scholarly journals Gotycyzm/gotycyzmy – rekwizyty i metamorfozy

2017 ◽  
pp. 325-338
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Izdebska
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
The Uncanny

The article deals with phenomena of the Gothic the most often described as a set of often-linked elements rather than a fixed genre. The text presents a variety of cultural incarnations of the convention: from the eighteenth century novel by horror movies to subcultural style of Goths. This essay also examines the basic Gothic concepts, like the uncanny and the abject, which determine the worlds depicted in Gothic narratives, especially characters who remain in close connection with the space formed as a labyrinth. Finally, the article is an attempt to answer the question about the source of the expansion of the aesthetics of the Gothic in the contemporary culture.

Giulia Frasi: Singer of Sentiment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Rhodes Lee
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Musical Education ◽  
Artistic Representation ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
Public Persona ◽  
English Stage

Abstract Handel and his artistic collaborators worked in an age that prized the moral potential of emotion, particularly as mobilized in artistic representation. From weeping comedies and moving she-tragedies on the English stage to sentimental novels in the private closet and even powerfully moving sermons from the nation’s pulpits, eighteenth-century audiences received a constant onslaught of emotionally charged rhetoric that aimed at inspiring virtue. This article provides several examples of how Handel’s music, particularly his works of the 1740s and 1750s, operated within this contemporary culture of sentiment; it uses the career of Handel’s last leading lady, Giulia Frasi (fl. 1742–72), as an illustration of the nexus between these ethical-aesthetic trends, Handel’s musical works, and this singer’s career. Examination of Frasi’s musical education, the works that she performed, and her public persona shows that she cultivated a place in the culture of sentiment, both on and off the stage.

The Early Haskalah

2001 ◽  
pp. 9-26
Author(s):  
David Sorkin
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Biblical Exegesis ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Jewish Thought ◽  
Contemporary Science ◽  
Hebrew Language ◽  
Cultural Developments

This chapter discusses how the cultural developments of the first six decades of the eighteenth century should not be treated as mere anticipations of the Haskalah but rather as constituting an ‘early Haskalah’ which aimed to broaden the curriculum of Ashkenazi Jewry. Figures such as Solomon Hanau and Asher Anshel Worms aimed to revive the study of Hebrew language and grammar as well as biblical exegesis. Meanwhile, Israel Zamosc and Aaron Solomon Gumpertz aimed to renew the discipline of philosophy in Hebrew by harmonizing contemporary science and philosophy with established but hitherto neglected patterns of Jewish thought. These thinkers aspired to a Hebrew-based curriculum capable of absorbing the best of contemporary culture. The chapter then argues that once one recognizes the early Haskalah as an independent cultural trend, one needs to determine to what extent it influenced the Haskalah after 1770, and how far it remained a viable cultural option.

Das Bild eines „europäischen Goethe“ in Nietzsches Götzen-Dämmerung. Einige Bemerkungen

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-120
Author(s):  
Aldo Venturelli
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Final Version ◽  
Intellectual Heritage ◽  
European Culture ◽  
The Way

Abstract This article analyses the origin of TI 49–51 on the basis of several posthumous fragments from the autumn of 1887, which had been reworked in 1888. This analysis highlights significant connections that got lost along the way to the final version of these aphorisms, such as Nietzsche’s comparison between Goethe and Spinoza which, in 1887, was the beginning of his updated reflections on Goethe. The origin and context of these aphorisms allow for a better understanding of the long-established image of Goethe expressed in the aphorisms of Twilight of the Idols and their close connection to the new reflections on Goethe as they had already come to the fore in Human, All Too Human when Nietzsche distanced himself from Wagner’s ideas. This also presents the opportunity for a more careful consideration of Nietzsche’s conception of European culture and its intellectual heritage and his relation to Napoleon as well as his characterization of the eighteenth-century and the need for self-overcoming during the nineteenth-century. Nietzsche considered this self-overcoming to be an important aspect of his thinking, and Goethe was an important precursor for Nietzsche’s conception of self-overcoming.

The botanical significance of Pehr Kalm's unpublished diaries for the flora of Quebec in the mid-eighteenth century

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-397
Author(s):  
PIERRE MORISSET
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Royal Swedish Academy ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
First Time

Pehr Kalm's diaries of his travels in North America are now being edited for publication in their entirety for the first time. They contain a great deal of botanical data which were not included in the account En Resa til Norra America published by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in three volumes, 1753–1761, and later transalted into English as Travels in North America by J. A. Forster, Warrington, 1770–1771. This paper analysed Kalm's botanical observations during his trip to Canada in the summer of 1749 and considered such matters as the number of species observed and described — many of which did not find their way into Linnaeus' Species Plantarum despite the close connection between the two men. Changes in the distribution of some species since 1749, the introduction of weeds and other aliens were also discussed.

Second Sight in Scotland

2020 ◽  
pp. 144-166
Author(s):  
Michael Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
The Universe

This chapter considers changing attitudes during the long eighteenth century to second sight — the uncanny ability of certain individuals to foresee the future — in Scotland. This was a topic which fascinated Boyle in the late seventeenth century. This chapter illustrates how his enquiries on the subject began a tradition of empirical study of the phenomenon which continued into the eighteenth century. But then a change came, and by about 1800 the possibility of second sight was increasingly rejected among English and Scottish intellectuals on the grounds that it was incompatible with the ‘principles’ by which the universe operated. In parallel with this, however, a separate tradition emerged in which second sight and related phenomena were deemed appropriate for imaginative interpretation by poets and others, which is significant in itself.

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