107 research outputs found
Sunt superis sua iura. Ovid, the law, and the Augustan discourse
My thesis investigates how Ovidâs treatment of juridical language and content fits into the socio-cultural landscape of Augustan Rome. Moving beyond the legacy of his early career in the forum, Ovid resorts to the legal to express a wider engagement with divine and political justice â an aspect of consistency and evolution throughout the poetâs corpus. In the Amores, the Ars Amatoria and the Heroides, Ovid revisits the elegiac code to formulate an extended recusatio that plays with the âmicro-semanticsâ of the legal to bring to the fore the gaps in the narrative of Augustusâ legislation. Through a selection of legally-inflected case studies, I demonstrate that the Metamorphoses shares the same approach to ius as his elegiac poetry, though developed through a more in-depth exploration of power dynamics, as arbitrary divine jurisdiction in the mythological universe of the poem mirrors the âstate of exceptionâ of the Princeps iudex. In the Fasti, Augustusâ appropriation of legal calendar time highlights the convergence of the Princepsâ and the poetâs fictional procedures: myth and traditional legacies are deceptively ârecodifiedâ through Ovidâs âmythologisingâ ius in a similar fashion to Augustusâ reimagining Romeâs constitutional system through fictio iuris, as both the poet and the Princeps adapt the notion of justice to their respective agendas.
In his elegy Ovid engages with the tension created by Augustusâ new role as lawgiver, an approach that evolves when taking the Metamorphosesâ history of the universe into account, to then show a further change through the prism of the Fasti, as the same power dynamics are matched with the Princepsâ narrative of control. The âmicro-semanticsâ of ius are thus reconciled with the macro-semantics of Ovidâs reflections on the nature of justice, becoming the playing field for the poetâs deceptive narrative devices to mirror the fictional nature of Augustusâ regime.âI would also like to thank the Classical Association for funding my stay at the Fondation Hardt in July 2022.â--Acknowledgement
Our Mythical Hope
Classical Antiquity is a particularly important field in terms of âHope studiesâ [âŠ]. For centuries, the ancient tradition, and classical mythology in particular, has been a common reference point for whole hosts of creators of culture, across many parts of the world, and with the new media and globalization only increasing its impact. Thus, in our research at this stage, we have decided to study how the authors of literary and audiovisual texts for youth make use of the ancient myths to support their young protagonists (and readers or viewers) in crucial moments of their existence, on their road into adulthood, and in those dark hours when it seems that life is about to shatter and fade away. However, if Hope is summoned in time, the crisis can be overcome and the protagonist grows stronger, with a powerful uplifting message for the public. [âŠ] Owing to this, we get a chance to remain true to our ideas, to keep faith in our dreams, and, when the decisive moment comes, to choose not hatred but love, not darkness but light.
Katarzyna Marciniak, University of Warsaw, From the introductory chapte
Play Among Books
How does coding change the way we think about architecture? Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an âinfinite flowâ of real books
Tokyo Olympics: when athletes are faced with the impossible
The global pandemic, with the social distancing measures and lockdowns, disrupted many aspects of life, including sport. This chapter demonstrates how the pandemic affected athletes participating in Tokyo Olympics
Is there space on the podium for us all?
People with intellectual disabilities (ID) have cognitive deficits which impact on their daily lives, requiring them to receive additional support. Having ID also means that an individualâs ability to compete in sports at an elite level is impaired resulting in potential eligibility to the Paralympics, rather than the Olympics, in a class called âIntellectual Impairmentâ. First entering into the Paralympic in 1992, athletes with ID competed separately, but by Atlanta, 1996 the events were integrated and 54 ID athletes competed alongside everybody else. This rose to 244 ID athletes in Sydney, 2000. However, in a disastrous episode at this event the ID Spanish basketball team, cheated and fielded athletes who did not have ID. There was an investigation and it was found that there was purposeful misrepresentation, but also that the systems in place to check eligibility were not strong enough to prevent such occurrences. The whole impairment group of ID was then suspended from competing in the Paralympics and for the next twelve years elite athletes with ID lost out on Paralympic opportunities
The soft power of the Olympics in the age of Covid 19
The Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics Games was a Sport Mega Event (SME) like no other. The tensions evident in holding the worldâs largest sporting event in one of the worldâs most densely populated cities in the age of Covid raises pointed questions with respect to the values of hosting SMEâs. Jules Boykoffâs NOlympians ably demonstrates historical and contemporary opposition to Olympic hosting. Nonetheless, the benefits of hosting SMEâs - promoted by the International Olympic Committee and other governing bodies in sport - are often considered in terms of the perceived soft power benefits that accrue to the hosts. Soft power - the power of attraction and trust in relations amongst different polities, is a much debated term, but one that has proved remarkably durable since it was first coined by scholar Joseph Nye Jr in the early 1990s. Supposed soft power benefits have been typically measured in terms of visitor numbers to a city, hotel beds filled, cultural exchange events, and tickets sold to the games themselves, alongside increased GDP â a harder power measure. Covid corrupted these criteria. The impact on the athletes and administrators was huge â medals were ultimately won and lost on the basis of what the impact a yearâs delay meant to athletic performance. Similarly, the impact on the hosts affords an opportunity to reappraise a soft power typography for hosting SMEs away from previous attempts to classify soft power success in terms of physical footfall â tickets sales et al. The soft power impact of Tokyo 2020 needs to be considered in its own right
Astronomy and Literature | Canon and Stylometrics
This eighth issue of Interfaces contains two thematic clusters: the first cluster, entitled The Astronomical Imagination in Literature through the Ages, is edited by Dale Kedwards; the second cluster, entitled Medieval Authorship and Canonicity in the Digital Age, is edited by Jeroen De Gussem and Jeroen Deploige
Three chapters in the history of femicide
This dissertation describes the genesis of the idea of femicide in a period of English and
American Letters, the last decade of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth
century, in which patriarchal values and constructions were entering a crisis which resulted in the
revision of the idea of genderâin a way, that was the period in which the concept of gender was
coded. In the first chapter, I look at the way the term femicide was first given currency in the
English language in 1827 through Robert Macnishâs The Confessions of an Unexecuted Femicide, a
fiction disguised as a true story, and how it spawned a short-lived literary sub-genre. In the second
chapter, I examine Poeâs reworking of the femicide story, and to the ways in which he has drawn
attention to its Gothic roots. Finally, in the third chapter, I offer a reading of Memoirs of the Author
of âA Vindication of the Rights of Woman,â in which I argue that Godwinâs âsentimentalisedâ portrait
of Mary Wollstonecraft, and by extension of the female intellectual, constitutes an implicit
refutation of her ideas, and therefore can be profitably compared to the portraits Poeâs femicide
narrators make of Morella and Ligeia in the tales named after them.Esta dissertação descreve a gĂ©nese da ideia de femicĂdio durante um perĂodo nas letras
Anglo-saxĂłnicas, entre a Ășltima dĂ©cada do sĂ©c. XVIII e meados do sĂ©culo seguinte, em que os
valores e elaboraçÔes ideológicas patriarcais entravam numa crise que conduziria a uma revisão da
ideia de gĂ©nero (de certo modo, poder-se-ia mesmo dizer que Ă© nesse perĂodo que o conceito de
gĂ©nero começa a ser codificado). No primeiro capĂtulo, descrevo como o termo femicĂdio ganhou
pela primeira vez projecção na lĂngua inglesa depois da publicação, em 1827, de The Confessions of
an Unexecuted Femicide de Robert Macnish, uma ficção apresentada ostensivamente como relato
verĂdico que deu origem a um efĂ©mero sub-gĂ©nero de ficção, a que chamo âhistĂłria de femicĂdio.â
No segundo capĂtulo examino a reinterpretação da histĂłria de femicĂdio por Edgar Allan Poe, e
sobre o modo como este autor pĂŽs em evidĂȘncia as suas raĂzes gĂłticas. Finalmente, no terceiro
capĂtulo, apresento uma leitura de Memoirs of the Author of âA Vindication of the Rights of Womanâ
em que argumento que o retrato âsentimentalizadoâ que Godwin aĂ faz de Mary Wollstonecraft, e
por extensĂŁo da mulher intelectual, porquanto constitui uma refutação implĂcita das ideias dessa
autora, ganha em ser comparado com os retratos que os narradores femicĂdas de Poe fazem das suas
esposas em âMorellaâ e âLigeia.
Justified: The Pragmaticization of American Evangelicalism from Jonathan Edwards to the Social Gospel
This dissertation tracks the epistemological precursors, what I call the âpragmatic attitudes,â of William Jamesâs pragmatism as they appear in liberal evangelical culture from the time of Jonathan Edwards to the postbellum Social Gospel movement. I examine what I take to be three major epistemological underpinnings of this tradition of evangelical theology â the privileging of direct experience, the practical identification of essence and praxis, and the emergent belief in Godâs pervasive affection toward Creation â and their role in the shaping of a distinctively pragmatic ethos in American evangelical culture. By juxtaposing two different traditions â one putatively âsecularâ and one âsacredâ â I offer an interdisciplinary bridge between American religion and philosophy while challenging assumptions that American history can be divided along secular or sacred lines.
I begin with Jonathan Edwardsâs âlatent pragmatisms,â certain epistemological attitudes toward religious conversion and the nature of God that lead Edwards to justify these ideas on logics fundamental to modern pragmatism, namely the integration of the âseparateâ faculties feeling and volition and the justification of religious experiences by their practical effects. The second chapter explores the antebellum revivalist Charles G. Finney and his interpretation of these Edwardsean pragmatic attitudes, making the case that Finney and the evangelical culture he represents merit a place in our understanding of the history of American pragmatism. Chapter three looks directly at the theology of William Jamesâs father, Henry James Sr, and the extent to which its decidedly Swedenborgian influence reflected the pragmatic attitudes I outline in the first two chapters. The fourth and final chapter deals with the transatlantic Social Gospel movement, a self-consciously pragmatic evangelical reform movement whose theology and literature most visibly brought the realms of the sacred and the secular together for the common goal of bettering the condition of people here and now. The epilogue broadly addresses the implications of the sacred/secular binary in American culture.PHDEnglish Language & LiteratureUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/155035/1/lazbell_1.pd
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