scholarly journals REVOLUTIONARY OR NEW? ROMANTICISM IN K. SIMONOV’s POEM “THE RETURN”

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 1299-1305
Author(s):  
I.N. Korzhova
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Secondary Phase ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Soviet Literature ◽  
Revolutionary Romanticism ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The City

The article presents an analysis of Simonov's poem “The Return” in the aspect of interaction with the literary tradition. In the poem, the motifs and values of revolutionary romanticism, neo-romanticism and romanticism coexist in conflict. Thus, the romantic motif of flight structurally equates the city of childhood with a vulgar reality and calls into question the ideas of camaraderie and labor exploits that are important for Soviet literature. In the story of the hero's brief return to the city of his childhood, a "secondary phase of alienation" (Mann's term) is realized. The myth of the beloved as the embodiment of the heavenly ideal takes on special significance in the poem. The source of certain motifs and images is the romantic tradition as a whole, besides, allusions and quotations referring directly to the works of Byron, Zhukovsky, Pushkin and to the lyrics of Gumilev and Esenin based on the romantic heritage have been identified. The removal of the metaphysical vertical and the courageous optimism of the final part of the poem suggest that it belongs to neo-romanticism. This study allows us to clarify the idea of the aesthetic orientation of Simonov's early work.

Zygmunt Krasiński wobec sztuk pięknych / Zygmunt Krasiński and the Fine Arts

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Płaszczewska
Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Individual Sensitivity ◽  
What Works ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
A Current ◽  
Aesthetic Preferences

Summary This is an attempt at examining Zygmunt Krasiński’s opinions and preferences with regard to the fine arts, a theme many critics believed to be missing from his writings. While putting things right, this article looks at the issues involved in his artistic choices, for example, what works or artists attracted his attention, in general, and to the point of him actually drawing on them in his own work or provoking him to some response (critical, approving, emotional, etc.). Furthermore, the article tries to explore the reasons and circumstances which may account for Krasiński’s interest in a given painting, print, or sculpture. It may have been the work’s theme as in the case of his ekphrasis of Ary Scheffer’s Dante and Virgil Encountering the Shades of Francesca and Paolo Di Rimini, where literary tradition provided the impulse, or the mode of its execution, or the personal ties with its author, or, finally, some other factors, like a current vogue or simply Krasiński’s individual sensitivity. The ultimate aim of all these inquiries is to outline Krasiński’s relationship with the arts (beaux arts) in the context of the aesthetic preferences of the epoch.

Puccini's La Bohème

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Music Drama ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
La Boheme ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City

La bohème is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world. But how did it come to be so adored? Drawing on an extremely broad range of sources, Alexandra Wilson traces the opera’s rise to global fame. Although the work has been subjected to many hostile critiques, it swiftly achieved popular success through stage performances, recordings, and filmed versions. Wilson demonstrates how La bohème acquired even greater cultural influence as its music and dramatic themes began to be incorporated into pop songs, film soundtracks, musicals, and more. In this cultural history of Puccini’s opera, Wilson offers a fresh reading of a familiar work. La bohème was strikingly modern for the 1890s, she argues, in its approach to musical and dramatic realism and in flouting many of the conventions of the Italian operatic tradition. Considering the work within the context of the aesthetic, social, and political debates of its time, Wilson explores Puccini’s treatment of themes including gender, poverty, and nostalgia. She pays particular attention to La bohème’s representation of Paris, arguing that the opera was not only influenced by romantic mythologies surrounding the city but also helped shape them. Wilson concludes with a consideration of the many and varied approaches directors have taken to the staging of Puccini’s opera, including some that have reinvented the opera for a new age. This book is essential reading for anyone who has seen La bohème and wants to know more about its music, drama, and cultural contexts.

THE FREEDOM OF THE AESTHETIC: MONTSERRAT ROIG’S USE OF THE CITY IN RAMONA, ADÉU

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-99
Author(s):  
Caragh Wells
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Social ◽  
Catalan Literature ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The City

This article suggests that over recent decades Catalan literary criticism has paid too little attention to the aesthetic attributes of Catalan literature and emphasised the social, political and cultural at the expense of discussions of narrative poetics. Through an analysis of Montserrat Roig’s metaphorical use of the city in her first novel Ramona, adéu, I put forward the view that the aesthetic features of Catalan literature need to be re-claimed. This article provides a critical analysis of the aesthetic importance of Roig’s representation of the city in her first novel and argues that she uses Barcelona as a critical tool through which to explore questions of both female emancipation and aesthetic freedom. Following a detailed discussion of Roig’s descriptions of how her female characters interact with particular urban spaces, I examine how Roig makes subtle shifts in her semantic register during these narrative accounts when her prose moves into the realm of the poetic. I conclude that this technique enables us to read her accounts of urban space as metaphors for aesthetic freedom and are inextricably linked to her wider concerns on the importance of liberating Catalan literature from the discourse of political nationalism.

scholarly journals O Cinema e sua dimensão estético-pedagógica: Bacurau e a Lógica Exúlica

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Ana Vitoria Luiz e Silva Prudente ◽  
Ellen de Lima Souza
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
The Other ◽  
Continuous Action ◽  
Childhood Gender ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The City

The article “Cinema and its aesthetic-pedagogical dimension: Bacurau and the Exulic Logic” aims to express the aesthetic-pedagogical dimension of cinema, reaching many social fabrics for being a structure that allows a continuous action in the production of subjectivity and in the formation of taste and interest of its consuming agents, through possible representativeness and representation. We use the Exulic Logic as a methodology Souza (2016) to understand the relationships between collectivity, childhood, gender markings, the understanding of 'the other' and the city, centralizing knowledge at the crossroads. This dialogue forges possibilities of breaking away from the coloniality of power, enabling circularity of knowledge, which in itself already proposes a break with Cartesian reasoning, which is based on an imperialist, colonial construction that privileges: Eurocentrism to the detriment of African, Aphrodiasporic and indigenous cosmoperceptions; adultcentrism, disregarding children's knowledge and the possible practices of the elderly, thus, with a racist, utilitarian and capitalistic bias. It is in the removal of or, for the addition of and, in the valuation of the sum, that it is observed that there is no such order of importance that the Euro-straight-male-authoritarian Prudente (2019) proposes.

scholarly journals Towards a spatialized utopia: romanticism and everyday life in the Marxism of Henri Lefebvre

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
César Simoni Santos
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Social Imagination ◽  
Critical Tradition ◽  
Revolutionary Romanticism ◽  
Practical Program ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
Spatial Element

The presence of the spatial element in the reflections of Henri Lefebvre does not merely result from work involving the translation and adaptation of critical thinking developed up until his time. The realization that not even the highest expression of the critical tradition had sufficiently noticed this crucial dimension of life was one of the connecting points between theoretical advance, represented by the spatial orientation of critique, and the effort to renew the utopian horizon. A very distinct assimilation of the early work of Marx and the proximity to revolutionary romanticism, particularly of Nietzschean extraction, rendered a decisive impact on Lefebvrian conception. Practice, body, pleasure and instincts, recovering their place in the critical social imagination, went on to become the basis for the re-foundation of a theoretical-practical program that involved the formulation of the notion of the right to the city. The perspective of appropriation thus replaced the vague emancipatory statements of the subject's philosophies.

scholarly journals City image as a personification of female nature in “The Dead [City of] Bruges” by Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-109
Author(s):  
Marina A. Kozlova
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
The Novel ◽  
City Image ◽  
Image System ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The City

The paper is devoted to the peculiarities of the creation of the personified image of the city in the novel “The Dead [City of] Bruges” by Georges Raymond Constantin Rodenbach, which, according to the author himself, represents not only the protagonist, but also its organising force. The Belgian author draws on an earlier literary tradition, according to which the city appears to the poet's mind in the form of a woman. The image of the city is built on the combination and interaction of different elements, among which those that are considered in the article: the theme of duality, the motif of reflection, which becomes the main constructional principle of the image system of the novel, as well as references to mythological and literary archetypes. The theme of duplicity is directly connected with the category of correspondence or analogy, which is central to Rodenbach's oeuvre and forms a peculiar poetics of reflection and determines the choice of expressive means. Dualism is associated with a hostile, dark and demonic force, contrasted with the "holy" and infallible feminine ideal, embodied in the image of the perished beloved, who is also a prototype of the city. The poeticised image of the city is related to archetypical figures that are typical of European symbolism – first of all, Ophelia, but also Orpheus and Narcissus, all this through an appeal to the symbolism of water and the otherworld, then through the main character's attempt to overcome the border between worlds and create a new myth about love that defeats death.

O literaturze i życiu literackim Wolnego Miasta Krakowa: 1816-1846

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zenon Jagoda
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
False Information ◽  
Literary Life ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Polish Culture ◽  
Time Frames ◽  
The City

The book presents literary phenomena of the Free City of Krakow, a political formation created by the Congress of Vienna, remaining under the protectorate of the Holly Alliance. The time frames of the historical and literary narration of the work correspond to the period which marks the existence of the Free City of Krakow (the Republic of Krakow). In 1816-1846, a change of literary epochs occurred in the Krakow region and the most valuable part of the Krakow literature of the Romanticism was created. The book arose from the need of systematising of knowledge about this literature, correction of false information, obliterating of unknown areas, reconsideration of a prevailing opinion about importance of the Krakow centre in the literature of the Late Enlightenment and Romanticism in the Polish culture. A literary process within the discussed period has been divided by the author into four phases (1816-1828, 1828-1830, 1831-1840, 1841-1846). This periodisation functions as a compositional factor of the book. Beside literature, the author presents broadly literary life of the city (periodicals and printing, institutions, literary communication, as well as literary tradition and awareness, social circles of literature reception), and set of conditions and circumstances from the scope of social culture, customs, politics, accompanying the literary life.

The Virtual Infernal: Philippe de Loutherbourg, William Beckford and the Spectacle of the Sublime

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain McCalman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Virtual Reality Technology ◽  
Gothic Novel ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
William Beckford ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Drury Lane

Abstract In the autumn of 1781, shortly after being elected to the British Academy of Art as a landscape painter, Alsatian-born artist Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg was hired by the wealthy young aesthete William Beckford to prepare a private birthday spectacle at his mansion in Wiltshire. De Loutherbourg, who was also chief scenographer at Drury Lane theatre and the inventor of a recent commercial “moving picture” entertainment called the Eidophusikon, promised to produce “a mysterious something that the eye has not seen nor the heart conceived.” Beckford wanted an Oriental spectacle that would completely ravish the senses of his guests, not least so that he could enjoy a sexual tryst with a thirteen year old boy, William Courtenay, and Louisa Beckford, his own cousin’s wife. The resulting three day party and spectacle staged over Christmas 1781 became one of the scandals of the day, and ultimately forced William Beckford into decades of exile in Europe to escape accusations of sodomy. However, this Oriental spectacle also had a special significance for the history of Romantic aesthetics and modern-day cinema. Loutherbourg and Beckford’s collaboration provided the inspiration for William to write his scintillating Gothic novel, Vathek, and impelled Philippe himself into revising his moving-picture program in dramatically new ways. Ultimately this saturnalian party of Christmas 1781 constituted a pioneering experiment in applying the aesthetic of the sublime to virtual reality technology. It also led Loutherbourg to anticipate the famous nineteenth-century “Phantasmagoria” of French showman, Gaspard Robertson, by producing in 1782 a miniature Gothic movie scene based on the Pandemonium episode in Milton’s Paradise Lost.

Conclusion

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Soviet Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Russian Literary

This chapter presents some concluding thoughts. Part of the purpose of this study has been to recover a sense of the range and scope of the work of just one of the writers generally thought to be part of the world of official Soviet literature. Berggol′ts is known first of all for her wartime poetry; that work deserves to be placed firmly in the context of her writing before and after the war. Its importance should not be denied, but it should not be seen as a sudden, unprecedented outburst of creativity. In its exploration of Berggol′ts's writing, this study has shown that life and art became tightly entangled in her poetry and prose; the poet's own conviction that the two should be intimately connected is demonstrated by her texts. Yet it would be wrong to lose sight of the fact that we have been dealing with literary texts which must be viewed in relation to other literary texts. While much of what Berggol′ts wrote displays its connection with events in her life and in the life of her society, her writing also reveals its awareness of how others wrote. Russian literary tradition and the poetry of her contemporaries helped to form Berggol′ts's work.

On Empty Spaces, Silence, and the Pause

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Amato
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
York City ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Empty Space ◽  
World City ◽  
Growth Machine ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The City

Before there is an aesthetic of gentrification, there is disinvestment. In between both is the production – and perception – of empty space ready to be filled. The production of empty space has a long history in New York City, from settler colonialism to urban renewal to gentrification under the neoliberal regime of today. Techniques such as filtering, investing in the aesthetic potential of aging neighbourhoods, and declaring vacancy, have helped fuel the process of gentrification. More recently, that process has accelerated to insure New York’s world city status by promising that every underutilized parcel will be filled with the tallest buildings, the greenest construction, and the densest use of land. Yet the city still has room for alternative visions that embrace a pause in the growth machine, such as cooperative centres and community gardens. These efforts, threatened though they are, provide models for inclusive cities where neoliberalism does not.

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