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Juan Goytisolo and the Poetics of Contagion: The Evolution of a Radical Aesthetic in the Later Novels

Juan Goytisolo and the Poetics of Contagion: The Evolution of a Radical Aesthetic in the Later Novels Get access

Stanley Black
Published online: 20 June 2013
Published in print: 01 September 2001
... of the novels and its formal expression, viewing this as the crucial nexus of their meaning. Goytisolo's writing is, in his own words, a ‘commitment of myself … for a transformation of the world.’ This book dissects the nature of the relationship between writer and reader to show how Goytisolo's political...
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‘Independences?’ Get access

Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
in V. Y. Mudimbe: Undisciplined Africanism
Published: 15 December 2013
... its Fanonian/Sartrean and Mudimbian resonances. Part II explores Nganang’s writings and examines the strategy that he adopts to dismiss the historicist dimension of Sartre’s understanding of commitment in favour of negative dialectics, as this notion was developed by Adorno after the Holocaust...
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‘A New Thing that Our Ancestors Never Imagined’ Beginnings (1917–1924) Get access

Naomi Seidman
in Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition
Published: 01 March 2019
... a cohort of educated, mobile, committed, and independent Orthodox young women, giving them unprecedented opportunities to combine religious commitment and socio-economic freedom. These seminarians and young faculty at the Kraków seminary were her closest associates, her travelling companions on her many...
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Oath and Contract Get access

Edwin Carawan
in Horkos: The Oath in Greek Society
Published: 23 January 2008
... to require an oath and contracts that do not. The chapter also discusses what sort of commitment affected by the oath does not apply in contracts without oath. Callistratus Dem 48 49 contract lawcourt court money slave ry Aigeus Euripides Med leases Medea pledge promissory oaths Roman witnesses...
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‘The West or the Rest?’ Get access

Pierre-Philippe Fraiture
in V. Y. Mudimbe: Undisciplined Africanism
Published: 15 December 2013
...This chapter focuses on the development of Mudimbe’s epistemological commitment from his early collections of essays in French,L’Autre Face du royaume and L’Odeur du père, and his third novel, L’Écart(1979), up to the present day...
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The Creed of Social Responsibility Get access

Margaret Simey
in The Disinherited Society: A Personal View of Social Responsibility in Liverpool During the Twentieth Century
Published: 01 February 1996
...This chapter focuses on the development of the creed of social responsibility in Liverpool during the 1920s. It describes the emergence and coming together of moral commitment of the merchant community, the idealism of the young university and the passion of the women's demand for equal citizenship...
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Teaching Leadership through Town Meeting Get access

Jay Dewey
in Jewish Day Schools, Jewish Communities: A Reconsideration
Published: 01 February 2009
...This chapter discusses leadership training in Schechter Regional High School. In 2003, the school opened with the specific aims of developing individual accomplishment, Jewish commitment, and community leadership. Co-heads of school were appointed, one from Jewish education, the other from...