scholarly journals ‘Ein sonderbar’ Ding’: Music, the Historical and the Problem of Temporal Representation in Der Rosenkavalier

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-39
Author(s):  
Benedict Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Problem Of Time ◽  
Temporal Representation ◽  
Artistic Representation ◽  
Temporal Qualities

Abstract Der Rosenkavalier is an opera that foregrounds time: the problem of time, as transience, passing and ultimately death for the aging Marschallin, and a potentially more redemptive quality, the category of the Augenblick associated with the young lovers Octavian and Sophie, in which the temporal intersects with the eternal. It is also a work that has traditionally marked the turning point in Strauss's relation to historical time and the idea of musical progress, as the composer supposedly retreated from the modernity of Salome and Elektra to a more conservative idiom. The temporal qualities manifested in Der Rosenkavalier invite comparison with another work from this period that similarly foregrounds the concept of time, Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg. In this self-styled ‘novel of time’, Mann raises a number of problems concerning the human limitations on perceiving time and its artistic representation, especially with regard to music. Disputing the contention of the narrator of Mann's novel that music cannot ‘narrate time’, I show that Strauss's music in fact exemplifies music's capacity to express ‘the historical in time’, using Der Rosenkavalier as a case study for addressing the philosophical problem of temporal representation in art. I argue that Der Rosenkavalier – both Hofmannsthal's text and Strauss's music – is in several significant ways ‘an opera about time’ – the temporal and the eternal, the historical and what I call the ‘metahistorical’.

Vocational Development in Emerging Adulthood

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Pratt ◽  
M. Kyle Matsuba
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Emerging Adult ◽  
Vocational Development ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts

Chapter 6 reviews research on the topic of vocational/occupational development in relation to the McAdams and Pals tripartite personality framework of traits, goals, and life stories. Distinctions between types of motivations for the work role (as a job, career, or calling) are particularly highlighted. The authors then turn to research from the Futures Study on work motivations and their links to personality traits, identity, generativity, and the life story, drawing on analyses and quotes from the data set. To illustrate the key concepts from this vocation chapter, the authors end with a case study on Charles Darwin’s pivotal turning point, his round-the-world voyage as naturalist for the HMS Beagle. Darwin was an emerging adult in his 20s at the time, and we highlight the role of this journey as a turning point in his adult vocational development.

scholarly journals Strategic Planning for Xiaomi: Smart Phones, Crisis, Turning Point

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lung-Tan Lu
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
China Market ◽  
The World

The aims of this case study are to design, practice, and evaluate a group of comparative strategies for one of the leading smart phone companies in the world: Xiaomi Inc. to turn a crisis into an expansion opportunity. First, the worldwide market of smart phones is illustrated. Second, we show the highly competition of smart phones in China market. Third, the development of Xiaomi Inc. is overviewed. Finally, we use several strategic matrixes: (1) IFE, (2) EFE, (3) CPM, (4) SWOT, (5) SPACE, (6) BCG, (7) IE, (8) GSM, (9) QSPM to evaluate and develop strategies for Xiaomi so as to change crisis into a turning point.

Turning Points in International Labor Migration: A Case Study of Thailand

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pracha Vasuprasat
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Direct Foreign Investment ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Commodity Export ◽  
Gulf Crisis ◽  
Market Needs

This article describes the dynamics of the structural transformation of the Thai economy, labor migration and direct foreign investment and proposes an econometric model to explain the migration phenomenon. Though migration shifts have been significantly influenced by political factors such as the Gulf crisis and tensions with Saudi Arabia, economic factors such as the Thai government's liberalization of markets and the expansion of trade and direct foreign investment have contributed to changes in labor market needs. The economic conditions for a shift from net exporter to net importer of labor are posited in the model. The empirical results reveal a turning point in labor migration from Thailand and also confirm the contribution of commodity export in place of labor export in creating employment and income.

Meerut Embroidery Cluster: A Case Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-202
Author(s):  
Ruchi Tyagi
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Production Line ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Domestic Market ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Broad View ◽  
Agency Support ◽  
Cluster A

This study tries to integrate marketing, backward–forward linkages and agency support to handicraft cluster in Meerut. The cluster has a large artisan base and opportunities of large domestic market and export potential. However, it lacks transportation facility, an organized infrastructure, networking, production line approach and designer input. There is a need for technological upgradation. The case throws light on the development of embroidery, presenting a broad view of Indian embroidery history with its diversity and the turning point in embroidery with the advent of new technology. The case takes up for study Meerut embroidery cluster with objectives of identification of areas of intervention for inclusive growth by integrating marketing with product development and designing.

Reimagining the archive as thick sound: A case study of Dhrupad from Bettiah and beyond

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-58
Author(s):  
Sumitra Ranganathan
Keyword(s):  
Complex I ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Indian Classical Music ◽  
And Function ◽  
Archival Work

The ephemerality of music is a consuming philosophical problem; it is also a practical dilemma for archivists and researchers. For oral traditions such as Indian classical music, notations, recordings and transcriptions fail to capture much of what is communicated in musical performance, which problematizes the creation and function of archives. This article explores an approach to archiving musical practices in relation to constitutive processes of emplacement, a complex I denote by the term ‘thick sound’. Using a rich and historic Dhrupad tradition as a case study, I discuss how I used documentary, material, aural, embodied and sensory performance data to construct my archive. I investigate the ways in which such documentation captures ecologies of music-making and the challenges posed for the analysis of histories of (thick) sound. I conclude by discussing the implications for theorizing archival work as active intervention, mediating relationships of past, present and future.

Fiat and Chrysler, negotiating for survival

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Caputo
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Shareholder Perspective ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – This is a story on how a corporate negotiation can be the turning point for survival. This case study is unusual in the business arena, as it is based on the role of external parties for the success of a strategic negotiation between corporations. It shows how an agreement was fundamental from a management/operational perspective, but impossible from a shareholder perspective. Yet, only thanks to the intervention of external parties that a successful agreement lead to the survival of the corporation. Practical implications – This paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value – This briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

scholarly journals Envisioning the Orient: The New Muslim Cemetery in Malta

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 221-251
Author(s):  
Conrad Thake
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Institutional Agents ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Architectural Representation ◽  
Flexible Form ◽  
Artistic Representation ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
The Mediterranean

This paper analyzes a project for a new Muslim cemetery in Malta that was realized in 1873–74. It investigates the process of commissioning and implementing the project through an intricate set of relationships between the colonial authorities in Malta, then a British island-colony in the Mediterranean, and the Ottoman, Tunisian, and Moroccan authorities. It considers the key roles played by the various institutional agents and protagonists involved in conceptualizing and executing the project, from the Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz I, acting through his political and cultural interlocutor, the Ottoman consul Naoum Duhany, to Emanuele Luigi Galizia, the Maltese architect who designed the cemetery, and the British colonial authorities who permitted its construction. This paper also explores issues relating to the forms of neo-Ottoman architectural representation during the late nineteenth century, as it was actively promoted within a Western European cultural context and, in this case, on the peripheral edge, far removed from the traditional cosmopolitan urban centers. The Ottoman patronage of an overtly exotic and Orientalist building complex, “exported” to a British colonial outpost in the Mediterranean, gives rise to a series of political and ideological issues. This case study serves to provide broader and revisionary insights into the current discourse on Orientalism, not as a closed and binary system but rather as an open-ended and flexible form of artistic representation.


scholarly journals Transformation of historical discourse and the problem of time

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Oleg V. Gerasimov
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
Problem Of Time ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article is devoted to the analysis of the transformation of historical discourse in modern writing of history and its relationship with the problem of historical time. The author shows that since the second half of the 20th century, the representation of the past has been gradually shifting from scientific historiography, as it was formed in the 19th century, to the memory studies. Unlike distancing from the past inherent in historical science, historical memory is characterized by emotional and existential tension, the involvement of the past in the present. This became possible not only as a result of the tragic events of the 20th century, but also due to changes in the temporal regime of modern society. The linear perception of time, peculiar to a modern man, is giving way to post-historical time characterized by non-linearity and reversibility, which makes it possible to actualize the past with the help of memorial policy. A change in the historical time perception gives rise to changes in the perception of the past and, as a result, leads to a transformation of historical discourse.

scholarly journals Portrait de Boileau en Hercule bourgeois. Notes sur un prix d’éloquence à l’Institut national (1801-1804)

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Zékian
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Etude De Cas ◽  
Étude De Cas ◽  
Comme Point ◽  
The 19Th Century

Appliquée au tournant des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, l’idée d’un « portrait de l’homme en lettres en héros » porte en elle l’ambiguïté attachée à la notion d’héroïsme. Alors partagée entre deux conceptions nettement différenciées, celle-ci témoigne des hésitations caractérisant la définition du mérite et de la grandeur. Consacrée à la mémoire académique de Boileau comme point de cristallisation de l’exemplarité nationale, cette étude de cas propose un échantillon des différents registres héroïques employés à cette occasion. Elle tente, en outre, de penser leur mode de conciliation et d’interpréter le rapport au temps historique qu’ils supposent.AbstractWhen applied to the turn of the 19th century, the idea of ‘portraying the man of letters as a her’ bears the ambiguity inherent to the notion of heroism. As there were two clearly distinguished understandings of the notion at the time, it epitomizes hesitations on how to define merit and grandeur. Looking at academic writings on Boileau as the ground where the idea of national exemplariness crystallized, this case study examines samples of the various heroic styles used in that context. It also considers how such styles could converge and attempts to interpret the different relationships to historical time that they involved.

scholarly journals Teaching Case: Social Entrepreneurs and Impact Investors: A Match Made in Heaven?—Case Study of Le Champignon de Bruxelles

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 11467
Author(s):  
Freek Van Doninck ◽  
Johanna Vanderstraeten ◽  
Ine Paeleman ◽  
Luc Van Liedekerke
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Teaching Case ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Made In ◽  
Do So

This teaching case addresses the strategic choices of social entrepreneurs and the issues they face in search of funding. In the heart of Europe’s capital, Brussels, two aspiring entrepreneurs founded Le Champignon de Bruxelles to produce exotic mushrooms. Being true social entrepreneurs, they use a recycled substrate—brewery dredge—to do so, as such, minimizing the distance the mushrooms travel from farm to plate. After the typical “entrepreneur-in-the-basement” start, they are now at a turning point. They established themselves as a serious player in the market, producing over 6000 kg of mushrooms every month. This journey, however, did not come without its challenges. Along the way, they struggled to reconcile their idealistic mindset with the realities of the economic system and adopted a more pragmatic approach in response. At the moment, they are at a decisive moment in the company’s development and are contemplating whether their current business model should be diversified and internationalized.

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