Twenty-First-Century Monasticism and Religious Life: Just Another New Millennium

Religion ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J.F. Keenan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
New Millennium

Orchestrators in their Own Words

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan R. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Close Relationships ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
First Century ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
New Millennium

This chapter looks closely at the practice of turning Sondheim’s original scores into fully realized orchestrations. Sondheim delivers his scores to his orchestrators with every note composed. While he has close relationships with his orchestrators and reviews every measure of the music with them, he does not involve himself in terms of specific instruments. The orchestras for the original Broadway productions of his shows had more musicians than producers are willing to fund in the twenty-first century. In the new millennium, Sondheim embraces the evolution of theatrical economics and consequently that of his shows’ orchestrations. He mentors and supports the reimagining of his works, thereby giving orchestrators and other theater artists the pleasant opportunity to learn and examine his works within their own more limited financial resources.

scholarly journals Twenty-First Century Male Elegance Amongst Elegantly-Dressing Polish Males and Self-Declared “Dandies”

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-92
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Maciejewski ◽  
Dawid Lesznik
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
First Century ◽  
Questionnaire Study ◽  
Market Segment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
New Millennium

Abstract Dandyism was a thriving philosophical and social movement amongst elegant men of the nineteenth century. The prevailing conviction in the literature on the subject is that the dandy trend began to gradually disappear in the twentieth century, whereas in the new millennium it essentially no longer exists, or at best exists only as a mere shadow of itself. Herein we report a questionnaire study of elegantly-dressing Polish males regarding their behaviour on the fashion market, seeking to gain an better image of this particular market segment and at the same time to identify the features of contemporary dandies and possible connections with the “metro” style. The results indicate that dandyism (at least in the respondents’ opinion) is still a lively and thriving e-consumer community, which clearly differs in terms of certain features from metrosexualism. However, the modern-day “dandies” cannot easily be considered heirs to the ideals of their nineteenth-century counterparts. Our findings, in particular the characterization of twenty-first-century elegant-dressing men in Poland, may be of use to fashion brands in the broader men’s elegance segment.

scholarly journals How to Recover Reality. Neo-Romantic Irony in Post-Postmodern American Fiction

2022 ◽  
pp. 26-42
Author(s):  
Jesús Bolaño Quintero
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
Previous Analysis ◽  
First Century ◽  
American Fiction ◽  
American Renaissance ◽  
Romantic Irony ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Way ◽  
New Millennium

Even though transcendentalism never ceased to be present in American culture, during the first decade of the twenty-first century, the gaze of artists and theorists turned to the ideas of the American Renaissance with a hope that had no place during the reign of postmodern irony. With this in mind, the purpose of this article is to discern the adequacy of Emerson’s philosophy for the recovery of realism through the transcendence of language and a new use of Romantic irony. The previous analysis will take us to the New Sincerity movement. The writers of the generation that followed in the wake of David Foster Wallace’s acted as a bridge between the postmodern and the post-postmodern narrative of the beginning of the new millennium. These young writers based their fiction on a critique of institutionalized irony in order to pave the way for the new post 9/11 novel.

The Religious Life of Greek Automata

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-136
Author(s):  
Clara Bosak-Schroeder
Keyword(s):  
Religious Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Religious Lives ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Time Changes ◽  
Mind Set

Abstract This paper examines the religious lives of Greek automata. An automaton is an object that has been constructed to move on its own.¹ I argue that ancient Greek automata at first had a solely magical life, later attained a mechanical life, and that this change from magical to mechanical allowed automata to proliferate in religious contexts. While automata were originally imagined as purely magical, the advent of advanced mechanics later in antiquity made it possible for automata to be realized and also caused Greeks in the Hellenistic and Roman ages to reinterpret magical automata as mechanical. Later Greeks’ projection of mechanical knowledge onto the magical automata of the past mirrors twentieth and twenty-first century scholars’ tendency to reinterpret ancient automata as “robots” in line with technological advances in their own time. Changes in mechanics in antiquity and the response of people to those changes leads me to advance the concept of “relative modernism.” I argue that modernism is a mind-set that recurs throughout history rather than one that emerges in a unique period of history.

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