scholarly journals Moments of (Re)vision: Thomas Hardy Making Amends

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Dema
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Textual Study ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Initial Impulse ◽  
The Way

Abstract Considered far less critically rewarding resources than those of the author’s prose, the manuscripts of Thomas Hardy’s verse have long been neglected. This essay seeks, in part, to challenge the ways in which we attribute significance to such documents, attempting a close textual study of the ‘fair’ copy of Moments of Vision (1917) – a late draft of the volume only minimally revised. The collection is one which invites us to attend to the hitherto overlooked, and in remaining attentive to the seemingly minor alterations of the manuscript itself, I work to uncover Hardy’s attempt to address an oversight of his own. Focusing upon the poems penned for Emma following her death, I read them against the narrative which has traditionally surrounded them: one of a re-visioning of a period of discontent. The manuscript’s revisions are rather those which work against the initial impulse to smooth over animosity, striving consistently to paint a harsher version of events, and to acknowledge differences now past alteration. The way in which an endlessly mutable form allows for reflection upon an ‘immutable’ division holds central focus, as I trace the ways in which this tension complicates the long-established view of the Emma verses as an ‘expiation’. I suggest, rather, that in keeping with a much wider sensibility found running through Hardy’s verse, these revisions work to undermine his attempt to offer the famously neglected Emma a long overdue attention; they are amendments, in short, which problematize the very possibility of amends.

scholarly journals Death and literature: Different approaches, from simplicity to obscurity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Skelton
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Federico Garcia Lorca ◽  
Seamus Heaney ◽  
Miguel De Cervantes ◽  
Attitudes To Death ◽  
The Way

This study looks briefly at a range of ways in which writers have approached the concept of death, from expressions of personal grief, through to the ways in which attitudes to death represented in a culture are also picked up and used by writers from the culture concerned. Writers considered are mostly (but not all) from the English and Spanish language traditions, and in particular Seamus Heaney, Thomas Hardy, Miguel de Cervantes and Federico García Lorca. The point is made that not all writing about death is centred on death as a source of personal grief, though a great deal is. Also considered is the way in which some writing about death is transparent, and in a sense overtly simple, while other writing is less so, and may even seem obscure.

scholarly journals Itineraries of Modern Ethiopian Instrumental Music

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lucien Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Turn On ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
The World ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

<p>This dissertation explores the way in which Ethiopian musicians of the 1960s and 70s adapted forms such as jazz, soul and Latin music to create a new hybrid instrumental music style variously referred to as Ethio-Jazz or Ethio-Groove. It will then go on to investigate the impact that this music has had, in turn, on musicians in various locations around the world since its reissuing on CD in the late 1990s. The central focus is to investigate and articulate the role of individuals’ musical agency in this narrative, and to ask how, within the context of Ethiopian instrumental music and its offshoots, individual musicians and composers have engaged with, responded to and integrated music from elsewhere into their own musical languages. In particular, it looks at how musicians and composers have approached their own notion of creative individuality when their musical genealogy can be traced via affinities rather than geographic and ethnic inheritances. In adopting various influences these musicians, from both the original generation of Ethiopian musicians in the 60s and 70s who adapted soul, jazz and other American forms, and those from around the world who have in turn been influenced by this style of hybrid Ethiopian music, have had to unlock various technical musical problems, as well as navigate at times treacherous ethical waters and answer to allegations of cultural betrayal and/or appropriation. This dissertation identifies these problematic musical and ethical areas and, in the context of this criticism, it examines various viewpoints on how cultural interaction and exchange take place. The final chapter of this dissertation contextualizes my own creative portfolio, which accompanies this written work. It offers a personal response to the questions that have arisen from my affinity for Ethiopian music and from choosing an approach to composition closely informed by this affinity.</p>

scholarly journals Ageing, Vulnerable and Unstable: My Week with Marilyn and Popular Perceptions of Vivien Leigh

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Bolton
Keyword(s):  
Departure Point ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
Marilyn Monroe ◽  
The Way

This article will argue that My Week with Marilyn (2011), despite its central focus on Marilyn Monroe, offers important peripheral insights into the way in which Vivien Leigh is popularly perceived as neurotic and unstable, particularly in relation to her ageing, and that it depicts a moment in her life and career that calls for deeper analysis than this film affords. Leigh, played by Julia Ormond, appears in six scenes in the film, which depict her as threatened by Marilyn Monroe on personal and professional fronts. Drawing on material from the Vivien Leigh Archive held by the V&A to assist in analysing Leigh's image and career at this time, it is possible to construct a counter-narrative which acknowledges her personal difficulties but also her professional successes, creating a more complex picture of Leigh that both resists some of the negativities conveyed by My Week with Marilyn and also enables a fuller understanding of the circumstances that led to this kind of depiction. This article reads the Vivien Leigh scenes in My Week with Marilyn as an inadequate mini-biopic and takes them as a departure point to highlight the caricature the film presents and examine some of the reasons why this might be the case. In doing so, it exposes the assumptions made about the role of ageing in the careers of Leigh and Ormond, and the significance of the elisions and omissions.

Poetry, Literature, Textual Study, and Hermeneutics

Zhu Xi ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 72-92
Author(s):  
On-cho Ng
Keyword(s):  
Textual Study ◽  
Four Books ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Way

This chapter introduces Zhu’s views on hermeneutics, literature, and poesy. His hermeneutics is dedicated to gaining an understanding of pattern-principle and the Way. Zhu elevated the Four Books as scriptural texts with canonical authority, regarding them as encasing all the most important cosmological truths. According to Zhu, the proper goal of reading is to fathom and penetrate the mind of the classics’ authors (the sages) and thereby achieve an apprehension of the Way. Zhu identifies the reader with the author in the sense that they share the same heart-mind, such that understanding can be attained outside of the remit of words and texts. Textual investigation, in the end, is merely a means to apprehend the highest truths. In other words, reading is the realization of the Way, and the Six Classics are works that demonstrate the workings of pattern-principle in the midst of the Way.

Civil Society

2019 ◽  
pp. 369-378
Author(s):  
John Keane ◽  
Wolfgang Merkel
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Way

The theoretical meanings, history, and different forms of civil society during regime transformation are the central focus of this chapter. It notes a paradox: during the past several decades, the growing consensus about the theoretical and practical importance of civil society has been overshadowed by growing disagreement about the exact meaning of the term, and the proper normative relationship between state institutions and civil society. The chapter thus aims to define civil society more precisely by examining its philosophical and temporal roots. It examines how in practice civil society can be related to state institutions in different ways. It probes the reasons why a civil society has great significance for the way we think about democracy, and why, in practice, different manifestations of civil society during the different stages of regime transformation are vital preconditions for building a strong democracy backed by a robust civil society.

scholarly journals Psicólogo do trabalho no mundo das práxis capitalista: reflexões fenomenológico-existenciais

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-168
Author(s):  
Sylvia Mara Pires de FREITAS
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Psychology ◽  
External World ◽  
Industrial Psychology ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way ◽  
Psychology Of Work

This article, primarily and in a brief, contextualizing the Industrial Psychology, Organizational Psychology and Psychology of Work, through its historical constructions and grounds of their philosophical hegemonic theories, which underpin the knowledge and the practices of psychologist in the work. As a central focus, has a further reading for this sub-area of psychology, through phenomenology and existentialism of Sartre, thus enabling the expansion of the practice of psychology in the relations in the work, surrounded by capitalist praxis. Finally, raising issues and considerations on the experience of the psychologist's work, when, to help the worker to transcend the tensions between its internal and external world, as well as employee has their values marked its own tensions in that context. Then focuses on the need for psychologists to be aware of their limitations and prejudices with everyday phenomena, which can block changes in the way in which live the world of work.

Tunisian Theater Through the Lens of Revolution: Theatrical Expression as Resistance, Anxiety, Aspiration

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-191
Author(s):  
Rafika Zahrouni
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Present Report ◽  
Free Expression ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Islamic Terrorism ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Revolution

By comparing pre- and post-2011 Tunisian theatrical scripts and performances, this report analyzes instances of resistance to political oppression. The Tunisian theater provides space for free expression against the way in which the Tunisian government has handled its power, especially with regard to Islamic terrorism, not only before but also after the revolution. The present report also suggests that the pre-revolution plays represent resistance to the Tunisian pre-revolution regime that stifled political, religious, and cultural free expression. Despite the new political plurality that sprang up in 2011 in reaction to the revolution, however, resistance to the post-revolution political system also forms the central focus in the later plays that highlight oppression.

The Biblical King David and His Artistic and Literary Afterlives

1998 ◽  
Vol 6 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 313-347
Author(s):  
Martin O'Kane
Keyword(s):  
Good Effect ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Biblical Narrative ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
King David ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe story of David has occupied the minds of biblical critics and fired the imagination of artists over the years. David's status as founder of a dynasty of kings is highlighted in Jewish and Christian traditions and his multifaceted personality has found expression in many and varied artistic forms. The central focus in this article is the way in which the figure of David has been represented in art and literature generally, but with specific reference to Allan Massie's King David, A Novel (1995) as an interpretation of the biblical story of David. By way of introduction some general comments are offered on the attraction and appeal of the biblical narrative for both artist and writer. Such comments help to situate the discussion of the David narrative within the wider cultural approach, an approach used to good effect in the works of Mieke Bal, Cheryl Exum and Larry Kreitzer.

Loneliness

2019 ◽  
pp. 22-45
Author(s):  
Alicia Mireles Christoff
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Psychic Life ◽  
Tess Of The D'urbervilles ◽  
The World ◽  
How People Learn ◽  
Literary Characters ◽  
The Way

This chapter talks about how people learn to feel alone and sustained, rather than alone and persecuted, lost, adrift, untethered. On loneliness and character in Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the chapter describes the way people internalize novelistic structures and come to feel like literary characters. Like Tess, readers imagine that others are with them, narrating and experiencing their lives alongside them, even when they are alone. Alone with others, Tess introduces a notion of paradoxical solitude that D. W. Winnicott would explicitly theorize more than half a century later, as a fact of psychic life in his essay “The Capacity to Be Alone.” The chapter also shows how Thomas Hardy anticipates Winnicott's theory of relational solitude by making and unmaking his character Tess, who becomes an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations—an internalized presence—to her readers as much as to herself, and who seems to likewise sense the presence of the narrator and the reader in the world of the story.

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