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Suing for America\u27s Soul
No full textWhen John W. Whitehead founded The Rutherford Institute as a Christian legal advocacy group in 1982, he was interested primarily in the First Amendment\u27s religion clause, serving clients only when religious freedom was at stake. By the mid-1990s, however, religious rights were but one subset of all the freedoms that he saw threatened by an invasive government. In Suing for America\u27s Soul R. Jonathan Moore examines the foundation and subsequent practices of The Rutherford Institute, helping to explain the rise of conservative Christian legal advocacy groups in recent decades. Moore exposes the effects -- good and bad -- that such legal activism has had on the evangelical Protestant community. Thought-provoking and astute, Suing for America\u27s Soul opens a revealing window onto evangelical Protestantism at large in late-twentieth-century America.https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cslr-books/1085/thumbnail.jp
The question of gendered voice in some contemporary Irish novels by Brian Moore and John McGahern
No full textThis thesis questions the use of the 'voice' metaphor in contemporary Irish cultural studies in order to examine
the ways in which gendered identities are constructed in some Irish Catholic communities in twentieth-century
Ireland. With reference to novels by Brian Moore and
John McGahern as well as to Judith Butler's theories of performativity and citational practices, it argues that gendered identities are constructed through the repetitive citation of hegemonic cultural discourses. This thesis
focuses on the ways in which gendered identities are produced and maintained through the citation of the official discourses of the Catholic Church and the State as
well as the more mundane discourses related to popular nationalism and the family.
The first two chapters concentrate on novels whose protagonists are trying to construct powerful identities in urban Irish society through the manipulation of gendered discourses. The discussion of Moore's The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne identifies some of the strategies through which conventional Irish women's voices are constructed
and questions the validity of the category of 'authentic' women's voices. In the chapter relating to McGahem's The
Pornographer, the powerful, abstract male voice is exposed as a performative construct which is sustained only through the abjection of those elements which disrupt the narrator's performance of masculinity.
The remaining chapters concentrate on the use of idealised images such as those of the 'woman-as-nation' and the iconised mother in novels by Moore and McGahem. Moore's The
Mangan Inheritance provides the basis for a discussion of whether or not voices attributed to women in texts by Irish men can be read in ways that disrupt the apparent authority of Irish men's voices. This thesis discusses the issues
raised when men participate in the deconstruction
of idealised images of Irish women. The final chapter examines the processes through which conventional identities are discursively constructed and maintained in two novels by John McGahem: The Dark and Amongst Women. This thesis contends that through the strategic
redeployment of those voices attributed to idealised images of Irish women, voices which are conventionally regarded
as silent, patriarchal gendered identities can be destabilised or displaced
Suing for America\u27s Soul
No full textWhen John W. Whitehead founded The Rutherford Institute as a Christian legal advocacy group in 1982, he was interested primarily in the First Amendment\u27s religion clause, serving clients only when religious freedom was at stake. By the mid-1990s, however, religious rights were but one subset of all the freedoms that he saw threatened by an invasive government. In Suing for America\u27s Soul R. Jonathan Moore examines the foundation and subsequent practices of The Rutherford Institute, helping to explain the rise of conservative Christian legal advocacy groups in recent decades. Moore exposes the effects -- good and bad -- that such legal activism has had on the evangelical Protestant community. Thought-provoking and astute, Suing for America\u27s Soul opens a revealing window onto evangelical Protestantism at large in late-twentieth-century America.https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cslr-books/1085/thumbnail.jp
Citizen participation in news
No full textThe process of producing news has changed significantly due to the advent of the Web, which has enabled the increasing involvement of citizens in news production. This trend has been given many names, including participatory journalism, produsage, and crowd-sourced journalism, but these terms are ambiguous and have been applied inconsistently, making comparison of news systems difficult. In particular, it is problematic to distinguish the levels of citizen involvement, and therefore the extent to which news production has genuinely been opened up. In this paper we perform an analysis of 32 online news systems, comparing them in terms of how much power they give to citizens at each stage of the news production process. Our analysis reveals a diverse landscape of news systems and shows that they defy simplistic categorisation, but it also provides the means to compare different approaches in a systematic and meaningful way. We combine this with four case studies of individual stories to explore the ways that news stories can move and evolve across this landscape. Our conclusions are that online news systems are complex and interdependent, and that most do not involve citizens to the extent that the terms used to describe them imply
Pojęcie „socjalizmu” w myśli politycznej Alexisa de Tocqueville’a
No full textThe article presents an analysis of an original conception of socialism outlined in the works of Alexis de Tocqueville. The author begins with a brief presentation of historical context in which the views of French thinker were shaped, referring to his experiences from the period of the July Revolution of 1830 and the February Revolution of 1848. The author goes on to detailed analysis of his definition of socialism, making an indispensable reference to his republican conception of freedom and the role of a citizen in democracy. Finally, the author looks at Tocquevillian vision of genesis of socialist ideas, associated by him with anxiety, which democratic system inevitably generates.Artykuł stanowi analizę oryginalnego ujęcia socjalizmu, zarysowanego w pismach Alexisa de Tocqueville’a. Autor wychodzi od nakreślenia historycznego kontekstu, w jakim kształtowały się poglądy francuskiego myśliciela w tym obszarze, odnosząc się do jego doświadczeń z okresu rewolucji lipcowej 1830 r. oraz rewolucji lutowej 1848 r. Następnie przechodzi do szczegółowej analizy jego definicji socjalizmu, czyniąc niezbędne odwołanie do wyznawanej przez niego republikańskiej koncepcji wolności i roli, jaka przypada obywatelowi w demokracji. Na zakończenie autor przygląda się Tocqueville’owskiej wizji genezy myśli socjalistycznej, wiązanej przez arystokratę z niepokojami, jakie nieuchronnie rodzi system demokratyczny
War, Ukraine and literature – Jonathan Safran Foer’s expedition into the depths of Central European oblivion
No full textW artykule analizuję bestsellerową amerykańską powieść wydaną po polsku przez wydawnictwo WAB: Wszystko jest iluminacją Jonathana Safrana Foera. Chcę przyjrzeć się temu, jak autor konstruuje swoją narrację, w jaki sposób dotyka problemu Zagłady i poszukiwania własnych korzeni przez przedstawicieli kolejnych pokoleń potomków ocalonych. Powieść jest ważnym przykładem nowego sposobu mierzenia się literatury z tematem Zagłady. Konteksty interpretacyjne zaczerpnęłam między innymi z pracy Kai Kaźmierskiej Biografia i pamięć na przykładzie pokoleniowego doświadczenia ocalonych z Zagłady, która analizuje zjawisko powrotu do miejsca urodzenia jako spełnienia przymusu biograficznego badanych, oraz z prac Marianne Hirsch, twórczyni pojęcia postpamięci.In the article I analyze a bestseller American novel published in Polish by WAB publishing house: Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. I want to look into the way the author constructs his narration, how he addresses the issue of Holocaust and the issue of searching for one’s roots by members of next generations of the descendants of survivors. The novel is an important example of the new literary way of dealing with the topic of Holocaust. The interpretation contexts were drawn from, among others, work by Kaja Kaźmierska entitled Biography and Memory. The Generational Experience of the Shoah Survivor, in which the author analyses the phenomenon of returning to one’s place of birth as a biographical compulsion of the subjects of the study, as well as works of Marianne Hirsch, the creator of the term ‘postmemory’
Ligand design principles for perfecting stereoretention in Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling of unactivated CSP3 boronic acids
No full textThe strategy of building block-based, iterative synthesis has revolutionized the preparation of oligonucleotides and oligopeptides. However, small molecules possess greater structural diversity than these classes of macromolecules. The development of an iterative, building block-based synthetic strategy could nonetheless accelerate the discovery of new small molecule functions. A key challenge in building block assembly is finding reactions to forge carbon-carbon bonds between a range of structurally diverse building blocks. Iteration of metal-mediated cross-coupling reactions represents a promising direction, and such an approach has already been automated and used to make many different small molecules. Still, the lack of methods for Csp3 coupling dramatically limits the scope of building block-based synthesis. With the goal of developing a stereospecific cross-coupling reaction for unactivated secondary alkylboronic acids, it was critical to understand the competition between stereoretentive and stereoinvertive transmetalation mechanisms. Achieving perfect transfer of stereochemistry from building blocks to products required that one of these transmetalation pathways be completely mitigated. By systematically studying the effect of the phosphine ligand on the outcome of a model Csp3 cross-coupling reaction, we have elucidated ligand steric and electronic design principles for maximizing stereoretention. These ligand design principles are applicable across different reaction conditions and a broad substrate scope. Continued progress in stereocontrolled Csp3 couplings will accelerate the generalization of building block-based synthesis.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2020-12-01The student, Jonathan Lehmann, accepted the attached license on 2018-09-16 at 09:43.The student, Jonathan Lehmann, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2018-09-16 at 10:18.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2018-10-05 at 11:58.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13015 on 2019-02-07 at 14:16:35Made available in DSpace on 2019-02-07T20:35:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Reviving the past : eighteenth-century evangelical interpretations of church history
No full textThis study addresses eighteenth-century English-speaking evangelicals' understandings of church history, through the lens of published attempts to represent preceding Christian centuries panoramically or comprehensively. Sources entail several short reflections on history emerging in the early years of the transatlantic Revival (1730s-1740s) and subsequent, more substantial efforts by evangelical leaders John Gillies, Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, Joseph and Isaac Milner, and Thomas Haweis. Little scholarly analysis exists on these sources, aside from the renaissance of interest in recent decades in Edwards. This is surprising, considering the acknowledged prominence of history-writing in the eighteenth century and the influence attributed, then and now, to the works of authors such as Gibbon, Hume, and Robertson. The aim is, first, to elucidate each of the above evangelicals' interpretations of the Christian past, both in overview and according to what they said on a roster of particular historical events, people and movements, and then to consider shared and divergent aspects. These aspects range from points of detail to paradigmatic theological convictions. Secondarily, evangelical church histories are analyzed in relation to earlier Protestant as well as eighteenth-century 'enlightened' historiography, in part through attention to evangelical authors' explicit engagement with these currents. This contextualization assists in determining the unique qualities of evangelical interpretations. Is there, then, evidence of a characteristically 'evangelical' perspective on church history? An examination of this neglected area illumines patterns and particulars of evangelicals' historical thought, and these in turn communicate the self-perceptions and the defining features of evangelicalism itself. Findings support the primary contention that evangelical leaders made use of a dynamic pattern of revival and declension as a means of accounting for the full history of Christianity. Beyond displaying the central place of 'revival' for evangelicals, these church histories demonstrate evangelicalism‘s complex relationship—involving both receptivity and critique—with Protestant and Enlightenment currents of historical inquiry
Narrative Omniscience and Science Fiction
No full textThe author of the paper suggests, referring to the discussion provoked by Jonathan Culler’s text Omniscience, that the narration of science-fiction expresses the category of omniscientific narration in a characteristic way. He proposes a thesis that the category has reached the key significance in comparison with the one of suspicion as an inherent part of the nature of science fiction.Uniwersytet w Białymstoku113514
Interpellations : Three Essays on Kent Monkman = Trois essais sur Kent Monkman
No full textKent Monkman’s work fascinates. An artist of Cree origin he revisits North American historical events and western cultural representations, often under the guise of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, his alter ego, the sexy and extravagant diva warrior. His aesthetics and drama have the effect of drawing out both what has been erased and concealed in the historical inscription of aboriginal culture the repressed desire and troubled fascination that have paradoxically contributed to shaping it.
In Interpellations. Three Essays on Kent Monkman the art historians Jonathan D. Katz, Richard W. Hill and Todd Porterfield offer perspectives and analyses on Monkman’s work that address history and genre painting, the queered Romantic landscape, the shifting and unfixed subject, race, sexuality, conquest and sovereignty, and modern versus discontinuous temporality.final article publishe
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