Modernizing the Tibetan Literary Tradition

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Present Collection ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Far Eastern ◽  
Sixth International

The present collection of papers aims to bring into light the processes of constant modernizing of the Tibetan literary tradition at different times, in different Tibetan-populated regions and in different subject areas, concentrating on resources to access and study modern Tibetan literature, on literary means of expression and critical apprehension of modern literary works written by Tibetans in Tibetan and Chinese, on formation and development of Tibetophone periodicals from the early 20th century until now, as well as examples of certain scholarly traditions (i. e. medicine and grammar) developing in Tibet. The collection includes papers actually presented or intended to be presented at the “Modernizing the Tibetan Literary Tradition” panel of the Sixth International Scholarly Conference “Issues of Far Eastern Literatures: the Literary Tradition and Modernity” (June 25–29, 2014, Saint Petersburg).

The Influence of Far Eastern Culture on the Creative Work of S.M. Eisenstein

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Joon Il Song
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Far East ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Eastern Culture ◽  
Chinese Traditional Culture ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Far Eastern

The article investigates the influence of Japanese and Chinese traditional culture on Sergey Eisensteins theory of artistic thinking, his activity as a film director. The author explores the origin of Eisensteins interest for the Far East in the historical context of the late 19th - early 20th century. Special attention is paid to his reflection on the nature of Japanese and Chinese drama, painting and poetry as well as its results manifested in his montage theory.

scholarly journals THE BIBLE WORDS IN YESENIN’S POEMS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD

2019 ◽  
pp. 184-196
Author(s):  
Elena V. Sergeeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
Revolutionary Period ◽  
The Russian Language

Bible words have recently become the focus of linguists’ attention. They are viewed as separate vocabulary group in the system of nominative, expressive and metaphorical means of the Russian language. This paper examines the evolution of Bible words functioning in S. Yesenin’s poems from religious humanism to expressing revolutionary protest. Functioning patterns and techniques of desacralization are studied. The results of Yesenin’s poems analysis demonstrate that the poet used Bible words to convey the message that secular and sacred worlds can overlap. The topic of religious humanitarianism is developed on the basis of desacralization of Bible words that further actualize the meaning of sacrificing for the sake of Revolution. Against-God motives that were characteristic for the literary works of the early 20th century appear in Yesenin’s poetry. Reinterpretation of Bible words in various contexts in literary works definitely indicates their importance for poetic texts, and studying their functioning patterns in different type of discourse could be the focus for a number of further research works.

Codex

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle P. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Women Religious ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Text And Image ◽  
Roman Poet ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Manuscript Culture ◽  
Men And Women

The codex occupies an iconic role in Western culture. Usually narrowly applied to the folded book form of the age of print, it owes its origins and development to pre-print manuscript culture. As early as the 1st century ce, the Roman poet Martial was recommending that his readers buy the new codex form. But then, as now, publishers were slow to retool, and the ancient scroll technology continued until the 4th century, when the codex, initially the preserve of the underclasses (notably the early Christians, who valued it for its portability and cross-referencing suitability), achieved popularity as the focus of Christianity, a religion of the book. Wax tablets—the less formal medium of the day—continued in use for drafting of text and image and for informal purposes into the early 20th century. From the 5th century onward the use of decoration and paratextual features such as punctuation served to help navigate and articulate the text and images, illustrated the narrative, or explored the multivalent meaning of text through image. Both men and women, religious and secular, wealthy or poor, figured in the production of medieval books, as authors, makers, and users. Documentary evidence and that detected within the books themselves gives a picture of the ways in which literary works were composed, captured in writing, published, disseminated, and accessed. Each manuscript is unique, but together they provide a portal into a thousand years of thought.

scholarly journals Mobility and the Modern Intellectual: Translated Images from Early 20th-Century Literary Works in Spanish by Carmen Lyra and Luisa Luisi

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Kanost
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Social Hygiene ◽  
Bear Witness

This essay juxtaposes original translations of contrasting images from the novel En una silla de ruedas [In a Wheelchair] by Costa Rican writer Carmen Lyra and Poemas de la inmovilidad [Poems of Immobility] by Uruguayan writer Luisa Luisi to reveal how representations of intellectuals who are paralyzed might complicate discourses of the artist, social hygiene, and eugenics in early 20th-century Spanish America. Lyra portrays her protagonist's paralysis as a tragedy, but his disability is also the source of social mobility that allows the novel to depict marginalized members of Costa Rican society. Luisi contests modernista aesthetics of perfect forms, countering with a multifaceted exploration of inner space enabled by physical stillness. Through their depictions of hospitals, asylums, and sanitariums, both writers bear witness to bodies the modernizing project would prefer to hide, and imagine alternative forms of progress.

scholarly journals Językowy obraz duszy w ekfrazach z przełomu XIX i XX wieku na podstawie wybranych wierszy Zofii Gordziałkowskiej

Adeptus ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 102-120
Author(s):  
Lucyna Bagińska
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Language Data ◽  
Lexical Field

The linguistic image of the soul in the ekphrases of the late-19th and early-20th century as exemplified by selected poems by Zofia GordziałkowskaThe main objective of the paper is to describe the linguistic image of the soul in ekphrases of the Young Poland period. In this period, literary works were often inspired by the art of painting. The focus is on the poetry of Zofia Gordziałkowska, which was largely motivated by her fascination with the then popular Swedish painter Arnold Böcklin, whose works are populated mainly by characters from the Bible and classical mythology.The reconstruction of the concept of the soul based on the texts is juxtaposed with general language data. For the analysis of the material I use the methodology of structuralism (e.g. tracing the position of the object in the lexical field) and cognitivism (examining the conceptualization of the category and its proliferation). The conclusions of the interdisciplinary examination are connected with symbolism as both an artistic movement within modernism and a philosophy of the turn of the 20th century. Językowy obraz duszy w ekfrazach z przełomu XIX i XX wieku na podstawie wybranych wierszy Zofii GordziałkowskiejCelem rozważań jest ukazanie językowego obrazu duszy zawartego w młodopolskich ekfrazach Zofii Gordziałkowskiej, zafascynowanej popularnym wówczas w Europie malarstwem Szwajcara Arnolda Böcklina. Jego dzieła zaludniają głównie postaci z mitologii antycznej i Biblii.Zrekonstruowanie pojęcia duszy na podstawie tekstów artystycznych i przedstawienie na tle danych zawartych w języku ogólnym doprowadziło do ustalenia różnicy między jego rozumieniem w tych odmianach języka. Analiza materiału z wykorzystaniem głównie metodologii kognitywizmu, dążącej do zbadania konceptualizacji pojęcia, jego profilowania i kategoryzacji, pozwoliła na nietradycyjne odczytanie poezji i wzbogacenie istniejących badań z zakresu lingwistyki kognitywnej. Wnioski z interpretacji wierszy zostały powiązane z symbolizmem jako nurtem artystycznym modernizmu i filozofią przełomu wieku XIX i XX.

scholarly journals From History of Studying and Honoring Shevchenko in Bukovynian Hutsulshchyna

2019 ◽  
pp. 40-49
Author(s):  
Olha Melenchuk
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Cultural Revival ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Critical Writings

The paper informs about the cultural contribution of Chernivtsi University graduates, former S. Smal-Stotskyі’s students D. Lukiianovych, I. Doshchivnyk, S. Lakusta, and M. Pavlusevych, whose creative work and pedagogical activity played an important role in promoting and exploring the works by T. Shevchenko in the territories of Bukovyna. Focusing on Vyzhnytsia center, the paper clarifies fundamental views of the mentioned persons, their assessments of the poet’s works and main relevant ideas. The author evaluates critical writings and literary works of the Bukovynians in relation to the development of Shevchenko studies and promotion of his legacy. At the late 19th and early 20th century none of the Ukrainian universities focused on Shevchenko’s works more than Chernivtsi University. Hnat Onyshkevych initiated a series of lectures on the study of T. Shevchenko’s poetic works. His project was continued by professor S. Smal-Stotskyi, who offered the course “Taras Shevchenko. Life and Works” and held a series of seminars on the theme “Shevchenko’s Poetry” at the beginning of the 20th century. Those who studied at the Philosophical Faculty of Chernivtsi University picked up the teachings of Professor S. Smal-Stotskyі and showed unceasing interest in the works by T. Shevchenko. In the conditions of the national cultural revival, Shevchenko’s poems were especially significant; the poet’s crystallized ideas passed from teacher to student and played an important role in forming a new generation of conscious Ukrainians who were concerned about the future of their country. There were two circles (Kitsman-Kolomyia and Vyzhnytsia) in Bukovyna where researchers and promoters of T. Shevchenko’s works made the poet’s legacy actual and contributed to Shevchenko studies. The paper summarizes the achievements of the Vyzhnytsia center representatives.

scholarly journals Activities of the Mining Police in Pre-Revolutionary Russia in the Early 20th Century (the Irkutsk and Priamursk Governorates-general, as an Example)

2020 ◽  
pp. 20-24
Author(s):  
S.M. Belozercev
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Gradual Change ◽  
Police Chiefs ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Far Eastern

The article is devoted to a less studied topic — research of the main directions of activity of mining police of the beginning of the 20th century in the East of Russia. Far Eastern and East Siberian mining-police units were headed by the mining police chiefs (ispravniki), who were subordinate in their activities — the Irkutsk and Priamursk governorates-general. In the East of Russia, the mining police at the beginning of the 20th century carried out activities to protect public order, monitor compliance with criminal, labour and commercial legislation in the zone of mountain districts. The article deals with the structure of the mining police, the powers of the mining police. Normative legal acts regulating the regular construction of mining police in the region under study are being studied. The materials of the study were articles of scientists, norms of legislation of the Russian Empire, departmental acts of the Ministry of State Property, archival documents. The methodological basis of the study is a set of popular scientific methods, such as analysis, synthesis, comparison, and special methods — historical-legal, systemic-structural, comparative-legal. The result of the study was an analysis of the process of gradual change of the legislation of the Russian Empire in terms of the description of the functions of the mining police in the zone of mines of the Irkutsk and Priamursk governorates-general.

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