George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Wixson
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
George Bernard Shaw ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Creative Evolution ◽  
Bernard Shaw ◽  
First Time

George Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction provides an accessible foundation for those discovering George Bernard Shaw’s writing for the first time. The verbosity and scope of Shaw’s writing can at times feel daunting. With a canon of plays astonishing in size, breadth, and ambition, Shaw is considered the second greatest playwright in English behind William Shakespeare. The range and popularity of his work as journalist, essayist, and polemicist as well as playwright made him one of the world’s most recognizable public intellectuals and literary figures. Charting the contours of what constitutes ‘Shavian’, this VSI traces the creative evolution of core themes and styles over Shaw’s long career.

Introduction: ‘Shavian’

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Christopher Wixson
Keyword(s):  
George Bernard Shaw ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Long Life ◽  
Bernard Shaw

The Introduction presents a vivid portrait of GBS, or George Bernard Shaw. Shaw was at heart a consummate performer, and his meticulous curating of his ‘GBS’ persona across platforms of all kinds made him one of the world’s most recognizable public intellectuals and literary figures throughout much of his long life.

scholarly journals Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy and the Influence of English Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (II) ◽  
pp. 536-545
Author(s):  
Amara Khan ◽  
Zainab Akram ◽  
Irfan Ullah
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
English Language ◽  
Mark Twain ◽  
English Literature ◽  
George Bernard Shaw ◽  
Original Form ◽  
Global Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
Personal Library ◽  
Bernard Shaw

While Tolstoy is regarded as the greatest writer of global literature and his work being translated into all major languages of the world, his literary relationship with the literature in the English language is largely ignored. The paper explores the influence of the Anglophone scholars and literary figures on the formation of Tolstoy as a great pillar of literature. The paper explores the influence of English and American writers by detailing the contents of his personal library, publications and diary entries. H.D. Thoreau, R.W. Emerson, Longfellow, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Laurence Stern, Ernest Miller Hemingway, William Shakespeare, and George Bernard Shaw. His moral rectitude, his love for realism and his humanism find a close connection with the mentioned writers, and the paper details this connection. The paper establishes the position that Tolstoy was a person with the greatest creativity and imagination, he was open to the formative influence and in the process forged his original form of the influence he imbibed in his realistic writings.

The Canons of John Mauropous

1947 ◽  
Vol 37 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 70-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Hussey
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
John Chrysostom ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Service Books

John Mauropous, an eleventh-century Metropolitan of Euchaïta, has long been commemorated in the service books of the Orthodox Church. The Synaxarion for the Office of Orthros on 30th January, the day dedicated to the Three Fathers, St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory the Theologian, and St. John Chrysostom, tells how the festival was instituted by Mauropous and describes him as ‘the well-known John, a man of great repute and well-versed in the learning of the Hellenes, as his writings show, and moreover one who has attained to the highest virtue’. In western Europe something was known of him certainly as early as the end of the sixteenth century; his iambic poems were published for the first time by an Englishman in 1610, and his ‘Vita S. Dorothei’ in the Acta Sanctorum in 1695. But it was not until the second half of the nineteenth century that scholars were really able to form some idea of the character and achievement of this Metropolitan of Euchaïta. Particularly important were two publications: Sathas' edition in 1876 of Michael Psellus' oration on John, and Paul de Lagarde's edition in 1882 of some of John's own writings. This last contained not only the works already printed, but a number of hitherto unpublished sermons and letters, together with the constitution of the Faculty of Law in the University of Constantinople, and a short introduction containing part of an etymological poem. But there remained, and still remains, one significant omission: John's canons have been almost consistently neglected.

The Will of Cardinal Giordano Orsini (ob. 1438)

Traditio ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 257-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher S. Celenza
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Renaissance Humanism ◽  
The Third ◽  
Textual History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Will ◽  
First Time

There are many still unstudied aspects of the cultural history of early Quattrocento Rome, especially if we consider the years before 1443, the date of the more or less permanent re-entry into the civitas aeterna of Pope Eugenius IV. The nexus between the still ephemeral papacy and the emerging intellectual movement of Italian Renaissance humanism is one of these aspects. It is hoped that this study will shed some light on this problem by presenting a document that has hitherto not been completely edited: the original will of Cardinal Giordano Orsini. As we shall see, this important witness to the fifteenth century provides valuable information on many fronts, even on the structure of the old basilica of Saint Peter. The short introduction is in three parts. The first has a discussion of the cardinal's cultural milieu with a focus on the only contemporary treatise specifically about curial culture, Lapo da Castiglionchio's De curiae commodis. The second part addresses the textual history of the will as well as some misconceptions which have surrounded it. The third part contains a discussion of the will itself, along with some preliminary observations about what can be learned from the critical edition of the text here presented for the first time.

scholarly journals PYGMALION: A STUDY OF SOCIO-SEMANTICS

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 202
Author(s):  
Mirjam Anugerahwati
Keyword(s):  
Communicative Competence ◽  
George Bernard Shaw ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Bernard Shaw ◽  
The Way

This article discusses the novel Pygmalionby George Bernard Shaw (1957) which depicts Eliza, a flower girl from East London, who became the subject of an “experiment” by a Professor of Phonetics who vowed to change the way she spoke. The story is an excellent example of a very real and contextual portrait of how language, particularly socio-semantics, play a role in the achievement of communicative competence.

scholarly journals Análise descritiva da tradução de Millôr Fernandes para o português da peça “Pygmalion”, de George Bernard Shaw

2008 ◽  
pp. 67-83
Author(s):  
Priscila Fernanda Furlanetto
Keyword(s):  
George Bernard Shaw ◽  
Bernard Shaw

As obras de um dos mais conhecidos humoristas brasileiros, Millôr Fernandes, já foram bastante exploradas pelos pesquisadores de uma forma geral. Mesmo assim, há ainda uma vertente desse autor a ser estudada: o Millôr Tradutor.

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