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Showing and telling: The Difference that makes a Difference

LITERACY, Issue 3 2001
David Lewis
In this article I attempt to clarify an essential difference between the ways in which pictures and words convey meaning. Despite the fact that the distinction between showing and telling is widely understood and clearly marked in ordinary language, it is often ignored when writers and researchers provide accounts of how children's picturebooks work. As a result, such accounts are often unrealistic, providing distorted images of picturebook text. I briefly examine one such attempt to differentiate and characterise various types of picturebook and then conclude by showing how Anthony Browne exploits the distinction between showing and telling to create the atmosphere of uncertainty and mystery in his classic book Gorilla. [source]

An Epistemological Basis For Linking Philosophy and Literature

METAPHILOSOPHY, Issue 3 2002
Tzachi Zamir
In this article I attempt to present an explanation that integrates the five features needed for the cognitive (knowledge-yielding) linking of philosophy and literature. These features are, first, explaining how a literary work can support a general claim. Second, explaining what is uniquely gained through concentrating on such support patterns as they appear in aesthetic contexts in particular. Third, explaining how features of aesthetic response are connected with knowledge. Four, maintaining a distinction between manipulation and adequate persuasion. Five, achieving all this without invoking what David Novitz has called "a shamelessly functional and didactic view of literature." [source]

What's ,Social' about ,Social Capital'?

BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Issue 4 2004
John Michael Roberts
Debates around the concept of social capital are often also debates about the level at which social capital can be abstracted for analytical use. Yet while many theorists and commentators involved in these debates implicitly discuss the issue of abstraction it is rarely done explicitly. In this article I attempt to overcome this missing link in the social capital literature by theoretically examining the ,social' in ,social capital' through interconnected levels of abstraction. In particular, and at a high level of abstraction, I argue that social capital is underpinned by a contradictory relationship associated with what I term as ,isolated reciprocity'. At lower levels of abstraction I show how isolated reciprocity poses problems for the establishment of ,good' social capital in the UK. [source]

The molecular cell biology of head and neck cancer with clinical applications

CLINICAL OTOLARYNGOLOGY, Issue 5 2004
Section 1: Fundamental biology, the basis of cancer
This article addresses the subject of the fundamental workings of the cell. The essential mechanisms that underlie life are discussed and explained as succinctly as intelligibility will allow and the basic principles of molecular and cell biology detailed. In preparing this article I have made reference not only to standard works but also to the most recent research. In the article I attempt to provide both the surgical and medical head and neck oncologist with the basic insights into fundamental oncology necessary to understand and treat the clinical conditions that are head and neck cancer. In addition I hope it will facilitate the understanding of the various evolving novel treatment strategies. [source]