scholarly journals PERIPHERAL GENRES OF CHUVASH LITERATURE: TESTAMENT

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
Валентина Владимировна Геворкян ◽  
Эдуард Валентинович Фомин ◽  
Лия Васильевна Чернова ◽  
Екатерина Романовна Якимова
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Pure Form ◽  
Ethnic Literature ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Frequent Episodes ◽  
Impending Death ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
Distinguishing Features

Работа посвящена осмыслению завещания как жанра чувашской художественной литературы в историческом аспекте. Анализируемые в статье тексты входят в состав классической чувашской словесности. Им посвящено значительное число научных работ, однако пока еще данные произведения не становились объектом специального рассмотрения с точки зрения жанровой специфики, которая выделяет их в одно целое. Основу завещания в первую очередь составляют инолитературные аналоги и затем - фольклорные тексты (благословения и собственно предсмертные завещания). В литературе чаще встречаются эпизоды, описывающие акт духовного завещания, в частности, в произведениях П. Хузангая, В. Митты, Е. Лисиной, но сам жанр за всю историю современной письменной культуры чувашского народа в чистом виде был реализован лишь считанное количество раз - в виде завещания чувашскому народу просветителя И. Я. Яковлева и стихотворения «Как умру…» М. Сеспеля. Отличительными чертами завещания как жанра являются императивность и высокий пафос, формируемые особыми условиями создания завещательных текстов в ожидании скорой кончины. Остальные параметры носят идиостилевой характер и варьируются в широких пределах - достаточно сказать, что имеющиеся в чувашской литературе завещания написаны в разных формах: эпической и лирической. The work is devoted to understanding the testament as a genre of the Chuvash fiction in historical perspective. The authors analyzed the texts of the Chuvash classical literature. A significant number of scientific works has been devoted to the texts of the Chuvash classical literature. However, those texts have never been investigated from the point of view of genre specificity, which distinguishes them as a whole. The testamentis primarily based on analogue ethnic literature and also on folklore texts (blessings and testaments as such). The most frequent episodes describing the testament are in the works of P. Khuzangay, V. Mitta, E. Lisina. Nevertheless, the genre itself in its pure form was implemented only a few times in the entire history of the modern written culture of the Chuvash people:in the testament to the Chuvash people by I. Yakovlev and the poem «When I die ...» by M. Sespel. The distinguishing features of the testament as a genre are the imperative and high pathos, due to the peculiar conditions for creating the texts of the testament in anticipation of impending death. Otherfeatures are individual and vary widely. The testaments in the Chuvash literature are written in different forms: epic and lyrical.

scholarly journals Kilka uwag o pleonazmach i tautologiach z perspektywy historyka języka

2021 ◽  
pp. 468-477
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Janowska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Entire History

Some remarks about pleonasms and tautologies from the point of view of a historian of language Summary The problems associated with redundance constitute an object of interest among the researchers of the modern Polish language. From the point of view of a historian, all of these problems are, or perhaps “should be” crucial, for redundance is a conditio which facilitates the existence of such an entity as language – in time. However, a historical perspective which could demonstrate at least the scale of this phenomenon in the entire history of the Polish language heretofore has not been provided. The article is devoted to instances of pleonasm and tautological structures, their variability and stability. As it turns out, many of them are relatively permanent; they have functioned in the Polish language for centuries. Even though they have received criticism in e.g. dictionaries of modern Polish usage, treated as erroneous in various teaching-related publications, they continue to appear in the spoken language and in texts which represent various styles, e.g: w dniu dzisiejszym (which has been a part of the Polish lexicon since at least the 16th century), cofać się do tyłu, miesiąc kwiecień etc. This fact prompts us to re-evaluate their status.

Jeffersonian Democracy: a Dual Tradition

1934 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 838-851
Author(s):  
Charles M. Wiltse
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Abstract System ◽  
The World ◽  
Action Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Great Mass

From the great mass of Jefferson's writings, letters, and public utterances, it is possible to select isolated fragments in justification of almost any course one chooses to pursue; and the history of his forty years in the service of his country offers almost as various a pattern. Taking his career and his writings as a whole, however, and piecing together from both the broad outlines of a political philosophy, one is struck by what appears to be a dual emphasis: two diverging streams of thought, which seem at first glance to be incompatible, and which have rendered the great democrat vulnerable to the charge of inconsistency so often repeated in his own day as in ours. One of these emphases, and that most apt to be quoted by campaign orators, is on individualism; but the direction and purpose of the other is socialistic.Both in the abstract system of the philosopher and in the concrete events of the world of action, time has a way of reconciling apparent contradictions. Historical perspective will do much to reveal unsuspected unities, and the point of view from which the inquiry is approached will do the rest.

scholarly journals The Notion of Disability and Related Research Terminology: Discussion Points

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikhail Stroganov
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Healthy Person ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Alternative Possibilities ◽  
Sense Organs ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Related Research ◽  
History Of

The history of civilization is also the history of incapacitation and the use of new artificial appliances and practices gradually introduced at every stage of humanity’s development in order to help people survive regardless of the laws of natural selection. This article considers the terminology related to the sphere of disability and bodily deviation through a historical perspective while also focusing on forms of representation and their comprehension by society. The author demonstrates that the term “deviation” serves to classify people with disabilities and forms of their representation. People with a bodily deviation can be easily portrayed from the point of view of the visual, with artistic attention to them reaching its climax between the seventeenth and the early nineteenth centuries. In such works, disabled people try to overcome the stigma and start being perceived like everyone else. Starting with the early nineteenth century, works of fiction refer to deviant sense organs. Only in the twentieth century did writers start focusing on deviant psyches and minds, which were previously associated with deviations in social behaviour. The author maintains that the terminology of disability relies on the existing universal bodily norm describing it and its deviations. A person with a bodily deviation is perceived as a disabled one when they are perceived as ‘the other’. When compared with a ‘healthy’ person, a deviant is taken as a disabled one; when considered separately, a deviant is a person with alternative possibilities. From this perspective, disability is part of a paradigm of otherness (age, gender, and nationality).

scholarly journals The Crucifix in State Schools in Italy, Victim of Globalization, between Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Renata Tokrri
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Constitutional History ◽  
The People ◽  
European Court ◽  
Catholic Religion ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
Religious Indoctrination ◽  
State Schools

The interest to analyse the phenomenon of the exposure of religious symbols, particularly of the crucifix, in state schools in Italy and the principle of secularism, derives from the cultural and constitutional peculiarities that this system presents, as a consequence of the historical and cultural events that have influenced its ordering. First of all, it must be pointed out, as indeed it is evident, that Catholicism was the dominant faith for about two thousand years, and until recently, almost the only one. The Catholic religion has crossed the entire history of the country, penetrating and intertwining with the socio-cultural dynamics. For this reason, the Italian constitutional history has been crossed by the principle of tolerance. The latter can be considered clearly out-dated only with the Republican Constitution of 1948, thus the legal system emptied itself of its confessionalism. The last few years, as a result of strong migratory flows, the religious-cultural landscape, not only in Italy, but throughout Europe it seems to have changed. Other cultures have brought their own customs, languages and religions like a wave. Thus we are witnessing an extraordinary social, economic and juridical transformation. In this multicultural mosaic, the clash between civilizations could not be missing. Minorities have in many cases felt they were discriminated against, bullied and offended by the display in public buildings (schools, courtrooms, hospitals, etc.) of the symbol par excellence of Christianity, namely the crucifix, arousing the protest of parents of different faiths. All this has produced legal conflicts and jurisprudential rulings that have involved the European Court of Human Rights itself. This discussion aims to analyze from a socio-juridical point of view, the consequences of religious symbology external to educational institutions and to be able to give a juridical truth, stripped of religious indoctrination. This path will not be easy since every element inherent to religion touches delicate aspects, linked in particular with what is most profound in the people and culture of a country.   Received: 2 March 2021 / Accepted: 14 April 2021 / Published: 10 May 2021

scholarly journals From the prehistoric to the posthuman selfie

Sæculum ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-103
Author(s):  
Radu Stănese
Keyword(s):  
Pop Culture ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Upper Paleolithic ◽  
Virtual Identity ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History

AbstractLeRoy McDermott’s hypothesis proposes a perceptual interpretation of the Venus statues from to the Upper Paleolithic period these being in fact the first examples of human self-representations. The arguments he brings are of an artistic nature par excellence and they refer to the visual distortions arising from the subject’s point of view. The fantasy of being admired by others through the means of the nude selfie has generated a whole trend in today’s pop culture and Kim Kardashian is a prime example in this sense. The “shareware body” has gone through an entire history of significance, from Albrecht Dürer’s mystical meaning of the body, to Érika Ordosgoitti’s activist take on the matter. The widespread presence of the nude selfie raises the issue of virtual identity “pornification” while Katherine N. Hayles’ hypothesis questions the future of a posthuman reality that has already been foreshadowed.

scholarly journals Philosophical Foundations of René Girard’s Fundamental Antropology

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
Elena Shulga ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard ◽  
Human Ability ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
External Causes ◽  
The Given

Rene Girard (1923–2015) – French philosopher, professor of Stanford University, the member of Acadamie Francaise, the author of numerous works, some of which have recently become accessible to the Russian audience. His most popular books: "Resurrection from the Underground", "Violence and the Sacred", "Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World", "Job, the Victim of His People", "I See Satan Fall Like Lightning", "The Scapegoat". However, Rene Girard's conceptual heritage has not been properly appreciated by philosophers due to the diversity of creative aspirations of the thinker. Most often, he is called a professional philologist, religious scholar, cultural scientist, and his work as an innovator in the field of social and humanitarian sciences is associated with the creation of fundamental anthropology and the theory of culture based on it. Studying the works of Rene Girard is an exciting activity, supposing the immersion in the literary texts and biblical stories analyzed by him. These texts serve the author as a basis for solving the questions of vital importance for human existence and being. The search for answers to vital questions has always concerned both philosophers and theologians. Above all those are the questions related to the grasping of spiritual truths. Not always Girard formulated their meaning directly but through the introducing concepts that reveal the deeper aspects of socially directed human actions, providing these actions with a new categorical meaning. Thus, in the book "The Scapegoat", which will be analyzed in the given paper, the philosopher shows that the human ability to perceive own misery as the punishment for the specific misbehavior or sins is just the superficial point of view and it witnesses of the introvert character of the man/woman. But any personal catastrophe is also a sacrifice – precisely such point of view according to the biblical story of Job not only reconciles the man with life circumstances but raises him over them. Girard shows that the search for external causes that explain human misfortunes or catastrophes on a larger scale runs through the entire history of mankind is reflected in literature, historical and cultural monuments from Sophocles to Jesus. This article is devoted to the interpretation of the main conceptual ideas of Girard from the position of philosophical hermeneutics in order to clarify the philosophical foundations of fundamental anthropology.

scholarly journals Józefa Obrębskiego etnosocjologia Polesia w świetle pytań o jego życie i dzieło. Tytułem wprowadzenia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Engelking
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
History Of Anthropology ◽  
Scientific Career ◽  
Scientific Biography ◽  
Scientific Discussion ◽  
Current Cycle ◽  
History Of

Józef Obrębski’s ethnosociology of Polesie in light of his life and work. As for introductionThe article provides comments to five articles constituting the cycle entitled ”Józef Obrębski – Ethnosociology – Polesie then and now” and contextualises them in a bio-historical perspective. It presents an outline of Obrębski's scientific biography and reflects upon the causes of his absence in the mainstream history of anthropology and sociology. Although from the point of view of western principles of success Obrębski did not succeeded in his scientific career, he definitely was a remarkable actor of the scientific field. His takeaways and inspirations have started to influence this field not earlier than after his death. The articles included in the current cycle represent one of the examples of contemporary reception of Obrębski's outcome, generating a scientific discussion. Józefa Obrębskiego etnosocjologia Polesia w świetle pytań o jego życie i dzieło. Tytułem wprowadzeniaArtykuł komentuje i kontekstualizuje teksty zamieszczone w cyklu „Józef Obrębski – Etnosocjologia – Polesie wczoraj i dziś”. Przez przedstawienie zarysu drogi naukowej Obrębskiego i refleksję nad przyczynami nieobecności tego uczonego w kanonie historii antropologii i socjologii ustanawia wspólną dla całego cyklu perspektywę biograficzno-historyczną. Mimo że z punktu widzenia zachodnich kategorii sukcesu, Obrębski nie zrobił kariery naukowej, był wybitnym aktorem pola nauki. Jego ustalenia i inspiracje zaczęły wywierać wpływ na to pole dopiero po jego śmierci. Prezentowane teksty są jednym z przykładów współczesnej recepcji Obrębskiego, generującej naukową dyskusję.

A New Look at Turnover in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1789-1998

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN W. SWAIN ◽  
STEPHEN A. BORRELLI ◽  
BRIAN C. REED ◽  
SEAN F. EVANS
Keyword(s):  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
General Election ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
Basic Facts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Primary Form

Despite concern with turnover in the U.S. House of Representatives, few scholars have attempted to view turnover in historical perspective or in all its forms. Confusion over the basic facts has impeded attempts to explain and evaluate levels of turnover. We present a broad descriptive overview of turnover over the entire history of the U.S. House in terms of the levels of overall turnover, forms thereof, and patterns, particularly within party periods. The findings include that turnover has declined over the years but not in a continuous fashion and not evenly among the different forms, that general election defeat is not the primary form of turnover, that common methods of reporting turnover magnify the apparent importance of electorally based turnover, and that turnover varies systematically by party period. A research agenda is proposed for explanatory work on turnover including strategic retirement and the impact of partisan realignments on levels and forms of turnover.

Economic Views of L. Trotsky

2004 ◽  
pp. 142-157
Author(s):  
M. Voeikov ◽  
S. Dzarasov
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Russian History ◽  
History Of

The paper written in the light of 125th birth anniversary of L. Trotsky analyzes the life and ideas of one of the most prominent figures in the Russian history of the 20th century. He was one of the leaders of the Russian revolution in its Bolshevik period, worked with V. Lenin and played a significant role in the Civil War. Rejected by the party bureaucracy L. Trotsky led uncompromising struggle against Stalinism, defending his own understanding of the revolutionary ideals. The authors try to explain these events in historical perspective, avoiding biases of both Stalinism and anticommunism.

Perspectives of Reforming the System of Interbudget Relations in Russia (in the Light of the International Experience)

2006 ◽  
pp. 112-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Nazarov
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Intergovernmental Relations ◽  
International Experience ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Short History ◽  
History Of

The attempts to reconstruct the instruments of interbudget relations take place in all federations. In Russia such attempts are especially popular due to the short history of intergovernmental relations. Thus the review of the ¬international experience of managing interbudget relations to provide economic and social welfare can be useful for present-day Russia. The author develops models of intergovernmental relations from the point of view of making decisions about budget authorities’ distribution. The models that can be better applied in the Russian case are demonstrated.

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