a final comment about his own conclusions about what he learnt from psychical research and the survivalist hypothesis (Chap. 6, 85-96). The first four appendices cover small historical points as Richet’s séances with famous medium Leonara Piper (97-102), one of his observation of moving ectoplasm (103-104), a note about the term “ectoplasm” which he didn’t coin (105-106), and an extract from his Traité (107-118) about the scientific statute of “metapsychics”, his own term for parapsychology, in which we have a nice illustration of his clever and Hugolian expression style.
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Yeung, Edward S. "Autobiography of an Analytical Chemist." Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry 13, no. 1 (2020): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anchem-090519-111018.
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Most of my research directions were opportunistic. Having worked with lasers in the early stages of laser applications in analytical chemistry, attending conferences, workshops, and administrative meetings that were not exactly aligned with our own research, locating to a building or in a department that housed scientists with different backgrounds, having certain specialized equipment at the right time, and having funding agencies that were broad-minded clearly contributed to my ventures into diverse fields. Most of all, it had to be the many eager minds that I have had the fortune to work with. I have always tried to suggest research topics that might be interesting to the individual coworker rather than something straight out of my own research proposals. Only then did each person actually own the project rather than consider it a chore. After all, we work in the field of analytical chemistry, in which almost anything we do can fit in.
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Iengo, Ilenia. "Endometriosis and Environmental Violence." Environmental Humanities 14, no. 2 (2022): 341–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9712412.
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Abstract This toxic autobiography seeks to open the conversation around the intersecting injustices marking the epistemological, material, political, and porous entanglements between endometriosis, the bodily inflammatory chronic condition the author is affected by, and the toxic waste fires raging in the territory known as the Land of Fires, between the provinces of Naples and Caserta, in southern Italy. Thinking with the sprouting intersection of environmental humanities and disability justice, while rooted in a critical environmental justice and transfeminist standpoint, the article uncovers the toxic embodiment where bodies and places are enmeshed. Although a growing body of literature acknowledges the role of chemical buildup and endocrine-disrupting toxins in the occurrence of endometriosis, the author delineates the epistemic injustices that keep this relationship silent in mainstream medical discourses. Through the blend of environmental memoir, embodied knowledge, activist campaigns, and medical literature, the article exposes the accumulation of environmental, medical, ableist, misogynist, and capitalist slow violence that living with endometriosis brings about. While emerging from the materiality of experiencing trauma and pain, the article reclaims the emancipatory possibilities that can be articulated. From the politicization of an “invisible” illness standpoint, the article proposes a toxic autobiography in which transfeminist, environmental, and disability justice politics are collectively affirmed through situated ecopolitics of response-ability that accounts for interdependence and self-determination of marginal bodies and territories.
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Muhammad, Mukhtiar, and Farheen Ahmed Hashmi. "Postmodern Political Discourse: A Thematic and Linguistic Analysis of Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom." International Journal of English Linguistics 10, no. 2 (2020): 198. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v10n2p198.
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The Postmodern wave of democratization and the emphasis on democratic values and right to expression make it imperative that the political discourse be studied with more and full attention. In this regard, one genre that is almost totally ignored in Pakistani context and little attention has been paid to it even at the global level, is autobiography. Autobiography is a special kind of composition in which the author gives a picture of the evolution of the self and its relation with the external world throughout this evolutionary process. The famous political autobiography Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela is, therefore, selected as the basic unit of analysis. Through content analysis different topics are separated from the original text. These topics are then grouped under different categories of van Dijk’s theory of Political Discourse Analysis (PDA). The exploration and analysis of linguistic devices are also carried out. Besides Van Dijk’s PDA, Huckin’s approach to text and Corpus Linguistics’ quantitative methodology aided the systematic in-depth analysis. Methods of both qualitative and quantitative research have been utilized for this study as the researchers believe that quantification of data along with qualitative description produce reliable results. Findings revealed various linguistic devices are used in abundance. Amongst the most prominent ones are the unique and effective use of the year-statistics, language of the minority regime, Afrikaans, Trilingual combination, dramatic language and listing or cluster of three to stress certain themes like racial discrimination, inequality, poverty, parties, law, justice, separation and history.
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Kosmalska, Joanna. "Defining Migration Writing." Journal of Literary Theory 16, no. 2 (2022): 331–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jlt-2022-2028.
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Abstract With a view to extending and enriching the vibrant, ongoing debate about migration and literature, this article makes an attempt to define »migration writing«. Using three perspectives – the theme-oriented, ethnic-oriented and text-oriented approaches – the paper examines the concept of »migration writing« in relation to other literary terms. Therefore, the starting point for the discussion is a brief comparison of migration writing with autobiography, travel writing and postcolonial literature. Then some useful comparisons are made to other related literary concepts, such as exile literature, refugee literature, foreigners’ literature, guest worker literature, Kanake literature, »allochthonous« literature, ethnic literature, minority literature, diasporic literature, hyphenated literature, multicultural literature, intercultural literature, émigré literature/emigrant literature, immigrant literature, migrant literature, the literature of migration. From these concepts, there emanates what I call »migration writing«. The label is used by me as a term for a whole variety of different types of literary and non-literary texts that have been published since the 1990s. These texts either tackle the topic of migration or emerge from the experience of migration (but not necessarily address the subject of migration). It is also not necessary for the author to be a migrant: it is enough that his or her work is inspired or influenced by the experience of migration and is imbued with a vision of cosmopolitan, transnational, hybrid society and the globalised world. Given the large scope of this definition, it seems best to define the genre as a constellation of many different types of text which are connected to one another by a set of characteristic features. Some of these features include: the real-life nature of the writing, creolization and multilingualism in the text, references to multiple cultures and/or geographic locations, impact of the Internet and online communication on the structure of the work, common themes and motifs. The article ends by illuminating the research potential of migration writing. Among other things, it gives highly informative accounts of migration experience, exposes the stereotypical representations of migrants, gives piercing insights into migrants’ host and home cultures, explores the issues of identity, nationality, borders and belonging, provides alternative knowledge about current social and cultural transformations. Acting as a counterweight to the dominant narratives, migration texts often make visible the phenomena that are unintentionally ignored or wilfully excluded from the mainstream public discourse. Consequently, they provide alternative knowledge that can be a useful research material in all kinds of areas, such as sociological, political, economic or culture studies.
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Dima, Florina Irina. "A DIDACTIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE FALSE TREATY OF MANIPULATION – WRITTEN BY ANA BLANDIANA." CBU International Conference Proceedings 4 (September 22, 2016): 311–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.12955/cbup.v4.773.
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The present paper aims to underline the important role of introducing contemporary reading of autobiographical texts in high-school literature classes in Romania. It mentions the concepts of Shah Saria, Debra Edwards, and Linda Andersen, and the definitions of autobiography by Philippe Lejeune, Isabel Duran, and Karl Weintraub. For demonstration, it examines the text of the Romanian writer Ana Blandiana (a pseudonym of Otilia Valeria Coman), namely the False Treaty of Manipulation, published in 2013. The didactic generosity of this book is demonstrated with mention of the thematic stratification and uniqueness of the text, and by discussing the textual reference to the Romanian contemporary history, the connections between topics within the book, and how these might serve the interest and preparedness of teenagers for their adult life. The didactic approach of the book content involves extra-, inter-, and across-textual questions, as well as detailed passages, themes, and secondary themes relevant to the study of autobiography.
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SMIRNOV, SERGEY A. "PAUL FEYERABAND: THE RESTLESS ANARCHIST." Chelovek.RU, no. 2021-16 (November 22, 2021): 150–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.32691/2410-0935-2021-16-150-180.
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The article provides a reflexive analysis of the autobiographical experience presented in the autobiography of Paul Feyerabend "Killing Time". The specificity of the genre and method of the author's work on his own biography is highlighted. It is shown that this experience is strikingly different both from that to which European continental thinkers or domestic philosophers are accustomed, and from that which is presented in the Western intellectual tradition. Feyerabend deliberately built his story as "light reading", comparable to comics, musical script and stand-up comedy genre. At the same time, it is shown that as the story progresses, the position of the narrator himself changes and his very intonation changes towards more personal and spiritual tones and topics related to personality changes. The author was least of all interested in his own intellectual pursuits, and most of all he was interested in emotional attachments and love for one's neighbor. For the sake of this love, he wrote, in essence, his autobiography, strangely similar to the genre of repentance of the restless atheist anarchist.
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Saunders, Max. "Byatt, Fiction and Biofiction." International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity 7, no. 1 (2019): 87–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.18352/hcm.543.
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A. S. Byatt’s fiction is much possessed by ‘lives’ – not only the lives of her characters, but the ideas of the biographies of those characters, and of characters as biographers. The essay will explore the relation between fiction, biography and autobiography in her work, taking in such topics as portraiture, myth, creation and reading. It will ask why a novelist who has written about earlier historical periods has eschewed one of the defining devices of the historical novel – and postmodern biofiction – of using real historical figures as characters.
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Kukuryk, Agnieszka. "Les motifs de l’eau dans Ludo de Conrad Detrez." Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature 42, no. 3 (2018): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2018.42.3.125.
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<p>Conrad Detrez is undoubtedly one of Belgium’s most important writers of the 70s of the 20th century. After having translated Brazilian revolutionary authors, he resumed the review of his provincial past, named «hallucinating autobiography». His first autofictional novel Ludo (1974) bring to life his first Belgian years in his native land where the inundation invades everything, the incessant rain causes floods and the river enters the houses. With excellent wit, Detrez’s scalpel-pen dissects characters and situations through which such topics as friendship, everyday marginal life and panic of people during the Second World War. Through selffiction, Detrez´s novel present the author and narrator’s obsessions.</p>
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Heinonen, Alayna. "A Tonic to the Empire?: The 1951 Festival of Britain and the Empire-Commonwealth." Britain and the World 8, no. 1 (2015): 76–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/brw.2015.0168.
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A unique feat of an economically and physically ravaged post-war Britain, the 1951 Festival of Britain produced an ‘autobiography of a nation’ intended to instill a nationalistic sense of recovery after total war. Centrally located on the South Bank, the Festival hosted a series of exhibitions celebrating British achievements in the fields of industry, science, technology, architecture, and the arts. With few exceptions, the vast majority of scholarship assesses the Festival through its national framework, and as an attempt to facilitate post-war economic recovery under the Labour government. This article re-examines the imperial concerns underlying the Festival amidst profound global changes in the post-war era. The ‘centrifugal’ development of the inter- and post-war Commonwealth fatally compromised administrative efforts to cultivate a tonic to the Empire through Festival exhibits. Former colonies and Dominions, emboldened by their independence from the metropole, refused to partake in an event that idealised a modernity that rested only in Britain. Representatives from India, Pakistan, and Ceylon, as new Commonwealth members, dissented against indications of their inferior status. These complications during the Festival's organisation expose the fractures in the transition from an exclusive, British-led Commonwealth to a multiracial Commonwealth.
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Dudrah, Rajinder. "ReadingThe Stuart Hall Project." Journal of British Cinema and Television 12, no. 3 (2015): 383–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2015.0271.
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How might we be able to read and appreciate John Akomfrah's documentary The Stuart Hall Project? This article explores the film from a combined film and cultural studies approach, inspired by the intellectual work of Professor Stuart Hall himself. It situates the documentary about the life and work of Hall in terms of a development of Akomfrah's earlier work and in particular provides a close reading of the film as it deals with issues of biography and autobiography, identity and travel, and how it leaves us with an intriguing possibility of a conjunctural ending. It is argued that these topics have been represented through a reflexive audio-visual aesthetic as they are in an intimate dialogue with Hall's own cultural theory on such matters.
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PURI, MICHAEL J. "Dandy, Interrupted: Sublimation, Repression, and Self-Portraiture in Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé (1909–1912)." Journal of the American Musicological Society 60, no. 2 (2007): 317–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jams.2007.60.2.317.
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Whether understood as the elevation of material to a higher state of aesthetic being or the redirection of the libido toward socially seemly ends, the concept of sublimation has played a central but underappreciated role in accounts of Ravel and his music over the past century. Similarly, Ravel's identity as a dandy —who, according to Baudelaire, aspires to be “sublime without interruption” —has been mentioned consistently in biographical appraisals, but never deeply investigated. Incorporating a representation of the dandy's genesis from the sublimation of desire, Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé (1909–1912) offers the analyst an excellent opportunity to examine both entities in depth while also broaching a variety of related topics: repression, queer sexuality, camp aesthetics, contemporary musical politics (dandyism versus d'Indyism), and theories of autobiography.
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Skowroński, Rafał. "Głos GoLema. Tożsamość superkomputera a kategoria wyzwania w Golemie XIV Stanisława Lema." Literaturoznawstwo 1, no. 13 (2020): 56–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.25312/2451-1595.13/2019__05rs.
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GoLem’s voice: The identity of a supercomputer and the challenge category in the Golem XIV by Stanisław Lem The article reflects on the topic of genology, autobiographism (autobiographic triangle, category of challenge) and cultural context (kabbalah and the legened of the golem) in a complex in the category of genre book Golem XIV written by Stanisław Lem. The analysis goal is to show the connection of Golem XIV words with the cultural context and the human author of his lectures and to deny the need to categorize literature by genre like in the structural methodology. The problem of the authors presence in the novel is undrelined. Keywords: Stanisław Lem, golem, category of challenge, autobiographism, genology, ethics, culture
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Raeburn, Susan D. "The Ring of Fire: Shame, Fame, and Rock 'n' Roll." Medical Problems of Performing Artists 22, no. 1 (2007): 3–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.21091/mppa.2007.1002.
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A healthy sense of shame is a source of personal power—it acknowledges that to be human is to be limited, provides humility, connects one with his or her core dependency needs, and allows people to ask for help when necessary. Toxic shame, on the other hand, becomes a core identity of worthlessness and a motivator of self-destructive and addictive behavior. Toxic shame is the byproduct of insecure attachments and shame-based family rules and systems and is transferred across generations unconsciously and procedurally via criticism, rejection, invalidation, verbal or physical abuse, and other forms of emotional abandonment. This paper describes key psychological processes associated with shame and explores how they may interact with the business of popular music for musicians, using the publicly described life of Johnny Cash as a clinical example. Based on the events depicted in the 2006 film Walk the Line and his autobiography, this case study of Johnny Cash explores clinically significant events in his childhood and adult life and explores how shame processes may have been implicated in those events and their outcomes. This paper provides a speculative clinical overview of both life-affirming, protective factors and destructive toxic-shame factors in his life as played out in his drug addiction and eventual recovery.
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Balčiūnienė, Ingrida, and Aleksandr N. Kornev. "Discourse acquisition along with the early and preschool age." Pediatrician (St. Petersburg) 12, no. 5 (2021): 85–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/ped12585-95.
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Numerous studies in language acquisition have been revealed that oral discourse plays a crucial role in cognitive development and communicative development and has an impact on the so-called narrative mind, social intelligence, autobiographic memory, and personal identity. The paper is devoted to the main patterns and mechanisms of the acquisition of oral personal discourse along with the early and preschool age. The paper includes the following sub-topics: conversation acquisition, personal narrative and fictional story acquisition, relations between different genres of personal discourse, and cognitive prerequisites for the acquisition of personal discourse. The paper is based on the meta-analysis of numerous studies covering various fields of science (psychology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and linguistics) and decades of scientific investigations in child development. The main issues discussed in the paper are acquisition and development of interaction structure (the skills necessary to initiate and to close a conversation); acquisition and development of conversation structure (the skills necessary for turn-taking and topic continuation); acquisition and development of some metadiscursive skills necessary for successful communication (e.g. to acknowledge communication breakdowns in a proper way); acquisition and development of some pragmatic skills necessary for successful communication (e.g. to modify speech characteristics according to the social role and status of the interlocutor and the context of the communication, to produce relevant speech acts); acquisition and development of narrative structure (story structure, episode completeness, internal state terms); and acquisition and development of narrative cohesion and coherence. The given issues are discussed from the perspective of the biological age and linguistic, communicative, and cognitive development.