53 research outputs found
Spaces of death in Emily BrontĂ«âs Wuthering Heights
In this article I explore the idea expressed by philosophers and social geographers
such as Henri Lefebvre, Edward Soja, and Henk van Houtum that âspaceâ is a social
construct; that the space in which a society exists and of which it consists is shaped
by that society itself, and that specific locations are assigned to each of the members
of the community. I discuss how the dominant spaces in society are shaped by those
in positions of authority according to their own ideologies so as to ensure social order
and their continued empowerment within the social structure. Additionally, I suggest
that it is possible for those who do not conform to social norms, and who are
consequently cast into dominated spaces, to undermine the authority of those in
positions of power by embracing their marginalised state, and thereby to generate
new spaces they can inhabit. I explore these ideas in relation to Emily BrontĂ«âs
Wuthering Heights and its depiction and examination of central nineteenth-century
ideas and anxieties about death and the different areas allocated to the dead.In hierdie artikel ondersoek ek die idee, verwoord deur filosowe en sosiale geograwe
soos Henri Lefebvre, Edward Soja en Henk van Houtum, dat âruimteâ ân sosiale
skepping is; dat die ruimte waarin ân gemeenskap geleĂ« is en waaruit dit bestaan
deur die samelewing self gevorm word en dat spesifieke ruimtes aan elk van die lede
van die gemeenskap toegeken word. Ek bespreek hoe die dominante spasies in die
samelewing deur dié in posisies van outoriteit in ooreenstemming met hul eie
ideologieë geskep word om sosiale orde en die voortbestaan van hul eie mag binne
die sosiale struktuur te verseker. Ek voer ook aan dat dit moontlik is vir dié wat nie by
sosiale norme hou nie en wat gevolglik in ruimtes van onderdrukking gewerp word
om die outoriteit van dié in magsposisies te ondermyn en sodoende nuwe ruimtes vir
hulself te skep. Ek ondersoek hierdie idees ten opsigte van Emily Brontë se
Wuthering Heights en dié teks se uitbeelding en ondersoeking van kern
negentiende-eeuse idees en vrese met betrekking tot die dood en die verskeie areas
wat aan die dooies toegeken word.http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjls20hb201
âNot a country at allâ: landscape and Wuthering Heights
This article explores the issue of womenâs representational genealogies through an analysis of Andrea Arnoldâs 2011 Wuthering Heights. Beginning with 1970s feminist arguments for a specifically female literary tradition, it argues that running through both these early attempts to construct an alternative female literary tradition and later work in feminist philosophy, cultural geography and film history is a concern with questions of âalternative landscapesâ: of how to represent, and how to encounter, space differently. Adopting Mary Jacobusâ notion of intertextual âcorrespondenceâ between womenâs texts, and taking Arnoldâs film as its case study, it seeks to trace some of the intertextual movements â the reframings, deframings and spatial reorderings â that link Andrea Arnoldâs film to Emily BrontĂ«âs original novel. Focusing on two elements of her treatment of landscape â her use of âunframedâ landscape and her focus on visceral textural detail â it points to correspondences in other womenâs writing, photography and film-making. It argues that these intensely tactile close-up sequences which puncture an apparently realist narrative constitute an insistent presence beneath, or within, the ordered framing which is our more usual mode of viewing landscape. As the novel Wuthering Heights is unmade in Arnoldâs adaptation and its framings ruptured, it is through this disturbance of hierarchies of time, space and landscape that we can trace the correspondences of an alternative genealogy
Voice hearing in borderline personality disorder across perceptual, subjective, and neural dimensions
BACKGROUND: Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) commonly occur in the context of borderline personality disorder (BPD) yet remain poorly understood. AVH are often perceived by patients with BPD as originating from inside the head and hence viewed clinically as "pseudohallucinations," but they nevertheless have a detrimental impact on well-being.
METHODS: The current study characterized perceptual, subjective, and neural expressions of AVH by using an auditory detection task, experience sampling and questionnaires, and functional neuroimaging, respectively.
RESULTS: Perceptually, reported AVH correlated with a bias for reporting the presence of a voice in white noise. Subjectively, questionnaire measures indicated that AVH were significantly distressing and persecutory. In addition, AVH intensity, but not perceived origin (i.e., inside vs outside the head), was associated with greater concurrent anxiety. Neurally, fMRI of BPD participants demonstrated that, relative to imagining or listening to voices, periods of reported AVH induced greater blood oxygenation level-dependent activity in anterior cingulate and bilateral temporal cortices (regional substrates for language processing). AVH symptom severity was associated with weaker functional connectivity between anterior cingulate and bilateral insular cortices.
CONCLUSION: In summary, our results indicate that AVH in participants with BPD are (1) underpinned by aberrant perceptual-cognitive mechanisms for signal detection, (2) experienced subjectively as persecutory and distressing, and (3) associated with distinct patterns of neural activity that inform proximal mechanistic understanding. Our findings are like analogous observations in patients with schizophrenia and validate the clinical significance of the AVH experience in BPD, often dismissed as "pseudohallucinations." These highlight a need to reconsider this experience as a treatment priority
Morris dancers, matriarchs and paperbacks:Doing the village in contemporary Britain
To call a place rural is to categorize it as a particular kind of place and, often, to presume that particular kinds of being innately occur there. Over the past 20 years, however, trends in British rural studies have problematized easy ascription; this article is an ethnographic contribution within those trends. If it is no longer adequate to read the rural as a container for being, then, as I contend here, rurality can be explored anew through doing. I draw upon David Matlessâs (1994) frame of âdoing the villageâ representationally, and amplify it to include concepts of place as representational and relational. I thus use âdoingâ to read the multiple ways in which diverse residents in a Northern England village engage with both their real locality and with nationally shared rural imaginings
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