scholarly journals Umberta Eco Imię róży w szkolnej lekturze licealisty (jako tekst i kontekst kulturowy)

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (330) ◽  
pp. 272-286
Author(s):  
Iwona Żmuda
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
Implementation Guidelines ◽  
Postmodern Novel ◽  
Specific Implementation ◽  
Technical Secondary School ◽  
The Middle Ages

fourthgrade (fifth in technical secondary school) of secondary school. The novel by Eco fitswell with the specific implementation guidelines for literary and cultural education AT both levels of reading. It gives the opportunity to use many valuable cultural texts (including philosophical and literary ones) within the interpretative function. The novel is multi-thematic. It presents both the cultural past of the Middle Ages and the nature of man (his strength and weaknesses in discovering the truth about the world). The work consists of two parts. In the first part, the author propos es selected fragments of the novel (oritswhole) for reading. They serve to deep en the knowledge about the culture of the Middle Ages, also in the context of going beyond the stereotypical image of this era as a darktime. That is why special attention is paid to the matter of the novel’s role of laughter in the Middle Ages. In the second part of the article, the analysis focuses, among others, on playing with the literary text and genre convention (The Name of the Rose as a postmodern novel). The series of les sons also puts forward the topic of becoming inspired by the works of J. Borges and literary tradition as a living component of contemporary culture.

scholarly journals THE SHEPHERD AND THE SHEPHERDESS: V. Р. ASTAFIEV’S MODERN PASTORAL IN THE CONTEXT OF GENRE TRADITIONS

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 375-407
Author(s):  
Alla Bolshakova
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Main Type ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Single Line ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Theoretical Justification ◽  
Daphnis And Chloe ◽  
The Middle Ages

The purpose of this article was to consider the movement of literature through the genre metamorphoses as a category that transforms in its immutability. Consequently, the author’s task was to study the modifications of the genre of love idyll using the example of Modern Pastoral ву V. P. Astafiev’s (The Shepherd and the Shepherdess) in the context of works about love that had emerged in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. This task is carried out using the example of the initial samples of the love idyll genre in prose, as well as a theoretical justification of the unity of love idyll and pastoral as its main type (M. M. Bakhtin), which make up a single line of genre tradition. The article demonstrates the productivity of genre splices, i. e. the initial actualization of the love idyll genre in combination with the novel (Daphnis and Chloe, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult) and the story (The Tale of Peter and Fevronia, The Shepherd and the Shepherdess). The correlation between the ancient pastoral and Astafiev’s Modern Pastoral was noted in literary studies, albeit poorly justified, while the implementation of the traditions of the love idyll set by the above-mentioned medieval models remained beyond the scope of research. The study tested the typological resemblance of genre models, their similarities in themes, plot, and imagery, which allowed to include characters in the range of enamoured couples that have largely determined the development of world literature. The article focused on the debated question of the validity of the writer’s definition: Modern Pastoral. As a result, the study tested the productivity of Astafiev’s update to the genre canon; the validity of the genre naming by the writer, with regard to the modification made by him.

scholarly journals Entertaining the community: the evolution of civic ritual and public celebration, 1860–1953

Urban History ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 444-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
BEN ROBERTS
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Middle Ages

ABSTRACT:Civic ritual and pageantry have been mainstays of urban culture since the Middle Ages, but it has been suggested that they entered a period of decline from the 1870s onwards. This article suggests that instead, local authorities reformed and revised their use of civic ceremony, celebration and commemoration, in order to keep pace with contemporary culture and to maintain public interest. The towns of Darlington and Middlesbrough are considered to highlight the use of recreational and sensory-rich ritual in the urban setting. It is suggested that historians should therefore adopt a broader methodology and broaden their definition of what constituted civic ritual in the twentieth century.

scholarly journals Formen des Religiösen in ausgewählten Werken Gertrud von Le Forts

2018 ◽  
pp. 83-91
Author(s):  
Ewa Anna Piasta
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Le Fort ◽  
The Past ◽  
Religious System ◽  
Literature And Religion ◽  
The Middle Ages

Works by Gertrud von le Fort belong with literary religious discourse and enter a debate between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.The writer sets her plots in the past, most frequently in the Middle Ages, which enables her to offer a critical assessment of contemporary political, ethical and religious issues.The article presents various connections between literature and religion, in terms of both motifs and style. References to religion are found in the thematic, axiological and linguistic layers of her texts. The analysed works comprise the novellas Der Dom (The Cathedral) and Am Tor des Himmels (At the Heavenly Gate) as well as the novel Magdeburgische Hochzeit (The Magdeburg Wedding). These works also reflect the phenomenon of the so-called cultural Christianity. Le Fort’s characters are not indifferent to the religious system, even if they do not fully identify with it.

Medieval Departures

2020 ◽  
pp. 121-143
Author(s):  
Aaron Shaheen
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Chemical Warfare ◽  
Western World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
The Core ◽  
Western Front ◽  
The Middle Ages

Using John Dos Passos’s first novel, One Man’s Initiation: 1917, the chapter explains how facial prosthetics were complicit in the unravelling of the Christian concept of the soul. Drawing on the author’s time in France as a volunteer ambulance driver, the novel shows a clear preoccupation with faces—faces of soldiers with prosthetic noses and jaws to cover the ones blown off in battle as well as those donning hideous masks as protection from chemical warfare. Such preoccupation calls into larger question what really is at the core of human identity. As protagonist Martin Howe adjusts to the realities of war on the Western Front, his recognition of different faces aids him in understanding that America, by joining the conflict in 1917, has itself undergone an initiation, wherein the Platonic and Christian idealism that once guided the western world since the Middle Ages has given way to a soulless materialism.

The Legacy of Courtly Literature: From Medieval to Contemporary Culture, ed. Deborah Nelson-Campbell and Rouben Cholakian. Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. S.l. [New York]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, ix, 236 pp., b/w and color ill.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 333-333
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Book Title ◽  
Current Volume ◽  
The Middle Ages

The research field of Medievalism is normally not covered in Mediaevistik, but the current volume represents an exception because the contributors successfully manage to create meaningful bridges between medieval and modern literature and music, demonstrating how much certain themes or literary figures gained predominance in the Middle Ages and continue to influence contemporary imagination as well. In this respect, the book title is well chosen, with the subtitle underscoring even further the double perspective pursued here.

Ordinamenti by Pavel Saltzman: a novel about Central Asia

2021 ◽  
pp. 105-113
Author(s):  
Eleonora F. Shafranskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Educational Discourse ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Middle Ages

The article presents a mythopoetic analysis of Pavel Saltzman’s novel “Central Asia in the Middle Ages (or the Middle Ages in Central Asia)” (1930–1950), published for the first time in 2018. The content of the article is aimed at practical educational discourse related to a number of literary problems: the study of the work of a previously unknown, but very significant for the history of literature writer; the study of Russian literature as the text devoted to the different ethnic culture (the existential myth by Saltzman is considered as binary opposition personified in the images of the bird Simurg and the giant Zakhak which is actualized in the literature of the XXI century — in the novels by G. Yakhina “Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes” and V. Medvedev “Zahhok”, unexpectedly rendering new overtones to modern literature); the orientalist and postorientalist studies (comparing prose Saltzman with the work of his contemporaries — A. Platonov, L. Solovyov, S. Krzhyzhanovsky. The author comes to the conclusion that Salzman’s text, despite the theme and title of the novel, is an example of neorientalist prose: all the patterns of traditional orientalism are given by Salzman differently, not from the standard point of view of a Western person.

scholarly journals Uta von Naumburg – eine „deutsche Ikone“ aus dem Mittelalter? Figurationen des Weiblichen im deutschen postmodernen Roman am Beispiel von Claudia und Nadja Beinerts "Die Herrin der Kathedrale"

2018 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 75-88
Author(s):  
Renata Dampc-Jarosz
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Historical Figure ◽  
Postmodern Novel ◽  
The Middle Ages

Uta von Naumburg, die Gattin des Markgrafen Ekkehard II. von Meißen, lebte wahrscheinlich zwischen 1000 und 1043. In der deutschen Kulturtradition erfreut sie sich einer gewissen Popularität, jedoch nicht als eine historische Gestalt, sondern als Steinfigur im Westchor des Naumburger Domes. In den 30er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts wurde sie zum Symbol der deutschen Weiblichkeit erhoben und im nationalsozialistischen Sinne mythisiert. Von der Rezeption der Stifterin des Naumburger Domes ausgehend, strebt der vorliegende Beitrag an, am Beispiel des postmodernen historischen Romans von Claudia und Nadja Beinerts Die Herrin der Kathedrale 2013 die De-Mythisierungsstrategie von Utas Figur zu präsentieren. Eine wichtige Rolle wird dabei den mittelalterlichen Weiblichkeits- und Machtvorstellungen zugemessen, die in die postmoderne Narrativik des Vergangenen eingebettet sind. Uta von Naumburg – a “German Icon” from the Middle Ages? Figurations of femininity in the postmodern novel Die Herrin der Kathedrale by Claudia and Nadja Beinert Uta von Naumburg, wife of margrave Ekkehard II from Meissen, probably lived from 1000 to 1043 AD. In the German cultural tradition she is not known as a historical figure, but as a stone statue from the Naumburg Cathedral. In the 1930s she became a symbol of German femininity and was made a heroine of the National Socialist myth. Beginning with the historical figure of Uta, this article will show the strategies used to demythologize the founder of the cathedral, based on the postmodern novel Die Herrin der Kathedrale 2013, written by Claudia and Nadja Beinert. The authors present the ways of the deconstruction of the medieval paradigm of femininity with the help of narrative strategies.

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