Contest(ed) Writing

Contest(ed) Writing
Author: Mary Lamb
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2013-01-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1443845477

This collection is about writing contests, a vibrant rhetorical practice traceable to rhetorical performances in ancient Greece. In their discussion of contests’ cultural work, the scholars who have contributed to this collection uncover important questions about our practices. For example, educational contests as epideictic rhetoric do indeed celebrate writing, but does this celebration merely relieve educators of the responsibility of finding ways for all writers to succeed? Contests designed to reward single winners and singly-authored works admirably celebrate hard work, but do they over-emphasize exceptional individual achievement over shared goals and communal reward for success? Taking a cultural-rhetorical approach to contests, each chapter demonstrates the cultural work the contests accomplish. The essays in Part I examine contests and riddles in classical Greek and Roman periods, educational contests in eighteenth-century Scotland, and the Lyceum movement in the Antebellum American South. The next set of essays discusses how contests leverage competition and reward in educational settings: medieval universities, American turn-of-the-century women’s colleges, twenty-first century scholarship-essay contests, and writing contests for speakers of other languages at the University of Portsmouth. The last set of essays examines popular contests, including poetry contests in Youth Spoken Word, popular American contests designed by marketers, and twenty-first century podcasting competitions. This collection, then, takes up contests as a cultural marker of our values, assumptions, and relationships to writing, contests, and competition.

The Contest

The Contest
Author: Shirley Lauro
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2000
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781557833686

A three act play.

Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy

Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy
Author: Herman Siemens
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1350066974

While Nietzsche's works and ideas are relevant across the many branches of philosophy, the themes of contest and conflict have been mostly overlooked. Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy redresses this situation, arguing for the importance of these issues throughout Nietzsche's work. The volume has three key lines of inquiry: Nietzsche's ontology of conflict; Nietzsche's conception of the agon; and Nietzsche's warrior-philosophy. Under these three umbrellas is a collection of insightful and provocative essays considering, among other topics, Nietzsche's understanding of resistance; his engagement with classical thinkers alongside his contemporaries, including Jacob Burckhardt; his views on language, metaphor and aphorism; and war, revolt and terror. In bringing together such topics, Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy seeks to correct the one-sided tendencies within the existing literature to read simply 'hard' and 'soft' analyses of conflict. Written by scholars across the Anglophone and the European traditions, within and beyond philosophy, this collection emphasises the entire problematic of conflict in Nietzsche's thought and its relation to his philosophical and literary practice.

The Mothers

The Mothers
Author: Robert Stephen Briffault
Publisher:
Total Pages: 866
Release: 1927
Genre: Anthropology
ISBN:

The Contest for Time and Space in the Roman Imperial Cults and 1 Peter

The Contest for Time and Space in the Roman Imperial Cults and 1 Peter
Author: Wei Hsien Wan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2019-10-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567684474

Wei Hsien Wan builds on the work of David Horrell and Travis Williams for his argument that the letter of 1 Peter engages in a subtle, calculated form of resistance to Rome, that has often gone undetected. Whilst previous discussion of the topic has remained largely focused on the letter's stance toward specific Roman institutions, such as the emperor, household structures, and the imperial cults, Wan takes the conversation beyond these confines and examines 1 Peter's critique of the Roman Empire in terms of its ideology or worldview. Using the work of James Scott to conceptualize ideological resistance against domination, Wan considers how the imperial cults of Anatolia and 1 Peter offered distinct constructions of time and space-that is, how they envisioned reality differently. Insofar as these differences led to divergent ways of conceiving the social order, they acquired political power and generated potential for conflict. Wan thus argues that 1 Peter confronts Rome on a cosmic scale with its alternative construal of time and space, and examines the evidence that the Petrine author consciously, if cautiously, interrogated the imperial imagination at its most foundational levels, and set forth in its place a theocentric, Christological understanding of the world.

Homer's Contest

Homer's Contest
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher: Livraria Press
Total Pages: 92
Release:
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3689382270

Homer's Contest is a manuscript drafted by Nietzsche, but only published by his estate after he died. It was dated 1872 and was first published in 1901 under the title "Nachgelassene Fragmente" by his sister, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, along with other scholars. It was then re-published in various formats after that; including in a series titled "Gesammelte Werke" (Collected Works), later reorganized and expanded into the "Gesamtausgabe" (Complete Edition), which included comprehensive collections of Nietzsche's notebooks and other writings from various periods of his life. Here Nietzsche postulates that the heights of human potential, including our capacity for cruelty, are as natural as any of our more laudable traits and essential to the development of what we call "humanity". He states that the Greeks exhibited profound cruelty, a trait vividly personified in historical figures such as Alexander the Great and in mythological narratives. The essay emphasizes that such cruel impulses were not anomalies but fundamental to the Greek character and essential to their cultural achievements, as evidenced by their mythology and historical actions such as the treatment of conquered cities and the iconography in Greek art, which often depicted scenes of intense violence and struggle. He then moves backwards to the origins of Hellenic culture in the "pre-Homeric" world, which is portrayed as even more savage and unfathomable, which is embodied in the Homeric epics. The transformation suggests a sublimation of direct violence into artistic and cultural competition that nevertheless retained an element of the earlier harshness. Nietzsche continues his early 1870 work "The Florentine Treatise on Homer and Hesiod" here in Homer's Contest and emphasizes the distinction introduced in Hesiod's works between two types of the goddess Eris (strife), symbolizing the dual nature of competition: one destructive and one constructive. This is a development towards his meta-psychological archetypal concept of the apollonian and dionysian. He argues that Greek society viewed both types of strife as essential, with the positive aspect driving social progress through competition and excellence. This contrast creates the beauty of Greek aesthetics. This new 2024 translation from the original German, Latin and Greek manuscript contains a new Afterword by the translator, a timeline of Nietzsche's life and works, an index with descriptions of his core concepts and summaries of his complete body of works. This translation is designed to allow the armchair philosopher to engage deeply with Nietzsche's works without having to be a full-time Academic. The language is modern and clean, with simplified sentence structures and diction to make Nietzsche's complex language and arguments as accessible as possible. This Reader's Edition also contains extra material that amplifies the manuscript with autobiographical, historical and linguistic context. This provides the reader a holistic view of this very enigmatic philosopher as both an introduction and an exploration of Nietzsche's works; from his general understanding of his philosophic project to an exploration of the depths of his metaphysics and unique contributions. This edition contains: • An Afterword by the Translator on the history, impact and intellectual legacy of Nietzsche • Translation notes on the original German manuscript • An index of Philosophical concepts used by Nietzsche with a focus on Existentialism and Phenomenology • A complete chronological list of Nietzsche's entire body of works • A detailed timeline of Nietzsche's life journey