scholarly journals The Space of Identity and the Identity of Space in The City Wit by Richard Brome

Sederi ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 71-90
Author(s):  
Cristina Paravano

My paper examines The City Wit (1629-1632), a city comedy by Richard Brome revolving around the unscrupulous trade world, where all the characters aim at social recognition, even trampling on feelings and moral values. My objective is to investigate the play as one of the earlier examples of strategic use of space in Brome’s dramatic production. Firstly, I will consider the function of space in relation to the identity of the single characters. Secondly, I will show how space can be manipulated for the re-fashioning of a new identity, as in the case of Jeremy, a male servant disguised as a widow, who builds up a fictitious Cornish identity. Finally, I will analyze the geography of the play focusing in particular on the scene set in the Presence Chamber of Whitehall.


STORIA URBANA ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 47-67
Author(s):  
Claudia Lamberti

- The essay compares the images of the city defined by the Expressionist movement and the city images in the films of the time. Expressionist architects discovered that film-set design gave them a chance to experiment with their artistic skills. At the same time, film studios could not shoot outdoors easily and so were forced to rely on constructed sets. All this worked out as an incentive for architectural invention. Sets became an apt proving ground for the new expressiveness of the architects as well as a way to experiment with the use of space without limits and constraints. This essay examines the cases of 6 films whose elements are specifically and directly attributable to the Expressionist culture. Here the case of the city encompasses both set design and the urban atmosphere in films linked with the avant-garde movements. The essay also provides a filmography of the most important films with urban settings shot by German artists in the 1920s and 1930s.



2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Jaime Correa Ramírez

La referencia constante al civismo es uno de los rasgos más distintivos de la historia urbana de Pereira. Al igual que en muchas ciudades colombianas, la ideología del civismo asume la necesidad de establecer una especie de simbiosis entre la ciudad, sus espacios públicos y sus ciudadanos, tanto en lo material como en lo espiritual. En el caso de Pereira se busca identificar los aspectos más relevantes del discurso cívico que desarrollaron entidades como la Sociedad de Mejoras y el Club Rotario a través de diferentes medios escritos, poniendo especial énfasis en los valores morales que debían exhibir los ciudadanos cívicos o los "ciudadanos de bien" de la ciudad, en el proceso de transformación y modernización vivido a lo largo del siglo XX.Palabras clave: discurso, civismo, prensa, clubes y sociedades, historia local, siglo XX.The discourse of civism in Pereira, or The “sacredness” of public matters during the 20th century AbstractThe constant reference to civism is one of the most distinct characteristics of the urban history of Pereira. Similar to many Colombian cities, the ideology of civism assumes that there is a need to establish a kind of symbiosis between the city, its public spaces, and its citizens, in material as well as spiritual matters. In the case of Pereira, the author seeks to identify the most relevant aspects of the civic discourse which developed entities like the Improvement Society and the Rotary Club, through different written means, putting special emphasis on the moral values which the civic citizens (or ciudadanos de bien) must have exhibited in the process of transformation and modernization experienced throughout the 20th century. Keywords: discourse, civism, press, clubs and societies, local history, twentieth century.



Author(s):  
James M. Bromley

This chapter examines how Thomas Middleton’s Michaelmas Term positions the cloth trade as pivotal to the construction of sexuality and sexual relations in the city. Circulating with cloth in the play is queer urban sexual knowledge. Antitheatricalists feared that the theater was a site of sexual pedagogy and initiation in the early modern period. Michaelmas Term subtly embraces that role for the city comedy, and the chapter draws on queer theories of materiality to demonstrate that the play’s relentless focus on the materiality of selfhood is pertinent in querying the limits of biological determinism and essentialism that characterize mainstream politics around sexuality today. The play can prompt us to consider how alternate forms of queer ontogenesis derived from the past have affordances for the production of queer culture in the present.



Author(s):  
S. Zhunusbaev ◽  

In this article, the author, using widely the materials of the multivolume essay "Turkestan Collection" stored in a single copy in the city of Tashkent, could in a detailed plan provide a real historical picture of the past, activities, household, culture and life, family and household characteristics, national character , morals and spiritual and moral values, and ideals of nomadic Kazakhs. The works of N.M. Przhevalsky, I.V. Mushketov, travel notes by P.P. Semenov and N.A. Severtsov – researchers of the Tien Shan, the works of N.A. Maev on the Turkestan Territory, and others were published. At the same time in periodicals many articles have appeared, often for the first time touching upon and covering political and economic issues, history, ethnography and culture of Central Asia



Author(s):  
Yulia Nurliani Lukito ◽  
Rumishatul Ulya

This paper aims to investigate the negotiation between the “formal” and the “informal” urban space in Jakarta through the examination of use of space of marginalized transportation of bajaj – a three-wheeled public transportation. Bajaj drivers continuously and creatively create their use of space and territory as the result of the limitation of space. Creativity in using space emerges as a way to get available space and this activity results in the appropriation of urban space. The basis of such appropriation is how to survive in urban space and such condition is characterized by negotiation, flexibility and adaptability. In high-density Jakarta city, it is necessary for bajaj drivers – who have only limited possibility in using strategic urban space – to use both the formal and the informal to sustain the city at large. An analysis of how bajaj drivers negotiated urban spaces around Manggarai Station reveals the appropriation of urban space that relies on temporality, tactics and negotiation of rules of access among users. In this paper, we analyze how urban informality as an ‘organizing logic’ results in a specific mode of the production of space. The analysis of negotiations of space around Manggarai Station is intended to contribute to an understanding of how informal and negotiated spaces, which shape everyday life in the city, are inseparable parts of formal and designed spaces in the city of Jakarta.



2021 ◽  
pp. 302-316
Author(s):  
N. E. Arkhipova

The organization, composition, financial condition and activities of the John Damascus’s singing brotherhood are considered. The relevance of the study is associated with the need to revive spiritual and moral values in modern Russian society. The novelty of the esearch lies in the fact that for the first time, according to the chronicle of the church press, the functioning of the brotherhood was reconstructed, the choir of which consisted of representatives of the city clergy, and the conductors were professional musicians. The author notes that, despite the increase in the number of performers in peacetime, the unstable composition of the choir did not allow them to achieve high performing skills. It is shown that the brotherhood performed organizational, missionary, spiritual, educational, charitable  functions. It is proved that the work of the brotherhood contributed to the activation of concert and choral activities in the city, helped to preserve the ancient singing tradition, on the one hand, and introduced the audience to modern sacred music on the other hand. It is emphasized that in the conditions of the expansion of secularization at the beginning of the 20th century, charitable spiritual concerts  organized  by the brotherhood helped to maintain, strengthen and develop religious and moral feelings, thoughts, moods in listeners. It is concluded that the deteriorating living conditions during the war years, and then revolutionary events stopped the functioning of the organization.



2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-72
Author(s):  
Tania Maria Rodrigues Lopes ◽  
Francisca Genifer Andrade de Sousa ◽  
Lia Machado Fiuza Fialho

O estuda trata do atendimento às pessoas em situação de vulnerabilidade da cidade de Barbalha-CE, mais especificamente das crianças com deficiência intermediado por uma americana residente no Brasil. Objetiva-se biografar Minerva Diaz de Sá Barreto, fundadora da Associação Pestalozzi, com ênfase no seu envolvimento com as práticas caritativas e de assistência social que fomentaram atendimento às pessoas com deficiência da cidade de Barbalha-CE (1964-2010). Utilizou-se a metodologia da história oral, com a realização entrevistas livres e individuais com oito mulheres que conviveram com a biografada na referida instituição. As narrativas oralizadas foram gravadas, transcritas, textualizadas e validadas, consolidando-se em fontes orais documentadas. Reconstituiu-se a vida de Minerva Barreto desvelando as particularidades da trajetória de uma americana que foi morar no interior do Ceará, ao casar-se com um cidadão da região do Cariri, após lograr de formação educacional diferenciada. Averiguou-se que, em Barbalha, Minerva Barreto se empenhou em assistir às pessoas empobrecidas por meio de práticas caritativas e assistenciais, desde o desenvolvimento de projetos para a garantia da sobrevivência a promoção da inclusão às crianças com deficiência com a criação de instituições para atende-las, sendo a fundação da Associação Pestalozzi um dos seus maiores feitos. Conclui-se que o seu reconhecimento social e sua atuação junto às crianças com deficiência foi possível graças ao capital cultural adquirido fora do Brasil, a sua sensibilização pessoal e a condição de esposa do prefeito da cidade.   Palavras-chave: Biografia. Minerva Diaz. Associação Pestalozzi. Assistência social.   Abstract The study deals with the care of people in situations of vulnerability in the city of Barbalha-CE, more specifically of children with disabilities mediated by an American resident in Brazil. The aim is to biograph Minerva Diaz de Sá Barreto, founder of the Pestalozzi Association, with an emphasis on her involvement with charitable and social assistance practices that fostered care for people with disabilities in the city of Barbalha-CE (1964-2010). The oral history methodology was used, with free and individual interviews with 08 women who lived with the biography in that institution. The oralized narratives were recorded, transcribed, textualized and validated, consolidated in documented oral sources. Minerva Barreto's life was reconstructed, revealing the particularities of the trajectory of an American woman who went to live in the interior of Ceará, when she married a citizen of the Cariri region, after achieving a differentiated educational background. It was found that, in Barbalha, Minerva Barreto endeavored to assist impoverished people through charitable and assistance practices, from the development of projects to guarantee survival to the promotion of inclusion for children with disabilities with the creation of institutions to assist them, the foundation of the Pestalozzi Association being one of its greatest achievements. We conclude that her social recognition and her work with children with disabilities was made possible by the cultural capital acquired outside Brazil, her personal awareness and the condition of wife of the mayor of the city.   Keywords: Biography. Minerva Diaz. Pestalozzi Association. Social assistance.  



Arabica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-116
Author(s):  
Tania Al Saadi

Abstract The City of the Dead is a large area on the periphery of Cairo where people live in house-like tombs. This study focuses on two Egyptian novels Šakāwā l-miṣrī l-faṣīḥ (1981-1985) by Yūsuf al-Qaʿīd and Madad (2014) by Maḥmūd al-Wirwārī, in which living in the cemeteries is portrayed as a paradoxical reality where life and death overlap. Limits between the two are blurred, and this creates a confusing situation where landmarks are lost and moral values are subverted. This situation echoes the characters’ personal dilemmas and the uncertain historical context in which they live. This article sheds light on the representation of life in the cemeteries and the concrete and symbolic function of this space. It also discusses this representation within the portrayal of peripheries and marginal spaces in contemporary Egyptian fiction, and explores the way the two novels—published several decades apart—use this ambivalent space to relate their respective historical realities.



PMLA ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silviano Santiago

The division of the stage into halves, one representing family conflicts in 1929 and the other representing the same family in 1932, is a device in the dramatic use of space which explains the originality of A Moratória, as shown by an Aristotelian analysis of its structure. The archetype which inspires the structure of this play is “the ant and the grasshopper,” whose division implies different dramatic climates within the play. On the one hand, we have the tragedy of negligence (level of the parents and their son), and on the other hand, the apprenticeship of consciousness (level of the daughter). The simultaneous use of the divided stage reflects the period of transition lived by the family and the Brazilian society in the early thirties: there is the shift from the country to the city; the shift from patriarchal to matriarchal tendencies; and the transfer of power from the great families to the emerging middle class. If the play fails in part, it is because the author cannot give an objective interpretation of reality. He is too compassionate.



ELH ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Wells
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