On Modern Vernaculars and J. B. Jackson
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7464455 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gwendolyn Wright (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 474-482 |
| Publication date | 1998-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1931-0846.1998.tb00121.x |
| OpenAlex | W2040333458 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 6 |
J. B. Jackson's seemingly straightforward prose in fact represents a subtle intellectual strategy that combines critique with celebration. Affirming the craft of great narrative storytellers, he critiqued jargon and other vain displays of theoretical and historical knowledge (though he greatly valued both kinds of knowledge) and challenged the rigid categories of academic disciplines. This essay uses Jackson's ideas to subvert the artificial dichotomy between modernity and tradition, demonstrating instead how both concepts are in flux and dependent on one another. The domain of the everyday or "vernacular," never static or sentimental, embodies a hybridity based on ingenious adaptations to multiple constraints
Aesthetics · Art · Craft · Epistemology · Hybridity · Jargon · Linguistics · Literature · Modernity · Narrative · Sociology · Vernacular · Visual arts · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2013 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |