scholarly journals A. P. CHEKHOV AND THE CONCEPT OF “DEGENERATION”: TO THE PROBLEM OF CRYPTOPOETICS OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 206-221
Author(s):  
Alexander Kubasov
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Leo Tolstoy ◽  
Additional Argument ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Russian Soil ◽  
Definition Of

The concept of “degeneration” is associated with the fin-de-siècle period and came to Russian soil from Western Europe. First and foremost, it was represented there by Cesare Lombroso and his popularizer, the author of the book Degeneration, Max Nordau. The concept of degeneracy was studied by the scientist using the work of outstanding representatives of European art, including Leo Tolstoy. The book was a scandalous success in Russia and a subject of numerous magazine reviews. Chekhov implicitly participated in this polemic. The writer’s cryptic review of the fashionable problem of degeneracy can be seen in the image of Dr. Dorn, which allows to examine the elements of Chekhov’s cryptopoetics. The surname of this character in The Seagull is considered as a transformation of the surname Nordau. An analysis of Dorn’s behavior and speech suggests that the author of the play uses it to express his position regarding the “nervous age” and the fatigue and degeneration associated with it. The intertextually expressed polemic between Chekhov and Nordau allows to define the role of Dorn as a hidden trickster. This is an additional argument that proves the validity of the author’s definition of The Seagull as a comedy.

Illustrated Media, the Built Environment and Identity Politics in Fin-de-siècle Catalonia: Printing Images, Making the Nation

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-135
Author(s):  
Lucila Mallart
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This article explores the role of visuality in the identity politics of fin-de-siècle Catalonia. It engages with the recent reevaluation of the visual, both as a source for the history of modern nation-building, and as a constitutive element in the emergence of civic identities in the liberal urban environment. In doing so, it offers a reading of the mutually constitutive relationship of the built environment and the print media in late-nineteenth century Catalonia, and explores the role of this relation as the mechanism by which the so-called ‘imagined communities’ come to exist. Engaging with debates on urban planning and educational policies, it challenges established views on the interplay between tradition and modernity in modern nation-building, and reveals long-term connections between late-nineteenth-century imaginaries and early-twentieth-century beliefs and practices.

Salome: a fin de siècle legend

1994 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-238
Author(s):  
Barbara Wright
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Freudian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
John The Baptist ◽  
Fin De Siècle

The Salome legend developed as John the Baptist became the object of increased veneration. It was profoundly modified in the medieval and Renaissance periods. Well suited to Schopenhauerian misogyny and to the burgeoning interest in Freudian psychoanalysis, it became central to the fin de siècle in Western Europe. An instrument of self-reflection as well as of parody, the Salome legend has shown itself, in both the 19th and the 20th centuries, to be capable of ironic criticism and fertile pastiche, as well as of enigmatic mystery and deep psychological exploration.

scholarly journals ENVIRONMENTALISM DAN GREEN POLITICS: PEMBAHASAN TEORETIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeni Sri Lestari
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Governance System ◽  
State Regulations ◽  
Green Politics ◽  
Definition Of

This article discusses the theoretical study of the motion of environmentalism and its relationship to green politics. Discussion about both of these theories is very important for the study of social and political current that has been overshadowed by the phenomenon of environmentalism movement is growing in many countries which are then contribute ideas in political thinking which is known as green politics. However, movements of change by a group of green politics in many countries are often not as active environmentalism movement that consists of classes of non-party. Based on this, the issue will be reviewed in the discussion of this article is whether the definition of environmentalism? what about the initial formation of environmentalism? what is the link between environmentalism movemental with green politics? What are the benefits of the establishment of green politics?. This article studies found that environmentalism is a major contributor to its form factor green ideology politics in many countries such as in Western Europe, USA and Asia. This is due to the important role of the authorities who come from the political parties to realize the agenda of environmentalism movement into state regulations and decisions that bind all citizens therein. At the end of the analysis, this article will explain that the movement of environmentalism plays an important role in the prevention of greed group of rulers and the interests of the global economy (capitalism and neo-liberalism) the limited resources and contribute greatly to its form of thinking green politics focused and commitment to against the establishment the new governance system that is more wise in managing the global environment.  Keywords: Environmentalism, green politics, 

Reconsidering Joyce's Exiles in its Theatrical Context

2003 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
KIRSTEN SHEPHERD-BARR
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Experimental Theatre ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Key Questions

James Joyce's one extant play, Exiles, has never been held in great critical esteem. But rather than viewing it as an aberration in the Joyce canon, a fairer reading of the play takes into consideration the play's own theatrical context: what contemporary dramatists were doing both in print and on stage, what evidence there is of Joyce's own theatrical interests and what models he may have used in his own playwriting. The conclusion is that Joyce, surprisingly, wrote neither a ‘bad’ Edwardian play nor a slavishly Ibsenist one, but a pastiche of Victorian and Symbolist drama that roots the play firmly in the theatrical currents of the 1890s. In addition, Harold Pinter's landmark productions of the play in 1970 and 1971 revealed affinities with postmodernist drama, so that the play looks forward as well as back – it is simply not of its own time. If Exiles seems out of step with the developments of modernism, that is largely because it takes its inspiration from the European experimental theatre of the fin de siécle – not from the theatrical world of the Dadaists, Joyce's contemporaries. While this realization may not rehabilitate Exiles into the modernist canon or indeed the theatrical one, looking at the play's context and history raises key questions about the role of theatre and performance in the historiography of modernism.

scholarly journals STYLISATION OF ‟HOFFMANN’S COMPLEX” IN THE STORIES BY ALEKSANDR CHAYANOV

2020 ◽  
pp. 159-164
Author(s):  
Vera V Korolyova
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Final Stage ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Romantic Irony ◽  
Fin De Siècle

The Hoffmann’s layer of intertext in the neo-romantic stories of Aleksandr Chayanov is manifested systematically in the form of «Hoffmann’s complex», which was formed at the turn of the 19th – 20th centuries and it is a part of «Hoffman text of Russian literature». Aleksandr Chayanov’s stories are his own modernist text, which includes not only features of Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann’s poetics, but also the totality of the subsequent of Hoffmann’s tradition, which was refracted in the works of Russian writers of the late 19th – early 20th century. One of the important aspects of the article is the analysis of individual elements of «Hoffmann complex», which are reflected in Aleksandr Chayanov’s stories (romantic irony and grotesque, psychologism, the problem of violent influence on the personality of another, the problem of echanisation of life and human, symbol images of the mask, doll, automaton, puppet and double, the symbol image of the mirror). Aleksandr Chayanov’s work becomes the final stage in the functioning of «Hoffmann’s complex « in the Fin de siècle and it is characterised by a conscious «play» with Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann’s style, images and plots, which allows us to talk about stylisation as one of the artistic techniques in Aleksandr Chayanov’s stories.

From Metapsychology to Magnetic Gnosis: An Esoteric Context for Interpreting Traumatic Modes of Transcendence in Sándor Ferenczi's Clinical Diary and Elizabeth Severn's The Discovery of the Self

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-323
Author(s):  
John Boyle
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Western Esotericism ◽  
The Clinical Diary ◽  
Clinical Diary ◽  
Mutual Analysis ◽  
Academic Study

It has been argued that the essential themes in Sándor Ferenczi's Clinical Diary (1932) centre around three major axes (theoretical, technical and personal). This paper proposes a fourth: namely, an occult or esoteric axis. To make the case for its presence in the Clinical Diary, the article provides a brief introduction to the academic study of Western esotericism in order to more adequately situate its proximate fin de siècle occult precursors vis-à-vis psychoanalytic metapsychology. A brief account of Ferenczi's correspondence with Freud on the role of the occult in psychoanalysis is then provided. This constitutes the necessary context for embarking upon an investigation into the ‘psychognostic’ metapsychology co-developed during the course of Ferenczi's ‘mutual analysis’ with the so-called ‘evil genius’, Elizabeth Severn. By way of conclusion, James Grotstein's account of a ‘numinous and immanent psychoanalytic subject’ is highlighted as the locus for a synergistic rapprochement between pre-Freudian and contemporary psychoanalytic conceptualizations of the subject congruent with the ‘Orphic trajectory’ outlined in this paper.

Medical New Women I: Nurses

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Wånggren
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
New Women ◽  
Medical Technologies ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Gender Knowledge

The fin de siècle involved not only a technological modernity, but also a medical modernity: the position of the nurse changed, female doctors set up practice, and new medical technologies and systems of knowledge came into use. The fourth chapter considers the medical New Women who, through new diagnostic tools as well as their admission to the institutional technology of the hospital, entered new spaces and roles as nurses. It locates the figure of the New Woman nurse as a fin de siècle figuration of the earlier Nightingale New Style nurse. Reading Grant Allen’s Hilda Wade, A Woman With Tenacity of Purpose (1900) as an intervention in a debate on hospital hierarchies, the chapter explores the role of modern medical technologies in the formation of notions of gender, knowledge and medical authority.

When a Bestselling Author and a West End Actress Made a Spiritualist Performance: Collaboration, Networks and Theatre at the Fin de Siècle

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Hindson
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Collaboration Networks ◽  
Theatrical Production ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Celebrity Culture ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Leisure Industry ◽  
Theatrical Culture

This chapter offers a detailed reconstruction of the performance of a piece of avant-garde drama to highlights the prominent role of women in theatrical culture at the time, as both dramatists and actresses, and the professional opportunities that were then opening for them. It also shows the importance of a growing celebrity culture, and the complexity of the interactions between theatre, politics, religion, gender and theatrical production. It shows that even avant-garde theatre, concerned with such archetypal fin-de-siècle concerns as the occult and mysticism, were still deeply implicated in, and made possible by, a growing leisure industry.

The Fragmentary Condition of Aesthetics at the Turn of 21st Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 151-172
Author(s):  
Kamil Lipiński
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Cultural Education ◽  
Conceptual Foundation ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Critical Aesthetics ◽  
Point Of Departure

The ‘fragmentary condition’ relates to Jena Romanticism as the point of departure to discuss how the idea of the fragment moves from classical, literary studies to contemporary art and becomes part of a broader interpretation of the 20th century fin de siècle aesthetics. The article builds on Jean-Luc Nancy’s and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s theoretical insights into Jena Romanticism in order to examine the unification of all genres separated from poetry to touch poetry, philosophy, rhetoric through the anecdotal and witty articulation, as well as ars combinatoria. For Romantics, the basic imperative was to educate, form their existence, that is, Bildung, in Hegelian terms, cultural education, formation, development. This literary foundation is defined by Jean-Luc Nancy as a fragmentary existence which he identifies with the fraction, fractal essence, inherent separation, disengaging. Nancy was intent on examining the emergence of various contemporary works expressing their essence in terms of breaks, incompleteness, and an autonomous role of the fragment. This classical conceptual foundation provides these key conceptual and methodological perspectives and allows for discussing the implications of the critical aesthetics of the fin de siècle for the practices of fraction, ex-peau-sition, spacing, and division in the contemporary research in art.

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