Myth and Meaning

Lévi‐Strauss, Claude

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“…Binary opposites are a prime structuring element of myths and stories (Levy-Strauss 1962, 1978; they set up a tension that will be heightened and finally resolved in typical tales of events that engage our fantasy and imagination (Egan 1986(Egan , 1988(Egan , 2013Fuchs 2013).…”

Section: Polaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Primary Physical Science for Student Teachers at Kindergarten and Primary School Levels: Part I—Foundations of an Imaginative Approach to Physical Science

Corni

Fuchs

2020

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This is a theoretical paper in which we describe the motivation for and the design of a novel primary physics course for student teachers at kindergarten and primary school levels that uses cognitive tools such as metaphor, analogy, and narrative. The course has been taught in the master's program in teacher education at three Universities over the last 5 years. It is based upon a model of the experience of forces of nature that draws upon four existing frameworks in physics, narratology, cognitive linguistics, and a theory of the development of cognitive tools. In short, the course is created upon the foundations of an imaginative, metaphoric and narrative, approach to physical science in general and to forces of nature in particular. Student teachers who learn science based upon this model can more directly relate to how children themselves experience nature and become confident narrators of stories of forces of nature. We describe the notion of Force of Nature ("The Gestalt of Force of Nature") and explain what we mean by cognitive tools ("Cognitive Tools: Tools of Imagination") before showing in what sense modern macroscopic physics is both metaphoric and narrative at its core ("An Imaginative Approach to Physical Science"). In "A Systemic Imaginative Approach to Primary Physics", we give an outline of what is needed in order to apply the approach to a course for primary physics for student teachers. In the final section, we will discuss some questions and challenges raised by this approach and show that it is a viable avenue to bringing together science and the humanities, both for research and for teaching.

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Section: Polaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Primary Physical Science for Student Teachers at Kindergarten and Primary School Levels: Part I—Foundations of an Imaginative Approach to Physical Science

Corni

Fuchs

2020

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“…As a kind of motto of the novel, Gordimer uses a quote from Claude Levi-Strauss: "I am the place in which something has occurred" (Gordimer, 1979, p. 5). The passage comes from the introduction to Myth and Meaning (Levi-Strauss, 1978), in which the author explains his relationship with writing. Thus it can be understood as another statement of Gordimer indicating freedom of art as an "essential gesture" (versus a politically determined "necessary gesture"; Gordimer, 1988, p. 285).…”

Section: Colloquia Humanisticamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Desire of Nowhere – Nadine Gordimer’s "Burger’s Daughter" in a Transcultural Perspective

Niedziałek

2018

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The Desire of Nowhere – Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter in a Transcultural PerspectiveThe article marks an attempt to read the book Burger’s Daughter by Nadine Gordimer from the transcultural perspective. Gordimer is one of the most famous South African novelists and an active anti-apartheid activist, hence her novels already have a plethora of analysis. However, the use of transcultural perspective would introduce into the existing critical outlook the more general issue of the struggle for freedom from any cultural and societal ties imposed on the individual. Although the local political situation is an important background for Gordimer’s book, the article situates its key issue in a possibility of creating a space of individual freedom, i.e. space situated beyond the cultural and societal entanglements that seem to resemble the transcultural endeavor.Conceptualization and expression of a space of ultimate liberation is a difficult venture, as the main tool of a literary text – language – is culturally bounded. However, transcultural literature, phenomenon just entering into the sight of literary research, displays the creative strategies of undermining the language in literary creation, i.a. the pluralization of narrative voices, the introduction of the unreliable narrator, extensive use of irony, multinational settings of the storyline. This article is an attempt to detect some other literary strategies of creating space beyond words and beyond culture. The analysis underlines how the use of visual strategies help to decenter the narrative voice and to actuate the text into the transcultural movement. It also exposes the importance of first-person narration in the performative process of distancing to oneself – appearing to herself as “a place where things happen”. Finally, the article detects the crucial gestures – moments of increased tension, both visual and deeply personal, that lead beyond the text to the experiences of “life itself”, i.e. blood, agony, and death. Pragnienie nigdzie – Córka Burgera Nadine Gordimer w perspektywie transkulturowejArtykuł zestawia książkę Nadine Gordimer Córka Burgera z „pragnieniem nigdzie” („the desire of nowhere”), odczytanym przez autorkę w perspektywie transkulturowej. Gordimer to jedna z najbardziej rozpoznawanych południowoafrykańskich pisarek i aktywistek anty-apartheidu. Sytuacja polityczna Południowej Afryki jest tym samym ważnym tłem jej książek. Mimo to, kluczowym problemem twórczości autorki wydaje się być bardziej uniwersalne poszukiwanie przestrzeni indywidualnej wolności jednostki. Podjęta przez Gordimer refleksja nad „pragnieniem nigdzie” w swojej istocie przypomina transkulturowe poszukiwania przestrzeni znajdującej się poza kulturą, choć odmiennie rozkłada akcenty. Wyrażenie przestrzeni wolności od kultury w literaturze nie jest łatwe, jako że jej podstawowe narzędzie – język – jest mocno zapośredniczone kulturowo. Dlatego też, literatura transkulturowa posługuje się zestawem kreatywnych strategii podważania języka, e.g. poprzez pluralizację głosów, wprowadzenie narratora niewiarygodnego, intensywne użycie ironii lub międzynarodową lokalizację narracji. Artykuł jest próbą znalezienia innych metod wyrażenie tego, czego nie może oddać język. Prezentowana analiza powieści Gordimer skupia się na użyciu wizualnych strategii, które pomagają zdecentralizować narrację i nadać tekstowi transkulturową dynamikę. Refleksji poddany zostaje także performatywny proces dystansowania się narratora do własnego „ja” – pojawiania się sobie jako „miejsce, gdzie coś się dzieje”. W konsekwencji, artykuł dochodzi do analizy kluczowych „gestów” – momentów intensywnego napięcia narracyjnego, które poprzez wykorzystanie motywów krwi, agonii oraz śmierci, prowadzą czytelnika poza tekst, aż do doświadczenia „samego życia”.

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“…Intact traditional world views tend to be cosmologies—they describe the world as a system in which everything is causally entangled and has a role to play in the dynamics of the whole (Campbell ). Myths tell about aspects of the cosmology, and because they are the result of the brain's imagination, they also express the internal dynamics of the psyche (Levi‐Strauss ; Laughlin and Throop ).…”

Section: Archetypes In Mythmentioning

confidence: 99%

Archetypes: Toward a Jungian Anthropology of Consciousness

Laughlin

Tiberia²

2012

Anthropol of Consciousness

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It is very curious that C.G. Jung has had so little influence upon the anthropology of consciousness. In this paper, the reasons for this oversight are given. The archetypal psychology of Jung is summarized and shown to be more complex and useful than extreme constructivist accounts would acknowledge. Jung's thinking about consciousness fits very well with a modern neuroscience view of the psyche and acts as a corrective to relativist notions of consciousness and its relation to the self.

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Myth and Meaning

Cited by 92 publications

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Primary Physical Science for Student Teachers at Kindergarten and Primary School Levels: Part I—Foundations of an Imaginative Approach to Physical Science

Primary Physical Science for Student Teachers at Kindergarten and Primary School Levels: Part I—Foundations of an Imaginative Approach to Physical Science

The Desire of Nowhere – Nadine Gordimer’s "Burger’s Daughter" in a Transcultural Perspective

Archetypes: Toward a Jungian Anthropology of Consciousness

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