Finnegans Wake

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Creasy
Keyword(s):  
James Joyce ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
Finnegans Wake ◽  
New Science ◽  
Literary Periodicals ◽  
The World ◽  
History And Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Finnegan's Wake

An experimental masterpiece by James Joyce, published in 1939. Joyce began writing it during 1923 and parts of it appeared under the title Work-in-Progress within literary periodicals, such as transition, and in pamphlet form. It has a reputation as the most difficult text of literary modernism. Joyce set out to write "a history of the world" and much of the structure of the book derives from Italian philosopher and historian Giambatista Vico’s New Science (1725), which breaks down history into a series of cyclic phases. The final title, however, alludes to a Dublin street ballad about a builder who falls from a ladder: Tim Finnegan is aroused from unconsciousness when a drop of whisky touches his mouth during the wake organized by his family, who think him dead. Joyce used this to allude to Viconian myths of fall and redemption or resurrection. It was written during the early years of Irish independence and the Wake’s mythic re-cycling of history and literature also bears upon contemporary developments. The absence of apostrophe in the title is deliberate: although derived from "Finnegan’s Wake," it also urges the Irish (Finnegans) to rise from their historical stupor.

scholarly journals X.—A Revised History of the Column of Phocas in the Roman Forum

Archaeologia ◽  
1890 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
F.M. Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Public Building ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Christian Worship ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Roman Forum ◽  
The Temple

It may be of interest to the Society if I submit to its notice some observations made last year, which render it necessary to re-write the history of one of the best known monuments of Rome.The monument, which for fifty-six years has been called the Column of Phocas, was formerly, when nothing but the pillar itself was seen above ground, the subject of much curiosity and speculation among the visitors of the Forum. The “nameless column with the buried base” was thought by some to be the sole relic of a great temple or other public building. By others it had been conjectured to be part of the famous bridge by which Caligula united his palace on the Palatine with the temple of Capitoline Jupiter. In the early years of the century, among other works of the same kind, it was resolved to clear away the soil and débris from the substructure of this column; and on the 13th of March, 1813, the inscription of its pedestal, which had remained for centuries a few feet below the level of the ground, was uncovered, and revealed the fact that it had supported a statue dedicated by the exarch Smaragdus to the honour of a Caesar, whose name had been erased, but who, by other indications, could be no other than Phocas, an emperor of evil reputation, but to whom Rome and the world owe some gratitude for having been instrumental in dedicating the Pantheon to Christian worship, and so preserving from ruin one of the noblest and most original architectural works of antiquity.

‘The Ballad of Robert Crosse and Joseph Glanvill’ and the Background to Plus Ultra

1981 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas H. Steneck
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Early Years ◽  
New Science ◽  
Private Correspondence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Restoration England ◽  
Growth Of Science ◽  
Royal Society Of London

Joseph Glanvill is well known for his enthusiastic support of the early Royal Society. Even before Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society of London (1667) appeared in full, Glanvill had set a philosophic background for the new science in his Vanity of dogmatizing (1661), had attacked the outdatedness of contemporary Aristotelians in a revised edition of Vanity called Scepsis scientifica (1665), had praised the Society at length in a flowery address in Scepsis, and had defended the programme of the Society in his private correspondence. If propaganda and enthusiastic support were needed for the growth of science in Restoration England, no one seems to have done more to supply these ingredients during the early years of the Royal Society's existence than the colourful rector of Bath and Frome.

The History of Cuba and its Interpreters, 1898-1935

1993 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresita Yglesia Martínez ◽  
Néstor Capote
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Spanish Colonialism ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Military Transition

The final years of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth signified a time in which the Cuban people adjusted to a reality for which they were not fully prepared. The world created by centuries of Spanish colonialism crumbled in a spectacular and miserable manner, leaving in its wake a country desolated by war and famine. On January 1, 1899, the Spanish flag was lowered from El Morro in Havana and replaced with the flag of the United States. During this politico-military transition from Spanish rule to U.S. occupation, the defenders of independentismo and Cuba Libre were ignored and humiliated.

scholarly journals Could the Great Depression Repeat Itself in the 21St Century?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quah Chee Heong ◽  
Mohd Nazari Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Financial Crises ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

By 2031, it will be a century since the Great Depression, touted as the most dreadful depression in the history of U.S. and the rest of the world, had taken place. In the final decades of last century and in the early years of this century, numerous financial crises and economic depressions, not as severe as the Depression, have occurred, particularly but not limited to, developing countries. Looking at the Depression and today’s arrangements, will a major global depression be looming? This paper begins with a refresher on the events of the Depression, which is followed by the Friedman and Schwartz hypothesis, criticisms against it, other contributing factors to the Depression, a reconciliation of the theories and finally ends with an assessment of the possibility of a return of the Depression in the 21st century based on today’s economic, financial, political, social, and technological considerations.  

scholarly journals INTERACTION OF HISTORY WITH THE ALBANIANS’ LITERARY TRADITION

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-83
Author(s):  
Farida MAMMADOVA
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
The World ◽  
History And Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
Historical Necessity

T he ter m “h ist o ry of li ter a tu re” its el f we see th e his tor ica l devel op ment of a literature, the literary progression of a nation, and beyond, to other levels up to the world literature. Despite the barriers and directions of ideologically dictated interpretations, Albanian literature moves on and develops, i.e. stands out an d grows outside the claimed frames. Along with its development, numerous valuable studies of the process of drafting a new history of literature are also underway. Literature is in permanent communication with texts of history. In this way, history and literature help each other. The Albanian language was a language spoken in the territory of the old Christian state Albany or Albania that was situated in the territory of modern Azerbaijan and was known already before the adoption of Christianity. The Albanian historical and literary tradition began to take shape in the 5th century and was further developing during the 5th – 13th centuries. The paper presents that the formation of Albanian literature in the Albanian language was an objective¬ historical necessity.

James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cleo Hanaway-Oakley
Keyword(s):  
James Joyce ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Self ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Early Cinema ◽  
Charlie Chaplin ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film reappraises the lines of influence said to exist between Joyce’s writing and early cinema and provides an alternative to previous psychoanalytic readings of Joyce and film. Through a compelling combination of historical research and critical analysis, Cleo Hanaway-Oakley demonstrates that Joyce, early film-makers, and phenomenologists (Maurice Merleau-Ponty, in particular) share a common enterprise: all are concerned with showing, rather than explaining, the ‘inherence of the self in the world’. Instead of portraying an objective, neutral world, bereft of human input, Joyce, the film-makers, and the phenomenologists present embodied, conscious engagement with the environment and others: they are interested in the world-as-it-is-lived and transcend the seemingly rigid binaries of seer/seen, subject/object, absorptive/theatrical, and personal/impersonal. This book re-evaluates the history of body- and spectator-focused film theories, placing Merleau-Ponty at the centre of the discussion, and considers the ways in which Joyce may have encountered such theories. In a wealth of close analyses, Joyce’s fiction is read alongside the work of early film-makers such as Charlie Chaplin, Georges Méliès, and Mitchell and Kenyon, and in relation to the philosophical dimensions of early cinematic devices such as the Mutoscope, the stereoscope, and the panorama. By putting Joyce’s literary work—Ulysses above all—into dialogue with both early cinema and phenomenology, this book elucidates and enlivens literature, film, and philosophy.

A Formidable Arena

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Sue Welsh
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
The World ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
History Of ◽  
Philadelphia Orchestra

This chapter details the history of the Philadelphia Orchestra, considered one of the greatest orchestras in the world. Founded in 1900, the Philadelphia Orchestra was led during its early years by two German-speaking conductors, Fritz Scheel (1900–1907) and Carl Pohlig (1907—12). Maestro Scheel made a good start on developing an organization of distinction, but he succumbed to an untimely illness in 1907. Unfortunately, the man who succeeded him deflated many of his predecessor's gains, and the orchestra became a competent but stiff ensemble that inspired strained admiration from its own audiences and little respect from other cities. However, its place in the world of music underwent a dramatic change when the thirty-year-old Leopold Stokowski became the orchestra's leader at the beginning of the 1912—13 season. The chapter also describes Edna Phillips' audition on January 7, 1930.

scholarly journals Make It Old: Hollis Frampton contra Ezra Pound

October ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 29-48
Author(s):  
George Derk
Keyword(s):  
Ezra Pound ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
Late Work ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Elizabeths Hospital ◽  
The Impact

Hollis Frampton's films have often been characterized as the afterimages of literary modernism. While the material and linguistic concerns of his early films as well as his time spent visiting Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeths Hospital attest to the impact that modernist poetics had on him, the grand finale of his career—the cycle of films that comprise Magellan—marked his most significant departure from these original influences. Considering Magellan in relation to Pound's Cantos illuminates the competing modernisms, both literary and cinematic, in Frampton's late work. In his depiction of two simultaneous voyages—one through the world and one through the history of film—Frampton counterintuitively suggests that a modernism uniquely conceived for film can only be realized after establishing a tradition to renovate: film can finally make it new only through becoming old.

Gathering the forgotten voices: an oral history of the CFHT's early years

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (S260) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Beth Laychak ◽  
Liz Bryson
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Coal Miners ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

AbstractThey came to the Big Island from as far away as Murrumbeena, Australia, and as near by as Hilo, Hawaii. They were progeny of Scottish coal miners, French physicists, Chicago truck drivers, Japanese samurai and Big Island cane workers. Together, these men and women would build and commission one of the most dynamic and productive 3.6 meter telescopes in the world that remains in the forefront of science and technology. The CFHT oral history DVD preserves the stories of the first decade and a half of the observatory.

Origins and Early Years of the Volozhin Yeshiva

2012 ◽  
pp. 15-47
Author(s):  
Shaul Stampfer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Focal Points ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Jewish Learning

This chapter takes a look at how the small town of Volozhin became one of the focal points of the Lithuanian Jewish world because of the yeshiva that was established there. The yeshiva of Volozhin represented a novel type of relationship between the Jewish community and Jewish learning: for most of the nineteenth century the Volozhin yeshiva was the most important institution of Jewish learning in all of eastern Europe, and ultimately it served as a model for the rest of European Jewry. The heads of the yeshiva were regarded as leaders of the Jewish community in the Russian Empire and beyond; thousands of young men studied there, many of whom went on to have a significant impact on the Jewish world. Patterns that were set in Volozhin are essentially maintained in yeshivas around the world till today. There are many curious myths about Volozhin, but the reality was even more interesting. A careful look at the history of the yeshiva reveals not only the yeshiva itself but how a society can change in ways that few could have predicted.

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