Tag: Narratives

Free Download Dolores G. Kamrada, "Heroines, Heroes and Deity: Three Narratives of the Biblical Heroic Tradition "
English | ISBN: 0567662373 | 2016 | 232 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Kamrada’s study analyses three narratives concerning the greatest heroic figures of the biblical tradition: Jephthah’s daughter, Samson and Saul, and includes a consideration of texts about King David. All three characters are portrayed as the greatest and most typical and exemplary heroes of the heroic era. All three heroes have an exceptionally close relationship with the deity all die a traditionally heroic, tragic death. Kamrada argues that within the Book of Judges and the biblical heroic tradition, Jephthah’s daughter and Samson represent the pinnacle of female and male heroism respectively, and that they achieve super-human status by offering their lives to the deity, thus entering the sphere of holiness.

Free Download Adorno’s Nietzschean Narratives: Critiques of Ideology, Readings of Wagner By Karin Bauer
1999 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 0791442802 | PDF | 13 MB
Investigates the intellectual affinities of Adorno and Nietzsche, culminating in a discussion of their readings of Wagner, who serves as a medium and supplement for their critiques of modern culture. This is the first book to provide a broad and comparative analysis of the relationship of these two influential thinkers to one another. Defying conventional appropriations of Nietzsche’s and Adorno’s thought, Bauer establishes crucial links between different traditions of critical thought, suggesting elective and selective affinities in the pursuit of a radicalized critique of ideology and culture. Against Habermas, Bauer argues that Nietzsche did not abandon the project of modernity, but rather achieved its most radical confrontation with the myths of the Enlightenment. Bauer’s inquiry into Nietzsche’s and Adorno’s critiques of rationality, historicism, metaphysics, and Bildung culminates in an exposition of their readings of Wagner, who serves as a medium and supplement for their critiques of modern culture. "This is one of the great encounters of the twentieth century. Bauer does pioneering work in establishing a comprehensive account of Adorno’s actual dealing with Nietzsche, and by unfolding the dialogue between the two philosophers on the issue of modernity, she makes an important contribution to our own self-understanding and self-consciousness. The subject matter is not ‘easy,’ but Bauer presents it in a way that captivates the reader. I am certain the book will find a broad audience among people who are interested in the Frankfurt School, Nietzsche, and in critical theory in general." — Ernst Behler, University of Washington

Free Download G. W. Trompf, "Early Christian Historiography: Narratives of Retribution"
English | ISBN: 1845531884 | 2005 | 388 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book describes the developing application of retributive principles in historical narratives before Christ. It assesses degrees of concern in the first history-writers of the world’s most widespread monotheistic tradition to discern divine justice in human affairs.

Free Download John Gaffey, "The Construction of Truth in Contemporary Media Narratives about Risk "
English | ISBN: 0367431491 | 2021 | 164 pages | EPUB | 1414 KB
The Construction of Truth in Contemporary Media Narratives about Risk provides a theoretical framework for how, in a post-truth era, media audiences are able to understand and navigate everyday risk. The book examines media risk narratives and explores forms of truth, experiential knowledge, and authority.

Free Download Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031172108 | 275 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
This open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns, and theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it demonstrates the significance of literary narratives for understanding and critiquing motherhood and mothering as social phenomena and subjective experiences. The chapters contextualize motherhood and mothering in terms of their particular national and cultural location and analyze narratives about mothers who are firmly placed in one national context, as well as those who are in "in-between" positions due to migrant experiences. The contributions foreground and link together the themes central to the volume: embodied experience and maternal embodiment; notions of what is "normal" or natural (or not) about motherhood; maternal health and illness; mother-daughter relations; maternality and memory; and the (im)possibilities of giving voice to the mother. They raise questions about how motherhood and mothering are marked by absence and/or presence, as well as by profound ambivalences.

Free Download Belinda Mendelowitz, "Language Narratives and Shifting Multilingual Pedagogies: English Teaching from the South "
English | ISBN: 1350165913 | 2023 | 256 pages | PDF | 14 MB
This book challenges monoglossic ideologies, traditional language pedagogies and dominant forms of knowledge construction by foregrounding multilingual and multicultural students’ language narratives, repertoires, and identities. The research is based on a sixteen-year longitudinal study of a sociolinguistics course at an English language university and the language narratives produced by the first-year education students. The study was borne out of a need to create a critically inclusive course that would engage a cohort of students from socially and linguistically diverse backgrounds in contemporary South Africa. Drawing on data from over 5,000 students who have journeyed through this course, this book shows how a narrative heteroglossic pedagogy harnesses students’ multilingual strengths. A close analysis reveals complex identity work by students located in the Global South. The authors argue that decolonising language education is about reconceptualising language, reconfiguring what knowledges are valued in the classroom, and reshaping pedagogy.

Free Download Ann Phoenix, "Researching Family Narratives"
English | ISBN: 1526439093 | 2020 | 248 pages | EPUB | 1116 KB
This edited book guides students and researchers through the processes of researching everyday stories about families. Showcasing the wide range methods and data sources currently used in narrative research, it features:

Free Download Lin Xiang, "Post-Sixties Narratives as Cultural Criticism: Seeking Radical Change in America"
English | ISBN: 0367355558 | 2020 | 194 pages | EPUB | 883 KB
This book examines the cultural criticism led by New York intellectuals from the 1960s onwards, considering the influence of such critique on American collective memory and contemporary public culture. With a focus on essays that appeared in Dissent magazine―one of the most important journals of the New York intellectuals―from the year of its launch in 1954 to its most recent issue, as well as representative books on American culture by Daniel Bell and Russell Jacoby, the author contends that post-Sixties narratives constitute a special paradigm of cultural criticism that seek radical possibilities for societal change in the US, based on a use of the 1960s as an index for understanding American cultural and political life. A study of the ways in which narratives can move beyond story-telling to have interpretative and ideological functions as a form of criticism, this book will appeal to scholars of cultural studies and sociology, as well as those working in the fields of linguistics and literary theory.

Free Download Montserrat Piera, "Remapping Travel Narratives, 1000-1700: To the East and Back Again"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1942401590 | PDF | pages: 295 | 132.0 mb
With a specific focus on travel narratives, this collection looks at how Islamic and eastern cultural threads were weaved, through travel and trading networks, into Western European/Christian visual culture and discourse and, ultimately, into the artistic explosion which has been labeled the "Renaissance." Scholars from across humanities disciplines examine Islamic, Jewish, Spanish, Italian, and English works from a truly comparative and non-parochial perspective, to explore the transfer through travel of cultural and religious values and artistic and scientific practices, from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries.

Free Download Stories of School Yoga: Narratives from the Field By Andrea M. Hyde (editor), Janet D. Johnson (editor)
2019 | 204 Pages | ISBN: 1438475691 | PDF | 2 MB
The yoga-in-schools movement has been gaining momentum in recent years as adult practitioners realize the benefit of yoga in their personal lives and want to share it with children and youth. As the movement has grown, so has the need to understand how yoga works and its effects on individuals, groups, and school culture. Stories of School Yoga brings together firsthand narratives by teachers and practitioners from diverse settings nationwide to illuminate the multifaceted work, challenges, and benefits of teaching yoga to K-12 students in public schools. The stories here supplement and reframe quantitative research in the field; demonstrate how yoga can mitigate stress and tension, particularly amid an increased focus on standardized curricula and testing; and offer lessons learned and practical insights into planning, implementing, and running these programs. Rich in detail and accessible to nonspecialists, Stories of School Yoga presents helpful resources and a nuanced, on-the-ground look at the yoga-in-schools movement.