Judgment in Extremes: A Study of Dryden\u27s \u27Absalom and Achitophel\u27

Gerald B. Kinneavy is an Assistant Professor of English, presently on leave pursuing doctoral studies at Penn State University

The Roots of Virtue: A Cross-Cultural Lexical Analysis

Although the notion of virtue is increasingly prominent in psychology, the way it has been studied and conceptualised has been relatively Western-centric, and does not fully account for variations in how it has been understood cross-culturally. As such, an enquiry was conducted into ideas relating to virtue found across the world’s cultures, focusing specifically on so-called untranslatable words. Through a quasi-systematic search of academic and grey literature, together with conceptual snowballing and crowd-sourced suggestions, over 200 relevant terms were located. An adapted grounded theory analysis identified five themes which together provide an insight into the “roots” of virtue (i.e., the main sources from which it appears to spring): virtue itself (the concept of it); considerateness (caring about it); wisdom (knowing what it consists of); agency (managing to be/do it); and skill (mastery of the preceding elements). The results help shed further light on the potential dynamics of this important phenomenon

Afterword: three letters

The essays consider issues of affect and emotion in terms of three early English letters - by Chaucer, the Paston family, and Henry VIII - in order to consider issues of the personal and the literary. It also comments on the volume of essays as a whole, and consider the field of the history of emotions and affect studies

Industrial democracy in Britain : theory, practice and limitations

The object of this dissertation is to argue a case for industrial democracy as a corollary to political democracy; to examine the historical development towards worker participation in the management of industry as conceived by the British Labour Movement, and to assess the capabilities and limitations of these achievements. Chapter One provides an initial theoretical discussion on the problem of what industrial democracy may be taken to mean by examining the views of various theorists on the topic. The chapter also offers a set of defining characteristics of industrial democracy, in particular the separation of ownership from control and the sole right to participate in the control of industry as being derived from the function of labour. Chapter Two charts the ascendancy of British Trade Unionism and the development of collective bargaining as the single mechanism of worker representation to the exclusion of strategies for industrial democracy. The tentative demands for some form of industrial democracy from the 1960's are explained in terms of worsening economic conditions, Britain's forthcoming entry into the E.E.C, and a: radicalization of the Labour Movement. These factors, it is argued, provided the main stimulus for the Bullock inquiry on industrial democracy. Chapter Three deals in some detail with the Royal Commission on Industrial Democracy, 1977. The main proposals put before the Committee are outlined together with the supporting evidence, and discussion is given to the Committee's rationale behind the proposals it eventually recommended. Reaction to the publication is discussed with regard to the Labour Government, the Confederation of British Industry, the Trade Union Movement, the media and academics. Chapter Four is concerned with the weaknesses of the Bullock Report and with the limitations on any future development of industrial democracy in Britain. Two "formative" Labour Governments (1929-31 and 1945-51) received particular attention and their inevitable failure is explained through a critical focus on Fabian ideology. It is argued that Fabianism has prevented a coherent and committed Labour Party policy on industrial democracy in the past and will continue to act against any possibility of future legislation on the subject. Similar treatment is given to the nature of trade unions whose insistence on the preservation of collective bargaining also works against the development of a unified labour demand for full industrial democracy. The final concluding chapter offers some analysis of moves towards workers' control in other countries. It concludes, however, that while Fabianism and collective bargaining remain sacred cows of the British Labour Movement the potentiality for real industrial democracy in Britain remains weak.Arts, Faculty ofPolitical Science, Department ofGraduat

La escritura académica en la universidad

[ES] En este texto introductorio del monográfico se definen algunos de los conceptos fundamentales que serelacionan con el constructo de escritura académica. En primer lugar, el concepto de género y surelacióncon el de sistema de actividad, loquepermite abordar desde un punto de vista dinámico eldiscurso en los entornos universitarios.A continuación, se discuten las diferentes aportaciones que sehan ocupado dela clasificación de los géneros en elámbito académico universitario lo que permiteesbozar unapropuesta que sirva demarco integradorparaorganizarla actividadde escribir y losgéneros que se producen en la universidaden esferas discursivas queotorguensentido y significado alas prácticas de escritura de los estudiantes.En tercer lugar, seofrecenalgunas reflexiones sobre el usoy la enseñanza de los géneros en la docencia universitariadesde la perspectiva apuntada en losapartados anteriores.En la segunda parte del texto se presentan los artículos que forman estemonográfico y que ofrecen una panorámica variada y complementaria de las aportaciones actuales en elámbito de la escritura académica tanto en contextos españoles y latinoamericanos como europeos. Aestas aportaciones hay que sumarle la revisión y síntesis de lasaproximaciones teóricas, los métodos ylos resultadosde losmovimientos Writing Across CurriculumyWriting In the Disciplinesen los EEUU.[EN] In this introduction of the Special Issue, some key concepts related to the notion of academic writing arediscussed. Firstly, the concept of genre is revised and its relationships with the more broad notion ofactivity system, which allows for a dynamic approach of discourse and its study in university contexts.Secondly, genre classification proposals in higher education are reviewed and discussed focusing ontheir contributions and limitations. Based on this review, a new proposal for genre organizationispresented, which could act as an integrative framework to organize writing activity and genres indiscursive spheres making meaning of the students’ writing practices. 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