scholarly journals Women in poetry and comics: multimodal dialogue between John Keats and Edna St. Vincent Millay

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Abril Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
John Keats ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Narrative Poetry ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Multimodal Dialogue

The comic form of art has witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of readers who have chosen this medium to deepen into meaning-making processes in multimodal texts. But little has been said so far about the adaptation of certain literary genres to the comic form. This is the case of poetry, narrative poetry, in particular illustrated in this study in the celebrated ballad: “La belle dame sans merci” (1819) by John Keats and the modern sonnet: “The singing-woman from the wood’s edge” (1920) by the American feminist poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. In view of two recent adaptations to the comic format of these poems, the present investigation explores from a comparative approach the semiotic processes at stake in representing women from the poets’ own point of view and also from their corresponding graphic artists’ in order to have a look at the changes in the depiction of women in poetry from the Romantic image of women to the view of women in the early twentieth century to the present day.

Breeding Better Babies in the Eugenic Garden City: ‘Municipal Darwinism’ and the (Anti)Cosmopolitan Utopia in the early Twentieth Century

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Currell
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Core Beliefs ◽  
Garden City ◽  
New Town ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
National Body ◽  
Practical Level ◽  
The Way

Showing how ‘modernist cosmopolitanism’ coexisted with an anti-cosmopolitan municipal control this essay looks at the way utopian ideals about breeding better humans entered into new town and city planning in the early twentieth century. An experiment in eugenic garden city planning which took place in Strasbourg, France, in the 1920s provided a model for modern planning that was keenly observed by the international eugenics movement as well as city planners. The comparative approach taken in this essay shows that while core beliefs about degeneration and the importance of eugenics to improve the national ‘body’ were often transnational and cosmopolitan, attempts to implement eugenic beliefs on a practical level were shaped by national and regional circumstances that were on many levels anti-cosmopolitan. As a way of assuaging the tensions between the local and the global, as well as the traditional with the modern, this unique and now forgotten experiment in eugenic city planning aimed to show that both preservation and progress could succeed at the same time.

Sir Lionel Carden's Proposed Agreement on Central America, 1912

1959 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-295
Author(s):  
Walter V. Scholes
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Central America ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Central American ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Foreign Office

As American economic interests expanded in Central America in the early twentieth century, many British representatives concluded that the Foreign Office would have to devise some method to protect existing British investments against American encroachment. When Secretary of State Knox visited Central America in 1912, he and Sir Lionel E. G. Carden, the British Minister to Central America, discussed Central American affairs when they met in Guatemala on March 16. Knox could scarcely have been very sympathetic as Carden expounded the British point of view, for the Department of State believed that the greatest obstacle to the success of its policy in Central America was none other than the British Minister. As early as April, 1910, Knox had unsuccessfully tried to have Carden transferred from his post; the attempt failed because Sir Edward Grey backed up his Minister.

NEO-VICTORIAN STUDIES

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 339-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret D. Stetz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Victorian Novel ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Victorian Studies ◽  
Remarkable Effect

Long ago, Margery Williams'sThe Velveteen Rabbit(1922) taught us that toys become real when they are loved. Literary genres, however, become real when they are parodied. The neo-Victorian novel, therefore, must now be real, for its features have become so familiar and readily distinguishable that John Crace has been able to have naughty fun at their expense inBrideshead Abbreviated: The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century(2010), where John Fowles'sThe French Lieutenant's Woman(1969) stands as representative of the type. Crace's treatment of Fowles's first-person narrator results in a remarkable effect: the ironic commentary upon the nineteenth century from a twentieth-century vantage point that runs throughout the novel gets subjected, in turn, to ironic commentary from a twenty-first-century point-of-view:

Picket lines and parades: labour and urban space in early twentieth-century London and Chicago

Urban History ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 456-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
RUTH PERCY
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Spatial Dynamics ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
City Space ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTGarment strikes in London and Chicago provide a setting to consider the role of the city in early twentieth-century labour struggles. While strikers in the two cities shared similar experiences and confronted similar imaginings of the city, they faced different built environments. The comparative approach thus highlights the importance of considering spatial dynamics when studying strikers’ strategies. Journalists’ and other onlookers’ responses to picket lines, parades or mass meetings reflected normative understandings and expectations of workers’ behaviour, especially if those workers were young, women or ethnic minorities. The article considers the ways in which strikers in early twentieth-century London and Chicago transgressed contemporary perceptions of their cities by appropriating city space and by subverting behavioural norms in spaces where they did belong. I argue that the strikers drew attention to their struggles via their atypical use of the city streets and that occupying these spaces helped unify the strikers and thus strengthen the strike.

scholarly journals Three Italian Illuminated Cuttings in the Royal Library of Copenhagen: the Master B. F., Attavante and the Master of Montepulciano Gradual I

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Eleonora Mattia
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
History Of Collecting ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Catalogue Raisonne

Eleonora Mattia: Three Italian illuminated Cuttings in the Royal Library of Copenhagen Some observations on the history of collecting illuminated cuttings serve to introduce three unpublished Italian fragments that are part of a collection of illuminated fragments conserved in the Royal Danish Library. The miniatures are described from the point of view of their liturgical and art-historical content and are presented in the form of entries in a catalogue raisonné. The Master B. F., who grew up under the shadow of Leonardo de Vinci, was among those miniaturists most sought-after by collectors in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century because of his evident stylistic debts to the great painter. The beautiful miniature in Copenhagen can now be added to the other known works of this Master and is critical not only to the reconstruction of his corpus, but also for the history of collecting, as it comes from the prestigious Holford Collection. It was already correctly attributed when it entered the collection of the Royal Library; it is here inserted into the activity of the artist, a dating is proposed, and a provenance is suggested from the series of choir books in the monastery of Santi Angelo e Nicolò a Villanova Sillaro in Lombardy, which were broken up around 1799. The Danish cutting here attributed to Attavante has a specific iconography that demonstrates an originality and an independence from models followed by contemporary Florentine painting, qualities not always acknowledged to the well known miniaturist whose extensive figurative production has sometimes been considered repetitive. A third fragment is here attributed to the Pisan Master of Montepulciano Gradual I. This anonymous miniaturist is at the centre of the most recent and innovative studies of fourteenth-century Tuscan painting: his activity belongs to the diversified texture of artistic production between Florence and its nearby cities, with expressive modalities independent of the tradition of the more strictly Giottesque masters. The miniature attributed to him here is to be added to the catalogue of his works, dispersed as they are in many European and American collections.

Modern tropical architecture: medicalisation of space in early twentieth-century Philippines

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 261-271
Author(s):  
Estela Duque
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Historical Specificity

In the interwar years European historians and critics of architecture tried to assimilate science into architecture and arts. For example Sigfried Giedion's Space, Time, and Architecture (1941) attempted to bring Einsteinian spacetime into architectural theory, while Nikolaus Pevsner's An Outline of European Architecture (c. 1943) used space as a criterion to differentiate architecture from other art forms. These brought to the idea of ‘space’ a distinctly modern meaning, making it a universal signifier; whereas in the last decade, architectural historians have argued for the historical specificity of space and a deeper examination of the social and spatial practices embedded in the making of space. This study inquires into the atemporal readings of space, using Lefebvre's theory on the production of space by ‘interested subjects’.

scholarly journals «ONTOLOGISM OF FAITH» IN THEISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO R. AVENARIUS’S «BIOPSYCHOLOGISM»

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (18) ◽  
pp. 121-126
Author(s):  
S.V. Pishun ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Academic Philosophy ◽  
Extended Interpretation

The article presents the criticism of R. Avenarius’s empiriocriticism by representatives of the Russian spiritual and academic philosophy of the early twentieth century. The theistic model of cognition, based on Platonic ontology and an extended interpretation of the phenomenon of faith, is contrasted with the biopsychologism of Avenarius. The article substantiates the point of view that the criticism of the ideas of empiriocriticism stimulated the construction of its own version of philosophical and religious anthropology in Orthodox academic theism

The Intuition of Time Between Science and Art History in the Early Twentieth Century

1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-220
Author(s):  
Gabriel Motzkin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Art History ◽  
Basic Problem ◽  
Linear Time ◽  
Uniform Space ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Linear Perspective ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

The ArgumentThis article compares the corresponding effects in science and art of a change in the intuition of time at the beginning of this century. McTaggart's distinction between linear time and tense time is applied to the question of whether linear perspective requires a notion of time as succession. It is argued that the problem of self-representation is a basic problem for this kind of uniform space-time because of the contradiction between this model's need for a privileged point of view and its simultaneous denial of such a possibility.

The Intuition of Time Between Science and Art History in the Early Twentieth Century

1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Motzkin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Art History ◽  
Basic Problem ◽  
Linear Time ◽  
Uniform Space ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Linear Perspective ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

The ArgumentThis article compares the corresponding effects in science and art of a change in the intuition of time at the beginning of this century. McTaggart's distinction between linear time and tense time is applied to the question of whether linear perspective requires a notion of time as succession. It is argued that the problem of self-representation is a basic problem for this kind of uniform space-time because of the contradiction between this model's need for a privileged point of view and its simultaneous denial of such a possibility.

Meta‐Methodology: Clearing the Underbrush

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Bevir
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Causal Thinking ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

This article offers some explanations for the rise of causal thinking as the ‘behavioural revolution's’ reaction to the nineteenth century's teleological narratives about developmental historicism and early twentieth-century emphasis on modernist empiricism. It describes the philosophical issues that are indispensable to any discussion of the role of a given methodology. Each section after that on the traditions of political science concerns a particular subfield of philosophy — epistemology, ontology, and explanation. The emergence of modernist empiricism, behaviouralism, institutionalism, and rational choice in political science is reported. A comparative approach implies that political scientists are wrong if they think methods can ever justify causal claims or even the data they generate. This article attempted to clarify the underbrush of confusion that arises from reflecting on methods in terms of traditions of political science rather than philosophical subfields and doctrines.

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