scholarly journals Contemporary Judeo–Spanish Poetry for Young Readers

Author(s):  
Agnieszka August-Zarębska

AbstractThis article presents contemporary Judeo-Spanish poetry for children in the context of the postvernacular mode (when the language is not used any more in everyday communication) of the language. It discusses the poetry collections of three authors who have published Judeo-Spanish poems in the twenty-first century: Ada Gattegno-Saltiel, Avner Perez, and Sarah Aroeste, as well as the project Yeladino, which is an anthology of Judeo-Spanish translations of Hebrew poems. It analyses the books and projects in terms of their subject matter, language, and poetic devices, as well as the relation of some of them with music, theatre-music performance, and educational activities. The paper raises the question of audience of this poetry, allowing for the fact that nowadays there are no children learning Judeo-Spanish as their first language, and that the language itself is considered severely endangered. The paper states the presence of the dual address in these books, i.e. to children and adults, both on the level of implied and real audience.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Preis

In the article, I argue that federal causes of action ought to be treated as (1) distinct from substantive rights, (2) synonymous with the availability of a remedy (but not whether a remedy will in fact issue) and (3) distinct from subject matter jurisdiction (unless Congress instructs otherwise). This thesis is built principally on a historical recounting of the cause of action from eighteenth century England to twenty-first century America. In taking an historical approach, I did not mean to argue that federal courts are bound to adhere to centuries-old conceptions of the cause of action. I merely used history to show why the cause of action has taken on various identities and, further, why these identities have changed over time. By closely attending to these changes, we can better determine whether linguistic changes signal substantive changes in doctrine, or are simply loose language.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Elyse Dalabakis

<p>This project focuses on Dimitris Dragatakis (1914–2001), his legacy, and Concerto for Viola in the twenty-first century. The research examines the following overarching questions within interlaced scholarly and creative components of the dissertation:   How can we use twenty-first-century digital tools to promote Dimitris Dragatakis, one of Greece’s most important modern composers, to advance his legacy including, importantly, his Concerto for Viola, and to assist future scholars and performers in accessing information about his life and music?  This dissertation discusses the digital tools and processes used to advance the legacy of Dimitris Dragatakis and to promote his Concerto for Viola. These tools and processes include creating and publishing the Dragatakis Archive Digital Database website, recording interviews with the Dragatakis family and leading Dragatakis scholar, and using his Concerto for Viola (1992) as a digital case study. The digital case study demonstrates how twenty-first-century performers, scholars, and archivists might approach advancing the works of lesser-known composers through digital media. In this case study, a new viola and piano performance edition and percussion chamber music performance edition are offered, a new digital orchestra score along with complete orchestral parts is made available, interview material with the violist who premiered the work has been recorded, and the recently unearthed premiere performance recording of the work from the Dragatakis archive has been included in an interactive video created by the researcher. This project also aims to provide a model for future performers and scholars to use to assist future projects beyond this topic.</p>


2018 ◽  
pp. 255-269
Author(s):  
Peter Lowe

This chapter examines publisher B. T. Batsford’s popular ‘English Heritage’ and ‘Face of Britain’ series, focusing on their subject matter, the range of authors commissioned to write for them (including such figures as H. J. Massingham, Dorothy Hartley, S. P. B. Mais, and Edmund Vale), the books’ graphic art, marketing, and overall interpretation of the challenges facing the rural world. Peter Lowe describes the transformation of an oppositional view of the rural/modern relationship into a less conservationist, more reformist position by 1945. He argues that the books played a significant role in the construction of an idea of English/British cultural identity that proved vital to the nation’s defence. At the same time, wartime events enabled Batsford authors to adopt a more conciliatory tone on the issue of post-war rebuilding. Ultimately, conflicts over rural modernity were subsumed into larger debates about exactly which ‘Britain’ was to survive into the twenty-first century.


2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Mei-Ying Wu

Drawing on the theories of M. M. Bakhtin and Homi Bhabha, among others, this paper examines the textual discourse of cultural hybridity in two paradigmatic picturebooks, Guji Guji (2003) and Master Mason (2004), published in Taiwan in the first decade of the twenty-first century, with a close look at the socio-political milieu of Taiwan at the turn of the millennium. The story of Guji Guji deals with the dilemma that a hybrid self inevitably comes to face and negotiate and the ambivalences associated with the discourse of culture's in-between, whereas Master Mason pivots on the tension and contestation between the past and the present and views hybridity as a transgressive power to counter, disrupt, or subvert tradition, as well as to bring in a mosaic representation and improvisational negotiation of cultures and ideas. Differing in subject matter and art style, both picturebooks, nevertheless, substantially work to interpret and interrogate the complex and often contentious negotiations and representations of cultural crossings and mixings.


Author(s):  
Bonnie Costello

This chapter argues that recent poetry is catching up with both Auden and Oppen after a long silencing of the civil tongue. American poets are reclaiming a civic voice for their twenty-first-century art and experimenting with old and new ways of saying “we” inclusively. Many contemporary poets want to acknowledge and arouse a feeling not only for the universal or “the common” but for “everybody” in a compressed world, and not just as subject matter but as a physical, economic, social, historical, and political presence. They want urgently to address human disparities, injustices, displacements, indifferences, etc. that have arisen in a hierarchical, corporate, remotely connected but socially divided, and global reality. They seek to reorient us to this urgent social condition at the very level of language, often wrenching us out of the habitual “I” position into more collective orientations.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Elyse Dalabakis

<p>This project focuses on Dimitris Dragatakis (1914–2001), his legacy, and Concerto for Viola in the twenty-first century. The research examines the following overarching questions within interlaced scholarly and creative components of the dissertation:   How can we use twenty-first-century digital tools to promote Dimitris Dragatakis, one of Greece’s most important modern composers, to advance his legacy including, importantly, his Concerto for Viola, and to assist future scholars and performers in accessing information about his life and music?  This dissertation discusses the digital tools and processes used to advance the legacy of Dimitris Dragatakis and to promote his Concerto for Viola. These tools and processes include creating and publishing the Dragatakis Archive Digital Database website, recording interviews with the Dragatakis family and leading Dragatakis scholar, and using his Concerto for Viola (1992) as a digital case study. The digital case study demonstrates how twenty-first-century performers, scholars, and archivists might approach advancing the works of lesser-known composers through digital media. In this case study, a new viola and piano performance edition and percussion chamber music performance edition are offered, a new digital orchestra score along with complete orchestral parts is made available, interview material with the violist who premiered the work has been recorded, and the recently unearthed premiere performance recording of the work from the Dragatakis archive has been included in an interactive video created by the researcher. This project also aims to provide a model for future performers and scholars to use to assist future projects beyond this topic.</p>


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