scholarly journals … til Rusin-Strutar och Tortebotnar: Översättningars nytta enligt förord till svenska översättningar av antik litteratur under 1700-talets första hälft

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Akujärvi
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
The Subject

<p>For candy cones and layer cakes: The use of translations according to Swedish translators of classical literature from the first fifty years of the 18th century.</p><p>This is a study of prefaces and dedications to Swedish translations of Greek and Roman literature from the first fifty years of the eighteenth century. The introductory paratexts of this period are highly homogenous. Most cover the following five topoi: the importance of the chosen text is specified; the text and author are introduced; the usefulness of the translation is discussed; the principles of translation are touched upon; and, in conclusion, translators anticipate and try to deflect criticism of their work. Not only are the same topoi found in most translatory prefaces and dedications, but are moreover often filled with very similar arguments. The focus of this study is on the most central topos, that of the usefulness of the translation. As a rule, during this period translators tended toward utilitarian arguments to justify their translations. The use could be argued (1) to be the moral value of the text, (2) to help students to learn Latin and, to a lesser extent, Greek, (3) to make the subject-matter of the texts available to readers with no Greek or Latin, or (4) to further the development of the Swedish language and poetry. These utilitarian arguments are illustrated with quotations from the translatory paratexts and discussed with reference to contemporary debates.</p>

Classical Literature: The Critical Task Ramus Ten Years

Ramus ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-111
Author(s):  
A. J. Boyle
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
Roman Literature ◽  
Casual Reader ◽  
Critical Task ◽  
First Time

We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd to know the place for the first time.T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding (1942)It has been a busy decade. Approximately a hundred essays on Greek and Roman literature, from Homer to Nonnus, from Plautus to Claudian, a monograph on Euripides, thematic issues on Ancient Pastoral and Virgil's Georgics, work informed by a vigorous — and one hopes invigorating — sense of the humane value of classical literature and its analysis, but exhibiting in discussion of the ancient texts themselves considerable diversity of approach, emphasis, method. It would be obvious to the most casual reader that Ramus has eschewed the sterile path of the construction of its own methodological orthodoxy. The formal parameters for inclusion have been far more demanding — and important — than methodological consonance: substantiality of subject-matter and treatment; stringency, relevancy and coherence of argumentation; centrality and concentration of critical focus; significant and significantly original illumination of text; soundness of philological and historical scholarship; judiciousness of critical eye. The issue of critical focus, that is to say, of discrimination, merits emphasis. It is a truism to say that relegation of the peripheral to the peripheral, of the ancillary to the ancillary, are necessary conditions for the elucidation of any literary work. But it is a truism often ignored.

Historically Speaking,—: Arithmetic problems 175 years ago

1961 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 361-363
Author(s):  
Cecil B. Read
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
New Developments ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Class Room

A commonly encountered criticism of present-day mathematics teaching is that we fail to take account of new developments; it is sometimes said that a mathematician of the seventeenth or eighteenth century could step into the modern class-room and be competent to teach any of the subject matter.

scholarly journals #MeToo or "Me Too"?: Defining Our Terms

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin L. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject

How we talk about misogyny and sexual violence in literary texts matters—to our students, to our colleagues, and to the future of the humanities and of higher education—and the “Me Too” movement has revived with new urgency debates about how to do that. In this essay, I explore the ethical implications of invoking the “Me Too” movement in the classroom, and I offer a model for designing a course that does not simply present women’s narratives as objects of study but rather uses those narratives to give students opportunities and tools to participate in the “Me Too” movement themselves. To re-think eighteenth-century women’s writing in light of “Me Too,” I contend, is to participate in the movement, and so in our teaching we must engage with the ethics of the movement as well as the subject matter.

scholarly journals Book Review: Daily Life in 18th-Century England, 2nd ed.

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Michael Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Broad Overview

Kirstin Olsen’s book provided a broad overview of England in the eighteenth century. It offers insight into what is considered the “every day” for the populace of eighteenth-century England. Olsen focuses on everything from gender and marriage to science to clothing and fashion. Each chapter is a written account of how the subject was a part of the daily life of a person. Accounts include things such as how they would have used certain clothing items, what type of books many were reading, and how science interacted with their lives. Each chapter’s information is supported by selected primary sources and accompanied by a further reading section. Any student interested in gender, race, and class issues in eighteenth-century England will find this a useful resource.

scholarly journals LITIGATION, THE ANGLO-SCOTTISH UNION, AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS AS THE HIGH COURT, 1660–1875

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 943-967 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHILIP LOFT
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
High Court ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Revolution

AbstractThis article examines the role of the House of Lords as the high court from the Restoration of 1660 to the passage of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act in 1876. Throughout this period, lay peers and bishops judged appeals on civil law from the central courts of England and Wales, Ireland (aside from between 1783 and 1800), and Scotland after the Union of 1707. It has long been known that the revolution of 1688–9 transformed the ability of parliament to pass legislation, but the increased length and predictability of parliamentary sessions was of equal significance to the judicial functions performed by peers. Unlike the English-dominated profile of eighteenth-century legislation, Scots constituted the largest proportion of appellants between 1740 and 1875. The lack of interaction between Westminster and Scotland is often seen as essential to ensuring the longevity of the Union, but through comparing the subject matter of appeals and mapping the distribution of cases within Scotland, this article demonstrates the extent of Scottish engagement. Echoing the tendency of Scottish interests to pursue local, private, and specific legislation in order to insulate Scottish institutions from English intervention, Scottish litigants primarily sought to maintain and challenge local privileges, legal particularisms, and the power of dominant landowners.

scholarly journals PANEGYRIC TRADITIONS IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE OF THE 18TH CENTURY, PRECEDING THE FORMATION OF GAVRILA DERZHAVIN’S BATTLE ODE

2020 ◽  
pp. 126-131
Author(s):  
Aleksandr N. Ratnikov
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Special Form ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Similar System ◽  
Lyrical Poetry ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Comparative Study

Gavrila Derzhavin’s creative work marked an important stage in the formation of Russian poetry. Raised in the works of previous generations of poets, Gavrila Derzhavin mastered the best samples of Russian and foreign solemn panegyric works, creating on their basis a special form of his own batal ode. What contributes to a full and deep understanding of the process of formation and development of Gavrila Derzhavin’s batal lyrics, is a study of the conception of the Russian odic tradition related to the time of Peter I. The place of poetry in the life of society had been rethought during this period; poetry had been rationalised at the service of the state. Poetry texts started to be used as musical and poetry accompaniment of holidays, solemn meetings of reigning persons or praise of military successes. Russian literature responded to this request by the appearance of various samples of solemn, panegyric poetry - cantos and other solemn poems. During the reign of Peter I, who were the most prominent representatives of the panegyric lyrics were Theophan Prokopovich (1681–1736), Stefan Yavorsky (1658–1722) and Dmitri Rostovsky (1651–1709). The chosen batal works of the above-mentioned authors as well as the batal lyrical poetry by Gavrila Derzhavin are the subject of research within the framework of this article. The numerous correspondences and elements of continuity between the panegyric cantos and the odes by Gavrila Derzhavin expressed in a similar system of allegorical image-symbols, as well as in orientation to antique specimens and to biblical motifs, are revealed in the comparative study of solemn panegyric works of batal subject matter and the batal ode of Gavrila Derzhavin.

Eighteenth-Century Traditional and Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony K.551

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Peter Brown Brown
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Joseph Haydn ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Antonio Salieri ◽  
Normal Work

Although the "Jupiter" Symphony has been the subject of much analytical commentary, little attention has been paid to placing the work within the context of Mozart's times and the heritage of earlier 18th-century practices on which it draws. Filling this lacuna involves the consideration of myriad factors, including Mozart's exposure to the music of J. S. and C. P. E. Bach, Joseph Haydn, Michael Haydn, Carlo d'Ordonez, Antonio Salieri, and others; his knowledge of Killian Rheinhardt's Rubriche Generali; his exposure to the Viennese C major trumpet-symphony tradition; and the possible effect of the Turkish War under way in 1788 on the Charakter of K.543, 550, and 551 both in terms of their individual movements and the cycle as a whole. In this larger context, K.543 is the most normal work of the series; K.550, in minor, is dominated by music of mourning; and K.551 is both an elevated and celebratory symphony most appropriate for a victory after battle. Given the C major trumpet-symphony tradition of the first movement of K.551, the elevated nature of the slow second movement's French sarabande, the mixture of idioms of the minuet, and the fugal finale, Mozart fulfills in K.551 every Viennese celebratory requirement.

Fiction in the Magazines

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Formed Part

This chapter focuses on magazine fiction. Magazine fiction before 1820 has been viewed as irredeemably derivative and ephemeral. Notions of the canon, however, are now wider than they were and there is more interest in the typical as well as in the best fiction of the period. Novelists themselves read magazine fiction, which formed part of the cultural context from which their work developed and in which it may be understood: specific strands of eighteenth-century magazine fiction share ground with the writings of Jane Austen, for instance, or anticipate the subject matter of the Brontës. Indeed, the emergence of the professionally written tale in the 1820s can be seen as meeting a growing desire for more sophisticated magazine fiction and as providing for the needs of those who were attempting to produce it.

Popular Opera in Eighteenth-Century France

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Charlton
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Spoken Dialogue ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
News Stories ◽  
French Opera ◽  
Musical Comedy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Private Homes

This is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings. Musical comedy in this form came in different styles and formed a distinct genre of opera, whose history has been obscured by neglect. Its songs were performed in private homes, where operas themselves were also given. The subject-matter was far wider in scope than is normally thought, with news stories and political themes finding their way onto the popular stage. In this book, David Charlton describes the comedic and musical nature of eighteenth-century popular French opera, considering topics such as Gherardi's theatre, Fair Theatre and the 'musico-dramatic art' created in the mid-eighteenth century. Performance practices, singers, audience experiences and theatre staging are included, as well as a pioneering account of the formation of a core of 'canonical' popular works.

A peculiarity in Haydn’s early symphonic work: Form and possible sources of the first movement of Symphony Hob. I:21

2010 ◽  
Vol 51 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 419-428
Author(s):  
Ioannis Fulias
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Joseph Haydn ◽  
Sonata Form ◽  
Unique Form ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Structural Case ◽  
Symphonic Work

Among the first forty symphonies that Joseph Haydn wrote up to 1765, Symphony Hob. I:21 has a slow first movement that does not resemble any other, since it is not based on the usual mid-18th-century ternary or binary sonata form; its structure would be better described as a fantasy with allusions of sonata form, and this special structural case should be placed somewhere in the middle of two other notable “capriccios” from the same period: the first movement of Keyboard Trio Hob. XV:35 (a pure sonata form) and the Keyboard Capriccio Hob. XVII:1 (a pure fantasy on a single theme). Yet, the unique form of Hob. I:21 / I does not seem to be absolutely novel in the “pre-classical” repertoire, since some slow movements from Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s “Württemberg” Sonatas (Wq. 49 nos. 1, 3 and 6) display several common characteristics with it. Thus, the present paper, focusing on similarities between C. P. E. Bach’s and J. Haydn’s compositions during the 1760s, aims at the broadening of the subject-matter of one’s influence on the other, not only from a chronological point of view but also in terms of an interrelation between different music genres.

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