{"title":"Brief Itineraries of MSA Post-Tours","authors":"","doi":"10.5325/mediterraneanstu.28.2.0300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/mediterraneanstu.28.2.0300","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85059,"journal":{"name":"Korea & world affairs","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70867873","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}
{"title":"Neither Algerian, nor French: Albert Camus’s Pied-Noir Identity","authors":"Gina Marie Breen","doi":"10.5325/mediterraneanstu.27.2.0210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/mediterraneanstu.27.2.0210","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Albert Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria, in 1913 to white European settlers of French and Spanish origin. Hence, Camus and his parents belonged to the pied-noir community, a term commonly used to refer to Europeans who settled in Algeria during the French colonial occupation. While Camus chose Algeria as the setting for four of his literary texts, this article focuses on Camus’s first novel, L’Étranger, written during World War II and published in 1942, and his unfinished, posthumous, semiautobiographical novel Le Premier Homme, written during Algeria’s War of Independence and published in 1994, because they both discuss the French Algerian pied-noir community. I argue that this distinction allows them to best convey the evolution of Camus’s pied-noir identity. Through an analysis of these novels, I examine the ambivalence of Camus’s representations of French Algeria. Though his writing has left an ambivalent legacy, I contend that Camus mythologizes the past and present primarily through his piednoir origins. His poverty and loss are consolidated in his negative prognosis for Algeria’s future, a prognosis that is often mistrustful of Algerian independence. Often his pied-noir upbringing and experiences with poverty and marginality put in question the very possibility of an all-inclusive nation, rendering him incapable of imagining a hybrid community of French and Algerians living together. These works convey the complexity of Camus’s identities, and foreground his attempt and ultimate failure to navigate his past and access memories. In the end, these novels offer us a nuanced exploration of pied-noir marginality.","PeriodicalId":85059,"journal":{"name":"Korea & world affairs","volume":"27 1","pages":"210 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45996531","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}
{"title":"Dianoetic Education in Plato’s Republic","authors":"M. Byrd","doi":"10.5325/mediterraneanstu.27.2.0152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/mediterraneanstu.27.2.0152","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In Plato’s Republic, Socrates contrasts dianoetic reasoning to dialectic, his preferred method of inquiry and demonstration. Though dianoetic is unable to yield knowledge, when practiced correctly it may serve as a “prelude” to dialectic. Socrates adopts the dianoetic method in his use of the city/soul analogy to investigate justice and its effects on the soul in Books 2–4 and 8–9. Significantly, conclusions from these arguments have had great influence on interpreters of Plato’s political and moral philosophy in the Republic. Here, I argue that the dianoetic status of Socrates’ investigation has implications for how we should read the dialogue: Socrates’ conclusions should be considered not as stopping points but as road signs in guiding us to the dialectical path. I support this thesis by (1) explaining dianoetic reasoning and contrasting its correct and incorrect use, (2) drawing parallels between the correct use of dianoetic reasoning and Socrates’ use of the city/soul analogy in the Republic, and (3) showing how this dianoetic investigation may serve as a prelude to dialectic for the reader.","PeriodicalId":85059,"journal":{"name":"Korea & world affairs","volume":"27 1","pages":"152 - 181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41454073","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}
{"title":"Sculpting Public Presence in Early Modern Genoa: Overdoor Imagery in the Doria Family Neighborhood","authors":"Rislow","doi":"10.5325/mediterraneanstu.27.2.0124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/mediterraneanstu.27.2.0124","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In fifteenth-century Genoa, the illustrious Doria family sought to augment their neighborhood with at least nine soprapporte, a lintel relief type particular to the Ligurian region. Adorned with Genoese and Doria patron saints and framed by the family’s coats of arms, these overdoor sculptures acted as both protective devices and also as promotional place markers visible to the frequent processions and celebrations along the public streets and piazza they faced. This essay posits that the Doria used soprapporte to not only endorse a unified Genoa but also to advance their individual family agenda on an international stage.","PeriodicalId":85059,"journal":{"name":"Korea & world affairs","volume":"27 1","pages":"124 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44512914","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}
{"title":"Muslim Poets under a Christian King: An Intertextual Reevaluation of Sicilian Arabic Literature under Roger II (1112–54) (Part I)","authors":"N. Miller","doi":"10.5325/mediterraneanstu.27.2.0182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/mediterraneanstu.27.2.0182","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Throughout the twelfth century, a number of Arabic-speaking Muslims produced poetry in the court of the Normans of Sicily. This article examines literary figures active under Roger II in the context of their interlocutors, professional colleagues, and other contemporaries around the western Mediterranean and North Africa. It argues that, in this context, most of the Sicilian Arab literary figures were only secondarily poets, their primary role being within a chancery or other administrative milieu, and that they continued to assert an undiminished Islamic identity, although living under Christian rule. This identity is mirrored in the intertextual play on topoi (maʿānī) found in Sicilian Arabic poetry, which was heavily engaged with cultural activity around the Mediterranean.","PeriodicalId":85059,"journal":{"name":"Korea & world affairs","volume":"27 1","pages":"182 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47362058","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}
{"title":"Normanitas and Memorial Traditions in the Apulian Architecture of Emperor Frederick II","authors":"Jane-Heloise Nancarrow","doi":"10.5325/MEDITERRANEANSTU.27.1.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/MEDITERRANEANSTU.27.1.0036","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:From 1225 to 1250, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, built or renovated at least seventy defensive structures in the southern Italian province of Apulia. These buildings blended Roman, Islamic, or Byzantine elements with newer Gothic architecture; however, many of these architectural traits had already been adapted by the Norman lords of southern Italy in the preceding two centuries. Thus we must consider Frederick's originality in light of this less studied trend in the existing Romanesque canon. Frederick's replication of Norman architectural practices was based on the fact that they previously been used as a tool of empire, and it echoes his reuse of Roman remains. This article considers several aspects of Frederick's architectural program, including topographical layout and geographical positioning, his appropriation of Roman and Norman remains, and his adoption of classical and Norman artistic and engineering practices as nuanced processes of architectural spoliation and innovation.","PeriodicalId":85059,"journal":{"name":"Korea & world affairs","volume":"27 1","pages":"36 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41452421","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}
{"title":"The Theory and Practice of War and Government Practiced by King Pere III \"the Ceremonious\" of Aragon (1336–87)","authors":"D. Kagay","doi":"10.5325/MEDITERRANEANSTU.27.1.0063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/MEDITERRANEANSTU.27.1.0063","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article focuses on the development of war theory during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and how it affected the practical ruling philosophy of one Iberian king—Pere III of Aragon (r. 1336–87). Though familiar with the many warfare manuals of his era, Pere was directly influenced by the religious work of his uncle, Prince Pere d'Aragó (1305–81) and the chivalric autobiography of his great-great grandfather, Jaume I (r. 1214–76). King Pere III used these works to better understand war and to try to improve his own performance as both king and commander, both of which avocations he thought and wrote about in great detail.","PeriodicalId":85059,"journal":{"name":"Korea & world affairs","volume":"27 1","pages":"63 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43353798","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}
{"title":"Weaving a Map of \"Global\" Empire: The Second-Century BCE Origins of Mediterraneanism","authors":"S. Davies","doi":"10.5325/MEDITERRANEANSTU.27.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/MEDITERRANEANSTU.27.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The debated term \"Mediterranean\" has been variously understood as a modern construct, a \"politics of knowledge,\" and/or a zone of community or conflict. This article argues that such polyvalence can be traced back to the second century BCE. During this period, and in Polybius' Histories, a teleological understanding of world power was evolving, one that labeled Rome as an inevitably superior focal point of a Mediterranean-centered \"oikoumenē.\" Geographic determinism combined with a language of cultural capital to weave a new map of the \"inhabited world,\" according to which \"global\" time and space unified along the spine of an \"Our Sea.\"","PeriodicalId":85059,"journal":{"name":"Korea & world affairs","volume":"27 1","pages":"1 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44607514","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}