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Are Models Narratives? Perspectives on a Narrative Critique of Models
Models have become a central device in many sciences as much as in the public discussions on climate change or, topically, dealing with pandemics, but they have received only scant consideration in literary studies so far. This essay explores models with a focus on the context of narratives. It examines the relationship between models and narratives, and goes on to suggest ways in which insight gained from the study of narratives can enhance our understanding of models in general. Such insight could then become useful as an element in a general critique of models that ultimately will help in the assessment and decision taking wherever competing models have to be dealt with.
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Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging
Diaspora studies has developed in recent years from disparate enquiries into diasporic phenomena in political science, anthropology, history, geography, and literary and cultural studies.Its emergence as a full-fledged transdisciplinary research field has been predicated to a large degree on an interest in questions of dispersal and mobility.
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Symbolism : an international annual of critical aesthetics. Volume 14
Symbolic representation is a crucial subject for and a potent heuristic instrument of diaspora studies. This special focus inquires into the forms and functions of symbols of diaspora both in aesthetic practice and in critical discourse, analyzing and theorizing symbolic practices from Shakespeare to Bollywood as well as in critical writings of theorists of diaspora.
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Diaspora, Law and Literature
The well-known challenges of international migration have triggered new departures in academic approaches, with 'diaspora studies' evolving as an interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary field of study. Its emerging methodology shares concerns with another interdisciplinary field, the study of the relations between law and literature, which focuses on the ways in which the two cultural practices of law and literature mutually negotiate each other and on the question after the ontological commensurability of the domains. This volume offers, for the first time, an attempt to provide an interface between these overlapping interdisciplinary endeavours of literary studies, legal studies, and diaspora studies. In doing so, it explores new approaches and invites new perspectives on diasporas, migration and the disciplines that study them, hopefull also adding to the cultural resources of coping with a swiftly changing social landscape in a globalizing world.
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Symbolism 14
Symbolism. An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed annual dedicated to pursuing fundamental questions on the forms and functions of the symbolic. Symbolism publishes high-profile research on various topics related to the use of figurative language, thought and signification in artistic expression and constructions of reality. While maintaining a strong literary focus, the annual also enquires into practices of the symbolic across various media.
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Diaspora, Law and Literature
The well-known challenges of international migration have triggered new departures in academic approaches, with 'diaspora studies' evolving as an interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary field of study. Its emerging methodology shares concerns with another interdisciplinary field, the study of the relations between law and literature, which focuses on the ways in which the two cultural practices of law and literature mutually negotiate each other and on the question after the ontological commensurability of the domains. This volume offers, for the first time, an attempt to provide an interface between these overlapping interdisciplinary endeavours of literary studies, legal studies, and diaspora studies. In doing so, it explores new approaches and invites new perspectives on diasporas, migration and the disciplines that study them, hopefull also adding to the cultural resources of coping with a swiftly changing social landscape in a globalizing world.
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“Postmortemism”: Malcolm Bradbury’s Legacy in To the Hermitage
Résumé To the Hermitage (2000) est sans doute la réalisation la plus complexe et la plus élaborée de Malcolm Bradbury. Le présent article tente d’éclairer une argumentation subtile et une approche esthétique qui analyse la tradition humaniste du Siècle des lumières en Occident avec en vis-à-vis les forces de déconstruction du postmodernisme. La structure binaire du roman est cependant menacée dans la mesure où elle se décompose au fur et à mesure que l’histoire évolue. Bradbury tente finalement de réaffirmer les valeurs de l’humanisme et celles du Siècle des Lumières par delà les incertitudes postmodernes en mettant en relief la genèse de l’œuvre ainsi que le rôle de l’écrivain. De plus le processus de réflexivité montre que la narration peut être une force tout à la fois fondamentale et contingente. Abstract To the Hermitage (2000) is arguably the most complex and finished achievement of Malcolm Bradbury. The present article is an attempt to illuminate its sophisticated argument and aesthetic approach which could be summed up as a stock-taking of the humanist tradition of Western Enlightenment vis-à-vis the de(con)structive forces of postmodernism. The neat, binary ordering of the novel’s structure is, however, itself under threat, being deconstructed as the story evolves. In the end, Bradbury strives to re-establish humanist and enlightenment values beyond postmodern uncertainties by emphasizing the material aspects of authorship and writing; moreover, the reflexiveness in his fiction suggests that narration itself can become a foundational, albeit contingent force.
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Visualizing Law and Authority
The volume \"Visualizing Law and Authority. Essays on Legal Aesthetics\" brings together revised papers from the international conference \"Law and the Image\", held in Stockholm, 24–25 September, 2010. The participants/contributors belong to the disciplines of Art history, Cultural studies, Literary and Media studies, and Law. The contributions discuss the complex relations between law, media and visual phenomena. The common theme of the essays consists in an examination of the scopic field and of regimes of visibility in phenomenological terms, arguing that law constitutes a cognitive and aesthetic field of normative world-making. Rather than merely inverting Shelley's dictum that the \"poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world\", the essays argue in different ways for the necessity to develop a legal aesthetics. The most immediate way of pursuing such a legal aesthetics consists in examining law itself as an aesthetic object, for instance the power of law to produce icons, in the sense of unreadable texts or textiles (Martin Kayman, Gary Watt). Several essays focus on the way that visual art and media can be used to constitute and represent political power, but also to question it and to put it into question (Chiara Battisti, Leif Dahlberg, Elina Druker, Sidia Fiorato, Paul Raffield). Other essays investigate legal structures inherent in the artwork (and the artworld) itself (Ari Hirvonen, Max Liljefors, Christine Poggi, Karen-Margrethe Simonsen). Finally, there are two essays focusing on the use of images and imagery in the legal process, explicity arguing for the need of a legal aesthetics (Daniela Carpi, Richard Sherwin). Although diverse, the individual essays are interconnected with each other in fruitful and critical ways, making both explicit and implict references to each other.
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