scholarly journals Ibsen in Russia Revisited: The Ibsenian Legacy in the Writings of the Russian Symbolist Andrey Bely

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lillian Jorunn Helle
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Main Topic ◽  
Significant Source ◽  
Henrik Ibsen ◽  
Creative Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Andrey Bely ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Many

The intellectual atmosphere of Russian fin de siècle was characterized by a strong fascination for Norway, its nature, its culture and its literature. A good example is Henrik Ibsen who was a significant source of inspiration for Russian dramatists, writers and poets. The Russian symbolists in particular saw Ibsen as a tutelary spirit and not least the “younger” symbolist Andrey Bely regarded his works and thoughts as a prefiguration and a foreshadowing of his own. Ibsen was important to Bely through all his various stages of intellectual, artistic and spiritual seeking and in accordance with Bely’s highly interpretative, hermeneutical approach to the world, in which everything he experienced was transformed to confirm his own symbolist Weltanschauung, also Ibsen was transformed in much the same manner. And the very intriguing way in which Bely rewrites the Norwegian playwright into his own writings will be the main topic of this article, illustrating how the Russian symbolist refigures the Norwegian dramatist to make him fit into his own continuous search for new and meaningful perspectives and positions. Moreover and even still more remarkable, this search convincingly demonstrates how the Ibsenian legacy throughout the many different phases of Bely’s creative development keeps it crucial place within Bely’s life cycle, thereby establishing a most interesting thread in the complex web of Ibsen’s Wirkungsgeschichte.

Deep Learning and Computer Vision in Smart Agriculture

2020 ◽  
pp. 66-88
Author(s):  
Shiv Kumar ◽  
Agrima Yadav ◽  
Deepak Kumar Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Computer Vision ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
World Population ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
The World ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Smart Agriculture ◽  
The Many

The exponential growth in the world population has led to an ever-increasing demand for food supplies. This has led to the realization that conventional and traditional methods alone might not be able to keep up with this demand. Smart agriculture is being regarded as one of the few realistic ways that, together with the traditional methods, can be used to close the gap between the demand and supply. Smart agriculture integrates the use of different technologies to better monitor, operate, and analyze different activities involved in different phases of the agricultural life cycle. Smart agriculture happens to be one of the many disciplines where deep learning and computer vision are being realized to be of major impact. This chapter gives a detailed explanation of different deep learning methods and tries to provide a basic understanding as to how these techniques are impacting different applications in smart agriculture.

Germany at the Fin de Siècle: Culture, Politics, and Ideas

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-140
Author(s):  
H. Glenn Penny
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
German Population ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The World ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Weimar Culture

This is a fascinating book, partly because of the excellent contributions, and partly because of the ways in which the editors have chosen to engage the topic and organize their volume. Marchand and Lindenfeld open the collection with a loaded question: Was there a German fin de siècle? Did Germans, in other words, share the kinds of reactions to modernity that have so fascinated historians of Austria and France? Their answer is yes and no. Many German intellectuals embraced the modernist currents Carl Schorske identified more than forty years ago in his work on fin de siècle Vienna, reacting to the depressing problems of modernization in ways similar to their Austrian counterparts. And yet much of the German population was largely unbowed by their putatively perplexing condition. As the editors argue, despite the worries of many an intellectual, “the later Wilhelmine world was characterized by enormous ambition and optimism, booming industries and bustling new urban spaces, cultural and political activism on a new scale, and the promise, if not the immediate realization, of a ‘place in the sun’ on the world stage” (p. 1). That optimism is the perplexing bit, because many of us, schooled in the dark side of Weimar culture and its intellectual antecedents, have learned to imagine Germans at the end of the nineteenth century (or at least our favorite representatives) as people caught up in a pessimistic, existential, Nietzschean funk. Indeed, the editors themselves have not avoided that position entirely.

scholarly journals The image of the “horror” world in the “Fin de siècle” prose (Mikhail Artsybashev, Fyodor Sologub, Leonid Andreyev)

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-129
Author(s):  
Tatyana Alexandrovna Khitarova ◽  
Elena Georgievna Khitarova
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The World ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Literary Process

The article examines the problem of typological features of the chronotope of the prose of the writers of the “Fin de siècleˮ, who defined the model of the world order in the image of the “horror worldˮ. The goal is analysis of the prose samples of the middle epic of Mikhail Artsybashev, Fyodor Sologub (Teternikov), Leonid Andreyev. Perversion, the corporeality of the depicted reality are the main chronotopic features found in all the literary texts involved for consideration. As we can conclude, the writers of the “Fin de siècleˮ really do make fear and horror a constantly sounding plot-forming motif. However, this constant motif for the literary process of the turn of the century sounds in a unique personal key. The writers offer their own architecture of the image of the “horrorˮ. Thus, the sound of the fear motif is an artistic characteristic of the text, it determines both the dominant of its poetics, and the worldview and attitude of the creator of the text.

‘Powers of Their Own Which Mere “Modernity” Cannot Kill’: The Doppelgänger and Temporal Modernist Terror in Dracula

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-76
Author(s):  
Whitney S. May
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Gothic Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Real ◽  
Gothic Fiction ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Many ◽  
Social Upheaval

Of the many haunting figures that Gothic fiction invokes, none so perfectly encapsulates the mode itself, in all its fantastic incursions of opposing forces and clashing sensibilities, as the doppelgänger. Indeed, this figure in Gothic literature helps to push the bounds of subjective tension so central to the genre. This article examines Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) as an entry into the canon of doppelgänger fiction by complicating traditional readings of the central relationship between Count Dracula and Jonathan Harker. By revisiting the novel within the framework of a doppelgänger narrative, this article suggests that part of the real terror for Stoker's fin-de-siècle audience lies in the novel's timing. Located in the gap between the retreating Romantic and advancing high modern epochs, the novel dramatizes the apprehensions of a culture experiencing enormous technological and social upheaval. Specifically, it offers in its doubled pair a means to navigate those anxieties.

Controversies in the Periodical Press

2021 ◽  
pp. 164-205
Author(s):  
Stefano Evangelista
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Henry James ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Literary Periodicals ◽  
The World ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Class Privilege

This chapter argues that the periodical medium played a fundamental role in the construction of literary cosmopolitanism as a discursive phenomenon. It focuses on two periodicals launched in the fin de siècle: the American Cosmopolitan and the European Cosmopolis. The commercially oriented and middle-brow Cosmopolitan promoted cosmopolitanism as a female-gendered social identity linked to class privilege, as testified by the serialization of Elizabeth Bisland’s round-the-world trip in 1889. However, it also interrogated the cosmopolitan tendencies of modern American literature embodied by the writings of Henry James. By contrast, the short-lived Cosmopolis was a high-brow periodical that aimed to revive Kant’s Enlightenment ideal and Goethe’s notion of world literature. It was committed to multilingualism and to fighting nationalism. The chapter closes with an analysis of Cosmopolis as a competitor to the iconic 1890s English literary periodicals, the Yellow Book and The Savoy.

scholarly journals Neither Animal nor Human: An Ecogothic reading of the Monstrous Hybrid in Dracula, The Beetle and The Snake Lady

2020 ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Aurora Murga Aroca
Keyword(s):  
Hierarchical Organization ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Gothic Fiction ◽  
The World ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Relationship

This article analyses the relationship between humans and animals, and more importantly between humans and their animality. Concretely, this project proposes an ecocritical reading of fin de siècle gothic fiction, as it provides insight on the ideological foundation of humanity’s anthropocentric relation towards the environment. Through the analysis of the gothic hybrid monster, it is possible to grasp society’s interpretation and assimilation of Darwin’s revolutionary discoveries. However, not all gothic writers assimilated the apparent artificiality of humanity’s superiority in the same way. Thus, I hereby argue that rejection and fear is not the only response to the monstrous hybrid in fin de siècle gothic fiction. On the contrary, there are also critical voices who understood this new Darwinian human-hybrid identity as an opportunity to renew human relations towards nature. Therefore, I analyse the constructions of and reactions to the hybrid monster in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Richard Marsh’s The Beetle against Vernon Lee’s Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady. By doing so, I aim at revealing and ultimately challenging the main dualism that sustains the hierarchical organization of the species: the privileging of culture over nature and reason over animality. The gothic genre is indeed characterised by the blurring of boundaries. Consequently, it reveals the human as irrational, the monster as natural and culture as repression, suggesting the need for the reconstruction of human identity and its place in the world.

Resisting the Intelligence Almost Successfully: Wallace Stevens's ‘Academic’ Style

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-69
Author(s):  
Kimberly Quiogue Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Ezra Pound ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Similar Form ◽  
The Real ◽  
Intuitive Notion ◽  
The World ◽  
Fin De Siècle

While the sweeping referentiality of T. S. Eliot or Ezra Pound might seem to form the clearest connection between modernist innovation and academic work, this essay argues that it is in fact Wallace Stevens's erudite irony that most precisely anticipates the current set of relations between innovative poetry and the discipline of literary criticism. Stevens's work can thus be analysed as an intellectual collaboration not with a particular scholar or discipline but with the development of discourses specifically concerned about the value of hermeneutics. In particular, his poetry looks towards academic anxieties about the world in which the humanities now live: one that relentlessly demands educational pragmatism. This anticipation takes the form of a persistent concern regarding the artistic capabilities of abstract cogitation, something he puts into uneasy contact with a more intuitive notion of ‘natural’ positivism. This contact, in turn, manages to resist both the remnants of Romanticism and fin-de-siècle discussions about educational rationalization via a similar form of reflexive critical thinking. By foregrounding the tension between the ‘real’ and thinking about reality, Stevens turns his readers into co-workers, as both struggle to carve out a place for the difficult, impractical effort of interrogating what we can know about the world.

Taiwan Society at the Fin de Siécle

1996 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 1091-1114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas B. Gold
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Traffic Jams ◽  
The World ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Privately Owned ◽  
As If

For old Taiwan-hands, the island's traffic serves as the best metaphor for society there: it lurches between extremes of Hobbesian chaos and paralysis. Drivers either rush frenetically with little regard for others or get stuck in traffic jams of epic proportions, all the time emitting dangerous pollutants into the air everyone must breathe. A superhighway may have six carefully demarcated lanes, but at any time there seems to be a minimum of ten discernible streams of traffic, as vehicles weave in and out, honking, bullying, dodging and frequently colliding. A frontier ethos still rules in this parvenu society, where 25 years ago motorcycles began to replace bicycles, and now privately-owned cars including all the priciest prestige models from around the world, are ubiquitous, riding and parking wherever their drivers feel able to stake out a claim. Sometimes it seems as if everyone is on the move, or trying to move, unwilling to yield to others, treating strangers with shocking incivility.

scholarly journals Od legendy do faktu — od faktu do legendy. Wczesne romanse podróżnicze H. Ridera Haggarda

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 107-117
Author(s):  
Joanna Kokot
Keyword(s):  
Title Page ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Adventure Fiction ◽  
The World ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

The late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are the time of great geographical explorations and discoveries which also constituted a source of inspiration for the fin-de-siecle writers. Between 1880 and 1920 there emerged a variant of adventure fiction, usually defined as the “quest romance” or “imperial romance”. The article discusses three such texts by H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon’s Mines (1885), Allan Quatermain (1887) and She (1887). It concentrates mainly on the interrelation between fact and legend (the process of one turning into the other) and on the function of the peritext — the title page, the introduction, the footnotes or the quoted texts from the fictional reality — in establishing that relation as well as blurring the barrier between the fictitious world and the world of the actual readers.

Bone Tales

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-61
Author(s):  
Gabriela Nouzeilles
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Biological Evolution ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
National Wealth ◽  
The World ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Dominant Narratives

This chapter focuses on visions of Patagonia as the origin of the world in the work of the renowned Argentine scientist Florentino Ameghino (1854–1911), and particularly on his recourse to indigenous myth in the development of his (later discredited) theories of biological evolution. In the fin-de-siècle ‘bone rush’ in Patagonia, fossils became monuments of national wealth and a staging-ground for the battles of evolution between fossilized tribes. This scientific re-reading of the landscape questioned dominant narratives of prehistory, placing Patagonia not at the end of the world but at its origin. Ameghino’s fossils, often bigger and more complete than those of North America or Europe, provide the foundation for a strategic inversion of such narratives, constructing Patagonia as the site of the monumental ruins of a glorious past of biological supremacy. His theories of racial evolution were later disproved, but his work demonstrates the power of the paleontological imagination in constructing discourses on race in South America and beyond. Moreover, Ameghino’s hybrid brand of naturalism, which combines indigenous mythologies with Western knowledge, represents a fascinating example of how histories of local geographical and archaeological discourses developed at the dawn of the twentieth century.

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