Wordsworth's Unremembered Pleasure

Author(s):  
Alexander Freer

Wordsworth’s writing detects and investigates pleasures that are overlooked, underacknowledged, and ‘unremembered’. This book explores Wordsworth’s sustained interest in the ethical and aesthetic value of lost, inaccessible, and unfelt pleasure throughout his poetry and critical prose. Such pleasures are marginal and fleeting; they pass by silently and are recognized only retrospectively. Yet they shape the aims, technique, and ultimately the whole affective economy of Wordsworth’s writing. Rather than understanding the domain of pleasure to be subjective personal experience, Wordsworth posits affects and attachments beyond conscious experience and possession. By tracing the intertwined history of romanticism and psychoanalysis, the work teases Wordsworth’s interest in unnoticed experience apart from the psychoanalytic concepts that have shaped our understanding of it. Reading Wordsworth against Freud, it rethinks central critical categories: repression, sublimation, mourning, happiness, pleasure, and the gift. In Wordsworth’s account of composition, it locates the resources to rethink poetic pleasure: not as wish-fulfilment, nor as aesthetic escape, but as an engaged and reparative relation to the world.

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-101
Author(s):  
Willy Himawan ◽  
Setiawan Sabana ◽  
A. Rikrik Kusmara

Pulau Bali terkenal sebagai salah satu tujuan wisata terbesar di dunia yang berkaitan erat dengan budaya Bali. Perkembangan seni rupa modern tidak dapat dipisahkan dari sejarah kolonialisme pada tahun 1900-an melalui pengembangan awal pariwisata yang memengaruhi perkembangan praktik seni Bali dan wacananya. Studi kualitatif ini akan melihat Bali sebagai kawasan-kawasan yang berbeda dalam spektrum perkembangan seni rupa yang dipengaruhi oleh konteks perkembangan pariwisata di tiap wilayah. Metode yang digunakan adalah aksi partipatoris di lapangan dengan pendekatan hermeneutik untuk memahami konteks, makna, dan nilai estetik yang terbangun dalam kegiatan-kegiatan seni rupa di Klungkung dalam kegiatan komunitas Batu Belah dalam acara Global Change Art Climate 2015, di Denpasar dan sekitarnya dalam kegiatan komunitas Sprites Art 2015, dan di Buleleng dalam kegiatan komunitas Segara Lor pada Buleleng Festival 2013. Perbedaan dalam konteks pengembangan pariwisata di daerah-daerah tertentu di Bali telah memengaruhi perkembangan dan perbedaan makna dan nilai estetika karya seni di sana. The Tourism Influence on Art Diversity as a Cultural Capital of Bali: Study on the Community and Art Events in Denpasar, Klungkung dan Singaraja. The island of Bali is famous as one of the largest tourist destination in the world. The development of modern art cannot be separated from the history of colonialism in the 1900s through the early development of Balinese art activities and their studies. This qualitative study sees Bali as different regions in the spectrum of the development of art which influenced by the context of the development of tourism in each region. The method used in this study is the action partipatoris field (participatory action field research) with a hermeneutic approachto understand the context, meaning, and aesthetic value that are built in the activities of art in Klungkung by among others are Batu Belah community in “The Global Change Art Climate 2015”, in Denpasar “Sprites activities Art” in 2015, and in Buleleng in activities “Segara Lor in Buleleng Festival 2013”. Differences in the context of the development of tourism in certain areas in Bali have influenced the development and meaning differences, and the aesthetic value of the works of art there.


2021 ◽  
pp. 45-62
Author(s):  
Dalius Jonkus

The purpose of this article is to analyze the connection between formalism and phenomenology in Vasily Sesemann’s aesthetics. In the articles “Aesthetic valuation in the history of art” (1922), “The nature of poetic image” (1925), “Art and culture” (1927), Seseman discusses the formalist concept of art. However, the most complete critique of the formalist idea of art is revealed in his Aesthetics (1970). In this book, he presented the most comprehensive conception of aesthetic structure. In this paper, I set out first to analyze the most important features of the formalist history of art, and then to explore how Sesemann transforms the concept of artistic form into a conception of aesthetic structure. I argue that formalistic analysis of art transforms the concept of artistic form into a style. This style is nothing less than the experience of being in the world. Sesemann abandons the dualistic separation of sensory material and intelligible form, and instead offers the concept of aesthetic structure. He reveals the relationship between the sensory structure of an aesthetic object and the perceiving subject. Aesthetic value can be revealed as meaningful only with the participation of a subject and with the necessary contemplative attitude. Analysis of art must cover not only individual structures of the object, but also a phenomenological analysis of perception. The combination of formalism and phenomenology is a peculiar characteristic of Sesemann’s aesthetics. The structural analysis reveals a systematic coherence among the artistic creator, work of art, and its perceiver.


Author(s):  
A. A. Asoyan ◽  
A. Yu. Asoyan

Modern researchers pay attention first of all to the typological connections of Pushkin's works, but it seems to us that the productive method of studying the similarity of English-Russian communications in this context is not associated with specific figurative-thematic or genrethematic calls, not with the commonality of individual motifs and, finally, not with the concepts of the Russian poet’s responses to specific works of the English bard, but with the genetic textand meaning-generating links of the Russian poet’s creativity with Shakespeare’s poetics in nuce. No wonder M. P. Alekseev noted that Shakespeare was for Pushkin “the problem of worldview”. On the other hand, it seems fundamental that E. W. M. Tillard justified the need to introduce the category “picture of the world” in relation to the analysis of Shakespearean dramas, because, as S. Coleridge said, in any particular, the great playwright opened the universal, potentially existing, and opened in the image of homo generalis. In this retrospect, the statement of H. Bloom, the author of the bestseller “Western Canon”, “there is a man before and after Shakespeare” entails another consideration: “there is a man before and after Pushkin”. Both are the creators of the latest drama. A student of M. P. Alekseev, great comparatist Yu. D. Levin thought: “In the history of Russian experme... Pushkin is the Central figure. It was he who carried out the creative processing of Shakespeare’s poetics, which was then mastered by the development of Russian drama.” About the exceptional importance of Pushkin in the arrangement of Shakespeare’s poetics on Russian soil indirectly expressed in his notebooks Pushkin's friend P. A. Vyazemsky: “What threw our dramatic art on the narrow road of the French? – he asked. – Thin Sumarokov tragedy. If he had been an imitator of Shakespeare, we would have perfected his thin imitations of the English, as we have now perfected his pale imitations of the French.” Brilliant poets were led to creative achievements by impartial comprehension of human nature, and on this way they showed the image of man in the fullness of his own historical reality. This was expressed primarily in the independent dignity of poetry, which neither Shakespeare nor Pushkin was able to find support for religious, rhetorical, philosophical or political considerations that were not in its favour. No wonder the context of Pushkin’s creativity, V. S. Nepomnyashchy believes, not literature, not culture, not history even as such, but existence itself in its universal understanding, integral unity. It is noteworthy that, according to G. Bloom, and Shakespeare’s plays give “us the opportunity to join what can be called the primary aesthetic value.” The link between the two poets was the “grandeur of the idea”, the integrity of the artistic consciousness, the ability, as Heraclitus said, “to see everything as one”, and the deep psychological development of an unpredictable human character.


2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-170
Author(s):  
Bruno Colson

Of all military campaigns throughout the course of history, Waterloo is surely the most studied. After an initial period during which the protagonists, and Napoleon in particular, made strenuous efforts to defend their conduct, a more scientific approach to the events emerged between 1871 and 1918, although it was hampered by a context of rising nationalism. After something of a lull resulting from the World Wars, new studies appeared, marked by attempts to balance out the differing national viewpoints, to re-evaluate the traditional narratives, and above all by a new approach to the realities of the battle based on accounts of personal experience. Cultural historians subsequently introduced new themes, amid a desire to return to first-hand sources. All this has the potential to give rise to a comprehensive history of the campaign, integrating archives from all camps. For currently, despite the plethora of published material on Waterloo, no such definitive study exists.


Pedagogika ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 114 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-140
Author(s):  
Žibartas Jackūnas

Traditional Western theoretic culture conceives the results of a manifestation of the world in a human experience as an outcome determined mainly by the apprehended phenomena themselves and their objective properties. Such one-sided approach to reality was properly subjected to criticism by phenomenology, philosophy of language, hermeneutics, and postmodern thought. The above-indicated currents of philosophical thought stress the interpretive nature of the world and its understanding as well as the role semantic experience of a person plays in a process of interpretation. The article has the purpose to show, how both a forenamed approaches to reality – traditional and interpretive – determine the conception of an artwork and its aesthetic value. Traditional mode of thought prompts the investigators to see an artwork as an objective thing or artifact. This approach naturalizes a work of art, neglects its semantic and communicative dimension, remains in the background the meaning of an artwork and its relation to experience of a person involved in the process of its interpretation. Interpretive or semantic approach opens the possibility to elaborate a conception of aesthetic value of artwork based on the following semantic tenets: 1) aesthetic value can be directly ascribed only to aesthetic experience which manifests itself in the process of interpretation of an artwork. The process is, in its nature, interpretive par excellence; 2) manifestation of meanings, which form a semantic content of aesthetic experience, presupposes an active participation of generalized experience of a person taking part in the process of interpretation of artwork; 3) substantial part of personal experience, involved in the process of manifestation of aesthetic values of an artwork, consists of meanings related to value-system of a person; 4) an axiological dimension of aesthetic value of an artwork is related to two conjoint factors: a) emotional response to the meaning, conceived in the process of aesthetic interpretation of artwork; b) the changes in semantic experience (generalized) of a person, especially in his value-experience. The article comprises a more detailed characterization of the principles lying at the ground of traditional and semantic approaches to the problem of aesthetic value of artwork.


Author(s):  
Ася Львовна Габышева

Собрание Национального художественного музея Республики Саха (Якутия) – это осмысленный итог подвижнического труда многих поколений. Коллекции музея по своему общему составу представляют большой историко-художественный интерес и включают обширный ряд уникальных произведений, являясь органичной частью мировой художественной сокровищницы. Яркой страницей в истории музейного дела в республике стала безвозмездная передача в 1962 году более 250 произведений западноевропейского искусства ХVI – ХIХ веков из семейного собрания известного якутского ученого, доктора экономических наук, профессора Михаила Федоровича Габышева (1902 – 1958). В составе дара можно отметить работы итальянских мастеров – Николо Реньери (ок. 1590 – 1667), Джованни Баттиста Питтони (1687 – 1767), голландских художников – Александра Адриансена (1587 – 1661), Фредерика де Мушерона (1633 – 1686), превосходные портреты неизвестного фламандского мастера первой четверти ХVII века. На основе картин из коллекции М. Ф. Габышева в 1970 году в бывшем здании Якутского уездного казначейства, построенном в 1909 году, был открыт  филиал – «Музей западноевропейского искусства», преобразованный в 1995 году в «Галерею зарубежного искусства имени профессора М. Ф. Габышева».  Статья рассказывает о принципах и процессе формирования собрания знаменитого коллекционера. The collection of the National Fine Arts Museum of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) is a meaningful result of the hard work of many generations. The Museum's collections are of great historical and artistic interest and include a wide range of unique works, being an organic part of the world art Treasury. The significant moment in the history of Museum life in the Republic was the gratuitous transfer (gift) in 1962 of more than 250 works of Western European art of the XVI – XIX centuries from the family collection of the famous Yakut scientist, Doctor of Economics, Professor Mikhail Gabyshev (1902 – 1958). In the composition of the gift can be noted Italian masters – Niccolo Reniery (about 1590 – 1667), Giovanni Battista Pittoni (1687 – 1767), Dutch artists – Alexander Adriansen (1587 – 1661), Frederico de Mucheron (1633 – 1686), excellent portraits of the unknown Flemish master of the first quarter of the XVII century. On the basis of paintings from the collection of M.F. Gabyshev in 1970, in the former building of the Yakut district Treasury, built in 1909, a branch was opened – the Museum of West European Art, transformed in 1995 into the Gallery of Foreign Art named after Professor M.F. Gabyshev. The article deals with the principles and process of forming the assemblage of the famous collector.


2020 ◽  
Vol 100 (100) ◽  
pp. 97-113
Author(s):  
Mark Featherstone

The objective of this article is to explore the evolution of what Beatrice Hibou calls the bureaucratisation of the world through a cultural history of the idea of bureaucracy in the western canon, taking in readings of Max Weber, Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault. The purpose of this historical survey is to reveal the essential problem of bureaucracy relating to the estrangement of body and writing in a state of modern technological abstraction. In order to set up this cultural history the first part of the article concerns perhaps the originary moment of the estrangement of humanity from writing, Socrates' story of the gift of writing from Plato's Phaedrus. Following exploration of Socrates' story, the article considers Derrida's famous analysis of the pharmakon of writing and suggests that what Derrida considered the original problem of speech and writing (that is, the need to decentre the proto-totalitarian idea of presence) no longer applies in the contemporary bureaucratised world where writing itself has evolved its own totalitarian form – abstract bureaucratic language that no longer speaks to the human. The article goes on to trace the evolution of this strange form of writing through exploration of the key works of Weber, Kafka, Arendt, and Foucault, before concluding by suggesting that what is required to move beyond the bureaucratisation of the world is the reversal of Derrida's pharmakon towards a situation that recognises the presence of human being in the world. Extending this point, the final section of the article concludes by suggesting that it is possible to find this argument in Bernard Stiegler's work and explaining that his theory of the neganthropocene may contain a solution of the problem of estranged writing and the totally bureaucratised world.


IEE Review ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 355
Author(s):  
D.A. Gorham

1997 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Borys Lobovyk

An important problem of religious studies, the history of religion as a branch of knowledge is the periodization process of the development of religious phenomenon. It is precisely here, as in focus, that the question of the essence and meaning of the religious development of the human being of the world, the origin of beliefs and cult, the reasons for the changes in them, the place and role of religion in the social and spiritual process, etc., are converging.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-224
Author(s):  
Bilge Deniz Çatak

Filistin tarihinde yaşanan 1948 ve 1967 savaşları, binlerce Filistinlinin başka ülkelere göç etmesine neden olmuştur. Günümüzde, dünya genelinde yaşayan Filistinli mülteci sayısının beş milyonu aştığı tahmin edilmektedir. Ülkelerine geri dönemeyen Filistinlilerin mültecilik deneyimleri uzun bir geçmişe sahiptir ve köklerinden koparılma duygusu ile iç içe geçmiştir. Mersin’de bulunan Filistinlilerin zorunlu olarak çıktıkları göç yollarında yaşadıklarının ve mülteci olarak günlük hayatta karşılaştıkları zorlukların Filistinli kimlikleri üzerindeki etkisi sözlü tarih yöntemi ile incelenmiştir. Farklı kuşaklardan sekiz Filistinli mülteci ile yapılan görüşmelerde, dünyanın farklı bölgelerinde mülteci olarak yaşama deneyiminin, Filistinlilerin ulusal bağlılıklarına zarar vermediği görülmüştür. Filistin, mültecilerin yaşamlarında gelenekler, değerler ve duygusal bağlar ile devam etmektedir. Mültecilerin Filistin’den ayrılırken yanlarına aldıkları anahtar, tapu ve toprak gibi nesnelerin saklanıyor olması, Filistin’e olan bağlılığın devam ettiğinin işaretlerinden biridir.ABSTRACT IN ENGLISHPalestinian refugees’ lives in MersinIn the history of Palestine, 1948 and 1967 wars have caused fleeing of thousands of Palestinians to other countries. At the present time, its estimated that the number of Palestinian refugees worldwide exceeds five million. The refugee experience of Palestinians who can not return their homeland has a long history and intertwine with feeling of deracination. Oral history interviews were conducted on the effects of the displacement and struggles of daily life as a refugee on the identity of Palestinians who have been living in Mersin (city of Turkey). After interviews were conducted with eight refugees from different generations concluded that being a refugee in the various parts of the world have not destroyed the national entity of the Palestinians. Palestine has preserved in refugees’ life with its traditions, its values, and its emotional bonds. Keeping keys, deeds and soil which they took with them when they departed from Palestine, proving their belonging to Palestine.


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