Home, the Asylum, and the Workhouse in The Shadow of the Glen

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Little
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Hostile Environment ◽  
The Road ◽  
Institutional Space ◽  
Union Workhouse

This essay analyses J.M. Synge's construction of domestic and institutional space in his debut play The Shadow of the Glen. The Richmond Asylum and Rathdrum Union Workhouse, the two institutions of confinement which are mentioned in the play, are seen as playing important roles in constructing a threatening offstage space beyond the cottage walls. The essay reads Nora's departure from the home at the end of the play as an eviction into this hostile environment, thereby challenging the dominant interpretation of The Shadow as a woman's choice between her home and the road. By drawing on historical research and Synge's travel writing to delineate contemporary attitudes towards the asylum and the workhouse, the essay aims to provide a deeper understanding of the play's dynamics of place.

The Singing Coachman or, The Road and Russia's Ethnographic Invention in Early Modern Times

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 33-61
Author(s):  
John Randolph
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
The State ◽  
National Character ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Road ◽  
Late 18Th Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early Modern Times

AbstractScholars agree that the first modern ethnographic traditions surrounding Russia developed in travel accounts written by foreigners in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. These laid the foundations for a 'national turn' in Russian belles-lettres in the late 18th century. Yet scholars have paid relatively little attention to the history of the coach system, known as the iam, that made travel writing about Muscovy possible. Many foreign travelers—as well as Imperial Russian hommes des lettres —were fascinated by the figures of Russia's iamshchiki, the state peasants who manned the state-organized coach system. The lives and expressions of these coachmen were often taken as proxies for Russia's national character. This article describes this process, demonstrating how the iam system provided a practical as well as a symbolic frame for the making of early conceptions of Russian nationality.

The Road to Sicily: Lucilius to Seneca

Ramus ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-197
Author(s):  
Emily Gowers
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Good Life ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
Peace Of Mind ◽  
The Road ◽  
The World ◽  
The Difference

One of Horace's best-known allegations inEpistles1 is that where in the world you are is neither here nor there, as long as you have peace of mind (animus aequus):caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.strenua nos exercet inertia; nauibus atquequadrigis petimus bene uiuere. quod petis, hie est,est Vlubris, animus si te non deficit aequus.(Hor.Ep. 1.11.27-30)Cross the sea, and you change your climate, not your mental state. Restless idleness drives us on. In ships and chariots we seek the good life. What you seek is here, it's even at Ulubrae—if your mind is only at peace with itself.This turns out to be one of the book's hugest lies. It makes all the difference how Horace and his correspondents are placed when he is writing to them: Rome is different from backwater Ulubrae, Baiae from Brundisium. InMorals and Villas in Seneca's Letters, John Henderson has attached similar importance to named locations in calibrating metaphorical distance between Seneca and the correspondent of hisEpistles, Lucilius. This paper aims to close a gap of two centuries between two of the most disparate figures in Latin literature: the same Seneca, that knotted-up recluse, and another Lucilius, the laughing cavalier satirist. The link: a journey made from Rome to Sicily, or, more precisely, the uses of the road to Sicily in epistolary-philosophical discourse (by way of Horace'sSatiresandEpistles). Lucilius'Iter Siculumand Seneca's mental journeys to Sicily in theEpistulae Moralesare related stages, I will argue, in the philosophical applications of travel writing.

Feminist Interpretation of Revelation

2020 ◽  
pp. 465-482
Author(s):  
Susan E. Hylen
Keyword(s):  
Historical Research ◽  
Women Readers ◽  
Hostile Environment ◽  
Book Of Revelation ◽  
Feminist Interpretation ◽  
Multiple Meanings

This chapter highlights the shape of feminist conversations about the book of Revelation that have taken place in recent decades. For a number of years Tina Pippin, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, and other scholars debated whether women could read Revelation as liberating. In reading the image of the whore of Babylon in Revelation 17–18, for example, Schüssler Fiorenza asserted that the imagery functioned as a critique of the Roman Empire’s power. Pippin argued that the violence created a hostile environment for women. These scholars made different choices about the use of ancient historical research. More recent feminist interpreters embrace the possibility of multiple meanings of Revelation. Drawing on metaphor, postcolonial, and queer theories, they emphasize rather than resolve tensions in Revelation’s language and imagery, and they point to the varied choices made by women readers of the book.

“The Song They Sing Is the Song of the Road”

Transfers ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Walter
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
The Road ◽  
Spatial Practice ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Static Nature

When, in the early twentieth century, British middle-class writers went on a tour in search of their country, travel writing not only saw the re-emergence of the home tour, but also the increasing appearance of the motorcar on British roads. With the travelogue playing the role of a discursive arena in which debates about automobility were visualized, the article argues that, as they went “in search of England,” writers like Henry Vollam Morton and J. B. Priestley not only took part in the ideological framing of motoring as a social practice, but also contributed to a change in the perception of accessing a seemingly remote English countryside. By looking at a number of contemporary British travelogues, the analysis traces the strategies of how the driving subjects staged their surroundings, and follows the authors' changing attitudes toward the cultural habit of traveling: instead of highlighting the seemingly static nature of the meaning of space, the travelogues render motoring a dynamic and procedural spatial practice, thus influencing notions of nature, progress, and tradition.

scholarly journals Perkembangan Sekolah Menengah Atas Negeri 1 Luwu, 1967-2017

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Anita Rahayu ◽  
Muh Rasyid Ridha
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Head Teacher ◽  
The Road

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui tentang SMAN 1 Luwu sebagai wadah proses pendidikan di Kabupaten Luwu 1967-2017) dengan mengungkap proses berdirinya SMAN 1 Luwu dan perkembangan SMAN 1 Luwu dalam periode 1967-1998 dan periode 1998-2017 serta peranan keberadaan SMAN 1 Luwu. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa, berdirinya SMAN 1 Luwu dimulai pada masa kepemimpinan Husain Saweni (1967-1980). Proses pendirian SMAN 1 Luwu tidak terlepas dari peran masyarakat yang menginginkan adanya pendirian sekolah sebagai sarana pendidikan formal. Perkembangan SMAN 1 Luwu dapat di lihat dari perkembangan sarana dan prasarana yang mengalami peningkatan serta prestasi-prestasi yang di raih oleh peserta didik baik akademik maupun non akademik. Keberadaan SMAN 1 Luwu sebagai pelopor pertama berdirinya sekolah pendidikan tingkat SMA dan termasuk sekolah yang diunggulkan dalam hal pencapaian prestasi di Kabupaten Luwu. Pendirian sekolah ini di rasakan masyarakat sebagai satu jalan dalam peningkatan pengembangan pendidikan. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat di simpulkan bahwa masyarakat yang berperan aktif dalam proses pendirian SMAN 1 Luwu. Hal ini disebabkan oleh beberapa hal di antaranya sulitnya akses pendidikan tingkat SMA di Luwu, kesadaran akan pentingnya pendidikan, serta dukungan dari pihak masyarakat. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode sejarah yang meliputi heuristik yaitu tahapan pengumpulan data, kritik sumber bertujuan menilai dan menentukan sumber, interpretasi yaitu menafsirkan data dan tahap historiografi atau penyajian atau penulisan sejarah. Metode pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan cara penelitian lapangan terdiri dari wawancara (wakil kepala sekolah dan alumni SMAN 1 Luwu) dan mengumpulkan dokumen sekolah serta literatur-literatur  yang berhubungan dengan penelitian ini.Kata kunci: Perkembangan, SMA, Luwu AbstractThis study aims to know about SMAN 1 Luwu as a vessel through the process of education in the district Luwu 1967-2017) to uncover the process establishment of the SMAN 1 Luwu and development SMAN 1 Luwu in a period 1967-1998 and 1998-2017 as well as the role of the existence of SMAN 1 Luwu. The results of research showing that, the establishment of the SMAN 1 Luwu began in the leadership of Husain Saweni (1967-1980). The process of the establishment of SMAN 1 Luwu not in spite of the role society who wanted the establishment of the school as a means of a formal education. The development of the means and infrastructure that have increased asv well as echievement in achieved by learners good academic and a academic. The existence of SMAN 1 Luwu as a pioneer first the establishment of the school education level of high school and including the school featured in term of achievement achievement in the district Luwu.The establishment of this school in feel community as one of the road in a increase in the development of education. Based on research results can be in conclude that people who played the active in the process of the establishment of SMAN 1 Luwu. This is caused by some of them difficult access education level of high school in Luwu, mindfulness will be the importance of education, as well as the support of the community. This study uses a historical research methodology which includes heuristics, namely the stages of data collection, source criticism aimed at assessing and determining the source, interpretation of interpreting the data and historiographic stage or presenting or writing history. The method of data collection done by the research field consisting of an interview (deputy head teacher and alumni SMAN 1 Luwu) and collect papers of the school and literature-literature dealing with this researchKeywords: Development, High School, Luwu

scholarly journals New directions or the end of the road? Women's travel writing at the millennium

2000 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Maureen Mulligan
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Writing Project ◽  
The Road ◽  
Terra Incognita ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Women's Travel ◽  
New Literature

Women´s travel writing in the twentieth century can be seen as an area of new literature which both absorbs earlier styles of both male and female travel writing, while developing in the direction of certain discourses which have found strong ideological support in social and literary concerns at the end of the century. The key discursive trends in post-colonial women’s travel writing can be defined as those of feminism, (anti)-tourism, ‘tough’ travel, post-colonial awareness, and concern for certain environmental issues. In this paper we will consider how these trends are reflected or challenged in some recent examples of women’s travel writing. The texts referred to here offer a range of positions and concerns which in some ways suggest the limits and possibilities of contemporary travel writing. Without wishing to reduce the books discussed to a single interpretative position, it may be helpful to highlight two differing approaches to the continuing problem of how to write about the Other and how to represent oneself and one’s own culture in the process. Desert Places by Robyn Davidson (1996) is considered in terms of its author’s loss of conviction in the travel writing project; and Terra Incognita by Sara Wheeler (1996) in terms of travel as an interior, imaginative venture into a landscape of myth and emptiness.

What Am I Still Doing Here?

Journeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-106
Author(s):  
Robin Jarvis
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Life Stage ◽  
Writing Studies ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Road ◽  
Travel Books ◽  
The World ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Point Of Reference

This article offers preliminary thoughts on travel writing from a gerontological perspective. Gender, race, and sexuality have provided important analytical frames for travel writing studies, but age has yet to function as a topic or point of reference. Through a consideration of five travel books by respected modern authors—Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy, V. S. Naipaul, Paul Theroux, and Colin Thubron—the article asks what motivates travel writers to stay “on the road” into their seventies and beyond, and what the distinctive features of travel narratives written at this life stage might be. The article aims to demonstrate the intrinsic fascination of travel books in which a strong abiding curiosity about the world coexists with an acute—and often melancholy—awareness of the passing of time and personal mortality.

scholarly journals Practicing Online Travel Writing. How My Blogging and Australia Met

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Calzati
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Online Travel

Travelling and writing, then, come to be two very complementary practices of discovery: cross-cultural (of the Other, encountered on the road) and gnoseological (of the Self, who takes the road). As a consequence, once we accept that travel writing stems from the interplay between travelling and writing as practices, then the pragmatic strength of this literary genre is brought to light. This article presents an intertwinement between practice and theory by alternating passages (translated into English) from the blog with an analysis of these same passages.

Atom-probe analysis of the solid-liquid interface

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 676-677
Author(s):  
J.A. Panitz
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Level ◽  
Selective Adsorption ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Atom Probe ◽  
Chemical Agent ◽  
Hostile Environment ◽  
Solid Interface ◽  
Solid Liquid Interface ◽  
Solid Liquid ◽  
Chemically Selective

The first few atomic layers of a solid can form a barrier between its interior and an often hostile environment. Although adsorption at the vacuum-solid interface has been studied in great detail, little is known about adsorption at the liquid-solid interface. Adsorption at a liquid-solid interface is of intrinsic interest, and is of technological importance because it provides a way to coat a surface with monolayer or multilayer structures. A pinhole free monolayer (with a reasonable dielectric constant) could lead to the development of nanoscale capacitors with unique characteristics and lithographic resists that surpass the resolution of their conventional counterparts. Chemically selective adsorption is of particular interest because it can be used to passivate a surface from external modification or change the wear and the lubrication properties of a surface to reflect new and useful properties. Immunochemical adsorption could be used to fabricate novel molecular electronic devices or to construct small, “smart”, unobtrusive sensors with the potential to detect a wide variety of preselected species at the molecular level. These might include a particular carcinogen in the environment, a specific type of explosive, a chemical agent, a virus, or even a tumor in the human body.

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