Lord Byron and Lady Byron

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Galperin
Keyword(s):  
Lord Byron ◽  
Don Juan ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
The World ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
History Of

An overlooked aspect of Lord Byron’s short unhappy marriage to Annabella Milbanke remains the “singular,” everyday world of relation that marriage represented for him, both beforehand, when marriage was an abstraction performed in correspondence with Milbanke, and afterwards, when the Byron marriage and the world it figured was literally a history of missed opportunities that the poet recaptured and reinscribed in Don Juan. The finite, epistolary conversation that constituted the Byron courtship was more than a trial run at marriage, particularly as the opposite of what Byron disparagingly called “love.” It proved a stay against a future that, on the relational front and in Byron’s contemporaneous Eastern Tales, was devoid of either hope or possibility. Here, in the sway of anticipatory nostalgia, marriage day after day would be suddenly fathomable and as valuable as the monetary fortune Byron also sought, but as a history of missed opportunities.

The History of Missed Opportunities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Galperin
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
William Wordsworth ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Levels

This study is about the emergence of the everyday as both a concept and a material event and about the practices of retrospection in which it came to awareness in the romantic period in “histories” of the missed, the unappreciated, the overlooked. Prior to this moment everyday life was both unchanging and paradoxically unpredictable. By the late eighteenth century, however, as life became more predictable and change on a technological and political scale more rapid, the present came into unprecedented focus, yielding a world answerable to neither precedent nor futurity. This alternative world soon appears in literature of the period: in the double takes by which the poet William Wordsworth disencumbers history of memory in demonstrating what subjective or “poetic” experience typically overlooks; in Jane Austen, whose practice of revision returns her to a milieu that time and progress have erased and that reemerges, by previous documentation, as something different. It is observable in Lord Byron, thanks to the “history” to which marriage and domesticity are consigned not only in the wake of his separation from Lady Byron but during their earlier epistolary courtship, where the conjugal present came to consciousness (and prestige) as foredoomed but an opportunity nonetheless. The everyday world that history focalizes in the romantic period and the conceptual void it exposes in so doing remains a recovery on multiple levels: the present is both “a retrospect of what might have been” (Austen) and a “sense,” as Wordsworth put it, “of something ever more about to be.”

scholarly journals The East in the Western Perception: Orientalism in some selected Poems of Lord Byron

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-26
Author(s):  
Afaf Ahmed Hasan Al-Saidi
Keyword(s):  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Don Juan ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
Negative Impression ◽  
Literary Phenomenon

Orientalism as a literary phenomenon has been recently focused on by different writers all over the world. Many of those who write about Orientalism have not the same understanding, and the divergences are reproduced due to different attitudes toward Orientalism. From various studies concerning Orientalism, there are apparent tributaries confronting the understanding of the concept of Orientalism from different perspectives. Edward Said is one of those who, according to what many Western and Eastern writers say, represent the negative attitude towards Orientalism, and tries only to make it appear ugly and offensive. Many writers, Arabs and non-Arabs, take, more or less, the same approach Said used towards the subject of Orientalism. Others have, to some extent, tried to give excuses for the writers, especially the Romantics, for the negative impression their writings reflected on the readers when going through what is supposed to be Oriental works. Nigel Leask, Sari Makdisi, Emily Haddad, Martin Bright, Tripta Wahi and Naji Oueijan are the significant writers of this group. British orientalists did not use the right approach to look or write about the East. What irritates Said is that these orientalists did not pay attention to find any possibility by which they could bridge the gap between the European and Asiatic parts of the world. This paper tries to trace and to define Lord Byron’s type of Orientalism in some of his oriental works and his chief work Don Juan.

A Spectator at Lucerne

Tempo ◽  
1947 ◽  
pp. 14-15
Author(s):  
John Russell
Keyword(s):  
Don Juan ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The Many

From the garden of Wagner's house at Tribschen, one can peer down through the screen of foliage to the many-spired bassin of Lucerne; and inside the house are the framed programmes of the gigantic and adventurous concerts at which were performed the new inventions of the householder. Wagner is much esteemed by the authorities of Lucerne, and they have carefully trimmed his maple avenue, carefully swept and polished the corridors of his box-like villa. But when it comes to organizing a festival, his works are not performed, and the programmes have nothing of his obstinate audacity. An amiable incoherence was the mark of this year's Lucerne Festival. There was little planning, and there had been little publicity. The representative of the Cape Times bore almost alone the privilege of interpreting the scene to the English-speaking world. The programmes themselves would have been inconspicuous even at a Promenade Concert. Nobody, at this stage in the history of music, is going to post half across the world to hear Don Juan or the First Symphony of Brahms.

scholarly journals Lo insólito en la novela Don Juan de Gonzalo Torrente Ballester : un nuevo concepto del mítico personaje y su lucha por la libertad

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 29-39
Author(s):  
Joanna Mańkowska
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Don Juan ◽  
The World ◽  
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester ◽  
History Of ◽  
Making Friends ◽  
Novel Reading

Torrente Ballester in his 1963 book offers a novel reading of the myth by presenting Tenorio, who is denied both the chance to repent himself and the punishment of the Inferno. For more than three centuries, accompanied by Leporello, who reveals himself as a devil incarnate, travels the World making friends with artists who devote him their works, without understanding his tragedy, however. In Paris of the mid-twentieth century he emerges as working on the plays on Don Juan by independent theatres and visits places attended by young and passionate followers of Sartre. At times his soul leaves his winsome body, to which he is destined for eternity, and possesses a Spanish intellectual, with an aim of writing down the true history of Tenorio clarifying his conflict with God, a conflict in which the freedom to decide on one’s fate is one of the fundamental issues. He challenges Him by defending his right to be condemned for a life in sin. God proves indifferent to his desperate blasphemies and Don Juan is faced with the recognition of human condition as unable to satisfy desires and being one’s genuine inferno.

The History of Missed Opportunities

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Galperin
Keyword(s):  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Galperin mines Romanticism as a kind of second-sight or retrospective turn that allows for possibility to emerge in the interstices of past, present, and future. In this way, Romanticism uniquely serves “as text and context as opposed to a discourse readily contextualized, where the ‘world’ onto which literature opens is so embedded, so barely understood, that it is enough just to mark it.”

Don Juan and the Vision of Vision

Perception ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher U M Smith
Keyword(s):  
Early History ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Don Juan ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Visual Science ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Construct

Castaneda's well-known sequence of Don Juan books is used as a paradigmatic example of the relativist position. Central to Don Juan's teaching is the problem of perception: the main task, he constantly reiterates, is simply to ‘see’, to recognise that the commonsense world we customarily perceive is nothing more than a cultural construct. To combat this thoroughgoing relativism a case study is taken from the early history of visual science. In classical antiquity several fundamentally different ‘views’ (to use Don Juan's term) of how we see contended for approval. It was only at the beginning of the seventeenth century that the ‘modern’ interpretation was selected. This interpretation was selected, ultimately, because it ‘worked’. Reference is made to both Wittgenstein and Marx to support this appeal to praxis. It is argued that through an intricate, complex, and ill-understood process of popularisation our self-image is ultimately grounded in the theories of natural science; and these, in turn, are ultimately grounded in our action in the world of things.

scholarly journals The East in the Western Perception: Orientalism in some selected Poems of Lord Byron

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afaf Ahmed Hasan Al-Saidi
Keyword(s):  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Don Juan ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
Negative Impression ◽  
Literary Phenomenon

Orientalism as a literary phenomenon has been recently focused on by different writers all over the world. Many of those who write about Orientalism have not the same understanding, and the divergences are reproduced due to different attitudes toward Orientalism. From various studies concerning Orientalism, there are apparent tributaries confronting the understanding of the concept of Orientalism from different perspectives. Edward Said is one of those who, according to what many Western and Eastern writers say, represent the negative attitude towards Orientalism, and tries only to make it appear ugly and offensive. Many writers, Arabs and non-Arabs, take, more or less, the same approach Said used towards the subject of Orientalism. Others have, to some extent, tried to give excuses for the writers, especially the Romantics, for the negative impression their writings reflected on the readers when going through what is supposed to be Oriental works. Nigel Leask, Sari Makdisi, Emily Haddad, Martin Bright, Tripta Wahi and Naji Oueijan are the significant writers of this group. British orientalists did not use the right approach to look or write about the East. What irritates Said is that these orientalists did not pay attention to find any possibility by which they could bridge the gap between the European and Asiatic parts of the world. This paper tries to trace and to define Lord Byron’s type of Orientalism in some of his oriental works and his chief work Don Juan.

Views of Venice before Hemingway

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Perosa
Keyword(s):  
Henry James ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
Thomas Mann ◽  
The Past ◽  
Artistic Representations ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Perosa offers a history of artistic representations of Venice by poets and novelists around the world, including Lord Byron, Thomas Mann, and Henry James. In order to engage with Hemingway’s depiction of Italy, Perosa determines that it is necessary to understand how Venice has previously been captured by the greatest writers of the past. Through these writers, Perosa identifies a Venice that is synonymous with love, death, creativity, and mystery, all qualities that Hemingway himself sought to capture in his Italian works.

A History of the World Semiconductor Industry

IEE Review ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 355
Author(s):  
D.A. Gorham
Keyword(s):  
Semiconductor Industry ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

The problem of periodization of the history of religion

1997 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Borys Lobovyk
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Religious Development ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Role Of Religion

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.

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