Gladstone, gossip and the post-war generation

2001 ◽  
Vol 74 (186) ◽  
pp. 409-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. Gardiner
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Post War ◽  

Abstract This article is a case-study of the reputation of W. E. Gladstone at a time when it is often suggested that eminent Victorians were subject to widespread denigration. Drawing upon archival material relating to the way in which Gladstone's family sought to protect and promote his memory in the post-war period, it argues that in tandem with an enduring public respect for his reputation, gossipmongering failed to diminish his stature. This has important implications for the ways in which post-war society related to the lives of eminent Victorians and to the past more generally.

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martijn Eickhoff

This paper reconsiders German reflection on National Socialist pre- and protohistoric archaeology from 1933 onwards. It tries to do so by means of a case study of the academic contacts between the Dutch prehistorian A.E. van Giffen (1884–1973) and his German colleague H. Reinerth (1900–90). The approach adopted here differs from traditional historiographical writing on National Socialist archaeology in two respects. First, in its analysis of the academic exchange between the two scholars, the case study seeks to bridge the classical caesura between a pre- and post-war period. Second, contemporary and historical studies of National Socialist archaeology and archival sources, as well as interviews, have been incorporated in the research alongside the usual publications of the scholars involved. It is argued that with the approach taken here we may arrive at a more nuanced understanding of the different ways archaeologists have reacted to National Socialism over the past seven decades.


2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Tupman

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess what an overview of theoretical literature and case study material can tell us about the different ways crime has been organised in the past in different cultures and whether this has any impact on the ways in which crime may be organised in the present and the future. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis is based on an examination of Mcintyre’s work on how crime is organised and later political, economic and civil society views of criminality. Brief discussion of case studies involving the UK, The Netherlands, the Arab world, Ethiopia and Russia is used to see how crime was organised there in the past. Findings – There is a greater variety of variables in the way crime was organised historically than McIntyre suggests, and an examination of civil society might pay greater dividends than even looking at politics or economic aspects of organised crime. Research limitations/implications – The study is preliminary. More historical case study material needs to be accessed. Originality/value – There are many research case studies, particularly at PhD level and in subjects other than criminology, such as history, language studies and cultural studies generally, which have not been brought together to present an overall picture. This paper is a first step in that direction.


During the past decade, there has been a rapid growth in studies of the physical properties of the asteroids. In consequence, there now exists a much better basis than there was hitherto for comparing the properties of meteorites, determined in the laboratory, with those of asteroids. The way in which recent measurements of asteroids and meteorites can be interrelated to determine the nature and history of a meteorite parent body is illustrated via a case study of the asteroid Vesta and the Ca-rich achondrite Kapoeta.


Experiment ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-79
Author(s):  
Maria Taroutina

Abstract Taking cue from Dmitry Sarabyanov’s seminal publications on the Stil Modern and turn-of-the-century Russian visual culture, the present article resituates Mikhail Vrubel’s œuvre “between East and West” by demonstrating that the artist moved beyond the narrowly circumscribed nationalist agenda typically attributed to the work he produced at the Abramtsevo and Talashkino artistic colonies. In addition to indigenous sources, Vrubel also assimilated a number of external artistic influences such as Jugendstil, medieval Gothic and Renaissance ceramics, Japanese and Chinese porcelain, and Egyptian and Assyrian art. Through a close analysis of Vrubel’s orientalist paintings, as well as his cycle of folkloric works such as Mikula Selyaninovich and the Volga (1896), I demonstrate that his aesthetic program crossed multiple boundaries: geographical, temporal, material, and institutional. Through a complex renegotiation of the global and the local, the past and the present, and the traditional and contemporary, Vrubel arrived at a strikingly modernist visual syntax, which paved the way for an entire generation of avant-garde artists such as Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Liubov Popova, Vladimir Tatlin, and Naum Gabo, among others. Using Vrubel as a case study, this article thus proposes to rethink the opposing binary categories of avant-gardism and revivalism, historicism and innovation, Orientalism and Occidentalism, regionalism and cosmopolitanism, as they have been applied to the trajectory of modern Russian art—a set of ostensibly fixed dichotomies that Dmitry Sarabyanov had repeatedly and successfully challenged in his own work.


2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hélène Buzelin

Abstract Over the past ten years, the publishing and book selling industries (in Canada and elsewhere) have undergone a process of hyper-concentration that seems to threaten the future of independent publishing. How might this changing environment reflect on the attitudes of independent publishers toward translation and on the way they handle translation projects? This is the question this article seeks to examine. It is based on the first case study of a research programme that consists in following, by use of an ethnographic approach, the production process of literary translations in three independent Montréal-based publishing houses: from negotiations over the acquisition of translation rights to the launch of the translation. The article is divided into three parts. The first explains the rationale, methodology and ethics underlying this research; the second part tells the story of the title under study in a way that highlights the range of actors involved in the production of this translation, their own constraints and concerns, as well as the way publishing, editorial and linguistic/stylistic decisions intertwine. Based on this particular case, the third part discusses some of the strategies a publisher and his collaborators may devise in order to produce literary translations in an independent but network-based, competitive way. Particular emphasis is placed on strategies of cooperation such as co-translation and co-edition publishing, as well as on the role played by literary agents in the allocation of translation rights.


Author(s):  
Bjørnar Olsen

It is common to claim that the past is gone, leaving us with a void that can only be filled by our historical reconstructions. Things, however, object to this modern, historicist conception of an ended past. By stubbornly lingering on they expose us to a present past which constantly gathers and thus sediments into potentially new environments of memory. Drawing on so-called symmetrical archaeology, this chapter explores how the conception of a gathering past allows-and impels-us to rethink the way we conceive of memory and the archaeological exposition of the past. Using the abandoned Soviet mining town of Pyramiden as a case study, the chapter considers how the ruins of our own time may trigger critical and involuntary memories-memories that illuminate what conventional cultural history has discarded.


Slavic Review ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 573-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katerina Clark

Chingiz Aitmatov's recent novel I dol'she veka dlitsia den’ provides an excellent case study of the way the socialist realist canon can generate new paradigms out of itself. At a time when it is widely assumed in the West that all reputable Soviet authors have gone “beyond” socialist realism, the appearance of this novel is particularly instructive.Aitmatov's book has had greater impact in the Soviet Union than any other novel published there in recent years. It covers subjects that are both highly topical and sensitive politically. Yet it does so by using the conventions of socialist realism to a greater extent than has been seen in the major Soviet writing of the past fifteen years. Indeed, Aitmatov has somehow contrived to weave into the fabric of his text patterns reminiscent of every period in the development of socialist realism.


Author(s):  
Muhammad Sabri Sahrir ◽  
Elsayed Mohamed Salem

ملخص البحث: تعددت الشكاوى من صعوبة النحو قديماً وحديثاً؛ وبخاصة من متعلميه من الناطقين بغير العربية؛ إذ إن التيسير مطلب شرعي وأساسي تعليمياً، ولا يطلب إلا إذا استصعبت الأشياء، ومن هنا كان من الواجب اقتراح نموذج تطويري للإعراب الموروث ابتداء، وقابل للتطوير لاحقاً؛ ويمكن تطبيقه في قاعات الدرس، واتبعت الدراسة المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، وهدفت إلى تيسير النحو للناشئة الذي أصبح من الأمور الضرورية والحتمية التي لا مناص منها. توصلت الدراسة إلى ما يأتي: الأصل من تعليم النحو هو المحاكاة والتقليد، وليس الحفظ والترديد، وأن مهارة الإعراب تكتسب بالتدرب على العلاقة بين الكلمات، وليس على ترتيبها في الجملة، وصعوبة العربية تعود إلى طريقة عرض النحويين لقواعدها، وامتلاؤها بالجدل والخلافات العقيمة، وأن دراسة التراكيب في المراحل المبكرة لذو أثر كبير في نماء ذوق الطلبة وتنمية قدراتهم اللغوية، ويجب التفرقة بين النحو بمفهوم تقويم اللسان من اللحن، ومفهومه الذي يبحث عن العلل والأسباب والعوامل. الكلمات المفتاحية: النحو العربي-الناطقون بغير العربية-تيسير النحو-الإعراب-النحو الحديث.     Abstract   There were many complaints about the difficulty of grammar, in the past and present, especially among learners of non-Arabic native speakers. Thus, it should be facilitated as a important requirement and based on an educational basis, as it is required only if things are difficult. Hence, it was necessary to propose an enhanced model for the inherited declension, which is able to be expanded later for application in classrooms. There is no doubt that there is no magical way or secret idea for the students, which leads them directly to the desired goal, which is the composition ability of their sound pronunciation, and evaluate their tongues on the sound, but access to that valuable result is a combination of many factors enumerated research in this paper. The research presented descriptive analytical, ends with exercises on what was proposed. The goal is clear, and the way to it is in the content selection - arrangement - gradually, and then comes the good training based on the grounds of combining comprehensiveness and ease. If this achieved, research has become important in that it is a cycle of facilitation, and an idea of ​​the development ideas sought by the institutions concerned with educational curricula and development. Keywords: Arabic grammar, non-Arabic speakers, grammar facilitation, expression, modern grammar   Abstrak   Terdapat banyak aduan mengenai kesukaran tatabahasa, baik yang lama atau baru, terutamanya di kalangan pelajar penutur asli bukan Arab. Oleh itu, isu ini merupakan satu  keperluan yang penting berdasarkan kepada asas-asas pembelajaran di mana ianya hanya diperlukan dalam situasi sukar. Oleh itu, adalah perlu untuk mencadangkan model pembelajaran ‘irab’ yang dipertingkatkan untuk mengatasi masalah sedia ada, yang dapat diperluaskan kemudiannya untuk aplikasi dalam bilik-bilik darjah. Tidak menjadi keraguan bahawa tidak ada cara ajaib atau idea rahsia untuk pelajar, yang dapat membawa mereka mencapai matlamat yang diinginkan, yang merupakan keupayaan komposisi sebutan suara, menilai lidah mereka pada sebutan, tetapi hasil yang berjaya itu adalah gabungan banyak faktor yang dihuraikan dalam artikel ini. Kajian ini mengggunakan analisis deskriptif yang berakhir dengan metod latihan yang dicadangkan. Matlamatnya adalah jelas yang tertera dalam kandungan modul pemilihan - susunan - berperingkat, diikuti oleh latihan yang baik berdasarkan justifikasi gabungan secara menyeluruh dan mudah. Jika objektif modul ini dapat dicapai, kajian ini mempunyai manfaat bagi memudahkan dan mengembangkan kurikulum pengajaran yang dicari oleh institusi pendidikan   Kata kunci: Tatabahasa Arab, penutur bukan bahasa Arab, memudahkan tatabahasa, ungkapan, tatabahasa moden.


Author(s):  
James Boaden

In 1951 the filmmaker and poet James Broughton moved to London from San Francisco. At that time he was beginning to garner a reputation for his short, whimsical, films, which often made use of outmoded costumes and decaying public spaces. One important reason he gave for moving was the idea that Britain had a more open-minded society for queer artists like himself to work within, in contrast to the McCarthy-era USA. With the help of a number of figures from the British film establishment he managed to make a half-hour-long film The Pleasure Garden in London. The film is for the most part set among the ruins of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham and the surrounding park. Broughton’s film is an allegory of Britain as he found it in the summer of 1951, asserting its own vision of a post-war national identity in the Festival of Britain. This chapter examines the way in which the Festival of Britain revived certain ideas of national identity from the past, yet neglected others – and the way in which these ideas were doubled and questioned in Broughton’s film.


2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroko Okuda

Nanzan UniversityThis study examines the way in which Tokyo has exploited the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a symbolic means of inducing post-war Japanese collective identity. To consider an effort on Tokyo’s part to integrate A-bomb memories into the country’s victim consciousness rather than to overcome the past, the study compares the A-bombed cities written with different Japanese forms, the peace parks, and the peace memorials. It also analyses the news coverage by two national daily papers on the A-bomb memorial days. By doing so, the study shows how the nation has been guided in its memory by the government.


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