Common Story Research Articles

Reflections on the Relevance of Manners, Marriage and Romance in Emma Adaptations

The paper explores the adaptation of Jane Austen's "Emma" in various forms such as "Clueless" and "Aisha." Focusing on manners, matchmaking, and romance, the research delves into the semiotics and depictions of marriage and relationships in these adaptations, employing literary theory to analyze the evolving portrayal of societal norms across different mediums. These adaptation are not merely a translation of the 18th century novel. They have incorporated the features, needs, mannerisms and outlooks of the times that they have been made in. More interestingly given Emma a more universal appeal, not to forget its relevance across cultures and time. The three adaptations are strung together with a common base story but as the stories unveil they all differ from one another. In more recent adaptations it has become more a question of ‘what women want?’ than someone else interpreting ‘what women need’? The paper builds on the various narratives well in their own time frames to highlight the ‘new normal’.

Will you read how I will read? Naturalistic fMRI predictors of emergent reading

Despite reading being an essential and almost universal skill in the developed world, reading proficiency varies substantially from person to person. To study why, the fMRI field is beginning to turn from single-word or nonword reading tasks to naturalistic stimuli like connected text and listening to stories. To study reading development in children just beginning to read, listening to stories is an appropriate paradigm because speech perception and phonological processing are important for, and are predictors of, reading proficiency. Our study examined the relationship between behavioral reading-related skills and the neural response to listening to stories in the fMRI environment. Functional MRI were gathered in a 3T TIM-Trio scanner. During the fMRI scan, children aged approximately 7 years listened to professionally narrated common short stories and answered comprehension questions following the narration. Analyses of the data used inter-subject correlation (ISC), and representational similarity analysis (RSA). Our primary finding is that ISC reveals areas of increased synchrony in both high- and low-performing emergent readers previously implicated in reading ability/disability. Of particular interest are that several previously identified brain regions (medial temporal gyrus (MTG), inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), inferior temporal gyrus (ITG)) were found to “synchronize” across higher reading ability participants, while lower reading ability participants had idiosyncratic activation patterns in these regions. Additionally, two regions (superior frontal gyrus (SFG) and another portion of ITG) were recruited by all participants, but their specific timecourse of activation depended on reading performance. These analyses support the idea that different brain regions involved in reading follow different developmental trajectories that correlate with reading proficiency on a spectrum rather than the usual dichotomy of poor readers versus strong readers.

Сказка «О козе и козлятах» на рушанском и хуфском языках

This article presents the texts of “The Goat and her kids”, a folk tale in the Rushani and Khufi languages. The Rushani version of the story was recorded by A. K. Pisarchik in 1943; the Khufi text was recor‑ ded in 1951 by V. S. Sokolova. Both texts are transcribed on the basis of the phonological principle using international Iranian transcrip‑ tion, with Russian translation; in the Rushani version the phonetic features of speech are also noted. In the present publication these texts are provided with morpheme-by-morpheme glossing. Both texts are valuable written documents that record an unwrit‑ ten language at a relatively early point in time. Despite the significant similarity of the cultural traditions and folklore of the Western Pamir peoples, the example of this folk tale highlights discrepancies in plot, theme and cast of characters. Differing from the more common story, widespread in Central Asia, about a fight between a goat and a wolf, the Rushani and Khufi tales presented here notably replace the antagonist with a bear.

The Nexus of Storytelling and Collective Learning: A Synergistic Spark for Human Emergence

This paper explores the implications of storytelling as an essential complimentary concept to collective learning for labeling human emergence within the Big History thresholds framework. It proposes that the distinctively human cognitive capability for communicating explanatory descriptive narration (i.e., storytelling) was a foundational adaptive behavior and central driving force that launched humans into a unique evolutionary pathway as collective learners whose increasing knowledge has transformed the world. Storytelling provides a theorem for why human language skills and brain capacity increased so dramatically since our common ancestor with chimpanzees, and how our storytelling brain models our world through narratives that undergird human belief systems and facilitate complex social coordination. The paper outlines the symbiotic role that storytelling played in turning the cultural “ratchet” of collective learning throughout prehistoric times and its corresponding influence on prehistorical milestones. It goes on to explore the benefits of teaching storytelling as a complement to Big History threshold (6) collective learning and concludes with a look at the vulnerability of the human storytelling brain regarding its ability to unite or divide people through the power of narratives, whether they are factual or fictional. The paper invites the Big History community to consider embracing the emerging transdiscipline of storytelling within the Big History tent as synergistic complement to collective learning, that pulls together many Big History threads and which can help improve the effectiveness of telling Big History as a common human origin story for navigating the precarious prospects of the Anthropocene.

Trans/feminist collaborative autoethnographic storying of gender-based violence, during the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 crisis has spotlighted particular insidious social problems, including gender-based violence (GBV), and their relationship with movement and confinement. As well as changing configurations of GBV, the experience of the global pandemic and the immobilities of national lockdowns have created space to imagine GBV – to connect with past experiences in the context of our rethinking of current experiences across multiple spaces. In this article we explicate a transdisciplinary feminist collaborative autoethnographic storying of GBV during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the ‘trans/feminist methodology’ of Pryse (2000), we seek to contribute knowledge of GBV through the lens of COVID-19 using our own experiential life storying. In this article we show the potential of this method in understanding lived experiences over time that are situated in a specific context. Our experiences of GBV, as viewed through the pandemic, are presented as fragments, which then make up a collective narrative that illustrates our shared experiences of GBV in all its forms, across multiple spaces and throughout our life histories. In this common story, GBV is considered to im/mobilise – to stagnate our range of mobilities to varying degrees across these spaces and times.

Structuring Jewish Buenos Aires at the end of the long nineteenth century

ABSTRACT A common Jewish Argentine creation story begins in 1889, with 824 Russian Jews disembarking in Buenos Aires and ushering in three decades of massive Jewish migration to that city. In six key themes, this article expands the parameters of that story chronologically, spatially, culturally, and politically. It focuses on the Jewish gaucho (skilled horseman) as an iconic representation of the intersections of Jewish and non-Jewish Buenos Aires; the meanings of neighborhood; the tragedy of ‘white slavery’; cultural institutions; Sephardic porteños (Buenos Aires residents); and the Jewish anarchists and socialists.

L’instant Taittinger: a champagne family house in its chronotope

PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to describe the attempt of a family champagne house to redefine its business organization as a family in a large family of families. This choice involves defining their activities as entrepreneuring in a specific time and space that all actors experience as their sensible reality. To describe the whole process, the authors call this ensemble a “chronotope,” including the same space and time as part of a common story. The authors assess this narrative strategy in reference to both past conflict in the champagne business and to the present crisis caused by the pandemic in addition to a series of social, economic and environmental changes in the environment.Design/methodology/approachThe design of the paper corresponds to the case of a champagne family house in its environment with a longitudinal, processual approach of the family business venture before and especially after its sale and buyback by the family. The authors use Bakhtin to insist on the fictional nature of the account of most events as most protagonists adopt different perspectives. The Taittinger family, at the head of the trade house, creates a story that fits in all these perspectives and makes sense to overcome key issues in the business.FindingsOur findings illustrate the role of the chronotope as a way to broaden the scope of inter- and intra-family relations. This concept also shows the importance of shared experiences, stories and crafted practices to sustain collective work and the meaning associated with the result of this work, in this case, champagne wine. The authors also show the different styles of chronotopes and their role in binding together actors in relation to the transformation of their activities.Research limitations/implicationsThe research limitations are of two kinds. The first limitation comes from the choice to focus on the Taittinger family house, as it tends to focus the analysis on their point of view. The second limitation is due to the persistence of the pandemic situation that makes it difficult to test the chronotope idea as it is quite recent. Because of the current pandemic, it is complicated to anticipate what the future could look like and therefore, to imagine the future dimension of the chronotope. To overcome this limit, the authors suggest different scenario that leaves open different possibilities.Practical implicationsThe practical implications of this paper could be to see how family business entrepreneurs may benefit from designing their strategy as a rich personal fiction in reference to a chronotope instead of referring to storytelling, communication and brand management or even competition strictly speaking. In turbulent times and to face grand challenges, long-term collaborations require stronger ties and imagination without leaving out emotions. Yet the entrepreneurs may become a victim of their own fictions if stakeholders perceive contradictions or if they were to dislike the new episodes the family invents.Social implicationsThe social implications of this case study show the role of business relations built on fiction reflecting strong ties and shared processes such as entrepreneuring in the world of heritage goods where sustainability and endurance matter. This perspective insists on a shared story and it contrasts with more discontinued approaches based on disruptive innovation, opportunism and competitiveness in turbulent times. The chronotope does not ineluctably evolve in different ways, making actors’ perspective shrink, expand or exile. Family entrepreneuring may actively influence this transformation and they may also be framed by it.Originality/valueThe originality of the paper comes from the description of a family business in its environment as a chronotope. Reflecting how related actors in a business field like champagne co-construct a representation, the authors looked for a concept that would accurately reflect this vision, researchers chose the concept of “chronotope,” borrowing from narrative approaches. This approach is transdisciplinary. It is also an attempt to bring researchers at work closer to what actors in the field experiment with and find inspiration in.

A Comparative Study of ‘Kāman Festival’ in Tamil Nadu and the Archaeological Remains of Madan Kamdev Temple in Assam

Rathi and Manmadha are the epitomes of beauty who stand as witnesses of unrequited love in Puranas. The story of Manmadha who holding his sugarcane bow and stirring the hearts of lovers with flowers, burning to ashes due to Shiva’s anger and coming back to life due to Rathi’s prayer, is widely popular among the people. The event is celebrated under the name ‘Kaman festival’ as one of the popular festivals of Tamils. Many Tamil classical texts refer to this festival which was celebrated as a grand festival. The story of Manmadha being burnt by Shiva is still celebrated as a common festival every year in the villages of Tamil Nadu. Kaman, who was regarded as the god of love, has many accounts of his early beginnings as a deity to be worshipped. Similarly, the common story is presented with variations across the India. It is now served as ’Kamandi’ in some parts of Tamil Nadu. This article aims to compare the social environment of the time by analyzing the festival celebrated in Tamil Nadu in the southern part of India, the history of the Madan Kamdev temple discovered by the archeology department of Assam state in the north-eastern part of India, and the sculptures of the temple and the sentiments of the people.

Theological Genealogies of Modernity: An Introduction

Theological Genealogies of Modernity: An Introduction

Library History as a Community

Library History as a Community

The Intrinsic Story Structure of Original Research Manuscripts

Most research manuscripts are now written in a standard structure known as IMRaD (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion). In this structure, the Introduction describes the background of the study, the Methods describe how the study was carried out, the Results report what the study found, and the Discussion explains what the study findings mean. This standard IMRaD structure makes the process of developing and publishing manuscripts more consistent and easier to manage. This structure helps authors organize their ideas and ensure they include all the important elements of the study. The IMRaD structure also helps editors and reviewers evaluate manuscripts more easily. And the structure helps readers to quickly locate specific information without going through the entire paper. The IMRaD structure has another valuable feature. This structure helps authors to tell a story with the most common story structure: the three-act structure.

The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier by Chris Gratien

The frontier has long been a subject of interest for historians of the Ottoman Empire, whether their focus has been on the empire’s origins, its expansion, or its efforts to assert its sovereignty as it faced the threat of European imperialism.1 Gratien’s The Unsettled Plain shows a similar interest. It examines the rationale, implementation, and legacies of various Ottoman political projects that resulted in the environmental transformation of the swampy lowlands of Çukurova in southern Anatolia into an important center of commercial agriculture from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. The book spans the late Ottoman period, the tumultuous years of World War I, and the formative decades of the Turkish Republic. This important contribution to the steadily growing body of work about the Ottoman frontier draws heavily from the methods of environmental history.2For Gratien, the Ottoman frontier was not simply the sum of regions located along the empire’s geographical limits; rather, its defining features were its spaces, “pockets of transformation within the Ottoman provinces” (14). Moreover, that transformation manifested in at least three distinct ways to create a particular type of frontier experience during the late Ottoman period—new forms of state presence in rural settings (“frontiers of state”), the settlement of millions of people (“settlement frontier”), and human-nature interactions shaped increasingly by the forces of global capitalism (“ecological frontier”) (14). Although Gratien’s use of the term frontier throughout his book departs from the more common meaning of the term, this framing effectively “reveals a common story that was central to the remaking of Ottoman society” (15–16, 14). For example, it helps scholars to describe the process of environmental change in Ottoman lands with greater specificity than that captured by more conventional terms such as “provincial reform” (14).This framing device in place, Gratien narrates Çukurova’s environmental transformation as an Ottoman frontier with great clarity, carefully outlining what this process meant for the many generations of the region’s inhabitants. As Gratien demonstrates, seasonal migration was a key facet of life in Çukurova well-before it became Ottoman territory. The reason varied, but by the Ottoman period, one of the most important was health; locals regularly retreated to the pastures in the surrounding mountains to escape the malaria-prone swamps of the lowlands during the summer months. Seasonal migration also gave rise to a particular political order in Çukurova, whereby the Ottoman state delegated the task of securing the obedience of the region’s nomadic population to local elites in the nearby mountains. By the second half of the nineteenth century, however, the Ottoman government sought to curb the power of these elites as part of a broader centralization of the empire. It also began to see pastoralism as at odds with its vision of Çukurova as a potential center for commercial agriculture in the future. Thus, from the second half of the nineteenth century forward, the Ottoman government worked to settle not only pastoralists in Çukurova but also refugees in hopes of tapping into the region’s agrarian potential, which Ottoman officials often compared to that of Egypt. Among the many unfortunate consequences of this ecological transformation was the continued exposure of the region’s inhabitants to malaria, which remained a threat during World War I and after the establishment of the Turkish Republic.Historians of the Ottoman Empire and environmental historians in general will certainly recognize the importance of The Unsettled Plain. But non-specialists interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of history also stand to benefit from it. Gratien includes several citations from scientific studies that further deepen readers’ understanding of Çukurova’s environmental history, especially as it concerns the types of mosquitos that transmit malaria and the conditions under which they thrive (37, 159). Indeed, Gratien’s book is just the latest to demonstrate how sophisticated the field of Middle East environmental history has become.

COMIC COMPARISONS IN THE EPIC NOVEL (“A COMMON STORY” BY IVAN GONCHAROV)

The article deals with Ivan Goncharov’s understanding of humour as a constituent part of an artistic work. The author of the article focuses on the intellectual nature of humour as stated by the writer himself as well as on the humour as a part of his epic gift. Analysing “A Common Story”, the first novel from the writer’s epic trilogy, the author of the article claims that its epic potential is expressed in such stylistic devices as comparison and contrast, typical to Ivan Goncharov’s style. The writer’s humour shows his ability to stay distant from the object of depiction, openness to the world, freedom in dealing with time and space, skill in regarding different layers of the world culture. The article reveals the way the comic comparisons and contrasts help Ivan Goncharov to express his understanding of the pace of historical time from ‘dream’ to ‘awakening’, culturological, moral and philosophic beliefs. The article pinpoints the wideness and depth of characteristics using comic devices for portraying the personal culture of the nobility of European-educated and uneducated layer, folkish culture. These remarks allow to make conclusions about sociological views of the author and the manner of approximation of nobility and folk typical to Ivan Goncharov and based on his assumption that uneducated, provincial nobility and the folk are close due to the involvement into the same national culture.

Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century ed. by Ingrid Kleespies and Lyudmila Parts

Reviewed by: Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century ed. by Ingrid Kleespies and Lyudmila Parts James Womack Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. by Ingrid Kleespies and Lyudmila Parts. (Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History) Boston: Academic Studies Press. 2021. xxviii+ 235 pp. $109. ISBN 978-1-64469-698-9. The editors of this attractive volume stress their desire to distance the study of Ivan Goncharov from a 'conventional psychological, Freudian approach' (p. xiv), while escaping the 'unquestioned dominance of Oblomov' (ibid.) in the author's œuvre. Laudable yet complicated aims. In particular, the Freudian toolbox is and remains useful for unpacking Goncharov's infantilizing fantasies. Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century is to be praised for its ambition and its work of contextualization and expansion. It rouses readers of Goncharov from the comfortable divan of tradition on which, in our dressing-gown-clad idleness, we might prefer to subside. The collection is divided into four sections, each with a different perspective and depth of focus. The first two essays, by Sergei Guskov and Kirill Zubkov respectively, deal with Goncharov the man, including his work as a Petersburg official (chinovnik) and, more specifically, as a censor. As is only natural, essays on similar subjects cover similar material: both authors quote Aleksandr Druzhinin's refusal to 'consider' Goncharov's acceptance of the post as 'disgraceful but […] a writer shouldn't be a censor' (pp. 18 and 2s). However, each critic takes this quotation in a different direction. Zubkov positions Druzhinin's opposition within the framework of the 18 3os rise of the 'thick' journals: an aesthetic judgement in the face of uncomprehending 'official' censorship. Guskov's discussion leads us back to Goncharov's work, showing how, for example, the sympathetic (and extremely amusing) portrayal of cultural and generational tsuris in Goncharov's first novel, A Common Story (Obyknovennaia istoriia, 1847), benefits from its author's role, which allowed Goncharov to see both sides of various societal divides. A section consisting of three essays on 'The Challenges of Philosophy' makes claims for Goncharov as a consciously philosophical writer: Vladimir Ivantsov's essay on Platonic subtexts in Oblomov is detailed and compelling, although I could not help feeling that the world of forms identified with the 'oblomovskii Platon' (Oblomov's Plato) might twist quite easily into the Freudian readings this volume wants to escape. Victoria Juharyan's argument that Goncharov's three novels form a unified 'Hegelian project' (p. 74), is cleverly made, but occasionally feels as though the texts are being read in the service of a pre-existing thesis, rather than being allowed to suggest their own conclusions. For example, 'A Common Story can be read as a parody of the often-misrepresented Hegelian notion of "reconciliation with reality"' (p. 81): 'can be read' is given a lot of heavy lifting to do here and elsewhere. Sonja Koroliov brings us back to Oblomov via Derrida and Schopenhauer: it would [End Page 150] be interesting to read a longer discussion of Oblomov's prelapsarian yearnings in the light of Derrida's idea of le don, a topic with which Koroliov engages only briefly (p. 109). The third, thematic group of essays contains some of the richest writing in the volume: in particular, Valeria Sobol's discussion of the Gothic in relation to The Precipice (Obryv, 1870) opens up engaging areas for future study, connecting what is usually perceived as Goncharov's realism to such fruitful intertexts as 'Gogol's "The Portrait" and the opening chapters of Maturin's Gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer' (p. 122). One might notice in passing—again?—that the connection between Freudian theory and the Gothic is long-established. Ani Kokobobo and Devin McFadden's queer reading of The Precipice is a pineapple of an essay: spiky yet juicy. The last group of essays is not thematic, but instead focuses on a single text, Goncharov's travel book The Frigate 'Pallada' (Fregat 'Pallada', 1858). Aleksei Balakin's analysis of this work's 'aesthetic construction' (p. 155) nicely complements Lyudmila Parts's discussion of 'Palladaʹ's imperial project through the lens of laughter and various other physiological indicators of assumed superiority...

Percorsi di un italiano all'estero: Robert Viscusi Replies to Rosemary Serra

<i>Percorsi di un italiano all'estero</i>: Robert Viscusi Replies to Rosemary Serra

Рекламный сериал в печатных СМИ рубежа XIX–XX вв.: путешествия Дяди Михея в рекламе Товарищества «Лаферм»

The article is focused on a series of advertising texts united by a common character and story. Having emerged in print advertising of the turn of the 19th–20thcenturies, such series can be seen as the first manifestations of the advertising series genre,in which, along with the dominant tendency to in-formativeness, typical for the early 20thcentury, new techniques appear, these strengthening the expressive and manipulative components of the text. The advertisements analyzed in the paper are texts placedin the regional newspaper Uralskaya Zhizn(1903). In the array of the advertising texts examined, only one series united by the story and the character, published in November-December 1903, was found. It is devoted to the cigarettes of the Laferm company.Instead of the same text repeatedly published for several months, which was typical of advertisements of that period, the reader receives a new text in each issue. The texts are de-signed and laid out so as to resemble telegrams, and each individual text is stylized as a rayosh folk verse. Together they form a kind of travel novel or travel notes in verse. Important components of the text are the character (a representative of the company) and his interaction with the readers. It is they, not the product itself, that come to the fore. The non-provision of detailed information about the product is also an innova-tive feature of evolving advertising. The character uniting all the texts is presented by the authors as a sym-bol of the advertised products and the Association, which indicates not only a new form of advertising but also a more complex way of presenting goods, specifically the basics of brand formation.

Character-Oriented Design for Visual Data Storytelling.

When telling a data story, an author has an intention they seek to convey to an audience. This intention can be of many forms such as to persuade, to educate, to inform, or even to entertain. In addition to expressing their intention, the story plot must balance being consumable and enjoyable while preserving scientific integrity. In data stories, numerous methods have been identified for constructing and presenting a plot. However, there is an opportunity to expand how we think and create the visual elements that present the story. Stories are brought to life by characters; often they are what make a story captivating, enjoyable, memorable, and facilitate following the plot until the end. Through the analysis of 160 existing data stories, we systematically investigate and identify distinguishable features of characters in data stories, and we illustrate how they feed into the broader concept of "character-oriented design". We identify the roles and visual representations data characters assume as well as the types of relationships these roles have with one another. We identify characteristics of antagonists as well as define conflict in data stories. We find the need for an identifiable central character that the audience latches on to in order to follow the narrative and identify their visual representations. We then illustrate "character-oriented design" by showing how to develop data characters with common data story plots. With this work, we present a framework for data characters derived from our analysis; we then offer our extension to the data storytelling process using character-oriented design. To access our supplemental materials please visit https://chaorientdesignds.github.io/.

The First Pagan Historian: The Fortunes of a Fraud from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

In this impressive first book, Clark explores the extraordinary history of the Destruction of Troy by Dares the Phrygian. Dares's account of the fall of Troy is a short, Latin prose narrative that claims to be an eyewitness account of the Trojan War, translated from the Phrygian by Cornelius Nepos, the Roman historian, and sent to Sallust, another, even more famous Roman historian. Dares's text came to light as late antiquity turned into the medieval era, and Dares was promptly hailed as “the first pagan historian”—a predecessor of Homer—by Isidore of Seville. Throughout the medieval period, a series of scholars were transfixed by Dares. His text was taken as the earliest and thus most reliable source for the world-changing event of the Trojan War—which led to the foundation of Rome and the shape of the West. It was exciting not just for its antiquity but also for its polemical revision of the standard received story. Not only did its prefatory letter claim—with a nicely rationalizing rhetoric—that even the Athenians declared Homer was “insane” for imagining that gods and humans might meet on the battlefield, but also, even more alluringly, Dares stated that Aeneas, the pious hero of Virgil's Aeneid, was a traitor who had sold out Troy to the Greeks: he escaped the sack to found Rome because he had opened the doors of the city to its enemies. The pious Aeneas, exemplary hero, committed the deeply impious act of treachery to his own fatherland. Dares provided a moral rejoinder to later Roman political propaganda and provoked a set of intense debates about the past, its value, and its truth.Early modern humanists were more suspicious. The great scholars Scaliger and Vossius in particular turned their philological fervor against what they saw as an obvious forgery—but even then, not everyone was persuaded. The celebrated Bodin, most surprisingly, still thought Dares represented historical truth. Clark carefully shows how oversimplified the common story of the triumph of humanist learning is. It took a lot of work and much forgetting as well as persuasion for Dares to lose his position. It was indeed only in the Enlightenment that Dares finally passed into the half-light of insignificance reserved for forgeries. One strength of Clark's book is his insistence on trying to discover with generosity and understanding how apparently baffling opinions could be held and argued for—how, that is, the past is a foreign country even and especially where such apparently basic ideas as historical truth are at stake (a topic not without relevance in modern politics).Clark examines in considerable detail across several centuries how Dares was read and mobilized. It is especially satisfying to have a work of reception history that stretches across the modern historiographical divides (of the late antique, medieval, early modern, and Enlightenment periods) and sees how complex the lines of continuity and change are. The naive prose of Dares, in Clark's sophisticated analysis, raises profound questions of what antiquity is and why it matters; how authenticity and authorship are constructed differently across this time period; what the relations are between fiction, truth, and exemplarity (both in theory and in practice); and how texts shift in status and attribution. Dares indeed, as Clark puts it well, “test[s] the meaning and boundaries of antiquity itself.” The range of material is stunning: not only in terms of who read and used Dares but also in terms of the other texts that were read and transformed alongside his. It is remarkable, for example, to see how Joseph of Exeter's medieval hexameters were attributed to Dares (and then reattributed), or how Dares became silently incorporated into a work of Jerome. Despite this richness, I would have liked to see more pages on the relation between pagan and Christian historiography. How does Dares's believed (but false) claim to be an eyewitness relate to Christian claims to witness events (martyr means [eye-]witness)? Philology and its attack on authenticity were key to the battles of the Reformation. Clark could also have spent more time exploring what difference the rediscovery of the Greek text of Homer made to the story of Dares's reception. Homer's rise in the West is part of Dares's fall. In its detail, however, and its range of questions and scope of material, The First Pagan Historian is an exemplary work of reception history.

Supporting Youth With A Parent Who Is Living Younger-Onset Alzheimer's: A Crucial Component In Integrated Care.

Supporting Youth With A Parent Who Is Living Younger-Onset Alzheimer's: A Crucial Component In Integrated Care Lorenzo's House, a nonprofit in Chicago, focuses on a transformative approach that supports children and young adults who are living with a parent with younger-onset Alzheimer's. Youth are often affected by a parent's diagnosis at a neurobiologically vulnerable time in their lives. Youth frequently don't know how to explain their experience as a care partner with their peers, leaving them isolated and managing the ongoing change by themselves. By creating spaces specifically catered towards these young care partners, we are radically shifting the journey of what younger-onset Alzheimer's looks like for children and young adults. We focus on the relationship between the parent diagnosed and their children, what children need as care partners, and what issues and struggles they face at a variety of ages in this journey. Our three youth programs focus on innovation to support youth living with a parent with younger-onset Alzheimer's: Lorenzo's Camp, a camp designed by youth care partners, therapists, medical professionals - intended to share common stories and build an alliance; the Light Club, a virtual youth care partner group injected with team building and relationship development; and lastly youth-led advocacy work. Our model shifts the narrative for how youth experience being a member of a family that is navigating a younger-onset Alzheimer's diagnosis.

From the Annals of Kraków

From the Annals of Kraków