CHAPTER 12. operetta as social document (1905)

No other people in the world, perhaps, have given more information in their poetry on their cultural and social life than have the Arabs over the centuries. Many years before the advent of Islam and long before they had any national political organization, the Arabs had developed a highly articulate poetic art, strict in its syntax and metrical schemes and fantastically rich in its vocabulary and observation of detail. The merciless desert, the harsh environment in which the Arabs lived, their ever shifting nomadic life, left almost no traces of their social structure and the cultural aspects of their life. It is only in their poetry – these monuments built of words – that we find such evidence, and it speaks more eloquently than cuneiform on marble statues ever could.

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A Foundation of Serial Murder and Appreciation of the Male Voice: Historical and Feminist Considerations in The Handmaid's Tale

USURJ University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal ◽

10.32396/usurj.v6i3.527 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Jasmine Redford

Keyword(s):

Mass Media ◽

American Literature ◽

Violent Crime ◽

Reagan Administration ◽

Feminist Criticism ◽

Male Voice ◽

Fuel Cycles ◽

History Of ◽

Conservative Values ◽

Social Document

Violent crime, and the impulse to temper it, fuel cycles of utopian and dystopian discourse in North American literature. Dystopian fiction operates as a social document that highlight the anxieties of the time in which authoring takes place, and in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, America's violent history/(his)story is legalized and gendered. The principal narrator, Offred, manages her perspective—the only thing she can claim personal ownership over—under the pressure of a strict monotheocracy. This paper examines Atwood's novel with a historical-critical lens and posits that groundwork for Gilead was seeded during a spike of lurid serial murders in the 1970s/1980s—a discourse established, perhaps hyperbolically, by the pre-digital press combined with the resurgence of conservative values during the Reagan administration; these conditions fertilized the neo-patriarchal legislation of the fictional Gilead—text born of context. Both historical and feminist criticism discover examples of gendered assault, contemporary to the time of the novel's authoring, bleeding into the nebulously timed present-day Gilead—for time, the narrator notes, has not been of enumerable value since the mid-1980s. The Handmaid's Tale repurposes the history of sexual violence and femicide; here, horror is systematically present within the Puritan womb which seeks to shield an infantilized population—women from the monsters in dark alleys to the proliferation of Ted Bundy and Edmund Kemper doppelgangers in mass media.

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The New Social Document

The Image of Environmental Harm in American Social Documentary Photography ◽

10.4324/9781003016588-4 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 77-100

Author(s):

Chris Balaschak

Keyword(s):

Social Document

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Wills: Nature, Characteristics, and Contents

Borkowski's Law of Succession ◽

10.1093/he/9780198850281.003.0003 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 49-75

Author(s):

Brian Sloan

Keyword(s):

General Effect ◽

History Of ◽

The Will ◽

English Law ◽

Social Document

This chapter provides an introduction to wills. A will or testament is the declaration in a prescribed manner of the intention of the person making it with regard to matters which he wishes to take effect upon or after his death. The general effect of a will is that the legal interest in the deceased’s estate passes to his personal representatives, while the beneficiaries obtain a form of equitable right in it. The chapter discusses the long history of the will in English law; contracts relating to wills; mutual wills; secret trusts, other constructive trusts, and proprietary estoppel; the content of wills; and the will as a social document.

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The Deserted Village and Goldsmith's Social Doctrines

PMLA ◽

10.2307/459383 ◽

1944 ◽

Vol 59 (3) ◽

pp. 747-772 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Howard J. Bell

Keyword(s):

Rural Community ◽

Social Issues ◽

Social Document

The Deserted Village is avowedly a didactic poem. Goldsmith wrote it as a solemn warning to England that the fate of Auburn was merely an example of what might happen to every other village of the land. But modern critics have touched upon this theme only very lightly, and where they have gone into it at all, their interpretations have in some cases led to a misunderstanding of the poet's analysis. On the premise that Goldsmith wrote and his contemporaries read the poem as a treatment of current social issues rather than just as a description of a simple rural community, I propose here to re-examine it as a social document. In so doing, I shall raise and attempt to answer three questions on which there seems to be no general agreement among scholars but which must be answered satisfactorily if we are to comprehend fully The Deserted Village. These questions are (1) just what message was the poet really trying to transmit to his readers? (2) how completely does the poem express his actual convictions? and (3) what inspired him to consider the condition he was describing as not merely unfortunate but fatal to the health of the nation?

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KARYA SASTRA SEBAGAI DOKUMEN SOSIAL DALAM TRILOGI CERPEN PENEMBAK MISTERIUS KARYA SENO GUMIRA AJIDARMA: KAJIAN SOSIOLOGI SASTRA-OBJEKTIF

Jurnal Edukasi Khatulistiwa ◽

10.26418/ekha.v2i2.32607 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 13

Author(s):

Suantoko Suantoko

Keyword(s):

Short Story ◽

Social Reality ◽

New Order ◽

Social Setting ◽

The Public ◽

Legal Violence ◽

Social Events ◽

State Apparatus ◽

The Social ◽

Social Document

The Seno Gumira Ajidarma short story collected in the Penembak Misterius trilogy is very interesting to read. In addition, as a social document, the collection of short stories can be identified a social setting that actually became a place of social events occurred, the social setting of the Penembak Misterius that occurred during the New Order era in the 1980s. More precisely the social setting created at the party meeting officials in a hotel, the shootings through the night, and the violence of the state apparatus. The social context referred to by Seno Gumira Ajidarma is a mysterious shooting incident known as "petrus" during the New Order period. It is intended to denounce the practice of legal violence from the action of "petrus." As a social document or even a social critique of the New Order rule, the Penembak Misterius trilogy comes as a social relation of literary works to social reality. That is because, the silence of the conscience is very interesting shown by the assassin. When the issue of "Petrus" is about to be removed from the memory of society, this trilogy is present in the public. The presence of the "Petrus" trilogy depicted in not only be seen as a social document but also a lawsuit against social reality in the New Order era.

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Evolution in Visual Communication of the Javanese Printed Wedding Invitations

Jurnal Humaniora ◽

10.22146/jh.38222 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 31 (3) ◽

pp. 315

Author(s):

Diah Kristina ◽

Nur Saptaningsih

Keyword(s):

Social Class ◽

Social Organization ◽

Social Phenomenon ◽

Central Java ◽

Brunei Darussalam ◽

The Social ◽

Values And Beliefs ◽

Social Document ◽

Host Evolution

Printed wedding invitations have been one of the most crucial aspects in the social organization among many countries like Brunei Darussalam, Iran, Egypt, and Persia. Javanese people also pay special attention to this social document as it represents social class, social status, prestige, and fnancial support allocated by the host. Evolution of printed Javanese wedding invitations represent social and economic pressures. The diasporic communities who were absent to earn a living brought a noticeable change by setting up the bride’s parents’ photographs in the invitations. 15 invitation texts were selected ranging from 1980 – 2017 used in Tawangmangu, Wonogiri and Sukoharjo, the eastern part of Central Java, Indonesia. There was a consistent regularity in terms of rhetorical structure. Functionally, the invitations have the same role of inviting prospective guests to share happiness in a more family-bound relationship. Inclusion of parents’ photographs, map of the location, pre-wedding photos, wise words, calendar, the profle of the couple were indicators of transformation taking place. Later, the printing decision of the invitations is pretty much customer-driven informed by the customers’ needs, values, and beliefs. Rhetorically the materialistically-driven social phenomenon was shown by an explicit gifts desired.

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