A Study on the Relationship between Reading Situation and Descriptive Style -Focusing on the process of enjoying classical novels in the 17th century-

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 245-275
Author(s):  
Gi-Dae Lee
2021 ◽  
pp. 026327642199945
Author(s):  
William Davies

Liberal government, as analysed by Foucault, is a project of measured, utilitarian political activity, that takes ‘population’ as its object, dating back to the late 17th century. The rise of nationalism, authoritarianism and populism directly challenges this project, by seeking to re-introduce excessive, gratuitous and performative modes of power back into liberal societies. This article examines the relationship and tensions between government and sovereignty, so as to make sense of this apparent ‘revenge of sovereignty on government’. It argues that neoliberalism has been a crucial factor in the return of sovereignty as a ‘problem’ of contemporary societies. Neoliberalism tacitly generates new centres of sovereign power, which have become publicly visible since 2008, leading to a dramatic resurgence of discourses and claims to ‘sovereignty’.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lianne Wing Yan Ho

Vanitas Obsolescentum is a comment on the obsolescence of contemporary commodity. It draws from prominent theories of obsolescence and appropriates 17th century Dutch Vanitas paintings. This paper begins by addressing themes relevant to the conceptual development of the series, including theories of obsolescence as presented by Packard, Papanek and Slade, the relationship of Dutch Golden Age society to contemporary North American society, Dutch Vanitas paintings, and appropriation of the Vanitas genre in contemporary art history and within this series. It provides a rationale for the use of holography as medium to express concepts of transience and hyperreality. This paper concludes with a discussion of the specifics of Vanitas Obsolescentum, including the symbolism and meaning of each piece within the series.


1970 ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer ◽  
Hanne Teglhus

Kollokvium om at udstille kunst og naturvidenskab. Steno Museet, Danmarks Videnskabshistoriske Museum, Århus, 25. september 2006. In the fall of 2006, the Steno Museum (Aarhus, Denmark) exhibited the installation Room One created by the American artist Rosamond Purcell. This installation consists of a full-size model of Museum Wormianum, the Danish physician Ole Worm’s curiosity cabinet, dating from the 17th century. This is a work of art – yet it depicts a naturalist’s laboratory. When one adds that it has also been called the first museum in Denmark, it seemed an obvious step to make the artwork the occasion of a symposium on the relationship between art, science and museums. At this symposium, the artist, along with a number of science historians and museum curators, discussed the definitions of art and science then and now, and spoke about the attempts to transcend the disciplinary boundaries that take place within the museums. Different ways of exhibiting were brought into focus, and Purcell’s installation formed the basis for many interesting discussions about the museum as a place of learning and of aesthetic experience.


2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-144
Author(s):  
E. Jennifer Monaghan

In what she terms “an exercise in historical eavesdropping”, Kamensky explores the relationship between speech and society in 17th-century New England. In doing so, she places speech at center stage in the New England experience. Her insightful study floodlights the connections between gender and speech, speech and power, community cohesiveness and community deviance. Early New Englanders, she argues, believed “speech was conduct and conduct was speech” that is, in a culture that remained largely oral, they imbued speech with powers almost as great as those of actual deeds.


1990 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
Joseph L. Subbiondo

Summary In his Herm’œlogium; or an Essay at the Rationality of Speaking of 1659 Basset Jones intended to supplement William Lily’s (c. 1468–1522) popular 16th-century grammar, which had received the endorsement of Edward VI. Written in English and Latin, Lily’s grammar through its many editions not only set the standard for Latin grammars, but it also established the style for the first and subsequent grammars of English. Jones realized that Lily’s grammatical model, with its emphasis solely on the classification and arrangement of material according to the classic paradigms for conjugation and declension, ignored the philosophy of grammar which was necessary for an understanding of the relationship of language and thought.


2020 ◽  
pp. 251385021993735
Author(s):  
John D. Phan

In East Asia, the relationship between script and language is determined to a great extent by the typological character of the languages involved. This is particularly so because sinographic writing generally relies on the syllable as the smallest unit of sound expressible. However, many languages that have adapted Sinitic writing throughout history display complex syllable structure not easily expressible by the monosyllabically inclined sinograph. Moreover, some languages have even displayed changing syllable structure throughout documented history. This article examines the so-called “monosyllabicization” of the Vietnamese language, and its impact on the history of the sinographic vernacular script known as Chữ Nôm. I argue that by the 17th century, the emergent monosyllabic character of Vietnamese was remarked upon by elites as a new justification for embracing vernacular writing, previously considered uncouth.


2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-214
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Komorowska

The article analyses the relationship between friendship and politics in the comedia de privanza Saber del mal y el bien by Calderón de la Barca. It claims that Calderón addresses the controversial discussion in 17th-century political theory on whether monarchs should have friends by staging three different models of power: First, the comedia presents a monarch, whose wise analysis and strategic manipulation of the feelings of his courtiers turn him into the ideal sovereign. Secondly, the play unfolds a cosmology of power in analogy to the constellation of the sun and the stars. The position of the king as the sun is challenged by the ascendant power of his favourite. Thirdly, Calderón questions the relevance of mundane power relations through the metaphor of the theatrum mundi. It is through friendship as a dialogic form of knowledge that these three models of power unfold. [J]untemos hoy dos caudales: yo pondré contentos míos, poned vos vuestros pesares; yo venturas, vos desdichas; y así vendremos iguales a saber los dos a un tiempo de glorias y adversidades, porque quiero que seamos los dos amigos tan grandes que dejemos admiradas a las futuras edades.


Naharaim ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-312
Author(s):  
Ori Werdiger

AbstractThis article introduces and discusses a short correspondence that took place in November 1931 between Gershom Scholem and Jacob Gordin. Gordin was a Russian-Jewish philosopher of religion, an expert on Hermann Cohen, and a founding figure of the postwar Paris School of Jewish Thought. The initial motivation for the correspondence was Scholem’s wish to produce a critical edition of the 17th century kabbalistic work, Shaar Hashamayim by Abraham Cohen Herrera, for which he asked for Gordin’s help. A close reading of Gordin’s response to Scholem and Scholem’s belated response to Gordin highlight the respective views of these thinkers regarding the relationship between kabbalah and Western philosophy in the modern era, and in German idealism in particular. The article is followed by a translation of the correspondence.


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