Postmodern metaphor
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Postmodern metaphor Carolyne Ali‑Khan1 Received: 3 May 2020 / Accepted: 2 June 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract Metaphors invite. They contribute to our ability to makes sense of experience as they bea‑ con us to make new (and sometimes playful) connections. In this text, I have created a postmodern metaphor, one willing to joyfully transgress disciplinary boundaries. Melding interviews, iconic images, snippets of academic text, poetry, and the power of metaphor, this festschrift “text” is at once visual, verbal, academic, accessible, and full of motion. Like the scholar whose work it honors (Ken Tobin), it gently pushes us into new questions about the lines we can draw between science and art. Keywords Festschrift · Visual studies · Postmodernism · Interdisciplinary text · Metaphor The accompanying text is a postmodern metaphor, in the form of a poem and a visual fest‑ schrift, highlighting the mentorship of science educator Dr. Ken Tobin. Festschrift: “a volume of writings by different authors presented as a tribute or memo‑ rial especially to a scholar” (Merriam Webster n.d.). Postmodern perspective: “celebrates cross disciplinary models, creative thinking, diver‑ sity and relativism” (Lewis 2008, p. 23).
* Carolyne Ali‑Khan c.ali‑[email protected] 1
UNF, Jacksonville, USA
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Recipe Flavor: Ken Tobin, Ph.D. Ingredients: • 1 voluminous, seasoned and robust corpus of academic scholarship (marinated and curated for over 50 years). • 15 interviews with colleagues, former doctoral students, peers (transcribed and selected). • 1 grounding visual metaphor (dragon) basted in hermeneutics. • 1 theoretical paring knife. • 1 sheet of word rain (authentic/organic) Tobin quotes. • 1 under-churning set of small waves (author reflections). • 1 numerical sprinkle of Google citations (measured). • 1 whisper of Blake’s Laocoön.
Directions: • Use paring knife to divide sections: strands of research limbs. major constructs spine. insights eyes. • Read: Rain from left to right and top to bottom, curl through limbs, eyes, waves and corpus. • Simmer, reflect, consume, repeat.
Best served as dessert.
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References Blake, W. (1826/7). Laocoön [Painting]. Fine Art America. Retrieved April 1, 2020, from https://fineartame rica.com/featured/laocoon-william-blake.html. Lewis, J. (2008). Cultural studies: The basics (2nd ed.). London and Thousand Oaks: Sage.
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C. Ali‑Khan Merriam Webster Dictionary. (n.d.). Festschrift. Retrieved December 5, 2019, from https://www.merriamwebster.com/dictionary/Festschrift. Tobin, K. (n.d.). Blog. Retrieved December 5, 2019, from http://kennethtobin.com/blog/. Tobin, K. (n.d.). Urban education faculty bios. Retrieved December 5, 2019, from http://www.gc.cuny.edu/ Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Urban-Education/FacultyBios/Kenneth-Tobin. Yeats, W. B. (1928) Among schoolchildren. Retrieved April 1, 2020, from http://poetry.about.com/od/poems /l/blyeatsam
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