scholarly journals Introductory Chapter: Seizures and Its Historical Background

Seizures ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Humberto Foyaca-Sibat ◽  
Lourdes de Fátima Ibañez-Valdés
Keyword(s):  
Historical Background

The Oxford Handbook of Jeremiah

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Studies ◽  
First Century ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Deuteronomistic History ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
Dominant Ideologies ◽  
Single Field ◽  
Historical Issues

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book of Jeremiah, its historical background, distinctive literary character, language of trauma and resilience, dominant ideologies, and the state of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Jeremian scholarship. It concludes with an explanation of the goals and structure of the Handbook. Like the ancient book and the prophetic persona, the interpretation of Jeremiah has also been fractured and at times conflictual. Certain recent schools of Jeremiah scholarship explore new spaces for reading the ancient text that reconfigure, redeploy, and move beyond conventional interpretations, while others concentrate on historical issues, examining variant manuscripts and comparative Near Eastern texts. Until now, these divergent schools of thought have worked in relative isolation. This Handbook, the introductory chapter notes, seeks to bridge the gap between the current scholarly debate. It recognizes the importance of both post-historical and hermeneutic interpretive perspectives and ancient contextual approaches. It engages historical methodologies as well as literary and situated readings. This essay suggests that it is an opportune moment, within the frame of a single, field-encompassing volume, for a synthetic anthology that encourages the fruits of these disparate technical subfields to be gathered in order to nourish the field as a whole. Jeremiah, prose and poetry, trauma, Deuteronomistic History, methodology, SBL, Writing/Reading Jeremiah, biblical studies

scholarly journals Introductory Chapter: Cognitive Disorders and Its Historical Background

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Humberto Foyaca Sibat ◽  
Lourdes de Fátima Ibañez Valdés
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Disorders ◽  
Historical Background

Neuroscience of Enduring Change and Psychotherapy

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Lynn Nadel ◽  
Richard D. Lane
Keyword(s):  
Basic Science ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Creation

This chapter explores the historical background behind the creation of this volume. We discuss the intellectual issues at the core of a foundational review article written in 2015 that provided the proximal inspiration for this book. These issues were explored in greater depth at a conference held in Tucson, Arizona, in September 2017, at which many of the authors of this volume came together to discuss basic science and clinical perspectives on memory, emotion, the interaction between the two and the mechanisms that lead to enduring change in different psychotherapy modalities. This introductory chapter briefly describes the organization of the book and highlights some of the key themes raised in each of the chapters.

scholarly journals Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Jillian C. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
The Body ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
Specific Mode ◽  
The World ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Privileged Site

This introductory chapter outlines the aims of Resonant Recoveries as well as the book’s theoretical and methodological apparatuses. In introducing one of the central arguments of this book—that music came to operate as a corporeal technology of consolation in interwar France—the introduction provides an overview of how late nineteenth- through mid-twentieth-century French artistic, psychological, sociological, and philosophical discourse framed the body as a privileged site for the production and development of knowledge about oneself and the world. In so doing, this introduction provides the socio-historical background for the historical and musical analysis that follows in subsequent chapters while also advocating a specific mode of interdisciplinary research that investigates how music has historically been conceived as a therapeutic, corporeal medium.

Introduction: Modernism beyond the Metropolis

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Geneva M. Gano
Keyword(s):  
Historical Background ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Scale Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Raymond Williams ◽  
Art Colony ◽  
Urban Places

This introductory chapter offers a meditation on the spaces and places of modernist activity, positing that the metropolis is incidental, rather than essential, to the production of social and aesthetic modernism. In de-centring the metropolis, this chapter proposes that rural, peripheral spaces—those Raymond Williams memorably dismissed as ‘hinterlands’—should not only be recognized as essential to the development of modernist practices, but also may productively be recognized as part of a broad, modernist impulse toward ‘little’ and small-scale production in general. Working from Wallerstein’s conceptualisation of the networked, capitalist, modern world-system, this chapter makes the case for a more careful, site-specific examination of sub- or extra-urban places in which modernist practices emerged and coalesced and argues for seeing the modern little art colony as a representative modernist space. This chapter also offers a brief historical background to the development of the little art colony in the US, pointing to its nineteenth-century European antecedents as well as US-based utopian colonies (most notably that at Brook Farm), where the social practices associated with modernism fused with new and experimental arts-based practices.

Part 1 Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Higgins Dame Rosalyn, DBE, QC ◽  
Webb Philippa ◽  
Akande Dapo ◽  
Sivakumaran Sandesh ◽  
Sloan James
Keyword(s):  
League Of Nations ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Complex Structures ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Comprehensive Study

This introductory chapter first sets out the book’s purpose, namely to provide a comprehensive study of the legal practice of the UN. It provides assistance and guidance to those whose work requires them to understand the complex structures of the UN, the multitudinous legal issues that arise daily, and the practice to date. The chapter sets out the formal structures of the UN as they have developed over the years, the historical background, including the League of Nations, and the legal instruments involved in its creation.

Listen, James

The Server ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Markus Krajewski
Keyword(s):  
Historical Background ◽  
History Of

This introductory chapter examines the figure of the servant from several perspectives, ranging from architectural to literary and scientific contexts. It argues that the server metaphor involves much more than just a cursory formula or a decorative analogy; the term has a rich historical background. As a ministering spirit of communication, the server defies definitions, since the figure it invokes—the servant—fulfills a multitude of historical and media-specific functions. And it is precisely the long, multifaceted history of that figure that may provide assistance in unpacking the metaphor. The chapter shows that the aim of the book is to trace the intricate pathways of service in a broad arc that extends from the present day to the baroque.

A Critical Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. xx-22
Author(s):  
Louis Stulman ◽  
Edward Silver
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Studies ◽  
First Century ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Deuteronomistic History ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
Dominant Ideologies ◽  
Single Field ◽  
Historical Issues

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book of Jeremiah, its historical background, distinctive literary character, language of trauma and resilience, dominant ideologies, and the state of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Jeremian scholarship. It concludes with an explanation of the goals and structure of the Handbook. Like the ancient book and the prophetic persona, the interpretation of Jeremiah has also been fractured and at times conflictual. Certain recent schools of Jeremiah scholarship explore new spaces for reading the ancient text that reconfigure, redeploy, and move beyond conventional interpretations, while others concentrate on historical issues, examining variant manuscripts and comparative Near Eastern texts. Until now, these divergent schools of thought have worked in relative isolation. This Handbook, the introductory chapter notes, seeks to bridge the gap between the current scholarly debate. It recognizes the importance of both post-historical and hermeneutic interpretive perspectives and ancient contextual approaches. It engages historical methodologies as well as literary and situated readings. This essay suggests that it is an opportune moment, within the frame of a single, field-encompassing volume, for a synthetic anthology that encourages the fruits of these disparate technical subfields to be gathered in order to nourish the field as a whole. Jeremiah, prose and poetry, trauma, Deuteronomistic History, methodology, SBL, Writing/Reading Jeremiah, biblical studies

scholarly journals Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Jaffrelot ◽  
Atul Kohli ◽  
Kanta Murali
Keyword(s):  
Business Groups ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Business Power

Over the last few decades politics in India has moved steadily in a probusiness direction. In this volume we seek to analyze the growing power of business groups in the Indian polity. In this introductory chapter to the volume, we first set the scholarly context to analyze these changes, describe the historical background of India’s probusiness shift, discuss the probusiness tilt beginning in the 1980s and its implications for business power, and provide a summary of the chapters that follow in the volume.

Philosophy and Poetry

Philosophy ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 36 (136) ◽  
pp. 74-76
Author(s):  
Karl Britton
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Four Quartets ◽  
Literature And Philosophy ◽  
Direct Acquaintance ◽  
Theory Of Meaning ◽  
Imaginative Literature ◽  
Essay On Man

Professor Brett has some direct acquaintance with a Joint Honours Degree in English Literature and Philosophy: and it is therefore on the basis of his own experience (as well as Coleridge's) that he warns us that poetry and philosophy are “difficult pursuits for any man to combine” (p. 79). This book has an introductory chapter and a short epilogue which deal in a philosophical way with meaning in poetry and in imaginative literature generally and with the nature of critical interpretation.In the four middle chapters the author gives his account of four well-known and much discussed poems: Lycidas, the Essay on Man, the Ancient Mariner and the Four Quartets. One could imagine these chapters presented independently as interpretations and discussions of the literary and historical background of the poems: but they certainly illustrate Mr. Brett's theory of meaning in poetry and this provides a certain unity. Parts of Chapter I were first published by the author in Philosophy (July 1952). What is new is the particular application of the theory to didactic and discursive poetry. To this is now added a discussion of rival theories of interpretation: first, the view expressed by Wimsatt and Beardsley in “The Intentional Fallacy” (Sewanee Review, 1946 and 1949); and, second, the views expressed by Miss Kathleen Raine in her essay on Blake (British Book News, Supplement, 1951).

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