scholarly journals An Abstract Expressionist: A Study of Kurt Vonnegut’s Bluebeard

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-15
Author(s):  
Thirupathi Reddy Maram
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
Abstract Expressionist ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Human Desire

The novel, Bluebeard (1987) presents a dialogue between abstract and representational painting, pointing out both the value and shortcomings of each school. It may end by imagining a type of art in which the usual boundaries separating the real and the artificial fall away; an art that is able to capture the complexity, sorrow, and beauty of life itself. On the other hand, it focuses on human’s cruelty to human. However, the novel also shows that even in the midst of war and death and sorrow the innate human impulse is a creative one. The novel discovers the human desire to create as it investigates the nature of new art itself. Vonnegut was mostly inspired by the grotesque prices paid for works of art during the past century. He thought not only of the mud-pies of art, but of children’s games as well.

Баллада в калмыцкой поэзии ХХ в. (Ц. Леджинов, С. Байдыев)

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 264-277
Author(s):  
Rimma M. Khaninova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Translation ◽  
Semantic Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Original Text ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand

The article discusses ballads of the Kalmyk poets Tseren Ledzhinov “Бальчгин туск баллад” (“A Ballad about the Mud”, 1941) and Sanzhar Baidyev «Башмгудин туск баллад» (“A Ballad about Boots”, 1967). The analysis of the two ballads in the original showed that neither the content nor the form of Ledzhinov’s poem fits the announced genre. The poem by Baidyev, on the other hand, is one of the interesting ballads of the Kalmyk poetry of the past century, it is experimental in terms of the plot and the characters. The original text of S. Badyev’s work is compared to its Russian translation “Boots” translated by D. Dolinsky and V. Strelkov. The comparison revealed that the author’s conception and manifestation were altered by the translators in the aspect of semantic context and genre identity.

scholarly journals Interplay of Fantasy and Realism in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 324
Author(s):  
Mohsin Hassan Khan ◽  
Qudsia Zaini ◽  
Md Jakir Hossain
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Fine Line ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
Midnight's Children ◽  
Familiar World ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
Human Desire

Fantasy and realism are the traits to be found in every culture and individual. Fantasy was often dismissed for being a thing associated with children. This was a practice found to be rampant in the past or it was rather a matter of the past so to say. After centuries of oblivion, people have started giving importance to fantasy when there is a lot of chaos in the society. Fantasy as a genre that helps us to band together, explain, change and form an opinion on reality. Fantasy can surely tempt the human desire, for more than the familiar world of the readers, into ease, anyway from reality and communicate with immense imagination that the readers can connect to. With this in mind, the paper tries to analyze Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children the bizarre and the fantastic blurs the boundaries between the real and plausible in the novel, thereby problematizing the identities of gender, parenthood, and nationality, and renders the readers into a state of uncertainty by incorporating oblique references or links. It also aims to critically analyze and discuss how the lines between fantasy and reality are blurred in literature. The importance of this study is to connect the fine line of fantasy with reality in literature and to present perceptions to the readers on how literature is understood differently by different people.

Effects of Imported Technology on Iranian Architecture

2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 1966-1970
Author(s):  
Mohammad Reza Maghareh ◽  
Mohammad Aliabadi ◽  
Maryam Dastgheib Parsa
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Fars Province ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Engineering Organization

In order to study the effects of imported technology on Iranian architecture, a field study was conducted according to the views of architects and engineers involved in construction activities. At first, the literature subject was reviewed, then, the technology indexes, that affect the architecture, were identified. A questionnaire was prepared to recognize their effects, and ninety architects and engineers of Engineering Organization of Fars Province were surveyed. In this paper, the methodology of determination and prioritization of the indexes are studied and; the results of six indexes are discussed. According to the results, five of the indexes are negative. It is found that, lack of attention to the harmony between imported technology and social and cultural backgrounds has the most negative effect on the Iranian architecture during the past century. On the other hand buying and transferring professional imported technologies has been positive based on the participants’ idea.

The Last Controversy over Ritual Murder? The Debate over the Paintings in Sandomierz Cathedral

2003 ◽  
pp. 483-490
Author(s):  
Anna Landau-Czajka
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Ritual Murder ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Press ◽  
Religious Paintings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Church Doctrine

This chapter addresses a series of religious paintings in the Sandomierz Cathedral, one of which depicts a ritual murder. In 2000, a debate began over what should be done with a painting whose message was so clearly and unambiguously antisemitic. Should a depiction of ritual murder be on display in a church even though Church doctrine has long recognized that Jews never killed children for matzah? On the other hand, should works of art be censored? If they are illegal or immoral, should they be removed? The subject of the painting in Sandomierz Cathedral soon ceased to be merely a local issue when discussion of it filled the Polish press for several weeks. The main problem seemed to be that the myth of ritual murder, though it should by now have been relegated to the past along with that of the existence of witches, was a subject whose interest, in Poland at least, was by no means confined to historians and folklorists. This should come as no surprise, since the issue of ritual murder was still taken seriously by the press in the period between the two world wars. Despite official Church prohibitions, accusations against the Jews were still being made during that period.

XIV.—The Real Tragedy of Keats

PMLA ◽  
1921 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-331
Author(s):  
G. R. Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Early Death ◽  
The Other ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past

“But the crownOf all my life was utmost quietude” (Endymion, III).Keats' central instinct was for high poetic repose: for the quietude that comes, not from avoiding life, but from surmounting it. The goal, however, was so far beyond his reach that he could not have attained it, I think, even if he had lived a full lifetime. His early death (February 23, 1821) is bound to lose, as the centuries revolve upon that day, much of its tragic color; but at the same time the deeper tragedy of his spirit can appear more distinctly. This deeper tragedy has been considerably dimmed in the atmosphere of uniqueness with which the poet has been invested by the rising admiration of a hundred years. The other chief poets of the past century are now seen more or less clearly in their true boundaries; Keats' limits have been kept uniquely vague. His poetic potentiality and his ruining fate have been so continually balanced against each other, with insensible additions now on one side of the scale and now on the other, that both have come to appear much weightier than they really were. In particular it has been assumed with extraordinary unanimity that Keats' physical disintegration, beginning eighteen months before his death, stopped his progress just as he was approaching a much higher level of poetic achievement.

scholarly journals Presenting the Era (Masa)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-46
Author(s):  
Aji Dedi Mulawarman
Keyword(s):  
Entire Range ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand

This article aims to present a concept of era based on the Qur'anic idea of Al-Ashr. At the first presence, era, whether at historical level, or transcending it, has never escape holiness, as time and space where sacred moral act is always present. At the second presence, era is, in essence, holiness as a reality of being, reality of existence, and presence, where the entire range of the past, present and future is no longer important, even lost, but is a reality that is present in the era without era. At the third presence, holiness, on the other hand, must be historical for the task of the public in the name of love for God, which is part of the deepest consciousness of every human being and human relations where the past, present and future move historically in space and time. At the fourth presence, the real man is thus a man who always purifies his soul without pause in the historical space of time, even beyond it. At the fifth presence, the act of “so be it” (kun fayakun) of God exists, time exists throughout the span of time without any preconditions or constructions based on His commandments (namely Ibn Arabi Bipolar Triplisity).

scholarly journals Urbanismo Colaborativo

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Moreno Balboa
Keyword(s):  
Living Conditions ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Interest ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
Government Functions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

¿Ha cambiado el concepto de ciudad en tan sólo 2400 años? Si la ciudad la componen los ciudadanos ¿son éstos distintos de los ciudadanos de las antiguas polis? Si el ciudadano es quien participa en las funciones de gobierno de su ciudad, ¿quién es ahora realmente, ciudadano? ¿Quién quiere serlo? y quién quisiera participar de dichas funciones, ¿cómo podría conseguirlo?En la sociedad actual se producen dos situaciones antagónicas que afectan al desarrollo de la ciudad, por un lado las administraciones, actuando orientadas al interés general, reconocen pero congelan las posibilidades de participar de la población en el urbanismo y la creación de ciudad; y por otro lado la sociedad se mueve y actúa al margen de las administraciones en la mejora de su entorno y sus condiciones de vida, desde las denominadas iniciativas urbanas. Cuáles son los motivos de esta situación y cómo hacer que ambos movimientos coincidan en la generación del denominado “Urbanismo Colaborativo”, es el objeto de este trabajo.AbstractHas the concept of city changed in only the past 2400 years? If the city is the one consisting the citizens, are these any different of the citizens ancient polis? If the citizen is one participating in his city’s government functions, who is the real citizen now a days? Who wants to be one? Who wants to participate in those functions? How could someone acomplish that?In today’s society, there are two antagonistic situations that are affecting the development of the city, on the one hand the administrations, acting orientated to the general interest, they recognize but freeze the possibilities that the citizens have of participating in urbanism and the creation of the city. And on the other hand, the society moves and acts outside of the administrations for the improvement of their environment and their living conditions, doing this from the named urban initiatives. What causes this situation and how to put together both movements and for them to agree in the generation of the named “Collaborative Urbanism” is the subject and what this study wants to acomplish.

scholarly journals Art in the Holocaust: On Josef Bor’s Novella Terezínské rekviem and its Reception

2017 ◽  
pp. 167-179
Author(s):  
Reinhard Ibler
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Real ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
The One

The name of the Czech writer Josef Bor (1906–1979) is nearly forgotten today, although he was very successful with two works in the sixties. Both works deal with the Holocaust. The novel Opuštěná panenka (1961) is inspired by the author’s own horrible experiences at Terezín, Auschwitz and other places of the Holocaust. In 1963, the novella Terezínské rekviem followed which is subject of this paper. Bor’s novella is about the Jewish musician Rafael Schächter and his staging of Verdi’s Requiem at Terezín. From the viewpoint of reception, this work is interesting on two counts: on the one hand, in the story the reception and interpretation of art play a crucial role, on the other hand, there are some special features in the reception of the novella itself, as the work has mostly been read in the light of the real events the story is referring to, whereas the text’s literary character has often been neglected.

scholarly journals Mimesis, interpretation and the human condition

Ars Aeterna ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Mária Kiššová
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Vladimir Nabokov ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Artistic Creativity ◽  
The Real ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Human Condition

Abstract One of the most fundamental questions in the discourse on artistic creativity and interpretation is that of mimesis or representation; the relation and the ‘tension’ between experiential reality on one hand and an artistic construct on the other hand. In the present study, mimesis and the discussion about the connection between the experiential and the imaginary are understood as major characteristics by which man and the human condition are defined. From the context of the visual arts, the study proceeds to literature and, specifically, to an analysis of the novel The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) by Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977). The main aim of the study is to show the questions of representation and interpretation as part of the universal inquiry about humanity and the human condition.

The image of the country estate in the literary and art magazines of the Russian Emigration of the First Wave (“The Firebird” and “Chimes”)

2020 ◽  
pp. 160-169
Author(s):  
Natalia V. Mikhalenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Characteristic Features

The image of the pre-revolutionary country estate in the Russian émigré magazines “Firebird” (1921–1926) and “Chimes” (1925–1929) is polyphonic and intermedial, being created with copies of artistic paintings related to the estate theme (by Sergei Sudeikin and Konstantin Somov in “The Firebird”, and by Sergei Zhukovsky and Sergei Vinogradov in “Chimes”), articles on characteristic features of the estate way of life, and on unique estates of the past (“Old Estates” by Nikolai Misheev in the “Chimes”), stories and poems related to the “estate topos” (“Spring on Krestovsky” by Sasha Chorny, “Youth” by Ivan Bunin, “On a Wolf Fur Coat” by Konstantin Balmont, etc., in “Firebird”). One can call the Sasha Chorny’s poem “The House over the Velicaia River” (“Pictures from Russian Life”) published in “Chimes” the real encyclopedia of the Russian estate life. The image of the estate in the émigré magazines is enshrined in myths of an idyllic image of the lost homeland, and is rooted in the idyllic reminiscences of the lost homeland. Life in harmony with nature, life and everyday activities arranged as works of art, one’s cultural and spiritual development, on one hand, becomes an unattainable nostalgic ideal for emigrants, and, on the other, it is a life-giving memory uniting Russians abroad.

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