Narrative CulturePub Date : 2020-08-12DOI: 10.13110/narrcult.7.2.0216
A. Reynders
{"title":"How Lonely Are Women in Van den VII Vroeden van binnen Rome? An Analysis of the Resources and Networks of the Female (and Male) Characters in a Middle Dutch Version of the Seven Sages of Rome","authors":"A. Reynders","doi":"10.13110/narrcult.7.2.0216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/narrcult.7.2.0216","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Although the Middle Dutch Van den VII Vroeden van binnen Rome is generally believed to be a faithful translation of the Old French prose version Les Sept Sages de Rome, the anonymous Middle Dutch translator made some intriguing changes to the end of the tale. At the very moment when the empress is being judged, he added a sequence of nearly 40 verses. This sequence acknowledges explicitly that the presence (or absence) of reliable social networks constitutes a determining factor when it comes to exerting power or even simply enhancing one's chances of survival. The rewritten judgment scene puts the whole tale in a diffferent light and has a strong bearing on its ultimate persuasive force. Rather than a faithful translation, VII Vroeden turns out to be an adaptation in which the harsh and essentialist misogyny of the French source is attenuated.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"7 1","pages":"216 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48729115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Narrative CulturePub Date : 2020-08-12DOI: 10.13110/narrcult.7.2.0181
Nicole Kunkel
{"title":"Misogyny, Wisdom, and Legal Practice: On Narrative Flexibility across Different Versions of the Seven Sages of Rome","authors":"Nicole Kunkel","doi":"10.13110/narrcult.7.2.0181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/narrcult.7.2.0181","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:By comparing several French (K, A, D), Latin (Historia septem sapientum, Allegatio septem sapientum), and German (Historij von Diocleciano, Bämler print) versions of the Seven Sages of Rome, this article aims at developing a better understanding of the modular flexibility that is characteristic of this late medieval narrative tradition. It examines small variations across the texts in regard to the Seven Sages' proclaimed misogyny, its didactic character, and questions of legal practice. A comparison shows how small variations in the narrative motivation of events can have a signifijicant impact on the linkage of narrative events within a given version without changing the basic plot and structure of the Seven Sages.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"7 1","pages":"181 - 197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43707543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Narrative CulturePub Date : 2020-08-12DOI: 10.13110/narrcult.7.2.0124
Bea Lundt
{"title":"The Seven Wise Masters as a Resource for Studying Historical Diversity: Comparing Latin and Early German Versions with Texts from the Eastern Tradition from a Postcolonial Studies Perspective","authors":"Bea Lundt","doi":"10.13110/narrcult.7.2.0124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/narrcult.7.2.0124","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Variants of The Seven Sages cycle of tales have circulated through centuries and across three continents. During its dissemination, the narrative has undergone numerous alterations and reinterpretations, particularly when seen through the lens of religion, gender politics, and \"East\" vs. \"West.\" Developments in the areas of postcolonial and gender studies open up new ways of reading and interpreting these variants, allowing for a more fluid and multifaceted view and refusing the dominant understanding as misogynist. This in turn reflects the mores of the societies in which these variants were created and received.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"7 1","pages":"124 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47573512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Narrative CulturePub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.13110/narrcult.7.1.0001
D. A. El-Mouallem
{"title":"The Miraculous Infant Imām: Nativity and Childhood of al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī","authors":"D. A. El-Mouallem","doi":"10.13110/narrcult.7.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/narrcult.7.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the similarities between Fāṭima (d. 11/632) and Mary with a view to compare al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī (d. 61/680) and Jesus to contextualize al-Ḥusayn’s broader infancy and childhood miracles in imāmī Shīʿism. I focus on the infant and child al-Ḥusayn as a miraculous fijigure, outlining two trends in the miracles associated with him: al-Ḥusayn as puer senex and al-Ḥusayn as puer aeternus. Although al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī (d. 50/670) shares some of these miracles with his brother, they sometimes reflect a certain slant in favor of al-Ḥusayn. Other miracles are exclusive to al-Ḥusayn, namely, his miracles with various errant angels who sinned and were forgiven for his sake. I will examine these latter miracles in detail in part II of this essay after having established al-Ḥusayn as a miraculous fijigure and contextualized the miraculous in relation to him.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"7 1","pages":"1 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49315884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Narrative CulturePub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.13110/narrcult.7.1.0098
Diane Tye, Pauline Greenhill
{"title":"Foodways as Transformation in “Peg Bearskin”: The Magical and the Realistic in an Oral Tale","authors":"Diane Tye, Pauline Greenhill","doi":"10.13110/narrcult.7.1.0098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/narrcult.7.1.0098","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Foodways link the realistic and the magical in three versions of the traditional folktale “Peg Bearskin” (ATU 711 + ATU 328 + ATU 327B). We consider how this narrative, firmly rooted in domestic experience, with a female central character, speaks ethnographically about the lives of two Newfoundland tellers—Elizabeth Brewer and Pius Power—and their audiences. We argue that food not only marks moments of narrative significance but conveys subtexts that speak of important individual and community issues like family violence.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"7 1","pages":"118 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43856149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Narrative CulturePub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.13110/narrcult.7.1.0024
Hagar Salamon, R. Bendix
{"title":"Remembering June 1967: The Rhetoric of Sincerity in a Twice-Told Story","authors":"Hagar Salamon, R. Bendix","doi":"10.13110/narrcult.7.1.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/narrcult.7.1.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:As an interviewee in a research project on the remembrance of the 1967 war, Ali, a resident and service provider of Jerusalem’s Old City, shared exceptionally vibrant stories in Hebrew with an Israeli interviewer. Later, a Palestinian interviewer interviewed Ali about the same events in his native Arabic. Leading up to a presentation of a number of Ali’s stories told in these interviews, the article examines the conditions of interviewing within and across conflict lines and the capacity of the narrating space created in dialogue to offer conditions of truth. The parallel analysis of the two interviews and a selection of stories contained therein examines Ali’s rhetoric of sincerity. It allowed for different points of emphasis with each interviewer while maintaining Ali’s sense of inner truth.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"7 1","pages":"24 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49497264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Narrative CulturePub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.13110/narrcult.7.1.0060
D. Lande
{"title":"Narrative Intersections in an Author Museum: The Olive Schreiner House","authors":"D. Lande","doi":"10.13110/narrcult.7.1.0060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/narrcult.7.1.0060","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Olive Schreiner House in Cradock, South Africa, is an author museum that explores the contributions of an important writer, activist, and early feminist by facilitating new narratives. In the meeting of Schreiner’s texts and contemporary narratives of South African cultural history, this author museum writes a new discourse between literature and society, historic past and democratic present. These intersections result in a narrative project using a historic literary figure to emphasize the young South African democracy in which the museum is situated.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"7 1","pages":"60 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41644259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Narrative CulturePub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.13110/narrcult.7.1.0079
D. B. Phillips, Diane Tye, Pauline Greenhill, D. A. El-Mouallem, Hagar Salamon, R. Bendix, Dana Ryan Lande
{"title":"Recipes for Reading Recipes? Culinary Writing and the Stakes of Multiethnic Pseudonarrative","authors":"D. B. Phillips, Diane Tye, Pauline Greenhill, D. A. El-Mouallem, Hagar Salamon, R. Bendix, Dana Ryan Lande","doi":"10.13110/narrcult.7.1.0079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/narrcult.7.1.0079","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article analyzes the contradictory positions assumed by cultural critics who consider recipes a form of narrative, resolving that recipes function as pseudonarratives on which critics can graft any cultural narrative they wish. The article uses unnatural narratology to address how recipes deconstruct the naturalness of narrative and their importance as a tool to grant literacy to groups denied it.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"7 1","pages":"1 - 118 - 23 - 24 - 59 - 60 - 78 - 79 - 97 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41599608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Narrative CulturePub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.13110/NARRCULT.6.1.0088
Frank Gadinger, Christopher Smith Ochoa, Taylan Yildiz
{"title":"Resistance or Thuggery? Political Narratives of Urban Riots","authors":"Frank Gadinger, Christopher Smith Ochoa, Taylan Yildiz","doi":"10.13110/NARRCULT.6.1.0088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/NARRCULT.6.1.0088","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Political scientists have discovered that most political categories (political authority, democratic legitimacy, identity building) are closely linked with the concept of narrative. We demonstrate the relevance of narrative analysis in politics by analyzing two cases of urban riots (Paris 2005, Baltimore 2015). We propose a micro-oriented perspective focusing on people’s everyday life experiences and cultural practices of storytelling. The analysis dissects state narratives, which discredit protests through the language of criminality. Our case examples show that sudden violence in urban riots is often a desperate expression of marginalized voices articulating moral claims of justice, particularly concerning everyday racism.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"111 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44865399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Narrative CulturePub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.13110/NARRCULT.6.2.0161
J. Rudy
{"title":"Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella: Agency and Possibility amidst Conflict and Wonder","authors":"J. Rudy","doi":"10.13110/NARRCULT.6.2.0161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/NARRCULT.6.2.0161","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:By briefly considering the televised iterations of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammer-stein's Cinderella (as broadcast in 1957, 1965, and 1997) and analyzing the \"Impossible/It's Possible\" song, this essay investigates social conflict over several decades as signaled by what changes with the story and its production–reception circuit. These adaptations key on the power of possibility and therefore signal ways that agency, as the ability to act otherwise, may be bolstered in the face of cultural conflicts that constrain everyday social and individual experiences.","PeriodicalId":40483,"journal":{"name":"Narrative Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"161 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44008804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}