Frozen in the Glassy, Bluestreaked Air

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alix Beeston
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Central Character ◽  
Male Gaze ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Modern City ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Female Bodies

This chapter interprets the serialized narration and characterization of John Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer (1925) in line with the figuring of female bodies through the photographic apparatus of advertisement and celebrity that was ancillary to popular Broadway entertainments in the early twentieth century. Unpacking the image of Ellen Thatcher, Dos Passos’s central character, as a photograph at the end of the multilinear novel, it accounts for Dos Passos’s critique of the patriarchal, white-centric specular economy of the modern city. The photographic freezing of the wealthy, white Ellen registers her imprisonment to the male gaze and her resistance to those who are ethnically and socially other to her. Yet by the additive construction of its female characters, Manhattan Transfer undercuts Ellen’s sense of her essentialized difference from the novel’s other women.

Lunatic Forms

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-86
Author(s):  
Natalie Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Commedia Dell'arte ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Character Types

Chapter 1 examines derivation and re-animation in Djuna Barnes’s early-twentieth-century lyric novel, Nightwood, focusing on redeployed aesthetic figures: the sleepwalker, the unstoppable narrator, the animate statue. It shows how Barnes’s resurrection of character types is informed by the genre-fusing innovations of the commedia dell’arte. It reads Barnes in dialogue with both Laforgue’s and Verlaine’s development of the Pierrot-figure, and the sad and ominous clowns in grotesque theatre, which inform Chaplin’s Tramp and Beckett’s clowns, as well as Barnes’s characterization of the ‘doctor’. Does Nightwood cast its characters in stone, locking them into old, ritualized narrative strategies? Or are these types themselves on the move; re-animating generations of performances and forms, from Shakespeare’s bawdy, to Rabelais’s carnivalesque, to Aphra Behn’s moon-philosopher, Doctor Balierdo?

scholarly journals Curriculum, knowledge, and the idea of South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-45
Author(s):  
Crain Soudien
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Social Difference ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Curriculum Project

South Africa is an important social space in world history and politics for understanding how the modern world comes to deal with the questions of social difference, and the encounter of people with different civilizational histories. In this essay I argue that a particular racial idea inflected this encounter. One of the ways in which this happened was through the dominance of late nineteenthcentury and early twentieth-century positivism. In setting up the argument for this essay, I begin with a characterization of the nature of early South Africa's modernity, the period in which the country's political and intellectual leadership began to outline the kinds of knowledges they valued. I argue that a scientism, not unlike the positivism that emerges in many parts of the world at this time, came to inform discussions of progress and development in the country at the end of the nineteenth century. This was continued into the early twentieth century, and was evident in important interventions in the country such as the establishment of the higher education system and initiatives like the Carnegie Inquiry of 1933. The key effect of this scientism, based as it was on the conceits of objectivity and neutrality, was to institute suspicion of all other forms of knowing, and most critically that of indigenous knowledge. In the second part of the paper, I show that this scientism persists in the post-apartheid curriculum project. Finally, I make an exploratory argument, drawing on the concept of the 'transaction' in John Dewey, for a new approach to knowing.

scholarly journals The underestimated power of woman In Susan Glaspell’s Trifle

لارك ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (21) ◽  
pp. 14-25
Author(s):  
Ikhlas Muhammed Nati
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Justice System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Female Bonding ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Susan Glaspell

This paper examines the theme of feminism through focusing on the female bonding as a means of gaining power .In this paper I’ll prove that the America dramatist Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) makes a feminist leap as she portrays her female characters with an ample cunning to secretly and humbly triumph over male prejudice.  She challenged those who believed that the United States offered freedom and equality by demonstrating that women were not treated equally since they were excluded from participating in the justice system except as defendants the underestimated power of woman in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles  (1916) which is written in the early  twentieth century  but it transcends  time periods and cultures.

scholarly journals Characterization of foxing stains in early twentieth century photographic and paper materials

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 987-996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurora Modica ◽  
Maurizio Bruno ◽  
Marco Di Bella ◽  
Maria Francesca Alberghina ◽  
Maria Brai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

Black Flesh Is White Ash

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alix Beeston
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Black Female ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
White Ash ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Female Figures ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
Black Ash

This chapter argues that Jean Toomer’s tactics of poetic and narrative visualization of the series of black female bodies in Cane (1923) correspond to the strategic reappropriation of lynching photographs by African American political activists in the early twentieth century. Configured in line with the ontological multivalence of photography and bearing witness to the deep antinomy embedded in the photographic archive of white supremacy, Cane disassembles the ritualized scene of lynching by reframing and restaging it. Through the confluence of its ruptured, gap-ridden female figures and its ruptured, gap-ridden form, it images the contiguity between “black ash” and “white flesh”: black flesh as burned by, and for, white flesh.

A Different Kind of Ballet

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Simonson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Male Gaze ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
American Modernism ◽  
Hollywood Cinema ◽  
Women's Relationships ◽  
The Future ◽  
Feminist Film ◽  
Classical Hollywood Cinema ◽  
Classical Hollywood

Dorothy Arzner’s 1940 filmDance, Girl, Dancehas been embraced within feminist film criticism as a stunning demonstration and critique of the “male gaze” so typical in classical Hollywood cinema. Tracing the lives and careers of two dancers, scholars argue, the film privileges strong female characters and women’s relationships with one another over heterosexual romance. Yet this essay argues thatDance, Girl, Danceis as much a film about the evolution of American dance in the twentieth century as it is about looking at women’s friendships. Juxtaposing Bubbles’s risqué burlesque routines and Judy’s sentimental divertissements with extended sequences of “modern” ballet,Dance, Girl, Dancegrafts contemporary debates about the future of American dance and the meaning of American modernism onto the bodies of Bubbles, Judy, and their fellow dancers.

The Birth of Living Radium

2007 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Campos
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Origin Of Life ◽  
Half Life ◽  
Biological Research ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Origin Of Life

This article traces the half-life of a series of provocative and productive interconnections between radium, radioactivity, and life in the early twentieth century. Examining the metaphysics of metaphor set in motion by a widespread discourse of "living radium" among physicists and a radium-crazed public alike, I suggest how such conceptions may ultimately have shaped fundamental biological research into the origin of life, the nature of mutation, and even the characterization of the gene.

Some Polish Composers of To-Day

Tempo ◽  
1948 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Andrzej Panufnik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Group ◽  
Karol Szymanowski

It is ten years since KAROL SZYMANOWSKI died at fifty-four. He was the most prominent representative of the “radical progressive” group of early twentieth century composers, which we call “Young Poland.” In their manysided and pioneering efforts they prepared the fertile soil on which Poland's present day's music thrives.

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