Back to the Future: Model Middle Schools Recirculate Fin-de-Siècle Ideas

Act Your Age! ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 89-102
Keyword(s):  
Middle Schools ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fin De Siècle

Fin-de-Siècle Salonica

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Şükrü Hanioğlu
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Circle Of Friends ◽  
New Institutions

This chapter discusses Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's childhood in the ancient Macedonian capital of Salonica. The future founder of the Turkish Republic was born one winter, either in 1880 or in 1881. His upbringing was more liberal than that of most lower-class Muslims. No one in his family's circle of friends and relatives, for instance, practiced polygamy. Likewise, his father reportedly drank alcohol, which was abhorred by conservatives. The confusing dualism produced in Ottoman society by the reforms of the nineteenth century had its first imprint on Mustafa when his parents entered into a heated argument about his education. There is little doubt that Mustafa Kemal's deep-seated predilection for new institutions and practices owed much to his years as one of a handful of students in the empire who had their primary education at a private elementary school devoid of a strong religious focus.

After Nationalism? Urban History and East European History

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 774-778
Author(s):  
Chad Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Urban History ◽  
European History ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Final Part ◽  
East European ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The City

Urban history in our field has taken many different forms in the past few decades. Many such works, no doubt, have drawn great inspiration from scholars outside our area specialization. Many, however, have looked within our area specialization for inspiration, thus giving urban histories of our region several peculiar characteristics. The first part of this article discusses how urban historians have provided new perspectives on a topic long dear to Eastern Europeanist hearts—nationalism. Here the article looks at the ways in which Gary Cohen’s Politics of Ethnic Survival has influenced how historians have studied nationalism and the city. The second part will briefly survey other forms of urban history that have predominated within the field, many of which recall the questions and approaches first found in Carl Schorske’s Fin-de-siècle Vienna. The final part concludes with some thoughts about what the rise of urban history among Eastern Europeanists might mean for the future our field.

Fin-de-Siècle Scotland

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline McCracken-Flesher
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Rich Variety ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Literary Networks

The chapter provides an account of the rich variety of literature produced by late nineteenth-century Scots writers, showing how it challenges, and some instances overturns, assumptions about the Anglo-centric nature of the British fin-de-siècle. It shows how the work of Scots writers who took up residence in England looks very different when set in the context of other Scottish, rather than English, literary networks. And how for Scots writers, the fin-de-siècle was a problem posed to place and time, and that far from being obsessed with decline and apocalypse, they figured Scotland as a country looking outwards, optimistically, towards the new and the future.

Wavering in Delight

2018 ◽  
pp. 56-76
Author(s):  
Myrto Drizou
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
The Novel ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
The Past ◽  
Models Of Teaching ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Sister Carrie

In this chapter, Drizou argues that Theodore Dreiser’s novel Sister Carrie (1900) questions the rationalization of modern progress by depicting the turn of the century as a moment that wavers between the urgent incalculability of the future and the conventional knowledge of the past, embodied in the two main plotlines of the novel: Carrie’s hasty anticipation of the future and Hurstwood’s steady retreat to the past. For many scholars, the intersecting plotlines of Sister Carrie suggest the contrasting narratives of progress and decline that confirm the irreversibility of fate in turn-of-the-century naturalist texts. Dreiser complicates the teleology of this model, however, by dramatizing the temporal unpredictability of evolutionary tropes (change, adaptability, and chance) to illustrate wavering as a mode that allows his characters to measure their options and remain open to the future. This wavering mode furnishes a new paradigm of thinking about the fin de siècle as an incalculably open jangle that welcomes (and embodies) the resistance to rationalized discourses of modernity. In this sense, Dreiser’s novel prompts us to question and rethink our contemporary processes of rationalization, such as the standardization of knowledge through period-based models of teaching and temporally restrictive paradigms of scholarship.

The future of revolutions at the fin-de-siecle

1997 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 791-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Foran
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fin De Siècle

The Ache of Modernism

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-63
Author(s):  
Jed Rasula
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Media ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Commedia Dell'arte ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Slapstick Comedy

The “ache of modernism” registered convulsive social transformations of the process of modernity as they crested in the fin de siècle. Early in the twentieth century, artists began embracing the future as provocation to a new artistic reckoning. In the process they rejected inherited protocols of presentation and representation. At the same time, they responded affirmatively to the challenges of new media, particularly cinema. But recursions from the distant past, like the commedia dell’arte, proved equally influential. These combined sources of replenishment from past and future inspired modernists in all the arts to assume an acrobatic attitude, affirming art as athletic prerogative commensurate with such popular enterprises as vaudeville and slapstick comedy in cinema.

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