This article uses a typology of action framework to analyze selection the gospels’ parables. It does so by connecting these parables A. G. Haudricourt and C. Ferret’s research on “anthropology action”. After summarizing Haudricourt’s results, I relate modes types emplotment. select four as basis my analysis, using J. P. Meier’s findings guide for selection. discern in emplotment, which enables ...

This article analyses narrative, time and causality in current general histories of jazz, the context ontological turn field. It proposes that jazz studies should go beyond romance as dominant historical emplotment, pluralize their narratives, establish a new historiographical relationship to past order produce truly global, decentred decolonized history genre. The is divided three sections, wh...

This paper explores the difficulties of reading large numbers of scientific pa-pers when doing the history of 20th century science and technology. It arguesthat there is a tension between two modes: that of close reading of key papersand that of citation analysis and other automated modes of mapping the litera-ture. The challenge charting between the two and of maintaining an in...

Abstract In the second volume of Time and Narrative (1985, 101–12), Paul Ricoeur distinguishes between two layers temporality in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925): he calls them “monumental” time “mortal” time. The former is connected with authority British imperial politics; latter subjective, highly malleable human experience. But there another time, also active novel her oeuvre more gene...

Drawing on narrative theory and the notion of framing, this paper focused on the translated material from the Islamic Republic of Iran‟s media outlets in the website of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) to explore how this institute constructed its desired narratives about Iran in the context of the current tensions between Iran and the U.S. In so ...