Even though Instagram has been the subject of numerous studies, none of them have systematically investigated its potential as a narrative medium. This article argues that Instagram's narrative ...capabilities are comparable to those of literature and film. To support our claims, we analyze a number of prominent female Instagram creators and demonstrate how they employ the platform's diverse features, functionalities, and interface to create multi-year biographical narratives. Furthermore, we discuss the applicability of theories developed in literary and film studies in analyzing Instagram's narrative capabilities. By employing Bakhtin's influential chronotope concept, we examine in depth how these narratives make specific use of space and time. Additionally, we compare time construction in film and Instagram narratives using the cinema studies' theory of narrative time in movies.
Abstract
According to Aristotle, the present is an indivisible instant, or now. Aristotle holds that present-tense movement claims are sometimes true, but he argues that nothing ‘kineitai’ (moves/is ...moving) in the now. He characterizes movement as something that is ‘incomplete’ while it is occurring. My paper is an attempt to understand this combination of views. I draw a contrast between Aristotle’s position and an alternative view (defended by certain modern philosophers, but also by Plotinus), on which a present-tense movement claim is made true by the existence of something that is wholly present in the now. And I give some reasons for preferring Aristotle’s position.
This study aimed at identifying the training needs of the teachers of social studies in the basic stage in the schools of Al-Mazar Al-Janoubi District during the academic year 2018-2019. In order to ...achieve the study objectives, the quasi approach was used. The study population consisted of 109 male and female teachers from which a sample of 44 male and female teachers were selected. The researcher developed a test that consisted of 30 items in order to identify the needs of the teachers of social studies of the basic stage in the domains of (planning and setting objectives, implementation, evaluation), where the emergent targeted topics for training and learning were determined as a training need; the study instrument’s validity and reliability were verified. The results revealed that there are training needs in the domains of planning, implementation, and evaluation. Based on the results, the study recommended the necessity of conducting training courses for the three domains of planning, implementation, and evaluation due to their considerable educational importance for both teachers and students.
Résume: Héliodore est connu pour sa technique narrative élaborée. Cet effet est dû à l’ekphrasis, une ressource largement employée par les sophistes et recommandée dans les manuels de rhétorique ...(Progymnasmata). Dans le premier bloc de l’œuvre, Héliodore utilise cette ressource, mais pas au hasard. Il y a une image, littéral ou métaphoriquement se répète : le labyrinthe. Notre intention est de démontrer que les répétitions ont un point commun, en plus d’un fort attrait herméneutique. De plus, les labyrinthes sont introduits dans la partie où le récit est habilement écrit in medias res. C’ést précisément dans ce passage que le lecteur, comme dans un labyrinthe, est sinueusement conduit par plusieurs chemins, jusqu’à ce qu’il atteigne la compréhension de la scène d’ouverture, à l’embouchure du Nil. L’analyse des procédures utilisées par Héliodore permet de conclure que la succession de labyrinthes textuels ou imagethiques place le lecteur dans un jeu, dont il ne pourra sortir qu’à la fin du cinquième livre.
Imagery and Possibility Gregory, Dominic
Noûs (Bloomington, Indiana),
December 2020, 2020-12-00, 20201201, Volume:
54, Issue:
4
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
We often ascribe possibility to the scenes that are displayed by mental or nonmental sensory images. The paper presents a novel argument for thinking that we are prima facie justified in ascribing ...metaphysical possibility to what is displayed by suitable visual images, and it argues that many of our imagery‐based ascriptions of metaphysical possibility are therefore prima facie justified. Some potential objections to the arguments are discussed, and some potential extensions of them, to cover nonvisual forms of imagery and nonmetaphysical forms of possibility, are endorsed.
THE ANTI-ROMANTIC Schmitz, Matthew
First things (New York, N.Y.),
10/2020
Journal Article
The reconciled couple enjoys a quiet rapport, more profound by far than the one that existed between the wayward husband and his girlfriend. Rohmer avoided media and used a nom de plume (his real ...name was Maurice Scherer), in part to protect his mother from the knowledge that her son had grown up to be that disreputable thing, a director (incidentally, one of the most celebrated in France). Rohmer once observed that understanding Alfred Hitchcock requires setting aside terms like tracking, framing, and lenses-"the atrocious jargon of film"-and instead using terms such as "soul, God, devil,... redemption, and sin."
To what extent can fiction contribute to analyses in the social sciences? Are narrative techniques compatible with the epistemology of social science disciplines? Does the imaginary shape how we ...understand the world? If so, how? The author attempts to answer these seemingly anachronistic questions about our understanding of the social sciences, where rationalism has prevailed for two centuries. He explains how he came to introduce elements of fiction in some of his work and uses real-life examples to illustrate the pedagogical, analytical, and theoretical issues encountered.
While analogies between Moses and other figures in the Prophets, Writings, and New Testament have received a great deal of attention, no study has systematically explored narrative analogies with ...Moses in the Book of Genesis. This paper posits the presence of narrative analogies between the major figures in Genesis (God, Noah, Abram, Jacob, and Joseph) and Moses. Gaps in the analogous narratives in Genesis, moreover, suggest that a knowledge of the narratives about Moses in Exodus-Deuteronomy is required for the interpretation of Genesis.
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