scholarly journals The ‘Old Arctics’: notices of Franklin Search expedition veterans in the British press, 1876–1934

Polar Record ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-229
Author(s):  
Shane McCorristine ◽  
Victoria Herrmann
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Northwest Passage ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
British Press ◽  
Shed Light

ABSTRACTThe lives of the commanders and officers associated with the British naval searches for the lost John Franklin northwest passage expedition in the 1850s are well-known through their own writings or those of later biographers. The post-Arctic careers of ordinary crew members, on the other hand, are barely known at all. Following digital searches of nineteenth and early-twentieth century British newspapers, we have compiled a list of some notices, obituaries, and reminiscences that shed light on the later years of the ‘Old Arctics’.

One Event, Two Interpretations: The Fall of the Seer of Lublin in Hasidic Memory and Maskilic Satire

2002 ◽  
pp. 187-202
Author(s):  
David Assaf
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Initial Appearance

This chapter turns to the fall of the Seer of Lublin. At the turn of the nineteenth century one of the most revered figures among Polish and non-Polish hasidic leaders and their flock was the tsadik Rabbi Jacob Isaac Horowitz, better known as the Seer of Lublin (1745?–1815). In 1814 the Seer fell out of a window in his house, suffering critical injuries that led to his death nine months later in 1815. Although these bare facts are not disputed, their interpretation, as rendered by hasidic and maskilic writers as well as others, differs substantially. Of these varying interpretations, the maskilic version was the earliest. Written in the style of a journalistic exposé, this satiric account followed upon the heels of the fall itself, making its initial appearance even prior to the Seer’s death. The hasidic counter-version, on the other hand, with its clearly apologetic and polemical overtones is late, dating only from the early twentieth century. The chapter traces the transmission of these opposing traditions, showing how their divergent treatments of the Seer’s fall illustrate patterns of imagery, memory, and dispute.

scholarly journals POLITIK TUBUH DALAM SERAT KAWRUH SANGGAMA KARYA RADEN BRATAKESAWA AWAL ABAD XX

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Adi Putra Surya Wardhana ◽  
Fiqih Aisyatul Farokhah
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Politics Of The Body

Hal-hal yang berkaitan dengan seksualitas selalu menarik untuk dikaji meskipun diikat oleh tabu. Pada awal abad XX, naskah-naskah soal seksualitas cukup populer, apalagi sudah dicetak dalam bentuk buku yang diperjualbelikan di lapak-lapak buku. Salah satu naskah yang memuat seksualitas adalah Serat Kawruh Sanggama. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengungkap bentuk, fungsi, dan makna politik tubuh dalam Serat Kawruh Sanggama. Metode yang digunakan adalah analisis data kualitatif-interpretatif dengan pendekatan teori politik tubuh. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan, Serat Kawruh Sanggama ditulis di Kediri dan disebarluaskan oleh penerbit Boekhandel Tan Khoen Swie Kediri. Bentuk politik tubuh berupa narasi tentang tata cara atau aturan bersenggama. Naskah ini mengandung politik tubuh yang berfungsi untuk menundukkan, mengontrol, dan mendominasi tubuh perempuan. Namun demikian, naskah ini dapat dimaknai sebagai upaya laki-laki untuk memahami misteri tubuh perempuan. Selain itu, naskah ini dimaknai pula sebagai daya perempuan, sehingga laki-laki harus berusaha untuk memahami seluk beluk tubuh perempuan.Despite a taboo subject amongst society, the matters related to sexuality are always interesting to study. In the early twentieth century, texts on sexuality were quite popular and had even been printed in the form of books that were sold in the book stalls. One of those was Serat Kawruh Sanggama. The purpose of this study was to analyze the form, the function, and the meaning of the politics of the body in the Serat Kawruh Sanggama. The method used in the research was the qualitative-interpretative data analysis combined with the approach of the Politics of the Body. The results of the study have shown that Serat Kawruh Sanggama was written in Kediri and then disseminated by the publisher of the Boekhandel Tan Khoen Swie Kediri. The elements of the Politics of the Body revealed in the text are in the form of narratives related to the procedures or rules of sexual intercourse. It is evident that the elements of the Politics of the Body found on the text served as an instrument of subjugating, controlling, and dominating the female body. This text can be interpreted as an attempt by men to understand the mystery of the female body. However, on the other hand, the text can also be interpreted as an attempt by men to understand the mystery of the female body. In addition, it also represented as a woman's power that encourages men to understand the ins and outs of the female body.

Madame Queen of Policy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
LaShawn Harris
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Negro ◽  
Material Wealth ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
New Yorkers

This chapter maps out black women's participation in arguably one of New York's most profitable and contested social and cultural pastimes of the early twentieth century: the illegal numbers racket. It uses the mysterious and unique life of prominent Harlem numbers banker Madame Stephanie St. Clair—the “Numbers Queen”—as a window to illuminate how some black numbers entrepreneurs used the city's gambling enterprise to launch lucrative underground enterprises and as a way to cast a spotlight on black New Yorkers' individual and collective encounters with race, gender, and class prejudice and white supremacy. On one hand, she boldly and skillfully rejected and refashioned elite versions of propriety. On the other hand, St. Clair's proper outward attire of fashionable dresses, furs, and headdresses and her use of the moniker “Madame” reinforced conventional images of New Negro womanhood and material wealth.

Reminiscing the past, pointing to the future: immigrant memoirs from the early- twentieth-century United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-146
Author(s):  
Anita Jarczok
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Future ◽  
American Society ◽  
The One

The aim of this article is to demonstrate that memoirs, which are usually examined in terms of their connection to the past, are often oriented towards the future. Using immigrant memoirs from the early twentieth century United States, this essay shows that immigrant authors wrote their memoirs with a specific audience in mind, an audience they believed they can instruct. One the one hand, immigrants addressed American citizens, and wanting to gain their sympathy, they described the difficulties of the immigrant life. On the other hand, they wrote for their fellow immigrants to show them that determination pays off and one can have a comfortable, or even successful, life in a new country. Their aim was to envision and promote a better future for the American society, a future based on tolerance and equality.

State of Fashion: Searching for the New Luxury

APRIA Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
José Teunissen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
The Other ◽  
Century Model ◽  
Cocktail Party ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

In the last few years, it has often been said that the current fashion system is outdated, still operating by a twentieth-century model that celebrates the individualism of the 'star designer'. In I- D, Sarah Mower recently stated that for the last twenty years, fashion has been at a cocktail party and has completely lost any connection with the public and daily life. On the one hand, designers and big brands experience the enormous pressure to produce new collections at an ever higher pace, leaving less room for reflection, contemplation, and innovation. On the other hand, there is the continuous race to produce at even lower costs and implement more rapid life cycles, resulting in disastrous consequences for society and the environment.

Gender and Social Exclusion in European Migration Crisis

2018 ◽  
pp. 658-676
Author(s):  
Marlou Schrover
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The Other ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
The One ◽  
European Migration

This chapter discusses social exclusion in European migration from a gendered and historical perspective. It discusses how from this perspective the idea of a crisis in migration was repeatedly constructed. Gender is used in this chapter in a dual way: attention is paid to differences between men and women in (refugee) migration, and to differences between men and women as advocates and claim makers for migrant rights. There is a dilemma—recognized mostly for recent decades—that on the one hand refugee women can be used to generate empathy, and thus support. On the other hand, emphasis on women as victims forces them into a victimhood role and leaves them without agency. This dilemma played itself out throughout the twentieth century. It led to saving the victims, but not to solving the problem. It fortified rather than weakened the idea of a crisis.

Cognitive Reflection Task and Stumpers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Ross ◽  
Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Mental Model ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cognitive Reflection ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Shed Light

There is a type of riddle that Bar-Hillel, Noah and Frederick (2018) call “stumpers”. A stumper is a riddle which is initially intractable because the mental model or representation of the situation described in the riddle does not contain the vital information which is required to solve it. The Cognitive Reflection Task (CRT; Frederick, 2005) on the other hand relies on seemingly completely different cognitive processes. However, exploratory work from Bar-Hillel et al. (2019) suggests that success on stumpers correlates with performance on the CRT. This finding may shed light on the cognitive processes underlying both the resolution of stumpers and the CRT. We replicated the work from Bar-Hillel et al. (2019) suggesting a relationship between performance on the CRT and performance on stumpers as well as extending this to show a relationship between performance on the CRT-v. This may point to the underexplored importance of suppression in solving stumpers and traditional riddles.

Christianity, Plurality and Vernacular Religion in early Twentieth-Century Glastonbury: A Sign of Things to Come?

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 302-321
Author(s):  
Marion Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Considerable Heterogeneity ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Vernacular Religion ◽  
Important Time ◽  
To Come ◽  
Shed Light

This essay focuses upon a significant place, Glastonbury, at an important time during the early twentieth century, in order to shed light on a particular aspect of Christianity which is frequently overlooked: its internal plurality. This is not simply denominational diversity, but the considerable heterogeneity which exists at both institutional and individual level within denominations, and which often escapes articulation, awareness or comment. This is significant because failure to apprehend a more detailed, granular picture of religion can lead to an incomplete view of events in the past and, by extension, a partial understanding of later phenomena. This essay argues that by using the concept of vernacular religion a more nuanced picture of religion as it is – or has been – lived can be achieved.

The avant-garde’s visual arts in the context of Santayana’s idea of vital liberty

Human Affairs ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Skowroński
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Universe

AbstractIn the present paper, the author looks at the political dimension of some trends in the visual arts within twentieth-century avant-garde groups (cubism, expressionism, fauvism, Dada, abstractionism, surrealism) through George Santayana’s idea of vital liberty. Santayana accused the avant-gardists of social and political escapism, and of becoming unintentionally involved in secondary issues. In his view, the emphasis they placed on the medium (or diverse media) and on treating it as an aim in itself, not, as it should be, as a transmitter through which a stimulating relationship with the environment can be had, was accompanied by a focus on fragments of life and on parts of existence, and, on the other hand, by a de facto rejection of ontology and cosmology as being crucial to understanding life and the place of human beings in the universe. The avant-gardists became involved in political life by responding excessively to the events of the time, instead of to the everlasting problems that are the human lot.

Magic, Modernity, and Orientalism: Conjuring representations of Asia

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 1451-1476 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER GOTO-JONES
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Technical Competence ◽  
Politics Of Knowledge ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Phenomenon ◽  
Stage Magic ◽  
Magic Circle

AbstractThis article inquires into the cultural and political nexus of secular (stage) magic, modernity, and Orientalism at the turn of the twentieth century. It argues that these three arenas interacted in important and special ways to both shape and reflect the politics of knowledge of the period. In doing so, it draws attention to the ways in which secular magic has been overlooked as a historical phenomenon and highlights its utility in furthering our understanding of the great problematics of modernity and Orientalism; in particular, it suggests that magic actually provides an unusually vibrant and clear lens through which to view the politics of the Other and through which to explore issues of tradition and the modern.Focusing on two historical cases—the ‘Indian Rope Trick’ challenge issued by the Magic Circle in the 1930s and the astonishing ‘duel’ between the ‘Chinese’ magicians Chung Ling Soo and Ching Ling Foo in 1905—this article considers the ways in which discourses of origination, popular ideas about esotericism and the ‘mystic East’, and questions of technical competence interacted and competed in the culture politics of the early twentieth century.

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