Wales and the West

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary-Ann Constantine
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Differences ◽  
The West ◽  
Entire Area ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Romantic Era

This chapter explores the spread and exchange of some key Romantic-era preoccupations across Wales and the West Country. Focusing on Bristol as a place where ideas and energies—religious, political, and creative—met and mixed, it shows how Welsh and English literary traditions were channelled into a variety of new forms, often in response to the turbulence of the 1789 revolution and the subsequent wars with France. While broad structures of thought, including Dissent, antiquarianism, and a complex relation with the metropolis, are shared across the entire area, Wales’s linguistic, cultural, and geographical differences made it, for English writers, a place of exotic and utopian possibilities. From the reimagined bardic world of the radical Iolo Morganwg to the Wales-inspired poems of Southey and Wordsworth, this chapter reveals direct connections and striking parallels in the lives and works of writers in both languages.

Music for Inner Domains: Sinhala Song and the Arya and Hela Schools of Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Sri Lanka

2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 1043-1058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garrett M. Field
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Cultural Nationalism ◽  
North India ◽  
The West ◽  
British Raj ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Western Hegemony ◽  
Cultural Movement

In this article, I juxtapose the ways the “father of modern Sinhala drama,” John De Silva, and the Sinhala language reformer, Munidasa Cumaratunga, utilized music for different nationalist projects. First, I explore how De Silva created musicals that articulated Arya-Sinhala nationalism to support the Buddhist Revival. Second, I investigate how Cumaratunga, who spearheaded the Hela-Sinhala movement, asserted that genuine Sinhala song should be rid of North Indian influence but full of lyrics composed in “pure” Sinhala. The purpose of this comparison is to critique Partha Chatterjee's notion of the inner domain. Chatterjee focused on Bengali cultural nationalism and its complex relation to Western hegemony. He considered Bengal, the metropolis of the British Raj, to be representative of colonized nations. This article reveals that elsewhere in South Asia—Sri Lanka—one cultural movement sought to define the nation not in relation to the West but in opposition to North India.

scholarly journals ECOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS POETRY: A STUDY OF GARY SYNDER'S POETRY

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaid Najah Merzah ◽  
Alaa Ahmed Idrees
Keyword(s):  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Beat Generation ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
The West ◽  
Ecological Consciousness ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Romantic Era

Ecological consciousness poetry is considered as a modern literary movement, it has its roots in the west side of the world originated in the United States of America on the second half of 20th century. The concept of nature was the major theme in the Romantic era. On the other hand, eco-writers have their consideration of nature. This research highlighting on one of the most important parts in this movement which is "ecopoetry" by explaining its implications of nature in Gary Snyder's poetry, who is one of the pioneers of beat generation. The first section of the research concerns with Gary Snyder's early life and highlights on his most significant perspectives. The second one is a kind of a critical part, which concerns with eco-critical approach, its roots, concept, and a list of a critical questions which asks by its critics. The third section is the most important one in my opinion, which is the implication of ecological consciousness poetry in Gary Snyder's poems and how he reads this kind of poetry. And last but not least, a conclusion which sums up my perspectives and readings to the ecocriticism in general, and Gary Snyder's poetry in special. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0821/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Guest Editor's Introduction

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-328
Author(s):  
MOHAMED-SALAH OMRI
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

The present themed issue of Comparative Critical Studies presents both specialist readers as well as comparatists less familiar with Islamic literatures and cultures with a representative array of critical articles and authorial pronouncements regarding the role of the novel in a grouping of literary traditions in which this genre is perceived as new or foreign, or both new and foreign. It attempts to read across Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Turkish traditions comparatively as well as in their relationship to Western literatures, breaking away from the dominant practice in comparative literature which tends to privilege the West-East paradigm. In the process the issue also hopes to introduce comparatists to the tools and methodology of Area Studies specialists, heeding recent debate about the collaborative task these two fields could and should engage in. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has recently called for aligning comparative literature with Area Studies, while Franco Moretti has spoken of a division of labour between the two.

scholarly journals An Attempt to Correlate the Glacial and Post-Glacial Deposits of the British Isles, and to Determine their Order of Succession

The Geologist ◽  
1863 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 168-178
Author(s):  
William King
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Glacial Period ◽  
British Isles ◽  
East Side ◽  
The West ◽  
Relative Level ◽  
Entire Area ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
Glacial Periods

The classification given in the sequel is based on the following premises:—1st. The entire area of the British Isles has undergone at different times, during the Glacial and Post-Glacial periods, a succession of secular elevating and subsiding movements.2nd. At the close of the Pliocene period, the relative level of land and sea over the British area was approximately the same as at present.3rd. The edge of the two-hundred-fathoms submarine plateau, on the east side of the North Atlantic, formed the west coast-line of a continent (now represented by Europe) during the earliest time (epoch) of the Glacial period.4th. The climate of the British area was frigid in the extreme during the Glacial period, allowing epochs of amelioration.5th. Rock-surfaces undergo enormous degradation when they are above the sea-level, during the prevalency of glaciation.

The Role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Enhancing Service Sector Productivity in Palestine

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rabeh Morrar ◽  
Islam Abdeljawad ◽  
Samer Jabr ◽  
Adnan Kisa ◽  
Mustafa Z. Younis
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Geographical Differences ◽  
The West ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Lower Productivity ◽  
The Impact

This article discusses the productivity of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector using cross-sectional data from 793 service firms in Palestine. The authors have examined the impact of ICT growth on service sector productivity in Palestine using a set of indicators for ICT including internet usage, e-commerce, networks, websites, and use of “smart” phones. They find that using ICT (mainly Internet) in commerce (e-commerce) is one of the most important levers of labor productivity among service firms. Service firms that are less ICT-intensive are less productive than more ICT-intensive firms; moreover, the use of mobile phones for services other than send-and-receive calls, highly improves the labor productivity of service firms. Conversely, using a website and computer network does not positively affect the labor productivity. Regarding geographical differences in labor productivity, the analysis shows that firms in Jerusalem are characterized by higher productivity than firms in the West Bank, while firms in Gaza have a lower productivity compared to firms in the West Bank.

scholarly journals Young England: Part One

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-101
Author(s):  
Laurie Langbauer
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Self ◽  
Benjamin Disraeli ◽  
Youth Movement ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Conservative Group ◽  
Romantic Era

“Young England: Part One” pursues central questions for juvenilia studies: how did the turn-of-the-century juvenile tradition influence succeeding generations of Victorian writers, and what new questions does scholarly understanding of juvenile writing in Britain allow literary critics to ask now? The Romantic-era juvenile tradition gets reconstituted through its influence on the 1840s Tory splinter movement, Young England. I argue that this contradictory, conservative group of titled young writers paradoxically reveals how the marginalized juvenile tradition calls its writers into being—and asks us to revise our ideas of literary traditions and of history in general. The young Romantics Byron and Shelley symbolized youthful writing to Young Englanders, but so did another lesser-known juvenile writer, Percy Smythe, Sixth Lord Strangford. That Strangford was father to a prominent Young Englander: George Smythe, later Seventh Lord Strangford. In recovering both Strangfords’ literary juvenilia, Part One considers the rethinking of genealogy and succession within writing by young authors—arguing it underlies Young England as youth movement, especially its sense of history as ultimately inaccessible but vital nonetheless in its construction. Part Two (JJS 3.2, June 2020) will look more closely at how Young England’s shaping fantasy of history depends on youth. It focuses on the self-fashioning within its contradictions of one-time juvenile writer and Young England’s mentor, Benjamin Disraeli (later Prime Minister and Earl of Beaconsfield)—contradictions employing signifiers of youth that were generative of his virtuoso performance as writer, celebrity, and statesman.

One Hundred Years of Solitude and Its Influence in Japan

2021 ◽  
pp. 276-291
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Robledo
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Magical Realism ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
The West ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Animated Films ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Japanese Translation

The Japanese translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in 1972, was a landmark in Japan’s twentieth-century cultural life. From literature to cinema, from drama to anime film, García Márquez’s masterpiece has been hailed as a source for inspiration or as a professional milestone by leading Japanese creators. Authors such as Kenzaburō Ōe (Nobel laureate, 1994), Natsuki Ikezawa, and Kobo Abe openly acknowledged having undergone literary influence from the Colombian writer, while Haruki Murakami scholars point out how magical realism serves as García Márquez’s tool in depicting multiple explanations for a reality populated by traumatized characters. The subsequent Japanese publication of the near-totality of the Colombian Nobel laureate’s oeuvre, moreover, has helped bring into view a great many coincidences between magical realism and the subject matter and techniques of Japanese literary works produced since the end of the nineteenth century, when Japan ended its voluntary isolation and opened itself up to the West. The imprint of García Márquez on Japanese culture brings out parallels between two distant literary traditions that offer a reality different from that of the European, modifying it with magical or animistic elements. The legacy of GGM in cinema is present above all in the animated films of the Ghibli Studio, which submerge the viewer in a reality so palpable that one is induced to unquestioningly accept extravagant or implausible events.

García Márquez and His Precursors

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-125
Author(s):  
Lois Parkinson Zamora
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Garcilaso De La Vega ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Spanish Baroque

This article is interested in writers and literary traditions that have influenced García Márquez, whether stylistically or structurally, culturally or historically, or all of these. The article pays attention to the author’s comments and his appropriations of specific precursors, especially as he acknowledges them in his autobiography Living to Tell the Tale (2002). It takes Jorge Luis Borges’s tack and suggests that the process of influence moves back as well as forward in time, that influence is reciprocal and precursors may be influenced by García Márquez as well as influencing him. Among the dozens of authors who both influence and are influenced by García Márquez are Faulkner, Kafka, Garcilaso de la Vega, and Spanish baroque poets and playwrights. The article also discusses the influence of his grandmother’s storytelling and the deeply embedded cultural influence of Catholicism in Colombia. By attending to García Márquez’s complex relation with his precursors, the article shows that one may justifiably speak of una tradición gabrielina.

scholarly journals Geological and geophysical work in the Nûgssuaq-Disko region, central West Greenland

1973 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 18-20
Author(s):  
G Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
The West ◽  
Academic Interest ◽  
Entire Area ◽  
Petroleum Potential ◽  
West Greenland

During the summer the geological and geophysical work on Cretaceous-Tertiary sedimentary and volcanic rocks of central West Greenland embarked upon in 1971 (see Henderson, 1972), was continued. This programme ran concurrently with offshore geophysical work (see Denham, this report), the object of the combined investigations being to study in detail the sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the entire area. With the interest in the petroleum potential of the West Greenland continental shelf continuing unabated, the only area where the Cretaceous-Tertiary rocks are exposed is clearly of considerable economic as well as academic interest.

The Upper Band-Better Bed sequence (Lower Coal Measures, Westphalian A) in the central and south Pennine area of England

1990 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. I. Chisholm
Keyword(s):  
Initial Period ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Open Water ◽  
Delta Front ◽  
The West ◽  
Entire Area ◽  
Delta Plain ◽  
The North ◽  
Facies Types

AbstractAn analysis of outcrop and borehole information relating to the strata between the Upper Band and Better Bed coals of the central and south Pennines shows that two lithological facies can be recognized within a cyclic sequence of mudstones, siltstones and sandstones. In one facies, sandstones and siltstones contain abundant mica, and argillaceous beds are neutral grey in colour. Petrographically the sandstones are feldspathic but contain little lithic material other than multigrain quartz. In the other facies, mica is much less common, argillaceous beds are greenish grey, and sandstones and siltstones contain a notable proportion of chloritic lithoclasts. The sediments of both facies were deposited in lower delta plain/shallow-water delta environments, and palaeocurrent measurements show that the micaceous facies was supplied from the north or east while the green facies came in from the west.Three named divisions of the sequence are based on recognition of the two facies types. They correspond roughly with three upward-coarsening transgressive–regressive sedimentary cycles of presumed eustatic origin. In the lowest part of the succession (Shibden division) the main clastic input was of the micaceous type. Sandstones are found only in the north of the basin, where they form a series of superimposed delta-front bodies. Mudstones were deposited elsewhere, in a large body of open water which, although linked to the sea, was generally of lowered salinity. The restriction of the delta-front sandstones to the same geographical area over a long period of time is attributed to differential subsidence of the basin across deep-seated structures.The sediments of the overlying Brighouse division belong to the green facies, and the source of the elastics lay to the west. After an initial period of mudstone deposition in an extensive, apparently non-marine, body of open water, fluviodeltaic sand and silt spread across the entire area. There is no obvious control of sandstone distribution by basement structures.The succeeding Bradley Wood division includes sediments of both micaceous and green facies. A lobe of medium-grained micaceous sandstone around Sheffield (Thurlstone Channel) represents a fluvial incursion from the east and a linear body of fine-grained green-facies sandstone south of Chesterfield (Bole Hill Channel) represents a similar incursion from the west. Elsewhere, small units of finer-grained elastics are probably deltaic deposits linked to the same sources. The location of the channel sand-bodies suggests control by deep-seated fractures.

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