Levertin, Oscar (1862–1906)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Johnsson
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Selma Lagerlof

Oscar Levertin was born at Gryt Manor in Norrköping, Sweden. He pursued an academic career at Uppsala University, where he received his doctorate in 1888. Beginning in 1893 he taught literature and art history at Stockholm College, where he became a professor in 1899. Levertin was also employed as a literary critic, joining the daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet in 1897. Although Levertin made his literary debut in the early 1880s, he rose to prominence as an author and critic allied with a neo-Romantic school of literature—in Swedish often simply referred to as the "ninety-ists" ["nittiotalisterna"]—a movement which defined itself through its opposition to the naturalism of the 1880s and whose most notable members included Verner von Heidenstam and Selma Lagerlöf. This assault on naturalism was launched in the pamphlet Pepitasbröllop (1890), co-authored with Verner von Heidenstam. In this essay a new aesthetic is proposed which self-consciously embraces the ideals of literary Romanticism.

An Intellectual in the Corridors of Power

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-217
Author(s):  
Jaya Raj Acharya
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
International Community ◽  
Biographical Sketch ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Great Scholar

Introduction: A reviewer of my book Yadu Nath Khanal: Jivani ra Vichar (Yadu Nath Khanal: Life and Thoughts) wrote: “Prithvi Narayan Shah unified Nepal, Bhanubhakta Acharya standardised Nepali language and Yadu Nath Khanal intellectualised Nepal’s foreign policy”. Indeed Professor Yadu Nath Khanal made outstanding contributions in explaining Nepal’s foreign policy to the international community in modern terminology. His thoughts on Nepal, Nepali literature and Nepal’s foreign policy are compiled in a book Nepal’s Non-Isolationist Foreign Policy (Kathmandu: Satyal Prakashan, 2000) that has 100 articles divided into five sections. Professor Khanal was a scholar, literary critic and successful practitioner as well as a thinker of Nepal’s foreign policy. But above all, he was an intellectual par excellence. I will begin this biographical sketch of Professor Khanal with his birth and academic career and conclude it with an extract from Professor Kamal P. Malla (1936-2018), himself a great scholar, who described Professor Khanal as “an intellectual in the corridors of power”.

Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and His Raízes do Brasil: Myths and Identities in Brazilian Culture

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Meira Monteiro
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Classic Work ◽  
Getulio Vargas ◽  
Brazilian Culture

Roots of Brazil, the debut book of historian and literary critic Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (1902–1982), is a classic work of Brazilian social critique. Conceptualized in Germany between 1929 and 1930 and published in Rio de Janeiro in 1936, during the Getúlio Vargas government (1930–1945), the book attempts to make sense of the dilemma of modernization in Brazil. Focusing on the crises stemming from urbanization and, in 1888, abolition, Buarque de Holanda analyzes how these factors put in check the personalism that had governed Brazilian sociability since colonial times. In exploring the Iberian roots of the mentality of the Portuguese colonizers, as well as concepts such as the “adventurer” and the “cordial man,” the book reveals the contentious formation of democratic public space in Brazil. The limits of liberalism, the seduction of totalitarianism, the legacy of slavery, and new forms of labor are some of the themes explored in Roots of Brazil. Still central to the Brazilian imagination today, the book has lent itself to a diversity of conservative and radical readings, including those of the author himself, who revised it substantially and never felt fully satisfied with his initial foray into topics that would captivate him throughout his academic career.

scholarly journals Concha Zardoya: The Intellectual in Exile

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 007
Author(s):  
Mónica Jato
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Education ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Country Of Birth ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
Political Exile ◽  
The Usa

The intellectual life of Concha Zardoya (1914-2004) was shaped significantly by its transnational dimension. While Chile was her country of birth, Spain was the place where her university education took place and the United States where her academic and intellectual career developed. The atmosphere of political repression experienced in the 1940s in Spain forced her to look for a new home in the USA. There she obtained her PhD, developing a successful academic career that spanned the next twenty-nine years of her life. Her work as a literary critic was, however, intrinsically linked to her work as a poet, which first began with the publishing of Pájaros del Nuevo Mundo in 1946. This article considers Zardoya’s poetry in light of her experience as a political exile. The fact that her departure from Spain did not coincide with the mass exodus of 1939 has caused many critics to view her residence in the USA as “emigration.” My analysis will focus, instead, on the exilic dimension of her work as an act of affective citizenship, paying particular attention to three books of poetry written in America: Desterrado ensueño, Corral de vivos y muertos and Hondo Sur.

scholarly journals La Intertextualidad: Cruce De Discuplinas Humaní­sticas

Xihmai ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso Ángel Macedo Rodrí­guez
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Information Retention ◽  
Comic Strips ◽  
Universal History ◽  
The World ◽  
Gerard Genette

Resumen El estudio de la intertextualidad es, dentro de los estudios literarios y de las ciencias del lenguaje, uno de los ámbitos más abordados por los crí­ticos y los teóricos de la literatura; sin embargo, el concepto de intertextualidad puede ana­lizarse en diálogo con otras disciplinas humaní­sticas, como la historia del arte, la historia universal, la filosofí­a, la antropologí­a y la mitologí­a, entre otras. La intertextualidad, término inventado por Julia Kristeva, es la relación entre un texto y otro (hipotexto e hipertexto, de acuerdo con la terminologí­a de Gérard Genette); este concepto puede funcionar no sólo para establecer la relación entre dos textos literarios, sino también para propiciar el diálogo entre dos obras de distintas disciplinas: los mitos griegos pueden ser analizados desde la pintura; las novelas y los cuentos pueden ser readaptados desde el mundo de las historietas; el cine toma ciertos recursos y temas del teatro. En todos estos casos y muchos más, la labor docente, dentro de las disciplinas humaní­sticas, podrí­a dirigirse a la creación de una red que comunique distintos temas y conte­nidos con el propósito de estimular la investigación y de desarrollar en los estu­diantes una serie de habilidades lingüí­sticas como la retención de información, la asociación, la comparación, la identificación del discurso paródico, la crí­tica literaria, entre otras.   Abstract The study of the intertextuality is, within the literary and sciences of the langua­ge studies, one of the most boarded scopes by the critics and the theoreticians of Literature; nevertheless, the concept of intertextuality can be analyzed in dia­logue with other humanistic disciplines, such as Art History, Universal History, Philosophy, Anthropology and Mythology, among others. Intertextuality, term invented by Julia Kristeva, is the relation between a text and another (hypotext and hypertext, according to the terminology of Gérard Genette); this concept might work not only to establish the relation between two literary texts, but also to cause the dialogue between two pieces of different dis­ciplines: the Greek myths can be analyzed from the painting; novels and stories can be readapted from the world of comic strips; cinema takes certain resources and subjects from the theater. In all these cases and many more, the educational work, within the humanistic disciplines, could go to the creation of a network that communicates different subjects and contents in order to stimulate the investiga­tion and development in students of a series of linguistic abilities like information retention, association, comparison, identification of the parodic speech, literary critic, among others.

Archaeological retrospect 7

Antiquity ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 59 (225) ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Sigfried J. De Laet
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Personal Interest ◽  
Scientific Career ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
The Road ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Pure luck played an important part in determining my scientific career. As far as I can remember, when a schoolboy I never seriously considered devoting myself to historical studies, let alone to archaeology arid prehistory. In fact, I then had no clear predilection for any particular, well-defined field. 1 was a rather good pupil in most subjects; only physics inspired a profound dislike in me and this barred the road to the exact sciences. My father made his living as a teacher and probably without realizing it, I wanted to follow in his footsteps. The influence of a few exccllcnt teachers eventually made me decide to read classics at the University of Ghent. Soon however, I grew strongly disappointed by my chosen subject and niy professors could not kindle in me any fervent lovc for the endless rehashing of antique texts or for critical texteditions. Luckily I was attracted almost immediately by a remarkable man, Hubert \.’an de IVeerd, whose extensive courses included riot only the whole range of ancient history but also the archaeology and art history of that same period. His personal interest, however, was in Gallo-Kornan archaeology, and precisely at the time when I first met hini he had just finished the first large-scale operation undertaken in Belgium, to wit the excavation of the townwall of ‘I’ongeren, the antique Aturrtucu Tungrotmi. I xi the course of his academic career, Van de 12’eerd spent the best part of his time and efforts on the training of his students; he thus created a solid school of historians and archaeologists, the best of whom were to occupy important positions in Flemish intellectual life.

Art History as Genetic Epistemology

1985 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
pp. 962-964
Author(s):  
Pavel Machotka
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Genetic Epistemology
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