Narrative Illustration Research Articles

Genetic Counseling, Professional Values, and Habitus: An Analysis of Disability Narratives in Textbooks

This article analyzes narrative illustrations in genetic counseling textbooks as a way of understanding professional habitus--the dispositions that motivate professional behavior. In particular, this analysis shows that there are significant differences in how the textbooks' expository and narrative portions represent Down syndrome, genetic counseling practice, and patient behaviors. While the narrative portions of the text position the genetic counseling profession as working in service to the values of genetic medicine, the expository portions represent genetic counselors as neutral parties. Ultimately, this article argues that this ambiguity is harmful to the production of a professional habitus that is consistent with espoused professional values concerning respect for persons with disabilities and the promotion of psychosocial counseling.

Mao Zedong kot poslednji konfucijanski vladar? Moralno-didaktični vidik »konfucijanske« umetnosti

Pričujoči članek obravnava problematiko moralno-didaktičnega vidika »konfucijanske umetnosti«, ki nastopa v obliki t. i. narativnega slikarstva. Z namenom legitimacije politične avtoritete so številni vladarji s pomočjo vizualnega medija promovirali konfucijanske družbene in politične vrednote, ki bi jih prikazali kot idealne konfucijanske vladarje. Na primeru dveh vladarjev – prvega cesarja dinastije Tang Taizonga (589–649) ter ustanovitelja dinastije Južni Song Gaozonga (1107–1187) – bomo poskušali prikazati koncept »konfucijanskega idealnega vladarja«, kot ga razkrivajo posamezni primeri narativnih ilustracij. Izhajajoč iz teh primerov bomo v zadnjem delu članka poskušali interpretirati slikovno propagando velikega vodje komunistične Kitajske Mao Zedonga (1893– 1976), ki je ravno tako s pomočjo didaktičnih ilustracij v obliki propagandnih plakatov širil moderne ideje komunistične ideologije. Pri tem je večkrat prikrito sledil modelu »konfucijanskega vladarja«, čeravno ga je ovil v simbolne ovoje modernih ideologij 20. stoletja. Ali bi torej lahko Mao Zedonga označili za poslednjega »konfucijanskega idealnega vladarja«, bo osrednje vprašanje zadnjega dela pričujočega članka.

Book as an object: conceptual illustrations in Edgar Allan Poe’s books and a sample study

Today, when the future of the book is discussed, the main question is whether it has one. Information age transformed ongoing traditional features of a book. It has been foreseen by the critics that printed books, libraries and book stores are doomed to lose their values on the ground of developing technologies. As James O’Donnel cited from Pulitzer winner author E. Annie Proulx in his paper, “Nobody is going to sit down and read a novel on a twitchy little screen. Ever." (Nunberg, 1996). Although printed books are less popular in this digital age, there are still readers and book lovers who always get fascinated by the feeling of flipping pages of a book. According to a research done with readers, they would prefer to have a reading experience with a printed book rather than a screen especially if it is a classic literature book. Two of the main components of verbal and visual dimensions of imagination are illustration and literature. Aim of this paper is to try and find a way to maintain the tradition of a printed book and to explore the relation between these principals in one medium through narrative illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe literature. Also the purpose of this paper is finding the similarities of the two disciplines, as both reveal ideas in unexpected and innovative ways in one’s mind. A selection of his short stories and poems will be illustrated and designed to engage the two areas, literature and illustration to reach readers in a more different way than usual in order to communicate with them more effectively.Keywords: Edgar Allan Poe, book as an object, illustrations, conceptual narrations, book design

Book as an object: conceptual illustrations in Edgar Allan Poe’s books and a sample study

Today, when the future of the book is discussed, the main question is whether it has one. Information age transformed ongoing traditional features of a book. It has been foreseen by the critics that printed books, libraries and book stores are doomed to lose their values on the ground of developing technologies. As James O’Donnel cited from Pulitzer winner author E. Annie Proulx in his paper, “Nobody is going to sit down and read a novel on a twitchy little screen. Ever." (Nunberg, 1996). Although printed books are less popular in this digital age, there are still readers and book lovers who always get fascinated by the feeling of flipping pages of a book. According to a research done with readers, they would prefer to have a reading experience with a printed book rather than a screen especially if it is a classic literature book. Two of the main components of verbal and visual dimensions of imagination are illustration and literature. Aim of this paper is to try and find a way to maintain the tradition of a printed book and to explore the relation between these principals in one medium through narrative illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe literature. Also the purpose of this paper is finding the similarities of the two disciplines, as both reveal ideas in unexpected and innovative ways in one’s mind. A selection of his short stories and poems will be illustrated and designed to engage the two areas, literature and illustration to reach readers in a more different way than usual in order to communicate with them more effectively.Keywords: Edgar Allan Poe, book as an object, illustrations, conceptual narrations, book design

Book as an object: conceptual illustrations in Edgar Allan Poe’s books and a sample study

Today, when the future of the book is discussed, the main question is whether it has one. Information age transformed ongoing traditional features of a book. It has been foreseen by the critics that printed books, libraries and book stores are doomed to lose their values on the ground of developing technologies. As James O’Donnel cited from Pulitzer winner author E. Annie Proulx in his paper, “Nobody is going to sit down and read a novel on a twitchy little screen. Ever." (Nunberg, 1996). Although printed books are less popular in this digital age, there are still readers and book lovers who always get fascinated by the feeling of flipping pages of a book. According to a research done with readers, they would prefer to have a reading experience with a printed book rather than a screen especially if it is a classic literature book. Two of the main components of verbal and visual dimensions of imagination are illustration and literature. Aim of this paper is to try and find a way to maintain the tradition of a printed book and to explore the relation between these principals in one medium through narrative illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe literature. Also the purpose of this paper is finding the similarities of the two disciplines, as both reveal ideas in unexpected and innovative ways in one’s mind. A selection of his short stories and poems will be illustrated and designed to engage the two areas, literature and illustration to reach readers in a more different way than usual in order to communicate with them more effectively.Keywords: Edgar Allan Poe, book as an object, illustrations, conceptual narrations, book design

Use of Visual Narrative Illustrations to Teach Pathophysiology Concepts to Nursing Students

The care of patients with acute and chronic illnesses requires nurses to fully understand the underlying pathophysiology associated with disease processes. Although mastering a pathophysiology course is a strong predictor of student success in nursing programs, it is a course with which students and new nurses most often struggle. The authors describe a teaching innovation--visual narrative illustration (VNI)--and demonstrate how VNIs are used to teach complex pathophysiology concepts to nursing students. The consistent positive feedback regarding the VNIs that have already been implemented in the pathophysiology course prompted the authors to systematically and formally study the impact of this innovative approach on student learning and knowledge retention. Use of VNI is an innovative teaching strategy that has the potential to augment other course materials and bridge some of the knowledge gaps that challenge nursing students from fully understanding pathophysiologic concepts.

A Peace for a Prince: The Reception of a Safavid Child Hostage at the Ottoman Court

The twelve-year long Ottoman-Safavid War ended in 1590, when the newly enthroned Safavid king, Shah ʿAbbas sent his six year old nephew to the Ottoman court as a condition of peace. The arrival of this child prince, Haydar Mirza, his large retinue, and the gifts he brought for the sultan incited much enthusiasm and curiosity among contemporary observers. These were recorded in official histories, archival documents, manuscript paintings, and poems of Ottoman, Safavid, Venetian, and Habsburg origin. Through a cross-reading of authors with diverse political motivations, this essay demonstrates the multiplicity of ways in which the prince’s role as a social agent and mediator was interpreted during and after his transfer. A close comparative reading of these textual accounts and images suggests that the diplomatic encounter and its subtleties may never be described fully by the overarching goals of panegyric texts or selected episodes captured in narrative illustration.

Illustrations of the Mulian Story and the Tradition of Narrative Painting in China (Tenth–Fifteenth Centuries)

The story of Mulian rescuing his mother’s soul from hell was featured in numerous pictorial versions of different formats in China. They could take the form of multi-scene handscrolls, illustrations in manuscripts and editions, and separate scenes in devotional religious art objects such as murals and reliefs. The Mulian subject was of primary importance in the popularization of Buddhist ideas among different layers of society. The earliest extant pictorial versions of this story in China (tenth century) were related to Buddhist storytelling with the use of visual devices. Illustrations appeared in several written versions of the Mulian story that were circulated among different layers of society in China in the twelfth through fifteenth centuries. These illustrated versions showed different degrees of elaboration, spread among common folk and the imperial courts of the Yuan and Ming dynasties. In this article I explore the functions of the narrative illustrations of the Mulian story in various social contexts. These functions were quite varied in case of most art objects analyzed here: pictures in woodblock editions and manuscripts augmented the textual part and also made them appealing to the lay readers.

Chapter 11. Narratives of Clients’ Experiences of Drug Use and Treatment of Substance Use-Related Dependency

The article focuses on narratives of clients’ experiences of using/misusing alcohol and drugs and includes comments on their therapeutic process during treatment for dependency on psychoactive drugs. It discusses the role of narratives that focus on clients’ experiences of understanding the use/misuse of psychoactive drugs, emphasizing the importance of the narratives. Narrative therapy for substance-use-related dependency is discussed. Insight into the treatment processes of dependency, based on narrative case illustrations, is also provided.

The Suggestive Portrait of Shah ‘Abbas: Prayer and Likeness in a Safavid Shahnama

The 1605 Shahnama (Book of Kings) presents an opportunity to consider the relation between portraiture and narrative illustration in Persian painting and to examine key political and artistic trends in early seventeenth-century Iran. Moving away from earlier modes of imperial iconography, which tended toward the idealized, the paintings in this manuscript are linked by their role as suggestive and surrogate portraits of the king, Shah ‘Abbas. An emphasis on emotions represented the character of the great ruler as heroic yet flawed, while unprecedented images of prayer served to guide Safavid religion toward a more normative form of Shi'i Islam.

Gospel as Personal Knowing: Theological Reflections on Not Just a Literary Genre

The Gospel is taken here as a model of the type of personal knowing and witness that gives its peculiar status to knowledge in the humanities. The Gospel according to Matthew is viewed in comparison with the other canonical Gospels in order to bring out its peculiar slant, particularly the way it reads Jesus’s life retrospectively in the light of Easter. This is especially apt for bringing out the way that the Gospel story is made to serve as a narrative illustration of what is known theologically through faith in Christ as experienced in worship and liturgy. The question of literary genre as raised by the Gospel threatens to crack the system of genres and force an acknowledgment of the uncanny type of knowledge that the humanities entail.

O papel dos websites de cidades tombadas na educação patrimonial

It is the goal of this article to demonstrate the role that websites of respective cities included on UNESCO's World Heritage List plays in patrimonial education. In response to the question of what motivates this research, the investigation is driven by the hypothesis that social representations of these cities found on websites contribute to the understanding of those cities in the context of patrimonial education. Guided by that hypothesis, the article's argument is grounded in the following concepts: patrimonial education, such as that emerging from patrimonial theories and letters; websites, understood as the most recent narrative illustrations of the respective cities; and social representations, such as those advocated by Moscovici. Through the exploration of the above concepts, this article presents a method of detection for social representations of preserved cities in websites. Such a method is applied in the empirical approach to the research that investigates the websites of two preserved cities in the state of Minas Gerais: Ouro Preto and Diamantina. Once the social representations for each city are found, the article then explores how these representations effect the understanding and patrimonial education of each city. After confirming the initial hypothesis, the article concludes by presenting the principal contributions of the websites in the understanding of the respective preserved cities and by revealing the challenges of new media in the various fields of patrimonial education.

Mirror of Morality: Chinese Narrative Illustration and Confucian Ideology – By Julia K. Murray

Mirror of Morality: Chinese Narrative Illustration and Confucian Ideology – By Julia K. Murray

School disengagement and ‘structural options’ Narrative illustrations on an analytical approach

The purpose of the present article is to outline and illustrate an analytical approach that accentuates the biographically complex processes inhering within early school leaving transitions. The organizing device of ‘structural option’ (Stones, 2001) is introduced, which brings into focus the role and interplay of types of ‘structures’ (in a structurationist sense) in the decision-making processes underlying school exit. ‘Structural option’ combines two important dimensions in influencing young people's choices: cognitive/emotional and relational/interactional structures. This study shows that disengagement from school is more than a straightforward reading that might suggest lack of positive disposition towards education, but rather is born out of powerful interactions across these two main structural dimensions. As an analytical construct, structural options alert us to the importance of analyzing young people's disengagements from mainstream school in terms of social relationships, power, and emotions. While the article is based on empirical findings from an Irish context, the intention is that its scope extends more broadly to qualitative data analysis of school exit transitions within other contextual settings. The empirical focus derives from the interview narratives with fourteen participants attending a second chance educational initiative in Ireland, known as the Youthreach programme. While most of the young people occupy the status of ‘early school leaver’, closer inspection of their structural options shows that their pathways to early school exit and school disengagement (for those who completed) comprise quite differing structural combinations. As researchers, appreciation of such combinations can help us understand the justifications young people use in their decision-making.

Mirror of Morality: Chinese Narrative Illustration and Confucian Ideology. By Julia K. Murray. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. xii, 194 pp. $58.00 (cloth).

Mirror of Morality: Chinese Narrative Illustration and Confucian Ideology. By Julia K. Murray. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. xii, 194 pp. $58.00 (cloth).

Mirror of Morality: Chinese Narrative Illustration and Confucian Ideology (review)

Mirror of Morality: Chinese Narrative Illustration and Confucian Ideology (review)

Mirror of morality: Chinese narrative illustration and Confucian ideology

Mirror of morality: Chinese narrative illustration and Confucian ideology

Moral qualities of experiential narratives

This study argues for the need to collect data on the interaction of imaginative processes and moral and ethical qualities of narrative. It locates the curricular context of experiential narratives and provides a narrative illustration of key terms from a moral theory. It reports on research in which experiential narratives were told to grades 7–10 students and describes student reactions to three speakers’ narrative accounts. For the students the encounter seemed to be an experience in imaginative resourcefulness within moral and ethical territory. Prior experiences were called up and likely modified. The moral impact of the encounter came about through a specific interaction between the narrative world offered by a speaker and the existing imaginative repertoire of a listener.

An example of the influence of the gospel lectionary on the iconography of medieval wall painting

An example of the influence of the gospel lectionary on the iconography of medieval wall painting

Pictures and words: new comic art and narrative illustration

Pictures and words: new comic art and narrative illustration