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The Distant Origins of “Fat Shaming” or why the People of Antiquity did not Ridicule Fat Women

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Stachura M.

Studia Ceranea

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2022

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vol. 12

181-213

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The phenomenon of “fat shaming” (in particular with its aspect of the especially harsh criticism of the corpulence in young adult women) seems nearly non-existent in the ancient Classical literature. The extant satirical depictions of fatness are uncommon and aimed, almost exclusively, at overweight men. The author of the paper analyses this satirical description, its background in the ancient moral philosophy, as well as comments on plumpness and gluttony in the context of assessments of the female physical beauty. He also attempts to explain how some ancient ideas may have evolved in the attitudes of today, showing some examples from the 19th-century prose as a step in the reshaping of the ancient ideas. Eventually, the author makes an attempt to offer a better understanding of this contemporary phenomenon, which only in some of its elements may be seen as rooted in Antiquity.

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Historia komunikacji na tle historii idei i historii mentalności

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Wendland M.

IDEA. Studia nad strukturą i rozwojem pojęć filozoficznych

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2014

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vol. 26

221-239

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This article focuses on a relatively new area of communicology and communication research, which is the history of communication. The historical approach to communication phenomena (or “reflexive historicising”) is derived from some important and influential fields of communication research, e.g. the Toronto School of Communication, ritual view of communication, intellectual history and history of mentalities (Annales School), cultural anthropology and others. This paper intends to investigate the position of communication history among other branches of modern humanities as well as its relation to some significant approaches in social history and cultural anthropology, namely the history of ideas (or intellectual history) and history of mentalities. This article outlines the origins and current state of communication history and connects its main fields (mostly the history of collective images or representations of communication) with the two above mentioned approaches.

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Philosophy and Historiography: On the History of Thinking

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Dadlez J.

Historyka Studia Metodologiczne

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2020

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vol. 50

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Denkbilder des kulturellen Gedächtnisses Tschechische Lesebuchtexte aus Remarques Im Westen nichts Neues

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Stohler U.

Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense

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2015

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vol. 12

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issue 23

165-177

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This article presents a research project on the history of mentalities in Czech culture of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. The project analyses textbooks for the teaching of Czech literature for secondary schools. It focuses in particular on the excerpts from the literary works and analyses their potential for the learners to acquire cultural and historical knowledge as well as personal skills. These excerpts are conceptualized here as Denkbilder, a term that has been used repeatedly in German literature studies recently to define short prose texts that stimulate imagination as well as reflection. Responding to the high number of literary works from world literature in the Czech textbooks analysed for the project, this article addresses the contrasting presentations of one classic of German literature, Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues). It illustrates how a single literary work can be presented in different ways in literature textbooks, offering the learners different approaches for relating to the text and activating their cognitive and imaginative resources.

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Być czy nie być poganinem? Chrześcijaństwo w oczach chińskich imigrantów w Stanach Zjednoczonych na przykładzie twórczości Wong Chin Foo i Yan Phou Lee

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Krzyżanowski M.

Roczniki Kulturoznawcze

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2017

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vol. 8

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issue 4

119-144

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XIX-wieczna chińska imigracja do Stanów Zjednoczonych często przybierała charakter zarobkowy i właśnie przez ten pryzmat opisywana jest w literaturze jej poświęconej. Perspektywa ta pomija natomiast chińskich intelektualistów, studiujących i tworzących w Ameryce tego okresu. Przykładem tego są esej „Why Am I Heathen” Wong Chin Foo z 1887 r., zalecający pozostanie przy „starej religii”, i odpowiedź nań autorstwa Yan Phou Lee, orędownika chrześcijaństwa, o korespondującym tytule „Why I Am Not a Heathen. A Rejoinder to Wong Chin Foo”. Dzięki porównaniu ich poglądów możliwe jest odtworzenie horyzontu intelektualnego ówczesnego środowiska amerykańskiego, poznanie stereotypów, zwłaszcza co podporządkowanych innych (subaltern). Analizy te ujawniają silne powiązanie religii i związanych z nią wartości na życie społecznego tamtego okresu, ale też przenikanie motywów z tym związanych do sfery ekonomii czy administracji. Oba teksty są również zapisem różnych tendencji wśród chińskich imigrantów, gotowych odpowiedzieć na pytanie o nową tożsamość w ramach zachodniego społeczeństwa. Pozwala to odejść od jednorodnego obrazu Chińczyków przybywających do XIX-wiecznych Stanów Zjednoczonych jedynie w celach zarobkowych i spojrzeć na przedstawicieli tej grupy w szerszy sposób.

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Chinese immigration to the United States of America in the 19th century was often driven by financial reasons, and it has been approached in the subject literature from this very perspective. Focusing on this aspect, however, may lead to overlooking Chinese intellectuals who studied and published in America during that period. Examples include the essay „Why Am I Heathen”, published by Wong Chin Foo in 1887, wherein holding on to ‘the old religion’ was advocated, and the response to it, promoting Christianity, and published by Yan Phou Lee under the polemic title „Why I Am Not a Heathen: A Rejoinder to Wong Chin Foo.” The comparison of opinions expressed by these two authors allows for the reconstruction of the intellectual horizons of the American social milieu of the day, revealing what stereotypes were in circulation, especially with regard to the Subaltern (‘the marginalized, oppressed and subjugated others’). These analyses not only demonstrate how strongly religious beliefs (and values thus implied) were linked to the social life of the day but also how both the national economy and home affairs were permeated by motifs stemming from this linkage.

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The Distant Origins of “Fat Shaming” or why the People of Antiquity did not Ridicule Fat Women

Historia komunikacji na tle historii idei i historii mentalności

Philosophy and Historiography: On the History of Thinking

Denkbilder des kulturellen Gedächtnisses Tschechische Lesebuchtexte aus Remarques Im Westen nichts Neues

Być czy nie być poganinem? Chrześcijaństwo w oczach chińskich imigrantów w Stanach Zjednoczonych na przykładzie twórczości Wong Chin Foo i Yan Phou Lee