scholarly journals India in Yeats’s Early Imagination: Mohini Chatterjee and Kālidāsa

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-39
Author(s):  
Ashim Dutta
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Indian Philosophy ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Religion And Literature ◽  
Late Nineteenth

W. B. Yeats’s interest in India persisted throughout his variegated life and career, starting in the late nineteenth century and lasting through the final decade of his life. This article concentrates on his early years when he first came to terms with Indian philosophy, religion, and literature via the Vedāntist-Theosophist Mohini Chatterjee and the work of the fifth-century Sanskrit playwright Kālidāsa. With a view to examining critically Yeats’s creative engagement with, and appropriation of, these disparate materials, this article closely reads a discarded 1880s poem on Chatterjee’s teaching and its later 1929 version, “Mohini Chatterjee,” as well as his early Indian poems, collected in Crossways. The reading of these poems is supplemented by critical analysis of the relevant Indian texts, which will illuminate the poems concerned as well as the extent of Yeats’s imaginative improvisation.

Sacred Capital: Pierre Bourdieu and the Study of Religion

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Urban
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Late Nineteenth

AbstractThis article offers a critical analysis of Pierre Bourdieu's work and its importance for the study of religion. Analysis and criticim of Bourdieu's theories with reference to the example of the Bāuls, a loose, eclectic tradition of wandering minstrels and self-proclaimed spiritual "madmen", which has flourished throughout Bengal (northeast India and Bangladesh) since at least the late nineteenth century, was chosen for two reasons: first, because much like Bourdieu, the Bāuls make frequent use of a "marketplace" metaphor to describe the larger realms of social interaction and religious discourse; second, because the Bāuls offer a powerful challenge to Bourdieu's work, demonstrating that there is perhaps far more room for subversion and critique of the dominant "social marketplace" than his model of society and culture seems to allow.

Ethnomusicology and Philosophy

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-64
Author(s):  
Ellen Koskoff
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Basic Method ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
New Formulation ◽  
Organizing Principles

Ethnomusicology is the study of music in human social and cultural life. Closely related today to the discipline of anthropology, its basic method is ethnographic fieldwork. This chapter begins by presenting a history of the field of ethnomusicology, from its earliest beginnings (as comparative musicology) in late nineteenth-century Europe to its present standing as a major music discipline worldwide. The chapter proceeds by providing a critical analysis of current debates, theoretical directions, new practices, and challenges, before concluding with an examination of some important issues affecting the future of ethnomusicology. These include the effects of postmodernism (such as the development of new paradigms foregrounding fragmentation and multiple subjectivities) on the study of music; the rise of various technologies as harbingers of a new formulation of music as simply one category of sound; the effects of globalism on diasporic studies, conceptions of “musical flow,” and the ethics of fieldwork; and, finally, the roles of sameness and difference as organizing principles of ethnomusicological analysis and practice

scholarly journals Saxon Kent versus Roman London? Presenting Borderland Heritage at the Faesten Dic in Joyden’s Wood, Kent

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ethan Doyle White
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
The Public ◽  
Western Border ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Standing on Kent’s western border with Greater London, the Faesten Dic in Joyden’s Wood is one of Britain’s less-well known linear earthworks. There has been speculation as to its origins since the late nineteenth century, although as of yet no conclusive dating evidence has been revealed. This article reviews the archaeological and historical evidence for the site, before exploring the ways in which the heritage of this earthwork has been presented to the public by the Woodland Trust, a charity which own Joyden’s Wood, focusing on how both information boards and installed sculptures have foregrounded the narrative of the earthwork as a fifth-century defensive barrier between ‘Roman London’ and ‘Saxon Kent.’ This, in turn, has interesting connotations regarding the current administrative divisions between Greater London and Kent.

The Intertextuality of the Kragehul Spear-shaft Inscription

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Bernard Mees
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Syntactic Features ◽  
Left Branch ◽  
Late Nineteenth

AbstractThe inscription on a spear-shaft excavated from the Kragehul bog, just outside Flemløse, Denmark, in the late nineteenth century, is one of the most interpretatively problematic of all the early runic texts. Previous treatments of the inscription, however, have failed to consider the intertextuality and syntax of the text properly, and have often been distracted by idiosyncratic hypotheses peculiar to runic studies. The present paper addresses several of the shortcomings evident in the philological method applied in previous accounts in a historiographically critical analysis of the very difficult ancient moor find. Syntactic features such as anastrophe and left branch extraction can be discerned in the Kragehul spear-shaft inscription that seems to preserve a text that is intertextually paralleled by other contemporary Migration Age sources.

Anticlericalism and Early Social Democracy in Sweden in the 1880s

2017 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-266
Author(s):  
Jakob Evertsson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Church Of Sweden ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
Religious Ideology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Church

This article examines early socialist anticlericalism directed against the clergy of the Church of Sweden in the late nineteenth century. Research on socialist critiques and the Church of Sweden is generally lacking, and no attempt has been made to interpret the critique using the concept of anticlericalism. This study analyses the Social Democrats’ official newspaper Socialdemokraten and demonstrates that socialist anticlericalism was focused on clerical lifestyles, the church as a class institution, and often religion itself. A critical analysis of the arguments reveals that the satire and exaggeration already familiar to many were commonly used in anticlerical rhetoric when describing the clergy. The ultimate aim of the critique was the abolition of the Established Church because it was considered to provide a conservative religious ideology for the state.

The Education Bill of 1906 and the Decline of Political Nonconformity

1972 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel J. Richards
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War I ◽  
Early Years ◽  
The Political ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Liberal Party ◽  
Significant Aspect ◽  
Late Nineteenth

The early years of the twentieth century prior to the outbreak of World War I have been described as a period in which the Liberal Party was in a state of decline. One significant aspect of this decline was the deterioration of what in the late nineteenth century has been labelled as political nonconformity. Gladstone's statement that Nonconformists supplied the backbone of British Liberalism perhaps best symbolises the political significance of this group for the vitality of the Liberal Party.

scholarly journals ‘An incredibly vile sport’: Campaigns against Otter Hunting in Britain, 1900–39

Rural History ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL ALLEN ◽  
CHARLES WATKINS ◽  
DAVID MATLESS
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
National Association ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
A Minor

AbstractOtter hunting was a minor field sport in Britain but in the early years of the twentieth century a lively campaign to ban it was orchestrated by several individuals and anti-hunting societies. The sport became increasingly popular in the late nineteenth century and the Edwardian period. This paper examines the arguments and methods used in different anti-otter hunting campaigns 1900–1939 by organisations such as the Humanitarian League, the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports and the National Association for the Abolition of Cruel Sports.

Lombroso's Jewish identity and its implications for criminology

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Knepper
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Jewish Question ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Positivist Science ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Recovering Lombroso's Jewish identity is important for understanding the context in which he lived and worked. Italian statehood and positivist science had particular meaning relative to Jewish emancipation. Lombroso turned his back on Judaism and Jewish tradition, but interacted over the years with a circle of Jewish colleagues. Salvatore Ottolenghi, Pauline Tarnowsky, Helen Zimmern, Max Nordau and Jean Finot influenced his professional life in more than one way, as did members of his family, such as David Levi. Lombroso contributed to the defence of Jews from the surge of anti-Semitism in the late nineteenth century and he even managed a measure of critical analysis in his discussion of Jews and crime. Although he failed to overcome the prejudices and misconceptions at the centre of his outlook, the Lombroso who engaged ‘the Jewish question’ emerges as a more complicated and conflicted character than the Lombroso associated with ‘the criminal man’.

‘Something was going from me – the capacity, as it were, to be myself’: ‘transformational objects’ and the Gothic fiction of Richard Marsh

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Pedlingham
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Object Relations ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Thing Theory ◽  
Gothic Fiction ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Transformational Objects

This chapter explores the treatment of objects, things, in Marsh’s major Gothic works: The Beetle, The Goddess and The Joss. The increasing popularity in the late nineteenth century of collecting and consuming objects offers a context in which boundaries between people and things become uncertain, with objects seemingly exercising a disturbing agency. Marsh’s texts present mutually transforming encounters between objects and characters that question the stability of identity. The chapter suggests that whilst transgressing boundaries between self and not-self is often explored in critical analysis through mesmerism, a more appropriate conceptual framework for Marsh is provided by object relations psychoanalysis, and specifically Christopher Bollas’s notion of ‘transformational objects’. Developing this notion in relation to Bill Brown’s ‘thing theory’, the chapter identifies Marsh’s objects as ‘transformational things’, encounters with which often lead to terrifying breakdowns of selfhood, conveying a pervasive sense of existential horror and exposing the precariousness of late-nineteenth-century identity.

Did Moses Write the Pentateuch?

2020 ◽  
pp. 14-38
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Church Father ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Consensus View ◽  
The Church

This chapter analyzes the consensus view of biblical scholars that Moses wrote the Pentateuch. It explains that the Pentateuch is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. It also mentions the Church father Jerome's suggestion that Ezra the Priest wrote the Pentateuch in the fifth century BC based on notes made by Moses. The chapter explains that since the sixth century AD, doubts have been expressed about whether Moses was the author of all the Pentateuch. But it was only in the mid-seventeenth century that the first relatively systematic discussion of the issue appeared and by the late nineteenth century, the scholarly consensus began to turn against Moses being the author of any part of the Pentateuch.

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