9. Translation matters

2021 ◽  
pp. 93-103
Author(s):  
Ilan Stavans
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Martin Buber ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Twentieth Century Literature ◽  
Franz Rosenzweig ◽  
Ariel Dorfman ◽  
Elias Canetti ◽  
Multiple Languages ◽  
Century Literature

“Translation matters” looks at the role of translation in Jewish literature from the Talmudic period to the present, focusing on the ongoing effort to make Jewish works available speedily in multiple languages. Chaim Nakhman Bialik, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Robert Alter were important translators of sacred literature. Translingualism is a feature of modern Jewish literature, with examples like Sholem Aleichem, Elias Canetti, and Ariel Dorfman. There are also a number of thinkers like Walter Benjamin and George Steiner, who studied translation as a sine qua non of twentieth-century literature. Modern literature depends on translation to exist.

The Role of Periodicals in the Formation of Symbolism as a Trend

2021 ◽  
pp. 169-187
Author(s):  
Eugenia V. Ivanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century Literature ◽  
Creative Forces ◽  
Century Literature

Symbolism came into being in three independent circles, which initially did not accept each other. However, the hostility of the dominant literary forces forced the early symbolists to move closer to each other. The association of symbolists in this manner began on the pages of the almanac Severnyye Tsvety and it continued on the pages of the magazines Novyj Put’, Vesy and Zolotoye Runo. As a result, all these new creative forces attached themselves to symbolism. Magazines made symbolism the most fruitful branch of twentieth-century literature.

scholarly journals Michael Katz's Contribution to Social and Social Welfare History

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 768-771
Author(s):  
Mark J. Stern
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Reagan Administration ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Twentieth Century Literature ◽  
Welfare History ◽  
Social Welfare History ◽  
Undeserving Poor ◽  
Century Literature

Michael Katz began work on social welfare during the late 1970s with a project entitled “The Casualties of Industrialization.” That project led to a series of essays, Poverty and Policy in American History (Katz 1983), and a few years later to In the Shadow of the Poorhouse (Katz 1986). His reading in twentieth-century literature for Shadow—and the ideological and policy nostrums of the Reagan administration—allowed Katz to pivot to two books that frame contemporary welfare debates in their historical context—The Undeserving Poor in 1989 and The Price of Citizenship in 2001, as well as a set of essays Improving Poor People (Katz 1995) that he published between the two.

A Guide to Twentieth-Century Literature in English

1984 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 482
Author(s):  
W. Riggan ◽  
Harry Blamires
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century Literature ◽  
Century Literature

scholarly journals Psychotherapy Ethics in Twentieth-Century Literature

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Magdalena Elsner
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Twentieth Century Literature ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Century Literature

Ethical issues arising in the practice of psychotherapy, such as confidentiality, boundaries in the therapeutic relationship, and informed consent, figure prominently in a range of twentieth-century literary texts that portray psychotherapy. This chapter analyzes the portrayal of these conflicts, but also stresses that they are often marginal to the overall plot structures of these narratives and that literary depictions of psychotherapy are often vague or even inaccurate concerning key characteristics of psychotherapeutic practice. Focusing on examples that either illustrate professionalism and the absence of ethical challenges in psychotherapy, or take up the ethical reservations that fueled anti-Freudianism or the anti-psychiatry movement, the chapter proposes that selected literary depictions of psychotherapy can play a key role in sensitizing therapists to the complex make-up of ethical dilemmas as well as illustrating the cultural and historical contexts of these dilemmas.

The Autonomy of Art and the Legitimization of Biofiction: An Aesthetic Turning Point in Twentieth-Century Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-369
Author(s):  
Michael Lackey
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Twentieth Century Literature ◽  
Robert Penn Warren ◽  
William Styron ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Historical Figure ◽  
One Year ◽  
Century Literature

Abstract Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after a historical figure, and since the 1990s it has become one of the most dominant literary forms. This is surprising because many prominent scholars, critics, and writers have criticized and even condemned it. This essay hypothesizes that postmodern theories of truth and concomitant transformations in reader sensibilities partly account for the legitimization and now dominance of biofiction. The essay analyzes a 1968 literary debate among Ralph Ellison, William Styron, and Robert Penn Warren, which on the surface concerned the uses of history in literature. But because it happened just one year after the publication of Styron’s controversial novel about Nat Turner, the debate ended up focusing primarily on the nature and value of biofiction. By analyzing the discussion in relation to contemporary formulations about and theorizations of biofiction, this essay illustrates why the forum represents a turning point in literary history, resulting in the decline of a traditional type of literary symbol and the rise of a more anchored and empirical symbol—that is, the type of symbol found in biofiction.

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