scholarly journals Witalizm kobiecy. Mapa problemów, sieć tradycji

2018 ◽  
pp. 17-39
Author(s):  
Anna Legeżyńska
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Late Modernity

Vitalism is a vague and ambiguous philosophical notion which researchers try to apply to describe modernist literature, especially from the period of the Young Poland. The author of the article suggests that vitalism should be approached as an interpretive category. She examines whether it is possible to distinguish feminine vitalism and conducts an analysis of selected types of literature (H. Poświatowska, A. Świrszczyńska, W. Szymborska, A. Szymańska, U. Kozioł, M. B. Kielar). The analysis shows that modernist feminine vitalism in the poetry of the second half of the 20th century encompasses various types of affirmations: of nature, corporeality and existence. In late modernity it transforms into post-vitalism, which signifies new understanding of life and the reduction of the anthropocentric perspective, both determined by new discoveries of science.

The Pressure of Eurochronology and the Romanian Rural Prose

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 45-48
Author(s):  
Alex Goldiș
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Frederic Jameson

The paper looks at the Romanian relationship between modernism and rural imagination in the Romanian 20th century debates. As in other cases of semi-peripheral or emergent literatures (the general framework builds on contributions from Frederic Jameson, Pascale Casanova and Wai Chee Dimock), the hegemonical pressure of the Eurochronology has put an embargo on rural prose, excluding it from the projects of modernist literature. The study asserts that far from being a collateral symptom of modernity, rural imaginary is essential for understanding its contradictory mechanisms.

Heroischer Fatalismus

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 317-338
Author(s):  
Nicolas Detering
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
German Literature ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Modernist Literature

The article re-evaluates the notion of heroic agency by arguing that many instances of heroism in early 20th century German literature rely not on great deeds, but on images of fatalist persistence. After a discussion of the conceptual elements and traditions of heroic persistence, the essay surveys variants of its semanticization between Nietzsche’s amor fati and German exile narrations of the 1940s. The perusal shows that ›heroic attentism‹ in modernist literature is less dependent on the respective political affiliations of the authors, but rather on the concept’s ability to adapt to discursive trends and remain applicable to different historical experiences.

Money and modernism: The rise of a theme in early 20th-century Italy

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 591-607
Author(s):  
Mimmo Cangiano
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Continuous Flow ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Objective Truth ◽  
Carlo Michelstaedter

The primary purpose of this article is to examine how the theme of money developed in the work of the key early 20th-century Italian modernist writers Giovanni Papini, Aldo Palazzeschi, Giovanni Boine, and Carlo Michelstaedter. It also studies the connection between the theme of money and two central concepts in modernist literature: the crisis in the concept of objectivity, and the interpretation of reality as a continuous flow that rejects every possible conceptualization. I argue that money was a metaphor for the crisis of objective truth, a symbol for an existence that had lost all perspective from which to judge and order reality.

scholarly journals Genesis of the Archetype of the Trickster in Russian Literature

ICONI ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Svetlana P. Shlykova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
World Culture ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Folk Tradition

The article is devoted to demonstrating the genesis of the archetype of the trickster in Russian literature. The antihero, the sources of whose anti-behavior are traced in harlequinade and skmorokh buffoonery, is examined on the material of folklore and literary works from the 18th to the early 20th century. Anti-behavior in Russian culture symbolizes a rebellion unrefl exed in the folk environment against the norms of behavior and orderliness of life imposed by those in power. The archetype of the trickster, which has longtime traditions in world culture, was personifi ed in Russia as the skomorokh, then the jester Farnos, who in many ways adopted the skomorokh traditions. Among the populace Petrukha Fornos became one of the favorite comic jester heroes, having acquired special popularity as the result of crude color woodcuts from the 18th century. In the 19th century the image of Farnos was transformed into Petrushka, a puppet character of the theatricalized genre. With his assistance the simplistic satirical subjects lay at the foundation of the so-called Petrushka theater which, despite the unaltered plot, bore an improvisational-play character, pertaining to a number of “baculine” comedies, in the 19th century the image of Petrushka was so popular, that it surpassed the oral folk tradition and found its place in literary compositions. In the early 20th century the image of Petrushka the trickster became the source for numerous interpretations in modernist literature.

scholarly journals Vzťah náboženstva a umenia v literatúre svetovej a slovenskej moderny

2018 ◽  
pp. 7-21
Author(s):  
Mária Bátorová
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
Alternative Culture ◽  
Religion And Art

The study analyzes the relation between religion and art in the world, and in Slovak modernist literature. It also examines religion and art from the point of view of its scholarly reception in the context of European literature. It builds on the division of artists of religious orientation based on Bernhard Rang’s two types:a) Claudelian and b) Green-ian. A part of the study provides new insights into Slovak literary modernism. Despite the expectation that modernism would exclude Christian works of literature, the opposite happened:modernism tested Christian works of art and emphasized their ability to capture the subtle aspects of human existence. In this way, a weakness of modernism was exposed: its degenerative function when it focuses only on material aspects. A historical overview has shown that Slovak intellectuals were used to living in an alternative cultural environment and nurturing an alternative culture. This experience proved useful to them in the 20th century, particularly after 1945. During communist rule, the underground church played a major role in Poland and in Slovakia. In Slovakia, Catholic dissidents were of great importance to the developments that led to theVelvet Revolution in November 1989.

Upheaval and reinvention in celebrity interviews: Emotional reflexivity and the therapeutic self in late modernity

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2022 ◽  
pp. 072551362110691
Author(s):  
Anne-Maree Sawyer ◽  
Sara James
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
The Self ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Public Identity ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Late Modern

The disruptions of life in late modernity render self-identity fragile. Consequently, individuals must reflexively manage their emotions and periodically reinvent themselves to maintain a coherent narrative of the self. The rise of psychology as a discursive regime across the 20th century, and its intersections with a plethora of wellness industries, has furnished a new language of selfhood and greater public attention to emotions and personal narratives of suffering. Celebrities, who engage in public identity work to ensure their continued relatability, increasingly provide models for navigating emotional trials. In this article we explore representations of selfhood and identity work in celebrity interviews. We focus on media veterans Nigella Lawson and Ruby Wax, both of whom are skilled in re-storying the self after personal crises. We argue that interpretive capital as a peculiarly late modern resource confers emotional advantages and life chances on individuals as they navigate upheavals, uncertainties, and intimate dilemmas.

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