Coda

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Holt
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Novel Reading ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
The Village ◽  
First World

Historians of the Arabic novel typically tell a tale of the rise of the novel and the nation. Overlooked in the process has been the centrality of finance to the early Arabic novel. Reading serialized fiction allows for the novel form to be seen as open to its historical moment and agentive in generating the fictions that subtend it. The nation and the anticolonial movement from the first World War are in Arabic critiques of an earlier Arabic dream of a cosmopolitan Eden of empire. Tethered to maritime risk, the novel of finance would be replaced with a return to the village and its land, much of it now mortgaged.

Introduction: The Failure of Meter

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Martin
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
World War ◽  
Stable Category ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literary Movements ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
First World ◽  
Main Intervention

This chapter sets out the book's focus, namely the historical moment when the concept of “English meter” seemed to stabilize. The main intervention of this book is to alter assumptions about English meter as a stable concept, to ask what else “English” and “meter” meant, and might mean. It is the premise of this book that the literary movements around the time of the First World War, along with the national, pedagogical, and political movements in the period leading up to it, essentially erased a vast history of debates about versification in English. These debates are the grounds for the claim that poets did not always approach meter as a stable category. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.

Women In and Out

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-74
Author(s):  
Gemma Moss
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Male Sexuality ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
World War ◽  
Economic Success ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

Women exerted a considerable influence on Maurice, even though admirable female characters are absent from the narrative. Before the First World War, a sexually conservative reform movement called Social Purity was bringing male sexuality under particular scrutiny, making this a difficult time for Forster to be claiming that homosexuality was not morally wrong. Interpreted against this background, Maurice can be read not as a rebellion against attenuated Victorian attitudes or against women but as a challenge to the contemporary social purity movement. In this context – the difficulty of talking about homosexuality, of which the novel explores the effects – the willingness of Forster’s friend and confidante, Florence Barger, to discuss homosexuality also needs to be seen as significant. She contributed to Forster’s ability to represent homosexuality as a valid alternative to bourgeois masculinity that equated heterosexuality with morality, health and economic success.

scholarly journals Una creadora olvidada: Irène Hillel-Erlanger, entre el simbolismo y las vanguardias

Çédille ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 313-332
Author(s):  
Isabel González Gil ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
First World War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Main Work ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

"This article is about an unknown author of the French avant-garde, Irène Hillel-Erlanger, and her main work, Voyages en kaléidoscope, an unusual poetic novel, published in 1919, belonging to the genre of the “Scientific-marvellous”, the proto-science-fiction developed in France between 1900 and 1930. As a result of the hybridisation of the languages of symbolism and avant-garde experimentalism, the novel shows the tensions between these two movements, which will be studied through the analysis of thematic and formal aspects, such as allegory, hermeticism, fragmentarism, or visuality, as well as textual and discursive plurality. Finally, we will address the poetics of the gaze underlying the utopian invention of the kaleidoscope, in the context of the end of the First World War. "

scholarly journals The poetics of Vasyl Stefanyk’s story «Children’s Adventure»

2021 ◽  
pp. 24-34
Author(s):  
Ольга Цівкач
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
New Method ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
Running Away ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Great Force ◽  
First World

Aim. The article analyses the means of using a new method of storytelling with elements of the poetics of behaviourism, which deeply showed the consequences and impact of the First World War on the lives of civilians in the sphere of hostilities. The heroes of the novel are little children who were running away from the soldiers and found themselves in the dark woods near a fatally wounded mother. The hero of the novel Vasilko, a boy of six or eight years, must fulfil the prayer of a dying mother and save his sister Nastya, who is very young and cannot even speak. The novelty of the author of the novel does not describe Vasylko’s inner emotions, but using the poetics of behaviourism, shows only the actions of the boy and his behaviour in these circumstances. The novel is devoid of emotional expressions, conveys the boy’s behaviour, his actions caused by external pathogens. The author with great force conveys his attitude to the war and its inhumane nature.

scholarly journals “Like being trapped in a drum”: The Poetics of Resonance in Frances Itani’s Deafening

2018 ◽  
pp. 201-232
Author(s):  
Rūta Šlapkauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Phenomenological Experience ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Theoretical Reasoning ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

This paper considers how Frances Itani’s Deafening imaginatively rethinks our understanding of the Great War in the age of postmemory. Seeing as the novel is set in Canada and Europe during the First World War and takes as its protagonist a deaf woman, the poetic attention given to the senses as a horizon of phenomenological experience magnifies the moral bonds that the characters establish in defi ance of both deafness and death. Guided by the theoretical reasoning of Marianne Hirsch, Elaine Scarry, and Alison Landsberg as well as contemporary phenomenological thinking, most significantly that of Edward S. Casey, Steven Connor, Michel Serres, and Jean-Luc Nancy, this paper examines how the novel’s attentiveness to the materiality of the body in regard to the ethical collisions of sound and silence as well as life and death contributes to a poetics of resonance that generates prosthetic memories, turning the anonymous record of war into a private experience of moral endurance inscribed on the ear of historical legacy.

Romanian Villages: Rural Planning under Communism

Rural History ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Turnock
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Rural Planning ◽  
World War ◽  
Old Kingdom ◽  
Royal Patronage ◽  
Research Theme ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Village ◽  
First World ◽  
Selection Of

The village is an important research theme in Romania in view of its significance for culture and ecology as well as the modernisation process. Interest developed after Romanian Independence but the efforts of the early historians like A.D. Xenopol (1847–1920) were greatly extended after the First World War, when the enlargement of frontiers, adding Transylvania (and temporarily Bessarabia) to the Old Kingdom embracing Moldavia and Wallachia, gave Romanian scholars access to the whole of the central Carpathian belt. Historians like C. Daicoviciu (1898–1973) and C.C. Giurescu (1901–77) were joined by ethnographers and sociologists, such as D. Gusti (1880–1955) and R. Vuia (1887–1963), ecologists like I. Simionescu (1873–1944) and geographers including I. Conea (1902–74) and V. Mihailescu (1890–1978).1 Interdisciplinary research stimulated by royal patronage was particularly fruitful in the case of the project involving a selection of some sixty representative Romanian villages (‘60 sate romanesti’).2 This gave rise to numerous publications, including monographs and shorter pieces, which formed the core of a distinguished sociology journal of the 1930s: Sociologie Romaneasca.

RESPONDING TO DOSTOYEVSKY? JULIO JURENITO BY ILYA EHRENBURG

2021 ◽  
pp. 30-42
Author(s):  
George S. Prokhorov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
The Brothers Karamazov ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Moral Damage ◽  
Brothers Karamazov ◽  
First World

Julio Jurenito – a 1924 Modernist novel by Ilya Ehrenburg, written hot on the heels of the 1917 Revolution and is distinguished by both a wide intertextual spectrum and an acute satirical orientation in relation to all ideological trends and factions. The article focuses on references of the novel by Ilya Ehrenburg to the legacy of Dostoevsky – primarily – The Brothers Karamazov. Ilya Ehrenburg resets Dostoevsky’s features – his protagonists and some elements of plot – into the reality of European history of the First World War, Russian Revolution and Civil War. But also, Ehrenburg goes beyond Dostoevsky’s semantic continuum, replacing the author’s sense of History as a process striving for its endpoint with a History in which an end is fundamentally impossible, and there is always at least the potential to put the flow of event on pause and rewrite their mistakes. As well, the idea important for Dostoevsky that of the moral damage of the modern atheist-minded person is transformed into a demonstration of the people’s inclination to create idols and devoutly worship the latter. Ilya Ehrenburg’s novel is grounded on an interpretation of Dostoevsky, perfected through the prism of the traditions of the Jewish Enlightenment.

SCHWEITZER AND AFRICA

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 1107-1132 ◽  
Author(s):  
RUTH HARRIS
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
First World War ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
World War ◽  
The West ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Reverence For Life ◽  
The Village ◽  
First World

AbstractThis work analyses Albert Schweitzer's complex relationship to Africa, and places him within the context of medical missionizing. Although he worked in Africa for over fifty years, Schweitzer was strangely indifferent to the continent's culture. Unlike his fellow missionaries, he never learned native languages, and his service was primarily grounded in a Nietzschean rejection of European conventionalities and a desire to develop his unique ‘ethical personality’. Schweitzer's self-belief enabled him to create a village-hospital where the sick could come with their families for treatment and refuge, and contributed to his idea of the ‘reverence for life’, a secularized ethics of compassion and environmental protection that made him famous in the West. The village-hospital enabled him to tend the sick more effectively, but after the First World War it became more hierarchical and de-personalized. Schweitzer's missionary experiment in Lambaréné was simultaneously radical and conformist, daring and self-protectively conservative. His desire to serve was as profound as any of his clerical colleagues, but it was built, as will be seen, upon rebellious ethical foundations. Schweitzer stands out not so much for his therapeutic innovations (though these were important), as for his later formulation of a neo-Christian ecologism that assured his fame in Europe and America.

scholarly journals VIRGINIA WOOLF'S NOVEL “MRS. DALLOWAY”

2021 ◽  
pp. 80-90
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
First World War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
First World ◽  
The Way

Following work is dedicated to the novel “Mrs.Dalloway”. The main characters are emotionally endowed Dreamer Clarissa Dalloway and humble servant Septimus Warren-Smith, who was a contusion in the first World War described only one day in June, 1923 year. In fact, the novel “Mrs.Dalloway” is the "flow of consciousness" of the protagonists Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren – Smith, their Big Ben clock is divided into certain peace with a bang. Virginia Woolf believes that "life" is manifested in the form of consciousness, death and time, she focuses her essays on such issues as the role of a woman in family and society, the role of a woman in the upbringing of children, the way a woman feels about the world, the relationship between a modern man and a woman.

scholarly journals Trauma, Gothic Apocalypse and Critical Mourning: The First World War and Its Aftermath in Chris Womersley’s Bereft

2019 ◽  
pp. 97-108
Author(s):  
Anna Branach-Kallas
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
First World War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
Australian Family ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World ◽  
National Mythology ◽  
Gothic Studies

The article focuses on Bereft (2010), a novel by Australian writer Chris Womersley, which applies the framework of trauma to depict the (failed) reintegration of the returning soldiers after the First World War. Using Gothic and Apocalyptic tropes, Womersley addresses the question of the aftermath of violence in the lives of an Australian family and the Australian nation. By combining the insights of trauma and Gothic studies, the article demonstrates how Bereft undermines the meta-narrative of Australian participation in the First World War, questioning the myth of Anzac and national cohesion. It proposes to read the novel as an example of critical mourning, which, rather than cure from trauma, suggests a re-examination of the dramatic sequels of the imperial conflict. Rage seems to offer here an intriguing alternative to the forgetful practices of commemoration. By revising the militarized national mythology, Bereft redefines the First World War in terms of loss, trauma and desolation, and negotiates a place for broken bodies and minds in Australian cultural memory.

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