The Exotic Other and the Other Within

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-251
Author(s):  
Anton Kurenbach ◽  
Burkhard Niederhoff
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
High Water ◽  
The Other ◽  
High Water Mark ◽  
Mental Powers ◽  
The Many

A. C. Doyle praised R. L. Stevenson’s tale The Pavilion on the Links as »the high-water mark of his genius«. He also imitated it very closely in one of his own tales, The Mystery of Cloomber. The present article details the many parallels between the two texts. It also analyses the remaining differences, which are primarily related to the role played by a group of foreigners. Doyle exoticises the foreigners, representing them as Eastern mystics whose mental powers are infinitely superior to those of the British characters. By contrast, Stevenson’s foreigners are ordinary mortals. They are not strange or exotic in themselves; they rather act as a catalyst of strange, incongruous and surprising elements in the personalities of the British characters.

scholarly journals Entomostraca

1879 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 215-218 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Brackish Water ◽  
High Water ◽  
Freshwater Lake ◽  
The Other ◽  
Calanus Finmarchicus ◽  
Freshwater Species ◽  
Kerguelen Island ◽  
High Water Mark ◽  
Oceanic Species

[Ostracoda. All of the Ostracoda collected by me in Kerguelen Island were lost by a breakage.—A. E. E.] Copepoda. The Entomostraca submitted to me were taken in the following localities:—One surface-net gathering, in lat. 35° 9' S., long. 45° 30' E.; another gathering from a freshwater lake, and a third from a pool above high-water mark, both in Kerguelen Island. The oceanic species were Calanus Finmarchicus and a Sapphirina , either identical with or very closely allied to S. danœ , Lubbock; those from Kerguelen Island were a freshwater species, apparently new, described by me briefly in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Sept. 1875, under the name Centropages brevicaudatus ; and a species from brackish water, Harpacticus fulvus . No species have yet been recorded by the other Expeditions.

VII.—Recent Marine Clays At Kuchavelli, Ceylon

1905 ◽  
Vol 2 (11) ◽  
pp. 508-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Keyword(s):  
East Coast ◽  
High Water ◽  
The Other ◽  
High Water Mark ◽  
The Right ◽  
Marine Clays

Kuchavelli is twenty-two miles north of Trincomalee on the JV. east coast of Ceylon. Two miles south of Kuchavelli is the mouth of the Salape aru. On the right bank of this river, near the mouth, raised beach, consisting of shelly sandstone, is exposed. The sandstone is often full of marine shells, and there are also thick growths of oysters attached to upstanding masses of rock. The bed is from 6inches to 2 feet in thickness, and is exposed about 1 foot above high-water mark, and stretches down the sloping bank between tide-marks. This is the ordinary raised beach of Ceylon, a deposit usuallyoccurring at or below high-water mark, and now being continually eroded at numerous points on the coast of Ceylon where it is exposed (e.g. Bentota). This deposit will not now be further spoken of.The Salape aru is really the name of the estuary of several rivers; proceeding up the river inland, the Matti aru is reached, a shallow river with alluvial banks eight or ten feet above the water on either side. Extensive sandbanks are found on one side or the other of the river, alternating on the meanders with places where erosion is in progress. These banks are covered with marine shells, the large flat Placunas being most common. There are also found clayey nodules including marine shells, crabs, and it is said sometimes tortoises and fishes. The crabs are collected for use as medicine, being powdered and mixed with milk or water as a specific for diabetes.

scholarly journals Grundtvig og Rødding Højskole

1999 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-93
Author(s):  
Thorkild C. Lyby
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
The Other ◽  
Board Of Governors ◽  
The People ◽  
Cultural Struggle ◽  
Folk High School ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

Grundtvig and the Folk High School at RøddingBy Thorkild LybyIn his book Vision og Virkeliggørelse (Vision and Fulfilment) Helge Grell has advanced the argument that Grundtvig had reservations about Rødding Folk High School, because it identified itself with the national struggle to such an extent that it did not fully practice Grundtvig’s original folk high school ideas.Against this view, the present article claims that it is impossible to disqualify Rødding as non-Grundtvigian. Following a discussion of what it takes for a folk high school to be called Grundtvigian, the article gives an outline of the history of Rødding up to the 1864 war which necessitated the transfer to Askov. The emphasis is on the attitudes of successive principals, predominantly, however, that of Christian Flor. Not only was he the driving force behind the establishment of the high school, but was its leader himself in 1845-46, and, as chairman of the Board of Governors and later the Committee, continued to exert a decisive influence on its affairs until it was closed down.It is argued that Flor was entirely a Grundtvig disciple, and that his only wish was to translate Grundtvig’s folk high school ideas into practice. It is true that Rødding was also intended as a school with a role to play in the national struggle, but in the circumstances this should not disqualify it as Grundtvigian since Grundtvig’s cultural struggle at the time must necessarily take the form of a national struggle. It is pointed out, moreover, that to the various principals the cultural view was more important than the national - if it is at all possible to distinguish between them.Another thing is that Grundtvig’s attitude to Rødding was ambiguous. He expressed delight at its establishment and welcomed it without reservations, and later too there is evidence of a sympathetic interest in it. On the other hand, there is also evidence of a strange indifference, as it appears for example from the fact that he never visited the school in spite of repeated invitations. No doubt, the reason is that he had envisaged his ideas about the education of the people to be realized through the great, state-supported high school at Sorø, which he had dreamed about since his youth, and which had very nearly become a reality in 1847-48. Only gradually did he realize that it was through the many smaller schools modelled on Rødding that his ideas were to attain their great importance.

John Hick on Logical and Ontological Necessity

1977 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-165
Author(s):  
Charles Hartshorne
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Sufficient Reason ◽  
The Other ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
John Hick ◽  
Ontological Proof ◽  
The Many

A number of writers have recently taken fresh looks at the many centuries-old ontological proof of Anselm.1 Three of these writers seem to agree with me that traditional ways of treating this topic have been inadequate and that the proof, whether or not it is a sufficient reason for belief, is not without important bearings for philosophy of religion. These writers are Malcolm, Findlay, and Plantinga. With each of these I find considerable common ground, and they have all indicated to me that they are aware of this. In the present article on the topic, however, I wish to discuss a fourth writer, who differs rather sharply from the other three and particularly from me. Since Hick's views are shared in certain respects by what I take to be a main stream of contemporary thought, particularly in Britain, it seems worth while to accept the challenge he offers.

scholarly journals Wellington e Napoleão: Representações Britânicas e Portuguesas no Romance e no Ecrã

2017 ◽  
pp. 17-60
Author(s):  
David Evans ◽  
Gabriela Gândara Terenas ◽  
Maria do Rosário Lupi Bello
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Present Article ◽  
The Other ◽  
Military Leaders ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Peninsular War ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Way

The primary aim of the present article is to analyse how the two opposing military leaders – Wellington and Napoleon – were portrayed in British and Portuguese novels and films. The article looks closely at the way British and Portuguese authors perceived the two major figures of the Peninsular War, whilst examining, on the other hand, the way they were depicted in the cinema, contributing in this way, it is hoped, towards the reconstitution of a period of particular importance in Anglo-Portuguese relations. The first part of the study presents an overview of the way the War has been portrayed in Literature and the Cinema and the second looks closely at the many ways such narratives have depicted these great adversaries, two of the most remarkable figures of the nineteenth century.

scholarly journals De herkomst van het Nederlandse woord Bargoens

2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-88
Author(s):  
Paul Van Hauwermeiren
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Many ◽  
Additional Support

Abstract The origin of the Dutch word BargoensNo definitive light has yet been shed on the origin of the Dutch word Bargoens. Etymological dictionaries present two explanations as the most probable provenance: one suggests that Bargoens is derived from Bourgondisch, the other that it is a borrowing from Fr. baragouin ‘incomprehensible language’, which is itself from the Breton bara gwin ‘bread, wine’, the Breton language being incomprehensible to the French. The present article rejects both these explanations and proposes a new one, based mainly on the many written variants of Bargoens and its synonym Brigade. Additional support for this claim is found in the origin of Gargoens and Arragoens, the meaning and form of which are related to Bargoens. Via its variant Bragoens the word Bargoens can be connected to the verbal stem brag.

The ultrastructure of the abdominal musculature of an orchestid amphipod

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 464-465
Author(s):  
Martin A. Levin ◽  
Lisa L. Cale ◽  
Valerie Lynch-Holm
Keyword(s):  
Intertidal Zone ◽  
High Water ◽  
Abdominal Muscles ◽  
Abdominal Musculature ◽  
Dorsal Muscle ◽  
High Water Mark ◽  
Thoracic Legs ◽  
Orchestia Cavimana

Orchestia is a genus of amphipod in the crustacean class Malacostraca. The order Amphipoda contains over 6000 species commonly called side swimmers, scuds and beach fleas(1). Most are marine bottom-dwellers utilizing their thoracic legs and posterior abdominal uropods for walking, crawling and swimming. However, some, like those in the genera Orchestia and Hyale are semiterrestrial. These amphipods, commonly referred to as “beach fleas,' “beach hoppers” or “sand fleas” can hop vigorously for great distances (up to 50 times their length) by extending their abdomens and telsons against the sand(2).In our study, the ultrastructure of the dorsal muscle cord of Orchestia grillus was examined. Vogel(3) described the abdominal muscles of Orchestia cavimana as consisting of two groups of muscles: a strong, complex, dorsal muscle cord used mainly for hopping and a group of weaker, ventral, longitudinal and oblique muscles.The specimens were collected in clumps of decaying seaweed and other detritus from the intertidal zone near the high water mark at Avery Point Beach, Connecticut.

AFRICAN WOMEN AND FORBIDDEN GROUNDS: FEMALE SEXUALITY AND SELF-DETERMINATION IN AFRICAN LITERATURE

Imbizo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-54
Author(s):  
Oyeh O. Otu
Keyword(s):  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
African Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
African Women ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Sexual Repression

This article examines how female conditioning and sexual repression affect the woman’s sense of self, womanhood, identity and her place in society. It argues that the woman’s body is at the core of the many sites of gender struggles/ politics. Accordingly, the woman’s body must be decolonised for her to attain true emancipation. On the one hand, this study identifies the grave consequences of sexual repression, how it robs women of their freedom to choose whom to love or marry, the freedom to seek legal redress against sexual abuse and terror, and how it hinders their quest for self-determination. On the other hand, it underscores the need to give women sexual freedom that must be respected and enforced by law for the overall good of society.

La transposition profane de l’Exode dans Moïse fiction de Gilles Rozier

2013 ◽  
pp. 174-183
Author(s):  
Piotr Sadkowski
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
The Other ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Jewish Origin ◽  
French Writer ◽  
The World ◽  
Jewish Writers

Throughout the centuries French and Francophone writers were relatively rarely inspired by the figure of Moses and the story of Exodus. However, since the second half of 20th c. the interest of the writers in this Old Testament story has been on the rise: by rewriting it they examine the question of identity dilemmas of contemporary men. One of the examples of this trend is Moïse Fiction, the 2001 novel by the French writer of Jewish origin, Gilles Rozier, analysed in the present article. The hypertextual techniques, which result in the proximisation of the figure of Moses to the reality of the contemporary reader, constitute literary profanation, but at the same time help place Rozier’s text in the Jewish tradition, in the spirit of talmudism understood as an exchange of views, commentaries, versions and additions related to the Torah. It is how the novel, a new “midrash”, avoids the simple antinomy of the concepts of the sacred and the profane. Rozier’s Moses, conscious of his complex identity, is simultaneously a Jew and an Egyptian, and faces, like many contemporary Jewish writers, language dilemmas, which constitute one of the major motifs analysed in the present article. Another key question is the ethics of the prophetism of the novelistic Moses, who seems to speak for contemporary people, doomed to in the world perceived as chaos unsupervised by an absolute being. Rozier’s agnostic Moses is a prophet not of God (who does not appear in the novel), but of humanism understood as the confrontation of a human being with the absurdity of his or her own finiteness, which produces compassion for the other, with whom the fate of a mortal is shared.

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