Tag: Narratives

Free Download Irina D. Costache, "Historical Narratives of Global Modern Art "
English | ISBN: 1032150203 | 2023 | 228 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
Diversifying the current art historical scholarship, this edited volume presents the untold story of modern art by exposing global voices and perspectives excluded from the privileged and uncontested narrative of "isms."

Free Download Zhang Na, "Posthuman Becoming Narratives in Contemporary Anglophone Science Fiction"
English | ISBN: 1527588505 | 2022 | 365 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Free Download Joris Vandendriessche, "Medical histories of Belgium: New narratives on health, care and citizenship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries "
English | ISBN: 1526151081 | 2021 | 400 pages | PDF | 38 MB
Medical histories of Belgium reshapes Belgian history of medicine by bringing together a new generation of scholars. Going beyond a chronological narrative, the book offers new insights by questioning classic themes of the history of medicine: physicians, institutions and the nation state. While retracing specific Belgian characteristics, it also engages with broader European developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Medical histories of Belgium will appeal to Historians of Belgium in various subfields, especially cultural history and political history and medical historians and medical practitioners seeking the historical context of their activities.

Free Download Kimberly A. Nance, "Ethics of Witness in Global Testimonial Narratives: Responding to the Pain of Others "
English | ISBN: 1498598889 | 2019 | 158 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 995 KB
Inspired by Susan Sontag’s examination of the impact of "photography of conscience" in Regarding the Pain of Others, Kimberly A. Nance’s Responding to the Pain of Others: Ethics of Witness in Global Testimonial Narratives takes as its point of departure Sontag’s speculation that in combatting human rights abuse, "a narrative seems likely to be more effective than an image." Building on her own earlier research on Aristotelian rhetorical theory and testimony, along with other interdisciplinary approaches, Nance analyzes the socio-literary narratives of Elvia Alvarado, Medea Benjamin, Peter Dickinson, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Clea Koff, Delia Jarrett-Macauley, Valentino Achak Deng, Dave Eggers, Uwem Akpan, and Alicia Partnoy. Each of them, she finds, confronts a human rights discourse in which words-and witnesses-have become disconnected from actions. Recognizing that the genre’s own conventions have become an obstacle to its projects, these testimonialists draw on humor, irony, satire, parody, and innovative literary techniques, alongside strategies rooted in real-life organizing, in an effort to reactivate the discourse of human rights. They seek to persuade readers to exchange a solidarity of sentiment, a state Michael Vander Weele calls "an aesthetics in which the engine revs but the clutch is never engaged," for actual social action.

Free Download Arie W. Kruglanski, "The Three Pillars of Radicalization: Needs, Narratives, and Networks"
English | ISBN: 0190851120 | 2019 | 272 pages | PDF | 10 MB
What fuels radicalization? Is deradicalization a possibility? The Three Pillars of Radicalization: Needs, Narratives, and Networks addresses these crucial questions by identifying the three major determinants of radicalization that progresses into violent extremism. The first determinant is the need: individuals’ universal desire for personal significance. The second determinant is narrative, which guides members in their "quest for significance." The third determinant is the network, or membership in one’s group that validates the collective narrative and dispenses rewards like respect and veneration to members who implement it.

Free Download Mariana Imaz-Sheinbaum, "Historical Narratives "
English | ISBN: 103248053X | 2023 | 152 pages | EPUB, PDF | 986 KB + 552 KB
This book explains some of the psychological processes that go into narrative construction and why it is that we have so much variability of historical accounts about a single historical event. A central focus of this book is how historians go from having unconnected units of data to having a coherent, structured, and organized flow of experiences. The author argues that the way these connections are established responds to certain Gestalt psychological principles that allow us to understand not only how histories are constructed but also how this construction can be rather different depending on how these principles are applied. To illustrate how these principles are present in histories, the author analyzes classic historical writers such as Burckhardt, Huizinga, Vico, and Marx.

Free Download Kristina S. Gibby, "Ancestral Voices, Healing Narratives: Female Ghosts in Contemporary US and Caribbean Fiction "
English | ISBN: 1666909645 | 2023 | 130 pages | EPUB, PDF | 351 KB + 1265 KB

Free Download Top Ten Fictional Narratives in Early Modern Europe: Translation, Dissemination and Mediality by Rita Schlusemann , Helwi Blom , Anna Katharina Richter and Krystyna Wierzbicka-Trwoga
English | EPUB | 2023 | 300 Pages | ISBN : 3110758482 | 17.9 MB
This volume examines the ten most popular fictional narratives in early modern Europe between 1470 and 1800. Each of these narratives was marketed in numerous European languages and circulated throughout several centuries. Combining literary studies and book history, this work offers for the first time a transnational perspective on a selected text corpus of this genre. It explores the spatio-temporal transmission of the texts in different languages and the materiality of the editions: the narratives were bought, sold, read, translated and adapted across European borders, from the south of Spain to Iceland and from Great Britain to Poland. Thus, the study analyses the multi-faceted processes of cultural circulation, translation and adaptation of the texts. In their diverse forms of mediality such as romance, drama, ballad and penny prints, they also make a significant contribution to a European identity in the early modern period. The narrative texts examined here include Apollonius, Septem sapientum, Amadis de Gaula, Fortunatus, Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelonne, Melusine, Griseldis, Aesopus’ Life and Fables, Reynaert de vos and Till Ulenspiegel.

Free Download Top Ten Fictional Narratives in Early Modern Europe: Translation, Dissemination and Mediality by Rita Schlusemann , Helwi Blom , Anna Katharina Richter and Krystyna Wierzbicka-Trwoga
English | EPUB | 2023 | 300 Pages | ISBN : 3110758482 | 17.9 MB
This volume examines the ten most popular fictional narratives in early modern Europe between 1470 and 1800. Each of these narratives was marketed in numerous European languages and circulated throughout several centuries. Combining literary studies and book history, this work offers for the first time a transnational perspective on a selected text corpus of this genre. It explores the spatio-temporal transmission of the texts in different languages and the materiality of the editions: the narratives were bought, sold, read, translated and adapted across European borders, from the south of Spain to Iceland and from Great Britain to Poland. Thus, the study analyses the multi-faceted processes of cultural circulation, translation and adaptation of the texts. In their diverse forms of mediality such as romance, drama, ballad and penny prints, they also make a significant contribution to a European identity in the early modern period. The narrative texts examined here include Apollonius, Septem sapientum, Amadis de Gaula, Fortunatus, Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelonne, Melusine, Griseldis, Aesopus’ Life and Fables, Reynaert de vos and Till Ulenspiegel.

Free Download John Sumser, "The Conflict Between Secular and Religious Narratives in the United States: Wittgenstein, Social Construction, and Commu"
English | ISBN: 1498522084 | 2016 | 184 pages | EPUB | 776 KB
The Conflict Between Secular and Religious Narratives in the United States uses the theory of social construction and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to examine the current divide between religious and secular narratives in the United States. Sumser analyzes how Americans apply religious and secular reasoning to contemporary social problems, and explains the resurgence of religious worldviews and the simultaneous growth of an assertive form of atheism in America. This book is recommended for scholars of communication studies, religious studies, sociology, philosophy, and history.