scholarly journals R. F. BURTON Revisited: Alternate History, Steampunk and the Neo-Victorian Imagination

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 591-603
Author(s):  
Iolanda Ramos
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Real Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Alternate History ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
History Approach ◽  
Cultural Features

Abstract This article draws on an alternate history approach to the Victorian world and discusses steampunk and neo-Victorian literary and cultural features. It focuses on Richard Francis Burton-one of the most charismatic and controversial explorers and men of letters of his time-who stands out in a complex web of both real-life and fictional characters and events. Ultimately, the essay presents a twenty-first-century revisitation of the British Empire and the imperial project, thus providing a contemporary perception of Victorian worldliness and outward endeavours.

The Nature and Legacy of British Imperial Internment

2020 ◽  
pp. 303-314
Author(s):  
Stefan Manz ◽  
Panikos Panayi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
First Century ◽  
Great War ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The Way

This chapter begins by highlighting the main findings of the book, including the globalization of internment by the Empire during the Great War and the consequences for individuals and their families, but also the fact that Britain treated those it had incarcerated in a humane way. The chapter examines the return to Germany, its consequences for individuals, and the way in which the German authorities dealt with the former residents of the British Empire. These people, who may not have seen their homeland for decades, made efforts to preserve the memory of their experiences, along with former civilian and military prisoners who came from other states at war with Germany. While the memory of internment may have survived into the interwar years, it disappeared in the second half of the twentieth century, but came back to life in the early twenty-first century, inspired by the centenary of the Great War.

The Trial That Never Was: Russian Documentary Theatre and the Pursuit of Justice

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Time Span ◽  
First Century ◽  
Documentary Theatre ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Doctoral Candidate ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The University ◽  
Judicial History

Twenty-first-century Russian theatre artists have increasingly taken to using material from real-life events to explore the intricacies of injustice in the civic sphere and its connection to the country's past. In a fifteen-year time span documentary forms have come to the forefront of Russia's theatrical avant-garde. In this article Molly Flynn offers a close reading of one of the most politically charged productions to have emerged from Moscow's booming documentary theatre – One Hour Eighteen: the Trial that Wasn't but Should Have Been (2010). The play uses verbatim texts from the prison and medical staff directly involved in the final days before the murder of Russian attorney Sergei Magnitskii in 2009. Setting the piece in a theatrical courtroom, the creators of One Hour Eighteen place their work in the context of Russia's judicial history in the previous century, during which the resemblance of trials to theatre has often been uncomfortably close. Molly Flynn is a doctoral candidate in Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge. She is currently completing her doctoral thesis on the history and significance of documentary theatre in twenty-first-century Russia.

Exploring Parliament

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Leston-Bandeira ◽  
Louise Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Real Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Practical Case ◽  
Assisted Dying ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Law Making

Exploring Parliament offers a fresh perspective on an ancient institution. It provides a real-life insight into the inner workings, impact, and relevance of twenty-first century Parliament. Short academic and practitioner chapters are combined with relevant and practical case studies, to provide an introduction to Parliament's structures, people, and practices. As well as covering the broader structure of UK Parliament, this text explains the role of small parties in law-making, the design and space of Parliament, and offers illuminating case studies on highly topical areas such as the Backbench Business Committee, the Hillsborough Inquiry and recent pieces of legislation such as the Assisted Dying Bill.

scholarly journals Fiction Strengthens Research: A Review of Patricia Leavy's Fiction as Research Practice: Short Stories, Novellas, and Novels

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Real Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Research Writing ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century Skills

Arts-based research (ABR) is a form of qualitative research that includes genres such as poetry, music, theatrical scripts, visual art, novels, and short stories. Fiction-based research is one type of ABR that utilizes the strength of fiction to connect with readers and to portray real life and genuine human experiences. The author, Patricia Leavy, wrote a text that thoroughly explains the meaning and evaluation of fiction-based research. In addition, she provides exemplar pieces and uses her eight criteria to assess the research. Lastly, the text explains why fiction is an important pedagogy to use with students. Twenty-first century skills and love of research, writing, and reading are important components to fiction-based research.

scholarly journals Soft Skills and Positive Attitude : Science of Bridging Gap

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1301-1304
Keyword(s):  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
First Century ◽  
Job Placement ◽  
The Real ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century Skills

Soft skills are those essential traits and expertise that must be acquired by every person to be successful in life. These abilities, traits or skills are also most popularly called people’s skills and in recent times, also known as twenty first century skills. It is proven that the hard skills or the academic or professional qualifications maybe an inevitable component of any kind of employment or job placement but the success of a person depends upon the soft skills he has. Research has shown that attitude of the pupils and development or enhancement of these skills is correlated. The attitude is different in each individual and therefore the real life application of these skills is also varied. The study undertaken endeavours to find out the correlation between the positive attitude and negative attitude of the students towards soft skills and the real life application of it.

Great Poets Do Not Die: Maggie Gee’s Virginia Woolf in Manhattan (2014) As Metaphor For Contemporary Biofiction

2020 ◽  
pp. 399-411
Author(s):  
Bethany Layne
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Real Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
The Real ◽  
Michael Cunningham ◽  
Twenty First Century

This chapter takes as its subject Maggie Gee’s novel Virginia Woolf in Manhattan (2014), which imagines what might transpire if Woolf were to be resurrected in twenty-first-century New York. She is conjured by the fictitious novelist Angela Lamb, who is visiting the Berg Collection in preparation for a keynote address at an international Woolf conference. As a contemporary novelist who recalls her subject to life, lends her clothing and helps her to sign her name, Angela is symbolic of the real-life novelists who recreated Woolf in their own image and reinterpreted her works in line with their respective versions. The chapter thus contends that Gee’s recent manifestation of Woolf-inspired biofiction may be read successfully as an extended metaphor for the twenty-year-old subgenre. This originated with Sigrid Nunez (1998) and Michael Cunningham (1998) and extends to recent work by Priya Parmar (2014) and Norah Vincent (2015). The chapter first examines issues of content, focusing on Gee’s presentation of Woolf’s suicide and sexuality. The discussion is then expanded to think critically about Woolf-inspired biofiction as a subgenre, particularly the ethical issues attendant on its invasion of the subject’s privacy.

Elephantine Revisited

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Karel van der Toorn
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
First Century ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Ancient Judaism ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Full Century ◽  
Sheer Number

This chapter revisits the scholarship regarding the discovery of the Elephantine Jews. A full century has passed since Eduard Sachau's edition of the Elephantine papyri in 1911. The Elephantine papyri promised direct and unbiased access to a Jewish community as it had been in real life. Furthermore, the sheer number of publications on the papyri between 1905 and 1915 conveyed a sense of the excitement that characterized the early days of Elephantine studies. This chapter shows that Elephantine studies continue to flourish in the twenty-first century. Counting monographs only, the secondary literature is expanding by almost one book a year. An important impetus for the ongoing investigations is the time frame of Elephantine, which is crucial in the formation of ancient Judaism and warrants a reassessment of prevailing scholarship.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 191-208
Author(s):  
Jennifer H. Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Real Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Intended Audience ◽  
Agrippa D'aubigne ◽  
Twenty First Century

From the midst of France’s civil wars, and in their aftermath, the constellation of shipwreck, its victims, and its spectators is re-imagined in theatrical terms. Famously employed by Agrippa d’Aubigné in his Tragiques to disabuse complacent speculators of their illusion of distance from the disaster of civil catastrophe, the dramatic potential of earlier shipwreck texts is more fully realised in theatrical and meta-theatrical terms, as explored in this Conclusion. But whereas the shipwreck of Shakespeare’s Tempest demonstrates the power of compassion to produce embodied affect in its spectator, conversely a French tragedy that dramatizes a real-life tale of Portuguese shipwreck explores the troubling possibility of the spectacle failing to touch its intended audience. Drawing together the study’s thematic strands of corporality and narrative with this theatrical aspect, and pointing to questions of compassion and ethical responsibility that hold new weight in the light of Europe’s twenty-first-century refugee crisis, the Conclusion points to the new narrative position of shipwreck in the early decades of the seventeenth century: it lies at the beginning of the story, and begs the question of how readers, spectators, and their communities will respond.

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