scholarly journals THE POWER AND PROMISE OF 21ST- CENTURY LITERARY CRITICISM

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonor M. Martínez Serrano
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Transdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Critical Perspectives

Abstract: Literature is an ancestral enterprise whereby humans seek to understand reality and make sense of the world at large. A sophisticated construct of the human imagination, Literary Criticism has served the purpose of scrutinizing verbal works of art from a wide range of critical perspectives to find out the truths contained in them about humanity and our world. This is a way of honouring the deep thinking and the beauty inherent in Literature. In this paper, we look at the concept of ‘liminality’ in Anglophone Studies, as well as to the power and promise of 21st-century Literary Criticism as part of the Humanities, at a time where there is a fierce need for a transdisciplinary approach to the study of literature that brings together the lessons of contemporary Philosophy and other relevant fields of knowledge that may shed light on our understanding of literature. Título en español: “El poder y la promesa de la Crítica literaria del siglo XXI”Resumen: La literatura es una empresa ancestral con la que los seres humanos tratan de comprender la realidad y el mundo en toda su extensión. Sofisticado constructo de la imaginación humana en sí misma, la Crítica Literaria ha estudiado las obras literarias desde múltiples perspectivas teóricas a lo largo de los siglos con el objeto de sacar a la luz las verdades que encierran sobre la humanidad y nuestro mundo. La Crítica Literaria no deja de ser una forma de honrar el pensamiento profundo y la belleza inherentes a la propia literatura. En este artículo meditamos acerca del concepto de ‘liminalidad’ en los Estudios Anglófonos, y reflexionamos sobre el poder y la promesa de la Crítica Literaria del siglo XXI como parte de las Humanidades, en unos tiempos en que urge apostar por un acercamiento holístico y transdisciplinar al estudio del fenómeno literario que aúne las lecciones de la Filosofía contemporánea y de otras disciplinas que acaso puedan arrojar luz sobre nuestra comprensión de la literatura

scholarly journals New Century – ‘New Essays’?

2019 ◽  
pp. 13-35
Author(s):  
Dobrawa Lisak-Gębala
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Ordinary Objects ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Second World ◽  
Cognitive Attitude ◽  
Animal World ◽  
Form Of Expression

This article constitutes an attempt at organising the non-conservative tendencies in Polish essays published in the 21st century, which apply to themes, the lowering of the tone, and forms of writing. One major stream is travel writing, which focuses not on the Mediterranean legacy, but on the ‘second world’: long-disadvantaged provincial areas. Many essayists abandon the traditional topic of books and works of art, and turn to ‘reading’ the animal world, the plant world, and the world of ordinary objects. The essay has also become a tool for introducing polarisation between that which is mainstream and that which is marginal and concerns minorities. The fact of choosing a non-traditional topic often entails a non-canonical cognitive attitude, which translates into experiments within the area of the form of expression. The author of this article argues that all those innovations can be accommodated by the flexible convention of the essay as a genre which, in principle, is supposed to constitute an artistic cognitive experiment.

scholarly journals Importance of English in Engineering for Professional Communication: A Study in the Nepalese Context

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 222-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rup Narayan Shrestha ◽  
Bharat Raj Pahari ◽  
Jai Raj Awasthi
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
English Language ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Shed Light

This article attempts to highlight the importance of English in the professional communication in the field of engineering in Nepal. The main objective of the article is to shed light on the role English language plays in the communication related to engineering. Based primarily on the review of some relevant literature available, the present article reveals the fact that English being one of the global languages used in a wide range of communicative fields all over the world, it serves as an important tool for professional communication in engineering in Nepal.Journal of the Institute of Engineering, 2016, 12(1): 222-227 

Layard's drawings of the incised decorations on the Nimrud reliefs compared with the originals

Iraq ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter V. Bartl
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Ancient Near East ◽  
Political Art ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

The orthostats from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (883–859 BC) at Nimrud are among the most outstanding works of art from the Ancient Near East. Today they are to be found in museums all over the world and are looked at every day by thousands of visitors. Numerous books and articles have been written about their style, their meaning and their reconstruction. Thus one would think that nothing could have escaped the eye of observers. Nevertheless, some details have been largely overlooked by researchers. Among these is the incised decoration on the edges of the garments of some of the figures depicted, showing a wide range of simple geometric and floral designs as well as complex mythical and narrative scenes. It thus forms a valuable part of the repertoire of Neo-Assyrian artistic motifs and can help us understand the essence and meaning of Neo-Assyrian political art. The evidence of these incised decorations is not only of importance for the history of art but is also fundamental to the understanding of the significance of the clothes and of the figures wearing them, forming an integral and essential part of the mythical symbolic character of the figures.

Taocriticism in an Essay on Man

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Liqun Feng
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Distinct Type ◽  
Alexander Pope ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The World ◽  
Yin Yang ◽  
Essay On Man ◽  
Shed Light

Taoism, as a distinct type of philosophy, radically differs from many other philosophies in China, such as Confucianism and Mohism, by taking a much broader, much greater and more transcendental view of the world. Many similar notions of Tao have been found in the “An Essay on Man” in four epistles penned by Alexander Pope. Therefore, a challenging and daring approach to employ Taoist perspectives to interpret An Essay on Man penned would shed light upon new ways of undertaking literary criticism, namely, using non-western philosophical outlooks to re-read western literary works. The Taoist ideas used herein include oneness, small knowledge, instrumental mentality, and yin-yang. The method of using Taoism to read literary texts is dubbed Taocriticism.

Marketing for Conflict Transformation

2018 ◽  
pp. 212-236
Author(s):  
Fred R. van Sluijs ◽  
Marinus C. Gisolf ◽  
Arno Ambrosius
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Colombian Government ◽  
Triangular Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

When in 2016 the Colombian peace agreement was signed between the FARC-EP and the Colombian government, the hope was created to finish a chapter of cruel internal violence leaving close to 300,000 deaths in 50 years of conflict. The peace process, which is still continuing, incorporated a wide range of visions, approaches, political stands, gender issues on poverty in all its destructive dynamics. The European Union's decision at the beginning of the 21st century to help stimulate a peace process from the bottom upwards through so-called peace laboratories is analyzed, and their development, their success, and their limitations are followed in an attempt to shed light on the triangular relationship between people in conflict, peace, and the mechanisms that can connect the two.

Mindfulness of Death

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-179
Author(s):  
Nicolas Bommarito
Keyword(s):  
Full View ◽  
Buddhist Practice ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Habitual Responses ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Mindfulness Of Death

This chapter studies Buddhist practices around death. Buddhist practice includes a wide range of reflections on death. Impermanence can be easy to accept as an abstract, intellectual idea, but death makes it personal and tangible. As such, these reflections can seem pretty grim. That is why it is important to remember their role in the larger contexts of Buddhist practice. They help an individual to get used to harsh truths about how the world is and change habitual responses to accommodate those truths. The idea is to reflect on the reality of death from a certain frame of mind—a diagnostic one intended to shed light on difficult aspects of reality and how one's intuitive responses deny or distort them. In a Buddhist context, the individual reflects on difficult things like death in order to better deal with it, to be able to forge a life in full view of such difficult facts.

scholarly journals Office Administration Technology Skill of Vocational School on the 21st Century

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Hanisa Sismaya Lestari ◽  
Mia Aulia
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Vocational Schools ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Administrative Services ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World

<p class="Titleofthepaper">In the 21st century education becomes more important to ensure students have the life skills and careers, learning and skills Databank as well as expertise in information technology and the media. Information technology is developing rapidly in a wide range of areas, including administrative services office. Records management is one of the activities of the Office of administrative services in a wide range of new. Vocational schools are required to generate human resources have the skills to use information technology. Electronic archive of educational practice to become one of the basic competencies taught in vocational schools in Office administration skills. Competencies expected to produce human resource who are competent and ready to compete in a globalized world. This method is used in this research is descriptive in the tests. The quality of education of a country can be seen from the data of the human development index (HDI) liquid size comparison of life expectancy, literacy, education and reduce the standard of living for all countries around the world. HDI data results in the year 2015 shows that Indonesia is number 35 with 70.1 rating from 41 countries around the world. This shows that the quality of education in Indonesia is still low compared with other countries.</p>

New stylistic discoveries “Fluid Fusion” and “Flowinggraphics” in the works of the duet of artists Alexei and Irina Polyakov

2021 ◽  
pp. 671 (756)-676 (760)
Author(s):  
G.N. Ginzburg
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
World History ◽  
English Version ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Art Community ◽  
Acrylic Paints

In the world history of art, various graphic techniques for making and printing works of art have had their own names: etching, woodcut, linocut, lithography, etc. The new definitions of the 21st century sound quite reasonable: “Flowinggraphics” and “Fluid Fusion”, based on technological and chemical discoveries work with acrylic paints. The purpose of my article is to acquaint the art community with new techniques and terms. English version of the article on pp. 756-760 is available at URL: https://panor.ru/articles/fluid-fusion-and-flowing-graphics-new-stylistic-descoveries-in-the-works-of-the-duet-of-artists-alexey-and-irina-polyakov/70067.html

scholarly journals In The Eye of the Beholder – Attitudes towards Visual Poetry in Latvian Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-435
Author(s):  
Mārtiņš Laizāns
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Visual Poetry ◽  
Modernist Poetry ◽  
Critical Attitude ◽  
The World

Visual poetry in Latvian literature is still an extraordinary phenomenon. In this case, by extraordinary is meant its scarce appearance among the corpus of Latvian literary texts – only very few examples of it exist in Latvian literature even in the 21st century, though it has gained a visible presence in other literatures of the world since at least the era of Modernist poetry, and experienced in most cases a turn of critical attitude towards it from disregard or denial to acceptance and consideration. At first evaluated only as a pastime on the margins of serious literature, since Apollinaire it has evolved into a serious genre of poetry and art of its own, and is no longer considered a childish game. Given this situation in contemporary criticism, it is quite a peculiar situation that Latvian literature and literary criticism still does not pay adequate attention to it, thus visual poetry has stayed an outsider genre up to this day. In this paper a concise historical account of Latvian visual poetry will be given and some examples of visual poetry from various decades of Latvian literature will be given, as well as quotations from Latvian literary critics and scholars regarding visual poetry will be provided, in order to illustrate the overall situation in Latvian visual poetry and the possible reasons why it is still being mostly neglected and disregarded both by poets/artists and critics, though there seems to be slight indications of a visual turn.

scholarly journals Artistic Communication in the Modern Exhibition Space of Siberia

2021 ◽  
pp. 757-766
Author(s):  
Oleg Yu. Astakhov
Keyword(s):  
Art Exhibitions ◽  
Conceptual Content ◽  
Is Implementation ◽  
Exhibition Space ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Space Art ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The article reveals the challenges of artistic communication in the organisation of modern exhibition space. Art exhibitions demonstrate the synthesis of creative practices implemented with the use of a wide range of expositional forms and means of expression. The paper studies the features of the implementation of artistic communication in the exhibition space and analyses theoretical foundations of communication tasks, which are taken into account when organising the exhibition space. Based on contemporary acting exhibition projects, including regional exhibitions (Az. Art. Siberia – 2019), the authors of the article reveal the specific features of artistic communication, concluding that representation of works of art is implementation of the intellectual and creative relationship of the author and the recipient in broadcasting artistic information containing a certain attitude to the world, which forms the conceptual content of art and its value content

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