scholarly journals El legado de Jules Verne entre el imaginario literario y la modernidad: Perspectivas geográficas e históricas / Jules Verne's Legacy between the Literary Imagination and Modernity: Geographical and Historical Perspectives

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Gustavo Norberto Duperré
Keyword(s):  
Literary Imagination ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Jules Verne ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
French Writer ◽  
Adventure Stories

ABSTRACTAt the time of including the components of scientific disclosure and adventure stories in the structures of fiction, the Universal Literature found in the leading figure of Jules Verne one of its most genuine exponents. His singularity has transcended his own time, perpetuating the advances of the modern age up to our days, as an unusual notoriety of this French writer. Nevertheless, and beyond the literary imaginary, geographical and historical seasonings are the ones that predominate in the work of Verne, and several of which are part of the famous compilation: Extraordinary Journeys.RESUMENAl momento de incluir a los componentes de divulgación científica y los relatos de aventuras en las estructuras de ficción, la Literatura Universal halló en la figura de Jules Verne a uno de sus exponentes más genuinos. Su singularidad ha trascendido su propia época, perpetuando los avances del mundo moderno hasta nuestros días, como una inusitada notoriedad de este escritor francés. No obstante, y más allá del imaginario literario, los condimentos geográficos e históricos son los que mayormente predominan en la obra de Verne; varios de los cuales, forman parte de la famosa compilación: Los Viajes Extraordinarios.

scholarly journals A Oralidade (e a Escrita) no Novo Código de Processo Civil Brasileiro

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Valente Cardoso
Keyword(s):  
Middle Age ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Civil Procedure ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Current Regulation ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Ius Commune ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Procedure Code

Resumo: O artigo trata da oralidade no processo civil brasileiro, sob as perspectivas histórica e normativa, com o objetivo de examinar a regulamentação atual pelo Código de Processo Civil e o tratamento conferido pelo Anteprojeto do novo Código. Aborda aspectos conceituais e classificações da oralidade e sua evolução histórica, no Direito Romano, no Ius Commune da Idade Média e na Idade Moderna, especialmente em Portugal e no Brasil. No Brasil, examina-se a regulamentação da oralidade no Regulamento 737 e nos Códigos de Processo Civil de 1939 e 1973, para, ao fim, verificar a existência (ou não) de mudanças no projeto da nova codificação processual. Palavras-Chave: Oralidade; Direito Romano; Idade Média; Ius Commune; Código de Processo Civil. Abstract: This article deals with orality in Brazilian civil procedure, under normative and historical perspectives, in order to examine the current regulation by the Brazilian Civil Procedure Code and the treatment given by the new Code draft. It addresses conceptual aspects, and orality classifications and its historical evolution, in Roman Law, Middle Age Ius Commune and Modern Age, especially in Portugal and Brazil. In Brazil, it examines orality legal regulation, in Regulation 737, and in 1939 and 1973 Civil Procedure Code, in order to, finally, determine the existence (or not) of changes in the new Code draft. Keywords: Orality; Roman Law; Middle Age; Ius Commune; Civil Procedure Code.

Wired to the Word: On Reading Thrillers

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 267-275
Author(s):  
David Platten
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Early Adolescence ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
French Language ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
The Political ◽  
Reading Experience ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Roman Noir ◽  
Adventure Stories

The appearance in 2003 of 21 Georges Simenon novels in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade reaffirmed a widespread consensus that French-language crime fiction, especially the roman noir with its vigil over the political and social ills of the nation, had secured its position as an important vector of French cultural history. Its sister genre, the thriller, has fared less well. Justly criticised for its expedient style and limited intellectual horizons, the thriller continues to appeal to a mass readership drawn from all sectors of society.This article locates its attractions in the ways in which we might once have engaged with the adventure stories of our collective youth that furnished our first solitary contact with literary fiction. It argues that our response to narrative suspense in adventure stories consumed in early adolescence is later rekindled and developed in the more adult thrillers of the modern age. Working within a conceptual framework that includes the psychologically based thrillers of Boileau-Narcejac and Sébastian Japrisot juxtaposed with the adrenalin rush of events supplied by Dan Brown and Maxime Chattam, it analyses the different modalities of suspense and their concomitant reading pleasures, concluding that the thriller meets the expectations not of a certain group of readers but of a certain type of reading experience.

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, MINING, AND PROSTITUTION

2009 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 739-761 ◽  
Author(s):  
JULIA ANN LAITE
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mining Communities ◽  
Gold Mines ◽  
North American West ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Mining Regions

ABSTRACTProstitution has been linked by many historians and social commentators to the industrial development and capitalism of the modern age, and there is no better example of this than the prostitution that developed in mining regions from the mid-nineteenth century. Using research on mining-related prostitution, and other social histories of mining communities where prostitution inevitably forms a part, large or small, of the historian's analysis of the mining region, this article will review, contrast, and compare prostitution in various mining contexts, in different national and colonial settings. From the American and Canadian gold rushes in the mid- and late nineteenth century, to the more established mining frontiers of the later North American West, to the corporate mining towns of Chile in the interwar years, to the copper and gold mines of southern Africa and Kenya in the first half of the twentieth century, commercial sex was present and prominent as the mining industry and mining communities developed.1 Challenging the simplistic images and stereotypes of prostitution that are popularly associated with the American mining frontier, historians have shown that prostitution's place in mining communities, and its connection to industrial development, was as complex as it was pervasive and enduring.

scholarly journals In the quest of a novel BTI (bio-technical identity) Beyond the ontology of the human person

2021 ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Kostas Theologou
Keyword(s):  
Gene Editing ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Aldous Huxley ◽  
Ethical Philosophy ◽  
Assisted Reproduction Technologies ◽  
Jules Verne ◽  
French Writer ◽  
John Brunner

The intuitions and imagination of human visionaries about the infinite possibilities of scientific research and technology are creatively haunting the quest of our species to expand knowledge in the micro-cosmos and the vast space. Since 19th century French writer Jules Verne (1828-1905) and English writer Mary Shelley (1797-1851) had already traced the path to our days and beyond.They were followed by an infinite series of great intuitionists, who were not mere futurists like H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Isaac Asimov, Arthur Clarke, John Brunner and many more. Scientific endeavors and achievements transform the qualities of life and foster social institutions in various ways. The paper deals with a prevailing technological phenomenon, the scientific capacity of gene-editing, promoting thus the emergence of a virtual novel identity. The new achievements in sciences encourage the expression of human free-will allowing for physical and other enhancements or alterations, in reference to biological and technological features that may lead to a new bio-techno-identity (let us call it BTI). The paper reflects on the issue of “enhancing” the established concepts for defining a human being and a human person; it also puts forward the possibility of conducting a theoretical and field researchexamining -and evaluating- the issue and the mechanisms of BTI formation,reassessing all traditional qualities and novel characteristics attributed to humans by the applications of Biotechnology.The issue is eventually approached under the standpoints of Ethical Philosophy, Sociology, Biology, Orthodox Theology and Law. The analysis discusses intuitions in sci-fi literature and cinematography in comparison to reality i.e. the multitude of assisted reproduction technologies, embryonic and genetic labs, implants and even cloning in Western Societies.

scholarly journals Childhood Reading on the Cusp of the 19th and 20th Centuries (Basing on the Material of the V. G. Belinsky Yekaterinburg Public Library)

2015 ◽  
pp. 103-106
Author(s):  
Olga V. Moreva
Keyword(s):  
Book Publishing ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
History Of Reading ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Jules Verne ◽  
French Writer ◽  
History Of ◽  
Childhood Reading

On the basis of the V. G. Belinsky Yekaterinburg Public Voluntary Library’s records for the period from 1899 to 1914, the article defines the range of readers’ preferences of the Ural children and youth: which sorts of books and which authors were the most popular. The books of the French writer Jules Verne had the greatest success among the young readers. Reasons for this popularity of Jules Verne’s books are established in the article through the documents of management and record keeping, Russian book publishing development statistics, memoirs and other documents. History of Reading

Life, Death and the Elderly: Historical Perspectives

1992 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 372-373
Author(s):  
Margot Jefferys
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Historical Perspectives
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