Ibsen on History and Life

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Gjesdal
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Past ◽  
Hedda Gabler ◽  
Female Protagonist

Henrik Ibsen’s dramatic oeuvre opens with a handful of historical plays, located in ancient Rome as well as a grand, almost mythological past in Norway. Hedda Gabler, however, presents us with an impatient, existentially dissatisfied, and restless female protagonist who fails actively to connect to the past and live out and carry on her family traditions. We also encounter the male protagonists of Jørgen Tesman and Eilert Løvborg. These are two historians with opposing attitudes to the nature, worth, and relevance of their work. With reference to the Nietzcheanism that prevailed in Scandinavia at the time, this chapter explores the various attitudes to scholarship, history, and life that are being staged in Hedda Gabler.

The Criminal Emperors of Ancient Rome and Wilde’s ‘true historical sense’

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shushma Malik
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Historical Criticism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Picture Of Dorian Gray ◽  
Dorian Gray ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter explores how Wilde uses ‘historic sense’ (the intuition of a learned historian and the antecedent of historical criticism) as a tool with which to analyse the past, particularly the criminal emperors of ancient Rome. In his essay ‘Pen, Pencil, and Poison’, Wilde claims that ‘true historical sense’ in relation to the past allows us to ignore the crimes of Nero and Tiberius, and instead to recognize and appreciate them as artists. His decadent reading of the past is undermined, however, when we compare this version of historically guided intuition with his definition of the phrase in other works. By examining ‘Pen, Pencil, and Poison’ alongside The Picture of Dorian Gray and ‘Epistola: In Carcere et Vinculis’, we can see how Wilde manipulates his readings of the criminal emperors of Rome in order to fit his own changing relationship with Decadence and the (im)morality of crime.

Soul of Classicality in Western Architectural Design

2014 ◽  
Vol 638-640 ◽  
pp. 2253-2256
Author(s):  
Cong Ru Liu ◽  
Ming Sen Lin ◽  
Qing Li
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Architecture Design ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
The Past ◽  
Renaissance Period

The classicality of the western architecture establishes its foundation at the beginning of the ancient Greece, is flourished in the ancient Rome and revitalized in the renaissance period, extends to the classicism and the classical revival, and finally is overthrown by the postmodernism. By going through development and prosperity in the past thousands of years, the classical spirit has always played a greatly significant role in the field of western architecture design.

Concluding Remarks

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-202
Author(s):  
Kristin Gjesdal
Keyword(s):  
Late Work ◽  
The Past ◽  
Hedda Gabler ◽  
Dense Image ◽  
Master Builder

After Hedda Gabler, Ibsen wrote four more plays: The Master Builder, Little Eyolf, John Gabriel Borkman, and When We Dead Awaken. With its darker tone and dense, image-laden prose, his late work has been described as melancholy. In each of these late plays, the topic of the past, of individual and collective history, features centrally. At least two of the late plays—three, if we include ...

Retroaktywność biografii i twórczości Antoniny Domańskiej

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Wądolny-Tatar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Construction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Past ◽  
Literary Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Family Connections ◽  
Cultural Roles

Retroactivity of the Biography and Works of Antonina Domańska Retroactivity is the process of inscription, it is about updating the contextually interpreted past. Thus, retroactive reading is seen as a selective and affirmative attempt to internalise the world, imitating the personal system of existential and reading experiences. On the other hand, as a part of literary research, it counts as a description of the works and life of the creators from earlier eras, carried out with the use of modern ways to explore “signs of the past”, through the new scientific methods and concepts. For Szymon Wróbel, author of the monograph Lektury retroaktywne. Rodowody współczesnej myśli filozoficznej [Retroactive Reading. Origins of Contemporary Philosophical Thought], retroactive reading is “travelling in the vehicle of multiple narratives”. We invite you to such a journey in the collective monograph (Re)Construction of the Past in Antonina Domańska’s Prose, in which we propose a multilateral interpretation of the biography and works of Antonina Domańska, including her family connections, vision of literature for children and young people, ways of understanding history in the dynamics of memory and imagination, world of values (also spiritual) designed in her texts, biological and cultural construction of sexes (also from the perspective of socio-cultural roles of Domańska), finally – including the critical reception of the works of the author of Historia żółtej ciżemki in comparison with the works of other artists.

scholarly journals Bittersweet: The Effects of Psychological Trauma in One’s Stages of Life

K ta Kita ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Celia Asallie
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Psychological Problem ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Stages Of Development ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Past

The project is about the development of a screenplay which explores the psychological problem of the main character. The creative work revolves around the traumatic experiences that result in the main character’s insecurity. The story shows how the main character, Jieun, is haunted by the pressure she used to have when she was a kid, causing her to feel insecure when she finally turns into an adult. The theory used for this creative work is Erik Erikson’s theory of Psychological Stages of Development which tells about how something that happened in the past could affect things that are happening in the present. The theory helps the writer achieve the result of the creative work, making the creative work have distinct characteristic. Because of her insecurity, Jieun fails in fulfilling her need to build a relationship. Finally, she regains her feeling of security as she goes back to and connect with her family.

THE RELIC AND THE RUIN: EQUIVOCAL OBJECTS AND THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST INDANIEL DERONDA

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 855-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priyanka Anne Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Vantage Point ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Daniel Deronda ◽  
The Past ◽  
Right Hand

Early in George Eliot'sDaniel Deronda, Daniel's life is set on a decisive new path by his fleeting attraction to an object in a shop window. He is turning into a side street off Holburn Road when:his attention was caught by some fine old clasps in chased silver displayed in the window at his right hand. His first thought was that [his aunt] Lady Mallinger, who had a strictly Protestant taste for such Catholic spoils, might like to have these missal-clasps turned into a bracelet; then his eyes travelled over the other contents of the window, and he saw that the shop was that kind of pawnbroker's where the lead is given to jewellery, lace, and all equivocal objects introduced asbric-a-brac. A placard in one corner announced –Watches and Jewellery exchanged and repaired. (344; bk. 4, ch. 6)Daniel then moves across the street to avoid the shopkeeper, and it is only from this new vantage point that he notices the name “Ezra Cohen” above the window – the name he's been seeking while wandering Jewish neighborhoods in London in the hopes of reuniting his protégée Mirah with her family. He will return to the pawnshop later and become acquainted with the Cohens, eventually finding through them his mentor and Mirah's actual brother, Mordecai. Although some discussion of the silver clasps ensues, they are neither purchased nor used in the space of the novel. Still, this seemingly inconsequential trinket proves to have a long history, one that raises questions about the lingering remains of the past, the equivocality of the object, and the dispossessions that hauntDaniel Deronda.

Role of the Pediatrician in Prevention and Management of Substance Abuse

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 91 (5) ◽  
pp. 1010-1013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Prescription Drugs ◽  
Young Patients ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Body ◽  
Congenital Defects ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Substances

The past three decades have been marked by an increasing recognition of the responsibility of pediatricians to their patients and their patients' families regarding the diagnosis and management of abuse of tobacco, alcohol, and other substances of abuse including prescription drugs. Because of the harmful consequences, substance abuse is an obvious concern for all those who care for infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. When it occurs during pregnancy, it has been associated with an increased incidence of prematurity; congenital defects, including brain damage; and even death. The pediatrician must be prepared to address this commonplace issue as a part of routine health care, starting with the prenatal visit and continuing as a part of all anticipatory guidance. Familiarity with the extent and nature of drug use, as well as the health and social consequences, has become a necessary part of the body of pediatric knowledge.1-9 The pediatrician should possess or develop the skills necessary to determine which young patients are at risk for substance abuse and chemical dependence and should also be able to offer appropriate prevention or treatment counseling to the child, adolescent, and his or her family, or make a referral to a source where such counseling can be obtained. PERVASIVENESS OF DRUG USE The pattern of substance abuse among teenagers has undergone significant change during the past 25 years. Prior to the late 1960s, the abuse of psychoactive drugs and alcohol was predominantly an adult phenomenon. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, substance abuse became widespread among adolescents and, more recently, preadolescents.

Present-Tense Narration and Representing Trauma in Anne Enright’s The Gathering

KronoScope ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-227
Author(s):  
Karen Anne McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sexually Assaulted ◽  
Present Tense

AbstractIn this article, I engage with the present-tense narration in Anne Enright’s novel, The Gathering. The narrator, Veronica Hegarty, is tasked with assembling her family for a wake after the suicide of her closest brother Liam. What his death unleashes in her is a compulsion to write down an “uncertain event,” which may or “may not have happened,” in which Liam was sexually assaulted as a child. The narrative suggests that Veronica witnessed this “event” and, in line with the aporetic nature of traumatic experience, did not register it as such. The narrative temporal strategy, as this article will demonstrate, is key to the author’s representation of the “event” which, due to its traumatic nature, is always of the present, and never successfully relegated to the past. I also explore the ways in which the novel suggests a healing which can be neither contained nor enacted within the confines of this overtly present-tense narrative.

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