Reception

Eighteenth-century Britain saw the emergence of a new poetic genre, the “work” poem which took various forms of labor as its subject and was often written by laborers themselves. Several of these working class poets found their lives transformed due to the success of their verse (Stephen Duck most famously), but most faded into literary obscurity. However, a substantial body of “work” poems was produced by a diverse group of poets throughout the century, each manifesting divergent concerns and attitudes about the experience of work. This chapter assesses the formal connections uniting this poetic genre, particularly the frequent use of such literary devices as ironic distancing, litotes, and mock-georgic description. Instead of solely classifying “work” poems on the basis of their subject matter, this chapter demonstrates that such poetry (indeed the genre itself) lends itself to sophisticated literary techniques often associated with other poetic genres. In this fashion the full measure of eighteenth-century working class poetry can be evaluated more fairly, particularly by analyzing the formation of a new genre designed expressly by the poets themselves. The chapter ultimately seeks to demonstrate the connectedness, rather than the alienation, of working class poetry to the eighteenth-century British poetic tradition.

O artigo apresenta e introduz uma articulação entre as principais traduções do longo poema lírico Nuvem de Calças (1915) do poeta russo Vladímir V. Maiakóvski para o francês, publicadas entre 1947 e 2011. Pretende-se mostrar como as potentes imagens da poesia maiakovskiana tendem a obliterar os aspectos sonoros fundamentais de sua poética, o que tem resultado em traduções prosaicas, pobres em ritmo e sonoridade. Entretanto, tal fenômeno não teve impacto negativo em sua recepção ao longo do tempo, já que ele é um dos poetas russos mais populares na França, provavelmente em função do gigantismo de sua personalidade histórica junto ao público francês.
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Русский модернистский кружок «Голубая келья» в Вильно начала XX века по рукописи архиепископа Виленского и Литовского Алексия (в миру Александра Петровича Дехтерева; 1889–1959) «Мой дневник „Борьба с символизмом“. Вильно 1913–1914–1915», хранящейся в Отделе рукописей Библиотеки Академии наук Литвы имени Врублевских: характеристика литературных ориентаций и круга чтения (Анна Ахматова, Александр Блок, Андрей Белый, Федор Сологуб, Николай Евреинов, Вячеслав Иванов, Иван Коневский, Михаил Кузмин, Осип Мандельштам и другие) участников кружка и его ближайшего окружения – поэт и эсперантист Георгия Дешкина, музыкальный педагог, пианист, композитор («Взвейтесь кострами») Сергей Кайдан-Дешкина, художник и поэт Владимир Девятнин, актер, впоследствии и кинорежиссер Михаил Доллер, поэт Евгений Краснянский, драматический артист и автор стихов Алексей Юркевич (его брат Мстислав – художник супрематист).

Pavel Lavrinec. “The Fight against Symbolism” by A. P. Dekhteriov
Before World War I, Russian literary circle of the modernist, mainly symbolist orientations, named “Blue cell”, was acting in Vilnius. The interests of participants of this group are characteristic and typical for Russian modernist literature of the beginning of 20th century. Valuable information about the participants of the group, their interests, creative preferences remained in a diary titled “The Fight against Symbolism” by one of the members, who later became Orthodox archbishop of Vilnius and Lithuania Aleksij (born Alexander Dekhteriov; 1889–1959), poet, writer, and publicist. The diary kept in the Manuscripts Department of the Wróblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. The article analyzes the program of the literary group and reconstructs its hierarchical structure (with the stages of initiation as a boy, a brother, a master), composition (painter and poet Vladimir Devyatnin, poet and esperantist Georgy Deshkin, poet Evgeny Krasnyansky and others) and range of reading of participants (including such authors as Aleksandr Blok, Andrey Bely, Anna Akhmatova, Mikhail Kuzmin etc.), which reflects the aesthetic attitudes of “brothers” and their “service to beauty”.

ATAY, Hakan, "Waiting for Pessoa: The Works of Fernando Pessoa in Turkish" (2016). Pessoa Plural―A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies, No. 9, Spring, pp. 260-269. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University. https://doi.org/10.7301/Z08G8HXQ

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Pessoa Plural―A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies, Issue 9

Waiting for Pessoa: The Works of Fernando Pessoa in Turkish
À espera de Pessoa: as obras de Fernando Pessoa em Turco]

https://doi.org/10.7301/Z08G8HXQ

PESSOA, Fernando (2015b). Hiçbir Şey İstememenin Mutluluğu: Aforizmalar. Translated by Hakan Akdoğan. Istanbul: Zeplin Kitap. PESSOA, Fernando (2015a). Başıboş Bir Yolculuktan Notlar. Translated by Işık Ergüden. Istanbul: Kırmızı Kedi Yayınevi."

RESUMEN
Situados en las fronteras entre el mito y la historia, Hecateo de Mileto, Ferécides de Atenas y Helánico de Lesbos suelen considerarse como los fundadores de dos tipos de prosa relacionados : la “historiografía” y la “mitografía”. Sin embargo, las taxonomías modernas podrían no coincidir con la percepción de los propios autores sobre el significado y alcance de su obra, ni con la de sus receptores antiguos. En este artículo, el examen de la nomenclatura aplicada a estos tres escritores (los genéricos ἱστορικός, ἱστοριογράφος y συγγραφεύς, por un lado, y los calificativos  λογοποιός y λογογράφος , μυθογράφος, por el otro), en la literatura griega, no sólo pone de relieve los diversos criterios manejados en la Antigüedad para catalogarlos como “historiadores” y / o “mitógrafos”, sino que también permite cuestionarse hasta qué punto, más allá de la  etimología, los valores actuales de  “mitografía” y “mitógrafo” se corresponden exactamente con los usos griegos.
ABSTRACT
Located on the borders between myth and history, Hecataeus of Miletus, Pherecydes of Athens and Hellanicus of Lesbos are generally considered the founders of two related types of prose : “historiography” and “mythography”. However, modern taxonomies could not correspond with the perception of the authors themselves on the meaning and scope of work, nor with their reception in Antiquity. In this paper, the examination of the names applied to these three writers (the generic ἱστορικός, ἱστοριογράφος and συγγραφεύς on one hand, and the qualifiers λογοποιός, λογογράφος and μυθογράφος on the other hand) in Greek literature, not only highlights the different criteria under consideration to categorized them as “historians” and / or “mythographers”, but also allows to question if, beyond etymology, the current meanings of “mythography” and “mythographer” correspond exactly with the Greek uses.

La présente étude s’attache à l’analyse de la symbiose entre fascisme et catholicisme au sein de l’Istituto di Studi Romani (ISR). Il s’agira de montrer que l’ISR, suivant les exigences du régime et celles du Vatican, jouait un ‘double jeu’, politique et religieux. Ce double jeu est visible, non seulement à travers les activités et les contacts de l’ISR mais aussi dans les publications, c’est-à-dire dans le discours qui, bien que d’une certaine qualité scientifique, est de nature hautement propagandiste. Nous nous baserons sur les nombreuses publications de l’ISR, ainsi que sur des sources d’archives inédites, comprenant certains documents conservés à l’Istituto et dans les archives privées de la famille du fondateur, Carlo Galassi Paluzzi ; les contacts de ce dernier avec d’importantes personnalités politiques et, surtout, ecclésiastiques de l’entre-deux-guerres se révèleront particulièrement importants.

The musical production of the Group of the Eight followed the path of neoclassicism initiated in Spain by Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) when trying to evoke the forms and sounds of the previous centuries, especially the XVIII. Within neoclassicism, harpsichordism was a movement that sought to recover the harpsichord in discourses and musical practices. Rodolfo Halffter (1900-1987), with his «Dos sonatas de El Escorial» (1928), offered a look at the Spanish harpsichord school when recreating the sonic world of Domenico Scarlatti´s (1685-1757) and, especially, Antonio Soler’s sonatas (1729-1783). Along with the use of formal and compositional procedures that remember of these authors, Halffter used elements of the avant-garde language associated with new music. This article intends to analyze the reception of the «Dos sonatas de El Escorial» trying to verify if the public and critics found in them a continuity with the Spanish tradition of the Keyboard and what was the perception of the vanguardist elements present in this composition. To achieve this, we will analyze the reviews of the interpretations of the work that appeared in the press at the time.

Author(s): Zildzic, Ahmed | Advisor(s): Algar, Hamid | Abstract: AbstractFriend and foe: The Early Ottoman Reception of Ibn `Arabiby Ahmed ZildzicDoctor of Philosophy in Near Eastern StudiesUniversity of California, BerkeleyProfessor Hamid Algar, ChairThe legacy of the great Muslim Sufi master from the XII century, Muhy al-din Ibn al-`Arabi left broad, profound, lasting and polarizing impact on the development of Islamic mysticism in the centuries after his death. The underlying principles of Sufism such as the ideas of the transcendental unity of being, the Perfect Man, the sealhood of the Mu-hammadan sainthood in their final form and ultimate interpretation are usually, both fa-vorably and unfavorably, associated with the name of Ibn `Arabi. This dissertation is a historical inquiry into the pathways through which the influence of Ibn `Arabi, as well as that of his works, disciples and ideas was inherited and incorpo-rated into the intellectual milieu of the Ottoman learned class ...

Yeni Sarayın muhafızı ve İstanbul’un asayişinden sorumlu görevlilerden biri olan bostancıbaşı bu görevini, çoğunlukla kayığıyla yerine getirirdi. Bunun dışında başta padişah olmak üzere çeşitli üst düzey devlet görevlilerinin nakli, padişah ailesine mensup bazı fertlerin cenazelerinin taşınması, müsadere edilen eşyaların nakli, Kabe örtüsünün karşılanıp alınması gibi işlerde de bostancıbaşı kayığıyla hizmet ederdi.

Bostancıbaşı (Bostandjibashi: The chief of gardeners), is the guardian of Topkapı Palace and one of public security keepers in İstanbul, would accomplish these duties with his boat. However, he also would servise with his boat for these tasks: Being transported the diffirent dignitaries firstly kings, transfering the funeral of some persons from royal family, transporting seizuring goods, reception and acceptance the Kabe cover.

After the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish nation was born out of the ashes along with the founding of the new Turkish Republic. Due to providing unity on law, the new Republic should have to lead the enactment process. Also, there were traces of traditional aspects from the Ottoman community that reflects the legislation process. Herein, the Turkish Republic decided to adapt the Swiss Civil Code to reach the level of contemporary civilization. In this study, it will be explained first the codification in Switzerland with its legal history and codification process. And then, the adoption process of the Swiss Civil Code by Turkey will be addressed under the titles of historical background and adoption process with its result. In the light of these, the real intention behind the adoption of Turkey will be evaluated. Lastly, within the cultural diversities that are coming forward differences in their law systems and their effects on society will be addressed.

384 a prevalere, almeno alla luce del sole, senza tuttavia riuscire mai a sradicare completamente l'altro, tanto è vero che non esiste epoca o corrente letteraria inglese che non abbia al suo interno, come componente minoritaria oppure in sua aperta opposizione ...

Courtney J. P. Friesen explores shifting boundaries of ancient religions by way of the reception of a popular tragedy, Euripides’ Bacchae . As a play staging political crises provoked by the arrival of the “foreign” god Dionysus and his ecstatic cult, audiences and readers found resonances with their own cultural moments. This dramatic deity became emblematic of exuberant and liberating spirituality and, at the same time, a symbol of imperial conquest. Thus, readings of the Bacchae frequently foreground conflicts between religious autonomy and political authority, and between ethnic diversity and social cohesion. This cross-disciplinary study traces appropriations and evocations of this drama ranging from the fifth century BCE through Byzantium not only among “pagans” but also Jews and Christians. Writers variously articulated their religious visions over against Dionysus, often while paradoxically adopting the god’s language and symbols. Consequently, imitation and emulation are at times indistinguishable from polemics and subversion.

A 1575 copy of the works of the Roman poet Horace that was once owned and used by William Shakespeare between 1589 and 1596 has recently been discovered in a private, Canadian collection. This paper presents an overview of Shakespeare's reception of Horace and points out the correspondence between his known borrowings and annotations in the 1575 Horace, most of which occur in Horace's Odes. Further annotations may indicate Shakespearean borrowings that have remained unnoticed so far. These annotations were very likely made by earlier owners of the 1575 Horace, and Shakespeare used them as signposts to the "good bits" of Horace's challenging Latin.

This is the first comparative study of a highly unlikely group of authors: eighteenth-century women peasants in England, Scotland, and Germany, women who, as a rule, received little or no formal education and lived by manual labor, many of them in dire poverty. Among them are the ...

In this article, I aim to showcase the emergence of the so-called Ancient Astronaut Discourse (AAD) out of religious discourse as well as its continued religious functions despite all differences and pretensions to the contrary (i.e., the concerted effort to resemble legitimate or even superior science, specifically historiography and archaeology). In a second step, I sketch a concise literary history of this emergence itself, as well as the continuous mutual influence between the AAD and the realm of popular culture. This complex intertwinement is exemplified via the rather spectacular case of the "Stargate" science fiction franchise which adapted popular themes and theories from the AAD (in particular its Egyptian front focusing on the pyramids) in the mid-90s. With the success of the movie and the subsequent television shows, the direction of the influence then became strangely reversed: The eponymous Stargate device became integrated into AAD narratives, its fictional origins being silently dropped or explained away by conspiracy theories. I try to account for this development by a methodical approach in the vein of recent studies on fiction-based religions as well as Jean Baudrillard's concept of hyperreality and simulacra. Throughout all these observations, we encounter an imaginary Egypt as providing both the primary building blocks and the general backdrop of ancient mystery from and upon which the AAD's flying pyramids are built.

Images of ancient Sparta are irrepressible in Western thought. A powerful model of excellence in the middle ages and Renaissance, in the Enlightenment and French Revolution Sparta was invoked by radical thinkers as a model for the creation of an ideal republic. Since the 19th century Sparta has been viewed as the opposite of liberal and industrial democracies: shunned – or hailed – as the model for 20th century totalitarian and militaristic regimes such as the Third Reich. Intelligence analysts in the United States used Sparta as an analogy to predict the performance of the Cold War Soviet Union. But positive views of the Spartans flourish in contemporary democratic culture and digital media, most strikingly in popular fiction, graphic novels and film.

This book is the first to focus exclusively on Sparta’s impact in modern times. Eleven international experts take readers across ten centuries from the 12th century Renaissance to 21st century digital culture. Exploiting hitherto untapped sources, from medieval political tracts to declassified CIA documents and YouTube video clips, they reveal many previously unknown aspects of Sparta’s impact on modern politics and culture.

Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου / Σχολή Ανθρωπιστικών και Κοινωνικών Επιστημών. Μεταπτυχιακό Πρόγραμμα Σπουδών: “Ελληνική Γλώσσα και Λογοτεχνία”. Θεματική Ενότητα: ΕΓΛ 51: «Θεωρητικές Προσεγγίσεις στην Αρχαία Ελληνική Λογοτεχνία». Τμήμα Αθήνας (ATH1). Διδάσκουσα – Συντονίστρια ΕΓΛ 51 (ATH1): Ζαχαρούλα Πετράκη.
Εργασία 3η – Τίτλος: «Η πρόσληψη του Ομήρου από τον Γιάννη Ρίτσο στο ποίημα “Η Απόγνωση της Πηνελόπης” (Επαναλήψεις Β΄, 1968)».

Open University of Cyprus / Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. M.A. Program in Greek Linguistics and Literature. Module EGL 51: «Theoretical Approaches in Ancient Greek Literature». Athens’ Section (ATH1). Professor – Moderator EGL 51 (ATH1): Zacharoula Petraki.
Paper 3 – Title: «The reception of Homer by Yannis Ritsos in the poem “Penelope’s Despair” (Repetitions B΄, 1968)».

Yoav Tirosh, "Tearing a Text Apart – Audience Participation and Authorial Intent in Ljósvetninga saga and Tommy Wiseau’s The Room", in Unwanted. Neglected Approaches, Characters, and Texts in Old Norse-Icelandic Saga Studies, edited by Andreas Schmidt and Daniela Hahn, 206-242. Münchner Nordistische Studien 50. Munich 2021.

While the official publishing market in communist Poland would condemn Orwell to being an ‘unperson’ for almost forty years after his death, Orwell’s outspoken political views, in particular his fierce opposition towards Stalin’s politics and sympathy for Poland, turned him into one of the most appreciated representatives of the British left within Polish communities scattered around the globe by the Second World War and their country’s subsequent Soviet occupation. Polish exiles would not only mention him frequently in the Polish press and collaborate internationally on translating and publishing his works abroad, but would also be his friends and first-hand sources of information. Drawing on primary material, including Orwell’s letters to Teresa Jeleńska deemed lost by Orwell scholars, the paper discusses Orwell’s attitude to Polish problems as well as aspects of Orwell’s early Polish reception and relationships with Poles in Paris and London. In doing so, it attempts to bring new insights not only to Orwell studies, but also to how we think about the reception of writers generally in times of censorship.

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Visual studies are imparted as majors in many western institutions. This concern with visual culture stems from the vital role of images in communication and how they shape the mindset of the global citizen. Moroccan academia has recently introduced such discipline in some departments in order to modernize the curricula and enhance a liberal education. However, socialization and the dominant local culture favor a more conservative perception of images. The paper explores how these converging narratives operate and how students react to some modern values such as body politics, freedom of expression, subjectivity, etc. The last concern of this study is to analyze to what extent images interrogate and disrupt traditional norms and perceptions and contribute in developing students' critical thinking, visual literacy, modernist perspectives, intercultural communication and mindfulness. The paper is a mixture of qualitative and quantitative research methods. It is first grounded in the postmodern theoretical framework, but it is also based on a four year teaching visual arts experience, classroom observation, and questionnaires. The ultimate aim of this paper is to share some findings with other practitioners, to address the impediments and challenges of university education and to contribute in designing modern curricula that smoothly prepare the students to embrace multicultural values.

The research investigates the beginnings of the visual construction of the Viking figure by Western art, in the period between the 1820s and the 1850s. We used John Harvey's visual methodology and studies of Cultural History. The article analyzes the influence of literary stereotypes, the references of medieval chivalry and the Ossian ideal in the initial formation of images about Vikings. The last part investigates the consolidation of the Viking image as a hero and adventurer, as well as the origin and formation of the most famous visual stereotype about the ancient Nordic: the warrior wearing a horned helmet. We conclude that the first romantic representations about the Nordics played an important role in the consolidation of nationalism for several European countries, which sought to define their geographical borders and social identities.

Within the matrix of ancient Greek and Roman religion, mystery cults constitute an intricate set of esoteric spiritual beliefs, which had strong reverberations on all aspects of human societies (politics, economy, culture), as they ardently sought to catch a fleeting glimpse of the secret eternal truth that would guarantee eternal bliss in the afterlife.

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The article chronicles the first 300 years of metamorphosis of the interpretations accumulated in the series of commented editions of _Xiyou ji_ (1592). Studying major theses advanced, argued, expanded, revised, rebuffed, and consolidated in these editions, it tells a story of how a fictive work written mostly in the vernacular, whose original author was reluctant to reveal his name, came to be revered as a sacred scripture 300 years later in the 19th century.

Abhijnanashakuntalam has been Kalidasa’s most celebrated play. It has been translated in various languages and critical studies have followed thereafter. The objective of this study is to acknowledge common readers’ reading of this play before putting it under critical assessment. This is an attempt to study the response of readers where Sanskrit poetry and English criticism have been juxtaposed with one another. It takes into account contemporary readers’ response to understand the dynamics of the act of reading and the effect that it can possibly have on forming the meaning of a literary text. The paper also looks at the process in which literary texts survive the test of time. It has resulted in evoking reactions among the audiences regarding their opinion about morality, human behaviour, and gender constructs.

The idea of a heritage from ancient Rome, or romanità, was central to Italian fascism. This article analyzes, in the 44 volumes of his Opera Omnia, Il Duce Mussolini’s discourse on romanità, focusing on key themes such as empire, historical characters and the grandeur of archaeological remains. It links Mussolini’s discourse of romanità to his discourse on the future, and to the idea of fascism as a political religion. It shows that Mussolini’s historical knowledge was largely overstated and that it was mainly the omnipresence of romanità, rather than its specific features, which can be defined as central to this notion.