scholarly journals Religiosity in Pulamai ilakkanam

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 156-166
Author(s):  
Karthick K ◽  
Thiruveni V

Until the Sangam literary period (till 200 AD), Tamil language was secular and Tamil literature was created with an emphasis on virtue in both internal and external life. After that, religious literature started appearing in Tamil language. Tamil grammar texts are based on literature that appeared in different periods. Thus the “Pulamai ilakkanam” (grammar for scholarliness) composed by Vannacharabam Dantapani swami reveals the literary context that prevailed in the 19th century when he lived. Pulamai ilakkanam shows the author's religiosity and the religious beliefs and devotion in the field of education and literature at that time. Grammar is the rules for creating literature. If so, constructing Tamil scholarliness in relation to a particular religion would be tantamount to narrow down the breadth of the Tamil language. Based on the content of Pulamai ilakkanam and the literary context of the time, this article discusses the dominance of the religions over Tamil literature and the use oflanguage by religions for their development.

1971 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-138
Author(s):  
O. M. Starza-Majewski

The collection of Indian sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum includes a fine relief from Koṇārka. It is about 2 feet 6¾ inches (78·1 cm.) in height and depicts King Narasiṁha I (a.d. 1238–64), the founder of the celebrated Sun temple at Koṇārka in Orissa, sitting at the feet of his spiritual preceptor (Plate I). Acquired in the 19th century, this relief, which is carved in carboniferous shale, was long believed to be Nepalese. Havell, writing in 1911, notes that this sculpture is “said to have come from Nepal. Its date is uncertain. It appears to represent a Vaishnava adaptation of some old Buddhist jātaka story.” Some years later it was realized that the style of this sculpture belonged to that of the Eastern Ganga of the 13th century a.d., and that it represented the conversion of a kṣatriya noble to the worship of Viṣṇu by a Vaiṣṇava priest. The figure of the warrior sitting at the feet of the priest was identified as that of Narasimha I receiving spiritual instruction from his guru. This relief is one of a number showing scenes from the life of Narasimha which come from the great Koṇārka temple dedicated by him to the sun-god Sūrya. Of these, the panel already mentioned and another in New Delhi throw an interesting light on Narasiṃha's religious beliefs.


Author(s):  
Mariya V. Sinitsyna ◽  

The paper considers the peculiarities of I. A. Kovanko’s odes written at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. The reminiscences from G. R. Derzhavin’s and M. V. Lomonosov’s poetry are revealed. The article focuses on the influence of classicism and sentimentalism on Kovanko’s work and the synthesis of heterogeneous elements that trace back to the 18th century poets.


2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-160
Author(s):  
Sergiusz Leonczyk ◽  

The article provides information on ethnographic studies of Siberian peoples published by Poles in the form of descriptions, notes and diaries in the second half of the 19th century. The ethnographic sketches of the exiled participants of the January Uprising in Poland (1863–1864), P. Argant, A. J. Kon, M. Hruszecki, and J. Koton, published in European languages are still little-studied. The author notes the special contribution of L. Nemojewski, who, while in exile, wrote dozens of essays and the book “Siberian Pictures”, which was published in Polish and English. L. Nemojewski was one of the first to present to the European reader the life of the Siberian peoples — and not only the indigenous, but also the Russian Siberians. Not all his descriptions are accurate, sometimes they are somewhat naive. Of particular value is one of the first detailed descriptions of the Khakasses. Nemojewski paid considerable attention to them, analysing not only their traditions, but also their psychology, folklore and religious beliefs. The paper concludes by emphasizing the importance of the study of published ethnographic observations of the exiled participants of the January Uprising in Poland in 1863–1864. All these essays, articles and books certainly fit into the trend of “ethnographic fiction” or “ludoznawstwa” popular in Poland in the second half of the 19th century.


2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (4 (459)) ◽  
pp. 151-161
Author(s):  
Kinga Borzęcka-Wojciechewicz

The work is devoted to the comparative presentation of Ugo Foscolo and Cyprian Norwid – two outstanding representatives of the 19th-century Polish and Italian literature, respectively. Despite the obvious differences between them, such as belonging to different literary generations and the ideological and national entanglements of their lives and work, significant similarities between the artists (in the aspect of their works, biographical models and a similar individual stigma) are thought-provoking. Moreover, the ambiguity of assigning Norwid and Foscolo to one literary period still inspires polemics among literature researchers.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Maha Qahatn Sulaiman

A comprehensive investigation of Thomas Hardy’s poetry reveals the doctrines of Existentialism which were new and not common during the 19th century. Hardy’s poetry, combining both Modern and Victorian elements, proclaims the emancipation from the fetters of money and religious oriented orthodox heritage. Hardy believes that the struggle for existence is the canon of life and, therefore, human cooperation is a necessity to man’s wellbeing. Though Hardy’s religious beliefs declined, mainly the concepts of divine intervention, absolution, and afterlife, he did not relinquish his faith in the moral principles of the Christian Church. This is expressed in his poetry through an intense desire to elevate man’s status in the world, to secure the transition of man’s existence from insignificance to accomplishment and excellence. The present study examines Hardy’s poetry in the light of the existentialists’ belief that man can achieve supremacy by being conscious of one’s limitations, ethical responsibilities, and duties. The focus of the study is on female characters in Hardy’s poetry, whose elevated consciousness and self-realisation present an ethical model that can assist the development of humanity and improve the world.


2019 ◽  
pp. 131-149
Author(s):  
Ágnes Máté

The present article discusses a set of poems registered in print nr. 1620 of the Régi Magyarországi Nyomtatványok catalogue. The poem was dedicated by a doctor of medicine from Levoča, Samuel Spillenberger to his alleged godson, the nobleman János Máriássy. Spillenberger wrote three poems in the name of each married brothers of Máriássy. The second poem, allegedly sang by Máriássy’s youngest brother, András, tells a story about a bigamist crusader from the 12th century. After presenting the family backgrounds of both the author and the addressees, the paper sheds light on the origin and possible sources of the story. Pointing out some specific textual properties of Spillenberger’s poem, the paper tries to trace down its exact source. It also offers a panoramic picture about the presence of the bigamist figure in German neo-Latin Literature and culture from the 16th to the 19th century. Finally, the article closes with some remarks about the position of the poem in its own literary context of seventeenth-century neo-Latin wedding poetry in Hungary.


Author(s):  
Paula Wisotzki

For avant-garde European and American artists at the turn of the 20th century, a nexus of developments encouraged the rejection of naturalism, which had driven most of Western art for more than four centuries. Despite the increasing secularization of Western society throughout the 19th century, religious beliefs and practices were one important source for artists’ experimentation with abstracting forms from nature. Christianity and other world religions aided artists who sought to shift the focus of their art from description to expression. Around 1910, certain European and American artists pressed forward to make art that they considered to be fully nonrepresentational. Still, the bridge between abstraction and nonrepresentation was a challenging one to cross and artists frequently invoked religious beliefs to justify leaving the natural world behind. The evolution of abstraction in Western visual arts was intimately linked to the modern era. As important as religious concepts may have been to individual artists around 1900, artists had gradually moved to the periphery of society in the 19th century, leaving behind the institutions, including churches, that had been their primary means of support. These changing relationships gave individual artists the freedom to explore new ideas but eliminated stable sources of income previously available to them. On the other side of the patronage divide, mainstream religions were already threatened by the radical modernization of Western society, so even though religious dogma was replete with abstract concepts, churches were reluctant to embrace abstraction in the visual arts. At the same time, while artists were committed to expressions of spiritual truth in their abstract art, their objects were rarely produced with a conventional church setting in mind. Emerging in the 19th century, the complex relationship among modern society, abstract art, and religious practices persisted well into the 20th century.


2020 ◽  
pp. 158-164
Author(s):  
A.A. Burykin ◽  
D.N. Muzraeva

The article presents materials on toponymy, ethnonymy and partly on the anthroponymy of the Kalmyks, presented in guides to the Volga in the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries. Language facts are closely related to descriptions of material culture, everyday life, religious beliefs of Kalmyks and inter-ethnic relations of Kalmyks on the Eastern border of their settlement. Descriptions of guidebooks significantly Supplement our knowledge of the culture of the Kalmyks of the second half of the XIX century with details that were not previously paid attention to, in particular, about the literacy of the Kalmyks and the spread of their bookishness in the traditional letter “todo bichig” (“Clear Script”).


2019 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 315-326
Author(s):  
Ján Gallik

Motif of death in the work of Slovak, Czech and Hungarian authors of Catholic literatureIn the context of the evolution of religious literature, including the poetics of Slovak, Czech and Hungarian Catholic literature, the motif of death is not particularly unusual. This fact is clearly noticeable in the work of authors of the turn of the 19th century and the entire 20th century, as well as in the following millennium. For example, in the first phase of the creative work of Jakub Deml, who is considered one of the most important representatives of Czech Catholic literature of the first half of the 20th century, mirroring the so-called apocalyptic realism, we notice the thematization of solitude, death, extinction and nothingness. Death in Deml’s work is depicted as an entity that one seeks with an affection and desire, while “it constantly encounters Life. But as soon as they get excited and look for Life, they constantly meet Death, even those who don’t look for one for themselves”. Few years afterwards, a very similar thesis was developed by the later Catholic convert, important thinker and — it can be said — a comrade of the author of Slovak Catholic modernism, Pavol Strauss: “Life consists of search for life and it finds death within”. A Hungarian writer János Pilinszky, who besides spiritual-Christian poetry wrote great essays, the so-called Lyrical Diaries, wrote regarding death: “Death doesn’t exist for real, at least not the one that can be seen from the outside. We have to live first to be able to consider death”. And finally, Jan Zahradníček in his debut collection shifts the perception of death to the next semantic level, when it his poem Their shadow he writes “for the living ones I was alive too much / and for the alive ones I was too dead”. The aim of this paper is to interpret the motif of death in the work of selected authors of the Slovak, Czech and Hungarian Catholic literature.  Motyw śmierci w twórczości słowackich, czeskich i węgierskich autorów literatury katolickiejW kontekście rozwoju twórczości religijnej, w tym poezji słowackiej, czeskiej i węgierskiej literatury katolickiej, motyw śmierci nie jest niczym wyjątkowym. Zjawisko to można zaobserwować również w dziełach autorów z przełomu XIX i XX wieku. Motyw śmierci pojawia się w całej dwudziestowiecznej literaturze i przechodzi do trzeciego tysiąclecia. Występuje na przykład u Jakuba Demla, który jest uważany za jednego z najwybitniejszych przedstawicieli czeskiej literatury katolickiej pierwszej połowy XX wieku. W pierwszym okresie jego twórczości, w czasie tak zwanego realizmu apokaliptycznego, można zauważyć, że tematyka utworów krąży wokół samotności, śmierci, zaniku i nicości. Pavol Staruss, wybitny myśliciel katolicki, konwertyta z judaizmu i — można powiedzieć — wierny towarzysz autorów słowackiego modernizmu katolickiego, często podkreślał, iż życie składa się z poszukiwania życia, a w ramach tych poszukiwań natrafia się na śmierć. Z kolei János Pilinszky — węgierski pisarz, który oprócz duchowo-chrześcijańskiej twórczości poetyckiej tworzył wspaniałe eseje i tak zwane dzienniki liryczne — pisał w odniesieniu do śmierci, że śmierć w rzeczywistości nie istnieje, przynajmniej nie ta śmierć, którą możemy zaznać z zewnątrz. Trzeba najpierw żyć, abyśmy mogli wziąć pod uwagę śmierć.I wreszcie Jan Zahradníček w swoim debiutanckim tomiku przesuwa pojęcie śmierci na inny poziom znaczeniowy. W wierszu Ich cień umieszcza strofę: „dla martwych byłem za bardzo żywy / a dla żywych za bardzo martwy”. Celem tego artykułu jest przedstawienie przeglądu i dokonanie interpretacji twórczości wybranych autorów słowackiej, czeskiej i węgierskiej literatury katolickiej pod kątem występującego w niej motywu śmierci.


2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Ángeles Conde-Parrilla

The present article addresses sociolinguistic issues in a literary context, namely regional variation in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, a relevant, though not fully analysed, aspect of this novel. By the end of the 19th century most of Ireland was predominantly English speaking, but taking on a foreign language meant for the Irish a form of exile from their own identity, place and history. Revivalist writers responded to such a tension by using Hiberno-English, until it eventually became established as a literary medium. As is clear from my analysis, dialectal usage powerfully contributes to the vivid realization of most characters in Joyce’s novel, reflecting their regional provenance and social background. The representation of the linguistic situation thus offered is realistic and extensive, but also innovative in the context of the Irish Literary Revival. More importantly, it illustrates the protagonist’s views on national identity, and his struggles to find his own voice in the midst of the polyphony prevalent in turn-of-the-century Dublin. As this article argues, the dialogical tension between hybrid Irish English and standard English is truly essential to a comprehensive reading of A (colonial) Portrait.


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