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Seen by:The Inverted World of the Amazons: Aspects of a Persistent Myth in Early Modern Greek Literature
Published in 2011 (not 2009)
The myth of the Amazons has been one of the most potent and popular of all Greek myths from its inception to the... more
The myth of the Amazons has been one of the most potent and popular of all Greek myths from its inception to the present day. In the first part of this paper, a presentation of its basic elements is attempted. This presentation takes into account the transformations of both the myth and the means by which it is presented (from ancient Greek narratives and depictions to present day comics and graphic novels), as comprehensively
as possible. The second part focuses on major Amazon appearances in early modern Greek literature and provides an analysis, much indebted to feminist criticism and Bakhtin, of the inverted world of the Amazons in the Chapbook of Alexander (late 17th century), which constitutes its central theme. Additionally, it briefly examines the duel of the last epic hero of Greek literature, digenis Akritis with the Amazon maximou, as presented in the 15th-century escorial version of the text.
Le bakhtinisme est un inhumanisme
by Yan Hamel
Il s'agit d'un compte rendu critique du livre Bakhtine démasqué de Bronkhart et Bota récemment paru chez Droz. Publié dans le dernier numéro de la revue @nalyses.
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Seen by:Review of "Otra historia del formalismo ruso" by Pau Sanmartín Ortí
Review published in "Dissidences: Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism " 4-5 (2008-9).
Sanmartín Ortí, Pau. "Otra historia del formalismo ruso". Madrid: Lengua de trapo, 2008.
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Seen by:Power and Conflict in Adaptive Management: Analyzing the Discourse of Riparian Management on Public Lands
Adaptive collaborative management emphasizes stakeholder engagement as a crucial component of resilient... more
Adaptive collaborative management emphasizes stakeholder engagement as a crucial component of resilient social-ecological systems. Collaboration among diverse stakeholders is expected to enhance learning, build social legitimacy for decision making, and establish relationships that support learning and adaptation in the long term. However, simply bringing together diverse stakeholders does not guarantee productive engagement. Using critical discourse analysis, we examined how diverse stakeholders negotiated knowledge and power in a workshop designed to inform adaptive management of riparian livestock grazing on a National Forest in the southwestern USA. Publicly recognized as a successful component of a larger collaborative effort, we found that the workshop effectively brought together diverse participants, yet still restricted dialogue in important ways. Notably, workshop facilitators took on the additional roles of riparian experts and instructors. As they guided workshop participants toward a consensus view of riparian conditions and management recommendations, they used their status as riparian experts to emphasize commonalities with stakeholders supportive of riparian grazing and accentuate differences with stakeholders skeptical of riparian grazing, including some Forest Service staff with power to influence management decisions. Ultimately, the management plan published one year later did not fully adopt the consensus view from the workshop, but rather included and acknowledged a broader diversity of stakeholder perspectives. Our findings suggest that leaders and facilitators of adaptive collaborative management can more effectively manage for productive stakeholder engagement and, thus, socialecological
resilience if they are more tentative in their convictions, more critical of the role of expert knowledge, and more
attentive to the knowledge, interests, and power of diverse stakeholders.
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Seen by: and 7 more“The Dialogic Imagination of Salman Rushdie and Carlos Fuentes: National Allegories and the Scene of Writing in "Midnight's Children" and "Cristóbal Nonato”
Published in Neohelicon 20.2 (1993): 257-312.
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Seen by: and 2 more'Ulisse' polifonico. L'irriducibile dialogismo di James Joyce
by Nicola D'Ugo
Pubblicato/Published in: 'Amnesia Vivace', n. 32, gennaio 2010.
Saggio incentrato sui meccanismi fortemente dialogici e sulla polifonia bachtiniana in 'Ulisse' di James Joyce.
[The essay focuses on the mechanisms of Bakhtinian dialogism and polyphony in 'Ulysses' by James Joyce.]
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Seen by: and 1 moreEntre la paria et le parvenu. L’usage des Anciens chez Peter Sloterdijk
paru dans Les Anciens dans la pensée politique contemporaine, Breaugh, M et Couture, Y (dir), Québec, PUL, 2010, 367-385
L’usage plébéien chez Sloterdijk n’a pas seulement ceci de vulgaire à l’égard des thèmes respectables. Il... more L’usage plébéien chez Sloterdijk n’a pas seulement ceci de vulgaire à l’égard des thèmes respectables. Il n’hésite pas aussi à déplacer sauvagement le canon pour lui faire rendre gorge par delà l’hypothèque que les interprètes professionnels font peser sur les sens reçus. Deux armes sont donc à sa disposition et l’auteur les affectionne particulièrement et durablement dans son œuvre : l’humiliation par les corps et le commerce libre entre les idées.
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Seen by:Carnivalesque Ambivalence and the Christian Other in Jewish Poems from Byzantine Palestine
in R. Bonfil, O. Irshai, G. Stroumsa and R. Talgam (eds.), Jews in Byzantium: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures (Leiden: Brill 2012), 831-845
