scholarly journals NONFATAL TRIANGLE

2018 ◽  
pp. 400-408
Author(s):  
MARIA MIKHAILOVA ◽  
CATHERINE LE GOUIS
Keyword(s):  
Personal Life ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Creation Of Life

The article is aimed at revealing the drama of the personal life of Nina Petrovskaya, focusing on the period when her longtime relationship with Valery Brusov was coming to an end. The comparison of the facts presented in her letters to the poet with her biography demonstrates not only the particularities of the Symbolist concept of the creation of life, but also Brusov’s and Petrovskaya’s principles of modeling the identities of themselves and others

Each Man's Father Served as his Teacher: Constructing Relatedness in Pliny's Letters: In loving memory of Harry Bernstein (1913––2008)

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil W. Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Young Men ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Literary Authority ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Roman Culture ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Cultural Project ◽  
Exemplary Model

Recent scholarship has examined Pliny's efforts to embed his acts of patronage in the rhetorical context of paternity. This paper examines how Pliny employs the discourse of paternity in representing himself as a mentor and exemplary model for young men, with particular focus on Book 8 of the Letters. Though he lacks a child or adoptive heir himself, Pliny embeds his work in a tradition in which Roman writers from the Elder Cato onward presented literary authority as coextensive with paternal authority. In Ep. 8.14, Pliny presents an idealized image of education by fathers or paternal surrogates that legitimates both his receipt of benefits from his mentors and his own efforts to instruct young men in the manner of a father. Pliny presents his published work as a model for Genialis in Ep. 8.13 and his personal life as an example for Junius Avitus in Ep. 8.23. Ep. 8.10, 11 and 18 provide further contexts for Pliny's discourse of paternity. Two additional examples of the creation of relatedness in elite Roman culture (interactions with caregivers and the experience of contubernium) are briefly discussed. I consider in conclusion how study of Pliny's Letters may contribute to the larger cross-cultural project of understanding how otherwise unrelated persons, through informal activities such as mentorship, may construct relationships more salient to them than their biological or legal kinships.

The creation of life: Past, future, alien

1988 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Harmke Kamminga
Keyword(s):  
The Creation ◽  
Creation Of Life

The “Masters” in the Shiji

T oung Pao ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 101 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 335-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Kern
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Warring States ◽  
Chinese Thought ◽  
Selective Approach ◽  
Sima Qian ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

The intellectual history of the ancient philosophical “Masters” depends to a large extent on accounts in early historiography, most importantly Sima Qian’s Shiji which provides a range of longer and shorter biographies of Warring States thinkers. Yet the ways in which personal life experiences, ideas, and the creation of texts are interwoven in these accounts are diverse and uneven and do not add up to a reliable guide to early Chinese thought and its protagonists. In its selective approach to different thinkers, the Shiji under-represents significant parts of the textual heritage while developing several distinctive models of authorship, from anonymous compilations of textual repertoires to the experience of personal hardship and political frustration as the precondition for turning into a writer.
L’histoire intellectuelle des “maîtres” de la philosophie chinoise ancienne dépend pour une large part de ce qui est dit d’eux dans l’historiographie ancienne, tout particulièrement le Shiji de Sima Qian, qui offre une série de biographies plus ou moins étendues de penseurs de l’époque des Royaumes Combattants. Cependant leur vie, leurs idées et les conditions de création de leurs textes se combinent dans ces biographies de façon très inégale, si bien que l’ensemble ne saurait être considéré comme l’équivalent d’un guide de la pensée chinoise ancienne et de ses auteurs sur lequel on pourrait s’appuyer en toute confiance. Dans sa façon d’approcher sélectivement les différents penseurs, le Shiji tend à sous-représenter des secteurs significatifs de l’héritage textuel; en même temps il développe plusieurs modèles distinctifs de rapport entre texte et auteur, depuis la compilation anonyme de répertoires textuels jusqu’à l’expérience du malheur et à la frustration politique posées comme conditions pour devenir écrivain.


scholarly journals VALERY BRUSOV: FROM VITAL AND CREATIVE IDEAS TO RECREATING REALITY AND THE CREATIVE PERSONALITY IN THE SPIRIT OF BOLSHEVISM

2018 ◽  
pp. 146-155
Author(s):  
OLEG KLING
Keyword(s):  
October Revolution ◽  
Creative Personality ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Creation Of Life

We don’t need to blame Brusov and other symbolists for all the deadly sins almost including the October revolution. In fact, the Bolsheviks first destroyed symbolism as an old school, and their attempts in selecting figures of the new culture went far beyond Symbolistic ideas on the creation of life. After all, it is not the fault of the Russian Symbolists that their idea to reshape a new creative personality resulted in the destruction of this very personality in the U.S.S.R.

scholarly journals THE SYMBOLS OF WISDOM IN VISHNU PURANA AND “THE THREE BROTHERS AND THE GOLDEN APPLE” (ON SOME GENERAL PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS IN THE BULGARIAN FAIRYTALE AND VISHNU PURANA, CHAPTER 2)

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-124
Author(s):  
Anna KALTSEVA
Keyword(s):  
Human Society ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
The Third ◽  
Divine Wisdom ◽  
Tree Of Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Creation Of Life

e article draws parallels between the Bulgarian fairytale “The Three Brothers and the Golden Apple” and the second chapter of Vishnu Purana. The general philosophical aspects of these texts, which serve as a basis for the proposed hypothesis, are discussed. These are narratives of wisdom as a basis for the creation, development, existence of life, and human civilization. The gold thread in Vishnu Purana and the golden apple in the Bulgarian magic fairytale are symbols of knowledge and wisdom, with the power of which the visible world and the human society were created. If in Vishnu Purana this symbol is wrapped in a philosophical narrative about the creation of life, in “The Three Brothers and the Golden Apple” philosophy is hidden behind the seemingly concrete images and characters of the fairytale. In “The Three Brothers and the Golden Apple”, the tree with golden fruits symbolizes the tree of knowledge - an image that is present in all the sacred texts of the religions around the world. The tale is a story of the trials that one goes through in order to overcome one’s weaknesses, to know oneself, to understand the spiritual possibilities and qualities that make a person close and equal to God. The third brother continues his journey in the world, having a faithful companion - his intuition, symbolized by the most beautiful and intelligent princess. The third brother, or the symbol of the man who has overcome his weaknesses, can always benefit from the eternal Divine wisdom, symbolized by the golden apple.

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