Jonathan Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681509 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2571-2429 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Man Looks at the Outward Appearance, God Looks at the Heart
In this case study, we bring together literatures on identity and culture to examine the boundary work taking place within the United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI), a historically conservative denomination with a fundamentalist orientation toward Christian belief and practice. Our findings demonstrate that boundaries are subject to deviation-and even intentional alteration-at the local level. We introduce the concept of 'self-effacing b…
Stylistic Turbulence
Performing Masculinity in English University Drama, 1598–1636
Christopher Marlow. Performing Masculinity in English University Drama, 1598–1636. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. ix + 186 pp. $99.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-1019-5. - Volume 67 Issue 1
The design of Five Wounds
In recent ‘hybrid novels’, which incorporate illustrations and other visual material as an integral part of the narrative, design is not just a matter of typography and layout. Rather, design organises all the signifying elements on a page within an integrated system, so that form exemplifies content. In this reflective practitioner article, the author uses his novel Five Wounds as a case study of this approach to design
Let us burn the gondolas
Venice is usually presented as an anachronism: a ‘timeless’ or even anti-modern city, whose only practical use in the twenty-first century is as a catalogue of picturesque motifs (gondolas, reflected bridges, maskers). Precisely because of its exceptional nature, however, the city offers unique opportunities to rethink or question the idea of modernity. In this photographic essay, the city is presented as a place where people liveand work as well…
Locating the Queen's Men, 1583–1603
Helen M. Ostovich, Holger Schott Syme, and Andrew R. Griffin, eds. Locating the Queen's Men, 1583–1603: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. xiii + 269 pp. index. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6661–5. - Volume 63 Issue 1
Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Robert E. Stillman, ed. Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. xxiv + 258 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $120. ISBN: 90-04-14928-7. - Volume 60 Issue 1
Let's get lost
This article is inspired by Carlo Ginzburg and Adriano Prosperi's book Playing Patience [Giochi di pazienza]. It argues that narratives written by historians about past events should be presented as the result of a process, including all the false leads, dead ends and misunderstandings passed through along the way. Historians journey through archives, and should lay out the course of their itineraries. A case study involving seventeenth-century V…
A dialogue on spying in 17th-century Venice 1
This article is a dialogue on the role of spies in 17th-century Venetian culture. It discusses topics such as the circulation of information through different channels and media, legal notions of proof in relation to the evidence provided by spies, and the cultural meanings of secrecy
Shakespeare in Performance
Aden Insurgency
During the early 1960s the Cold War reached its climax. Britain's dwindling power in the Middle East was under siege from Arab nationalism, the Communist Bloc and from American designs in the region.Aden, with its strategic military base and old Protectorate buffer zone, was soon the main battleground. The 1962 Egyptianinspired coup in the neighbouring Kingdom of Yemen further tightened the noose. So began a bitter and bloody insurgency war in So…
Pistols! Murder! Treason
This article attempts to do a number of things: Firstly, it describes the assassination of a priest called Giulio Cazzari in Venice in 1622, using the reports of a spy named Gerolamo Vano as a principal source. It confronts the distance between the experience of death and the representation of death, and explores possible connections between our understanding of death and our understanding of time. It uses formal experimentation and deliberate an…
The Transtextuality of Transvestite Sainthood
The very thought that I am a woman is enough to make my wings droop.— Saint Teresa, The Life of Saint TeresaThe true nature, genre, of a writing is often far from obvious....—Hippolyte Delehaye, The Legends of the SaintsThe question of the literary genre is not a formal one: it covers the motif of the law in general, of generation in the natural and symbolic senses, of birth in the natural and symbolic senses, of the generation difference, sexual…
The Transtextuality of Transvestite Sainthood
The very thought that I am a woman is enough to make my wings droop.— Saint Teresa, The Life of Saint TeresaThe true nature, genre, of a writing is often far from obvious....—Hippolyte Delehaye, The Legends of the SaintsThe question of the literary genre is not a formal one: it covers the motif of the law in general, of generation in the natural and symbolic senses, of birth in the natural and symbolic senses, of the generation difference, sexual…
I spy with my little eye
This article examines the reports written by Gerolamo Vano, a spy working in early seventeenth-century Venice. It concentrates on their form rather than their content in a attempt to assess Vano's story-telling skills. It is also an experiment in historical story-telling, which departs from some of the conventions of academic writing and embraces the melodramatic qualities of Vano's writing. In short, the article's form is used to comment allegor…
James Ellroy as Historical Novelist
Journal Article James Ellroy as Historical Novelist Get access Jonathan Walker Jonathan Walker Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 53, Issue 1, SPRING 2002, Pages 181–204, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/53.1.181 Published: 01 March 2002
Legal and Political Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Venice
In a recent CSSH article, Jutta Sperling argued that in early modern Venice, political theory was a hermetically enclosed linguistic system, characterized by paradoxes and tautologies. In what we might describe as a 'deconstruction' of the so-called 'myth of Venice,' Sperling argued that it collapses under the weight of its own internal contradictions, which reveal it to be 'non-sensical.' The insistence that Venice was a perfect state not only p…
Antonio Foscarini in the City of Crossed Destinies
This article concerns ambassadors and spies in seventeenth-century Venice and London. It was the result of attempts to find a form appropriate to a story plagued with riddles, contradictions and uncertainties, in which the author's attempts to interpret the evidence shadowed earlier attempts by seventeenth-century commentators. This is a story in which the conventions of 'empirical' history proved inadequate to answer the questions raised by frag…
Antonio Foscarini in the City of Crossed Destinies
This article concerns ambassadors and spies in seventeenth-century Venice and London. It was the result of attempts to find a form appropriate to a story plagued with riddles, contradictions and uncertainties, in which the author's attempts to interpret the evidence shadowed earlier attempts by seventeenth-century commentators. This is a story in which the conventions of 'empirical' history proved inadequate to answer the questions raised by frag…
The Deconstruction of Musicology
This essay is a critical examination of the claims of deconstruction and “textuality.” The three sections of the argument concern: I. Derrida, in one of his most frequently cited deconstructions; II. the problems of Saussurean semantics and post-structuralist textuality; III. broadly deconstructive strategies to be found in musicological writings
Intonational Injustice
Just intonation is commonly dismissed as an impractical, utopian system which could not have had any role to play in the performance of Renaissance vocal polyphony. In the present essay, I attempt to refute this item of received wisdom by providing a theoretical model of a practicable just intonation system, a model which overcomes many of the traditional objections through its flexibility and pragmatism . I argue that other objections result fro…
Pistols! Murder! Treason
This article attempts to do a number of things: Firstly, it describes the assassination of a priest called Giulio Cazzari in Venice in 1622, using the reports of a spy named Gerolamo Vano as a principal source. It confronts the distance between the experience of death and the representation of death, and explores possible connections between our understanding of death and our understanding of time. It uses formal experimentation and deliberate an…
Antonio Foscarini in the City of Crossed Destinies
This article concerns ambassadors and spies in seventeenth-century Venice and London. It was the result of attempts to find a form appropriate to a story plagued with riddles, contradictions and uncertainties, in which the author's attempts to interpret the evidence shadowed earlier attempts by seventeenth-century commentators. This is a story in which the conventions of 'empirical' history proved inadequate to answer the questions raised by frag…
Let us burn the gondolas
Venice is usually presented as an anachronism: a ‘timeless’ or even anti-modern city, whose only practical use in the twenty-first century is as a catalogue of picturesque motifs (gondolas, reflected bridges, maskers). Precisely because of its exceptional nature, however, the city offers unique opportunities to rethink or question the idea of modernity. In this photographic essay, the city is presented as a place where people liveand work as well…
Man Looks at the Outward Appearance, God Looks at the Heart
In this case study, we bring together literatures on identity and culture to examine the boundary work taking place within the United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI), a historically conservative denomination with a fundamentalist orientation toward Christian belief and practice. Our findings demonstrate that boundaries are subject to deviation-and even intentional alteration-at the local level. We introduce the concept of 'self-effacing b…
Let's get lost
This article is inspired by Carlo Ginzburg and Adriano Prosperi's book Playing Patience [Giochi di pazienza]. It argues that narratives written by historians about past events should be presented as the result of a process, including all the false leads, dead ends and misunderstandings passed through along the way. Historians journey through archives, and should lay out the course of their itineraries. A case study involving seventeenth-century V…
A dialogue on spying in 17th-century Venice 1
This article is a dialogue on the role of spies in 17th-century Venetian culture. It discusses topics such as the circulation of information through different channels and media, legal notions of proof in relation to the evidence provided by spies, and the cultural meanings of secrecy
The Transtextuality of Transvestite Sainthood
The very thought that I am a woman is enough to make my wings droop.— Saint Teresa, The Life of Saint TeresaThe true nature, genre, of a writing is often far from obvious....—Hippolyte Delehaye, The Legends of the SaintsThe question of the literary genre is not a formal one: it covers the motif of the law in general, of generation in the natural and symbolic senses, of birth in the natural and symbolic senses, of the generation difference, sexual…
I spy with my little eye
This article examines the reports written by Gerolamo Vano, a spy working in early seventeenth-century Venice. It concentrates on their form rather than their content in a attempt to assess Vano's story-telling skills. It is also an experiment in historical story-telling, which departs from some of the conventions of academic writing and embraces the melodramatic qualities of Vano's writing. In short, the article's form is used to comment allegor…
The Deconstruction of Musicology
This essay is a critical examination of the claims of deconstruction and “textuality.” The three sections of the argument concern: I. Derrida, in one of his most frequently cited deconstructions; II. the problems of Saussurean semantics and post-structuralist textuality; III. broadly deconstructive strategies to be found in musicological writings
Intonational Injustice
Just intonation is commonly dismissed as an impractical, utopian system which could not have had any role to play in the performance of Renaissance vocal polyphony. In the present essay, I attempt to refute this item of received wisdom by providing a theoretical model of a practicable just intonation system, a model which overcomes many of the traditional objections through its flexibility and pragmatism . I argue that other objections result fro…
Antonio Foscarini in the City of Crossed Destinies
This article concerns ambassadors and spies in seventeenth-century Venice and London. It was the result of attempts to find a form appropriate to a story plagued with riddles, contradictions and uncertainties, in which the author's attempts to interpret the evidence shadowed earlier attempts by seventeenth-century commentators. This is a story in which the conventions of 'empirical' history proved inadequate to answer the questions raised by frag…
Antonio Foscarini in the City of Crossed Destinies
This article concerns ambassadors and spies in seventeenth-century Venice and London. It was the result of attempts to find a form appropriate to a story plagued with riddles, contradictions and uncertainties, in which the author's attempts to interpret the evidence shadowed earlier attempts by seventeenth-century commentators. This is a story in which the conventions of 'empirical' history proved inadequate to answer the questions raised by frag…
I spy with my little eye
This article examines the reports written by Gerolamo Vano, a spy working in early seventeenth-century Venice. It concentrates on their form rather than their content in a attempt to assess Vano's story-telling skills. It is also an experiment in historical story-telling, which departs from some of the conventions of academic writing and embraces the melodramatic qualities of Vano's writing. In short, the article's form is used to comment allegor…
James Ellroy as Historical Novelist
Journal Article James Ellroy as Historical Novelist Get access Jonathan Walker Jonathan Walker Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 53, Issue 1, SPRING 2002, Pages 181–204, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/53.1.181 Published: 01 March 2002
Legal and Political Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Venice
In a recent CSSH article, Jutta Sperling argued that in early modern Venice, political theory was a hermetically enclosed linguistic system, characterized by paradoxes and tautologies. In what we might describe as a 'deconstruction' of the so-called 'myth of Venice,' Sperling argued that it collapses under the weight of its own internal contradictions, which reveal it to be 'non-sensical.' The insistence that Venice was a perfect state not only p…
Aden Insurgency
During the early 1960s the Cold War reached its climax. Britain's dwindling power in the Middle East was under siege from Arab nationalism, the Communist Bloc and from American designs in the region.Aden, with its strategic military base and old Protectorate buffer zone, was soon the main battleground. The 1962 Egyptianinspired coup in the neighbouring Kingdom of Yemen further tightened the noose. So began a bitter and bloody insurgency war in So…
Pistols! Murder! Treason
This article attempts to do a number of things: Firstly, it describes the assassination of a priest called Giulio Cazzari in Venice in 1622, using the reports of a spy named Gerolamo Vano as a principal source. It confronts the distance between the experience of death and the representation of death, and explores possible connections between our understanding of death and our understanding of time. It uses formal experimentation and deliberate an…
The Transtextuality of Transvestite Sainthood
The very thought that I am a woman is enough to make my wings droop.— Saint Teresa, The Life of Saint TeresaThe true nature, genre, of a writing is often far from obvious....—Hippolyte Delehaye, The Legends of the SaintsThe question of the literary genre is not a formal one: it covers the motif of the law in general, of generation in the natural and symbolic senses, of birth in the natural and symbolic senses, of the generation difference, sexual…
The Transtextuality of Transvestite Sainthood
The very thought that I am a woman is enough to make my wings droop.— Saint Teresa, The Life of Saint TeresaThe true nature, genre, of a writing is often far from obvious....—Hippolyte Delehaye, The Legends of the SaintsThe question of the literary genre is not a formal one: it covers the motif of the law in general, of generation in the natural and symbolic senses, of birth in the natural and symbolic senses, of the generation difference, sexual…
Shakespeare in Performance
Let's get lost
This article is inspired by Carlo Ginzburg and Adriano Prosperi's book Playing Patience [Giochi di pazienza]. It argues that narratives written by historians about past events should be presented as the result of a process, including all the false leads, dead ends and misunderstandings passed through along the way. Historians journey through archives, and should lay out the course of their itineraries. A case study involving seventeenth-century V…
A dialogue on spying in 17th-century Venice 1
This article is a dialogue on the role of spies in 17th-century Venetian culture. It discusses topics such as the circulation of information through different channels and media, legal notions of proof in relation to the evidence provided by spies, and the cultural meanings of secrecy
Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Robert E. Stillman, ed. Spectacle and Public Performance in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. xxiv + 258 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $120. ISBN: 90-04-14928-7. - Volume 60 Issue 1
Locating the Queen's Men, 1583–1603
Helen M. Ostovich, Holger Schott Syme, and Andrew R. Griffin, eds. Locating the Queen's Men, 1583–1603: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. xiii + 269 pp. index. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978–0–7546–6661–5. - Volume 63 Issue 1
Let us burn the gondolas
Venice is usually presented as an anachronism: a ‘timeless’ or even anti-modern city, whose only practical use in the twenty-first century is as a catalogue of picturesque motifs (gondolas, reflected bridges, maskers). Precisely because of its exceptional nature, however, the city offers unique opportunities to rethink or question the idea of modernity. In this photographic essay, the city is presented as a place where people liveand work as well…
The design of Five Wounds
In recent ‘hybrid novels’, which incorporate illustrations and other visual material as an integral part of the narrative, design is not just a matter of typography and layout. Rather, design organises all the signifying elements on a page within an integrated system, so that form exemplifies content. In this reflective practitioner article, the author uses his novel Five Wounds as a case study of this approach to design
Performing Masculinity in English University Drama, 1598–1636
Christopher Marlow. Performing Masculinity in English University Drama, 1598–1636. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. ix + 186 pp. $99.95. ISBN: 978-1-4094-1019-5. - Volume 67 Issue 1
Stylistic Turbulence
Man Looks at the Outward Appearance, God Looks at the Heart
In this case study, we bring together literatures on identity and culture to examine the boundary work taking place within the United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI), a historically conservative denomination with a fundamentalist orientation toward Christian belief and practice. Our findings demonstrate that boundaries are subject to deviation-and even intentional alteration-at the local level. We introduce the concept of 'self-effacing b…
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