Congeeve as a Romanticist

PMLA ◽  
1916 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Henry Seidel Canby
Keyword(s):  
The Real ◽  
The World ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Literary Fame ◽  
The Way

William Congreve is undeniably the most polished of our dramatic writers and probably the most witty. Of his four comedies, The Old Bachelor, The Double Dealer, Love for Love, and The Way of the World, the first is one of the most scurrilous plays in English, and the last one of the most exquisite. If this were all that is to be said of him, one might be content to leave him to the scholars and the connoisseurs who at present seem to be his only earnest readers. But there is another and a greater claim to be made for Congreve. There is the claim not merely that he should be regarded as a classic—an empty and neglectful honor—but also that he should have that loving perusal by a younger generation which is the rightful prerogative of a classic. A reputation for indecency, a suspicion that he is one of those “to be read for style only,” most of all, ignorance or a misunderstanding of the real quality of his plays, have made his immortality an immortality on shelves, bookcases, and desks, dusty altars for his brilliance. This is of little moment for Congreve, who professed to despise literary fame in his lifetime, and would ask for no popularity now, but it is of some importance for readers of our generation who have revived the old interest in published plays, and should not be frightened or discouraged from the best.

scholarly journals Critique of the culinary reason

Semiotica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (211) ◽  
pp. 165-186
Author(s):  
Massimo Leone
Keyword(s):  
Main Concern ◽  
Cultural Meaning ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Common People ◽  
Slow Food ◽  
The World ◽  
Quality Of Food ◽  
The Way

AbstractPresent-day economically developed societies devote unprecedented attention to food. The culinary discourse, in all its facets, gains increasing centrality in cultures. Institutions, media, and common people are obsessed with what they eat. In Italy, a country already aware of itself with regards to food, gastronomy turns into the main concern, the most debated and cared of system of norms. Social phenomena like Slow Food and Zero Kilometer originate in Italy and then conquer the world, claiming that improving the quality of food is the way for a better planet. But what is the deep cultural meaning of this massive trend? What lies behind the culinary reason? Aesthetic neutralization of socioeconomic conflicts, chauvinistic marketing of stereotypes, and anti-intellectual subversion of sensorial hierarchies, the article contends.

scholarly journals Identity considerations for a psychology based on a complex epistemology

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Jaramillo Estrada
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Way

Born in the late nineteenth century, within the positivist paradigm, psychology has made important developments that have allowed its recognition in academia and labor. However, contextual issues have transformed the way we conceptualize reality, the world and man, perhaps in response to the poor capacity of the inherited paradigm to ensure quality of life and welfare of human beings. This has led to the birth and recognition of new paradigms, including complex epistemology, in various fields of the sphere of knowledge, which include the subjectivity, uncertainty, relativity of knowledge, conflict, the inclusion of "the observed" as an active part of the interventions and the relativity of a single knowable reality to move to co-constructed realities. It is proposed an approach to the identity consequences for a psychology based on complex epistemology, and the possible differences and relations with psychology, traditionally considered.

scholarly journals Forms of Repetition in ‘The Robins Nest’

Romanticism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-152
Author(s):  
Sarah Houghton-Walker
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

This essay uses Clare's interest in birds as a lens to focus its examination of the way his poetry exhibits a particular kind of attention to attention. More particularly, it explores various ways in which repetition functions in Clare's poem, ‘The Robins Nest’. The essay argues that the tension between specifics and generalities which inevitably arises in the construction of natural history, and the gap between natural history and poetry, are significantly negotiated in ‘The Robins Nest’ through the poet's use of forms of repetition. These in turn both invite the reader's attention to the world and represent something of the quality of the poet's attention as he makes his own observations.

scholarly journals Media for Mental Health

1990 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 380-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosalind Ramsay
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Real Situation ◽  
The Real ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
The World ◽  
Responsible Attitude ◽  
The Way

Broadcast media can powerfully influence the way we view the world. Journalists drawn to sensational news items do not necessarily portray the real situation they are describing. Often they strengthen belief in stereotyped images, such as the ‘mad axeman’. Yet they have the potential to foster greater public understanding of mental illness and a more responsible attitude to sufferers.

Class and its Distinctions

2018 ◽  
pp. 500-516
Author(s):  
Chris Vanden Bossche
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Plot Structure ◽  
The Way

Dickens employs a range of class discourses to imagine possibilities of social being defined in terms of middle-class selfhood. This self seeks social inclusion represented as the achievement of the status of the gentleman or gentlewoman. The nineteenth-century shift of gentility from inborn quality to a quality of character that is earned through self-making in turn raises the possibility of mere self-invention and along with it the pursuit of self-interest at the expense of others. This problematic accounts for the repeated plot structure in which a protagonist is excluded from genteel society and can only re-enter it through earning his or her way in the world. In the late novels, Dickens focuses in particular on the way in which the desire for social inclusion is generated by gestures of exclusion and thus questions gentility as a viable category for defining social being.

scholarly journals Pendidikan Anti Korupsi dalam Perspektif Islam

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 221
Author(s):  
Ade Kurniawan
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
The World ◽  
Younger Generation

Corruption always has a negative impact on the life of the nation and state. This dishonorable behavior has hurt the people's justice. Deviations on the basis of corruption have reduced the quality of the country to the community. Therefore it is necessary for the awareness of the whole community to participate in efforts to eradicate, eliminate, and minimize so that corruption can be prevented. The spirit of anti-corruption needs to be introduced to all levels of society, especially in the world of education, anti-corruption education is part of moral education in the perspective of Islamic religious education. Corruption is synonymous with, not trustful, dishonest and not grateful for all the blessings given by Allah Almighty and always feel lacking. Anti-corruption education is part of moral education in the perspective of Islamic religious education, where the source is from the Qur'an and hasis, which are expected to be able to manifest and develop virtue values in the younger generation, such as trustworthiness, responsibility, giving thanks to Allah's giving Almighty and honest as a form of piety and faith in Allah.

scholarly journals Identidad personal y narración: una lectura

2007 ◽  
pp. 87-92
Author(s):  
María Rosa Palazón
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Ego Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Alter Ego ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
The Way

In Soi-même comme un autre, Ricoeur defines the personal identity as singular; so, it is the way in which every individual structures a sediment of experiences and  ways of being in the world common within a chronotop, and, a personalized way of reacting to circumstance challenges. Commonly, due to what is shared, the other is an alter ego. Identity is a holon which can not be atomized, as the puzzling cases or Musil’s L’Homme sans qualités intend to do. Ricoeur splits the identity in “mêmeté” and “ipséité”. The first one designates a center of acummulative experiences; the ipséité, the other from the soi-même, that is, the historical or changing quality of the mêmeté. With Bremond and Greimas theories, Ricoeur attributes to the literary narration the best examples of the dialectics between mêmeté and ipséité. Besides, with McIntyre, he considers literary narration as the best way to formulate ethic judgements from the described experiences.

Information Quality

2019 ◽  
pp. 101-112
Author(s):  
Luciano Floridi
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
The Real ◽  
Epistemological Challenge ◽  
The World ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
The Subject

Knowledge, as a non-natural construction, may be based on our ability to hack the data coming from the world. Two questions now become pressing. The first, addressed in this chapter, concerns the quality of the information we are able to generate, when we are dealing with truthful contents. The second question concerns the truthfulness of such contents and is the subject of Chapter 6. This chapter generalizes the analysis and applies it to a popular topic, that of big data. It is argued that the real epistemological challenge posed by the zettabyte era is small patterns. The chapter focuses on information quality (IQ). Which data may be useful and relevant, and so worth collecting, curating, and querying, in order to exploit their valuable (small) patterns? The chapter argues that the standard way of seeing IQ in terms of being fit-for-purpose is correct but needs to be complemented by the methodology of abstraction introduced in Chapter 2, which allows IQ to be indexed to different purposes.

Does the Quality of the Computer Graphics Matter when Judging Distances in Visually Immersive Environments?

2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 560-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Thompson ◽  
Peter Willemsen ◽  
Amy A. Gooch ◽  
Sarah H. Creem-Regehr ◽  
Jack M. Loomis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computer Graphics ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Real World ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
Immersive Environments ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World ◽  
Distance Judgments

In the real world, people are quite accurate in judging distances to locations in the environment, at least for targets resting on the ground plane and distances out to about 20 m. Distance judgments in visually immersive environments are much less accurate. Several studies have now shown that in visually immersive environments, the world appears significantly smaller than intended. This study investigates whether or not the compression in apparent distances is the result of the low-quality computer graphics utilized in previous investigations. Visually directed triangulated walking was used to assess distance judgments in the real world and in three virtual environments with graphical renderings of varying quality.

Identity, Death, and Ascension in the First Apocalypse of James and the Gospel of John

2021 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-71
Author(s):  
Sarah Parkhouse
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of John ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World ◽  
Real Challenge ◽  
The Way

AbtractIn the Gospel of John, Jesus declares himself to be the way to the Father; in the First Apocalypse of James, Jesus explains exactly what this way entails. This article analyzes how 1 Apoc. Jas. uses the Johannine christological themes of identity, death and ascension and makes them applicable for human salvation. The identity of Jesus as a son of the Father, as opposed to the inhabitants of the world/cosmos, his autonomous death that conquers cosmic evils, and his immediate ascension and fleshly return are all Johannine motifs that are reformulated in 1 Apoc. Jas. Jesus reveals to James that he too is a son of the Father, and James must declare this identity during his postmortem journey through the celestial toll-collectors. He must not fear his impending stoning as, like other martyrdom literature, the martyr is immune to earthly concerns, and the real challenge lies in the cosmic sphere.

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