British Communists and the 1932 turn to the trade unions
10.1080/0023656X.2015.1116789
John McIlroy
John McIlroy
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0023656X.2015.1116789?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
Interpreting EU–Israel relations: a contextual analysis of the EU’s Special Privileged Partnership proposal
10.1080/09557571.2015.1117921
Bruno Oliveira Martins
Bruno Oliveira Martins
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09557571.2015.1117921?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
Into the IRIS: a model for analyzing identity dynamics in conflict
10.1080/14608944.2015.1113239
Landon E. Hancock
Landon E. Hancock
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14608944.2015.1113239?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
Penal and Palliative Discourses in the Debate of the Belle Dame sans Mercy: Achille Caulier’s Cruelle Femme en Amour and Hopital d’Amour
From the time of its composition through the early 1460s, Alain Chartier's Belle Dame sans Mercy (1424) elicited a series of responses, including two continuations by Achille Caulier. This pair of closely related texts invites an exploration of the theoretical stakes of a confrontation between judicial and penal procedures and the medicalized body. Across Caulier's successive interventions in the querelle, medical language at first complements then ultimately supplants juridical discourse. Unlike the "punitive" metaphors identified by Susan Sontag, medicalized language empowers the late medieval sufferer: thanks to the diverse metaphorical valences of illness and therapy current in the fifteenth-century West, medicalization offers an alternate and potentially nonmoralistic or plurimoralistic mode of continuation. The late medieval debate over the Belle Dame thus affords contemporary critics a new perspective on what it is to give a disease a meaning.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/46/1/89?rss=1
„O Multiplied Misery!“: The Disordered Medical Narrative of John Donne’s Devotions
John Donne composed his Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624) to share a revelatory experience of illness with readers. Yet, in the book's final chapter, Donne himself indicates that bodily pain is nearly incommunicable. This raises a question: How can Donne hope to share his illness with readers when he believes its physical symptoms resist communication? This essay argues that Donne bypasses this impasse by formally recreating one of his illness's contemplative symptoms: the vexed temporal disorder caused by interpreting one's world from within a sick body. Because this symptom arises from Donne's inability to order the events of his illness, he is able to recreate it within readers by likewise disordering the Devotions' narrative. By sharing this contemplative "torment" with readers, the Devotions democratizes Donne's difficult path toward spiritual revelation. In doing so, it demonstrates that narrative form can bridge the communication gap between the suffering writer and his readers.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/46/1/167?rss=1
Illness Narratives in the Later Middle Ages: Arderne, Chaucer, and Hoccleve
Thinkers such as Elaine Scarry and Kathlyn Conway have written about the problems of master narratives of illness: pain can mark the limits of what narrative can do. This essay argues that late medieval writers not only had an understanding of the impulse to fit illness into narrative structures but also understood the inherent limitation that emplotment and narrativization entails. Focusing on a doctor, John Arderne, a patient-poet, Thomas Hoccleve, and a poet, Geoffrey Chaucer, the essay explores how all three reveal their understanding of the artifice of narrativizing pain and illness. They present themselves as flawed and sick narrators, not as authoritative masters of the material of their texts. Surgeon and vernacular poet are connected by their social and cultural indeterminacy; they are vulnerable, feminized figures, aware of the contingency of their interpretations and the holes in their narratives. All focus on the limits of narrative and narrator alike, modeling the inability of narrative to make sense of pain.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/46/1/61?rss=1
Medicine, Metaphor, and „Crisis“ in the Early Modern Social Body
In the political turmoil of mid-seventeenth-century England, both socio-political utopias and dystopias were repeatedly imagined through corporeal images and medical metaphors and narratives. The new iatrochemistry—Paracelsian and subsequently Helmontian medicine—featured especially prominently in this intriguing textual landscape. Focusing on this particular healing paradigm, and drawing on insights from cultural theory of the body and medical history, this intertextual analysis of medical writings, English Civil War playlets, and political treatises by Harrington, Winstanley, Coppe, and Hobbes, seeks to understand better the complex interplay of medical, political, and religious ideas and discourses around the nexus of the body in the turbulent revolutionary years. The findings challenge the notion that there was an ontological relationship between chemical medicine and radical politics in these years of crisis, demonstrating that, on the contrary, political writers drew upon medical ideas and metaphors selectively and often inconsistently in order to lend persuasive authority to their arguments.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/46/1/117?rss=1
Speaking, Thinking, Writing: Meditative Surgery and Intercorporeal Circulation in Henry Duke of Lancaster’s Livre de Seyntz Medicines (1354)
Henry of Lancaster's Livre de Seyntz Medicines is a vividly medicalized penitential narrative composed by a leading lay nobleman of fourteenth-century England. Grounded in the physiology of the medieval heart, Lancaster's understudied Livre demonstrates how medieval medical discourses could act as a vehicle for spiritual and psychophysiological change. Combining cognitive theories that view the heart as the tablet of memory with a physiology of the heart as a breathing organ that creates and circulates spirit, the Livre synthesizes medicine, natural philosophy, and theology into a program for the reform of memory, imagination, and will. As it articulates this process of reform through a series of meditative surgeries, the text adapts sophisticated Latinate clerical discourses for lay use and consciously uses physiological processes to make its program of spiritual self-reform available in physically and spiritually concrete ways to those who read or hear the text.
Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/46/1/33?rss=1