Keith Dickson
Biographic Data
| ID | 985330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Dickson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Dickson |
| SIGNATURE | DICKSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brunel University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1020-6371 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Kairios and Kairos: Walls and Ways in Homer
A study of the four instances of the adjective καίριος in Homer confirms what is traditionally taken to be the term's reference to a vulnerable site or place on the body, "un lieu critique" (Trédé 1992). At the same time, it suggests that even within this limited range of meaning, καίριος also implicitly incorporates connotations that only later emerge in the history of the noun καιρός, which does not appear in Homer. That conclusion is supported…
Emotions, performance and entrepreneurship in the context of fringe theatre
Through a study of small scale independent theatre companies, generally known as ‘fringe’, this article explores how passion is drawn on and activated as company founders seek an outlet for their work. Drawing on a social constructionist approach to emotions, we highlight the multiplicity of passion through its positive and negative dimensions as well as how these may intersect. Further, by positioning passion within a set of power relations we p…
Institutional strategies for capturing socio-economic impact of academic research
Evaluation of socio-economic impact is an emerging theme for publicly-funded academic research. Within this context the paper suggests that the concept of institutional research capital be expanded to include the capture and evaluation of socio-economic impact. Furthermore, it argues that understanding the typology of impacts and the tracking from research to impact will assist the formulation of institutional strategies for capturing socio-econo…
The Wall of Uruk: Iconicities in Gilgamesh
The Wall of Uruk: Iconicities in Gilgamesh". This article examines the invitation in the SV prologue to Gilgamesh (I 1-28) as a device to engage the reader in a series of iconic acts that aim to preserve heroic glory. Since two artifacts in particular—the wall of Uruk and the inscribed tablet—mediate these acts, I investigate the nature of artifacts in general in the poem, and specifically focus on three: the corpse of Enkidu, his funeral statue,…
Oneself as Others: Aurelius and Autobiography
Scholarship finds the autobiographical Book 1 of Aurelius’s Meditations peculiar in that it (1) lacks direct enunciation of the self , and (2) focuses instead on the description of others , who (3) are themselves stripped of biographical content. Philippe Lejeune’s claim that autobiography aims to construct the account of a life whose diachronicity is completely effaced by its meaning helps make sense of these anomalies. The same aim also motivat…
Enki and Ninhursag: The Trickster in Paradise
Teleworking practice in small and medium-sized firms: Management style and worker autonomy
In an empirical study of teleworking practices in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in west London, organisational factors such as management attitudes, worker autonomy and employment flexibility were found to be more critical than technological provision in facilitating successful implementation. Consequently, we argue that telework in most SMEs appears as a marginal activity performed mainly by managers and specialist mobile workers
The Terrorism Reader
World Conflicts: A Comprehensive Guide to World Strife since 1945
The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan
volume puts a face on the Soviet Afghan experience and begins to add flesh and blood to our previously skeletal appreciation of the war ... book provides a revealing portrait of war in general, in particular, and, coincidentally, the soldiers human condition. David M Glantz Military History Illustrated-This is interesting and unusual book from Cass, composed of several reports written by Soviet junior officers describing their experiences fightin…
Voice and Sign in Pindar
We all secretly venerate the ideal of a language which in the last analysis would deliver us from language by delivering us to things. M. Merleau-Ponty, The Prose of the World In a study published some years ago, J.-P. Vernant drew attention to the fundamental distinction Greek thought makes between spoken and all other modes of divination. It is a difference that reflects certain givens of ancient social and political structure, and that has its…
Damasiphrōn Khrusos: Act, Implement and Tekhnē in Pindar
And so, I said, the art of medicine does not look to the advantage of medicine but rather to that of the body. — Yes, he answered. — Neither does horsemanship look to benefit itself but rather horses. Nor does any other art look to its own advantage, for it has no need to, but instead that of its object. (Plato, Republic 342c.1-6) Few things emerge more clearly from Pindar, despite the praise of successful human action to which the odes are devot…
In Defence of ‘Comparative’ Criticism
Background to the Problem of Economic Development in Northern Ghana
Northern Ghana is Ghana's problem region. It is a large area accounting for about half the total land surface of Ghana, yet it is the least developed part of the country. It would be futile to seek to explain the lack of economic development in the region mainly with reference to the problems of the savanna environment, which indeed are no more serious than in many other parts of West Africa where there has been greater economic development. The …
The Temporal Structure of Die Wahlverwandtschaften
NotesThe Structure of the Novel (1938), p. 62.I. 1; II. 12; II. 7. In no case is the description graphic enough to merit the term “episode.” Other deviations might be the letters from the Pension, and Ottilie's journal. The former are, however, largely concerned with contemporary rather than with past events; the latter scarcely treats events at all, and even the restoration of the chapel and Luciane's visit pass into the journal as generalised, …
Evolution of Seaports in Ghana: 1800–1928
Before the opening of the first artificial harbor at Takoradi in 1928. Ghana possessed numerous surf ports, most of which originated early through European trade contacts with the coast. Subsequent disappearance or survival of ports depended on the changes in speed and direction of the country's economic development. Finally, the flourishing economy of the 1920′s made the construction of a modern port imperative, and most surf ports disappeared a…
Background to the Problem of Economic Development in Northern Ghana
Northern Ghana is Ghana's problem region. It is a large area accounting for about half the total land surface of Ghana, yet it is the least developed part of the country. It would be futile to seek to explain the lack of economic development in the region mainly with reference to the problems of the savanna environment, which indeed are no more serious than in many other parts of West Africa where there has been greater economic development. The …
Teleworking practice in small and medium-sized firms: Management style and worker autonomy
In an empirical study of teleworking practices in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in west London, organisational factors such as management attitudes, worker autonomy and employment flexibility were found to be more critical than technological provision in facilitating successful implementation. Consequently, we argue that telework in most SMEs appears as a marginal activity performed mainly by managers and specialist mobile workers
Evolution of Seaports in Ghana: 1800–1928
Before the opening of the first artificial harbor at Takoradi in 1928. Ghana possessed numerous surf ports, most of which originated early through European trade contacts with the coast. Subsequent disappearance or survival of ports depended on the changes in speed and direction of the country's economic development. Finally, the flourishing economy of the 1920′s made the construction of a modern port imperative, and most surf ports disappeared a…
Oneself as Others: Aurelius and Autobiography
Scholarship finds the autobiographical Book 1 of Aurelius’s Meditations peculiar in that it (1) lacks direct enunciation of the self , and (2) focuses instead on the description of others , who (3) are themselves stripped of biographical content. Philippe Lejeune’s claim that autobiography aims to construct the account of a life whose diachronicity is completely effaced by its meaning helps make sense of these anomalies. The same aim also motivat…
Enki and Ninhursag: The Trickster in Paradise
Institutional strategies for capturing socio-economic impact of academic research
Evaluation of socio-economic impact is an emerging theme for publicly-funded academic research. Within this context the paper suggests that the concept of institutional research capital be expanded to include the capture and evaluation of socio-economic impact. Furthermore, it argues that understanding the typology of impacts and the tracking from research to impact will assist the formulation of institutional strategies for capturing socio-econo…
The Wall of Uruk: Iconicities in Gilgamesh
The Wall of Uruk: Iconicities in Gilgamesh". This article examines the invitation in the SV prologue to Gilgamesh (I 1-28) as a device to engage the reader in a series of iconic acts that aim to preserve heroic glory. Since two artifacts in particular—the wall of Uruk and the inscribed tablet—mediate these acts, I investigate the nature of artifacts in general in the poem, and specifically focus on three: the corpse of Enkidu, his funeral statue,…
Evolution of Seaports in Ghana: 1800–1928
Before the opening of the first artificial harbor at Takoradi in 1928. Ghana possessed numerous surf ports, most of which originated early through European trade contacts with the coast. Subsequent disappearance or survival of ports depended on the changes in speed and direction of the country's economic development. Finally, the flourishing economy of the 1920′s made the construction of a modern port imperative, and most surf ports disappeared a…
The Temporal Structure of Die Wahlverwandtschaften
NotesThe Structure of the Novel (1938), p. 62.I. 1; II. 12; II. 7. In no case is the description graphic enough to merit the term “episode.” Other deviations might be the letters from the Pension, and Ottilie's journal. The former are, however, largely concerned with contemporary rather than with past events; the latter scarcely treats events at all, and even the restoration of the chapel and Luciane's visit pass into the journal as generalised, …
Background to the Problem of Economic Development in Northern Ghana
Northern Ghana is Ghana's problem region. It is a large area accounting for about half the total land surface of Ghana, yet it is the least developed part of the country. It would be futile to seek to explain the lack of economic development in the region mainly with reference to the problems of the savanna environment, which indeed are no more serious than in many other parts of West Africa where there has been greater economic development. The …
In Defence of ‘Comparative’ Criticism
Damasiphrōn Khrusos: Act, Implement and Tekhnē in Pindar
And so, I said, the art of medicine does not look to the advantage of medicine but rather to that of the body. — Yes, he answered. — Neither does horsemanship look to benefit itself but rather horses. Nor does any other art look to its own advantage, for it has no need to, but instead that of its object. (Plato, Republic 342c.1-6) Few things emerge more clearly from Pindar, despite the praise of successful human action to which the odes are devot…
Voice and Sign in Pindar
We all secretly venerate the ideal of a language which in the last analysis would deliver us from language by delivering us to things. M. Merleau-Ponty, The Prose of the World In a study published some years ago, J.-P. Vernant drew attention to the fundamental distinction Greek thought makes between spoken and all other modes of divination. It is a difference that reflects certain givens of ancient social and political structure, and that has its…
The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan
volume puts a face on the Soviet Afghan experience and begins to add flesh and blood to our previously skeletal appreciation of the war ... book provides a revealing portrait of war in general, in particular, and, coincidentally, the soldiers human condition. David M Glantz Military History Illustrated-This is interesting and unusual book from Cass, composed of several reports written by Soviet junior officers describing their experiences fightin…
World Conflicts: A Comprehensive Guide to World Strife since 1945
The Terrorism Reader
Teleworking practice in small and medium-sized firms: Management style and worker autonomy
In an empirical study of teleworking practices in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in west London, organisational factors such as management attitudes, worker autonomy and employment flexibility were found to be more critical than technological provision in facilitating successful implementation. Consequently, we argue that telework in most SMEs appears as a marginal activity performed mainly by managers and specialist mobile workers
Enki and Ninhursag: The Trickster in Paradise
The Wall of Uruk: Iconicities in Gilgamesh
The Wall of Uruk: Iconicities in Gilgamesh". This article examines the invitation in the SV prologue to Gilgamesh (I 1-28) as a device to engage the reader in a series of iconic acts that aim to preserve heroic glory. Since two artifacts in particular—the wall of Uruk and the inscribed tablet—mediate these acts, I investigate the nature of artifacts in general in the poem, and specifically focus on three: the corpse of Enkidu, his funeral statue,…
Oneself as Others: Aurelius and Autobiography
Scholarship finds the autobiographical Book 1 of Aurelius’s Meditations peculiar in that it (1) lacks direct enunciation of the self , and (2) focuses instead on the description of others , who (3) are themselves stripped of biographical content. Philippe Lejeune’s claim that autobiography aims to construct the account of a life whose diachronicity is completely effaced by its meaning helps make sense of these anomalies. The same aim also motivat…
Institutional strategies for capturing socio-economic impact of academic research
Evaluation of socio-economic impact is an emerging theme for publicly-funded academic research. Within this context the paper suggests that the concept of institutional research capital be expanded to include the capture and evaluation of socio-economic impact. Furthermore, it argues that understanding the typology of impacts and the tracking from research to impact will assist the formulation of institutional strategies for capturing socio-econo…
Emotions, performance and entrepreneurship in the context of fringe theatre
Through a study of small scale independent theatre companies, generally known as ‘fringe’, this article explores how passion is drawn on and activated as company founders seek an outlet for their work. Drawing on a social constructionist approach to emotions, we highlight the multiplicity of passion through its positive and negative dimensions as well as how these may intersect. Further, by positioning passion within a set of power relations we p…
Kairios and Kairos: Walls and Ways in Homer
A study of the four instances of the adjective καίριος in Homer confirms what is traditionally taken to be the term's reference to a vulnerable site or place on the body, "un lieu critique" (Trédé 1992). At the same time, it suggests that even within this limited range of meaning, καίριος also implicitly incorporates connotations that only later emerge in the history of the noun καιρός, which does not appear in Homer. That conclusion is supported…
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