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Effects of Variant Narrators in Acts 10-11
One of the cruces interpretum regarding the Acts of the Apostles that continue to reappear in scholarly discussions is why some stories are repeated three or more times. Redaction criticism moved the solutions beyond the earlier theories of multiple sources toward a consensus of attributing repetition to Lukan redaction. One contribution from redactional approaches was the awareness of how emphasis is achieved by repeating accounts of events that are especially pivotal to the overall plot of Acts
Image [&] Narrative journal editorship (in 2 issues) - The story of things: reading narrative in the visual
Based on the conference convened by Carson & Miller to accompany their project The Story of Things, these two journal issues of Image [&] Narrative explore the relationship between narrative and the visual.
Issue 1:
āIntroductionā, Carson & Miller
Part 1 ā Telling the Story of Things
āRelating Storiesā, Dr. Patricia Allmer
āScrapbook (a visual essay)ā, Carson & Miller
Part 2 ā Object as Catalyst: the Potential for Narrative within the Artefact
āArtefacts and Anecdotesā, Prof. Karen Bassi
āEphemeral Art: Telling Stories to the Deadā, Dr. Mary Oā Neill
āBelongingsā, Lucy May Schofield & Sylvia Waltering
Issue 2:
āIntroductionā, Carson & Miller
Part 1 ā Visualising the Remembered Narrative: Archetype, Biography, Autobiography
āRephrased, Replaced, Repainted: visual anachronism as a narrative deviceā, GyƶngyvĆ©r HorvĆ”th
āLost Children, the Moors & Evil Monsters: the photographic story of the Moors Murdersā, Helen Pleasance
āRead You Like A Book: Time and Relative Dimensions in Storytellingā, Mike Nicholson
Part 2 ā Authoring and Reading the Sequential Narrative: Linear and Non-Linear Approaches
āThe Pre-Narrative Monstrosity of Images: how images demand narrativeā, Dr. William Brown
āTowards Ephemeral Narrativeā, Jacqueline Butler & Gavin Parry
āSignification Under Sentence: examining how the juxtaposition of verse with film affects narrativeā, Dr. Pete Atkinso
Fiction and Thought Experiment - A Case Study
Many philosophers are very sanguine about the cognitive contributions of fiction to science and philosophy. I focus on a case study: Ichikawa and Jarvisās account of thought experiments in terms of everyday fictional stories. As far as the contribution of fiction is not sui generis, processing fiction often will be parasitic on cognitive capacities which may replace it; as far as it is sui generis, nothing guarantees that fiction is sufficiently well-behaved to abide by the constraints of scientific and philosophical discourse, not even by the minimum requirements of conceptual and logical coherence
Tolkienās Sub-Creation and Secondary Worlds: Implications for a Robust Moral Psychology
In his work, āOn Fairy Stories,ā J. R. R. Tolkien offers a detailed account of what he calls Sub-creation, along with the corresponding notions of Primary and Secondary Worlds. In this paper, I suggest that Tolkienās concept of Sub-creation can be creatively appropriated in the realm of moral psychology and there applied to the fundamental relationship between self and other ā or in Judeo-Christian terms, āIā and my neighbor. Through appeal to Tolkienās thought and to the wider Christian theological tradition, and in constructive tension with the contemporary psychoanalytic attention to āintersubjectivity,ā I attempt to elucidate the power and appropriate function of the human imagination to dispose us to good moral action, and so to bring us closer to ultimate happiness
Republic 382a-d: On the Dangers and Benefits of Falsehood
Socrates' attitude towards falsehood is quite puzzling in the Republic. Although Socrates is clearly committed to truth, at several points he discusses the benefits of falsehood. This occurs most notably in Book 3 with the "noble lie" (414d-415c) and most disturbingly in Book 5 with the "rigged sexual lottery" (459d-460c). This raises the question: What kinds of falsehoods does Socrates think are beneficial, and what kinds of falsehoods does he think are harmful? And more broadly: What can this tell us about the relationship between ethics and epistemology? The key to answering these questions lies in an obscure and paradoxical passage in Book II; at 382a-d Socrates distinguishes between "true falsehoods" and "impure lies." True falsehoods are always bad, but impure lies are sometimes beneficial. Despite Socrates' insistence that he is not saying anything deep, his distinction is far from straightforward. Nevertheless, in order to determine why some falsehoods are beneficial and why some are always harmful, we must understand what exactly true falsehoods are and how they differ from impure lies. In this paper, I argue that true falsehoods are a restricted class of false beliefs about ethics; they are false beliefs about how one should live and what one should pursue. I refer to these beliefs as "normative commitments." False normative commitments are always pernicious because they create and sustain psychological disharmony. Unlike true falsehoods, impure lies can be about anything. Nevertheless, they are only beneficial when they help produce and sustain true normative commitments. I argue that the upshot of this is that practical concerns have a kind of primacy over theoretical concerns
Finiteness and children with specific language impairment: an exploratory study
Children with specific language impairment (SLI) are well known for their difficulties in mastering the inflectional paradigms; in the case of learning German they also have problems with the appropriate verb position, in particular with the verb in second position. This paper explores the possibilities of applying a broader concept of finiteness to data from children with SLI in order to put their deficits, or rather their skills, into a wider perspective. The concept, as developed by Klein (1998, 2000), suggests that finiteness is tied to the assertion that a certain state of affairs is valid with regard to some topic time; that is, finiteness relates the propositional content to the topic component. Its realization involves the interaction of various grammatical devices and, possibly, lexical means like temporal adverbs. Furthermore, in the acquisition of finiteness it has been found that scope particles play a major role in both first- and second-language learning. The purpose of this paper is to analyze to what extent three German-learning children with SLI have mastered these grammatical and lexical means and to pinpoint the phase in the development of finiteness they have reached. The data to be examined are mostly narrative and taken from conversations and experiments. It will be shown that each child chooses a different developmental path to come to grips with the interaction of these devices
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