Within literary criticism, the second-person narrative is frequently read within conventions of modern realistic novel, tackling narratee/protagonist as a narratological problem. Such an approach, however, overlooks core component what fiction aims to do: that is, draw reader into and experience world text firsthand. Seeking instead theorize ways in which narratives involve invite act perspecti...

The present paper investigates identification of indexed families L of recursively enumerable languages from good examples. We distinguish class preserving learning from good examples (the good examples have to be generated with respect to a hypothesis space having the same range as L) and class comprising learning from good examples (the good examples have to be selected with respect to a hypo...

The author draws on narratives as an illustration of embodied knowledge and argues for the importance of using embodied knowing to inform ethical decisions in the neonatal setting. Nurses have a unique perspective of the complex care associated with neonatal intensive care (NIC). NIC nurses listen to parent's stories and share their own practice stories, leading to an intimate appreciation of a...

This article attempts to bring philosophy to clinical psychological practice by applying philosophical concepts to autobiographical experience. Through reflective engagement with personal narratives, the author tells three personal stories to illustrate ways in which the concept of Dasein in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas's development of an ethical responsibility to th...

A Solomon Four-Group Design was used to study the effects of reading personal narratives written by an individual with complex communication needs on the attitudes, potential future behaviors, and general experiences of 109 undergraduate business majors. The Attitudes Toward Nonspeaking Persons Scale (ATNP) and a scale of behavioral intentions modeled according to Ajzen's ( 1991 ) Theory of Pla...

This article aims to designate the notion of ‘ Griot ’ ‐ oral transmitter history in West African cultures eclectic filmmakers from post-independence period Francophone Senegal who utilized film as an instrument reassemble their nation’s lost image and carve independent national identity that seeks liberation remnants French imperial rule. Figuratively performing Griots postcolonial corpus, dir...