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Muriel Spark as auto-biographer in <i>Curriculum</i> <i>Vitae</i>
Get PDFExamining Muriel Spark's main aims as an auto-biographer in her work Curriculum Vitae brings important resources in the exploration of the genre of autobiographical writing. This with the theoretical engagement, allows consideration of the critical issues surrounding the roles of author and reader in the construction of the literary self. Spark demands the reader participate in the constructon of textual meaning; overturning the conventions of autobiography, satirising its claims to omniscience and highlighting the impossibility of an authentic voice with regard to the self
Academy Member Spotlight: Prof. Mikhail I. Kuter
Get PDFDuring the period of economy reorientation towards market relations Mikhail I. Kuter was the author of the first Russian language textbook on the theory of accounting
A study of bending effect on the femtosecond-pulse inscribed fiber Bragg gratings in a dual-core fiber
No full textFiber Bragg gratings with different reflection wavelengths have been inscribed in different cores of a dual-core
fiber section. The effect of fiber bending on the FBG reflection spectra has been studied. Various interrogation
schemes are presented, including a single-end scheme based on a cross-talk between the cores that uses only
standard optical components. Simultaneous interrogation of the FBGs in both cores allows to achieve a bending
sensitivity of 12.8 pm/m−1, being free of temperature and strain influence. The technology enables the development
of real-time bending sensors with high spatial resolution based on series of FBGs with different wavelength
inscribed along the multi-core fiber
Bakhtinian Dialogic and Vygotskian Dialectic: Compatabilities and contradictions in the classroom?
No full textThis article explores two central notions of ‘dialectics’ and ‘dialogics’ based on the work of Vygotsky (drawing on philosophers such as Hegel, Spinoza, Engels and Marx) and Bakhtin (drawing on members of the Bakhtin Circle and writers such as Dostoevsky and Rabelais) respectively, as well their varying interanimations within Stalin-Marxist Russian society. It is proposed that these two positions are incommensurably located alongside one another in contemporary education. I argue that Bakhtin offers diametrically oppositional educational provocations to those of Vygotsky. The implications of these interpretations will be explored with consideration of their underlying philosophical incompatibilities and contradictions, as well as the opportunities such a consideration pose for educational practice today
To Act and Learn: A Bakhtinian Exploration of Action Learning
Get PDFThis paper considers the work of the Russian social philosopher and cultural theorist, Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin as a source of understanding for those involved in action learning. Drawing upon data gathered over two years during the evaluation of 20 action learning sets in the north of England, we will seek to work with the ideas of Bakhtin to consider their value for those involved in action learning. We consider key Bakhtin features such as Making Meaning, Participative Thinking, Theoreticism and Presence, Others and Outsideness, Voices and Carnival to highlight how Bakhtin's can enhance our understanding of the nature of action and learning
Mikhail Bakhtin felsefesinde etik ve estetik ilişkisi.
No full textMy main aim in this thesis is to reveal the relation between the author and the hero which is quite similar to the relation and the dichotomy between the “I” and “the other” in Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy. I will extend my analysis in the ethical relation of author-hero to propose a world view that it is built upon love and sympathy. Finally, I will question ethics in literary genres by focusing on the relationship between the author and the hero. This thesis is devoted to a careful analysis of Bakhtin’s literary theory which inevitably brings us to ethical sphere of aesthetics.M.S. - Master of Scienc
Fiber lasers with regular and random distributed feedback
No full textWe review our recent results on fiber lasers with distributed feedback based on π-shifted or random fiber Bragg gratings, and random index structures inscribed by femtosecond pulses in singlemode or multicore/multimode fibers
THE ATTITUDE OF MIKHAIL PRISHVIN TO IDEOLOGY
No full textThe article deals with the problem of writer Mikhail Prishvin’s attitude to socialist ideology. The Diaries of Mikhail Prishvin from 1920 to 1954 are analyzed. The author proposes a periodization of creating the concept of the All-Man, which correlates with social phenomena. The dynamics of Prishvin’s attitude to ideology from total rejection to an attempt to understand socialism is shown. Especially distinguished motives of collectivism and infantilism as the main features of a socialist man. The author draws attention to the fact that for Prishvin socialism and fascism (nazism) has a deep similarity.Artykuł porusza problem stosunku rosyjskiego pisarza Michaiła Priszwina (1873–1954) do ideologii socjalistycznej. Analizowane są dzienniki Michaiła Priszwina z lat 1920–1954. Autor proponuje periodyzację tworzenia koncepcji „całego człowieka”, która koreluje ze zjawiskami społecznymi. Pokazano dynamikę nastawienia Priszwina do ideologii z całkowitego odrzucenia do próby opanowania socjalizmu. Szczególnie podkreślają się motywy kolektywizmu i infantylizmu jako podstawowych cech socjalistycznego człowieka. Autor zwraca uwagę na fakt, że dla Priszwina socjalizm i faszyzm (nazizm) mają głębokie podobieństwo.Статья затрагивает проблему отношения русского писателя Михаила Михайловича Пришвина (1873–1954) к социалистической идеологии. Анализируются дневники писателя за период с 1920 по 1954 год. Предлагается периодизация создания концепции «единого человека», коррелирующей с общественными явлениями. Показана динамика отношения Пришвина к идеологии от полного отрицания до попыток освоения социализма. Особо подчеркиваются мотивы коллективизации и инфантилизма в качестве основных черт советского человека. Автор обращает внимание на тот факт, что социализм и фашизм (нацизм) глубоко родственны
Aesthetics of the beautiful: Ideologic tensions in contemporary assessment
No full textPedagogy is an uncertain art. Yet by its very nature, contemporary teaching and learning practice typically suggests that the expert teacher must come to know their student well enough to plan and predict for educational challenges that will expand and extend their thinking. In many countries, this process is underpinned by bureaucratic ideology that has persuasively developed an agenda for assessment as accountability for pedagogy. As a result assessment practice in these educational institutions is very public, highly accountable and heavily prescribed through curriculum documents that claim to encompass societal agendas. In some cases, such practices are even legislated. Assessment practice is now seen as integral to the pedagogical process since it is through assessment that the teacher purportedly comes to understand the learner; thus providing a rationale for the teaching approaches and strategies that are applied in order to progress learning. In this chronotopic location I suggest there is little room for uncertainty, since the quest to capture the "essence" of the learner and mould them towards societal goals is as much a political agenda of accountability as it is pedagogical
The sense of a beginning : Bakhtinian dialogic criticism on 'the gospel' in Mark.
Get PDFContemporary literary approaches have caused paradigm shifts in Biblical Studies in the last two decades as it appears in a great deal of Markan studies using narrative, reader-response, deconstructive, feminist, and new historicist approaches. However, literary studies on the Gospel of Mark have not taken into account theoretical questions underlying those approaches. As a result biblical critics are driven by new trends without ever having a chance to examine the critical baggage of the approaches. Consequently, there is a gap of communication between the old and the new one. Therefore this thesis is an attempt to meet the need of enhancing the quality of critical endeavour in biblical studies. In the light of most recent competing critical theories of literature, the first contribution of this thesis is the methodological finding that Bakhtinian dialogic criticism contains the most profound philosophical and practical foundations for solving some crucial theoretical problems in contemporary literary theories. It is a critique to a Saussurian linguistic system of language which becomes the very foundation of modern and postmodern literary criticism. Bakhtinian literary theory shifts the foundation of literary criticism on linguistic signs into the creative activity of the socio-cultural production of human communication. The shift into socio-cultural reality of language communication makes the notion of 'genre' very important to unlock the problem of text and context in literary studies. Since the Gospel of Mark has fascinated most literary critics in Biblical Studies, the problem of 'genre' of this gospel is chosen as the focus of this study. Secondly, as no agreement is reached as to what 'genre' the Gospel of Mark belongs, this thesis makes its contribution to the discussion by locating the problem of 'genre' of Mark in the context of genre theories and argues that the Bakhtinian suggestion to find genre in the socio-cultural sphere by analysing artistic intercourse between narrative agents in Mark has freed the competing analysis from the unresolved problem between the kerygmatic (content oriented) approach and the analogical (form oriented) approach. To achieve finding 'genre' in the socio-cultural sphere, this thesis focuses on Bakhtinian analysis of the process of artistic intercourse between narrative agents. The narrative communicative interrelationships between narrative agents is constructed in this thesis as a 'stereophonic' Bakhtinian model of dialogic communication. This model is an original contribution of this thesis for revising the traditional two dimensional model of narrative communication. Based on this dialogical model of communication, a special role is given to the Bakhtinian 'author-creator' in the realization process of genre through the interaction of polyphonic voices. Through the interaction of voices of the author-artist and the hero we are led to discover a relatively stable type of portraying and controlling reality in Mark, known as the genre of Roman 'satire'. The closest literary affinity is Satyrica by Petronius. This narrative strategy of 'satire' in Mark has its root in the prophetic discourse of the Old Testament which is saturating the speech of the narrator, John the Immerser, the centurion, the people, and even Jesus. Finally, the whole search for Markan 'genre' culminates in the analysis of the realization of genre through the analysis of Bakhtinian chronotope. The reality of the genre of Mark is its social reality that is in its role as dpxrj/ 'beginning'. As the Gospel of Mark proclaims itself as 'a beginning', it defines its claim of socio-cultural 'authority' in early Christianity. It is this 'sense of beginning' which enables the narrating and the narrated world of Mark to interact dialogically
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