The Origin of the Term pien-wen: An Alternative Hypothesis

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.H. Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Literature ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Academic Effort ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The University ◽  
Considerable Body ◽  
Selection Of

No one has done more over recent years to promote the study of the genre of Chinese literature known aspien-wenin the English-speaking world than Victor Mair of the University of Pennsylvania. Since the discovery of this type of T'ang popular tale among the Tun-huang manuscripts which were recovered at the start of this century, a considerable body of scholarship has been produced to explain its origins and affiliations. The results of all this academic effort are now surveyed in three volumes by Mair: one a selection of translations, one a survey of comparable phenomena outside China, and one (dealt with here) addressed to the main problems raised by the Chinese materials.

Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Smith
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
David Hume ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
Commercial Society ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The University

Adam Ferguson was a Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and a leading member of the Scottish Enlightenment. A friend of David Hume and Adam Smith, Ferguson was among the leading exponents of the Scottish Enlightenment’s attempts to develop a science of man and was among the first in the English speaking world to make use of the terms civilization, civil society, and political science. This book challenges many of the prevailing assumptions about Ferguson’s thinking. It explores how Ferguson sought to create a methodology for moral science that combined empirically based social theory with normative moralising with a view to supporting the virtuous education of the British elite. The Ferguson that emerges is far from the stereotyped image of a nostalgic republican sceptical about modernity, and instead is one much closer to the mainstream Scottish Enlightenment’s defence of eighteenth century British commercial society.

Libraries in Africa: Pioneers, Policies, Problems. By ANTHONY OLDEN. Lanham, MD., and London: Scarecrow Press, 1996 (UK agent: Shelwing Ltd., Folkestone). Pp. xx + 170. £35.65 (ISBN 0-8108-3093-0).

1997 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-177
Author(s):  
A. D. ROBERTS
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Carnegie Corporation ◽  
Library Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Per Se ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The University

This expensive little book, originally a thesis for the University of Illinois, is an artless but sometimes perceptive account of certain library endeavours in British East and West Africa, based on archival and library research in Britain and the United States. It is not a history of libraries per se so much as a study of instances of external aid to the development of libraries beyond the sphere of teaching institutions. In the 1930s, one such source – as in so much of the English-speaking world – was the Carnegie Corporation. Grants to Kenya underpinned a system of circulating libraries, the depot for which was housed in the McMillan Memorial Library, Nairobi; membership was confined to whites until 1958. In Lagos, Alan Burns, as chief secretary, secured a grant to start an unsegregated but fee-charging library: in 1934 just 43 of its 481 members were African. The grant ended in 1935, but the library was still going forty years later.

scholarly journals Race before Darwin: Variation, adaptation and the natural history of man in post-Enlightenment Edinburgh, 1790–1835

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-350
Author(s):  
BILL JENKINS
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Natural Order ◽  
Human Variation ◽  
Adaptive Responses ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The University

AbstractThis paper draws on material from the dissertation books of the University of Edinburgh's student societies and surviving lecture notes from the university's professors to shed new light on the debates on human variation, heredity and the origin of races between 1790 and 1835. That Edinburgh was the most important centre of medical education in the English-speaking world in this period makes this a particularly significant context. By around 1800 the fixed natural order of the eighteenth century was giving way to a more fluid conception of species and varieties. The dissolution of the ‘Great Chain of Being’ made interpretations of races as adaptive responses to local climates plausible. The evidence presented shows that human variation, inheritance and adaptation were being widely discussed in Edinburgh in the student circles around Charles Darwin when he was a medical student in Edinburgh in the 1820s. It is therefore no surprise to find these same themes recurring in similar form in the evolutionary speculations in his notebooks on the transmutation of species written in the late 1830s during the gestation of his theory of evolution.

Banditry Unleash'd; or, How The Robbers Reached the Stage

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-29
Author(s):  
George W. Brandt
Keyword(s):  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Friedrich Schiller ◽  
Original Form ◽  
Senior Research Fellow ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University ◽  
Don Carlos

Friedrich Schiller – poet, historian, and philosopher as well as dramatist – is acknowledged to be a towering figure in German-language theatre, yet has had only a fitful impact on the stages of the English-speaking world, where such of his works as Don Carlos, Intrigue and Love (Luisa Miller in the operatic version) and William Tell are better known through the filters of Verdi and Rossini than in their original form. But there were signs in 2005 – the bicentenary of Schiller's death at the tragically early age of forty-five – that the English theatre was taking more notice of this major playwright, with Phyllida Lloyd's production of Mary Stuart and Michael Grandage's of Don Carlos both well received. In the article which follows, George W. Brandt traces Schiller's troubled breakthrough into professional theatre as a young man with his first play, The Robbers – which, while significantly different from his later work, does anticipate his lifelong preoccupation with the theme of freedom. George W. Brandt, Senior Research Fellow and Professor Emeritus in the Drama Department of the University of Bristol, has previously contributed to NTQ with articles on Bristol's Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory Company (NTQ 72), and Iffland's 1796 guest performance in the Weimar of Goethe and Schiller (NTQ 77).

OUR IGNORANCE CONCERNING INSECTS

1932 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-29
Author(s):  
Frank E. Lutz
Keyword(s):  
Recent Advances ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
Selection Of

Choosing the title of a talk is often a difficult task.Being naturally optimistic, I wanted to speak concerning some recent advances in our knowledge of insects. But coming to Canada with a talk bearing such a title would seem like carrying coals to Newcastle, since many of the recent American advances in entomological knowledge have been made on this side of the line, and, in the English-speaking world as a whole, most of the advances have been made under the British flag. Furthermore, being naturally a timid soul, I feared discrimination in the selection of examples.

The Trial of Socrates That Never Ends: An Introduction to the Socrates Tenured Symposium

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-39
Author(s):  
Steve Fuller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World View ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
The United States ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The University

This introduction to the Socrates Tenured symposium reflects on the history of philosophy’s institutionalization as a specialized academic discipline, noting its relative recency in the English-speaking world. Despite occasionally paying lip service to its German idealist origins, philosophy in the United States is best understood as an extension of the Neo-Kantian world-view which came to dominate German academic life after Hegel’s death. Socrates Tenured aims to buck this trend toward philosophy’s academic specialization by a strategy that bears interesting comparison with the anti-professionalism of Robert Maynard Hutchins at the University of Chicago.

scholarly journals Ali Kouaouci Normes familiales isJamiques et fecondite en Jordanie, en Indonesie et au Pakistan. Recherches demographiques cahier nr 5. Departement de demographie, Universite catholique de Louvain. Louvain-Ia-Neuve, Belgium: Cabay Ltbraire-Editeur S. A., 1983.236 pp.B francs 500 paperback. ISBN 2-87077-143-6

1990 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-101
Author(s):  
Karol J. Krotki
Keyword(s):  
Economic Planning ◽  
African Population ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Analytic Methods ◽  
Type C ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The University

If the editor of this journal was given to that type C?f language slant, this review could begin with the question "Why is Pakistan fertility as low as it is?", or with the statement "Forty percent of Pakistan infertility is due to sterility"; or still differently "Pakistani mothers of sons are less fertile than those of daughters". However, as matters stand, we have to begin more soberly. 'This book has been there now for six years and it is rather late in the day to review it. Yet, it probably remains unknown to many readers and it does contain unusual information. The work is strong methodologically, and it applies in parts analytic methods not ordinarily used among demographers and social scientists in the English-speaking world. Most importantly, it relates Islam with fertility - analytically, seriously and respectfully. 'This reviewer is no judge of the religion-related parts of the book, but he knows the author personally. In fact, Kouaouci, a professor of demography and economic planning at the University of Algiers, spent the summer of 1988 at the University of Alberta preparing his paper for presentation to the Second African Population Conference at Dakar the following November. The author displayed not only all the external symptoms of a pious person, but carried the inner dignity and all-round friendliness of a truly religious man. More convincingly and objectively, all his important statements are generously documented in footnotes for experts to review.

T. S. Eliot, anti-Semitism, and Hebrew translation

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-267
Author(s):  
Rachel Weissbrod
Keyword(s):  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Foreign Author ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
Target Culture ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Way

T. S. Eliot’s early poems, as well as his letters and prose, contain expressions of anti-Semitism. This article deals with the way in which Hebrew translators and others involved in the production of translations, such as scholars contributing introductions, have treated this issue. Based on the premise that the image of a foreign author can be manipulated by the very selection of the texts to be translated, as well as by paratexts such as introductions and footnotes, it examines how Eliot has been presented to the Hebrew readership. Three approaches of presenting Eliot are described. The examination of these approaches leads to the conclusion that Eliot’s expressions of anti-Semitism did not significantly interfere with the construction of his image in the target culture despite the antagonism expressed by some translators and critics. Finally, the paper attempts to explain this indifference, which is particularly striking when compared to the ongoing debate about Eliot’s anti-Semitism in the English-speaking world.

Structuralism and After: Trends and Tendencies in Theatre Analysis, Part One

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-83
Author(s):  
Susan Bassnett
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
European Theatre ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The University ◽  
New Generation

Susan Bassnett's ‘Introduction to Theatre Semiotics’ appeared in TQ38 (1980). reflecting in its very title the need to make theatre people of the English-speaking world better aware of approaches to theatre analysis which had been influential on the Continent since the work of the pioneer Czech semioticians of the 'thirties. But, as she now points out. these early workers in the field were themselves theatre practitioners, while more recent approaches have suffered from a tendency to divorce creators of theatre from the process and the vocabulary of analysis. Developing her account from the papers presented at the Conference on Theatre Analysis held last year at the University of Warwick, where she herself teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature. Susan Bassnett here introduces the corrective work of the new generation of continental theatre analysts, and relates their ideas and approaches to the recent decline of energy felt in British (as in most European) theatre, paralleled as it is by a growth in the influence of non-western theatre forms.

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