2009, ISBN: 9780195685985

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Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore / London, n.d.(>2001). XX,201p. Paperback. 'Lowell Edmunds has written a book that provides what is expected and appreciated in a theoretical study: the scholarship is extensive and well organized into arguments which are themselves descriptive, provocative, challenging, and supported by a close reading of a variety of selections from Catullus, Horace, Vergil, and Ovid. In the first five chapters, Edmunds discusses various components of poetry - text, poet, reader, persona, addressee. In each, Edmunds discredits textual elements that appear to offer an unchanging, verifiable phenomenon upon which to base and judge intertextual studies. (...) It is in the reader, in hermeneutics, that the text is salvaged from indeterminacy, the reader, that is, who treats the poem as an aesthetic creation with its own (however the reader interprets it) individuality. Already in challenging the boundaries of the text itself and restoring them through a readership, Edmunds has laid the groundwork for the reader-based approach to intertextuality, given full treatment in chapter eight. (...) Edmunds develops his own reader-based theory of intertextuality. To summarize, an allusion is a text's (T1) quotation (Q1) of the words (Q2) of another text (T2), one which gives a new context (C1) to the context of the quoted text (C2). C2 is evoked in one of three ways: 1) through an expanded context in the quoting text; 2) through a continuously assumed context of the quoted text like the context of Homer's epics in the Aeneid; or 3) through parody in which the text 'repeats or closely follows' another text (140). Edmunds also explores the process of Bakhtin's theory of dialogization when a text alludes to the language of a system, 'verbal categories, literary and nonliterary, larger than single texts' (p. 143). Systems briefly explored are words from Roman law, social institutions, and business, as well as myth and genre. In allusions there is an inherent uncertainty as to whether the poetic meaning of the non poetic/mythic/generic words supplants, succumbs to, or integrates the meanings of the system words. As each meaning asserts itself, the text creates a dialogue in which 'neither side has the last word' (p. 145). Thus, intertextuality presupposes a degree of undecidability that cannot be resolved through inherent intertextual signs or markers, primarily because even if such signs exist, their existence depends on whether a reader recognizes them or not. Edmunds' major accomplishment is the systematic way in which he presents and integrates or rejects various linguistic theories in setting forth his own theory of intertextuality, filling a lacuna in the field of intertextual studies without being verbose even when confronting abstruse concepts. (...) The readings offered in Edmunds book are notable for their accuracy, thoroughness, and creativity, (...) What Edmunds proves is that all critical interpretation of intertextuality is reader-based, an admission that many of the best interpreters refuse to make. We require a locus or at least a boundary; we fear uncertainty as much as solipsism. Edmunds shows that many of these boundaries are ambiguous, and all are subject to the particular reading of the interpreter. But critical chaos is avoided because the 'interpretive community ultimately decides on validity, and classics is that community for the study of intertextuality in Roman poetry' (p.168).' (DAVID J. KUYAT in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.08.37)., 0, APH Publishing Corporation, 2009. Hardcover. New. The present volume is on social Justice and human rights. It unequivocally asserts that social justice is an inseparable component of human rights of Women in India and without it human rights would be empty and meaningless. Equality in basic liberties, equality of opportunity for advancement and Positive Discrimination in favour of women ensure social justice and human rights. Human rights of a Woman means her liberation from the traditional oppressive Bonds and discrimination, improvement in the concept of self and she in relation to the Environment and the people around her. It means a matter of provision of social justice in relation to resources, organization, socio-economic and Political opportunities of a woman. In her milieu, human rights expect a change in the Perception and the value characteristics of Indian culture. The rural, tribal and slum women, during the Freedom Movement, joined Hands with Mahatma Gandhi to fight against colonialism and feudalism. But the independent India not only ignored them completely, but also exploited them by refusing to Honour their dignity and rights. A Democracy that fails to take the Poor and oppressed women as an important constituent of the nation building endeavour is Gender insensitive. So, human rights of women require continuing understanding of women`s needs in different situations and dimension. In this context, development of women expects the articulation of social justice and promotion of human rights. The present volume is highly provocative and illuminating. It contains come of the clearest analyses on social justice to women and their human rights. It is a significant work and makes serious contributions to Law, Human Rights, Social Welfare, Social Work, Sociology, Participatory Research and Public Administration. Academics, researchers, Legal pundits, activist, social thinkers and social workers find this volume constructive and inspiring. Printed Pages: 416., APH Publishing Corporation, 2009, 6, Oxford Univ Pr, October 2002. Hardcover. New. Canadian historian Dowbiggin succeeds admirably in setting today's debate over physician-assisted suicide and the 'right to die' in the context of major intellectual and political trends of the twentieth century. Before World War I, the idea of euthanasia attracted progressive thinkers seeking to apply Darwinian science to social problems and moral issues once considered religion's domain. Theodore Roosevelt, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Helen Keller, and feminists such as Margaret Sanger (who equated 'death control' with birth control as essential to individual liberty) were among its prominent backers. Drawing on the movement's archives, the author traces the rise of the Euthanasia Society of America with its disquieting affinity for eugenics, its post-war transformation into the Society for the Right to Die, and its modern manifestations in Jack Kevorkian, Oregon's suicide initiative, and grassroots fears that medical advances will deprive Americans of death with dignity and force us to share the fates of Karen Quinlan and Nancy Cruzan. Although Dowbiggin concludes that acceptance of euthanasia has declined since its peak in the 1990s, he never oversimplifies the issues at stake. The compelling stories in this book anchor euthanasia to the heart of our modern cultural divide, which pits boundless individualism against meaningful community, asserts the need to free sex and death from unhealthy taboos even as the social fabric unravels - and leaves unanswered the great question of what it means to be human apart from religion and the divine. 249 pp., Oxford Univ Pr, 6, Oxford University Press, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. New. 14 x 21 cm. Contemporary dynamics and processes of globalization have facilitated the spatial movement of communities, such as the Sikhs, that are no longer territorially limited to a certain area. This has given rise to an urgent need to revise both conventional notions and theoretical understandings to accommodate the new deterritorialized concept of ‘culture’. Sikhs at Large brings together different perspectives on the cultural and political dimensions of Sikh subject-making as a typical transnational community and of Sikhism as a global religion. It explores Sikh ethnosociology or the ways in which Sikhs understand and engage with their social worlds. How they respond to the political settings in which they live their lives and the cultural assertions and political stratagems they employ in the process of reterritorializing themselves across the globe has also been discussed. Based on ethnographic and textual research this volume provides a comprehensive framework for looking at Sikh discourse and practices. It reflects upon issues of Sikh identity and self-representation, analysing the ways and contexts in which Sikh religion, culture, and politics are actively produced and reproduced in multiple sites around the world. It also examines the intersection of multiculturalism and transnationalism, highlighting the ways in which diasporan Sikhs have experienced and dealt with nation-state ideologies, policies and practices of religious and ethnic management, as well as the shared perceptions of themselves by others in their countries of residence. Questioning the unreflective use of the term ‘diaspora’, this volume invites consideration of the multiple sources and alternative narratives of Sikh identity. Printed Pages: 296., Oxford University Press, 2007, 6<

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