Aestheticism in Italy: A New Sense of Place

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Evangelista
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Cross

This chapter focusses on British writers’ engagement with Italy at the fin de siècle, and the cross-cultural fertilization that ensued. Attention is given to how the development of English Aestheticism was shaped through encounters with Italy, as well as how that Italian-inflected English Aestheticism was then exported back to Italy itself. The chapter traces a shift in English attitudes to Italy, from seeing it as sepulchral, to embracing its modernity, and to taking a greater interest in the lives of modern Italians. Italy is shown to have represented to English writers much more than a simple refuge from or opposition to a declining or corrupt Britain.

The Belgian Revival and Japonisme in Scotland

2019 ◽  
pp. 88-142
Author(s):  
Michael Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Traditional Cultures

Fin-de-Siècle Scotland is frequently associated with the ‘kailyard’ movement and, by extension, with small towns, insularity and sentimentality. Using Scottish writers and artists’ thorough engagement with Belgian and Japanese culture as case studies, this chapter reveals how deeply international and cross-cultural Scottish writing and art was in the late-Victorian period. I argue that Scottish cultural revivalists looked to these two nations to help them build counter-hegemonic connections that allowed them to defend the value of smaller nations and traditional cultures. Part of the reason some cultural revivalists looked to Japan and Belgium specifically was that these nations’ artists offered examples of how cultural revivalist work could fuse with modernity, rather than simply reject it. I focus on examining William Sharp’s self-conscious attempts to bring the decadent energy of La Jeune Belgique into Scotland to help resist metro-centric thinking, before illustrating the marked impact of Maurice Maeterlinck on Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald. The Glasgow School played a key role nourishing Scotland’s Japanese connection, and we often find japonisme fusing with Scottish forms in their work.

Spatiality and Subjecthood in Mallarmé, Apollinaire, Maeterlinck, and Jarry

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Shtutin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Stephane Mallarme ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Alfred Jarry ◽  
Cross Pollination ◽  
Guillaume Apollinaire ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Cross ◽  
One Act

This study explores the interrelationship between spatiality and subjecthood in the work of Stéphane Mallarmé, Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Alfred Jarry. Concerned with various modes of poetry and drama, it also examines the cross-pollination that can occur between these modes, focusing on a relatively narrow corpus of core texts: Mallarmé’s Igitur (c.1867–70) and Un coup de dés (1897); Apollinaire’s ‘Zone’ (1912) and various of his calligrammes; Maeterlinck’s early one-act plays—L’Intruse (1890), Les Aveugles (1890), and Intérieur (1894); and Jarry’s Ubu roi (1896) and César-Antechrist (1895). The poetic and dramatic practices of these four authors are assessed against the broader cultural and philosophical contexts of the fin de siècle. The fin de siècle witnessed a profound epistemological shift: the Newtonian–Cartesian paradigm, increasingly challenged throughout the nineteenth century, was largely dismantled, with ramifications beyond physics, philosophy and psychology.

scholarly journals Late-Victorian Decadent Song Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 689-710
Author(s):  
Jane Desmarais
Keyword(s):  
Women Composers ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Continental Tradition

This article considers the Victorian and Edwardian vogue for setting late-Victorian decadent poetry to music. It examines the particular appeal of Ernest Dowson's and Arthur Symons's verse to the composers Cyril Scott and Frederick Delius, whose Songs of Sunset (1911) was regarded as the “quintessential expression of the fin-de-siècle spirit,” and discusses the contribution of women composers and musicians—particularly that of the Irish composer and translator Adela Maddison (1866–1929)—to the cross-continental tradition of decadent song literature and the musical legacy of decadence in the late-Victorian period and beyond.

The Cross-Cultural Equivalence of Parental Rearing Measure: EMBU-C

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Deković ◽  
Margreet ten Have ◽  
Wilma A.M. Vollebergh ◽  
Trees Pels ◽  
Annerieke Oosterwegel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Latent Factors ◽  
Immigrant Adolescents ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Parental Rearing ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analysis

We examined the cross-cultural equivalence of a widely used instrument that assesses perceived parental rearing, the EMBU-C, among native Dutch and immigrant adolescents living in The Netherlands. The results of a multigroup confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the factor structure of the EMBU-C, consisting of three latent factors (Warmth, Rejection, and Overprotection), and reliabilities of these scales are similar in both samples. These findings lend further support for the factorial and construct validity of this instrument. The comparison of perceived child rearing between native Dutch and immigrant adolescents showed cultural differences in only one of the assessed dimensions: Immigrant adolescents perceive their parents as more overprotective than do Dutch adolescents.

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