Commentator for La Revue Hebdomadaire, 1892–1900

2018 ◽  
pp. 371-390
Author(s):  
Olivier Walusinski
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Dramatic Works ◽  
Medical Context ◽  
Own Name

La Revue Hebdomadaire, a general cultural publication that first appeared in 1892, asked Gilles de la Tourette for articles on medical themes. He provided thirteen articles between 1892 and 1900, first using the pen name Paracelse, then his own name. Two of the articles were biographical. Of the eleven remaining articles, two dealt with hygiene and alcoholism and another with the “human calculator” examined by Charcot, Jacques Inaudi. But, most often, Gilles de la Tourette enjoyed giving his interpretation, as an alienist fascinated with hypnotism and hysteria, of the dramatic works produced in the theaters of the Parisian boulevards. This chapter presents and analyzes Gilles de la Tourette’s various articles within the political, cultural, and medical context of the time as well as his involvement with a famous trial, the Cauvin affair.

scholarly journals FEATURES OF CHANGES OF AKHENATEN'S TITULARY

2018 ◽  
pp. 28-31
Author(s):  
O. Zapletniuk
Keyword(s):  
Solar Disk ◽  
The Political ◽  
Religious Preference ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Own Name

The article examines the royal titulary of Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten), the Egyptian Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty, from the 1st to the 12th years of his reign and its reflection of the religious preference of the young king and his role in the new solar cult of Aten. The author illustrates the transformation of the king's official titles during the all stages of his religious reform and points out to the meaning of the new titulary's epithets of Amenhotep IV and queen Nefertiti. The author analyses the reasons of king's rejection of many popular traditional titles of Egyptian pharaoh. Much attention is given to the interpretation and explanation of the meanings of some king's titles, that demonstrated the political and religious course of Amenhotep IV. The author comes to the conclusion that Amenhotep IV carried out the first steps of his future reform during the first two years of his reign. Despite the fact that at the beginning of the reign the king's titulary continued to include traditional titles, Pharaoh used the epithets: "Unique for Ra", "Living in Truth", which emphasized his exceptional role in the cult of the solar disk. Amenhotep IV also rejected the titles that were related to the expansion of the borders of the Egyptian state. Then Amenhotep IV changed his own name in favor of the god Aten, and it was an official announcement of the king's support of the new solar cult of Aten in opposition to the traditional cult of Amun. The transformation of the pharaoh's title usually reflected political and religious reality at every stage of the development of the Egyptian state. The new Amenhotep IV's titulary was aimed to demonstrate the reduction of the role of the king as a historical player in the favor of the king as a historical god.

Literary Analysis of Sharof Boshbekov’s Comedy «The Iron Woman»

Turkology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (107) ◽  
pp. 44-56
Author(s):  
Yerlan ZHIYENBAYEV ◽  
Shakhida JUMABAYEVA
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Modern Method ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Dramatic Works ◽  
Turkish Literature ◽  
The Relationship

Sharof Boshbekov, a unique writer, played an important role in the development of Uzbek drama in the 1980s.  It is obvious that realism prevails in his plays.  In the writer's works, the flaws of society are implied by humorous descriptions.  His dramatic works depict the events and phenomena of that time, and not the depths of history.  His works also critically describe the life of villagers and peasants. In this study, we analyzed Sharof Boshbekov's comedy “The Iron Woman” using the modern method of text analysis, which is widely used today in Turkish literature, and tried to determine the literary value of the text and the views of the writer.  The analysis of the text covers the political and cultural landscape of Uzbekistan in the 1980-1990, the structure of the text, the relationship between the concepts of character, time and space.  In addition, the language features and writing style of the work have been clarified.

The pressure of coherence and the diachronic reconfigurations of metaphorical discourse

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Shogimen
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
The Body ◽  
Political Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
John Of Salisbury ◽  
Medical Context ◽  
Marsilius Of Padua ◽  
History Of

The metaphor of the body politic is diverse in the history of European political discourse yet it remains unclear why such diachronic variations occurred. Drawing on Zoltán Kövecses’s idea of “the pressure of coherence,” the present paper argues that diachronic reconfigurations of metaphorical discourses occur due to differential contextual experiences; more specifically, metaphorical discourses on the body politic, which consist of mapping between the domain of the POLITICAL COMMUNITY and that of natural BODY, are reconfigured diachronically in accordance with not only the ideological but also the medical context. In order to demonstrate this, the paper examines the texts of three key medieval political thinkers — John of Salisbury, Marsilius of Padua and Nicholas of Cusa — and the medical knowledge that was influential in their respective era. Thus this paper constitutes a contribution to the historical cognitive linguistic study of metaphorical discourse.

Literary Analysis of Sharof Boshbekov’s Comedy «The Iron Woman»

Turkology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (107) ◽  
pp. 44-56
Author(s):  
Yerlan ZHIYENBAYEV ◽  
Shakhida JUMABAYEVA
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Modern Method ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Dramatic Works ◽  
Turkish Literature ◽  
The Relationship

Sharof Boshbekov, a unique writer, played an important role in the development of Uzbek drama in the 1980s.  It is obvious that realism prevails in his plays.  In the writer's works, the flaws of society are implied by humorous descriptions.  His dramatic works depict the events and phenomena of that time, and not the depths of history.  His works also critically describe the life of villagers and peasants. In this study, we analyzed Sharof Boshbekov's comedy “The Iron Woman” using the modern method of text analysis, which is widely used today in Turkish literature, and tried to determine the literary value of the text and the views of the writer.  The analysis of the text covers the political and cultural landscape of Uzbekistan in the 1980-1990, the structure of the text, the relationship between the concepts of character, time and space.  In addition, the language features and writing style of the work have been clarified.

The Social Origins and Provenance of the English Bishops during the Reign of Edward II

1959 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 51-79
Author(s):  
K. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Early Career ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Edward Ii ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complete Study ◽  
History Of

During the last twenty or twenty-five years medieval historians have been much interested in the composition of the English episcopate. A number of studies of it have been published on periods ranging from the eleventh to the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. A further paper might well seem superfluous. My reason for offering one is that most previous writers have concentrated on analysing the professional circles from which the bishops were drawn, and suggesting the influences which their early careers as royal clerks, university masters and students, secular or regular clergy, may have had on their later work as bishops. They have shown comparatively little interest in their social background and provenance, except for those bishops who belonged to magnate families. Some years ago, when working on the political activities of Edward II's bishops, it seemed to me that social origins, family connexions and provenance might in a number of cases have had at least as much influence on a bishop's attitude to politics as his early career. I there fore collected information about the origins and provenance of these bishops. I now think that a rather more careful and complete study of this subject might throw further light not only on the political history of the reign, but on other problems connected with the character and work of the English episcopate. There is a general impression that in England in the later middle ages the bishops' ties with their dioceses were becoming less close, and that they were normally spending less time in diocesan work than their predecessors in the thirteenth century.

Democrazy—Dem Go Craze, O: Monitoring the 1999 Nigerian Elections

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-33
Author(s):  
Darren Kew
Keyword(s):  
Transition Program ◽  
The Political ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Political Class ◽  
Soccer Match ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Military

In many respects, the least important part of the 1999 elections were the elections themselves. From the beginning of General Abdusalam Abubakar’s transition program in mid-1998, most Nigerians who were not part of the wealthy “political class” of elites—which is to say, most Nigerians— adopted their usual politically savvy perspective of siddon look (sit and look). They waited with cautious optimism to see what sort of new arrangement the military would allow the civilian politicians to struggle over, and what in turn the civilians would offer the public. No one had any illusions that anything but high-stakes bargaining within the military and the political class would determine the structures of power in the civilian government. Elections would influence this process to the extent that the crowd influences a soccer match.

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