Rural Modernity in a Time of Crisis: Preservation and Reform in the Books of B. T. Batsford

2018 ◽  
pp. 255-269
Author(s):  
Peter Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
First Century ◽  
Graphic Art ◽  
Rural World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Post War ◽  
Art Marketing ◽  
English Heritage

This chapter examines publisher B. T. Batsford’s popular ‘English Heritage’ and ‘Face of Britain’ series, focusing on their subject matter, the range of authors commissioned to write for them (including such figures as H. J. Massingham, Dorothy Hartley, S. P. B. Mais, and Edmund Vale), the books’ graphic art, marketing, and overall interpretation of the challenges facing the rural world. Peter Lowe describes the transformation of an oppositional view of the rural/modern relationship into a less conservationist, more reformist position by 1945. He argues that the books played a significant role in the construction of an idea of English/British cultural identity that proved vital to the nation’s defence. At the same time, wartime events enabled Batsford authors to adopt a more conciliatory tone on the issue of post-war rebuilding. Ultimately, conflicts over rural modernity were subsumed into larger debates about exactly which ‘Britain’ was to survive into the twenty-first century.

Composer Complete Critical Editions in the Twenty-First Century: A Case Study of Béla Bartók

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 153-171
Author(s):  
Malcolm Gillies
Keyword(s):  
Performance Practice ◽  
Business Models ◽  
First Century ◽  
Bela Bartok ◽  
Critical Editions ◽  
Discussion Article ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Post War

Composer complete critical editions originated in the mid nineteenth-century and remain an important contribution to twenty-first-century scholarship and performance practice. This discussion article, commissioned by the Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, uses the Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition, inaugurated in 2016, as the basis of reconsideration of the musicological, performance-related, publishing and business aspects of today's complete editions of composers’ works. Gillies looks at the characteristics of the first two Bartók edition volumes, For Children and Concerto for Orchestra, particularly their approach to the composer's use of notation, the representation of their geneses, and some interesting issues about variants, versions, alternatives, replacements, arrangements and deletions. He also considers what a dozen Henle Urtexts, issued on the basis of this complete critical edition's research, seek to present for performers, particularly in their use of Bartók's own recordings as exemplars as well as the presentation in his folk-music treatises of melodies on which these pieces are based. Gillies's consideration also reveals some of the bases of the Bartók complete edition in the post-war ‘Neue Ausgabe’ critical series, with some later influence from Schoenberg and Debussy editions. After looking at changes in format and related products, including thematic catalogues, and the business models that underpin many complete critical editions, Gillies evaluates the risks that may face the Bartók edition in the future, and suggests how they might best be mitigated.

‘You Think You Know a Story…’: Reframing the Tudors on Television in the Twenty-First Century

Adaptation ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romano Mullin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
First Century ◽  
Tudor England ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Themes ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Shared Narrative

AbstractOver the past 10 years, there has been an explosion in the number of television dramas about Tudor England. These programmes have been engaged in a re-visioning of history that prioritizes a heterogeneous approach to the past, adapting historical themes, figures, and events in order to challenge existing conceptions about the nature of history. By using Showtime’s The Tudors (2007–2010) and the BBC’s Wolf Hall 2015 as examples, this paper explores how both series reimagine the Tudor era by destabilising traditional modes of historical engagement and emphasizing the shared narrative lineage of historiography and history as entertainment. Ultimately, the paper argues that these programmes are responding not only to new ways of accessing the past, but also by adapting a period which is central to an Anglocentric cultural identity, they are responding to the crises and political faultlines that have marked the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Contemporary Judeo–Spanish Poetry for Young Readers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka August-Zarębska
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
First Language ◽  
Music Performance ◽  
First Century ◽  
Spanish Poetry ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Everyday Communication

AbstractThis article presents contemporary Judeo-Spanish poetry for children in the context of the postvernacular mode (when the language is not used any more in everyday communication) of the language. It discusses the poetry collections of three authors who have published Judeo-Spanish poems in the twenty-first century: Ada Gattegno-Saltiel, Avner Perez, and Sarah Aroeste, as well as the project Yeladino, which is an anthology of Judeo-Spanish translations of Hebrew poems. It analyses the books and projects in terms of their subject matter, language, and poetic devices, as well as the relation of some of them with music, theatre-music performance, and educational activities. The paper raises the question of audience of this poetry, allowing for the fact that nowadays there are no children learning Judeo-Spanish as their first language, and that the language itself is considered severely endangered. The paper states the presence of the dual address in these books, i.e. to children and adults, both on the level of implied and real audience.

scholarly journals A Further Note on Federal Causes of Action

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Preis
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Federal Courts ◽  
First Century ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Over Time

In the article, I argue that federal causes of action ought to be treated as (1) distinct from substantive rights, (2) synonymous with the availability of a remedy (but not whether a remedy will in fact issue) and (3) distinct from subject matter jurisdiction (unless Congress instructs otherwise). This thesis is built principally on a historical recounting of the cause of action from eighteenth century England to twenty-first century America. In taking an historical approach, I did not mean to argue that federal courts are bound to adhere to centuries-old conceptions of the cause of action. I merely used history to show why the cause of action has taken on various identities and, further, why these identities have changed over time. By closely attending to these changes, we can better determine whether linguistic changes signal substantive changes in doctrine, or are simply loose language.

Doris Lessing and the Forming of History

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Doris Lessing ◽  
First Century ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Youth Politics ◽  
European Cinema ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Post War

The death of Nobel Prize-winning Doris Lessing sparked a range of commemorations that cemented her place as one of the major figures of twentieth- and twenty-first- century world literature. This volume views Lessing’s writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges thrown up by the sweeping historical changes through which she lived. Contributors provide new readings of Lessing’s work via contexts ranging from post-war youth politics and radical women’s writing to European cinema, analyse her experiments with genres from realism to autobiography and science-fiction, and draw on previously unstudied archive material. The volume also explores how Lessing’s writing can provide insight into some of the issues now shaping twenty-first century scholarship – including trauma, ecocriticism, the post-human, and world literature – as they emerge as defining challenges to our own present moment in history.

Toward a (Re)signification of Cultural Hybridity: Guji Guji and Master Mason

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Mei-Ying Wu
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Hybridity ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
The Past ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Political Milieu ◽  
Art Style

Drawing on the theories of M. M. Bakhtin and Homi Bhabha, among others, this paper examines the textual discourse of cultural hybridity in two paradigmatic picturebooks, Guji Guji (2003) and Master Mason (2004), published in Taiwan in the first decade of the twenty-first century, with a close look at the socio-political milieu of Taiwan at the turn of the millennium. The story of Guji Guji deals with the dilemma that a hybrid self inevitably comes to face and negotiate and the ambivalences associated with the discourse of culture's in-between, whereas Master Mason pivots on the tension and contestation between the past and the present and views hybridity as a transgressive power to counter, disrupt, or subvert tradition, as well as to bring in a mosaic representation and improvisational negotiation of cultures and ideas. Differing in subject matter and art style, both picturebooks, nevertheless, substantially work to interpret and interrogate the complex and often contentious negotiations and representations of cultural crossings and mixings.

scholarly journals Civic identity, municipal governance and provincial newspapers: the Lincoln of Bernard Gilbert, poet, critic and ‘booster’, 1914

Urban History ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREW J.H. JACKSON
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Civic Identity ◽  
First Century ◽  
Municipal Governance ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Regional Newspapers ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Twenty First Century

ABSTRACT:The provincial press played a significant role in forming local attitudes and senses of civic identity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Local and regional newspapers often adopted a ‘boosterist’ language, a style that enthusiastically promoted the particular qualities of places. The persistence of boosterism into the early twenty-first century makes it a concept worthy of further exploration. This study considers just one ‘booster’, Bernard Samuel Gilbert, and his illuminating series of articles on Lincoln for the Lincolnshire Echo in 1914. His correspondence illustrates the contrasting stances towards improvement typically employed within the local press – including the boosterist alongside the more critical.

A Voice Clamouring in the Wilderness: H. J. Massingham (1888–1952) and Rural England

Rural History ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. MOORE-COLYER
Keyword(s):  
Food Quality ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
First Century ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Rural World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Rural England

H. J. Massingham was one of a group of writers flourishing between the wars who were concerned with recording the disappearing cultural traditions of an older rural world, describing the English countryside, and setting into motion a move to revitalise and regenerate that countryside from the desuetude and depression into which it had declined. Distrustful of reductionist science and mechanistic economics, Massingham championed what he perceived as the virtues of localism, organicism, the crafts and the culture of ‘peasant’ farming. In offering biographical details and in considering a range of his work, this article seeks to locate Massingham within the context of his times. Moreover, despite the criticism of his contemporary detractors who regarded his preaching of traditional values in husbandry, craft and land as escapist and antiquarian, the article concludes that many of Massingham's writings foreshadow twenty-first century concerns for organic holism, sustainability, food quality and environmental issues.

scholarly journals Authenticity, Self-Invention and the Power of Storytelling: Sam Shepard’s Postmillennial Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-39
Author(s):  
Paulina Mirowska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
First Century ◽  
Artistic Creativity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theatre Company ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Insight Into

The article reflects upon Sam Shepard’s playwrighting in the opening decades of the twenty-first century, paying particular attention to his last play, A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations), written specifically for the Derry/Londonderry City of Culture celebrations in 2013, and originally produced by the renowned Field Day Theatre Company. The article seeks to offer an insight into Shepard’s mature multilayered text, which, in many respects, looks back upon almost fifty years of his artistic creativity and, at the same time, expands his vision. It also addresses the realisation of Shepard’s play in performance and the significance of his text in an interplay of multiple creative inputs involved in the production process. While revisiting the familiar landscapes and themes, Shepard’s most recent work negotiates the boundaries between the actual and the fictitious, raising debates about the persistence of myths, mortality and the haunting legacies of the past. Richly intertextual and conspicuously metatheatrical, it grapples with questions of authenticity, performativity and storytelling – the narratives that are passed down, and how they form and inform our lives. It also engages with, and further problematises, issues of personal and cultural identity, which constitute Shepard’s most durable thematic threads, revealing both the dramatist’s acute concern with fateful determinism and commitment to self-invention. Significantly, while Shepard’s postmillennial output highlights the author’s ongoing preoccupation with instability and frontiers of various sorts (from those topographic, temporal and sociopolitical to those of language and art), it equally intimates his attentiveness to correspondences between times, lands and cultures.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 193-202
Author(s):  
Imogen Peck
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
First Century ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Civil War Memory ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Post War

This conclusion offers an account of the main similarities between the experiences of early modern England and those of modern post-civil war states. It argues that many of the challenges that the republican governments faced have continued to confront states into the twenty-first century, and that, though the shape of a particular post-war settlement is historically contingent, the central issues with which its instigators must wrestle are not as temporally or geographically specific as we might expect. Further, it suggests that this is also true of many of the responses, from the use of amnesties and pardons to martyr narratives and the ‘othering’ of opponents. It provides one of the first transtemporal and transnational comparisons of Civil War memory and, in so doing, attempts to initiate further conversation between scholars of civil war memory across time and space.

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