scholarly journals The future of strategic studies: Lessons from the last ‘golden age’

2018 ◽  
pp. 149-166
Author(s):  
Hew Strachan
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
The Future ◽  
Strategic Studies

Epilogue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
The Public ◽  
Antebellum Era ◽  
Narrative Device ◽  
The Future

This conclusion explains how American temporalities changed after the war and sketches how expectations and anticipations of the future have alternated as the dominant view in American culture through the twentieth century to today. This chapter also shows how the short war myth, the story that Civil War Americans expected a short, glorious war at the outset, gained currency with the public and consensus among scholars during the postwar period. It contrasts the wartime expectations of individuals with their postwar memories of the war’s beginning to show how the short war myth worked as a tool for sectional reconciliation and a narrative device that dramatized the war by creating an innocent antebellum era or golden age before the cataclysm. It considers why historians still accept the myth and showcases three postwar voices that challenged it.

Lebanon

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franck Salameh
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
First Century ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Modern History ◽  
The Future ◽  
Lebanese Literature

This chapter features Lebanese authors spanning the period of the “pioneers” of modern Lebanese literature. Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931), Nadia Tuéni (1935–83), Charles Corm (1894–1963), and Anis Freyha (1903–93), whose works spanned the first century of Lebanon's modern history, wrote tirelessly, extolling the glory of ancient Lebanon, recalling the “golden age” of its Phoenician ancestors and the era spanning “classical antiquity,” expressing both hope and concern for the future of a nascent political entity gushing out of a region torn by conflict, irredentism, and resentful nationalisms. Their works reflect elements and profiles of Lebanese life, Lebanese history, and Lebanese landscapes unfolding with both precision and symbolism.

scholarly journals Towards a Poetics of Strangeness: Experiments in Classifying Language of Technological Novelty

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Simeone ◽  
Advaith Gundavajhala Venkata Koundinya ◽  
Anandh Ravi Kumar ◽  
Ed Finn
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
William Gibson ◽  
World War ◽  
The Future ◽  
Bruce Sterling

The trajectory of science fiction since World War II has been defined by its relationship with technoscientific imaginaries. In the Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s, writers like Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein dreamed of the robots and rocket ships that would preoccupy thousands of engineers a few decades later. In 1980s cyberpunk, Vernor Vinge, William Gibson, and Bruce Sterling imagined virtual worlds that informed generations of technology entrepreneurs. When Margaret Atwood was asked what draws her to dystopian visions of the future, she responded, "I read the newspaper." This is not just a reiteration of the truism that science fiction is always about the present as well as the future. In fact, we will argue, science fiction is a genre defined by its special relationship with what we might term "scientific reality," or the set of paradigms, aspirations, and discourses associated with technoscientific research.

scholarly journals Loss, Nostalgia, and Hope: the Ming-Qing Transition in the Fiction of “the Hazy Crossing Ferryman of Xiaoxiang”

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-164
Author(s):  
Alastair Ewan Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
Ming Dynasty ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cultural Preference

Abstract This paper examines the reactions to the trauma of the Ming-Qing dynastic transition in the novellas of a writer known only as “Xiaoxiang mijinduzhe” (The Hazy Crossing Ferryman of Xiaoxiang). His works provide an informative contrast to the more celebrated loyalist literature of the same era: they express unease at foreign rule but do not show an idealistic loyalism to the Ming. Though the Yongle period (1402–1424) of the Ming is held up as a lost golden age, the post-Yongle Ming dynasty is portrayed as an era of corruption and chaos, presided over by incompetent and/or dissolute emperors. The novellas also reflect on the lessons of the transition on a deeper level, questioning the long-standing cultural preference for the civil arts over the martial arts. While the novellas acknowledge the poignancy of the passing of an era, they also strike hopeful notes for the future under the Qing.

Who Invented the Golden Age?

1952 ◽  
Vol 2 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 83-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. C. Baldry
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Imaginary Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Ancient Literature ◽  
The Future ◽  
Normal Human

There are many passages in ancient literature which depict an imaginary existence different from the hardships of real life-an existence blessed with Nature's bounty, untroubled by strife or want. Naturally this happy state is always placed somewhere or sometime outside normal human experience, whether ‘off the map’ in some remote quarter of the world, or in Elysium after death, or in the dim future or the distant past. Such an imaginary time of bliss in the past or the future has become known as the ‘golden age’. This is the name which modern scholars generally give to the ancient belief. The phrase is often echoed by modern poets. The same language has been transferred from the unknown to the known, and it has become a commonplace to describe an outstanding period of history or literature as a ‘golden age’.

scholarly journals IMPROVISATION: Sygeplejersker på arbejde i Uganda

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helle Max Martin
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Work Situation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Eastern Uganda

This article is about improvisation, which is a term that nurses in Uganda employ to describe how they overcome the practical difficulties of working in an institutional setting, which lacks the necessary equipment, drugs and staff. On the basis of data from Tororo Hospital in Eastern Uganda, the article explores the meanings of the term improvisation, how it relates to a general discourse about the nursing profession, and how the nurses handle and make sense of a complex and contradictory work situation. Improvisation is a term that both makes customary nursing practice legitimate and supports a professional identity under pressure. It also articulates a nostalgic longing for better times – located both in the past, the golden age of nursing, and in the future since the term improvisation constructs current practice as an interim phenomenon. Thus, “improvisation” offers a way for the nurses to domesticate the contradictory forces, which play a prominent part in nursing in Uganda today.  

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