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Attempts have been taken here to unveil the versatile virtuosity and artistry of Manoj Das especially in his literary attempts which walk with an incredible alliance with philosophy underneath the literary vesture. Apart from philosophical facet another significant dimension of his literature is 'psychology', which has well been analyzed here in this article. His c onsciousness about history, psychology and philosophy makes his literature more special. Special care has been taken in order to unveil his art of arresting the attention of readers while reading his text and afterward. Manoj Das' literature is more refined and alert due to his second persona. It has been demonstrated here with some concrete proofs. He is simply a magician in telling tales. He discovers diamond in dust, life in lifeless and cultural consciousness in the thalli of inorganic and organic objects. Another major aspect of his literary approach is the psychological dimension which covers the psychology of the involved character as well as of the readers. In short, his writings have that much potency to arrest the attention of the readers of his story. Another thing with regard to this phenomenon is his ability to convince and kidnap the readers' mind magically with his literary style and approach. Shri Das is culturally, socially, aesthetically, politically, philosophically, psychologically, historically and above all from the humanitarian viewpoint a conspicuously conscious story teller of the time. Dr. Santosh Kumar Nayak "Manoj Das: An Incredible Bridge between Literature and Philosophy" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-4 , June 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd23866.pdf

Learner's lives, a narrative impulse, establishes the importance of stories, provides an illustrative example of the analysis of an adult learner's story. The paper provides a step-by-step account of how a researcher conducted a narrative analysis and developed an organizational structure useful for other researchers.

Western social analysis with its narratives of development as universal evolution and the notion of "actor" as something theoretically grounded in the individual is unable to explain new dynamics in the contemporary world. This article considers as an alternative Norbert Elias' figurational sociology approach because Elias' methodology gives due attention to local contexts without neglecting either systematic examination or comparability. Adapted from the source document.

"Doing Cultural History" collects papers on a variety of topics. The issues addressed span from the 12th to the 21st century and include the communication of peace in written and pictorial sources, narrative structures in legal texts, masculinity and violence, and new research into Scottish medieval history as well as a comparison of religious theme parks and the perception of sorcery and false saintliness in early modern Spain.

This thesis explores the boundaries between the concepts of utopia and dystopia by analyzing how recent texts view the pillars of dystopian literature. Specifically, it investigates the discrepancy between the stance of Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business and Don DeLillo in White Noise in situating the visions of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley within the context of the new media age. In Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Neil Postman draws a dichotomy between the prophecies of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. He claims that Orwell's vision of the future which he presents in 1984, an existence marked by authoritarian government control exercised through restricted access to information, has proven to be invalid in the age of new media. Postman also claims that a more accurate vision of the future was provided by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. In this thesis I argue that White Noise, in fact, favors the Orwellian perspective. As opposed to Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, White Noise does not perceive the limitations of the form, or the innate human appetite for amusement for that matter, to be causes for the omnipresent tragic outcome of media consumption that we witness today, rather, it distinguishes them as tools utilized for creating and directing this outcome. Although there are major differences between the causes of compliance constituting authoritarianism in 1984 and in Brave New World (external and internal) and the ways in which authoritarianism is executed (through deprivation or overabundance), there are still undeniable traces of the existence of a general base/superstructure power dynamic that is heightened through mass media technology and that manifests itself through the content of the newer forms. This analysis of the power of the newer form in maintaining the status quo illuminates the psychological conditioning exercised through them. This reveals the dynamics of our current consumerist utopia and, thereby, raises infinite questions on the conceptual essence of both utopia and dystopia and the nature of their borders.

Mit einer Methodenkombination aus biografisch-narrativen Interviews mit Menschen aus Schleswig-Holstein, die ihr Leben mit wenig Geld bestreiten müssen oder mussten, sowie Gruppendiskussionen wird der Blick auf subjektive Deutungen und Bewältigungsformen der eigenen Lebenslagen gelenkt. So findet sich in den Biografien von Menschen in Armutslagen neben idealtypischen Mustern eine Vielfalt an unterschiedlichen Geschichten, Erfahrungen, Deutungen und eigensinnigen Umgangsweisen von und mit Armut - eine Perspektive der Betroffenen, die in der Armutsforschung bislang zu wenig beachtet wurde. Dabei greift der Bericht u.a. die Fragen auf: Welche typischen biografischen Verläufe finden sich in den Interviews? Welche Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zeigen sich in den Erfahrungen und Deutungen von Armut in unterschiedlichen Teilbereichen der Lebensgestaltung? Welche typischen Strategien zeigen sich bei der Bewältigung der Situation? Was bedeutet das für die biografischen Verläufe der Befragten?

This dissertation examines motion as a literary trope in several late medieval English texts. The types of movement examined here fall into three categories: physical motion recurring in narrative, mobility of textual form that produces the phenomenon of motion in the reader or listener, and the variety of movements external to the narrative but related to the text. Each chapter is organized around an individual author or genre, and Chapter One explores two of Geoffrey Chaucer's early dream vision poems: The House of Fame and The Parliament of the Fowls . Attention to Chaucer's engagement with motion as a concept of natural philosophy and as a desirable state of being reveals connections between his writing and the physics of William of Ockham, and suggests the centrality of fragmentary and complex movement to Chaucer's own poetics. Chapter Two turns to William Langland's Piers Plowman , analyzing its mobile, convoluted, and jarring form, the compulsive nature of its narrative motion, and the poem's involvement in extra-narrative movements--including those that were subversive and revolutionary. Chapter Three examines movement as it appears in several fourteenth-century metrical romances, primarily surrounding the tropes of the quest and the forest. Finally, Chapter Four analyzes movement in Sir Thomas Malory's fifteenth-century Morte Darthur with a focus on simple narrations of travel, the aesthetics of the motion of battle and journeying, the way this text looks back to earlier romances in relation to this subject, and how it uses motion outside of the primary narrative frame to expand the vision of a randomized, always-moving Arthurian world. The organizing contention running through these chapters is that each text studied here employs motion as a central preoccupation, that the complexity and importance given to the trope in these works relates to the philosophical and scientific context of fourteenth-century England, and that these representations and embodiments of motion tend to have similar features: complexity, fragmentation, randomization, and a form that produces the phenomena of acceleration and jarring transitions. Finally, movement is presented as an impulse: a primary state of existence independent of any defined direction or destination.

"With the concept of a 'master narrative', the cultural turn prodded contemporary historians to become more self-reflexive about their contribution to larger interpretations. Taking a critical look at the dominant explanations of the German past, this essay argues that the national narrative failed with the atrocities of World War Two, while the communist story was discredited by the overthrow of the SED-regime. But West German Gesellschaftsgeschichte also appeared increasingly outdated, since it was reluctant to admit new impulses like everyday history. However, the rising pretenders to grand narrative status were only partially successful, since the Holocaust fixation could not explain post-war recivilization, gender history provided only a partial view, Europeanization tended to legitimize the EU and global history was too encompassing to explain the German past. Instead of narrowing into another master narrative, the new plurality should be seen as an opportunity for a multi-vocal approach to the past, that ought to analyze how of multiple stories are entangled." (author's abstract)

1. Exploration: Kinder und jüngere Jugendliche im Jugendhaus -- 1.1. Das Phänomen -- 1.2. Untersuchungen und Praxistheorien -- 1.3. Erster explorativer Zugang -- 1.4. Von der Erfahrungsebene zur Hypothese -- 2. Theoretischer Bezugsrahmen -- 2.1. Jugendsoziologische Ansätze -- 2.2. Das Aneignungskonzept von Leontjew -- 3. Das Aneignungskonzept in der Lebenswelt von Kindern und Jugendlichen heute -- 3.1. Aneignung und gesellschaftlich-räumliche Umwelt -- 3.2. Die Verbindung des Aneignungsbegriffes mit sozial-ökologischen Ansätzen -- 4. Operationalisierung: Aneignung findet in Situationen statt -- 4.1. Situation als Möglichkeitsbereich -- 4.2. Operationale Dimensionen -- 4.3. Narrative Interviews als Methode zur Rekonstruktion von Situationen -- 5. Aneignung als Erweiterung motorischer Fähigkeiten -- 5.1. Werkzeuge, Gegenstände, Tätigkeiten -- 5.2. Vollzogene Aneignung -- 5.3. Sachliche und personale Gegenstandsbedeutung -- 5.4. Die Rolle der Mitarbeiter -- 6. Aneignung als Erweiterung des Handlungsraumes -- 6.1. Situation und Raum -- 6.2. Räumliche Aneignung im Jugendhaus -- 6.3. Vom Jugendhaus in den Stadtteil -- 6.4. Exkurs: Räumliche Aneignung und konkrete Umwelt -- 6.5. Räume der ökologischen Peripherie -- 6.6. Die Rolle der Mitarbeiter -- 7. Kinder und Jugendliche bauen ihr Verhalten auf Situationen auf -- 7.1. Situationsverkettung über Themen -- 7.2. Situationen werden über Erwartungen verknüpft -- 7.3. Die Rolle der Mitarbeiter -- 8. Kinder und Jugendliche verändern Situationen -- 8.1. Veränderung des Themas -- 8.2. Situationsveränderung im offenen Bereich -- 8.3. Die Variation von Material und Technik -- 8.4. Die Rolle der Mitarbeiter -- 9. Das Aneignungskonzept als Praxistheorie -- 9.1. Räume als Ziel und Medium der Aneignung -- 9.2. Die Aneignungssituation als pädagogischer Ansatz -- 9.3. Situationsveränderung als Eigentätigkeit von Kindern und Jugendlichen -- 9.4. Aneignungskonzept und Mitarbeiter.

Sport and virtual reality : humanizing a playful utopia / Antonio Sanchez Pato and Sonia Maria Martinez Castro -- Inquiry into emotion and communication by means of computers / Monica Rubio Vega and Beatriz Pena Acuna -- The role of the bishop in late antiquity : a religious, political, economic, and military leader (373-613) / Miguel Pablo Sancho Gomez -- Narrative explorations : the communicative power of narration, TV drama and films, sources and sociological resources / Edoardo Tabasso -- The experiential learning of educators working with diverse high-ability students in secondary education / Antonio Carlos Gonzalez Lopez -- The study area as a premise for meaningful learning / Fransciso Manuel Moreno Lucas -- Collaborative learning : towards an improvement of oral expression in the ELE/EL2 classroom, the use of dramatisation / Ana María Aguilar López.