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FEMALE FETISHISED DEATHS IN JACOBEAN TRAGEDY

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Velissariou A.

Gender Studies

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2013

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vol. 12

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issue 1

194-212

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I explore the violent deaths of Jacobean heroines on stage, looking at their fetishised dead bodies as a register of male repressed fear of women’s physicality that is perceived essentially as the equation between womb and tomb. I argue that this fetishisation is a hegemonic effort to combat this fear through the consigning of the heroines’ bodies to utter destruction. However, there is a residue left from the dialectic of death and desire that runs through Jacobean tragedy and sexualises the political issue of tyranny. The heroines’ violent deaths, while not expressing heroic transcendence, mark the ultimate self-destructiveness of patriarchal politics.

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Racjonalność działania i jej ograniczenia

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Moraczewski K.

Studia Europaea Gnesnensia

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2018

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issue 18

363-385

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The article is discusses possible limitations of the rationalistic concept of human action within cultural theory. Here, rationality of human action is construed in terms of decision theory. Two kinds of limitations are considered: (1) resulting from non-rationalistic conceptions of human action; (2) implied by anti individualistic approaches to socio-cultural phenomena, especially structuralist and functionalist ones. Proposed conclusions aim for a reconciliation of rationalistic theory of action and principal premises of cultural materialism.

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La enseñanza de la historia en el currículum chileno de educación básica como reflejo del contexto político actual

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Sáez-Rosenkranz I.

Kultura-Społeczeństwo-Edukacja

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2016

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vol. 10

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issue 2

9-22

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The aim of this article is to explain the characteristics on current History teaching proposed into the curriculum of primary education in Chile under the present social process. We employ Raymond Williams cultural materialism and specifically his categories on cultural products to apprehend the curriculum and link it to the context where it is pro duced. To do so, we use the historical method, and considering pedagogical and didactical elements. The documental corpus analyzed is conformed by the official documents guiding education but also other historical sources coming from the current political situation. The results on this analysis show that there is a curricular dichotomy between traditional history teaching based on events of national history and learning by rote and, current didactical proposals, which tend to develop historical thinking. This situation reflects the political tension on social demands and the institutional longstanding objectives for education.

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Biologia versus kultura. Przegląd bioewolucyjnych i kulturowych teorii wojny w przedpaństwowych społecznościach pradziejowych

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Skrzyniecki R., Romaniszyn J.

Folia Praehistorica Posnaniensia

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2016

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vol. 21

437-458

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The paper’s main aim is to outline the problem of polarisation of contemporary discussion concerning the concept of origins of warfare. Basically, two leading trends can be distinguished: the first one accentuates the biological basis of human violence and places its origins deep into our evolutionary past. The second one recognises conflict as a relatively late and typically cultural phenomenon in human prehistory, which cannot be interpreted in terms of natural selection and evolution. The existence of a sharp ideological border between ‘hawks’ and ‘doves’ enables a comparison of both perspectives and facilitates the analysis of internal dynamics of their development.

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Komunikace a roztok. K pojetí média u Raymonda Williamse

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Šebek J.

Česká literatura (Czech Literature)

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2019

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vol. 67

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issue 5

684-710

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This study deals with the concept of media in the work of British literary and cultural theorist Raymond Williams. It is based on the observation that the concept of media never predominated in Williams's work, but that together with such associated concepts as communication, transmission and process this concept is constantly present within it, offering the option of interpretations different to those presented by Williams himself. The first part briefly presents the media aspects of Williams's books Culture and Society, 1780–1950 (1958), The Long Revolution (1961) and Communications (1962): the key term in these works is communication, with literature and art as specific cases. Williams believes that communication needs to be understood in a broad sense as a creation of societies and communities, and that it cannot be reduced to the technical aspect of the communication mechanisms. Media are conceived here as the established means of communication that have emerged historically, and the conception is highlighted whereby they are of key importance for an understanding of culture as currently lived, as a "solution" in contrast to a "precipitate". The second phase of Williams's thinking on media is characterized by an explicit focus on this term and the comprehensive examination of specific "new" media, particularly in the book Television: Technology and Cultural Form (1974). At the same time, however, Williams comes to terms with the most influential media theory of that period, expounded by Marshall McLuhan. Williams rejects McLuhan's notion that considers "technological determinism" to be of central importance, though he subsequently does identify "medium" with the narrowly conceived technological aspect, while making particular use of the term "means of communication", which he separates into amplificatory, durative and alternative means. On the basis of a more detailed argument, the third section of the study proposes a reading which, in spite of Williams's explicit rejection of the term "medium", understands that his thinking continues to be highly "medial". It is from this standpoint that Williams's two most important theoretical books Marxism and Literature (1977) and Culture (1981) are interpreted. Particularly thought-provoking is Williams's understanding of culture as a "solution", whereas the media can actually be considered to be the means of "dissolution", facilitating the fusion of "signifying systems" and of various (artistic and non-artistic) areas of human activity and experience. In his book Marxism and Literature this view can also apply to Williams's understanding of literature. Hence this study provides a deeper insight into media issues in Williams's work and shows that they form the inspirational axis for Williams's thinking on literature and culture.

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Studie se zabývá pojetím média v díle britského literárního a kulturního teoretika Raymonda Williamse. Vychází z pozorování, že pojem médium se sice ve Williamsově myšlení nikdy nestal dominantním, ale je v něm – spolu s příbuznými pojmy jako komunikace, přenos, proces ad. – trvale přítomný a nabízí i možnost odlišných interpretací, než které předkládá sám Williams. V první části jsou stručně představeny mediální aspekty Williamsových knih Culture and Society, 1780–1950 (1958), The Long Revolution (1961) a Communications (1962): klíčovým konceptem v nich je komunikace, jejímiž specifickými případy jsou i literatura a umění. Komunikaci je podle Williamse třeba chápat v širokém smyslu jakožto tvorbu společnosti a komunit a není možné ji redukovat na technickou stránku komunikačních aparátů. Média jsou zde pojata jako historicky vzniklé ustálené komunikační prostředky a naznačeno je už i pojetí, podle nějž jsou klíčová pro chápání kultury jakožto aktuálně žité, jako „roztoku“ (solution) oproti „usazenině“ (precipitate). Pro druhou fázi Williamsova myšlení o médiu je příznačné explicitní soustředění na tento pojem a komplexní zkoumání konkrétních „nových“ médií, zejm. v knize Television: Technology and Cultural Form (1974). Současně se ovšem Williams vyrovnává s dobově nejvlivnější teorií médií Marshalla McLuhana a jeho pojetí, které považuje za ústřední případ „technologického determinismu“, odmítá. Od tohoto momentu tak bude médium ztotožňovat právě s úzce chápaným technologickým aspektem, a namísto něj bude užívat zejm. pojem „komunikační prostředky“ (means of communication), které dělí na prostředky amplifikační, durativní a alternativní (amplificatory, durative and alternative). Ve třetí části studie je na základě podrobnější argumentace navrženo čtení, které navzdory Williamsovu explicitnímu odmítnutí pojmu média chápe jeho myšlení i nadále jako výsostně mediální. Touto optikou jsou pak interpretovány dvě nejvýznamnější Williamsovy teoretické knihy, Marxism and Literature (1977) a Culture (1981). Jako podnětné se jeví zejména dále rozvíjené Williamsovo chápání kultury jakožto „roztoku“, přičemž právě média lze považovat za prostředky „rozpouštění“ (dissolution), umožňující prolnutí jednotlivých „signifikačních systémů“ (signifying systems), resp. různých (uměleckých i mimouměleckých) oblastí lidské činnosti a zkušenosti. Tento pohled lze vztáhnout také na Williamsovo chápání literatury v knize Marxism and Literature. Studie tak poskytuje hlubší vhled do problematiky média ve Williamsově díle a ukazuje, že tvoří inspirativní osu Williamsova uvažování o literatuře a kultuře.

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FEMALE FETISHISED DEATHS IN JACOBEAN TRAGEDY

Racjonalność działania i jej ograniczenia

La enseñanza de la historia en el currículum chileno de educación básica como reflejo del contexto político actual

Biologia versus kultura. Przegląd bioewolucyjnych i kulturowych teorii wojny w przedpaństwowych społecznościach pradziejowych

Komunikace a roztok. K pojetí média u Raymonda Williamse