Roberto C. Manteiga, Carolyn Galerstein and Kathleen McNerney, eds: Feminine Concerns in Contemporary Spanish Fiction by Women

Review of: Cecilia Belchi Arévalo y María Martínez del Portal. eds. Estudios sobre José Luis Castillo-Puche, Murcia, Academia Alfonso X El Sabio, 1988, 165 pp

Volume 23, Number 4 - May 1941

Volume 23, Number 4 – May 1941. 66 pages including covers and advertisements. (Only 36 pages available in archival copy.) The Quality of Decorum Conway, Joseph A. For the Fatherland Rich, Harold End of a Visit Gallagher, Matthew P. How Long, O Lord? Murphy, James J. Holy Man of Dublin J.A.C. Records and Discords Greene, John Thought Maguire, F.J. In Quest of Arcady Jodaitis, Annie T. of the Extension School Women\u27s Posiition in the Early Social World By the Way\u2

Countering destruction with spontaneity, redescription, and playfulness: A philosophical reading of Kross

This thesis focuses on a philosophical analysis of literature. The central question is: when making moral choices in a forced labor camp, what options remain? Hannah Arendt has written about the forced labor, concentration and extermination camps as the central institutions of totalitarianism, where the project of complete destruction of unwanted human beings is carried out; the end result is the removal of spontaneity and uniqueness in people. We join Arendt’s insights with those of Richard Rorty who employed the concept of unmaking a person’s world in his discussion of Orwell’s 1984. A synthesis of their ideas highlights the importance of language and the freedom of narrativity for countering the elimination of spontaneity (Rorty emphasized the importance of redescription). Chapter 3 uses this synthesis for analyzing the Gulag stories of an Estonian writer, Jaan Kross. Our reading of the stories “Vürst” and “Halleluuja” outlines the concept of playfulness which employs independent redescription of the characters themselves and the situation, and upholds the inmates’ freedom of narrativity and spontaneity. This playfulness emerges in theatricality, bravura, distance from the situation and its script (the distance-keeping has a notable parallel to Rorty’s concept of irony), enacting the unexpected, and playing with risks and possibilities

From "being there" to "being ... where?": relocating ethnography

Purpose: Expands recent discussions of research practice in organizational ethnography through engaging in a reflexive examination of the ethnographer’s situated identity work across different research spaces: academic, personal and the research site itself. Approach: Examines concerns with the traditional notion of ‘being there’ as it applies to ethnography in contemporary organization studies and, through a confessional account exploring my own experiences as a PhD student conducting ethnography, considers ‘being ... where’ using the analytic framework of situated identity work. Findings: Identifies both opportunities and challenges for organizational ethnographers facing the question of ‘being ... where?’ through highlighting the situated nature of researchers’ identity work in, across and between different (material and virtual) research spaces. Practical implications: Provides researchers with prompts to examine their own situated identity work, which may prove particularly useful for novice researchers and their supervisors, while also identifying the potential for incorporating these ideas within organizational ethnography more broadly. Value: Offers situated identity work as a means to provide renewed analytic vigour to the confessional genre whilst highlighting new opportunities for reflexive and critical ethnographic research practice

Spark life: the biographies of Muriel Spark

In the last of his blogs on Muriel Spark in her centenary year Professor Willy Maley looks at the ways in which her biographies of other writers shaped her own writing and affected how she responded to life-writing as memoirist and as biographical subject