scholarly journals “É boa leitura, mas para momentos de lazer”: a leitura dos romances de Walter Scott pelo imperador Pedro II / “It’s good to read, but in moments of leisure”: the reading of Walter Scott’s novels by Emperor Pedro II

2022 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Larissa De Assumpção
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Walter Scott ◽  
Imperial Family ◽  
The 19Th Century

Resumo: O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as anotações e opiniões sobre os romances de Walter Scott presentes em cartas escritas pelo imperador Pedro II. Para isso, serão utilizadas como fonte as missivas enviadas pelo imperador à princesa Isabel e ao conde de Gobineau, entre os anos de 1860 e 1880, e que hoje fazem parte do Arquivo Grão-Pará do Museu Imperial de Petrópolis. A análise das práticas de leitura retratadas nessas cartas teve como base três aspectos principais: de que maneira a obra de Walter Scott era vista no século XIX, qual eram os pensamentos de Pedro II sobre esses livros e como o imperador e a princesa Isabel realizaram a leitura do romance Ivanhoé. Ao final do trabalho, conclui-se que a leitura de livros de Walter Scott era bastante valorizada pela crítica do período e por outros membros da aristocracia. Pedro II também admirava as qualidades literárias dos romances de Scott, que, segundo ele, eram uma ótima ocupação para os momentos de descanso e lazer. Além disso, em suas cartas, ele indica a leitura de diferentes obras do escritor, como Ivanhoé e Waverley, com base em critérios que também eram utilizados pela crítica especializada do período, como a qualidade das descrições, a verossimilhança, a construção das personagens e a capacidade dos romances de entreter e instruir os leitores.Palavras-chave: Walter Scott; família imperial brasileira; Ivanhoé, carta; leitura.Abstract: The purpose of this article is to analyze the notes and opinions about Walter Scott’s novels written in letters by Emperor Peter II. The corpus of the study are the missives sent by the emperor to Princess Isabel and to the Count of Gobineau between the years 1860 and 1880 and which are part of the Grão-Pará Archive of the Imperial Museum of Petrópolis. The analysis of the reading practices represented in these letters is based on three main aspects: how Walter Scott’s work was seen in the 19th century, what were Pedro II’s thoughts about these books and how the Emperor and Princess Isabel read the novel Ivanhoe. It is concluded that the reading of Walter Scott’s books was highly valued by critics of the period and by other members of the aristocracy. Pedro II also admired the literary qualities of Scott’s novels, which, according to him, were a great occupation for moments of leisure. In his letters, he indicates the reading of different works of the writer, such as Ivanhoe and Waverley, based on criteria that were also used by specialized critics of the period, such as the quality of the descriptions, the construction of the characters and the capacity of the novels to entertain and instruct the readers.Keywords: Walter Scott; Brazilian imperial family; Ivanhoe; letter; reading.

The Short Story: A Very Short Introduction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Kahn
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
The Press ◽  
Character Study ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Plot Design

The Short Story: A Very Short Introduction charts the rise of the short story from its original appearance in magazines and newspapers. For much of the 19th century, tales were written for the press, and the form’s history is marked by engagement with popular fiction. The short story then earned a reputation for its skilful use of plot design and character study distinct from the novel. This VSI considers the continuity and variation in key structures and techniques such as the beginning, the creation of voice, the ironic turn or plot twist, and how writers manage endings. Throughout, it draws on examples from an international and flourishing corpus of work.

Pinocchio e l’evoluzione

Revue Romane ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-293
Author(s):  
Margareth Hagen
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
Continuous Evolution ◽  
Narrative Interpretation ◽  
Theories Of Evolution ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Pedagogical Literature

The first chapters of Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio were printed in 1881, the same year as the publication of the novel I Malavoglia, Giovanni Verga’s masterpiece of verismo. While every critical reader of Verga’s realism has pointed out his particular narrative interpretation of evolution, Collodi’s has novel very seldom been connected to the theories of evolution, even if Darwin’s ideas were highly present in the public debate in Florence during the last decades of the 19th century. The reasons for this silence are primarily to be found in the genre of Pinocchio, in the fact that it is children literature, and therefore primarily related to the narrative mechanisms of the fairy tales and pedagogical literature. Focusing on Pinocchio, the article discusses to which degree Darwinism can be traced in Collodi’s literature for children, and questions if the continuous metamorphoses of Pinocchio can be read also in connection with the naturalist conception of the literary characters as unstable, in continuous evolution, and not only as part of the mechanisms of fairy tales and mythological narratives.

scholarly journals Ivan Vahylevych’s mystified biography in Yurii Vynnychuk’s novel “Liutetsiia”

2020 ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Halyna Bokshan
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Don Juan ◽  
Material Characteristic ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
Historical Aspects ◽  
Historical Material ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Historical Epoch

The study examines the features of the strategies of mythologization and mystification used by Yurii Vynnychuk in creating his literary version of Ivan Vahylevych’s biography in the novel “Liutetsiia”. First of all the paper emphasizes the writer’s inclination to play with historic material characteristic of postmodernism, manifesting itself in most of his works and in the novel under study, in particular. The research pays special attention to the original interaction of mythological and cultural-historical aspects in the fictionalized biography of the renowned public figure of the 19th century, famous for his activity in Ruska Triitsia. It considers the specific features of the literary visualization of Ivan Vahylevych character in the relation to Ivan Franko’s essay representing the epistolary of the figures of the historical epoch depicted in the novel. The study determines the correlation between the personages in “Liutetsiia” and the characters and motives of the Celtic mythology. It identifies the specificity of the reminiscent relations of the main character with the archetypal figure of Don Juan. The conclusions highlight the use of irony, grotesque and comic modus by Yurii Vynnychuk as the manifestation of the neo-mythological device of deheroization. It also accentuates that the strategies of mythologization and mystification in “Liutetsiia” reflect the manner of interpreting cultural-historical material characteristic of the author.

scholarly journals INFLUENCE OF SOME ROOTSTOCK ON THE GROWTH AND QUALITY OF THE VINE PLANTING MATERIAL OF THE MAVRUD VARIETY

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-374
Author(s):  
M. Mihaylov
Keyword(s):  
Vitis Vinifera ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Biological Characteristics ◽  
Vitis Vinifera L ◽  
Red Wines ◽  
Planting Material ◽  
The 19Th Century

The direction related with production of vine planting material originated from the 19th century, after the advent of Phylloxera vastatrix F. in which a large part of the vineyards in Bulgaria and the main wine-growing countries were destroyed. Only solution was proposed for grafting vine varieties from Vitis vinifera L. on resistant rootstocks. A number of biological characteristics of the vine influence both the nursery for scions and the rootstock nursery. One of them, which is main is the affinity of different rootstocks on the different vine varieties. In the southern Bulgaria, where the Mavrud variety is characteristic, high losses are observed due to the low yield of first-class vines. In Bulgaria, the Mavrud variety is highly valued due to its biological qualities, resulting in extracts and dense red wines that have glorified our country.

scholarly journals Thérèse Raquin d’Émile Zola : la notion de tempérament entre l’héritage antique et l’apport de la physiologie du XIXe siècle

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-100
Author(s):  
Anna Kaczmarek-Wiśniewska
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Xixe Siecle ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Xixe Siècle ◽  
Physiological Theory

Therese Raquin, Zola’s first important work, is based on the modern version of the old physiological theory of “temperaments”, e.g. the combination of four cardinal “humours” that determine a man’s physical and mental constitution. Through the story of two murderers, an adulterous woman and her lover who kill the woman’s husband, the author shows the mutual influence of two temperaments considered in the 19th century as more important than all the others: sanguine and melancholic (or nervous). The novel intends to “verify” a theory dealing with the consequences of each type of temperament for people’s behaviour, their relationships and their internal life.

scholarly journals Potato growing in the Faroe Islands in 19th century

2015 ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Erling Isholm
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Seed Quality ◽  
Faroe Islands ◽  
Cultivated Land ◽  
Seed Potatoes ◽  
Peasant Society ◽  
Local Officials ◽  
Limited Supply ◽  
The 19Th Century

The potato became an important crop in the Faroe Islands early in the 19th century and subsequently vital in the 1820s and 1830s, when crofters started to enclose and cultivate small plots of land. These plots of land were crucial in ensuring population growth and in extending cultivated land. Local officials followed these events closely. During the 1830s problems emerged concerning the quality of seed potatoes and the limited supply, problems which only intensified as time passed. Concern was raised by one sheriff that difficulties in finding new seeds would prevent the expanding cultivation, whilst others worried that the deterioration in seed quality would result in a decline in growth, thus jeopardizing the livelihood of crofters. In this article the story of seed potatoes purchased by governor Pløyen in Orkney in 1839 is followed. The point being made is that by acquiring these seed potatoes the authorities ensured that the progress of the previous 20 years continued. Furthermore, the purchasing of a shipment of seed potatoes is linked to other modernization plans for Faroese society, which governor Pløyen and others worked on at the time. For these plans to succeed, it was vital to ensure the living conditions of the crofter families as change would not emerge from the old peasant society.

The Arabic Novel: New Roots, New Routes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Holt
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Nile Valley ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Arab Nationalism ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Islamic Empire ◽  
1001 Nights ◽  
The 19Th Century

In the mid-19th century, the Arabic novel emerged as a genre in Ottoman Syria and khedival Egypt. While this emergence has often been narrated as a story of the rise of nation-states and the diffusion of the European novel, the genre’s history and ongoing topography cannot be recovered without indexing the importance of Arabic storytelling and Islamic empire, ethics, and aesthetics to its roots. As the Arabic periodicals of Beirut and the Nile Valley, and soon Tunis and Baghdad, serialized and debated the rise of the novel form from the 19th century onward, historical, romantic, and translated novels found an avid readership throughout the Arab world and its diaspora. Metaphors of the garden confronted the maritime span of European empire in the 19th-century rise of the novel form in Arabic, and the novel’s path would continue to oscillate between the local and the global. British, French, Spanish, and Italian empire and direct colonial rule left a lasting imprint on the landscape of the region, and so too the investment of Cold War powers in its pipelines, oil wells, and cultural battlefields. Whether embracing socialist realism or avant-garde experimentation, the Arabic novel serves as an ongoing register of the stories that can be told in cities, villages, and nations throughout the region—from the committed novels interrogating the years of anticolonial national struggles and Arab nationalism in the 1950s and 1960s, through the ongoing history of war, surveillance, exile, occupation, and resource extraction that dictates the subsequent terrain of narration. The Arabic novel bears, too, an indelible mark left by translators of Arabic tales—from 1001 Nights to Girls of Riyadh—on the stories the region’s novelists tell.

scholarly journals Dostoyevsky and epilepsy: between science and mystique

2010 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antenilson Franklyn Rodrigues Lima ◽  
Dante Marcello Claramonte Gallian
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Fyodor Dostoyevsky ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Mystic Experience ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Literary Narrative

This article, the result of a research project presented as a Master's degree dissertation in the graduate program of "Teaching of Health Education" at UNIFESP, seeks to highlight the pertinence of analyzing epilepsy and especially, the paradoxical experience of the epileptic individual through literary narrative. Using as its object the novel, The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, it seeks to discuss the relationship between epilepsy and the mystic experience, bearing in mind the context of the scientific and humanistic perspectives of the 19th century and today.

scholarly journals Secondary-school chemistry textbooks in the 19th century

2015 ◽  
Vol 80 (10) ◽  
pp. 1321-1338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Milanovic ◽  
Dragica Trivic ◽  
Biljana Tomasevic
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
School Students ◽  
Chemistry Textbooks ◽  
The 19Th Century

The teaching of chemistry in Serbia as a separate subject dates from 1874. The first secondary-school chemistry textbooks appeared in the second half of the 19th century. The aim of this paper is to gain insight, by analysing two secondary-school chemistry textbooks, written by Sima Lozanic (1895) and Mita Petrovic (1892), into what amount of scientific knowledge from the sphere of chemistry was presented to secondary school students in Serbia in the second half of the 19th century, and what principles textbooks written at the time were based on. Within the framework of the research conducted, we defined the criteria for assessing the quality of secondary-school chemistry textbooks in the context of the time they were written in. The most important difference between the two textbooks under analysis that we found pertained to the way in which their contents were organized. Sima Lozanic?s textbook is characterized by a greater degree of systematicness when it comes to the manner of presenting its contents and consistency of approach throughout the book. In both textbooks one can perceive the authors? attempts to link chemistry-related subjects to everyday life, and to point out the practical significance of various substances, as well as their toxicness.

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