partial, of self-affirmation, expression of self-respect, and expression of interest in oneself. Still, as Harriet Blodget, a scholar of women’s diaries, has noted, keeping a diary by women was often a form of silence: on the level of thematization the
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Monika Rudaś-Grodzka, Katarzyna Nadana-Sokołowska, Anna Borgos, and Dorottya Rédai
Gender Tutelage and Bulgarian Women’s Literature (1878–1944)
Valentina Mitkova
the infant child was viewed as a part of the woman’s love for herself. Such thematizing, unusual for its time, had to wait several years to be adequately evaluated. 17 Nencheva’s literary searches that were ahead of her time and the unfamilar female
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Concepts of Emotions in Indian Languages
Margrit Pernau
between rationality and emotions, as well as between discipline/asceticism and excess. Christina Oesterheld looks at early novels in Urdu, many of which were addressed to women or at least thematized female emotions in the context of the joint family. 27
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Eugenia Gay, Philipp Nielsen, Emanuel Richter, and Gregor Feindt
connected concepts, much in the manner of the idea of intertextuality, and therefore supports contextualization. László Kontler’s contribution is a thematization of translation as a problem of conceptual history, which opens the way to reconsidering of the
A World in the Making
Discovering the Future in the Hispanic World
Javier Fernández-Sebastián
Translator : Mark Hounsell
century, in fact, was the future thematized as such, becoming a specific object of analysis and speculation, which would give rise to a body of literature focused on questions related to time and temporality. A large proportion of these publications
Modern Women in a Modern State
Public Discourse in Interwar Yugoslavia on the Status of Women in Turkey (1923–1939)
Anđelko Vlašić
presents a qualitative analysis of the discourse embedded in books and newspaper articles published in Yugoslavia between 1923 and 1939 and thematizes the position of Turkish women during the interwar years. I argue that the breadth of interest of the
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Birgitta Bader-Zaar, Evguenia Davidova, Minja Bujaković, Milena Kirova, Malgorzata Fidelis, Stefano Petrungaro, Alexandra Talavar, Daniela Koleva, Rochelle Ruthchild, Vania Ivanova, Valentina Mitkova, Roxana L. Cazan, Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska, and Nadia Danova
representations of old age in literature, folklore, and popular culture. Rafaela Božić discusses the thematization of age in Soviet utopias and dystopias from the period before World War II. Since the body in this literature is an “ideological sign” (238), its
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as well as to cultivate women’s awareness of the value of their own gender. Henriette Partzsch, in “Connecting People, Inventing Communities in Faustina Sáez de Melgar’s Magazine La Violeta (Madrid, 1862–1866),” in turn, thematizes women’s press
Conceptual Explorations around “Politics”
Thematizing the Activity of Politics in the Plenary Debates of the German Bundestag
Kari Palonen
dedicated to the illocutionary uses that thematize the concept, to use Austinian 9 terms. The focus on thematizing uses of the concept, furthermore, allows us to reduce the range of the items in the corpus and to direct the main attention to more original
The Politics of Conceptual History
Kari Palonen
The author argues that conceptual history is becoming increasingly indispensable due to the historical trend in political practices to move from a politics of answers to given questions to a politics of thematizing the questions themselves, that is, of agenda-setting. The very understanding of a certain question as contingent and controversial marks a politicizing change in the agenda. From the perspective of the history of concepts, the formulation of questions themselves become politically key issues, given that rhetorical problems of the renaming and reinterpretation of the meaning, significance and normative color of concepts play a key role in the decisions regarding inclusion and exclusion. Assuming that concepts function as “pivots” in the contemporary controversy, there is at least some possibility for change in terms of rendering the controversy intelligible by means of the instruments of conceptual history. If conceptual history were ever to play a direct political role, it might concern teaching politicians the styles of both a conceptual reading of politics and a political reading of the uses of concepts.