Martin Ball
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Ball |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Ball |
| SIGNATURE | BALL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Department of Religious Studies University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Pleating of History: Weaving the Threads of Nationhood
As any etymologist knows, the word 'text' is derived from the past participle of the Latin verb texere, to weave. Text is therefore something that is 'woven'. It's a persuasive metaphor, to imagine writing in terms of the warp and weft of ideas and words, of narrative threads woven together to become a piece of fabric. The idea of history as fabric brings together a whole different set of tropes, not just of weaving, but of the very materiality o…
The Celtic Languages
Re‐reading bean's last paragraph
The last paragraph of C.E.W. Bean's Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–18 is one of the best known passages in the whole twelve volumes. With its rhetorical phrases and patriotic diction, the last paragraph strongly expresses links between Anzac and the nation. This article reveals that the ‘last paragraph’, published 1942, was in fact the first to be written, in 1919. It further details how Bean's original ideas were suppressed by …
Sacred Mountains, Religious Paradigms, and Identity Among the Mescalero Apache
This article carefully examines the roles that sacred mountains play in Mescalero Apache religious tradition and ''religious paradigms'' of sacred space and ceremonial practice. For the Mescalero, sacred mountains are intimately associated with conceptions of spiritual ecology, ceremonial traditions, prayer, and cultural identity. To understand these aspects of Mescalero tradition as they relate to cultural practices, this article focuses on the …
The Knots of Narrative: Space, Time, and Focalization in Morte Arthure
The Chronotope is the place where the knots of narrative are tied and untied.—Bakhtin
Intercultural communication at work in Australia: Complaints and apologies in turns
Fricative production in Broca's aphasia: A Spectrographic Analysis
Sacred Mountains, Religious Paradigms, and Identity Among the Mescalero Apache
This article carefully examines the roles that sacred mountains play in Mescalero Apache religious tradition and ''religious paradigms'' of sacred space and ceremonial practice. For the Mescalero, sacred mountains are intimately associated with conceptions of spiritual ecology, ceremonial traditions, prayer, and cultural identity. To understand these aspects of Mescalero tradition as they relate to cultural practices, this article focuses on the …
Re‐reading bean's last paragraph
The last paragraph of C.E.W. Bean's Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–18 is one of the best known passages in the whole twelve volumes. With its rhetorical phrases and patriotic diction, the last paragraph strongly expresses links between Anzac and the nation. This article reveals that the ‘last paragraph’, published 1942, was in fact the first to be written, in 1919. It further details how Bean's original ideas were suppressed by …
Intercultural communication at work in Australia: Complaints and apologies in turns
Fricative production in Broca's aphasia: A Spectrographic Analysis
Fricative production in Broca's aphasia: A Spectrographic Analysis
Intercultural communication at work in Australia: Complaints and apologies in turns
The Knots of Narrative: Space, Time, and Focalization in Morte Arthure
The Chronotope is the place where the knots of narrative are tied and untied.—Bakhtin
Sacred Mountains, Religious Paradigms, and Identity Among the Mescalero Apache
This article carefully examines the roles that sacred mountains play in Mescalero Apache religious tradition and ''religious paradigms'' of sacred space and ceremonial practice. For the Mescalero, sacred mountains are intimately associated with conceptions of spiritual ecology, ceremonial traditions, prayer, and cultural identity. To understand these aspects of Mescalero tradition as they relate to cultural practices, this article focuses on the …
Re‐reading bean's last paragraph
The last paragraph of C.E.W. Bean's Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–18 is one of the best known passages in the whole twelve volumes. With its rhetorical phrases and patriotic diction, the last paragraph strongly expresses links between Anzac and the nation. This article reveals that the ‘last paragraph’, published 1942, was in fact the first to be written, in 1919. It further details how Bean's original ideas were suppressed by …
The Celtic Languages
The Pleating of History: Weaving the Threads of Nationhood
As any etymologist knows, the word 'text' is derived from the past participle of the Latin verb texere, to weave. Text is therefore something that is 'woven'. It's a persuasive metaphor, to imagine writing in terms of the warp and weft of ideas and words, of narrative threads woven together to become a piece of fabric. The idea of history as fabric brings together a whole different set of tropes, not just of weaving, but of the very materiality o…
Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Australian History and Society (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)