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Studieren im Ausland: Checkliste der Bedürfnisse behinderter Studierender
Get PDFStudieophold i udlandet - Checkliste for handicappede studerende Studying abroad - Checklist of needs for students with disabilities Estudiar en el extranjero - Listado de necesidades para estudiantes con discapacidad Etudier a l'etranger - Liste de besoins pour etudiants handicapes Studiare all'estero - Questionario dei bisogni per studenti disabili Studeren in het buitenland - Behoeftenvragenlijst voor studenten met een handicap Estudar no estrangeiro - Lista das necessidades para estudantes deficientes Opiskelu ulkomailla - Vammaisopiskelijan tarpeiden tarkistuslista Att Studera utomlands - kontrollista för funktionshindrade studente
Conspiracy Theories – Conspiracy Narratives
Get PDFIn this essay Michael Butter discusses the relation between conspiracy theories and conspiracy narratives
Multimodal Illness Narratives on Instagram.: Sharing the Experience of Endometriosis
Get PDFThis article explores how illness is narrated on a shared activist Instagram account, where five women share their experiences of living with the chronic disease endometriosis. The day-to-day, multimodal, and collaborative nature of the account is an example of online contemporary illness narratives. Informed by dscourse analysis, social semiotics, and research on small stories this article analyzes the semiotic resources used for narrating, the social space of the account, and the particular discourses and identities that the narratives index. Following the narrative dimensions of Ochs and Capps, the analysis demonstrates a dynamic interplay between the different semiotic resources used to narrate about illness. The combination of images on Instagram, for instance, affords a sequential progression that moves the teller through space and place. In other cases, the images are used to contradict or strengthen the story that is told in writing. The account’s construction as a shared space for raising awareness about endometriosis experiences also influences the stories that are told; tellers orient themselves both to previous and current stories on the account, and attend to the particular endometriosis experiences that are tellable on the account. In this way, the tellers demonstrate awareness of the typical endometriosis story, and position themselves as moral and knowledgeable endometriosis patients
Selfies und Stories.: Authentizität und Banalität des narrativen Selbst in Social Media
Get PDFThe paper discusses autobiographical representations and constructions of the self in two prominent recent devices of social media, namely Selfies and Stories. Selfies taken during the users‘ vacations strive to convey the impression of informal and individual authenticity by applying, paradoxically, highly conventional features. Snapchat’s Stories exhibit everyday situations of a surprisingly evanescent and banal nature. Both of these social media dispositives depict ‚instantaneous selfs’ that lack diachronic narrative features; ‚shared selfs‘ that legitimize themselves through social affiliation rather than deviation; ‚automatic selfs‘ that are co-authored by algorithmic procedures
Full Impact?: Narrative Criminology and the (Potential) Effects of Narrative
Get PDFLois Presser: Inside Story. How Narratives Drive Mass Harm. Oakland 2018. 189 pp. EUR 27.37. ISBN 978-0-5202-9018-
Failure of Catharsis.: The Reconstruction of Joseph’s Moral Intent in Two Post-Biblical Narratives
Get PDFDue to the sparseness of its narrative style, the biblical story of Joseph has prompted later scholars and writers to expand upon its suggestive meanings. In this essay, I examine two post-biblical retellings of the Joseph story, the medieval Book of Yashar and the allegedly pre-Christian series of deathbed “testaments” known collectively as The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. These texts, elaborating imaginatively on details contained in the biblical model, draw distinctly different conclusions regarding the nature of the protagonist and the process by which he reconciles with his brothers. Although each of these three narratives meets some of the generic and moral expectations of the audiences to which they originally were addressed, I suggest that the post-biblical retellings ultimately fall short of the compressed suggestiveness and cathartic potency of the biblical narrative. In developing these claims, I will identify the rhetorical, lexical, and thematic features that distinguish the two later works from the biblical version
Pushing the Narratological Envelope.: Richardson’s Proposal for Accommodating Antimimetic Fictions
Get PDFBrian Richardson: Unnatural Narrative: Theory, History, and Practice. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press 2015. (= Theory and Interpretation of Narrative Series). 224 pp. USD 64.95. ISBN 978-0-8142-1279-
“Us Two Together”: Creating an Autobiographical Visual Narrative about Dementia
Get PDF‘Graphic medicine’ or ‘graphic pathography’, a subgenre of the autobiographical comic, enables patients or caregivers to relate personal encounters with disease, mostly to process these experiences. When I set out to create the graphic narrative Wij twee samen (“Us Two Together”, 2015), which deals with my father’s developing dementia and slow decline, the goal was to attract a broader audience’s interest. By using strategies and techniques that bridge the gap between fine arts, literature, design and comics, the autobiographical storyline evolved into a work of art that transcends the visual diary