scholarly journals The Topos of Childhood in Modern Poetry (1939–1989)

2020 ◽  
Vol nr specjalny 1(2020) ◽  
pp. 364-394
Author(s):  
Robert Mielhorski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Wave Groups ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The World ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Poetic Texts

The paper problematises the literary image of childhood in poetry in relation to external historical and socio-political events. The material analysed covers Polish poetry from 1939 – 1989 (a clearly distinguished segment of the historical-literary process). The choice and ordering of the case studies results from the application of two research paradigms: (i) the paradigm concerned with autobiographical motifs, which refers to such topics of 20th century writings as exile (poetry of return by Łobodowski, Wierzyński etc.) immigration (nostalgic [pansentimentalism] and emotionally neutral motifs), Holocaust (motifs of fear, division between now and then, the role of imagination) and (ii) a generation-related paradigm, which allows us to follow the topos of childhood viewed from the perspective of history according to the order of generations entering Polish literature (from the 1920 Generation to the New Wave Groups) up to the succession of consecutive literary trends in the second half of the 20th century (e.g. soc-realism and soc-plans). Poetic texts concerning childhood in the light of history are viewed as records of “rites of passage” operating from the child’s phase of the pre-personalisation area – the child’s sense of being one with the world, experiencing the harmony of being – to the period of personalisation – when history leaves its mark on this period; characterised by the sense of one’s distinctiveness from reality, individual alienation, the need for rationalisation of one’s own existence and the existence of the surrounding reality. The role of history is to lead the child from the pre-personalistic period to the experience of personalisation.

„Arvīd, uz kurieni Tu aizgāji?”: Arvīda Griguļa personības loma Rakstnieku savienības vēsturē

2020 ◽  
pp. 74-84
Author(s):  
Madara Eversone
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
State Archive ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Impact

The article aims to highlight the role of Arvīds Grigulis’ (1906–1989) personality in the Latvian Soviet literary process in the context of the Latvian Soviet Writers’ Union, attempting to discover the contradictions and significance of Arvīds Grigulis’ personality. Arvīds Grigulis was a long-time member of the Writers’ Union, a member of the Soviet nomenklatura, and an authority of the soviet literary process. His evaluations of pre-soviet literary heritage and writings of his contemporaries were often harsh and ruthless, and also influenced the development of the further literary process. The article is based on the documents of the Central Committee of the Latvian Communist Party, the Latvian Soviet Writers’ Union and the Communist Party local organization of the Latvian Soviet Writers’ Union that are available at the Latvian State Archive of the National Archives of Latvia, as well as memories of Grigulis’ contemporaries. It is concluded that the personality of the writer Arvīds Grigulis, although unfolding less in the context of the Writers’ Union, is essential for the exploration of the soviet literary process and events behind the scenes. The article mainly describes events and episodes taking place until 1965, when Arvīds Grigulis’ influence in the Writers’ Union was more remarkable. Individual and further studies should analyse changes and the impact of his decisions in the cultural process of the 70s and 80s of the 20th century.

Historiosophy of N.Ya. Danilevsky

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
Victor V. Aksyuchits
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
World History ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Russian People ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time

According to the author of the article, N.Ya. Danilevsky anticipated a lot of ideas of the 20th century, in particular those of O. Spengler and A. Toynbee, by offering his concept of cultural and historical types in the book “Russia and Europe”. At the same time N.Ya. Danilevsky was in many aspects the follower of Slavophils while interpreting the originality of Russian people and Russian culture. After the turn of the educated society circles to Russian national self-comprehension initiated by Slavophils, N.Ya. Danilevsky not only scientifically formulated the problems brought forth by the Slavophils, but also offered for the first time the resolution of new important questions by analyzing the world history and the history of Slavic peoples. The author especially stresses the role of N.Ya. Danilevsky in creating the historiosophic concept that forestalled the epoch for many decades.

Making Visible the Invisible: Corporeal Mime in the Twenty-First Century

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Baylis
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Training System ◽  
First Century ◽  
Commedia Dell'arte ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Experimental Performance ◽  
Future Role ◽  
Art Form ◽  
The World

Corporeal mime and the work of Etienne Decroux are well known in the world of physical theatre, remaining inspirational to those who have studied and explored this complex art form. In the following article Nicola Baylis examines the prevailing misunderstandings that surround corporeal mime, briefly addressing its historical context, and moving on to discuss contemporary applications of Decroux's training system. With the increasing advent of innovative theatre produced by a new wave of actors trained in corporeal mime, she focuses on the current work of artists in Naples, and concludes with reflections on corporeal mime's relevance to present-day experimental performance and on the potential future role of the form within modern theatre. Nicola Baylis is an actor, director, and teacher who has trained in corporeal mime and commedia dell'arte. Before moving to Naples, she worked as a Lecturer in Drama on degree programmes at Bournemouth and Poole College, in conjunction with Bournemouth University. She is currently working on an adaptation of Macbeth which will be performed in London in the autumn.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Study of Pre-Vaccine Decrease of Mortality from COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vugar Mammadov ◽  
Lala Jafarova
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
The Media ◽  
Global Nature ◽  
Restrictive Measures

More than a year has passed since the appearance of disease called COVID-19 in the world. This disease became the reason for unprecedented measures taken so far, having received the classification of pandemic. The world has faced with pandemics before, but society has not yet taken such unprecedented restrictive measures. The restrictions of not only local but even of global nature, such as the suspension of international flights, various scientific and political events were adopted around the world. Media resources have played a key role in the formation and development of the attitude towards the disease in people. Despite all the depressing news, the facts showed a low mortality rate, which is often ignored by the media. As a result, medical staff around the world have faced psychological health issues among the different groups of the population, especially vulnerable ones such as people with chronic disease and with weak immunity. At present, it is early to talk about the results and outcomes of the pandemic. However, previous year has taught us many lessons and can become a key factor in understanding the role of the media in pandemic times, developing strategies for combating diseases and protecting public health.

scholarly journals Music code of poetry Dmitry Kremeny

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 186-190
Author(s):  
Olha Petrenko
Keyword(s):  
World Music ◽  
Music Culture ◽  
Semantic Richness ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
The One ◽  
Musical Cues

The article deals with the role of musical images in the poetry of Dmitry Kremen. The subject of study is the music code, which is present in many works of the poet. Musical signs, symbols, links play a significant role in vocabulary, phraseology and other ways of poetic expressiveness. Familiarity with the subject world of D. Kremin's poetic texts includes a wide range of concepts related to the world of sounds. The additional accents of a musical-conceptual thesaurus arise when musical cues form certain speech turns that acquire the meaning of metaphors. Musical signs in the lyrics of Dmitry Kremin imply awareness of a wide range of sound associations, which the poet interprets from the standpoint of his own value attitude to them. Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart are the names-symbols of the world music culture, which occupy a significant place in the thesaurus of Dmitry Kremin's poetic texts. Behind these subject designations lies the vast world of artistic and figurative generalization and lyrical and philosophical reflections that are gaining coded meaning. Familiarity with the poetry of Dmitry Kremin proves that the leitmotif of many of his texts is the image of a violin, which acquires different semantic shades. Thus, in Beethoven's poetry, the poet emphasizes the value of music as a special language, devoid of words, but empowered to embody emotional and semantic richness, and therefore capable of being the language of angels. Music code the poetry of Dmitry Kremen is a multidimensional system in which the concept of "music" acts as a concept as a set of meaningful characters and their semantic meanings. In the process of decoding Dmitry Kremin's poetry, one can discover the deep semantic loads of the musical code, on the one hand – as the embodiment of the categories of high, sublime, valuable and eternal in the human sense, on the other – as a symbol of the extra-material, mystical, language of which the angels speak. Decoding the poet's texts is the process of extracting recognition codes and perception codes. The codes of perception in the poetry of Dmitry Kremenya are meaningful loads of texts, its semantic components, which highlight the deep meanings of texts. Through the musical code, the poet embodies the content of the categories of the sublime and the beautiful. The music code shows the understanding of poetry of Dmitry Kremenin a deeply metaphorical sense.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF THE SYMBOLIC IMAGE IN THE INTERPRETATION OF THE NATIONAL PICTURE OF THE WORLD (ON THE EXAMPLE OF ANALYSIS OF THE IMAGE OF BAMBOO IN CHINESE LINGUOCULTURE)

2021 ◽  
pp. 111-120
Author(s):  
Синхуа Ван
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Chinese Speakers ◽  
The World ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
Symbolic Image ◽  
Linguistic Means

Введение. Эпоха глобализации и расширения межкультурной коммуникации формирует новые вызовы и ставит их на разрешение ученым, осуществляющим свои изыскания в различных научных областях. Актуальной проблемой гуманитаристики является описание национальных картин мира посредством моделирования их фрагментов. В лингвистике особую значимость сегодня имеет изучение вербальных средств объективации концептуальных смыслов. В числе последних выделяются поэтические тексты. Их эстетическая направленность позволяет исследовать в качестве лингвокультурологических и когнитивных средств образы, присутствующие в этих текстах. Цель – исследовать роль образных символических средств в интерпретации фрагмента китайской картины мира, связанного с осмыслением образа бамбука в древних поэтических текстах. Материал и методы. Материалом исследования послужили поэтические тексты древних китайских авторов. В качестве единиц выступили языковые средства, воплощающие один из наиболее распространенных в китайской лингвокультуре образов ‒ образ бамбука. Основные методы исследования ‒ контекстологический и лексико-семантический. Результаты и обсуждение. Особенности биологического строения бамбука и разноаспектные возможности его применения в жизни носителей китайского языка определяют богатейший образный потенциал лексемы-номината. Включенность данной лексемы в широкий контекст значительно обогащает процесс смыслопорождения. Языковые средства, объективирующие толкование образа бамбука в китайской лингвокультуре, в текстовой перспективе получают возможность своей концептуальной интерпретации. Последняя развертывается на основании рассмотрения символических компонентов смысла, вписанных в национальную картину мира на уровне ее фрагментов. Направления символизации значения языковых единиц, номинирующих образ бамбука, выявляются путем рассмотрения речевой структуры древних поэтических текстов китайских авторов. Заключение. Ключевыми проявлениями символичного значения образа бамбука в китайской лингвокультуре можно назвать варианты интерпретации данного образа как символа высокой нравственности, чистоты, покоя, гармонии и умиротворенности. Такое символичное толкование не противоречит основным догмам китайской философии, в его основе лежит ассоциативная перекличка, возникающая в сознании носителей языка, как результат сопоставления свойств растения и характеристик человека. Introduction. The modern era of globalization and the expansion of intercultural communication creates new challenges and puts them to the solution of scientists carrying out their research in various scientific fields. The actual problem of the humanities is the description of national pictures of the world by modeling their fragments. In linguistics, the study of verbal means of objectifying conceptual meanings is of particular importance today. Among the latter, poetic texts stand out, the aesthetic orientation of which makes it possible to investigate the images present in these texts as linguoculturological and cognitive means. Aim and objectives. Explore the role of figurative symbolic means in the interpretation of a fragment of the Chinese picture of the world associated with the interpretation of the image of bamboo in ancient poetic texts. Material and methods. The material of the research is poetic texts of ancient Chinese authors. The units are linguistic means that embody one of the most common images in Chinese linguoculture – the image of a bamboo. The main research methods are contextological and lexical-semantic. Results and discussion. The peculiarities of the biological structure of bamboo and the diverse possibilities of its use in the life of native Chinese speakers determine the richest figurative potential of the nominated lexeme. The inclusion of this lexeme in a broad context significantly enriches the process of generating meaning. Linguistic means that objectify the interpretation of the image of bamboo in Chinese linguistic culture, in the textual perspective, get the possibility of their conceptual interpretation. The latter unfolds on the basis of considering the symbolic components of meaning inscribed in the national picture of the world at the level of its fragments. The directions of symbolizing the meaning of linguistic units nominating the image of a bamboo are revealed by considering the speech structure of ancient poetic texts of Chinese authors. Conclusion. The key manifestations of the symbolic meaning of the image of bamboo in Chinese linguistic culture, judging by the results obtained, can be called the options for interpreting the image of bamboo as a symbol of high morality, purity, peace, harmony and serenity. Such a symbolic interpretation does not contradict the basic dogmas of Chinese philosophy; it is based on an associative roll call that arises in the minds of native speakers as a result of a comparison of plant properties and human characteristics. Keywords: linguistic picture of the world, symbolic image, Chinese linguoculture, poetic text, bamboo image, lexical means, linguocultural analysis.

scholarly journals JOHANA NJUMBI (1886–1991): THE PIONEER AFRICAN LEADER IN MUTIRA MISSION

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julius Gathogo
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Mandatory Retirement ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Maternal Role ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
The World

The article sets out to retrieve the critical role of the pioneer African clergyman, Johana Njumbi (1886–1991), in the Mutira mission of Kirinyaga, Kenya. Despite the death of the first wife in 1921, and the second one in 1952, Njumbi surged on to provide leadership in the new socioreligious dispensation following the introduction of Christianity in the first half of the 20th century. His stewardship is seen in his emphasis on ‘modern’ education, farming and medical services. As Mutira mission marked one hundred years of missionary Christianity (1912–2012), in August 2012, it is imperative to assess the pedigree and the religious-social life times of the key character who contributed immensely in mid-wifing Christianity and modern education in an area hitherto unknown in the map of the world. In so doing, Njumbi catapulted the desolate hills and valleys of Mutira mission into greater heights of human progress. As the area produced its second Bishop, Joseph Karimi Kibucwa, in December 2012, after Daniel Munene Ngoru proceeded to his retirement upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 65, one cannot fail to see the fruits of the pioneer clergy who persuaded the reluctant locals to ‘accept the white man’s religion and education as our own’ under difficult circumstances. In other words, did Njumbi’s leadership leave a lasting legacy in Mutira mission? Does the maternal role of Canon Njumbi’s wife, Agness Wambui (1914–1952), have any relevance for African motherhood today? The materials in this article are gathered mainly through oral interviews, reading of extensive literature and archival sources.

Cities and International Relations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Pejic
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
The World ◽  
Global North

The literature on cities and international relations (IR), or “global urban politics,” as it is sometimes termed, is a diverse stream of social science research that has developed in response to major demographic and economic shifts that began in second half of the 20th century and continue to today. During this time the world has witnessed dramatic globalization and urbanization, centralizing populations in cities. It is predicted that by 2050 close to 70 percent of the world’s population will live in urban areas, meaning that 21st-century challenges will be largely urban in nature. Across areas such as migration, health, environmental sustainability, and economic development, citizens and city governments are constantly exposed, and need to respond to, the impacts of globalization on cities. At the international level, multilateral organizations have recognized this shift and are increasingly involving cities, or networks of cities, as interlocutors in global forums. IR has been slow to acknowledge the increasing importance of cities in international affairs, as it conflicts with the state-centric paradigm of mainstream theory. Most early scholarship on cities and globalization came from urbanists and political economists, who studied the development of “global cities” that were acting as the critical nodes in the architecture of the world economy. This literature predominately identified cities as the sites of global processes, with limited capacity to influence or shape them. It also offered a narrow, economistic conception of cities that vastly prioritized the experiences of wealthy cities in the Global North. More recently, scholars have begun to study and theorize the role of cities as actors in global affairs, particularly through forms of networked governance and involvement in key multilateral discussions. This bibliography tracks the evolution of this research agenda from its conception to the present day. It begins with a limited background in the study of urban politics, providing a crucial framework for understanding how the diverse streams of research developed. It then details the continuing work on “global cities,” which recognized the increasing importance of cities to international affairs in the late 20th century, although largely defined in narrow economic terms. What follows is a broader theorization of the role of cities in global governance, which begins to afford some agency to cities to shape international affairs across a range of policy areas and brings them directly into the purview of IR. While most of this literature has still been driven by, and focused on, cities of the Global North, there have been efforts to broaden the geographic focus and recognize the way globalization and urbanization have been experienced differently in cities across the globe. Finally, the bibliography draws on a recent literature exploring some of the political and legal implications of this shift to the “urban century.”

scholarly journals Gurdjieff’s anthropology: the concept of conscious human evolution

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 05001
Author(s):  
Igor Grekov
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Human Evolution ◽  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Unconscious Processes ◽  
Behavioral Aspect ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Fourth Way

The main purpose of the article is the disclosure of the ideas of Gurdzhiyev’s anthropological doctrine in which the possibility of spiritual transformation of the person and his conscious evolution are emphasized. The author claims that in the conditions of dissociation of approaches and positions in the anthropological thought there is a need of appeal to the anthroposophic systems designed to fill onesidedness of such directions as psychoanalysis (in many respects absolutizing a role of unconscious processes), the behaviorism (concentrating on behavioral aspect of human existence), the existentialism (emphasizing hopelessness “abandonment of life in the world”). According to the author one of such systems is Gurdzhiyev’s system of conscious evolution of the person, the so-called “The Fourth Way” which is eligible for the status of the translater of the experience of Gnostic tradition in the 20th century.

scholarly journals Psychotherapy in Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Marks
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second World

Psychotherapy was an invention of European modernity, but as the 20th century unfolded, and we trace how it crossed national and continental borders, its goals and the particular techniques by which it operated become harder to pin down. This introduction briefly draws together the historical literature on psychotherapy in Europe, asking comparative questions about the role of location and culture, and networks of transmission and transformation. It introduces the six articles in this special issue on Greece, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Russia, Britain and Sweden as well as its parallel special issue of History of Psychology on ‘Psychotherapy in the Americas’. It traces what these articles tell us about how therapeutic developments were entangled with the dramatic, and often traumatic, political events across the continent: in the wake of the Second World War, the emergence of Communist and authoritarian regimes, the establishment of welfare states and the advance of neoliberalism.

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