VIOLENCE AND DEATH: THEIR INTERPRETATION BY K. A. PORTER AND EUDORA WELTY

Revista Letras ◽

10.5380/rel.v32i0.19331 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 32 ◽

Author(s):

Anna Stegh Carnati

Keyword(s):

Short Stories ◽

Real World ◽

American South ◽

Eudora Welty ◽

World Views ◽

The Real ◽

Southern Fiction ◽

The American South ◽

Southern Society ◽

The Ideal

This study aims to elucidate the reasons for the prevalenceof violence in Southern fiction. While K. A. Porter focuses violence as being a characteristic trait of the Southerntemper, which can be traced back to the frontier days, Eudora Welty presents variations on the theme of spiritual isolation in her short-stories, which is connected with the conflicting world views of the forties: the confusion of values generated by the discrepancy existing between the ideal Southern society and the real world of the South results in violence. Similar tensions to those of the American South are evoked by K. A. Porter in her Mexican stories. The different connotations of death, both symbolic and real, are also analysed in this study, showing that the recurrence of the death motif has to do with the Southerner's metaphysical preoccupations.

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Between Real and Ideal: Documenting Media Art

Leonardo ◽

10.1162/leon.2008.41.4.418 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 41 (4) ◽

pp. 418-419 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Caitlin Jones ◽

Lizzie Muller

Keyword(s):

Data Structure ◽

Real World ◽

Media Art ◽

New Approach ◽

The Real ◽

Key Features ◽

The Ideal

This paper describes a new approach to documenting media art which seeks to place in dialogue the artist's intentions and the audience's experience. It explicitly highlights the productive tension between the ideal, conceptual existence of the work, and its actual manifestation through different iterations and exhibitions in the real world. The paper describes how the approach was developed collaboratively during the production of a documentary collection for the artwork Giver of Names, by David Rokeby. It outlines the key features of the approach including artist's interview, audience interviews and data structure.

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Biblical Inspirations in Nikifor’s Paintings

Perspektywy Kultury ◽

10.35765/pk.2019.2603.05 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 26 (3) ◽

pp. 31-46

Author(s):

Krzysztof Wałczyk

Keyword(s):

Real World ◽

The Self ◽

Creative Activity ◽

The Real ◽

Ideal World ◽

The World ◽

Biblical Anthropology ◽

Divine Order ◽

The Ideal

Nikifor Krynicki (Epifaniusz Drowniak, 1895-1968) was one of the most popular non-academic Polish painters worldwide. To show the biblical inspiration in his creative output I chose two categories from various thematic aspects: self-portraits and landscapes with a church. There are plenty of Nikifor’s paintings showing him as a teacher, as a celebrating priest, as a bishop, or even as Christ. A popular way to explain this idea of self-portraits is a psychological one: as a form of auto-therapy. This analysis is aims to show a deeper explanation for the biblical anthropology. Nikifor’s self-portraits as a priest celebrating the liturgy are a symbol of creative activity understood as a divine re-creation of the world. Such activity needs divine inspiration. Here are two paintings to recall: Potrójny autoportret (The triple self-portrait) and Autoportret w trzech postaciach (Self-portrait in three persons). The proper way to understand the self-identification with Christ needs a reference to biblical anthropology. To achieve our real-self we need to identify with Christ, whose death and resurrection bring about our whole humanity. The key impression we may have by showing Nikifor’s landscapes with a church is harmony. The painter used plenty of warm colors. Many of the critics are of the opinion that Nikifor created an imaginary, ideal world in his landscapes, the world he wanted to be there and not the real world. The thesis of this article is that Nikifor created not only the ideal world, but he also showed the source of the harmony – the divine order.

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The Modern Tradition

Pure Land, Real World ◽

10.21313/hawaii/9780824857752.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Melissa Anne-Marie Curley

Keyword(s):

Real World ◽

Church And State ◽

Nation State ◽

Pure Land ◽

Complementary Relationship ◽

The Real ◽

Pastoral Letter ◽

Private Matter ◽

Modern Nation State ◽

The Ideal

Abbot Kōnyo’s pastoral letter of 1871 codifies an understanding of the Pure Land as a transcendent realm, attainable only after death, and of faith as a private matter of the heart. This understanding is valuable as a way of negotiating a place for Shinshū in the regime of the modern nation-state. Early Meiji thinkers like Shimaji Mokurai rely on this understanding of religion as internal in arguing for the separation of church and state. Shinshū reformer Kiyozawa Manshi pushes this focus on interiority to its limit, destabilizing the complementary relationship between the Buddhist law and the imperial law that his predecessors sought to secure. During the Taishō, Kiyozawa’s disciple Kaneko Daiei attempts to rearticulate the connection between the ideal Pure Land and the real world, while the Honganji-ha thinker Nonomura Naotarō argues that it is time for the Pure Land tradition to set aside the myth of the Western Paradise.

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Productivity and Income Distribution in the Post-Bellum South

The Journal of Economic History ◽

10.1017/s002205070008013x ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 422-446 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Stephen DeCanio

Keyword(s):

Political Violence ◽

Land Tenure ◽

American South ◽

Physical Capital ◽

Political Life ◽

Agricultural Labor ◽

History Of ◽

The American South ◽

Southern Society ◽

Basic Characteristics

Racial discord, political violence, and agrarian unrest are integral to the history of the American South from the close of the Civil War through the end of the nineteenth century. The economy of the region had undergone traumatic changes during the war, not the least of which were the destruction of large amounts of physical capital and the transition of the black agricultural labor force from slavery to freedom. The disruption of production during the war was followed by attempts to reorganize agriculture through a variety of institutional arrangements, including wage labor, cash renting, and widespread use of the sharecropping form of land tenure. Many of the legal and cultural manifestations of the racial prejudice which has long outlived chattel slavery made their appearance during these years. Both contemporary observers and modern historians have recognized possible connections between the economic conditions and the political or institutional developments of the period, yet certain basic characteristics of the post-bellum southern economy have never been adequately determined. Consequently, the influence of economic forces in southern society and political life has remained obscure.

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Hermeneutika sebagai Metode Tafsir: Mengurai Konstruksi Pengetahuan Generasi Z Kota Malang

Khazanah Theologia ◽

10.15575/kt.v3i1.11204 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 55-66

Author(s):

M. Miski ◽

Lulu Fauziah Priyandini ◽

M. Rozik Sudawam ◽

Megawati Ayu Rahmawati Wardah ◽

Alvian Chandra Alim

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

New Media ◽

Field Study ◽

Real World ◽

The Real ◽

Generation Z ◽

Analysis Models ◽

The Ideal ◽

Muslim Scholars

This study is intended to answer three main questions. First, how does the Z generation in Malang City responds to the use of hermeneutics as a method of interpreting the Qur'an by Muslim scholars? Second, how is the process of transmitting their knowledge about it? And third, how is the construction of their knowledge about the ideal interpretation of the Qur'an and can respond to socio-religious dynamics and phenomena? This study is a field study, while the primary respondents are Z generation in Malang City. The use of descriptive, hermeneutic, and intertext analysis models on data, the results of this study showed that there are differences conveyed by the Z generation of Malang City related to the use of hermeneutics as a method of interpretation of the Qur'an: some of them accept it, while others reject it. The transmission of their knowledge about hermeneutics also varies; most of them are correlated with social media, some are still conventional, which relies on information from teachers, and so on. This showed that generation Z of Malang city is not entirely averse to issues that tend to be controversial. Moreover, the authority for interpreting the Qur'an has not entirely shifted from the real world to cyberspace, no matter how dependent they are on the new media.

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"E. T. A. Hoffmann’s complex" in the cycle of stories and drama scenes "Earth Axis" by Valery Bryusov (1901-1907)

Bulletin of the Kostroma state University ◽

10.34216/1998-0817-2019-25-3-113-119 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 113-119

Author(s):

Vera V. Korolyova

Keyword(s):

Short Stories ◽

Real World ◽

Mirror Reflection ◽

Main Character ◽

The Real ◽

Romantic Irony ◽

Stylistic Device

In this article we explore "E. T. A. Hoffmann’s complex", which includes real and imaginary worlds, the problem of the mechanisation of life and society, the duality, the romantic irony and grotesque in the series of short stories "Earth Axis" by Valery Bryusov. Following E. T. A. Hoffmann’s tradition, Velery Bryusov creates a special type of romantic the dual world based on the principle of mirror reflection of the real world. The dominance of the unreal world leads to the absorption of the main character. The problem of mechanisation of a life and a man in the series is manifested in the tendency of loss of spirituality in society and an attempt to fill the spiritual emptiness with "inanimate" objects ("Flat", "Defence"). Valery Bryusov creates a grotesque picture of a society ("Earth", "Rise of the Machines"), where the living changes are replaced by the nonliving (machines). Romantic irony and grotesque, which are destructive, become a stylistic device in the work of Valery Bryusov.

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Irreversibility

An Introduction to Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198853237.003.0022 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 271-282

Author(s):

Robert H. Swendsen

Keyword(s):

Real World ◽

Ideal Gas ◽

Position Distribution ◽

The Real ◽

History Of ◽

H Theorem ◽

Liouville’S Theorem ◽

The Ideal

The phenomenon of irreversibility is explained on the basis of an analysis by H. L. Frisch. The history of the debate over irreversibility is briefly discussed, including Boltzmann’s H-theorem, Zermelo's Wiederkehreinwand, Poincaré recurrences, Loschmidt's Umkehreinwand and Liouville’s theorem. The derivation of irreversible behavior for the ideal gas position distribution is carried out explicitly. Using this derivation, the Wiederkehreinwand and the Umkehreinwand are revisited and explained. The first thing we must establish is the meaning of the term ‘irreversibility’. This is not quite as trivial as it might seem. The irreversible behavior I will try to explain is that which is observed. Every day we see that time runs in only one direction in the real world,.

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The Limits of Human Rights in a Moving World—Elements of a Dynamic Approach

The Limits of Human Rights ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198824756.003.0023 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 331-344

Author(s):

Mireille Delmas-Marty

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Real World ◽

Common Law ◽

Dynamic Approach ◽

The Real ◽

Reason Of State ◽

Variable Content ◽

Transformative Process ◽

Static Concept ◽

The Ideal

This contribution discusses the limits to the ideal of human rights in the context of a triple dynamic: the reason of State and its limits; the ecological reason and its call to protect the planet and the ecosystem; and the techno-scientific reason as a supreme reason which ultimately could lead to the refusal of any limit. It suggests that if we consider human rights as a dynamic and transformative process and not as a static concept, these rights remain the counterpoint to the derailments of globalization. They seem more than ever necessary for the emergence of a truly common law. If the interplays of limits are well defined, human rights would make this truly common law more flexible by giving it a variable content within limits which allows it to adapt better to the diversity of the real world.

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Class and Slavery

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199227990.013.0017 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Jonathan Daniel Wells

Keyword(s):

Social Structure ◽

American South ◽

Class Formation ◽

Old South ◽

Basic Assumptions ◽

The Social ◽

The Subject ◽

The American South ◽

Southern Society

This article reviews scholarship on class and slavery. The evolution of the historiography on class and slavery is complex, and historians have only recently begun to revisit some of their basic assumptions about class formation, class ideology, and the social structure of the Old South more broadly. New studies raise questions about the ways in which human bondage and class intertwined in slave societies, particularly the American South, and have initiated a discernible shift in the field. While scholars profitably continue to study the plantation and the lives of masters and slaves, many historians now call for a wider view of southern society to take account of life in the region outside the plantation, and the various ways in which different classes of whites interacted with, and were shaped by, the institution of slavery. It is with these new calls that the subject of class is enjoying resurgence.

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