scholarly journals “Where Butchers Sing Like Angels,” Of Captive Bodies and Colonized Minds (With a Little Help from Louise Erdrich)

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-144
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Poks
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Louise Erdrich ◽  
First World War ◽  
Western World ◽  
World War ◽  
Critical Animal Studies ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

The Master Butchers Signing Club – Louise Erdrich’s “countehistory” (Natalie Eppelsheimer) of the declared and undeclared wars of Western patriarchy–depicts a world where butchering, when done with precision and expertise, approximates art. Fidelis Waldvogel, whose name means literally Faithful Forestbird, is a sensitive German boy turned the first-rate sniper in the First World War and master butcher in his adult life in America. When Fidelis revisits his homeland after the slaughter of World War II, Delphine, his second wife, has a vision of smoke and ashes bursting out of the mouths of the master butchers singing onstage in a masterful harmony of voices. Why it is only Delphine, an outsider in the Western world, that can see the crematorium-like reality overimposed on the bucolic scenery of a small German town? Drawing on decolonial and Critical Animal Studies, this article tries to demystify some of the norms and normativities we live by.  

David Jones’ In Parenthesis as an Intercultural Space

Tekstualia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (51) ◽  
pp. 63-74
Author(s):  
Jean Ward
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Visual Artist ◽  
In Parenthesis ◽  
First World ◽  
Poetic Work

In the epic poetic work In Parenthesis, published just before the outbreak of World War II, the forgotten British modernist David Jones, better known as a visual artist, presented a semi-fi ctional account of his experiences as a rank-and-fi le soldier in the London- Welsh Battalion of the British army during World War I. The author, like one of the heroes of his work, was at the front from December 1915 to July 2016, when he was wounded on the fi rst day of the long offensive on the Somme. By origin Jones was half- -Londoner and half-Welsh – and both of these „halves”, which were refl ected in the composition of his battalion, were important to him. He was also by upbringing an Anglican but by choice a Roman Catholic. The offi ces of the Catholic chaplain and the faith of the ordinary Catholics to which he was witness as a soldier played a considerable part in his conversion. He strove to embody in words the particular character of the speech and culture of all the members of the battalion, regardless of their origin or religious affi liation. He also showed respect and tenderness not only towards the culture of the country in which the battles were fought – France – but also even towards „the enemy front-fi ghters”, to whom, along with his friends from the British side, he dedicated In Parenthesis. Under his hand, the trenches of the First World War become a truly intercultural space.

The Early Days of Pneumonectomy for Lung Cancer

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-72
Author(s):  
Harold Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Cigarette Smoking ◽  
Malignant Disease ◽  
First World War ◽  
Western World ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Cause Of Deaths ◽  
First World ◽  
Cancer Of The Lung

There is no doubt that the widespread habit of cigarette smoking, which commenced among the troops in the First World War and which became almost universal in the second, was responsible for the rise in incidence of cancer of the lung throughout the Western World to its position today as the commonest cause of deaths from malignant disease.

Britain and the Middle East, 1944–1950

1951 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Fitzsimons
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Middle East ◽  
First World War ◽  
Suez Canal ◽  
World War ◽  
The Past ◽  
The First World War ◽  
British Policy ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
First World

Since the end of World War II British Policy in the Middle East has been plagued by the devils of the past, joined by a more formidable company of contemporary devils, some of whom bear a mocking resemblance to still earlier ones. Most of this region was once largely in the weak hands of the Turkish Empire. In this area, strategic for the control of the Mediterranean and the security of the Suez Canal, British policy had been to support the Turkish Empire against the heavy pressure of Tsarist Russia, until Turkey's association with Germany drove Britain to moderate its rivalry with Russia, to accept her partnership in Persia (1907), following a similar accommodation of differences with France (1904).During the First World War the British sponsored the Arab Revolt against Turkey, thus shattering the feeble union of those lands, and creating in the Middle East a parody of the Habsburg succession states, complicated by concessions to France (the Sykes-Picot Agreement) and to Zionism (the Balfour Declaration).

Cryptanalysis in World War II —and Mathematics Education

1984 ◽  
Vol 77 (7) ◽  
pp. 548-552
Author(s):  
Peter Hilton
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Armed Services ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
First World

One tragic aspect of the First World War (1914-18), so far as Britain was concerned, was that no effective use was made of the skills and talents of young British scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and experts in other relevant areas. Such people simply entered the armed services, usually the army, and fought in the infantry and other combat battalions.

World Politics in the Mid-Twentieth Century

1948 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans J. Morgenthau
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Western World ◽  
World War ◽  
Religious Wars ◽  
Moral Tradition ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Second World ◽  
First World

From the end of the religious wars to the First World War, the modern state system was kept together by the intellectual and moral tradition of the Western world. That tradition imposed moral and legal limitations on the struggle for power on the international in a certatin measure, maintained order in the international community and secured the independence of its individual members. What is left of this heritage today? What kind of consensus unites the nations of the world in the period following the Second World War?

The Political Science of E. H. Carr

1948 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Morgenthau
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Western World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
Marked Decline ◽  
First World

If peace and security are the earmarks of a successful foreign policy, the foreign policies pursued since the end of the first World War by the great Western powers were certainly less successful than any pursued by these powers since the end of the Napoleonic Wars. To say this, of course, is only to state the obvious. That the succession of failures is rooted in a marked decline in the political intelligence of the Western world is less obvious. Yet the recognition of that relationship is decisive for the understanding of the disease which holds the modern state system in its grip.

Effects of World War II on the development of knowledge in the biological sciences

1975 ◽  
Vol 342 (1631) ◽  
pp. 537-548 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Developmental Biology ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Young Men ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Public Money ◽  
The Many ◽  
First World

This lecture is not based on any thorough survey of literature about the war or its effects, but rather on personal impressions both by myself and by the many biologists who have been good enough to write to me. Although the published version has been supplemented by information given to me after the discussion, the account is inevitably incomplete and apologies are due to people whose work is inadvertantly omitted from the account. The symposium as a whole is supposed to survey the effects of two world wars. I have little information about the effect of the first world war, but I do know that biology suffered considerably from the loss of some of its most promising young men. Physiology might have advanced more quickly with Keith Lucas; developmental biology would have been different with the help of John Wilfred Jenkinson. I mention only these two, because I myself have seen the effects of their loss at Cambridge and Oxford respectively, but there must have been many others. My impression is that for biology the first world war was almost wholly detrimental and that the indiscrimate slaughter damaged this science no less than it did the development of many other branches of knowledge. I know that a lot more public money was channelled into science after the first world war, but that in no way compensated for the loss of genius.

scholarly journals The Conservatory of Santa Teresa

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romano Bilenchi
Keyword(s):  
Adult Life ◽  
First World War ◽  
Historical Document ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

This volume is the first translation of Romano Bilenchi’s 1940 masterpiece to appear in English. This is surprising since The Conservatory of Santa Teresa is much more than an invaluable historical document of life in provincial Tuscany around the time of the First World War. It is truly one of the most important works of fiction published in Italy under Fascism. In telling of the pre-adolescent Sergio’s encounter with the larger world of sex, politics, and the violence and cruelty of adult life, Bilenchi succeeds in representing a universal paradigm, that of the clash of innocence with experience. But what makes Sergio’s trajectory unique is that he goes through it in the company of three extraordinary women who are at once femmes fatales and benevolent guides: his mother, his aunt, and his tutor, all almost unbearably beautiful, as least in Sergio’s eyes. These women, plus the dazzling landscape of the Sienese countryside as captured by Bilenchi, make Sergio’s journey an enviable even if sometimes painful and bewildering experience.

Contemporary Conversations

2018 ◽  
pp. 52-87
Author(s):  
Jane de Gay
Keyword(s):  
Adult Life ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Three Guineas ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

This chapter demonstrates that Woolf was highly informed about the ways in which Christianity continued to be an important cultural and political influence throughout her lifetime. Acknowledging that Christianity took many different forms – including progressive as well as conservative trends – the chapter shows that Woolf’s reaction varied accordingly. Woolf’s life and career is considered in four stages: the years of her adult life before the First World War; the War years; the 1920s; and the 1930s. In each section, the chapter sets out ways in which the public face of Christianity shifted, and how Woolf reacted to it (for example in Three Guineas), along with exploring ways in which Woolf responded to the faith and witness of people she knew. As the chapter demonstrates, Woolf’s close female friends – Violet Dickinson, Vita Sackville-West and Ethel Smyth – all played a role in shaping her spirituality and her views on religion. The chapter also shows that Woolf was aware of contemporary debates about the existence and nature of God, seen not least in her famous statement in ‘A Sketch of the Past’ that ‘certainly and emphatically there is no God’.

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