The buried king and the memory of the future: From Washington Irving to Bruce Springsteen

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-276
Author(s):  
Alessandro Portelli
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Washington Irving ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Rip Van Winkle

Drawing from stories, literary texts, myths, and songs, the article explores the “intangible” imagery—dreams, souls, ghosts, memory—that uses the nostalgia of the past to announce the possibility of a future. The image of the buried and sleeping king represents myth of a past Golden Age but also the vision of a future rebirth. Such examples include the figures of Rip Van Winkle, Hendrick Hudson, and Boabdil in the works of US author Washington Irving (1783–1859). Other examples include the figure of Metacomet, also rescued by Irving, or of Atahualpa, of Inca mythology. From Washington Irving to the songs of Bruce Springsteen, the image of a past that accompanies and haunts the present to project a utopian future never ceases to reappear.

Who Invented the Golden Age?

1952 ◽  
Vol 2 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 83-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. C. Baldry
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Imaginary Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Ancient Literature ◽  
The Future ◽  
Normal Human

There are many passages in ancient literature which depict an imaginary existence different from the hardships of real life-an existence blessed with Nature's bounty, untroubled by strife or want. Naturally this happy state is always placed somewhere or sometime outside normal human experience, whether ‘off the map’ in some remote quarter of the world, or in Elysium after death, or in the dim future or the distant past. Such an imaginary time of bliss in the past or the future has become known as the ‘golden age’. This is the name which modern scholars generally give to the ancient belief. The phrase is often echoed by modern poets. The same language has been transferred from the unknown to the known, and it has become a commonplace to describe an outstanding period of history or literature as a ‘golden age’.

scholarly journals IMPROVISATION: Sygeplejersker på arbejde i Uganda

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helle Max Martin
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Work Situation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Eastern Uganda

This article is about improvisation, which is a term that nurses in Uganda employ to describe how they overcome the practical difficulties of working in an institutional setting, which lacks the necessary equipment, drugs and staff. On the basis of data from Tororo Hospital in Eastern Uganda, the article explores the meanings of the term improvisation, how it relates to a general discourse about the nursing profession, and how the nurses handle and make sense of a complex and contradictory work situation. Improvisation is a term that both makes customary nursing practice legitimate and supports a professional identity under pressure. It also articulates a nostalgic longing for better times – located both in the past, the golden age of nursing, and in the future since the term improvisation constructs current practice as an interim phenomenon. Thus, “improvisation” offers a way for the nurses to domesticate the contradictory forces, which play a prominent part in nursing in Uganda today.  

Cervantine Criticism since 2000 and into the Future

2021 ◽  
pp. 647-680
Author(s):  
Bruce R. Burningham
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Current Century ◽  
Critical Perspectives ◽  
The Way

The past two decades have seen an explosion in Cervantes scholarship. Indeed, it would perhaps not be an exaggeration to suggest that the last twenty years arguably represent the Golden Age of Cervantes criticism: slightly more than half of scholarly works written since 1888 have been published during the last two decades. In other words, during the last twenty years, the body of Cervantes knowledge has more than doubled, greatly expanding our variety of critical perspectives along the way. This chapter discusses the ‘across the centuries’ trend resulting from the various anniversary celebrations related to Cervantes, the ‘Cervantes and the Americas’ collections, Cervantes’s treatment of Islam, and the modernity of the novel, among other trends that have expanded Cervantine criticism since the turn of the current century.

History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Insko
Keyword(s):  
Herman Melville ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Fluid Dynamic ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Political ◽  
Washington Irving ◽  
Literary Historiography ◽  
The Past ◽  
Unidirectional Movement

The Ever-Present Now examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in a number of literary texts of the past; specifically, the writings of several familiar figures in antebellum U.S. literary history—some, but not all of whom we associate with the period’s Romantic movement. Anchored by the impatient temporality of immediatist abolitionists, the book recovers some of the political force of Romanticism, which becomes clear when we foreground time, especially the time of now. Through close readings of texts by figures as different as Washington Irving, John Neal, Catharine Sedgwick, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Herman Melville, the book argues that these writers, some explicitly and others implicitly, practiced forms of literary historiography that treat the past as neither simply a reflection of present interests nor as an irretrievably distant “other,” but as a complex and open-ended interaction between the two. In place of a fixed and immutable past with unidirectional movement, these writers imagine history as an experience rooted in a fluid, dynamic, ever-changing present. The political, philosophical, and aesthetic disposition Insko calls “romantic presentism” insists upon the present as the fundamental sphere of human action and experience and, hence, of ethics and democratic possibility.

A new golden age for libraries

2015 ◽  
Vol 116 (9/10) ◽  
pp. 641-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Massis
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Diverse Audience ◽  
The Way ◽  
Forward Looking

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe and provide several examples of evidence to support the estimation that libraries have entered a new “golden age”. Design/methodology/approach – Literature review and commentary on this topic that has been addressed by professionals, researchers and practitioners. Findings – Flexibility in the face of change has always been a hallmark of an exceptional service-minded organization and the library is no different. To maintain its reputation as a forward-looking service that appeals to an expansive and diverse audience, libraries must always be forward-thinking and forward-seeking in their ability to satisfy. Such a continual evolution can result in the conviction that the library is recognized as an institution whose golden age will not reside in the past, but fully in the present, and that its growth into the future remains persistent, evident and fully embraced by its customers and supporters. Originality/value – The value in addressing this issue is to demonstrate that there are ready examples of libraries leading the way in supporting the opinion that we are in a “golden age” for libraries.

scholarly journals Íslenzkt þjóðerni: Jón Jónsson Aðils’ Iceland and the road to the future

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-148
Author(s):  
Kim Middel
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Decisive Factor ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Creation

Abstract In the early twentieth century, historiography was used to further the cause of independence by profiling Iceland as a fully-fledged nation. The Icelandic historian Jón Jónsson Aðils was the man who would shape Iceland’s history, and the nation with it, in his work Icelandic Nationhood. His achievement was not self-evident; Iceland was part of the Danish realm and glorifying the past met with restrictions. This paper aims to illustrate how in this setting Aðils succeeded in constructing the Icelandic nation with the aid of existing Danish nationalist thought. I propose that using ideas of the famous Danish nationalist N.F.S. Grundtvig enabled Aðils to construct an Icelandic ’Golden Age’ specifically focused on culture and freedom that held future prospects. Finally, I will discuss the consequence of this focus as a decisive factor in the development of Icelandic self-awareness, aiming to contribute to the larger debate on the creation of national identities.

A Plea for Culinary Modernism

Food Fights ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 262-284
Author(s):  
Rachel Laudan
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Food System ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
People’S Attitudes

Leading figures in the “Foodie” movement of the last quarter century often speak of a Golden Age of cooking and eating, when all food was local, organic, and slow. Rachel Laudan argues that this view is utterly ahistorical. There was no Golden Age of cooking and eating. As Laudan shows with many examples from around the world, the labor to produce food has been incredibly difficult and much of the food that humans ate was wretched, if not also rotten. Laudan argues instead that we should appreciate and enjoy what our current food system does well, at least for a large portion of society, while simultaneously working to improve our system’s shortcomings. In a postscript for her chapter, Laudan posits four broad philosophies that categorize people’s attitudes to food: aristocratic, republican, romantic, and socialist. In the end, however, she casts her lot with those who do not imagine a food paradise in the past or in the future. Our food system, says Laudan, is not perfect, and we should work to make it better, but imagining that it ever was, or can ever be, perfect is also a mistake.

scholarly journals Transtextual study of cinematic discourse

2021 ◽  
pp. 93-99
Author(s):  
Tatiana Valeryevna Dukhovnaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Gerard Genette

The article examines textual connections that cinematic discourse establishes with other precedent discourses. The research is based on the theory of transtextuality developed by the French scientist, Gerard Genette. The paper proves the ability of cinematic discourse to form all types of transtextual connections: intertextual, paratextual, metatextual, hypertextual, and architectual. Based on the analysis of these relations, their specific characteristics and functions are determined. Namely, to convey meanings explicitly or implicitly, make references to literary texts, previous films, movie images, influence the process of perception and understanding of cinematic discourse, guide viewers’ expectations in a certain direction, modify discourse of the past using the present, and employing the past, predict the future. In addition, the research contributes to the study of cinematic discourse and reveals the important characteristic of its structure — openness.

scholarly journals PENERAPAN FINANCIAL PARENTING (GEMAR MENABUNG) PADA ANAK USIA DINI

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Astrid Krisdayanthi
Keyword(s):  
Financial Management ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
The Past ◽  
Full Responsibility ◽  
The Future ◽  
Life Values ◽  
Financial Intelligence ◽  
Children's Development ◽  
Children’S Development

<h1 align="center">ABSTRAK</h1><p>Pada masa keemasannya, anak sangat mudah dalam menyerap informasi. Orang tua memiliki tanggung jawab penuh dalam perkembangan anak dimasa keemasnnya ini. Tanggung jawab orang tua tidak sekedar membesarkan anak secara fisik, materi dan emosional saja, orang tua juga perlu menanamkan nilai-nilai kehidupan sebagai bekal untuk perkembangan anak, seperti mengajarkan tentang kecerdasan <em>financial </em>pada anak dalam mengelola keuangannya dengan cara menabung. Kebebasan <em>financial </em>yang diraih anak dimasa depan, adalah buah dari apa yang ditanamkan dan diajarkan oleh orang tuanya dimasa lalu.</p><p align="left"> </p><p>Keyword: <em>financial parenting</em>, pengelolaan keuangan, anak usia dini, gemar menabung</p><p align="left"> </p><p align="center"><strong><em>ABSTRACT</em></strong></p><p align="left"><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p><em>In its golden age, children are very easy to absorb information. Parents have full responsibility for developing children in their golden age. The responsibility of parents is not just raising children physically, materially and emotionally, parents also need to instill life values as a provision for children’s development, such as teaching about financial intelligence to children in managing their finances by saving money. Children who achieved financial freedom in the future, is the result of instilled and taught by his parents in the past.</em></p><p align="left"><em> </em></p><p><em>Keyword: financial parenting, financial management, childhood, save money</em></p>

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