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Ethnographies of Paper in Early Modern England 近代早期英国的纸人种志

IF 0.2 4区文学

CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-07-27 DOI: 10.1111/criq.70005

Helen Smith

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Introduction: Paper and Poetry – Interventions in Theory and Practice 导论：论文与诗歌——理论与实践的介入

IF 0.2 4区文学

CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1111/criq.70001

Georgina Wilson, Orietta Da Rold

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A Paper Chase: Call a Group of Foxes 纸上追逐：召集一群狐狸

IF 0.2 4区文学

CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1111/criq.70002

Charmaine Cadeau

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Conducting Liquids in Pursuit of Romance: Reading Ed Ruscha's Stains 传导液体追求浪漫：阅读埃德·拉斯查的《污渍》

IF 0.2 4区文学

CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1111/criq.70003

Annabelle Hondier

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Experience 经验

IF 0.2 4区文学

CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-06-03 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12825

Peter Womack

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From Messianic Subjectivity to Immaculate Objectivity: An Etymology 从弥赛亚的主体性到完美的客观性：一个词源学

IF 0.2 4区文学

CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12821

Nick Groom

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Objectivity and the Historian: Beyond the Fried Egg Test 客观性与历史学家：超越煎蛋测试

IF 0.2 4区文学

CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12824

David Stack

{"title":"Objectivity and the Historian: Beyond the Fried Egg Test","authors":"David Stack","doi":"10.1111/criq.12824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12824","url":null,"abstract":"Is objectivity bad for a historian? I am asking for a friend. Whereas once objectivity might have been considered the historian's superpower—an enviable ability to rise above the fray and see all sides of the mountain (more on this mountain later)—it now seems that it might be a malady. The postmodernists, of course, have long diagnosed objectivity as a self-serving delusion or sleight of hand with which we bolster ourselves and seduce our readers.1 But could it be worse than that? In an age where employees are urged to ‘Speak Your Truth’, and the Harvard Business Review advises us to bring ‘our whole, authentic self to work’, is the suppression of self that objectivity might be thought to entail the reason why so many of my colleagues seem unhappy?2 Are we engaged in a collective act of ascetic self-harm in which our individual perspectives are sacrificed in pursuit of a chimaera?The trouble, if trouble it is, is usually traced to Leopold von Ranke, the so-called ‘father’ of modern historical scholarship.3 The ambition he set in the preface to his History of the Latin and Teutonic Peoples (1824), to empirically establish ‘as things really were’ (‘wie es eigentlich gewesen’), through a wide-ranging examination of primary source materials, has provided the profession with its enduring rationale. On one hand, it was a claim of demurring modesty: Ranke was not interested in ‘judging the past’, and he eschewed the 18th-century ambition—epitomised in Voltaire—of learning ‘lessons’ from history.4 On the other, it was a vaulting ambition, which demanded historians ‘extinguish’ their own personality in order to ‘immerse themselves in the epoch and assess it in a manner appropriate for that time’.5It is tempting to say that the objective of being objective haunted historians thereafter, but it is more accurate to say that an aspiration for, and a sense of justification in, the notion of objectivity was imbibed and internalised but less frequently theorised by the profession. It was no doubt comforting to think of one's trade as an empirical science (the translation of Ranke's Wissenschaft did a lot of heavy lifting in the Anglophone world), and most historians assumed that they were, or ought to be, objective, but it would be a mistake to assume that historians ever held to a clear, consistent view of what that actually meant.6 The major theme of Peter Novick's That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical Profession (1988) was the fragility of the profession's foundational conviction.7 The ‘noble dream’ in his title derived from a 1935 Charles Beard jeremiad that concluded: ‘The formula of Ranke and its extension as Historicism do not and have never formed the official creed of the [American Historical] Association’.8 Four years earlier, in 1931, Carl L. Becker had summed up what he saw as the ine","PeriodicalId":44341,"journal":{"name":"CRITICAL QUARTERLY","volume":"67 2","pages":"63-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/criq.12824","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145272761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Objectivity in the Age of Story 故事时代的客观性

IF 0.2 4区文学

CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12820

Jenny McCartney

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Failing Better: Inauthenticity, Collusion and the Politics of Truth 《做得更好：不真实、共谋和真相政治》

IF 0.2 4区文学

CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12819

Kathy Smith

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Sri Lanka 斯里兰卡

IF 0.2 4区文学

CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12802

Angelique Richardson

{"title":"Sri Lanka","authors":"Angelique Richardson","doi":"10.1111/criq.12802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12802","url":null,"abstract":"In the river that runs beneath Kallady Bridge, Batticaloa, on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka, there are singing fish. They are known as Oorie Coolooroo Cradoo, which is Tamil for ‘crying shells’. Their song is said to have stopped during the civil war between the Tamils and the Sinhalese that broke out in 1983 and endured for 26 long years. Now, it is diminished by the effects of overfishing, pollution and climate breakdown. But for centuries, this underwater song caught the attention of fishermen and passersby who listened.Minoli Salgado's collection of stories, Twelve Cries from Home: In Search of Sri Lanka's Disappeared, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, is shocking, powerful and courageous. It is work that follows a war. The first record of civilian testimonies on the civil war from across this beautiful island, it documents extraordinary violence from the perspective of ordinary people who are both victims and survivors. They have seen torture, bombing, shelling and extrajudicial killings. Colonialism has long dictated the lives of Sri Lankans, with its aftermath still brutally felt. Tens of thousands of young people were killed, lost or ‘disappeared’. Gendered violence was part of the war, and women were brutally raped. Bearing witness to atrocity, it is not possible for Salgado to give answers.As the survivors seek to tell their stories, to piece together what parts of the past they can, their agency is restored. Dahanayake (she gives her family name only) lost her youngest brother, Bandula, to abductors while waiting at Matara bus station. She searched for him for 10 years. He was ‘the beating heart’ of the family, ‘a scamp’, ‘a mentor’, who was, most movingly, ‘above difference’. Salgado provides a record of what happens when political divisions become entrenched, differences intensified, and the possibilities of peace eroded. For some of the survivors, justice is a need to strike at those who have harmed them, but forms of forgiveness are emerging. For many, it is a time to move and to heal. Sujatha keeps focused on her husband's love and a courtship that began with a bicycle bell. In some cases, through a deep humanism, time builds bonds between a perpetrator and a survivor's family. Asking Dahanayake if she has a message for those outside Sri Lanka, Salgado realises her story is about the most basic of human rights, the right to security, the right to life.Following the preferential treatment of Tamils under colonial rule, the Sinhala Only Act of 1956 marginalised the Tamil community in all areas of civic life from employment to higher education. Universal adult franchise had been extended, in theory, to all Sri Lankans in 1931 under the Donoughmore Constitution. While this was an unprecedented development under colonial rule in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, with the commissioners appointed by the socialist Sidney Webb, Secretary of State for the Colonies in the Lib-Lab coalition government of 1927, ther","PeriodicalId":44341,"journal":{"name":"CRITICAL QUARTERLY","volume":"67 2","pages":"107-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/criq.12802","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145271767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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