166 research outputs found
The politics of pity in eighteenth-century fiction
No full textWhile pity had been seen traditionally as an untrustworthy rhetorical effect, beginning in the late seventeenth century, it is celebrated as a powerful and authenticating affect. My dissertation examines the historical rationale for the "rise" of pity in the eighteenth century and the ways in which its new sociopolitical status inspires formal innovation and alternative visions of ethical communion in contemporary literature. Anxious about change but eager to develop a vision of human nature and social coherence antithetical to the Hobbesean version, a growing number of writers made pity both the highest moral value and the central telos of aesthetic experience.
Pity's defenders came to see in pity a providentially designed reflex built into the human body, a natural law of commonality, like gravity, that could draw otherwise hierarchically differentiated and self-interested individuals into a unified field of intimacy and social consensus. Pity, many felt, could transform suffering into a vehicle of spiritual reformation, social communion, and private moral orientation in a time of rapid change. As the century progressed, an increasing effort to define its parameters suggests that pity had become a dangerously flexible category. Recent critical efforts have typically treated eighteenth-century pity as having one of what I argue are a multitude of competing political and aesthetic functions: as a dubious vehicle of bourgeois ideology, for example, or as a support or mask for traditional hierarchies, or, alternately, as a positive Enlightenment ideal capable of effecting a new kind of relationship between equality and freedom. At the crossroads of progressive and conservative ideologies, pity provides literary history with an index of alternative visions of social order. My project begins by tracing a history of pity from Aristotle to Hobbes, including a discussion of the conditions that led to its unprecedented moral status in the eighteenth century. I then turn to argue, through a close analysis of works by Samuel Richardson, Henry Mackenzie, and William Wordsworth, that each author creates an aesthetic specific to his own aims, thereby reconstructing the category of pity for diverse political and literary ends.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p.205-215)by Chadley James Loewen-Schmid
\u27Sundown Towns\u27 Author to Speak
No full textDr. James Loewen, historian, sociologist, and author of Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, will talk about racial exclusion across America in a free public lecture November 7
Democracy and Human Rights in the European-Asian Dialogue: A Clash of Cooperation Cultures?
No full textWhereas the European Union (EU) favors a formal, binding, output-oriented, and to some extent supranational approach to cooperation, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is based on informal, non-binding, process-oriented intergovernmental forms of cooperation. This article addresses the question of whether these differences between European and Asian cooperation norms or cultures can account for interregional cooperation problems in the areas of democracy and human rights within the institutional context of EU-ASEAN and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). The author argues that a clash of cooperation cultures basically occurs in both forms of interregional collaboration between Asia and Europe, with slight differences due to the institutional context: while disagreements over the question of democracy and human rights between the EU and ASEAN have led to a temporary and then a complete standstill in cooperation, the flexible institutional mechanisms of ASEM seem, at first glance, to mitigate the disruptive effects of such dialogues. Yet informality does not remove the issues from the agenda, as the recurrent disputes over Myanmar’s participation and the nonintervention norm favored by the Asian side of ASEM clearly indicate. Antagonistic cooperation cultures thus play a significant role in explaining the obstructive nature of the interregional human rights and democracy dialogue between Asia and Europe.cooperation culture, human rights, democracy, Myanmar, EU-ASEAN, ASEM
Review of \u3ci\u3eLies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong\u3c/i\u3e By James W. Loewen
No full textFairness demands confession of a certain chronology in my preparing this review. I read the work under discussion and then, before writing about it, began reading The Use and Abuse of Australian History (2000) by Graeme Davison. Lies Across America suffers by comparison to the masterly Australian work. My yellow-pad notes document, however, that before reading Davison I had already recorded my disappointments with James W. Loewen\u27s work.
To give it its due, the book is entertaining and thought-provoking. Where Loewen finds fault, there generally is fault, and the accumulation of such faults in perceptible patterns gives pause. It is appropriate for self-conscious historians to critique the monumental history affixed to the American landscape.
The author\u27s critique fails, though, in three ways. First, it chooses easy targets and peppers them redundantly, like a waterfowler who not only shoots sitting ducks but also exceeds the bag limit. How many times do we need to hear about the mythic excesses of the Daughters of Confederate Veterans? Second, the work offers no perceptive explanations of how perverse versions of history made their way into our historic sites. Calling them lies is cheap. Third, the author sets unrealistic expectations and then violates them himself. He demands a history that is impartial and timeless. Usually, however, after smashing the mythology of a monument, he goes on to insist on substituting his own preferred mythology.
Come home to the Plains for an example: Loewen excoriates the Nebraska State Historical Society for not pronouncing Willa Cather a lesbian right out there on Highway 281. Nebraskans instead emphasize her love of the Great Plains landscape and her compelling female characters. To demand that the mythic Cather serve the narrative needs of urban gays instead of the filiopietism of rural Nebraskans is rank colonialism.
Elsewhere on the Plains Loewen treats the naming of Devil\u27s Lake without finding any historic site to focus on there, takes the usual easy shot at the Confederate Room of the Oklahoma Historical Society, and takes on two obscure and thoughtlessly bigoted historical markers in Gardner, Kansas, and Brookings, South Dakota. The Great Plains section of the book is dull. This in a land that contains the Pike Pawnee Village obelisk, the Wrong-Side Up monument, and of course the infamous Sand Creek battle-or-massacre marker.
Lies Across America is a book for the 1980s, a monument itself to American disillusionment. In the twenty-first century it rings tinny
Intertextual Episodes in Lectures: A Classification from the Perspective of Incidental Learning from Reading
No full textIn a parallel language environment it is important that teaching takes account of both the languages students are expected to work in. Lectures in the mother tongue need to offer access to textbooks in English and encouragement to read. This paper describes a preliminary study for an investigation of the extent to which they actually do so. A corpus of lectures in English for mainly L1 English students (from BASE and MICASE) was examined for the types of reference to reading which occur, classifi ed by their potential usefulness for access and encouragement. Such references were called ‘intertextual episodes’. Seven preliminary categories of intertextual episode were identifi ed. In some disciplines the text is the topic of the lecture rather than a medium for information on the topic, and this category was not pursued further. In the remaining six the text was a medium for information about the topic. Three of them involved management, of texts by the lecturer her/himself, of student writing, or of student reading. The remaining three involved reference to the content of the text either introducing it to students, reporting its content, or, really the most interesting category, relativizing it and thus potentially encouraging critical reading. Straightforward reporting that certain content was in the text at a certain point was the most common type, followed by management of student reading. Relativization was relatively infrequent. The exercise has provided us with categories which can be used for an experimental phase where the effect of different types of reference can be tested, and for observation of the references actually used in L1 lectures in a parallel-language environment
Cloning a chloride conductance mediator from the apical membrane of porcine ileal enterocytes
No full textGaspar, K. J., K. J. Racette, J. R. Gordon, M. E. Loewen, and G. W. Forsyth. Cloning a chloride conductance mediator from the apical membrane of porcine ileal enterocytes. Physiol Genomics 3: 101–111, 2000.—Attempts to attribute ileal brush-border chloride conductance to specific proteins were pursued by screening a porcine intestinal cDNA library. A 0.94-kb clone was identified on expression screening with a monoclonal antibody that inhibited enterocyte brush-border chloride conductance. Further screening approaches led to the isolation of a 3.1-kb full-length sequence called pCLCA1, consistent with the identification of a 2.9-kb transcript through Northern analysis. This sequence had significant homology to the CLCA gene family of calcium-regulated chloride channels, especially to hCLCA1. However, a strong A-kinase consensus phosphorylation site in a predicted cytoplasmic loop of the protein was a notable difference from the hCLCA1 gene product. Several porcine exocrine epithelial tissues, including ileum, trachea, and the major salivary glands express pCLCA1 mRNA. In situ hybridization studies localized the expression of pCLCA1 mRNA to the crypt and villus epithelia of porcine ileum, whereas tracheal expression was observed in both surface epithelium and submucosal glands. In situ expression of pCLCA1 in mouse 3T3 cells induces an ionomycin-dependent chloride conductance activity in these cells.</jats:p
From problems of citizenship to questions of action
No full textThis thesis is a methodological evaluation of thequestion–or problem –of citizenship that explores this concept’s limits,the consequences of citizenship’s overextension,and the potential of analternative question of action for political inquiry. Through thisprocess, the thesis intervenes within citizenship studies’dominant theoretical concerns with the everyday and the constitutive other, asserting that they both maintain the citizen as the defining term of the political. It argues that this conceptualization of politics is produced by the question of citizenship, and is expressed in its assumptions of separation that reduce political action to citizenship.In contrast, aquestion of action provides an alternative engagement with politics by limiting the concept of citizenship itself to avoid defining the political and action through this term.The conclusion briefly explores posing a question of action and enumerates some potential research avenues for its actualization.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby Kyle Loewe
Mankind (1987)
No full text1. Program [Attached][4 copies] 2. Poster [3 copies] 3. Design piece [Attached] 4. Ceiling view 5. Set plan 6. Production schedule 7. Budget 8. Glendon College. (Date unknown). For Immediate Release: The devil comes to Theatre Glendon. 9. Department of Communications. (Nov 24, 1987). Bulletin. York University Highlights. 10. Author Unknown. (Date unknown). Bulletin. Source Unknown. 11. Loewen, Ctharine. (Dec 1, 1987). Mankind: Purity and Catnality. Pro Tem. 12. Coniam, J. (Nov 23, 1987). The Authentic Seen. Pro Tem.Archival file for the Glendon College production of Mankind, directed by John Mayberry. The play was performed November 24 to 28, 1987
Eye of Newt at Blinding Light Cinema
No full textStefan Smulovitz (vln); Jeremy Page (clarinet); Kenton Loewen (perc); Viviane Houle (vox); Coat Cooke (gtr
From faith to food: using oral history to study corporate mythology in Canadian manufacturing firms
No full textThe study of corporate mythology, particularly through oral history, has received increasing attention from business historians. The role of corporate mythology is examined at two Canadian manufacturing companies: Loewen (a wooden window manufacturer in Steinbach, Manitoba) and WT Hawkins (makers of Cheezies, a cheese-flavoured snack made from extruded corn). Oral histories and Roland Barthes’ writings on mythology are used to study an advertising campaign at Loewen, while corporate records and oral histories are used to explore Hawkins’ corporate mythology. The author concludes that corporate mythology succeeded at Hawkins but failed at Loewen: Hawkins built a following for a single product made using outdated equipment, while Loewen reduced its workforce and was sold to a foreign holding company.https://www.jstor.org/stable/2434296
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