Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 253-254
Author(s):  
Tim Milnes
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
First Century ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Secondary Form ◽  
Twenty First Century

What, if anything, does the fate of the essay in its ‘Golden Age’ tell us about the condition of the genre today? There is little doubt that interest in the essay is flourishing in the twenty-first century.1 Two factors have contributed to this resurgence. The first is the genre’s traditional status as ‘secondary’ form of literature. This meant that, while for a long time the essay was confined to the footnotes of literary history, it attracted the attention of approaches concerned with identifying marginal forms of writing, a tendency that can be traced from Adorno’s landmark essay, the ‘Essay as Form’, to the postmodern essayism of Barthes and Derrida....

scholarly journals Intercultural adapturgy : twenty-first century women adapting Spanish golden age plays

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mary Elaine Vansant
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
First Century ◽  
Dramatic Literature ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Spanish Golden Age ◽  
Adaptation Studies ◽  
Script Analysis ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Insight Into

Transferring work from one culture to another through translation or adaptation is a delicate process which requires careful consideration of both the positionality of the adapter and the intertextual reaction of the adapted work's target audience. In addition to traditional adaptation theories like intertextuality, the theatrical field of dramaturgy offers helpful insight into the adaptation process, especially as it relates to plays. This dissertation examines the ways that the combination of adaptation studies and dramaturgy, which Jane Barnette calls adapturgy, can inform intercultural adaptaitons of dramatic literature to create performable and effective theatre experiences for twenty-first century audiences. I achieve this goal by first examining two adapted plays: A Little Betrayal Among Friends by Caridad Svich, adapted from La traicion en la amistad by Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor, and Fever/Dream by Sheila Callaghan, adapted from La vida es sueno by Pedro Calderon de la Barca. I look at how dramaturgical and adapation theories can be applied to these plays via script analysis and contextual questioning. Then, using the skills gleaned from those two examples, I create my own translation and adaptation of Los empenos de una casa by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and I reflect on my adapturgical process of doing so. In creating both a translation, titled How to Build a Noble House, and an adaptation, titled With the Temptation, a Way of Escape, I both preserve the unique traits of the Spanish Golden Age for performance in the twenty-first century and amplify Sor Juana's comedic and social intentions for a contemporary society. I believe that both of these considerations, alongside a reflection on the adapter's positionality and the intentions of the producing organization and production team for a live production, are invaluable to both the field of adaptaiton studies and of dramaturgy.

Detective Fiction, Nostalgia and Rian Johnson's Knives Out: Making the Golden Age Great Again

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-253
Author(s):  
Eric Sandberg
Keyword(s):  
Detective Fiction ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Centre Of Gravity ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Agatha Christie

The Golden Age is back with a vengeance: reprints, re-boots, and adaptations of interwar detective fiction and its off-shoots have proliferated in the twenty-first century, as have works more loosely, but nonetheless substantially, inspired by the clue-puzzle format developed and perfected by authors like Agatha Christie. This resurgence of the ‘whodunnit’ mystery is something of mystery itself, as the centre of gravity of crime writing has long shifted away from this ostensibly dated and aesthetically limited form. This paper explores this unexpected development, looking in particular at the role of nostalgia in relation to new Golden Age mysteries. While nostalgia is frequently, and quite justly, viewed in negative terms as a personally and politically regressive phenomenon, in some cases, as in Rian Johnson’s murder mystery Knives Out (2019), examined here, it can be used not simply as a dubious marketing or aesthetic strategy, but as part of a broader social critique in which one form of nostalgia is used to critique another.

“Working the Waves”: The Plebeian Culture and Moral Economy of Traditional Basque Fishing Brotherhoods

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 551-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Hess
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
First Century ◽  
Artisanal Fishing ◽  
Collective Voice ◽  
Ecological Balance ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Waves

Although by the twentieth century, industrial-capitalist fishing methods were already disrupting the Basque fishing brotherhoods (cofradías), the collective voice of the fishermen and their communities, artisanal fishing, and the traditional customs surrounding it managed to survive for a few more decades. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, however, the future for local Basque fishermen looks bleak. Due to factors beyond their control, the brotherhoods, which for a long time guaranteed both an ecological balance in the sea and common wealth among the fishermen, have become totally defunct.

Wieland; or, The Transformation of American Literary History

2019 ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Duncan Faherty
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
First Century ◽  
American Novel ◽  
Early American ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
American Literary History ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Early American Novel

By considering the centrality of Wieland in the development of American literary history, this chapter moves to reaffirm its importance for students of US literature. The chapter begins by surveying the major editions of Wieland, from the first modern edition in 1926 through the scholarly editions in the early twenty-first century. In so doing, the chapter charts how scholars have often recursively positioned Wieland as a bellwether text in the formation of narratives about the development of American literary history, a practice that is often predicated on positioning the text as either the first or the first noteworthy early American novel. In tracing the evolution of the critical reception of the text, the chapter moves to underscore how Wieland’s enduring contribution to our understanding of the development of American literature and culture remains Brown’s insistence on the fallibility of isolationist narratives to register accurate genealogies or histories.

Part III Regimes and Doctrines, Ch.28 Something to do with States

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simpson Gerry
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
First Century ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Political Resources ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The Law ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter suggests that the law of sovereignty and statehood tends to be practiced, organized, and theorized around two sets of argument (and a sleight of hand), and that this tendency has produced certain effects on the distribution of political resources in global politics. The first argument is structured around the material and immaterial qualities of statehood, as it maintains that the ‘infinite transition’ discussed by Peter Fitzpatrick is produced partly by the elasticity of the doctrinal ground and partly by the remarkable stability of a very particular and idealized sovereign subject. The second argument rests on an idiom of fragmentation and unity, by juxtaposing an apparent golden age of post-Charter state sovereignty with both a decentralized nineteenth-century sovereignty, and a more protean, early twenty-first century sovereignty. Finally, the ‘sleight of hand’ operates around the relationship between routine statehood and sui generis sovereignty.

de Mille, Agnes (1905–1993)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liza Gennaro
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Musical Theater ◽  
Modern Dance ◽  
First Century ◽  
American Character ◽  
Ballets Russes ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
American Modern Dance

Agnes de Mille performed as a self-producing female dance soloist; she choreographed for Ballets Russes and Ballet Theatre (now the AmericanBallet Theatre) and transformed the function of dance in the American musical. Her Americana ballet Rodeo (1942) presents an iconic individualistic American character in her misfit cowgirl; Three Virgins and a Devil (1941) exposes the temptations of lust, greed, and piety rendered in comic dance/pantomime; and Fall River Legend (1948) examines the psychological torment of accused murderess Lizzie Borden. These ballets are important contributions to the canon of American ballet; however, it is in de Mille’s musical theater dances that her modernist methodologies served to transform a genre. Developing her choreographic art in the early days of American modern dance, de Mille was a practitioner of the methods and tenets of the burgeoning form. Making the American musical a medium for modern dance expression, she ushered in an exceptional period of choreography during the prolific era of the ‘‘Golden Age’’ (1943–1964). De Mille’s influence is still apparent in twenty-first-century Broadway.

Identification and Categorization of Disruptive Innovations According to the Strategic Scope of the Firm

2020 ◽  
pp. 1840-1859
Author(s):  
Vincent Sabourin
Keyword(s):  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
First Century ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Key Sectors ◽  
Disruptive Innovations ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Scope Of The Firm ◽  
The Impact

The concept of innovation has for a long time been considered as the drive behind the ever-changing positions and functioning of the global community. Since the beginning of twenty-first century, creative individuals and entrepreneurs have without influence declined to accept the existing products and services as being the ultimate solution to challenges the society faces. This scholarly analysis builds on the theory of disruptive innovation to categorize and analyze the impact of disruptive innovations on key sectors of an economy in terms of their impact on the strategies and commercialization from a sectorial perspective. This analysis offers insightful information in terms of disruptive innovations which can be categorized into market-driven, product-driven, and competency-driven disruptive innovations.

scholarly journals Cold War Nostalgia in The Game

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 436-452
Author(s):  
Nick Barnett
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Cold War

This article explores how nostalgia for both the Cold War and the 1970s in general became a key feature of the BBC drama The Game (2014). It argues that the serial situated the Cold War as a more stable era in international relations in which the enemy played by a specific set of rules, thus leading to a danger that was manageable and more predictable than the terror threat of the twenty-first century. Furthermore, the article argues that the serial presents the 1970s as a golden age which was defined by the continuity of consensus politics and communities of class and family. Finally, the article examines how this nostalgia is reinforced by narrative devices which engage with generic features such as the storyline playing out like a game. However, in the re-imagined Cold War of the twenty-first century, the traditional chess trope has been replaced by the more complex game of Alice Chess.

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