scholarly journals 21st-Century Theories of Literature: A Critical Reflection on an Interdisciplinary Event

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-183
Author(s):  
Philip Gaydon ◽  
Andrea Selleri ◽  
Phil Gaydon ◽  
Andrea Selleri
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Philosophy Of Literature ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The University

The authors reflect upon the successes and difficulties of developing and running 21st-Century Theories of Literature: Essence, Fiction, and Value, an interdisciplinary conference held at the University of Warwick on 27-29 March 2014.The aim of the conference was to encourage a more sustained focus on the overlap between two disciplines which, prima facie, have a lot in common: philosophical aesthetics (and in particular its literary branch, the philosophy of literature) and  literary studies (of which literary theory may be considered a subdivision). Because both deal with literature and have an investment in the idea of theorisation, one might have thought that there was no need to encourage active dialogue and it would arise naturally from the needs of each field. However, in the current institutional state of affairs where philosophy departments and literature departments often have little overlap, ‘aesthetics’ and ‘literary theory’ are two very distinct entities, and interaction is underdeveloped even when room for it does exist. As such, we judged that there was a need for such a prompting. This piece presents the rationale for our conference, and describes its preparation, development and outcomes.Photo credit: Wittgenstein Vector, copyright eXegesis -  J. Robles, M.D. Rose-Steel, S. M. Steele, 2014.

scholarly journals ‘The idea of the University’ and the ‘Pretoria Model’ Apologia pro statu Facultatis Theologicae Universitatis Pretoriensis ad secundum saeculum

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Buitendag
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Past ◽  
Intellectual Inquiry ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
The University ◽  
Idea Of The University

The article is authored by the Dean of Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria, celebrating the Faculty’s centenary in 2017. The exposition of the argument is unfolded on the basis of Ricoeur’s threefold mimesis of prefiguration, configuration and reconfiguration. The earliest decisive statement with regard to the nature of the Faculty, and which is eagerly pursued, was made by the Rev. M.J. Goddefroy in 1888, epitomising theological training as of academic deference, that is as a Faculty at a university and not a seminary. This has been the fibre of Theology at the University of Pretoria and intellectual inquiry is an uncompromised value. The article is a critical reflection on the past century and an orientation towards the next hundred years, identifying the essence of what a real Pretoria Model could and should be and looking ahead to the next century. ‘History is not a destination, but an orientation’, sounds like a refrain in the article. The enterprise is contextual with regard to time and space. The assessment is subsequently done in terms of this continent and this century, that is Africa and the 21st century. The conclusion of the article is that the Pretoria Model fills a unique niche in theological inquiry at public universities competing for a position among the top 500 on the ranking of world universities.

scholarly journals Introduction

Poetics Today ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Blevins ◽  
Daniel Williams
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Formal Logic ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
New Criticism ◽  
Philosophy Of Literature ◽  
Theory And Criticism ◽  
Reciprocal Influences ◽  
Literary Theory And Criticism

Although literature and logic share a number of surprising symmetries and historical contacts, they have typically been seen to occupy separate disciplinary spheres. Declaring a subfield in literary studies — logic and literature — this introduction outlines various connections between literary formalism and formal logic. It surveys historical interactions and reciprocal influences between literary and logical writers from antiquity through the twentieth century, and it examines how literary theory and criticism have been institutionally shadowed by a logical unconscious, from the New Criticism and (post)structuralism to recent debates about historicism and formalism. It further considers how the subfield of logic and literature, in its constitutive attention to form, is neatly positioned to cut across these debates, and it sketches ways of reading at the interface of aesthetics, philosophy of literature, and literary studies that might be energized by an appeal to logical contexts, ideas, and methods.

Supercomplexity and Education Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 231-243
Author(s):  
Ronald Barnett
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
The World ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
A Site ◽  
The University ◽  
Do So

Supercomplexity is that state of affairs that is characterized by multiple, conflicting, and proliferating accounts of a situation, in which there are no secure categories through which to anchor oneself in the world. Stated thus, understanding supercomplexity is at a fork: it can lead either to relativism or can be coupled to a realism. I opt here for the latter gambit, specifically marrying supercomplexity to (Roy Bhaskar's) critical realism and I do so by placing my reflections in the context of investigations of the university. Grasped as a site of supercomplexity, the university is open not just to multiple interpretations and ideas (ideas of the university now flourishing and conflicting) but to infinite possibilities. This is where the researcher-as-scholar comes into her or his own in discerning and imagining possibilities for the university in the 21st century.

Bakhtinʼs Influence on Croatian Literary Theory and Criticism

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-53
Author(s):  
István Ladányi
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
History Of The Novel ◽  
Russian Formalism ◽  
Theory And Criticism ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

The School of Stylistics in Zagreb and the School of Literary Studies in Zagreb had a dominant role in the shaping of literary studies in Croatia. From its beginnings in the late 1950ʼs, it can be only investigated in correlation with the other Yugoslav centres of literary studies, mainly with the literary researches and translations carried out at the University of Belgrade. The School of Literary Studies in Zagreb was influenced by the Structuralist schools and Russian Formalism. In the research focusing on the history of the novel (Viktor Žmegac, Milivoj Solar and others), the interest was raised in Bakhtinʼs theoretical works (both the Russian editions and their translations). Especially the notions of carnivalization, chronotope and the concept of the novel’s polyphony are discussed in works on the history of the novel. The influence of the latest Russian and international readings of Bakhtin’s work can be seen in Croatian literary studies in the researches and editions by Vladimir Biti and his co-workers, from the beginning of the 1990’s onwards.

Text denken

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 274-291
Author(s):  
Andrea Polaschegg
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Language Theory ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Literary Theories ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Space ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Tracing the transformations phenomenological thought underwent in the sphere of literary studies after the 1930s, the paper outlines the epistemological potential of this tradition in regards to a proper understanding of the phenomenon ›text‹. Proceeding from reflections on the agonal relation between structuralistic and phenomenological traditions within contemporary literary theory, the article focuses on Husserl’s apprehension of texts as being »objects in procedure« by exploring the impact of this idea on the literary theories of Ingarden, Wellek, and Iser. In light of the - largely forgotten - fact that Karl Bühler’s pioneering Language Theory (1934) is mainly based on phenomenological thinking, the paper finally discusses to what extend Bühler’s idea of verbal expressions figuring as effective events could open a new space for the development of a literary theory of texts within recent debates on the »media of literature«.

The Importance of the University in the 21st Century: Ethical Conflicts and Moral Choices

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel M. Natale ◽  
Sebastian A. Sora ◽  
Matthew Drumheller
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Ethical Conflicts ◽  
Moral Choices ◽  
The University

From theory to practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 186-188
Author(s):  
Aimi Meen
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Theory To Practice ◽  
The University

Aimi Meen, Senior Midwifery Lecturer at the University of the West of England, analyses current midwifery skills and how they simulate in the 21st century

Schließen mit Erfahrungssätzen

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Janßen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Applied Statistics ◽  
Conditional Probabilities ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
Legal Decision Making ◽  
The University

When dealing with experiential sentences in court, there is a risk of committing the probabilistic inverse fallacy, the swapping of conditional probabilities. Such a fallacy can be serious in legal decision making. Using empirical methods, the dissertation shows that this fallacy can be observed in civil procedural court decisions in which prima facie evidence is used and can have a significant impact on decision making. The dissertation was written at the Research Unit "Statistics in Court" of the Chair of Empirical Economic Research and Applied Statistics at the University of Bremen.

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