Safeguarding the heart’s home town

2018 ◽  
pp. 144-167
Author(s):  
David W. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Home Town

Brabantia: decoding the main characters of Utopia

Moreana ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (Number 187- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 151-182
Author(s):  
Maarten M.K. Vermeir
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Political System ◽  
Desiderius Erasmus ◽  
Parliamentary Democracy ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Home Town ◽  
Christian Humanism ◽  
Political Thinker

In this study, we propose a new understanding, according to the principles of ‘humanistic interpretation’, of a fundamental layer of meaning in Utopia. In the work of Thomas More, major references can be found to the particular genesis and a crucial purpose of Utopia. Desiderius Erasmus arranged the acquaintance of Thomas More with Peter Giles, a key figure in the development of Erasmus as political thinker. More and Giles together in Antwerp (Giles’s home town), both jurists and humanists, would lay the foundation of Utopia. With this arranged contact, Erasmus handed over to More the knowledge of a particular political system - the earliest form of ‘parliamentary democracy’ in Early modern Europe - embedded in the political culture of the Duchy of Brabant and its constitution, named the ‘Joyous Entry’. We argue that Erasmus, through the indispensable politicalliterary skills of More in Utopia, intended to promote this political system as a new, political philosophy: applicable to all nations in the Respublica Christiana of Christian humanism. With reference to this genesis of Utopia in the text itself and its prefatory letters, we come to a clear recognition of Desiderius Erasmus in the figure of Raphael Hythlodaeus, the sailor who had discovered the ‘isle of Utopia’ and discoursed, as reported by More, about its ‘exemplary’ institutions.

Smolensk Proper Names in A.T. Tvardovsky’s Poems

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-62
Author(s):  
Inna A. Koroleva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Proper Names ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Entire Body ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Thematic Content ◽  
Home Town ◽  
Birthday Anniversary ◽  
Long Poems ◽  
First Time

This article is dedicated to the 110th birthday anniversary of a great Russian poet, native of Smolensk, one of the founders of the Smolensk Poetic School Aleksandr Tvardovsky (1910–1971). It examines how Smolensk motifs and Tvardovsky’s love for his home town are reflected in his works at the onomastic level. Smolensk-onyms reflected in long poems are analysed here, the focus being on anthroponyms and toponyms naming the characters and indicating the locations associated with Smolensk region. A close connection between the choice of proper names and Tvardovsky’s biography is established. An attempt is made to demonstrate how, using onomastic units introduced by the author into the storyline of his artistic text, the general principles of autobiography and chronotopy are realized, which have been noted earlier in critiques of Tvardovsky’s literary works. The onomastic component of the poems is analysed thoroughly and comprehensively, which helps us to decode the conceptual chain writer – name – text – reader and identify the author’s attitude to the characters and the ideological and thematic content of the works, as well as some of the author’s personal characteristics, tastes and passions. At the onomastic level, the thesis about the role of Smolensk motifs in Tvardovsky’s literary works is once more substantiated. A review is presented of onomastic studies analysing proper names of different categories in Tvardovsky’s poems (mainly conducted by the representatives of the Voronezh Onomastic School and the author of this article). It should be noted that Smolensk proper names in the entire body of Tvardovsky’s poetry are analysed for the first time.

St. Pierre and the Project of Perpetual Peace

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (x) ◽  
pp. 111-123
Author(s):  
Theodore Caplow
Keyword(s):  
William Penn ◽  
Home Town ◽  
Perpetual Peace

One thinks of him as a voluble, untidy little priest, his pockets stuffed with papers and his mind with projects. But the portrait in the mairic of his home town, St. Pierre-Eglise in Normandy, shows a face full of serenity and power. He bears a distinct resemblance to William Penn, another well-connected social inventor, who published his own plan for perpetual peace twenty years before St. Pierre.

scholarly journals Ka Ngaro Te Reo: Māori Language Under Siege in the Nineteenth Century

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hazel Petrie
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
New Teacher ◽  
Local People ◽  
Home Town ◽  
Home Area

My early childhood was spent in my mother’s home area of London until, at the age of nine, my family moved to my father’s home town in Yorkshire.  It seemed only natural to me that the local people spoke with a different accent and used dialect words and unfamiliar expressions.  But I was shocked when, having been asked to read a piece from a book, my new teacher announced to the class that I spoke correctly while my thirty-plus classmates did not.  The ‘news’ that one language or form of language was superior to another had a profound and lasting impact on me — one that deepened when a classmate in my next school, in Auckland, was publicly castigated for using both the Māori and English forms of her name.  Those were, of course, just tiny pointers to a reality of much greater significance, but they and other memories resonated as I read Paul Moon’s new book Ka Ngaro te Reo: Māori Language Under Siege in the Nineteenth Century. 

Epilogue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harriet I. Flower
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Home Town ◽  
Previous Discussion ◽  
The World

The characteristic ubiquity of lares in the Roman home, town, and countryside is matched by the impressive survival of their cults throughout antiquity. Most of the previous discussion has investigated lares in republican and early imperial times, but they survived well into the world of late antiquity, despite increasingly heated competition from an army of new and exotic gods, some of whom made elaborate promises of personal salvation and a future life of bliss. This epilogue draws upon a section of the Theodosian Code (published on February 15 AD 438) to provide a fitting way to conclude this study, which considered many small case studies and individual pieces of evidence to offer a mosaic picture of life with lares. The Theodosian Code here quotes a law promulgated on November 8 AD 392 at Constantinople that bans traditional Roman practices.

“The Private World of William Faulkner”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roark Bradford
Keyword(s):  
William Faulkner ◽  
Home Town ◽  
Private World

This chapter argues that William Faulkner is an individualist, and that his individuality, both in his life and in his writing, is part of his breeding, background, and nature. Faulkner's spirit of individuality can be attributed to his being a Southern Democrat. It is difficult to disassociate him from his home town of Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner is also known for his aversion to personal exploitation and publicity. The chapter discusses Sanctuary, Faulkner's most widely read novel that propelled him from obscurity into fame and notoriety. It also comments on legends that have grown up about Faulkner, including the notion that he is a prodigious drunk and the story surrounding his first experience as a Hollywood writer.

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