scholarly journals Смерть как событие повседневности в творчестве Алексея Ремизова и Василия Розанова

2018 ◽  
Vol 167 ◽  
pp. 263-273
Author(s):  
Elena Borisova-Yurkovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

Death as an everyday event in the works of Aleksey Remizov and Vasily RozanovThe paper addresses the topic of death in the works of Aleksey Remizov and Vasily Rozanov, the two iconic intellectuals of the early twentieth century in Russia. Based on the works of fiction, essays, articles and correspondence of two writers, study reveals and analyzes the similarities of their philosophical and aesthetics views. It shows how the phenomenon of death is depicted in everyday life and undergoes desacralization. It also includes polemic with the philosophical milieu of the epoch D. Merezhkovsky, P. Florensky and the literary tradition on the example of N. Gogol.Śmierć jako wydarzenie codzienności w twórczości Aleksieja Remizowa i Wasilija RozanowaArtykuł przedstawia temat śmierci w pracach Aleksieja Remizowa i Wasilija Rozanowa — dwóch ikonicznych intelektualistów początku XX wieku. Na materiale utworów literatury pięknej, esejów, artykułów i korespondencji pisarzy autor ujawnia i analizuje podobieństwa ich poglądów filozoficznych i estetycznych. Pokazuje przy tym, jak fenomen śmierci jest włączany do przestrzeni codzienności i ulega desakralizacji. Uwzględnia również polemikę ze środowiskiem filozoficznym epoki Dymitr Mierieżkowski, Paweł Florenski i tradycję literacką na przykładzie Nikołaja Gogola.

The “Sticky Sediment” of Daily Life: Radical Domesticity, Revolutionary Christianity, and the Problem of Wealth in Britain from the 1880s to the 1930s

2012 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth Koven
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War I ◽  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Justice ◽  
Ethical Imperative ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

This essay examines an early twentieth-century Christian revolutionary habitus—a “technique of Christian living”—based on the conviction that everyday life was an essential site for reconciling the claims of individual and community, the material and the spiritual. The pacifist-feminist members of London’s first “people’s house,” Kingsley Hall, linked their vision of Jesus’s inclusive and unbounded love for humanity to their belief in the ethical imperative that all people take full moral responsibility for cleaning up their own dirt as part of their utopian program to bring social, economic, and political justice to the outcast in London, Britain, and its empire. In imagining what a reconstructed post-World War I Britain might become, Kingsley Hall’s cross-class band of workers used mundane practices to unmake and remake the late-Victorian and Edwardian philanthropic legacy they inherited.

scholarly journals Reconstruction as trope of cultural display. Rethinking the role of “living exhibitions”

1970 ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Cathrine Baglo
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Western World ◽  
Amusement Parks ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
International Expositions

During the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a new and particularly widespread type of exhibition practice occurred all over the Western World, namely “living exhibitions”. They were characterized by the display of indigenous and exotic-looking peoples in zoological gardens, circuses, amusement parks, various industrial expositions, and major international expositions where representatives of indigenous and foreign peoples from all over the globe performed their everyday life in reconstructed settings. Entire milieus were recreated by bringing along dwellings, animals, objects, etc. Eventually this would also become the dominant trope of display in folkloric exhibitions. Nevertheless, the living exhibitions have not been regarded as in uential to this development. Instead, the trope has most commonly been accredited to the Swedish folklorist Artur Hazelius. In this article, I stress the importance of situating his display techniques and museological ideals within a wider context, most importantly the living exhibitions. The emphasis will be on the display of Sámi. 

Bennett, Arnold (1867–1931)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Peters
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
School To Work ◽  
Full Time ◽  
The North ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
George Moore ◽  
Assistant Editor ◽  
Arnold Bennett ◽  
John Galsworthy

A prolific and popular author, English writer Arnold Bennett was one of the most important Realist/Naturalist writers of the early twentieth century. Strongly influenced by George Moore, Bennett made valuable contributions to this literary tradition, achieving distinction alongside contemporaries H. G. Wells and John Galsworthy. Enoch Arnold Bennett was born in Burslem, Staffordshire in 1867. Bennett showed promise as a student, but at sixteen left school to work in his father’s law office and then later as a clerk in a London law office. In 1893, Bennett left his job to become assistant editor of the journal Woman, later becoming editor-in-chief. He had been writing occasional pieces for the Staffordshire Sentinel for several years before he published his first story, ‘A Letter Home’ (1895), in The Yellow Book. His first novel, A Man from the North, appeared in 1898. Modelled after the fiction of George Moore, it tells the story of a man from the Potteries district of Bennett’s youth who tries to acclimatize to a life as a clerk in London. Emboldened by his initial literary success, in 1900 Bennett gave up his position with Woman to become a full-time writer.

BURGLARY INSURANCE AND THE CULTURE OF FEAR IN BRITAIN, c. 1889–1939

2011 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 1039-1064 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELOISE MOSS
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Marketing Strategy ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Insurance Sector ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Culture Of Fear ◽  
State And Market ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Market Discourse

ABSTRACTThis article explores the representations of burglary and burglars created by the burglary insurance sector in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Two lines of argument are developed: first, that the marketing strategy of the burglary insurance sector exacerbated existing fears about the nature and prevalence of burglary in a calculated bid to attract custom; and secondly, that the depictions of crime and criminal used in marketing this form of insurance were subsequently revised in the contracts issued to customers as part of the industry's commercial transactions, thereby securing against supposed ‘negligence’ by homeowners as well as malicious attempts to defraud insurers. As the self-styled commercial ‘protection’ against burglary, burglary insurance became an ordinary household investment. Its prosperity therefore enables us to identify certain ideas about crime and criminal then current. Crucially, this research highlights the intersection of media, state, and market discourse about crime in weaving a specific version of burglary into the very fabric of everyday life, uniting three domains that historians of crime have traditionally treated separately.

Affective Narratives: Harlem and the Lower East Side

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 777-793 ◽  
Author(s):  
CATHERINE ROTTENBERG
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
Sacred Space ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Lower East Side ◽  
East Side ◽  
American Novels ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Way

This paper begins by juxtaposing contemporary discourses on Harlem and the Lower East Side, arguing that the processes of iconization of these two neighborhoods have been very different. Whereas the iconicity of Harlem has always been shot through with ambivalence, the Lower East Side has come to signify a relatively unambivalent sacred space for US Jewry. The second part of the essay then traces the representations of Harlem and the Lower East Side back to early twentieth-century African American and Jewish American novels, claiming that critically analyzing the theme of ambivalence in these texts – and, more specifically, how ambivalence manifests itself differently within each literary tradition – is key to understanding not only why Harlem and the Lower East Side have undergone parallel but divergent processes of iconization, but also the way Jews and blacks have been positioned and have attempted to position themselves in relation to dominant white US society.

scholarly journals Becoming Chapels and Everyday Congregations: How the Repair and Maintenance of London’s Wesleyan Chapels Illustrates Their Communities’ Everyday Practices and Experiences (1851–1932)

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-49
Author(s):  
Ruth Slatter
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Maintenance And Repair ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
East End

Abstract This article uses archival references to maintenance and repair to approach nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Wesleyan chapels and their material contents as ‘becoming’ things. Reflecting on the material changes that made the maintenance or repair of Wesleyan chapels necessary, or occurred because of these processes, it considers what maintenance and repair reveal about everyday practices and experiences within these communities. This article’s approach allows it to draw conclusions about individuals’ personal and mundane engagements with Wesleyanism in London during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As such, it overcomes some of the problems that historians interested in the everyday have traditionally faced as a result of the shortage of surviving personal testimonies about the everyday nature of church attendance during this period. Using Wesleyan chapels from London’s northern suburbs and East End as case studies, this article particularly focuses on the repair and maintenance of organs and chapel interiors. It uses these examples to reflect on the practicalities of everyday life in Wesleyan communities, demonstrating how considering moments of repair and maintenance highlights the (sometimes fraught) interrelationships between the spiritual, social, and practical priorities of Wesleyan communities.

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