The Past As Text

Author : Gabrielle M. Spiegel
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0801862590

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The Past as Text by Gabrielle M. Spiegel Pdf

This study of familiar medieval histories and chronicles argues that the historian should be aware of the discursive nature, literary modes, and ideological investments of such texts as well as the social circumstances to which they were applied and by which they were generated. Postmodernism has challenged historians to look at historical texts in a new way and to be skeptical of the claim that one can confidently retrieve "fact" from historical writings. In The Past as Text historian Gabrielle M. Spiegel sets out to read medieval histories and chronicles in light of the critical-theoretical problems raised by postmodernism. At the same time she urges a method of analysis that enables the reader to recognize these texts simultaneously as artifice and as works deeply embedded in a historically determinate, knowable social world. Beginning with a theoretical basis for the study of medieval historiography, Spiegel demonstrates her theory in practice, offering readings of medieval histories and chronicles as literary, social, and political constructions. The study insightfully concludes that historians should be equally aware of the discursive nature, literary modes, and ideological investments of such texts and the social circumstances to which they were applied and by which they were generated. Arguing for the "social logic of the text," Spiegel provides historians with a way to retrieve the social significance and conceptual claims produced by these medieval or any historical writings.

Author : Brian Stock
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0812216121

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Listening for the Text by Brian Stock Pdf

"Stock has opened up lines of thinking about the medieval world--and our modern one too--which lead in fascinating directions."--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004301153

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Tibetan Literary Genres, Texts, and Text Types by Anonim Pdf

The papers in Tibetan Literary Genres, Texts, and Text Types investigate specific Tibetan genres and texts as well as genre classification, transformation, and reception. The text types examined range from oral trickster narratives to songs, offering-rituals, biographies, and modern literature.

Author : Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen,Wiebke Ramm
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290311

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'Subordination' versus 'Coordination' in Sentence and Text by Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen,Wiebke Ramm Pdf

The papers collected in this volume (including a comprehensive introduction) investigate semantic and discourse-related aspects of subordination and coordination, in particular the relationship between subordination/coordination at the sentence level and subordination/coordination – or hierarchical/non-hierarchical organization – at the discourse level. The contributions in part I are concerned with central theoretical questions; part II consists of corpus-based cross-linguistic studies of clause combining and discourse structure, involving at least two of the languages English, German, Dutch, French and Norwegian; part III contains papers addressing specific – predominantly semantic – topics relating to German, English or French; and the papers in part IV approach the topic of subordination, coordination and rhetorical relations from a diachronic (Old Indic and Early Germanic) perspective. The book aims to contribute to a better understanding of information packaging on the sentence and text level related, within a particular language as well as cross-linguistically.

Author : Vicki Callahan
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814336878

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Reclaiming the Archive by Vicki Callahan Pdf

Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History brings together a diverse group of international feminist scholars to examine the intersections of feminism, history, and feminist theory in film. Editor Vicki Callahan has assembled essays that reflect a range of methodological approaches—including archival work, visual culture, reception studies, biography, ethno-historical studies, historiography, and textual analysis—by a diverse group of film and media studies scholars to prove that feminist theory, film history, and social practice are inevitably and productively intertwined. Essays in Reclaiming the Archive investigate the different models available in feminist film history and how those feminist strategies might serve as paradigmatic for other sites of feminist intervention. Chapters have an international focus and range chronologically from early cinema to post-feminist texts, organized around the key areas of reception, stars, and authorship. A final section examines the very definitions of feminism (post-feminism), cinema (transmedia), and archives (virtual and online) in place today. The essays in Reclaiming the Archive prove that a significant heritage of film studies lies in the study of feminism in film and feminist film theory. Scholars of film history and feminist studies will appreciate the breadth of work in this volume.

Author : Neil McCaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441108180

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How to Read Texts by Neil McCaw Pdf

Now in its second edition, How to Read Texts introduces students to key critical approaches to literary texts and offers a practical introduction for students developing their own critical and close-reading skills. Written in a lively, jargon-free style, it explains critical concepts, approaches and ideas including: - Debates around critical theory - The role of history and context - The links between creativity and criticism - The relationship between author, reader and text. The new edition now includes guidance on analysing a range of multi-media texts, including film and online media as well as the purely literary. In addition to new practical examples, readings, exercises and 'checkpoints' that help students to build confidence in their own critical readings of both primary and secondary texts, the book now also offers guidance on writing fully-formed critical essays and tips for independent research. Comprehensively updated and revised throughout, How to Read Texts is an indispensible guide for students making the transition to university study.

Author : P. Ashton,H. Kean
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230234468

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People and their Pasts by P. Ashton,H. Kean Pdf

In this innovative and original collection, people are seen as active agents in the development of new ways of understanding the past and creating histories for the present. Chapters explore forms of public history in which people's experience and understanding of their personal, national and local pasts are part of their current lives.

Author : Steven L. McKenzie,John Kaltner
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664238162

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New Meanings for Ancient Texts by Steven L. McKenzie,John Kaltner Pdf

"As . . . newer approaches [to biblical criticism] become more established and influential, it is essential that students and other serious readers of the Bible be exposed to them and become familiar with them. That is the main impetus behind the present volume, which is offered as a textbook for those who wish to go further than the approaches covered in To Each Its Own Meaning by exploring more recent or experimental ways of reading." „from the introduction This book is a supplement and sequel to To Each Its Own Meaning, edited by Steven L. McKenzie and Stephen R. Haynes, which introduced the reader to the most important methods of biblical criticism and remains a widely used classroom textbook. This new volume explores recent developments in, and approaches to, biblical criticism since 1999. Leading contributors define and describe their approach for non-specialist readers, using examples from the Old and New Testament to help illustrate their discussion. Topics include cultural criticism, disability studies, queer criticism, postmodernism, ecological criticism, new historicism, popular culture, postcolonial criticism, and psychological criticism. Each section includes a list of key terms and definitions and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Carl W. Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000149241

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Text Analysis for the Social Sciences by Carl W. Roberts Pdf

This book provides descriptions and illustrations of cutting-edge text analysis methods for communication and marketing research; cultural, historical-comparative, and event analysis; curriculum evaluation; psychological diagnosis; language development research; and for any research in which statistical inferences are drawn from samples of texts. Although the book is accessible to readers having no experience with content analysis, the text analysis expert will find substantial new material in its pages. In particular, this collection describes developments in semantic and network text analysis methodologies that heretofore have been accessible only among a smattering of methodology journals. The book's international and cross-disciplinary content illustrates the breadth of quantitative text analysis applications. These applications demonstrate the methods' utility for international research, as well as for practitioners from the fields of sociology, political science, journalism/communication, computer science, marketing, education, and English. This is an "ecumenical" collection that contains applications not only of the most recent semantic and network text analysis methods, but also of the more traditional thematic method of text analysis. In fact, it is originally with this volume that these two "relational" approaches to text analysis are defined and contrasted with more traditional "thematic" text analysis methods. The emphasis here is on application. The book's chapters provide guidance regarding the sorts of inferences that each method affords, and up-to-date descriptions of the human and technological resources required to apply the methods. Its purpose is as a resource for making quantitative text analysis methods more accessible to social science researchers.

Author : Alexander C. Murray
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004307001

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A Companion to Gregory of Tours by Alexander C. Murray Pdf

Gregory, bishop of Tours (573-594), wrote history, hagiography, and ecclesiastical instruction. A Companion to Gregory of Tours brings together twelve scholars who provide an expert guide to interpreting his works, his period, and his legacy in religious and historical studies.

Author : Yvonne Sherwood,Kevin Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135924294

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Derrida and Religion by Yvonne Sherwood,Kevin Hart Pdf

Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments represents the most comprehensive attempt to date to explore, adapt, and test Derrida's contributions and influence on the study of theology, biblical studies, and the philosophy of religion. With over twenty original essays from highly-respected scholars such as John Caputo, Daniel Boyarin, Edith Wyschogrod, Tim Beal, and Gil Anidjar, Derrida and Religion will quickly become the locus classicus for those interested in the increasingly vibrant work on religion and deconstruction and postmodernism.

Author : Gabrielle M. Spiegel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520915565

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Romancing the Past by Gabrielle M. Spiegel Pdf

In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that have until now been regarded as royalist were actually products of the aristocracy, reflecting its anxiety as it faced social and economic change and political threats from the monarchy.

Author : Doro Wiese
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810130043

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The Powers of the False by Doro Wiese Pdf

Introduction -- The truth of narration and the powers of the false -- Accepting complicated legacies by being once removed from the world : Everything is illuminated (Foer 2002) -- "He looked for truth in facts and not in stories" : crimes of historiography and forces of fabulation in Richard Flanagan's Gould's book of fish (2003) -- Making time, undoing race: Richard Powers' The time of our singing (2003) -- Conclusion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : English literature
ISBN : IOWA:31858002570392

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Early English Text Society (Series). by Anonim Pdf

Author : Suzy Anger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015053778968

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Knowing the Past by Suzy Anger Pdf

Text vs. hypertext: seeing the Victorian object as in itself it really is / Gerhard Joseph -- The golden bough and the unknowable / Christopher Herbert -- Daniel Deronda: a new epistemology / George Levine -- Walter Pater's impressionism and the form of historical revival Carolyn Williams -- Arnold and the authorization of criticism / Herbert F. Tucker -- Aesthetics, ethics, and unreadable acts in George Eliot / Jonathan Loesberg -- The structure of anxiety in political economy and Hard times / Mary Poovey -- How to be a benefactor without any money: the chill of welfare in Great expectations / Bruce Robbins -- Tracking the sentimental eye / Judith Stoddart -- Knowing and telling in Dickens's retrospects / Rosemarie Bodenheimer -- Inside the shark's mouth: William Lovett's struggle for political language / Margery Sabin -- Knowing a life: Edith Simcox, Sat est vixisse? / Gillian Beer.