A Sentimental Journey to Mars: Laurence Sterne and his Twentieth-Century Successors

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-68
Author(s):  
Michał Czorycki
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Travel Narratives ◽  
Laurence Sterne ◽  
Individual Freedom ◽  
Literary Practice ◽  
Psychological Experience ◽  
Narrative Device ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Italo Svevo ◽  
Literary Model

This essay examines the idea of the journey in Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768) and the manner in which it has been referred to and elaborated upon by three twentieth-century writers: Italo Svevo in Corto viaggio sentimentale (Short Sentimental Journey, 1925), Gregor von Rezzori in Kurze Reise übern langen Weg: eine Farce (The Orient-Express, 1986) and Claudio Magris in Danubio (Danube, 1986). The authors engage in a dialogue with Sterne and the literary model he proposed in his works. Despite the differences between their texts, in all of them the journey appears not only as a narrative device, but also a symbol of the never-ending quest for individual freedom, self-knowledge and erotic fulfilment. It is both a physical and psychological experience and a literary practice which allows the authors/narrators to distance themselves from cultural clichés and dogmas of their time and venture beyond social routines. This essay attempts to elucidate the unconventional character of ‘sentimental’ travel narratives and bring to the fore thematic continuities between Sterne and his twentieth-century successors.

Epilogue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
The Public ◽  
Antebellum Era ◽  
Narrative Device ◽  
The Future

This conclusion explains how American temporalities changed after the war and sketches how expectations and anticipations of the future have alternated as the dominant view in American culture through the twentieth century to today. This chapter also shows how the short war myth, the story that Civil War Americans expected a short, glorious war at the outset, gained currency with the public and consensus among scholars during the postwar period. It contrasts the wartime expectations of individuals with their postwar memories of the war’s beginning to show how the short war myth worked as a tool for sectional reconciliation and a narrative device that dramatized the war by creating an innocent antebellum era or golden age before the cataclysm. It considers why historians still accept the myth and showcases three postwar voices that challenged it.

Il turista, il Baedeker e il viaggiatore. Il viaggio e i viaggiatori secondo Abel Salazar

2021 ◽  
pp. 179-189
Author(s):  
Carla Marisa da Silva Valente
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Travel Narratives

Abel Salazar presents the considerations of a traveler-storyteller about some Italian cities in his book of travel narratives, Uma Primavera em Itália (2003), the central corpus of our research. Starting from an introduction about the author, the text, the perspectives of travel literature in the first half of the twentieth century, its categorization and reflecting on the tourist and traveler profile, we intend, with this research, to present a critical analysis of the interpretation of the figure of the traveler and its facets by the eclectic Portuguese author Abel Salazar, praised and criticized in his travel narratives.

Laurence Sterne in the Twentieth Century. Lodwick Hartley

1968 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-257
Author(s):  
William Bowman Piper
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Laurence Sterne

Lower Strata, Older Races, and Aboriginal Peoples: Racial Anthropology and Mythical History Past and Present

1998 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumit Guha
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
National Culture ◽  
South Asians ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Way

As K. Sivaramakrishnan has pointed out in a paper published in 1993, one of the persistent ironies of postcoloniality “has been the way elites assuming the task of building a national culture and providing it with a liberatory/progressive history have turned to modes of knowledge and reconstruction produced in the colonial period.” And of the varied strands that have constituted the twentieth-century knowledge and self-knowledge of India, none is more central than the notion of the timeless, conservative caste, and its antediluvian ancestor, the unchanging primitive tribe (Sivaramakrishnan 1993; Inden 1990, 70–72). In this view South Asians, like other unprogressive people, did not change—they merely accumulated, with the latest addition to the population overlaying its predecessor, much as geological strata did. This paper will attempt to expose the historic roots and explore the contemporary ramifications of this model.

Laurence Sterne in the Twentieth Century: An Essay and a Bibliography of Sternean Studies, 1900-1965

Books Abroad ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 216
Author(s):  
David P. French ◽  
Lodwick Hartley ◽  
Arthur Hill Cash
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Laurence Sterne

scholarly journals What Testimony Does to Literature

2021 ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Frédérik Detue ◽  
Charlotte Lacoste
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Literary Practice ◽  
Legal Procedure ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Narrative Model ◽  
Do So

This article sheds light on a literary practice that critics began to reflect upon in the twentieth century: witnessing. This genre, by adopting a narrative model based on statements of evidence presented in the courtroom, distinguishes itself from other forms of expression practiced by witnesses. Survivors of political violence take up their pens and describe the situation they have been subjected to, so as to attest to historical facts and prevent erasure of the event through forgetting, denial or negation. This enterprise, which seeks to document lived experience and thereby pay homage to victims who did not survive, constitutes both a source of evidence for legal procedure and a contribution to the writing of history. Witnessing, however literary it may be, is founded on a pact of veracity, in which witnesses are bound to relate no more than their own experience and to do so with precision. Finally, witness accounts are addressed to society at large or even to humanity as a whole, in the hope of emancipating it from such violence by raising awareness of its intolerable nature. Though witnessing still lacks legitimacy within the literary field, the link it establishes between ethical, aesthetic and political positions makes this genre exemplary of what literature is capable of.

scholarly journals Update of Ukrainian religious spirituality in the problematic section of the national and civilization progress

2008 ◽  
pp. 109-135
Author(s):  
Vitaliy Volodymyrovych Shevchenko
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Religious Literacy ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Religious Spirituality

From the year of Ukraine's proclamation of state independence, a qualitatively different one began, without exaggeration - an epochal period of its development. The cherished dream of many generations of Ukrainians to live in an independent Fatherland has finally acquired a real outline, which in the post-Soviet consciousness of the million-minded people of Ukraine has been associated with centuries of cherished hopes for nation-wide peace, harmony, prosperity and happiness. But Ukraine is already in the second half of the 80's, and more recently - in the early 90's of the twentieth century. entered a period of dramatic and all-encompassing changes, which predetermined the rapid dynamics of the acquisition by the Ukrainian ethnos of its substantive self, and in particular that of spiritual and religious literacy, which related to the need for self-knowledge and self-awareness and found expression in the intensification of Ukrainian religiosity. Involvement in the process of broad strata of Ukrainian citizens, and consequently people of different views, religions and beliefs, as well as the intensity of socio-ideological shifts, not only contributed to the enrichment of ideas about spirituality, but in fact led to its value-based revision.

Rethinking Labor Supply

2020 ◽  
pp. 152-173
Author(s):  
Phillip Brown
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Machine Intelligence ◽  
Individual Freedom ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter redefines labor supply within the context of the new human capital. It seeks to recapture a wider understanding of education and human capabilities, given long-standing objections to treating individuals as passive consumers of knowledge. Labor supply is thus understood as a way of developing individual freedom and rebuilding social cohesion at a time of profound social and economic change. The chapter points out that the relationship between individuals, education, and employment in an era of twentieth-century industrialism is no longer appropriate in an age of machine intelligence. What it means to be educated, along with what it means to be employable, changes in different economic and spatial contexts and in relation to different models of employment.

Modernism and Time Machines

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles M. Tung
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Travel Narratives ◽  
Time Travel ◽  
Twentieth Century Literature ◽  
Time Machines ◽  
Century Literature

Modernism and Time Machines places the fascination with time in canonical works of twentieth-century literature and art side-by-side with the rise of time-travel narratives and alternate histories in popular culture. Both modernism and this cardinal trope of science fiction produce a range of effects and insights that go beyond the exhilarations of simply sliding back and forth in history. Together the modernist time-obsession and the fantasy of moving in time help us to rethink the scales and shapes of time, the consistency of timespace, and the nature of history.

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