scholarly journals Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach’’: A Depiction of Victorian Doubt and Faith

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 12-14
Author(s):  
Ali Jal Haider
Keyword(s):  
Religious Faith ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
Origin Of Species ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
Healing Power ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Greek Art ◽  
Victorian Age

Dissatisfied with his age Arnold turned towards Greek Culture and literature. Victorian age was an age of doubt and faith. Religious faith were in melting pot. Darwin’s ‘Origin Of Species’ (1859) shook the Victorian faith. Darwin questioned the very basic statement of ‘The Holy Bible’. Arnold considered literature as a weapon to established the broken faith of Victorians. He took Greek literature as reference to write literature. Arnold keenly observed Greek art and culture and find solace in it. He used Greek Art and Culture as the tool of morality and it has the healing power to wounded Victorian faith. Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach is a poetry of vanished past and vanished faith. Keywords: Reflective elegy, Vanished Faith, Victorian Doubt and Faith, Sea of faith.

An Enchanted Garden

2018 ◽  
pp. 157-191
Author(s):  
Robert Holland
Keyword(s):  
World System ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Origin Of Species ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Victorian Age

This chapter details British engagement with the Mediterranean from 1860 to 1890, highlighting British dilemmas in the field of culture during the High Victorian age. The Britons of the period remade their world in material terms, but also, eventually, in political ones. Many also confronted the frightening disintegration of their religious faith in the wake of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Thus, it is hardly surprising that in other matters, and above all in the cultural sphere, they sought ways of sticking to what was familiar about the past, or revising it in ways that did not entail the radical experiments or the disruption that they so deplored across the Channel. The Mediterranean, so embedded in the existing imaginative landscape, continued to be central to themes pervading British aesthetic and stylistic preferences, though increasingly absorbed among a widening array of other influences as a globalized world system took shape in however messy and eclectic a way.

scholarly journals Οι νεοελληνικές τύχες του Αλκιβιάδη ως το τέλος του 19ου αιώνα

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Στέση Αθήνη
Keyword(s):  
Greek Literature ◽  
Historical Drama ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Literary Character ◽  
The World ◽  
European Family

 The beginning of the closer acquaintance of Modern Greek literature with Alcibiades’ forceful personality is located during the years of Greek Enlightenment, with the discovery of the world of History and the “return to the antiquity” through foreign texts, translated into Greek. Nevertheless, Alcibiades’ appearance as a literary character was delayed compared with his reach European literary fortunes. Alcibiades appears in 1837 through Alcibiades byAugustusGottliebMeissner, a translated “bildungsroman” from German, and half a century later through a second translation, from Italian this time, the homonymous FelicioCavallotti’s historical drama (1889). Examining closely these two texts and considering their presence in the source literatures as well as the terms of their reception in Greek it is concluded that Socrates’ disciple array with literary raiment served the ideological schema aiming at the strengthening of the relations between Modern Greek culture and antiquity and simultaneously the European family.

Anniversary Address

1944 ◽  
Vol 24 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 85-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred Clapham
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Human History ◽  
Profound Change ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
New Social Order ◽  
Victorian Age

The past year has witnessed a profound change in the fortunes and prospects of the national cause; growing hope has been exchanged for the certainty of victory and ‘how long?’ is the only question yet unanswered. To some of us who have passed an appreciable portion of our lives in the Victorian age, the shattering of the old security, the reversal of the old standards, and the casting of the old society into the melting-pot, may seem too catastrophic a series of changes to have been suitably experienced in one lifetime. Yet to those with a lively historic sense it must afford a certain bitter satisfaction, to have lived in and outlived the most momentous age in the history of mankind and to have been spectators of, or participators in, the grimmest drama of human history. It should furthermore be a stimulus to further effort that we may before long have an opportunity of assisting in the restoration of all that was best in the old life and in the creation of the new social order which will we hope, in time, soften or efface the memories of five purgatorial years.

Aktaion and a lost ‘Bath of Artemis’

1990 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 26-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lamar Ronald Lacy
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Greek Art

Aktaion's own hounds devoured him, convinced by Artemis that he was a deer. This grim reversal, the great hunter who dies like a hunted beast, was the strongest element of the mythic tradition associated with the Boiotian hero and inspired numerous scenes in Greek art. Aktaion's Offense, on the other hand, received little iconographic attention before the imperial era, and Greek literature accounted for Artemis' hostility in a variety of ways. The chronology of the extant sources suggests a neat sequence of misdeeds, and the resulting succession of versions is the object of a well-established scholarly consensus. The information which survives is actually too scant and too fragmentary to bear so straightforward a reading, but a critical approach can suggest the outlines of more plausible, if less neat, picture.

EDITORIAL

1992 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. v-vii
Author(s):  
Sayyid M. Syeed
Keyword(s):  
Religious Faith ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Philosophy Of Life ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
University Of Oklahoma ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Islamic View ◽  
Islamic Mathematics

Our first paper, by Abdul Khaliq, discusses the Islamic view of faith andmorality. The author shows how one’s faith in God, from the Qur’anic perspective,is a commitment, as it implies both a whole metaphysics and anentire philosophy of life. In our personal lives, we need a healthy metaphysicsfor our moral behavior. Similarly, the sciences also need a metaphysicaloutlook, for this will provide significant pointers as to the direction in whichscientific progress should advance. Abdul Khaliq further argues for a closerelationship between the physical sciences and metaphysics. He assures usthat this intimacy will not jeopardize the positive sciences’ autonomy andtheir freedom of inquiry. His paper ends with the assertions that the cause ofmoral degeneration is to be sought in the loss of digious faith and that arejuvenation of religious faith can automatically reinstate morality.The Department of History of Science at the University of Oklahoma,Norman, OK, organized a conference on “Tradition, Transmission, Transformation:An Ancient Mechanics in Islamic and Occidental Culture,” held on6-7 March 1992. It was here that J. L. Berggren made an outstandingpresentation entitled “Islamic Acquisition of the Foreign Sciences: A CulturalPerspective.“ We are publishing a revised version of this paper here. Berggrenillustrates how cultural factots may have affected the Islamic world’sreception and acquisition of foreign sciences. The process of Islamizing themathematical sciences inherited from the classical Greeks is instructive, forby studying it we realize that Muslim scientists were tesponding to the needs,concerns, and criticisms of a civilization profoundly different from that ofclassical Greece. Berggren shows how Islamic mathematics was not just goodGreek mathematics done by people who happened to write in Arabic. He alsosuggests that it is important for us to understand the terms on which Islamicculture of that time approached classical Greek culture. In fact, to spell outthese terms of Islamization is even more crucial for us today, as we seek tofacilitate the adoption of modern sciences into an Islamic worldview.In his keynote address to the International Seminar on Malik Bennabi,Anwar Ibmhim complained that “it is an indictment of our parochialism thatBennabi has been neglected because he wrote in French. It is an even greaterindictment that he is neglected because he was an individual thinker and notthe idealogue of a movement. Neither is sufficient teason for original thoughtto be marginalized.” We need to correct this situation and make an extra effortto ensure that Bennabi’s ideas accessible to researchers and also toencourage more translations, discussions, and writings of this very important ...

The Bronze Statue from Cerigotto and the Study of Style

1904 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 129-134
Author(s):  
Charles Waldstein
Keyword(s):  
Classical Period ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Renaissance Art ◽  
Classical Archaeology ◽  
The Future ◽  
Bronze Statue ◽  
Great Pressure ◽  
Greek Art

The article of Mr. Frost in the preceding number of this Journal (pp. 217, seq.) gives me an opportunity to protest against what I consider a dangerous development of archaeological study in our days. I must thank the Editors for having, in spite of the great pressure upon their space, granted me a few pages in the present number to record this protest; while I must defer to a later issue of this Journal the fuller exposition of my views on the Cerigotto Bronze, the statue of Agias from Delphi, on Scopas and Lysippus.The protest—or, perhaps better, the warning—which I wish to publish concerns the course given in the present day to the study of style in Classical Art. To this study, as practised by the late Heinrich v. Brunn, Archaeology owes its greatest advance; and the serious students of Mediaeval and Renaissance art have borrowed these methods from classical archaeology, thus opening out a vast field of accurate information. I have myself devoted my energies to its cultivation and endeavoured to lay down the principles of its proper application in the first chapter of my Essays on the Art of Pheidias published in 1885. I believe, moreover, that we are only at the beginning of this line of work which promises such great results ia the future. Nor need we remain content with the establishment and amplification of our knowledge of Greek art in the great classical period, as little as in Greek literature study, and especially research, are to be confined to the great classical writers.

Greek Culture In Danish Schools

1953 ◽  
Vol 22 (64) ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
Per Krarup
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
European Culture ◽  
The University ◽  
School Period ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Mathematics And Science ◽  
Culture And Language

AT the beginning of the twentieth century in Denmark, as in many other countries, the secondary school (since 1903 called ‘gymnasium’) underwent a fundamental reform. Until that time the secondary-school period had been six years, and Latin had been a subject in it. All pupils had to learn Latin for four years. The last two school-years the pupils could choose between two sides: a linguistic-historical one, with much Latin and Greek (the Greek course being of four years), and a scientific one, a division which was due to J. N. Madvig, the famous Danish latinist, whose influence on the practical organization of Danish schools was enormous through the greater part of the nineteenth century (he was for many years Inspector of Schools and for some years also Minister of Education). By the new law of 1903 the teaching of Latin and Greek was greatly reduced. The gymnasium got at that time the structure which it retains to this day: after a four years' middle school there is a three years' gymnasium, divided into three sides: classics (with Latin and Greek), modern languages (with English and German culture and language), and scientific (with mathematics and science). At the time when this organization of the gymnasium was carried through, the leading spirits of the reform (among whom again a well-known latinist, M. Cl. Gertz, was a primus motor) clearly saw that it would be an irreparable loss if the university men of the future were without the slightest knowledge of antiquity and its importance to modern European culture. Therefore, when they planned the scheme of the gymnasium, they introduced for all pupils of the secondary school one lesson a week throughout the three years which was to be consecrated to Greek literature and art. It was at once made an independent subject in the gymnasium, with marks, examinations, etc., as all other subjects.

scholarly journals The Influence of Darwinian Ideas on Greek Literary Writers of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: The Case of Emmanuel Roidis

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Maria Zarimis
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Literary Scholarship ◽  
Origin Of Species ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
200Th Anniversary ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Impact

<p>Darwin's works provoked an enormous response in many disciplines including the literary world. This paper presents a portion of my doctoral thesis3, which responds to a blind spot in Greek literary scholarship on evolutionary ideas in comparison to other Western countries. Little work to date focuses on modern Greek writers's responses to Darwinian and other evolutionary ideas. This paper explores the impact of Darwin in selected writings of Emmanuel Roidis and how Roidis satirised Darwinism in his essays and short stories, contributing to the Darwinian discourse on "man's place in nature" and by placing humanity on the same continuum as other primates. The year 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the first publication of his <em>The Origin of Species</em>. It is timely, then, to consider Darwin's impact on modern Greek literature.</p><p> </p><p> </p>

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