scholarly journals The plot-composition organization of dramatic works of Ukrainian emigration writers in the middle of the twentieth century

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Dramatic Works ◽  
Structural Parts ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

The article is devoted to the study of plot-composition organization of dramatic works of Ukrainian emigrants-writers in the middle of the twentieth century. It has been found out that the features of the plays’ structure are mostly experimental by nature, including the wide involvement of such components as the prologue, the epilogue, the interlude inserts and so on to the drama. The compositional possibilities of the works are outlined in L. Pirandello’s scheme “play-in-the-play”, which expresses the specificity of the epoch, demonstrates its disorder, as well as facilitates searches in both content and form. Reception of the framing, in violation of the logic of the portrayed events, reveals the relationship between the theater and the viewer (plays by I. Kostetskyi, I. Cholhan, A. Yuryniak and others are illustrative). It is emphasized that the introduction of the “master of ceremonies” (Prologue as an actor) in the text of the drama is intended to explain its plot-shaped paradigm, the accumulation of organizational components, which helps an adequate reception of the portrayed (mostly I. Cholhan's comedies). In such dramatic compositional parts as the prologue, the epilogue, the interludes the writers focus readers’ attention on topical issues of conceptual importance for understanding the epoch. The idea of a transformed prologue, more rarely an epilogue, is significant in emigration dramaturgy, because it declared as the sphere of the “presence” of the author, expresses the desire of the individual (the emigrant artist) to comprehend and express the understanding of the character. The interlude inserts broaden the concept of the work: they serve as an emotional accompaniment to the main events, focus the recipient on the ideological and philosophical essence of the play, combine structural parts of the text, activate the analytical readers’ perception of the work. It is proved that the search character of the analyzed plays is an indispensable feature of the dramatic acquisition of Ukrainian emigrants-writers of the middle of the twentieth century.

scholarly journals Oblicza człowieka masowego — od totalitaryzmu do konsumpcjonizmu

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-272
Author(s):  
Jacek Kaczor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Mass Society ◽  
Specific Community ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Relationship

The article presents two figures of mass society that emerged in the twentieth century. The former revealed itself in the era of totalitarianism, while the latter resulted in the emergence of a consumer society. Neither of these figures are a necessary consequence of the processes leading to the rise of the masses as a social phenomenon. They have been created as a result of specific historical conditions. Consequently, mass society can take on any of these forms. They are also not disjoint, which means that authoritarian attitudes and consumer behavior can occur simultaneously. The relationship between the described attitudes adopted by the mass man occurs at the level of their attitude to freedom and democratic institutions. Modernity has resulted in the fact that the individual cannot cope with the freedom they gained as a result of being freed from tradition and religion. If they cannot free themselves an authority to show them how to live. This authority may also be of a group nature. Belonging to a specific community gives an individual a sense of bond and security. Freedom in a consumer society is primarily the freedom to choose consumer goods. In any case, democracy is not a valued form of managing society. Before the rise of totalitarianism, it did not ensure sufficient coherence and a sense of participation. At the same time, in the consumer society, its basic procedures began to trivialize and become part of marketing mechanisms.

scholarly journals The Spanish Counter-Enlightenment: an Overview, 1774–1814

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 504-537
Author(s):  
Carolina Armenteros
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
The State ◽  
General Overview ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

At once neglected and deeply controversial, the Spanish Counter- Enlightenment is crucial to understanding the development of Spanish politics and social thought until at least the mid-twentieth century. From Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo’s praise to Javier Herrero’s denigration to the more balanced assessments of present-day scholars, the movement continues to be a source of debate and varying evaluations. Still, key aspects of it remain to be known, including its anthropology, its approach to Enlightened political concepts, its inheritance from Salamanca scholastics and its ideas on interiority and the relationship between the individual and the state. This paper defines these aspects by examining the works of five of the Spanish Counter-Enlightenment’s major representatives: Fernando de Ceballos y Mier, (1732–1802), Vicente Fernández de Valcarce (1723–98), Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro (1735–1809), Francisco Alvarado (1756–1814) and Rafael de Vélez (1777–1850). The first aim is to identify what made the Spanish Counter- Enlightenment unique yet related to the French Counter-Enlightenment that nurtured and preceded it. The second aim is to provide a general overview of the movement even while introducing it to an Englishspeaking audience for the first time.

‘LET US SWIM IN THE POOL OF LOVE’: LOVE LETTERS AND DISCOURSES OF COMMUNITY COMPOSITION IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY TANZANIA

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreana C. Prichard
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Community Composition ◽  
National Imagination ◽  
The Family ◽  
Love Letters ◽  
Political Act ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article uses a series of love letters exchanged between an African Anglican priest and a teacher-in-training before their marriage to investigate the relationship between the fashioning of the individual self, marriage, and community at the dawn of Tanganyika's independence. When seen through marriage's historical position as an institution central to community composition, these letters illustrate how the family – and the intimate process of building families – could become an alternate site of national imagination. These two young lovers understood their marriage as an explicitly political act of community composition, and cast themselves as characters in the drama of national imagination. In negotiating their twentieth-century marriage, Rose and Gideon became political innovators, selecting, producing, and testing the content and boundaries of the nation.

Private Benefit, Public Finance?

2019 ◽  
pp. 60-76
Author(s):  
William Whyte
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
British Society ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Student Finance ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This chapter explores the way in which developments in the apparently rather narrow field of undergraduate finance tell us something about perceptions of the university in the late twentieth century and, more importantly, about how debates over higher education illuminate wider attitudes to the relationship between the individual, the state, and civil society. It also uses these debates—and the legislation they inspired—to discuss the difficulties the state and other actors faced in dealing with higher education in an era characterized by anxieties about Britain’s perceived decline, and about inequities in British society. The tangled and tortured development of student finance in the last four decades of the twentieth century illustrates the value of Jose Harris’s approach, whilst also enabling historians to trace the longer-lasting legacy of idealist thought.

scholarly journals ТВОРЧІСТЬ ВІКТОРА ЄФИМЕНКА В КОНТЕКСТІ РОЗВИТКУ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ КНИЖКОВОЇ ГРАФІКИ (остання третина ХХ ст.)

2019 ◽  
pp. 144-151
Author(s):  
О. П. Спасскова
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Art History ◽  
Artistic Development ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
Socially Relevant ◽  
Main Thing ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of the work is to study the creativity of the Odessa graphic artist Viktor Efimenko (1933-1994) in the context of the development of Ukrainian book graphics of the last third of the twentieth century. The method The basis of our research is the historical-cultural, comparative-typological and figurative-stylistic research methods, which made it possible to achieve a holistic analysis of the graphic works of V. Efimenko. The main thing is the art history analysis of works of book and easel graphic. The last third of the twentieth century is marked by changes in the cultural life of the country. Ukrainian artists sought to join the European and world trends in artistic development, which was characterized by a variety of styles and methods. Despite the fact that state requirements and standards were of great importance, the artists tried to put in to practice the socially relevant topics of concern to them. Two directions of the master's creativity are considered: book and easel illustration. The relationship between the individual graphic style of V. Efimenko and the general artistic process is considered. On the basis of the artistic and stylistic analysis, the interrelation of V. Efimenko’s creativity with the Ukrainian and world artist revealed. It is revealed that the master's works are characterized by a deeply personal, philosophical reading of texts and their figurative reproduction in the language of graphics. It is noted that V. Efimenko could express his philosophical ideas thanks to his free possession of linocut and etching techniques.

scholarly journals Keyboard instruments in the system of R. Tureck’s individual performing style

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (24) ◽  
pp. 111-126
Author(s):  
Ushakova Marharyta
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sound Image ◽  
Keyboard Music ◽  
Music Interpretation ◽  
Baroque Era ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Statement of the problem. The thinking of a performer is conditioned by the organology and “sound image” of his instrument, which gives rise to questions about how flexible is the individual style of musicians who have mastered several instruments. Especially when it comes to performers who turn to related instruments, playing techniques of which are sometimes mutually exclusive. Analysis of recent research and publication. The research is based on works, the subject of which is the study of: 1) the sound image of the instrument (N. Riabukha, I. Sukhlenko and N. Kuchma); 2) the specifics of the organology of keyboard instruments and the regularities of interpretation of Baroque era works (N. Sikorska, M. Latcham, J. Chapman, R. Cypess, J. E. O. La Rosa and C. Wagner); 3) issues of music interpretation (H. J. Hinrichsen). Main objective of the study is to identify the role of keyboard instruments in the system of R. Tureck’s individual performing style. The scientific novelty is to create a holistic creative portrait of R. Tureck. Research methodology focuses on the relationship of special methods of analysis: comparative, systematic, stylistic and interpretive. Results. The American pianist, teacher, writer, lecturer R. Tureck was a representative of the generation of musicians of the twentieth century who became famous due to their interpretations of J. S. Bach’s legacy. At the same time, she was one of those who responded to the changes that happened in academic musical art under the influence of the development of sound recording and electronic instruments. Under the guidance of L. Theremin, she studied for a year to play the theremin and synthesizer of the inventor, and since the late 60’s of the twentieth century she played various models of Moog synthesizer. R. Tureck also collaborated with the famous American scientist Hugo Benioff to create an electronic piano. It was concluded that R. Tureck’s interest in electronic instruments, which influenced her performing thinking, can be explained by the fact that: 1. R. Tureck tried to bring J.S. Bach’s music to modern sounding. 2. This was a feature of her individual creative style. 3. She dreamed of creating a new concert instrument. Conclusions. R. Tureck mastered all the existing keyboard music instruments at that time and participated in the creation of a new one. This experience enriched the sound of her interpretations and confirmed the fact that the desire to recreate the deep sense of music works by Baroque era composers does not imply the rejection of the sound of modern instruments.

Accent Policy and Accent Modification Enterprises as Potential Indicators of Intercultural Power Relations: A Call for an Updated Research Agenda

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brynne D. Ovalle ◽  
Rahul Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This article has two purposes: (a) to examine the relationship between intercultural power relations and the widespread practice of accent discrimination and (b) to underscore the ramifications of accent discrimination both for the individual and for global society as a whole. First, authors review social theory regarding language and group identity construction, and then go on to integrate more current studies linking accent bias to sociocultural variables. Authors discuss three examples of intercultural accent discrimination in order to illustrate how this link manifests itself in the broader context of international relations (i.e., how accent discrimination is generated in situations of unequal power) and, using a review of current research, assess the consequences of accent discrimination for the individual. Finally, the article highlights the impact that linguistic discrimination is having on linguistic diversity globally, partially using data from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and partially by offering a potential context for interpreting the emergence of practices that seek to reduce or modify speaker accents.

Investigating the Relationship Between Self-Esteem and Stigma Among Young Adults With History of Suicide Attempts

Crisis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meshan Lehmann ◽  
Matthew R. Hilimire ◽  
Lawrence H. Yang ◽  
Bruce G. Link ◽  
Jordan E. DeVylder
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
High Risk Population ◽  
High Functioning ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Background: Self-esteem is a major contributor to risk for repeated suicide attempts. Prior research has shown that awareness of stigma is associated with reduced self-esteem among people with mental illness. No prior studies have examined the association between self-esteem and stereotype awareness among individuals with past suicide attempts. Aims: To understand the relationship between stereotype awareness and self-esteem among young adults who have and have not attempted suicide. Method: Computerized surveys were administered to college students (N = 637). Linear regression analyses were used to test associations between self-esteem and stereotype awareness, attempt history, and their interaction. Results: There was a significant stereotype awareness by attempt interaction (β = –.74, p = .006) in the regression analysis. The interaction was explained by a stronger negative association between stereotype awareness and self-esteem among individuals with past suicide attempts (β = –.50, p = .013) compared with those without attempts (β = –.09, p = .037). Conclusion: Stigma is associated with lower self-esteem within this high-functioning sample of young adults with histories of suicide attempts. Alleviating the impact of stigma at the individual (clinical) or community (public health) levels may improve self-esteem among this high-risk population, which could potentially influence subsequent suicide risk.

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Simone
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cartesian Dualism ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Existential Perspective

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world: A Heideggerian Study explores Woolf’s treatment of the relationship between self and world from a phenomenological-existential perspective. This study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolf’s novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual’s connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, the perspectives of Woolf and Heidegger are founded upon certain shared concerns, including the sustained critique of Cartesian dualism, particularly the resultant binary oppositions of subject and object, and self and Other; the understanding that the individual is a temporal being; an emphasis upon intersubjective relations insofar as Being-in-the-world is defined by Being-with-Others; and a consistent emphasis upon average everydayness as both determinative and representative of the individual’s relationship to and with the world.

On Metaphysics and the Political: A Polemics of Reading Baudelaire in the 1930s

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-259
Author(s):  
Joseph Acquisto
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Progressive Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

This essay examines a polemic between two Baudelaire critics of the 1930s, Jean Cassou and Benjamin Fondane, which centered on the relationship of poetry to progressive politics and metaphysics. I argue that a return to Baudelaire's poetry can yield insight into what seems like an impasse in Cassou and Fondane. Baudelaire provides the possibility of realigning metaphysics and politics so that poetry has the potential to become the space in which we can begin to think the two of them together, as opposed to seeing them in unresolvable tension. Or rather, the tension that Baudelaire animates between the two allows us a new way of thinking about the role of esthetics in moments of political crisis. We can in some ways see Baudelaire as responding, avant la lettre, to two of his early twentieth-century readers who correctly perceived his work as the space that breathes a new urgency into the questions of how modern poetry relates to the world from which it springs and in which it intervenes.

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