scholarly journals Figurações da solidão em Viver com os outros, de Isabel da Nóbrega e Os íntimos, de Inês Pedrosa / Figures of solitude in Living with others, by Isabel da Nóbrega and The Intimates, by Inês Pedrosa a

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (65) ◽  
pp. 281
Author(s):  
Tainara Quintana da Cunha
Keyword(s):  
Literary Context ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Portuguese Literature

Resumo: O presente trabalho investiga os romances Viver com os outros (1964), de Isabel da Nóbrega e Os íntimos (2010), de Inês Pedrosa demonstrando como a solidão integra a figuração das personagens. Na introdução, aproxima as obras tendo em atenção a organicidade do romance português contemporâneo, conforme proposto por Miguel Real (2012), e enfatiza a presença da solidão no cotejo entre os dois livros. Após, analisa a configuração dos protagonistas Ana e Afonso com base na figuração dos sujeitos ficcionais segundo Carlos Reis (2018). Por fim, aponta a solidão como característica na composição das personagens em ambos os romances, consideradas as particularidades de cada obra e o contexto socioliterário no qual se inserem. Além disso, defere que a “solidão ontológica”, de acordo com Alexandre P. Torres (1967) é tema da literatura portuguesa que, por seu turno, se ressignifica para representar os individualismos do homem contemporâneo, conforme Benilde J. Caniato (2007). Palavras-chaves: Viver com os outros; Os íntimos; personagem; solidão; Ana; Afonso.Abstract: The present essay investigates the novels Living with Others (1964), by Isabel da Nóbrega and The Intimates (2010), by Inês Pedrosa, demonstrating how loneliness integrates the figuration of the characters. To this purpose, in the introduction, it approaches the books taking into account the organicity of the contemporary Portuguese novel, as proposed by Miguel Real (2012), and emphasizes the presence of loneliness in the comparison between the two books. Then, it analyzes the configuration of the protagonists Ana and Afonso based on the figuration of fictional subjects according to Carlos Reis (2018). Finally, it points to loneliness as a characteristic in the composition of the characters in both novels, considering the particularities of each one and the socio-literary context in which they are inserted. Furthermore, it defers that “ontological loneliness”, according to Alexandre P. Torres (1967) is a theme of Portuguese literature that, in turn, resignifies itself to represent the individualisms of contemporary man, according to Benilde J. Caniato (2007).Keywords: Living with others; The intimates; character; solitude; Ana; Afonso.

Of Gods and Kings: The Case for Reading “Milcom” in Zephaniah 1:5bβ

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 505-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas R. Werse
Keyword(s):  
Final Word ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Manuscript Tradition

Abstract Manuscript evidence disagrees between reading the final word in Zeph 1:5 as meaning “their king,” “Molech,” or “Milcom.” The affinity of these three readings with the MT consonantal text, combined with the lack of agreement among the manuscript evidence, allows for plausible arguments supporting each of these readings. A majority of commentators conclude that this entity must refer to a deity, but disagree on which manuscript tradition to follow. The present essay surveys each of these readings, arguing that “Milcom” best fits the literary context and syntax patterns in Zeph 1:5bβ. This essay examines comparable text-critical difficulties in 2 Sam 12:30; 1 Chr 20:2; 1 Kgs 11:7; Jer 49:1, 3; and Amos 5:26, concluding that similar examples of the MT reinterpreting the name “Milcom” as “their king” occur in Jer 49:1, 3.

Law and Loss: Response to Catastrophein Numbers 15

2008 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tzvi Novick
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
The Law ◽  
The One

The episode of the wood-gatherer () in Num 15:32–36 is concisely narrated. The Israelites, in the wilderness, catch a man gathering wood on the Sabbath. They convey him to Moses and the congregation, evidently for judgment, but they cannot determine what his fate should be. A watch is therefore set over him until the matter can be clarified. Then God, presumably in response to an inquiry by Moses, informs him that the prisoner is to be stoned. The congregation forthwith executes the judgment. The story is sharply demarcated, on the one side by the law concerning unintentional and intentional sins (15:22–31)and on the other by the law of tassels (15:37–41). The present essay offers an interpretation of this story that situates it meaningfully in its current literary context and in the historical milieu in which it was redacted. I shall argue that the episode of the wood-gatherer addresses the force of covenantal law in the aftermath of national catastrophe.

The Soul of the Leningrad Blockade: Leonid Chupiatov’s Bogomater of the Protecting Veil

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie O'Bell
Keyword(s):  
Present Essay ◽  
Religious Paintings ◽  
Artistic Work ◽  
Religious Image ◽  
Traditional Image

The present essay is the first article devoted to the religious paintings of the Soviet artist Leonid Chupiatov (1890–1941), with special attention to his Veil of the Mother of God over the Dying City, created during the desolate Leningrad siege winter of 1941-42. Dmitry Likhachev memorably called this work the “soul of the siege.” The article analyzes what it offers the viewer directly, as a modern version of the traditional image. It goes on to place the painting in the context of Chupiatov’s religious production, both during the siege and previous to it and to explore the circumstances which ensured its preservation against all odds. An apocalyptic context which challenges even divine compassion and saving grace, one which recapitulates the forty days of Christ in the desert—such is the immediate context of Chupiatov’s icon of the Protecting Veil in his artistic work from the winter of 1941–42. In the end, the survival of this powerful image becomes comprehensible through the connections of a fragmented religious-philosophical confraternity. The article thus represents a step towards finally acknowledging the presence of the religious image in the artistic response to the Leningrad siege.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Hurley ◽  
Marcus Waithe
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Delivery System ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Nineteenth Century Studies

This chapter evaluates the competing ways that ‘style’ has been said to operate in language. Rather than figure thought as primary and pre-verbal, and language as a secondary delivery system, this chapter recommends a messier relationship, whereby writing is not a simple act of translating but also a means of clarifying or generating ideas. The twenty subsequent chapters of this book exemplify this account of style as a mode of thinking through. Outlines of these individual essays are given, and correspondences drawn. The value of the book as a whole is addressed, as it contributes to scholarship on style and on the essay, and to nineteenth-century studies in particular: by revaluating some of the most influential figures of that age, providing a literary context for those celebrated ‘minds’ and ‘moralists’, while also re-imagining the possible alliances, interplays, and generative tensions between thinking, thinkers, style, and stylists.

Veiling Esther, Unveiling Her Story

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam J. Silverstein
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Religious Background ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Selection Of

This book examines the ways in which the biblical book of Esther was read, understood, and used in Muslim lands, from ancient to modern times. It zeroes-in on a selection of case studies, covering works from various periods and regions of the Muslim world, including the Qur’an, premodern historical chronicles and literary works, the writings of a nineteenth-century Shia feminist, a twentieth-century Iranian dictionary, and others. These case studies demonstrate that Muslim sources contain valuable materials on Esther, which shed light both on the Esther story itself and on the Muslim peoples and cultures that received it. The book argues that Muslim sources preserve important, pre-Islamic materials on Esther that have not survived elsewhere, some of which offer answers to ancient questions about Esther, such as the meaning of Haman’s epithet in the Greek versions of the story, the reason why Mordecai refused to prostrate himself before Haman, and the literary context of the “plot of the eunuchs” to kill the Persian king. Furthermore, throughout the book we will see how each author’s cultural and religious background influenced his or her understanding and retelling of the Esther story: In particular, it will be shown that Persian Muslims (and Jews) were often forced to reconcile or choose between the conflicting historical narratives provided by their religious and cultural heritages respectively.

La Bête humaine

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Émile Zola
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
The Future

Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola’s most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his ‘most finely worked’ novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new locomotives and railways it was building. While expressing the hope that human nature evolves through education and gradually frees itself of the burden of inherited evil, he is constantly reminding us that under the veneer of technological progress there remains, always, the beast within. This new translation captures Zola's fast-paced yet deliberately dispassionate style, while the introduction and detailed notes place the novel in its social, historical, and literary context.

scholarly journals Generative Models for Relief Perspective Architectures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Baglioni ◽  
Federico Fallavollita
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Affine Space ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Generative Models ◽  
Linear Perspective ◽  
Dimensional Structure ◽  
Three Dimensional Structure ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Santa Maria

AbstractThe present essay investigates the potential of generative representation applied to the study of relief perspective architectures realized in Italy between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In arts, and architecture in particular, relief perspective is a three-dimensional structure able to create the illusion of great depths in small spaces. A method of investigation applied to the case study of the Avila Chapel in Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome (Antonio Gherardi 1678) is proposed. The research methodology can be extended to other cases and is based on the use of a Relief Perspective Camera, which can create both a linear perspective and a relief perspective. Experimenting mechanically and automatically the perspective transformations from the affine space to the illusory space and vice versa has allowed us to see the case study in a different light.

With and Beyond Epistemologies from the South: Ontological Epistemology of Participation, Multi-topial Hermeneutics and the Calling of Planetary Realisations

2021 ◽  
pp. 003802292110146
Author(s):  
Ananta Kumar Giri
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The South ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Multiple Cultures ◽  
The World ◽  
Crisis Of Modernity ◽  
Universe Of Discourse ◽  
The Human Condition

Our contemporary moment is a moment of crisis of epistemology as a part of the wider and deeper crisis of modernity and the human condition. The crisis of epistemology emerges from the limits of the epistemic as it is tied to epistemology of procedural certainty and closure. The crisis of epistemology also reflects the limits of epistemology closed within the Euro-American universe of discourse. It is in this context that the present essay discusses Boaventura de Sousa Santos’ Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide. It also discusses some of the limits of de Sousa Santos’ alternatives especially his lack of cultivation of the ontological in his exploration of epistemological alternatives beyond the Eurocentric canons. It then explores the pathways of ontological epistemology of participation which brings epistemic and ontological works and meditations together in transformative and cross-cultural ways. This helps us in going beyond both the limits of the primacy of epistemology in modernity as well as Eurocentrism. It also explores pathways of a new hermeneutics which involves walking and meditating across multiple topoi of cultures and traditions of thinking and reflections which is called multi- topial hermeneutics in this study. This involves foot-walking and foot-meditative interpretation across multiple cultures and traditions of the world which help us go beyond ethnocentrism and eurocentrism and cultivate conversations and realisations across borders what the essay calls planetary realisations.

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