Narrativized Strategic Choice

Author : John P. DeRosa
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538143032

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Narrativized Strategic Choice by John P. DeRosa Pdf

In February 2019, Donald Trump announced the United States withdrew from the landmark Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia sparking worldwide concerns over the specter of a new nuclear arms race. The rational-actor and game-theoretic models dominating international relations literature failed to predict or explain this strategic choice. Rationalist, normative, and materialist models of strategic choice saturate the study of international relations. Scholars continue to expose the shortfalls in these approaches in explaining or predicting outcomes of strategic interactions. In this timely study, John P. DeRosa advances a new model of strategic choice through a narrative lens. This narrative turn reframes the logic to emphasize the propositions of motives, perceptions, preferences, and the reflexive interaction of strategic choices. Case studies of American and Russian nuclear arms control treaties from the negotiations of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 1987 to the crisis of the US withdrawal from the INF Treaty in 2019 support building a theory of “narrativized” strategic choice.

Author : Patrick Pinkerton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786614087

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Deconstructing Peace by Patrick Pinkerton Pdf

This book develops a novel approach to peace and conflict studies, through an original application of the philosophy of Jacques Derrida to the post-conflict politics of Northern Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Based on new readings of the peace agreements and the post-conflict political systems, the book goes beyond accounts that present a static picture of ‘fixed divisions’ in these cases. By exploring how formal electoral politics and the informal political spheres of artistic, cultural, judicial and protest movements already contest the politics of division, the book argues that the post-conflict political systems in Northern Ireland and Bosnia and Herzegovina are in a process of deconstruction. The text adds to the Derridean lexicon by developing the idea of a ‘deconstructive conclusion’, which challenges historical understandings of conflicts at the same time as challenging their consequences in the present. The study provides a critical contribution to peacebuilding and International Relations literature, by demonstrating how Derridean concepts can be utilised to provide fresh understandings of conflict and post-conflict situations, as well as allowing for political interventions to be made into these processes.

Author : John Pier,José Angel Garcia Landa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110969801

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Theorizing Narrativity by John Pier,José Angel Garcia Landa Pdf

Theorizing Narrativity is a collective work by an international array of leading specialists in narrative theory. It provides new perspectives on the nature of narrative, genre theory, narrative semiotics and communication theory. Most contributions center on the specificity of literary fiction, but each chapter investigates a different dimension of narrativity with many issues dealt with in innovative ways (including oral storytelling, the law, video games, causality, intertextuality and the theory of reading). There are chapters by Gerald Prince on narrativehood and narrativity, Meir Sternberg on the narrativity of the law-code, Werner Wolf on chance and Peter Hühn on eventfulness in fiction, Jukka Tyrkkö on kaleidoscope narratives, Marie-Laure Ryan on transfictionality and computer games, Ansgar Nünning and Roy Sommer as well as Monika Fludernik on the narrativity of drama, Beatriz Penas on (non)standard narrativities, David Rudrum on narrativity and performativity, Michael Toolan on textual guidance, John Pier on causality and retrospection, and José Ángel García Landa on retelling and represented narrations.

Author : Paul Dawson,Maria Mäkelä
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000576375

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The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory by Paul Dawson,Maria Mäkelä Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory brings together top scholars in the field to explore the significance of narrative to pressing social, cultural, and theoretical issues. How does narrative both inform and limit the way we think today? From conspiracy theories and social media movements to racial politics and climate change future scenarios, the reach is broad. This volume is distinctive for addressing the complicated relations between the interdisciplinary narrative turn in the academy and the contemporary boom of instrumental storytelling in the public sphere. The scholars collected here explore new theories of causality, experientiality, and fictionality; challenge normative modes of storytelling; and offer polemical accounts of narrative fiction, nonfiction, and video games. Drawing upon the latest research in areas from cognitive sciences to complexity theory, the volume provides an accessible entry point for those new to the myriad applications of narrative theory and a point of departure for new scholarship.

Author : John Child
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Organizational effectiveness
ISBN : OCLC:535417297

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Strategic Choice by John Child Pdf

Author : Valentina Marinescu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783838266794

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Critical Reflections on Audience and Narrativity by Valentina Marinescu Pdf

Author : Eva Sabine Wagner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110673197

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Narrativity, Coherence and Literariness by Eva Sabine Wagner Pdf

The search for the defining qualities of narrative has produced an expansive range of definitions which, largely unconnected with each other, obscure the notion of “narrativity” rather than clarifying it. The first part of this study remedies this shortcoming by developing a graded macro model of narrativity which serves three aims. Firstly, it provides a structured overview of the field of narrative elements and processes. Secondly, it facilitates the classification of narratological approaches by locating them on different stages of narrativity. Finally, it focuses attention on narrative dynamics as interpretative processes by which readers seek to produce narrative coherence. The second part of this study identifies three different narrative dynamics which characterise Laclos’s "Dangerous Connections," Kafka’s "Castle" and Toussaint’s novels. Wagner bases her analyses of these dynamics not only on the texts themselves but also on the ways in which literary scholars imbue the texts with narrative coherence. This book provides a long overdue systematisation of the jumbled field of theories of narrativity and opens new perspectives on the difficult relationship between narrative theory and interpretation.

Author : Suzanne Fleischman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780292786554

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Tense and Narrativity by Suzanne Fleischman Pdf

In this pathfinding study, Suzanne Fleischman brings together theory and methodology from various quarters to shed important new light on the linguistic structure of narrative, a primary and universal device for translating our experiences into language. Fleischman sees linguistics as laying the foundation for all narratological study, since it offers insight into how narratives are constructed in their most primary context: everyday speech. She uses a linguistic model designed for "natural" narrative to explicate the organizational structure of "artificial" narrative texts, primarily from the Middle Ages and the postmodern period, whose seemingly idiosyncratic use of tenses has long perplexed those who study them. Fleischman develops a functional theory of tense and aspect in narrative that accounts for the wide variety of functions—pragmatic as well as grammatical—that these two categories of grammar are called upon to perform in the linguistic economy of a narration.

Author : Gurli A. Woods
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773573949

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Isak Dinesen and Narrativity by Gurli A. Woods Pdf

Responding to recent Dinesen scholarship and public exposure in such films as Out of Africa and Babette's Feast, these fourteen original essays discuss and reveal the aesthetic subtlety and philosophical complexity of Dinesen's art.

Author : Maureen Junker-Kenny,Peter Kenny
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3825849309

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Memory, Narrativity, Self and the Challenge to Think God by Maureen Junker-Kenny,Peter Kenny Pdf

As the first book in English to treat the most recent, as yet untranslated stage of Paul Ricoeur's work, the topical themes of memory and forgiveness as they relate to his theory of self and to the question of God, this publication offers an overview of the fruitfulness of his categories for different theological disciplines by experts from different cultural contexts: North America, Britain, Germany and Scandinavia. Paul Ricoeur's own article on forgiveness as a dimension opened up from beyond human powers, and his contributions to the discussion of his work document a new stage of interaction with Theology.

Author : John R. Montanari,Cyril P. Morgan,Jeffrey S. Bracker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Strategic planning
ISBN : 0030088585

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Strategic Management Choice by John R. Montanari,Cyril P. Morgan,Jeffrey S. Bracker Pdf

Author : Benjamin John Peters
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781532694912

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Narrativizing Theories by Benjamin John Peters Pdf

Ours is an age of offense, a time of reactionary shock--always received, never given. Ours is an age that has forgone cultural narratives, a time of individualism--wherein personal identities trump the collective spirit. Ours is an age of failing earth, a time of ecological collapse--yet the consumption of global capitalism continues to run amok. But don't fear. You have the correct worldview, the best solutions. It's not your fault these things are happening. It's the president's, the immigrant's, and the Islamicist's. Or perhaps It's the socialist's, the tree hugger's, and the baby killer's. But it's not your fault. Never yours. For the world exists as you see it--in an echo chamber lined with golden pixels. Do I still have your attention? Then join me. Within the covers of Narrativizing Theories, I dive into ambiguity and aesthetics to depict how clashing worldviews exist side by side yet remain mutually incompatible. I examine how cultures distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable beliefs, embodiments, and identities. And I outline an aesthetic theory of ambiguity that highlights--through the twists and turns of literature--the provisionality of knowledge and the narrativization of reality.

Author : Jerome J. McGann
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674814959

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Social Values and Poetic Acts by Jerome J. McGann Pdf

Author : Philip John Moore Sturgess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015020838473

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Narrativity by Philip John Moore Sturgess Pdf

Defining narrativity as the enabling force of narrative, this is the first full-length exploration of the concept in fiction in English. It develops the notion of a "logic of narrativity", and by this means tries to contribute a new critical strategy to the field of narrative theory. The book also takes issue with a number of critical approaches that have in recent years acquired near-orthodox status in the matter of textual interpretation. Most prominent among these approaches are deconstruction and a particular form of Marxist criticism. The author's own theoretical claims are substantiated by readings of major twentieth-century novels by Conrad, Joyce, Flann O'Brien, and Arthur Koestler, and the book concludes with an analysis of an earlier narrative, Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, which illustrates the wider premises of the theory and its applications.

Author : Hong Guk-Pyoung
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111377759

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Judah's Desire and the Making of the Abrahamic Israel by Hong Guk-Pyoung Pdf

In this refreshing exploration of Judah’s identity formation, the emphasis is placed on the psychological underpinnings of Judah’s sentiments towards Israel, aiming to illuminate the significance of Judah's appropriation of Israel. Richly contextual, this book draws parallels observed in Asian contexts, notably those of North and South Korea, and China with its marginal Others. Central to the thesis is that Judah’s perceived inferiority to Israel played a crucial role in its quest to appropriate Israel’s legacy and identity. Adopting a functionalist lens, Judah’s rewriting of Israel’s ancestral past is examined. The Abraham and Jacob traditions are understood as competing "identity narratives," serving as critical discursive tools to construct their pasts. The study scrutinizes how the southern Abraham tradition fundamentally reoriented the Jacob tradition, North Israel’s standalone ancestral myth. Set against the broader canvas of continued efforts to redefine and embody "Israel" within the history of Judeo-Christian religions, this exploration underscores how Judah's pivotal appropriation of Israel has established a paradigm for all future endeavors of "becoming Israel."