The geography of difference in Pericles and Foure Prentises of London

2021 ◽  
pp. 237-256
Author(s):  
T. Hao
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Geographical Mobility ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Rich ◽  
City State ◽  
Geographical Scope ◽  
Masculine Hegemony

Both Shakespeare and George Wilkins's Pericles and Thomas Heywood's Foure Prentises of London are romances striking in geographical scope. Analysing the two plays principally through John Gillies's concept of ‘geography of difference,' this essay argues that the geography of difference in Foure Prentises of London enhances the crude ideology of Eurocentric and masculine hegemony, whereas Pericles aims at Pentapolis, the Greek city-state, not only physically and geographically, but also spiritually and epistemologically. In Pericles, geographical mobility subserves poetic geography, and poetic geography subsumes geographical mobility. On the other hand, in the larger contemporary contexts, geographical mobility interacts intricately with the aristocratic ideology. In terms of ideology Pericles is basically a conservative play despite its geographical mobility, while Foure Prentises of London responds more keenly to its era and glorifies the middling rank with an aristocratic ideology by means of geographical mobility. Shakespeare and Wilkins's and Heywood's dramatic practices illustrate the rich possibilities inherent in the genre of romance.

Maithili Language and the Movement, Part–I

2018 ◽  
pp. 110-166
Author(s):  
Mithilesh Kumar Jha
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Indian Language ◽  
Good Education ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
The Rich

This chapter examines the ways through which the Maithili movement became more provocative and assertive from the beginning of the 1920s until the independence of India. It begins with not just a categorical refutation to Hindi’s claim of Maithili being its ‘dialect’, but by invoking the cultural and historical figures like Vidyapati, Govinda Das, which led to controversy between the supporters of Bengali and Maithili, it tried to galvanize and broaden its support among the Maithili speakers who were divided on the basis of caste, class, religion, region, and sects. In this period, there were many Bengali scholars who tried to project Vidyapati and Govinda Das as Bengali poets. However, the controversy was settled by the Bengali scholars themselves through their meticulous research on Vidyapati and eventually they began to support the cause of Maithili as an independent language. All these developments galvanized the support for Maithili among the Maithils who otherwise were suspicious of Maithili’s prospect in terms of either getting good education or employment. Whereas on the other hand, learning Hindi was seen not only as supporting the nationalist cause but a language that can provide better opportunities. However, Maithili elites remained ambivalent to Hindi. They could foresee its prospect but were not willing to forgo the rich literary traditions of Maithili for championing the cause of Hindi. So, while they were not inimical to Hindi, they rallied solidly behind Maithili to assert its status as an independent modern Indian language. The broadening of Maithili journalism attempts to revive its script—Mithilakshar, and formation of the Maithili Sahitya Parishad were other significant developments in this period. Gradually, these developments led to the growth of a new sense of geopolitical identity on the basis of Maithili. And Mithila-Maithil-Maithili became the key slogan of this phase of the Maithili movement.

"Constantly in Motion

Transfers ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 81-96
Author(s):  
Frederike Felcht
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
Material World ◽  
Geographical Mobility ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Significant Change ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

In the nineteenth century, a significant change in the modern infrastructures of travel and communications took place. Hans Christian Andersen's (1805-1875) literary career reflected these developments. Social and geographical mobility influenced Andersen's aesthetic strategies and autobiographical concepts of identity. This article traces Andersen's movements toward success and investigates how concepts of identity are related to changes in the material world. The movements of the author and his texts set in motion processes of appropriation: on the one hand, Andersen's texts are evidence of the appropriation of ideas and the way they change by transgressing social spheres. On the other hand, his autobiographies and travelogues reflect how Andersen developed foreign markets by traveling and selling the story of a mobile life. Capturing foreign markets brought about translation and different appropriations of his texts, which the last part of this essay investigates.

Civic Institutions

2009 ◽  
pp. 196-210
Author(s):  
Sara Forsdyke
Keyword(s):  
Parallel Evolution ◽  
Formal Institutions ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Cultural Legacy ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
The Rich ◽  
City State ◽  
The City ◽  
Civic Institutions

This article looks at the parallel evolution of civic institutions, all of which culminated in the polis, the ‘city-state’, as the backdrop to the rich cultural legacy of the fifth and fourth centuries. Historians have demonstrated that the formal institutions of the Greek city-state are best understood as emerging from, but still very much embedded within, a much broader range of collective practices and discourses. Nevertheless, it is the dynamic interplay between the institutional structures of the state and these broader practices and discourses that has been the focus of much of the most fruitful scholarship on the ancient Greek city-state over the past thirty years. The discussion then turns to some of the most interesting areas of investigation in current scholarship on the interaction between formal institutions and broader cultural activities and norms in the Greek city-state.

On Ammonites from Spitsbergen

1921 ◽  
Vol 58 (7) ◽  
pp. 297-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. F. Spath
Keyword(s):  
Upper Jurassic ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Full Description ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Preliminary Account ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Invertebrate Fossils ◽  
Near Future

Of the rich collections of fossils made by Professors J. W. Gregory and E. J. Garwood, as members of Sir Martin Conway's expedition to Spitsbergen in 1896, only a few Labyrinthodont remains, so far, have been described; but through the kind offices of Dr. A. Smith Woodward, the writer some time ago was entrusted with the naming of the Cephalopoda in those collections. The Ammonites are of the greatest interest, both from a palæontological and a stratigraphical point of view; and in view of the impossibility of publishing, in the near future, a full description of the fauna, with the necessary number of plates, it is intended to give a short preliminary account of these Cephalopoda. It is matter for regret that other groups of invertebrate fossils, such as the Triassic Pelecypoda, or the Upper Jurassic Aucellids, could not be dealt with, and their detailed study, probably, would yield important results. Spitsbergen Vertebrata, on the other hand, always have received considerable attention.

Mathematics and Time

KronoScope ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Broad Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Evolutionary Development ◽  
Structure And Properties ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Systematic Uncertainties ◽  
Human Capacity ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The One ◽  
Axiomatic Systems

AbstractThe structure of mathematics, as revealed by the exploration of axiomatic systems, bears striking similarities to the structure of nature, as revealed by the hierarchical theory of time. It is assumed that this isomorphism is not accidental but reflects the evolutionary development of the human capacity of handling numbers. This assumption permits a conjecture. Namely, if mathematics is found to possess certain systematic uncertainties, than nature must also possess corresponding qualities which may be identified. The paper proposes that the theme of the conference, "time and uncertainty," be understood in this broad context. I would like to demonstrate the existence of certain striking similarities between the structure and properties of mathematics on the one hand and, on the other hand, the structures and processes of nature at large, as revealed by the hierarchical theory of time. Then, using these correspondences, I propose a framework that promises to provide a unified perspective for the rich program we have ahead.

Persönliche Frömmigkeit und religiöses Erlebnis Wesenszüge der griechischen Religion am Beispiel von Heilkulten

Numen ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-472
Author(s):  
Alexander Rubel
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
The Other ◽  
Complete Picture ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Religion ◽  
Roman Religion ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Personal Relation ◽  
City State

Abstract Ancient Greek healing cults can be studied in the context of “personal piety.” This article emphasizes personal aspects of the Greek religion. It shows that the concept of “polis religion” does not embrace major aspects of ancient Greek piety. I analyze the direct and personal relation of worshippers in healing cults, especially that of Apollo, with the deity. By doing so, I put forward a new reading of Greek religion in the context of the concept of “personal piety” developed in Egyptology. The well-known “embeddedness” of religion in the structures of the Ancient Greek city-state led to a one-sided view of ancient Greek religion, as well as to aspects of ritual and “cult” predominating in research. Simultaneously, aspects of “belief ” are often labelled as inadequate in describing Greek (and Roman) religion. Religion as ritual and cult is simply one side of the coin. Personal aspects of religion, and direct contact with the deity, based on “belief,” are thus the other side of the coin. It follows that they are also the fundament of ritual. It is necessary to combine “polis religion” with “personal piety” to display a complete picture of Greek religion. The Isyllos inscription from Epidaurus is presented here as a final and striking example for this view. It reports the foundation of a cult of the polis on behalf of a personal religious experience.

Six Drawings from the Column of Trajan with the Date 1467: and a Note on the Date of Giacomo Ripanda

1913 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 174-183
Author(s):  
S. Arthur Strong
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Kind Permission ◽  
Technical Process ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The Rich

The reliefs of the column of Trajan lie before the world in the two sumptuous publications of Fröhner and Cichorius, where they are reproduced with all the accuracy of modern technical process; but, in an age when historical composition is out of favour, they fail to awaken interest outside the immediate circle of antiquaries and historians. In the Early and Middle Renaissance, on the other hand, when the only view of the column was obtained either from the neighbouring houses, or by means of scaffolds or other perilous devices, artists discovered in its sculptures a treasury of form and expression, whence they freely transferred to their own compositions single motives, and even whole scenes. The six dated sheets reproducing reliefs of the Trajan column now published on plates XXXVI., XXXVII., XXXVIII. afford an unexpected proof of the interest awakened by the column as early as the year 1467. They belong to the rich collection of Italian drawings at Chatsworth, and are reproduced by the kind permission of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire.

scholarly journals Hidden Ekphrasis in the Works of Miroslav Krleža

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-133
Author(s):  
Nataša Lah
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Art History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Miroslav Krleza ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The One

Throughout the entire literary oeuvre of Miroslav Krleža we are faced with a great number of credible descriptions, describing real historic events, or real artists and artworks belonging to the rich resources of European art history. By applying a cryptographic method of incorporating descriptions into his texts, Krleža on the one hand hid his sources, while on the other also revealed them. He hid them in the tissue of fictional texts, and unmasked them using a key work only those familiar with the source could identify. We term this method the use of “belletristic cryptograms”, and can further categorise it into thematic subgroups of concealed artwork descriptions, naming this whole method the use of hidden ekphrasis. The choice of artworks Krleža describes in his work is comprehensive, diverse and each described differently. Since we are dealing with literary texts, descriptions are often used in the function of a wide array of interpretative strategies of depiction; in some aspects, they are used as a mere glimpse into a piece of art with the goal of visually associating, evoking or minutely symbolizing the incorporeal frame of an artist’s mind or of the wider social context. In other aspects, the artworks are richly and meticulously presented with regard to their importance and credibility as they, according to Krleža, possess an “ethical intelligence” and “ethical conscience”. Only Krleža’s prose is researched here, and this is done on two levels. We take a look at examples where real art is incorporated into fictional texts in order to determine the significance and meaning of a certain dialogue, mise-en-scène or situation. This is most commonly found in the author’s plays, novels and novellas. On the other hand, we can trace a completely opposite method by which artworks enter these texts, where, due to their historic determination and already established worth/status, they thus re-enter reality, as seen from the perspective of Krleža’s life and work, so as to yet again test art history’s credibility through the matrix of contemporaneity. This approach is most often found in Krleža’s essays, critiques and diary entries.

scholarly journals The Contribution of Geophysics to the Knowledge of the Hidden Archaeological Heritage of Montenegro

Geosciences ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilena Cozzolino ◽  
Mile Baković ◽  
Nikola Borovinić ◽  
Giorgia Galli ◽  
Vincenzo Gentile ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Geophysical Methods ◽  
The Other ◽  
Buried Structures ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Non Destructive

Montenegro is a land of great history which needs attention and care for a deeper knowledge and its making at the disposal of new generations. It is still a territory to be discovered, studied, and disclosed. It is important to understand how much hidden heritage there is still in this area to explore and exploit, but on the other hand, how much known heritage exists to protect and monitor, preventing its destruction and loss. In this context, Montenegro is heavily investing in the management of cultural heritage through initiatives for identification, protection, preservation, enhancement and fruition of them. In the frame of the knowledge, the use of non-destructive geophysical methods can be helpful for a cognitive investigation immediately in the bud of any archaeological verification project, safeguarded through preventive archaeology operations and the exploration of large areas within archaeological parks. In this paper, the results of geophysical prospections at the Hellenistic-Illyrian site of Mjace, the roman towns of Doclea and Municipium S, the medieval city of Svač, and the Stećci medieval tombstones graveyards of Novakovići, Žugića, and Plužine are presented. The study allowed the reconnaissance of new buried structures in the soil and has provided an updated view of the rich archaeological heritage of Montenegro.

The Authorship of The Taming of the Shrew

PMLA ◽  
1925 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 551-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest P. Kuhl
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Effect ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Single Author ◽  
The Rich

For well nigh a century and three-quarters the authorship of The Taming of the Shrew has been a Shaksperian problem; Warburton was apparently the first to question that it was the work of a single author. According to him The Shrew represents the work of Shakspere to the extent “that he has, here and there, corrected the dialogue, and now and then added a Scene.” This view was held by Steevens, who believed, however, that Shakspere's hand was visible in almost every scene, particularly in those scenes between tamer and shrew. In 1857 Grant White proposed the theory of dual composition: a collaborator supplied the love element of the underplot, whereas to Shakspere belonged “the strong, clear characterization, the delicious humor, and the rich verbal coloring of the recast Induction, and all the scenes in which Katharine and Petruchio and Grumio are the prominent figures, together with the general effect produced by scattering lines and words and phrases here and there, and removing others elsewhere throughout the rest of the play.” In general, White's theory has prevailed down to the present day; it was supported by that industrious student, Fleay, and Professor A. H. Tolman. On the other hand, not a few writers, on aesthetic or general grounds, have voiced the opinion that Shakspere worked unaided: notable among these is Miss Charlotte Porter. It is the purpose of the present study, by undertaking a more systematic investigation, to show that Shakspere is responsible for the entire play.

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