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Avicenna's concept of pain.
No full textIbn Sina (Latin name - Avicenna, 980-1037) is a famous Muslim physician who wrote The Canon of Medicine. Pain-related writings within The Canon were identified and analysed and compared to Galen and Modern Pain Theory. We found evidence in The Canon that Avicenna challenged Galen's concept of pain. Galen insisted that injuries (breach of continuity) were the only cause of pain. In contrast, Avicenna suggested that the true cause of pain was a change of the physical condition (temperament change) of the organ whether there was an injury present or not. Avicenna extended Galen's descriptions of 4 to 15 types of pain and used a terminology that is remarkably similar to that used in the McGill Pain Questionnaire
NATIONAL LITERARY CANON UNDER TRANSLATION
No full textThis study focuses on problems of literary translation and of national literary canon transformation in a target culture, and, as a result, the fate of the original text in the receiving culture. The authors refer to a number of methods, namely, comparative literary studies methods, and contrastive analysis
in national translation history and in cross-cultural communication. They attempt to combine translation
studies with literary theory and history. Case studies of classical Russian literature (A. S. Pushkin, N. V.
Gogol, M. Yu. Lermontov, etc.) in translation, its reception and evaluation in the West, as well as the British
(J. Austen, J. K. Jerome, O. Wilde, etc.) and American (M. Mitchell, etc.) literature in Russian, are studied and
explored. A comparison of the Russian national literary canon and its components (literary texts) in the original with the same elements
in translation reveals a number of displacement regularities, namely, priority acquisition, i. e. the transfer of the writer of the translated text into the category of primary authors of the language inexistent in the original culture; priority loss characterized by the author
of the original losing their status and transferring to the periphery, and time shift, caused by a belated/untimely translation. These
regularities are studied in detail and supported by a number of examples. The authors believe that the regularities under investigation
can make a useful contribution not only to the theory of literary translation and translation comparative studies, but also to the history
of particular national literatures and to literary-cultural contacts theory. The same regularities are clearly observed in comparison of the
British and the American books of fiction in Russian translation, their displacement in the target environment and the target cultural
evaluation
The concept of a canon and its impact upon the teaching and examining of english literature
No full textThis thesis sets out to investigate the concept of a canon, and its impact upon the teaching and examining of English Literature in this country. It focuses on the relationships linking the concept of a canon, conceptualizations of canonicity and their practical consequences: four propositions are raised concerning those relationships. The thesis seeks to identify the ethical implications of the rival moral anthropologies which are involved in those relationships, and applies an axiological critique to the praxiological issues and pedagogical aspects of canonicity when related to notions of the 'critical' in literary theory, social theory and critical pedagogy. Since canonicity, culture and literature are considered inextricably linked, and theory recognised as 'a miscellaneous genre' (Culler 1988:87), theories of language, history, mind and culture are perceived as potentially illuminative accounts of signification. The philosophy of the aesthetic as an autonomous realm, purposively instrumental in equating a 'correct' reading of literary hermeneutics with its 'correct' counterpart in establishment axiology, is seen as problematic, and central to the thesis. The thesis is presented in three parts: Part One: Setting the Scene Part Two: The Conceptual Domain Part Three: Evaluation: Effects, Consequences and Implications. The findings are offered as a tentative explanation of the consequences of canonicity. They suggest that current conceptualizations of canonicity encourage and enable a cultural-restorationist approach, wherein a prescriptive rather than an emancipatory pedagogy is enacted in the teaching and examining of English Literature within contemporary compulsory schooling in this country
Is There a Canon of Constitutional History?
No full textSymposium: The Canon(s) of Constitutional LawWiecek, William M.. (2000). Is There a Canon of Constitutional History?. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/168072
Sophie Elkan's Ambiguous Dream of the Orient : On Cultural Identity and the National Literary Canon
No full textThe aim is to consider the formation of a Nordic literary canon from a cultural semiotic perspective as presented by Yuri M. Lotman and others, by means of a discussion of a Swedish and Western identity and selfunderstanding as mirrored and enacted in several works by the Swedish writer Sophie Elkan (1853–1921) set in Sweden, Egypt, Lebanon, and Constantinople. The works examined are the novel Drömmen om Österlandet [The Dream of the Orient], and two short stories, “Herr Schwartz” [“Mr. Schwarz”] and “Ställ ut armeniern!” [“Sling out the Armenian!”], all published in 1901. I propose an understanding of the literary canon as a kind of cultural, collective memory. Elkan’s narratives, set in Oriental milieus, are demonstrated to create their own semiotic spaces, where the semiospheres of traditional Western and Eastern cultures overlap in surprisingly new constellations. Her stories question otherwise not explicitly articulated cultural norms and enquire into presupposed normative Swedish or Western cultural identities. According to the argument of cultural semiotics, it is essential to all national literatures, their canons and the cultural identities they foster that challenging stories like these, stories which stage cultural clashes, cultural misunderstandings and cultural differences, are narrated, discussed and interpreted.</p
An interactive visual canon platform
No full textThe canon is a composition pattern with a long history and many forms. The concept of the canon has also been applied to experimental film making and on Japanese television. We describe our work-in-progress on an Interactive Visual Canon Platform (IVCP) that enables creators of visual canons to design their movements through rapid cycles of performance and evaluation. The IVCP system provides real time support for the actors; they can see the canon resulting from their movements while they are still performing. We describe some possible approaches to a solution, and reasons for choosing the approach that we have implemented. The hardware has reached a stable state, but we are still optimizing the visual processing of the system. A first user test is planned to provide us with information for improving the system
What fodder for the canon
No full textA contribution to an International Forum on "The Emerging Canon of Italian American Literature", editors Leonardo Buonomo and John Paul Russ
Recognition as a process of communicative interaction: Elements for a reflection from a public health perspective/El reconocimiento como proceso de interacción comunicativa: elementos para una reflexión desde la salud pública
No full textThe aim of the reflection proposed in the following pages is to return operational recognition practices in the fold of complex communication situations centred on reciprocity. The proposed epistemological perspective is that of socioconstructivist social psychology. The theoretical-methodological framework is that of the Social Representations. Starting from the role of the actors involved in the process, the paper describes the three different kinds of variables that, in the opinion of the authors, influence mutual recognition: the psychological variables, the cognitive variables and the social variables. The dimensions underlying each of the variables considered are analysed in detail, underlining the possible effects on the social practices related to them. These clearly show that the multiple influences that come into play in the "communicative situation" of recognition, produce a clearly complex and largely predetermined reality by reciprocal systems of representation of the other, of the task and of the situation
Interpretation and exegesis: An investigation into the canonical approach of B. S. Childs
No full textWe begin this study by delineating the canonical approach pioneered by B. S. Childs. Five critical perspectives on Childs' work follow raising important hermeneutical problems. M. G. Brett, C. J. Scalise and P. R. Noble respond by trying to modify and strengthen Childs' claims by invoking hermeneutical theory. J. Barr, is highly critical while J. Barton views the canonical approach as having close affinities with the 'new criticism' in secular literary studies. We next examine the exegesis of Childs in the context of his BTONT (1992). In evaluating two examples, it is found that Childs does not produce sustained and memorable exegesis, but instead becomes pre-occupied with the problem of methodology, the exegetical debate, and the history of exegesis. Thereafter our main focus is a substantial comparative study of the classic text of God's self- revelation to Moses in Ex. 3 - 4. A comparison of Childs' handling of this key passage is made with the work of J. I. Durham, T. E. Fretheim, and D. E. Gowan. Finally, we consider a Jewish contribution from N. M. Sarna. Childs' canonical exegesis does not produce sustained theological illumination; he becomes absorbed with diachronic procedures and hermeneutical debate. The other Christian commentators make some astute theological comment but this is not sustained. Of all the exegetes Sama's work yields perceptive theological comment to a degree not found in the others. The constraints of the commentary format vis-á-vis achieving sustained theological insight are noted and a practical proposal is made. But Childs' emphasis on the hermeneutical significance of "canon" and the theological nature of interpretation is broadly welcomed, though some outstanding difficulties are highlighted which need further development. The conclusion is drawn that the most effective way to enhance the canonical approach to biblical interpretation is for Childs (and others) to produce sustained and memorable exegesis
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
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