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- Whiteley, Giles, 1981-
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Blanchot’s L’ârret de mort : Allegory and the Trauma of History
- 2016
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Blanchot’s L’ârret de mort (1948) has long been recognised as a seminal modernist text, but after Derrida it has tended to be read for its ‘writerly’ qualities. Perhaps for this reason, while scores of readings have focused on Blanchot’s meditations on questions such as the nature of writing, on the figure of night and language, and on parallels to his monumental ‘La Littérature et le droit à la mort’ (1948), the question of history as it is developed in the récit (the spectre of the Holocaust, ‘nach Auschwitz’) has been discussed (e.g. Hess 1999; Rothberg 2000) but not fully examined, nor have the ways in which L’ârret de mort may be reread after the publication of the semi-autobiographical L’instant de ma mort (1994). This paper will examine Blanchot’s translation of history and trauma in the récit, framed through a theoretical discussion of the nature of allegory as translation. Comparing Benjamin’s influential discussion of allegory in his Trauerspiels (1928) with Blanchot’s discussion of similar themes (somewhat differently) in ‘Le langage de la fiction’ (1949), the idea of allegory as a response to historical trauma will be introduced to challenge the idea that ‘there is simply no place for hermeneutical or rhetorical considerations’ (Shaviro 1990) when reading L’ârret de mort. The text operates as an allegory not simply of traumatic French political history (the Munich Crisis, Operation Paula, and more obliquely, the Holocaust), but of Blanchot’s own traumatic history, his experience of surviving a firing-squad recounted in the later récit. It is precisely insofar as Blanchot’s allegory refuses simplistic metaphrase (for instance, in the ways in which the very precision of the text’s dating is displaced - was 13th October 1938 a Wednesday or Thursday?) that we know it to be allegory as such: it is only thus that we know that what is at stake here is not simply a question of mourning but melancholia, the trauma of history, of a wound (τραύμα) which can never be fully healed.
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- Moilanen, Inka, 1978-
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Latin and Vernacular Homilies of Anglo-Saxon England : Preaching and Perceptions of Society
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The advances in the study of homiletic writing of Anglo-Saxon England in the past few decades have made it possible to situate many seemingly formulaic and conventional texts in their specific historical contexts, and to perceive in them certain participation in and commentary on the contemporary social and political situation. This pertains especially to homilies written in Old English – the long-term primary interest of Anglo-Saxon scholarship – which may at times seem to overshadow the coexistent Latin culture. This paper pays attention to this division and explores both Latin and vernacular homiletic writing from the perspective of preaching and social perception. It examines the features of Latin and Old English as languages of teaching, and then discusses Archbishop Wulfstan’s (ca. 950-1023) Latin sermons as a case study, especially those in one of his own ‘Commonplace Books’, Copenhagen Kongelige Bibliotek, Gl. Kgs. Sam. 1595. From the outset, the linguistic division appears to have many fundamental implications for both composition and delivery: the Latin sermons and homilies were for the most part meant to be used in the monastic office, whereas the vernacular ones are thought to have served the needs of lay preaching or private devotion. In terms of social perception, therefore, preaching on social order, vices and virtues, or rules and responsibilities would have found its audiences in different social categories, at least in theory. In practice, the boundaries between these categories were much more fluid, and the language of a text in itself does not always denote a certain audience. The act of preaching as a potentially infuential type of medium in circulating ideas and conceptions on social order makes the two corpora essential sources for studying social ideas, their implementation and authorization. Consequently, the paper contributes to the discussion of both oral and literary as well as the Latin and vernacular communication in the Middle Ages.
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- Premat, Christophe
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Bureaucracy and creativity : preliminary thoughts on Cornelius Castoriadis’ theory of imaginary significations
- 2020
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cornelius Castoriadis is a Greek philosopher who arrived in France in 1945 to flee the chaotic political and social situation in Greece after the Second World War. Castoriadis’s work is characterized by a multiplicity of fields including philosophy, social critics, economy and psychoanalysis. Castoriadis was a revolutionary activist of the radical Left before being a well-known philosopher. In fact, by presenting his main work in 1975 with the publication The imaginary institution of society, Castoriadis also proposed a theory on bureaucracy. The bureaucratization of societies is characterized by an ongoing disconnection between two social groups that rarely meet each other, order-givers and order-takers. The theory is described and based upon sociological arguments on the development of the USSR that presents a case of total bureaucracy whereas western societies are confronted with fragmented bureaucracies. How can the imaginary signification of bureaucracies be defined? Is it a deep control or surveillance of human activities? What is the impact on aesthetics? In his late period, Castoriadis focused on a comparison between political debate and aesthetic production. The more democratic a society is, the more it generates an aesthetic creativity. The presentation will briefly introduce Castoriadis’ theory of bureaucracy with an analysis of the relation between politics and aesthetics.
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- Sundberg, Gunlög, 1956-, et al.
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SweLL: En svensk inlärarkorpus
- 2023
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Ingår i: Språk i praktiken – i en föränderlig värld : Rapport från ASLA-symposiet. Stockholms universitet, 7–8 april, 2022 / Marie Nelson, Mårten Michanek, Maria Rydell, Susan Sayehli, Klara Skogmyr Marian, Gunlög Sundberg. - Stockholm : Stockholms universitet. - 1100-5629 .- 2004-108X. - 9789187884306
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Språkbanken lanserade 2021 en ny annoterad digital inlärarkorpus med texter skrivna av inlärare av svenska, SweLL (Swedish Learner Language corpus). Syftet med artikeln är att diskutera och ge exempel på hur digitala inlärarkorpusar kan bidra till språkforskningen om inlärares språkanvändning, vilket är en fråga som fått allt mer uppmärksamhet (Le Bruyn & Paquot, 2021; Myles, 2015). Genom att utgå ifrån diskussionen om relationen mellan forskningsfälten LCR (Learner Corpus Research) och SLA (Second Language Acquisition) kommer vi i artikeln att presentera den nya inlärarkorpusen och diskutera några viktiga teoretiska och metodologiska aspekter i samband med dess utveckling (Volodina m.fl., 2019).Vi ger även exempel på några tillämpningar av korpusen genom en explorativ studie av förflyttningsverbkonstruktioner i inlärartexterna. Resultaten på gruppnivå stärker tidigare forskning som visar en överrepresentation av verbkonstruktioner med gå hos tidiga inlärare.
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- Husabø Oen, Maria, 1984-
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The Role of Images in the Vernacularization of Scripture
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A large number of vernacular translations of Scripture stemming from all over Europe are found in manuscripts containing an especially high number of illuminations. In this paper I would like to consider the role played by images in the specific context of vernacular translations of biblical texts. I shall argue that both vernacular translations and images are part of a more general shift of focus from abstract and metaphorical meaning toward concrete and historical events in Scripture.The vernacular Bible made Biblical texts – in particular the historical portions of the Old Testament – accessible to a wider audience. In this context, and in relation to the topic of the conference, images served as a visual equivalent to myth, in that they gave concrete sensory access to the main motifs transmitted in the more abstract, linguistic medium of the text itself. Also like myth, they clarified which aspects of Scripture were of primary importance within the vernacular setting, and just as the vernacular was not considered a worthy medium of allegorical interpretation, so images by nature were best suited to convey a literal meaning. In this regard, the vernacular and images were apt to mutually reinforce each other in the presentation of the literal meaning of Scripture.
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- Leth, Palle, 1976-
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Intentions in Utterance Interpretation
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Ingår i: Modeling and Using Context. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 9783319255903 - 9783319255910 ; , s. 501-505
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Which is the role of intentions in utterance interpretation? I sketch an argument to the effect that the role of intentions is indirect; the interpreter’s assignment of meaning rather depends on considerations of what meaning is most reasonably assigned and her interest. This approach often results in the assignment of intended meaning, but might also result in the assignment of non intended meaning. I consider the three basic options offered to the interpreter when, in the course of the conversation, she is confronted with further evidence about the speaker’s intention.
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