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Genade als literair motief in de Confessiones KU Leuven
The linguistic turn revealed the hermeneutic interaction between content/ideas and their literary form/structure. Recently, this insight has been applied to the oeuvre of Augustine of Hippo – his Confessiones in particular, though conclusions in recent research very much differ. This is why, in the current article, we adopt different approaches based on this linguistic turn. Our focus is in particular on the so-called Ostia-ecstasy in ...
Homiletic Perspectives on Augustine’s Sacrificial Theology. Exegetical Approaches of Sacrificium in the Sermones ad Populum KU Leuven
The last decades scientific interest arose in the previously somewhat neglected genre of patristic sermons. There is no scholarly consensus to consider them as loci theologici, and as sources of a specific form of Biblical hermeneutics. The current article studies the notion of sacrificium in Augustine’s sermones ad populum. We can distinguish three approaches of the latter concept in the bishop of Hippo’s homiletic endeavors: pre-Christian ...
Re/framing design trends : a Burkean meta-rhetorical approach Universiteit Gent
This thesis illustrates the potential of Kenneth Burke’s theory for interrogating visual design trend dynamics and rhetorics. The investigation originated in response to the perceived unsustainability of accelerated design trend dynamics, as amplified by rhetorically-driven aesthetic obsolescence. The hermeneutic framework developed in this study, referred to as a Burkean meta-rhetorical approach, is thus used towards re-framing attitudes ...
Reading lists: The coding of Max Havelaar KU Leuven
© Luc Herman & Bart Vervaeck. The studies of literary lists start from a strong bipolar opposition between lists and narratives. In a second step they relativize the antagonism, but because of the initial dualism, they are forced to come up with abstract and idealized definitions of lists and narratives. This article presents an alternative approach, which starts from the idea that both lists and narratives arise in the interaction between ...
The Multimodal Representation of Italian Anti-Mafia Discourse: Foregrounding Civil Resistance and Interlocution in Two Global English Video Reportages KU Leuven
This paper examines the multimodal representation of civil resistance against Italian mafia (Cosa Nostra and ‘Ndrangheta) in two English video reportages. More specifically, the analysis describes interlocutive relations between social actors displayed not only in the criminal, but also in the civil and media spheres, and allows for a multimodal description of cohesion on the macro level in these media formats. The theoretical focus is on the ...
The Holding Back of Decline: Scheler, Patočka, and Ricoeur on Death and the Afterlife KU Leuven
Jan Patocka and Paul Ricoeur are well known for their accounts of history and the historical understanding of human life. Lesser known are their phenomenological accounts of death and the afterlife. Although their thoughts are available only in fragments, they show a peculiar theoretical richness, as their conceptions of the afterlife are connected to fundamental topics like history, intersubjectivity and memory. In my article, I will attempt to ...
Adaptation as in-depth dialogue. The Cortazar-Antonioni case reconsidered Universiteit Antwerpen
This paper analyses a borderline case of adaptation and its potential implications for adaptation studies at large: Antonioni's cinematographic reading and rendering of a short story by Julio Cortazar, Las babas del diablo (1959), as presented in his 1966 film, Blow-Up. We argue that adaptation in this case operates on a 'deep' level, that of the ramified web of connected texts, a level where fundamental questions are raised about mimesis, ...