Spectres of Antiquity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Uden
Keyword(s):  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
Gothic Literature ◽  
Horace Walpole ◽  
Matthew Lewis ◽  
Roman Culture ◽  
Gothic Novels ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Vision ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Of Greece

Gothic literature imagines the return of ghosts from the past. What about the classical past? Spectres of Antiquity is the first full-length study describing the relationship between Greek and Roman culture and the Gothic novels, poetry, and drama of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth century. Rather than simply representing the opposite of classical aesthetics and ideas, the Gothic emerged from an awareness of the lingering power of antiquity, and it irreverently fractures and deconstructs classical images and ideas. The Gothic also reflects a new vision of the ancient world: no longer inspiring modernity through its examples, antiquity has become a ghost, haunting and oppressing contemporary minds rather than guiding them. Through readings of canonical works by authors including Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, and Mary Shelley, Spectres of Antiquity argues that these authors’ ghostly plots and ideas preserve the remembered traces of Greece and Rome. In comprehensive detail, Spectres of Antiquity rewrites the history of the Gothic, demonstrating that the genre was haunted by a far deeper sense of history than readers had previously assumed.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-44
Author(s):  
Aaron J. Kachuck
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Roman Religion ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Literature And Philosophy ◽  
Ancient Society ◽  
Roman Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

This Introduction presents a study of Latin vocabulary for solitude as background for replacing bipartite divisions of Roman life (e.g., otium and negotium, “public” and “private”) with a tripartite model comprising public, private, and solitary spheres. It outlines this model’s applicability to Greek literature and philosophy, Roman religion, and Roman law, leading to a discussion of the Roman bedroom (cubiculum) and the solitary reading and writing to which it could be home. Reviewing the history of scholarship on Roman society, religion, and literature from antiquity through the present, it demonstrates how and why solitude has been written out of the study of Roman culture, and how the problem of solitude relates to the question of the individual in ancient society. Finally, it explores the relationship of literature to Rome’s solitary sphere in the age of Virgil, addressing problems of periodization, the relationship between literary criticism, philosophy, and literary production.

scholarly journals Testemunho da natureza social: O homem, espaço e tempo amazônico nas representações geográficas do amazonófilo Leandro Tocantins

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Márcio Silveira Nascimento ◽  
Jaqueline Do Espírito Santo Soares Dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Forest Products ◽  
Amazon Region ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
The World ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Vision ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
The Relationship

Resumo Este artigo objetiva a análise do espaço amazônico por meio das representações geográficas contidas na obra Amazônia: Natureza, Homem e Tempo, a qual apresenta a história da região em dois tempos: o primeiro num período de expedições em nossos rios, descrito nas obras de cronistas europeus nos séculos XVI e XVII. E num segundo tempo onde ressalta a economia regional baseada nos produtos da floresta. Elucida-se como se deu a descoberta do principal vetor de riqueza daquela época, a borracha, seu uso pelos indígenas e sua consagração na economia mundial. No entanto, a borracha teve seu declínio e levou consigo toda a riqueza, deixando apenas a paisagem bucólica. Também, destacamos a ocupação populacional, mostrando personagens fundamentais na formação social amazônica. Descreve-se ainda um terceiro tempo amazônico que mostra uma nova perspectiva para a região, enaltecendo a relação homem e natureza pautada no viés ecológico que ganhou força com os movimentos sociais e ambientalistas, uma nova visão acerca do espaço da floresta, divergindo das ambições ou da lógica da economia mundial.Palavras-chave: espaço amazônico, representações geográficas, formação social, borracha. AbstractThis article aims to analyze the Amazon region through geographic representations contained in the Amazon work: Nature, Man and Time, which presents the history of the area in two stages: the first a period of expeditions in our rivers, described in the works of chroniclers Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. And a second time it emphasizes the regional economy based on forest products. it elucidates how was the discovery of the main vector of wealth that time, rubber, its use by indigenous people and their consecration in the world economy. However, the rubber had its decline and took all the wealth, leaving only the bucolic landscape. Also, we highlight the population occupation, showing key characters in the Amazon social formation. also describes a third Amazonian time showing a new perspective for the region, highlighting the relationship between man and nature guided the ecological bias that gained momentum with social movements and environmentalists, a new vision of the forest space, diverging ambitions or the logic of the world economy.Keywords: amazon region, geographic representations, social formation, rubber. ResumenEste artículo objetiva el análisis del espacio amazónico por medio de representaciones geográficas contenidas en la obra de Amazonia: La  Naturaleza, El Hombre y El Tiempo, a cual presenta la historia de la región en dos etapas: la primera en un período de expediciones en nuestros ríos, que se describen en las obras de cronistas europeos en los siglos XVI y XVII. Y la segunda etapa donde rebota la economía regional basada en los productos forestales. Aclara como se dio la descubierta del principal vector de la riqueza en aquella época, el caucho, y su uso por los indígenas y su consagración en la economía mundial. Sin embargo, el caucho tuvo su declive y se llevó toda la riqueza, dejando sólo el paisaje bucólico. También, destacamos la población ocupacional, que muestra personajes clave en la formación social del Amazonas. Aún se describe una tercera etapa amazónica que muestra una nueva perspectiva para la región, destacando la relación entre el hombre y la naturaleza enumerada en el oblicuo ecológico que ganó fuerza con los movimientos sociales y ambientalistas, una nueva visión acerca del espacio forestal, divergiendo de las ambiciones o de la lógica de la economía mundial.Palabras clave: región amazónica, representaciones geográficas, la formación social, caucho.

Biblical Scholarship in an Age of Controversy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Macfarlane
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
Biblical Scholarship ◽  
Profound Knowledge ◽  
Close Study ◽  
History Of ◽  
Confessional Identity ◽  
New Vision ◽  
King James Bible ◽  
The Relationship

This book offers a new vision of early modern biblical scholarship through a close study of Hugh Broughton (1549–1612), the colourful English Hebraist who cuts a strange figure in the history of the period. Best known today as the puritan who criticized the King James Bible (1611), Broughton was both despised and admired by his contemporaries for his abrasive personality, controversial pamphlets, and profound knowledge of Hebrew, Greek, and rabbinic literature. Modern historians have found it equally difficult to reconcile the contradictions of Broughton’s life and legacy, scarcely moving past the stereotype of him as an angry, eccentric puritan. By providing the first monograph-length account of Broughton, this book explains how the same person could be both one of the most conservative and backward-looking scholars of his generation, and also one of the most innovative and influential. In doing so, it advances a new understanding of the relationship between elite intellectual culture, lay religion, biblical criticism, confessional identity, and broader processes of secularization in the period from the late Reformation to the early Enlightenment.

scholarly journals “Me” and “the Other” in the Arabo-Islamic Culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-106
Author(s):  
E. A. Frolova
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Vision ◽  
History Of Culture ◽  
Mutual Relations ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The traditional theme of “Me” and “the Other” in the light of modern politics and sociology reveals new problems connected to history of culture of different nations. Existential, social and psychological aspects of the relationship of Me and the Other present now a universal scale and thus require common efforts for their solutions. Mass migration from Asian and African countries to Europe and the USA poses new questions about mutual relations of cultures and religions. In front of Me there are new images of the Enemy emerging; they require a revision of the habitual values, including a new vision of a person’s place in society, nature, and the importance of their scientific discoveries.

Scottish Gothic and the Moving Image: A Tale of Two Traditions

2017 ◽  
pp. 181-194
Author(s):  
Duncan Petrie
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
Gothic Literature ◽  
National Cinema ◽  
Horace Walpole ◽  
Gothic Fiction ◽  
Cultural Specificity ◽  
The Wanderer

The Gothic has long been acknowledged as a significant cultural influence within Britain’s cinematic heritage. Locating the roots of the British contribution to cinematic horror in the familiar literary terrain of classic Gothic fiction initiated in the late eighteenth century by Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe and M. G. Lewis, Pirie makes a persuasive case for the value of the genre and its centrality to the cultural specificity of a (then critically undervalued) ‘national’ cinema. But what is immediately striking from a contemporary, post-devolutionary vantage point is the Anglocentrism of the analysis as conveyed by the interchangeable use of the terms ‘English’ and ‘British’ throughout his book. Moreover, while acknowledging that ‘the role of Ireland in Gothic literature is immense’ (1973: 96), Pirie proceeds to co-opt C. R. Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) – for him a foundational text alongside Lewis’s The Monk (1796) – to a singularly English literary tradition.

The Academy Abroad: The Nineteenth-Century Origin of the British School at Athens

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Beard ◽  
Christopher Stray
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Early History ◽  
British School ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Of Greece

This chapter focuses on the foundation and early history of the British School at Athens. It shows how the story of such foreign institutes intersects with many of the key issues in the rethinking of the Classics in the late Victorian period. These issues involve: the role of archaeology within the study of Classics, how archaeology was to be defined and bounded, and the relationship between the study of Classics and the modern lands of Greece and Italy, particularly in the light of growing middle class tourism and its infrastructures.

scholarly journals La figura del negro soldado en La revolución es un sueño eterno de Andrés Rivera / The figure of the black soldier in La revolución es un sueño eterno by Andrés Rivera

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-108
Author(s):  
Djibril Mbaye
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Black Soldiers ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
Blacks And Whites ◽  
New Vision ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
San Martín

Este artículo se propone estudiar la representación de la imagen del negro soldado en La revolución es un sueño eterno de Andrés Rivera. En efecto, frente a la negación por la historia del aporte épico de los afrodescendientes en las luchas por la emancipación, Andrés Rivera rescata la figura del afrosoldado argentino que se ha destacado heroicamente en los frentes bélicos para la defensa de la patria. Así, este trabajo analiza esta visión revolucionaria de la negritud argentina en Andrés Rivera. Tras estudio, las dos primeras partes han demostrado que los soldados afroargentinos han tenido una participación heroica tanto en las Invasiones Inglesas como en las campañas de Liberación de San Martín, por lo que Andrés Rivera propone una representación sin estereotipias de la imagen del negro, a través de los campos de batalla, con igual valentía y dignidad que bancos e indios, frente a una literatura acostumbrada a representar al negro en la subalternidad. Las dos últimas partes han revelado la imagen dignificante de la negritud argentina, a través del personaje de Segundo Reyes, un esclavo devenido capitán de ejército, y su relación de amistad y de armas con Juan José Castelli, el orador de la Revolución y Representante de la Primera Junta en el ejército del Alto Perú. Así, el trabajo ha mostrado, de manera general, que la imagen del negro ha sido honrada por Rivera mediante las armas, la sociabilidad y la relación de hermandad con el “amo” blanco.   The negation of the Afro-descendant contribution has been one of the constants in the history of Argentina. The symbolic participation of slaves in the struggles of the country has been often ignored by white and Europeanist history which represents the black as a secondary subject, a representation in the subalternity which also characterized the literature. But with the rise of the historical novel at the end of the 20th century, a new vision of the role and the image of the Afro-descendant was born, where the latter acquired a fundamental place in the country. This is what Andres Rivera proposes in his novel entitled La revolución es un sueño eterno, that we have in this work through parts: a reminder of the participation of black slaves in the struggles for emancipation, the approach from the trenches, the character of the black captain Segundo Reyes and the relationship between negritude and aristocracy. The first part traces the heroic participation of blacks (slaves and free) in various battles of the country: English invasions, the, my revolution, the liberation war under San Martin, and the border struggles. The second part highlights the representation of “afroslodier”. With this approach, Andres Rivera speaks of the blacks not as a Community formed of slaves and free who, with regard to the whites and the Indians, stood heroically in all the struggles for the liberation of Argentina. To consolidate this approach without stereotype, the author uses an afro-argentine soldier character, a fisherman’s slave who becomes a captain of the army. The third part of the work analyses this revolutionary approach missing in literary history. And to highlight the loyalty and bravery of black soldiers alongside white figures, the author used, like Artigas and Ansina, duo Segundo Reyes, black captain, and Juan José Castelli, representative of the Government in the army of Alto Peru. The infallible friendship between the two during and after the wars which we analyzed in the last part shows how negritude and aristocracy (Blacks and Whites) are united by a perfect symbiosis made of fraternity and equal dignity.

The relationship of the scleractinian corals to the rugose corals

Paleobiology ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 146-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Critical Points ◽  
Scleractinian Corals ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Early Triassic ◽  
Rugose Corals ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Biologic Factors

The Mesozoic-Cenozoic coral Order Scleractinia has been suggested to have originated or evolved (1) by direct descent from the Paleozoic Order Rugosa or (2) by the development of a skeleton in members of one of the anemone groups that probably have existed throughout Phanerozoic time. In spite of much work on the subject, advocates of the direct descent hypothesis have failed to find convincing evidence of this relationship. Critical points are:(1) Rugosan septal insertion is serial; Scleractinian insertion is cyclic; no intermediate stages have been demonstrated. Apparent intermediates are Scleractinia having bilateral cyclic insertion or teratological Rugosa.(2) There is convincing evidence that the skeletons of many Rugosa were calcitic and none are known to be or to have been aragonitic. In contrast, the skeletons of all living Scleractinia are aragonitic and there is evidence that fossil Scleractinia were aragonitic also. The mineralogic difference is almost certainly due to intrinsic biologic factors.(3) No early Triassic corals of either group are known. This fact is not compelling (by itself) but is important in connection with points 1 and 2, because, given direct descent, both changes took place during this only stage in the history of the two groups in which there are no known corals.

A History of Greece

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Grote
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
Of Greece
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