scholarly journals Crossing the Rubicon: Debussy and the Eternal Present of the Past

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Marion
Keyword(s):  
Belle Epoque ◽  
The Past ◽  
Multiple Voices ◽  
Children's Corner ◽  
Belle Époque ◽  
Coming To Know

This paper proposes that Mikhail Bakhtin's heteroglossia—the process of coming to know one's own language in the language of others—is evident in two of Debussy's compositions from Children's Corner, most directly in "Golliwogg's Cake-Walk" and more subtly in "Serenade for the Doll." In particular, "Serenade" collapses a number of historical horizons—some of these Wagnerian—as Debussy finds his own compositional path. Debussy's approach reflects the obsession La belle Époque had with the past, and moreover with its need to keep the past alive while fashioning a future through the blending of multiple voices.

The Battle for the Irrational

2019 ◽  
pp. 36-87
Author(s):  
Renaud Gagné ◽  
For Albert Henrichs
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
Belle Epoque ◽  
Greek Religion ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Foundations ◽  
Ancient Religion ◽  
Belle Époque ◽  
The Great War

This chapter examines how the historiography of Greek religion renewed itself between 1920 and 1950. This period invested a great deal of effort in the answers that could be sought from the celebrated old sources. As the former certainties were battered from all sides, the revered voices from the past often resonated with the intensity of a battle call for renewal. Greek religion, one of the most contested domains in the reception of ancient culture, was to be solicited again and again to help imagine a new future. The chapter then considers the great changes that saw the Belle Époque study of ancient religion thoroughly transformed after the Great War, and the stakes of some of the fundamental disagreements that set influential scholars of the Interwar years against each other. Ultimately, the battle for the Greek Irrational was a search for the new foundations of modernity.

scholarly journals Erik S. Reinert & Francesca Lidia Viano (eds.), Thorstein Veblen. Economics for an Age of Crises (London: Anthem, 2012)

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgio Baruchello
Keyword(s):  
Recent Book ◽  
Social Economics ◽  
Belle Epoque ◽  
Thorstein Veblen ◽  
Back Cover ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Belle Époque ◽  
Edward Elgar

“Considering the inability of conventional economics to comprehend the socio-economic convulsions over the past few years in so many countries, it is surely time to try something else.” Thus reads Samuel Hollander’s blurb on the back cover of another recent book devoted to the great belle-époque iconoclast of Western economics, Norwegian-American Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929; David Reisman, The Social Economics of Thorstein Veblen, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012).

Belle Époque

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Sked
Keyword(s):  
Good Reason ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Belle Epoque ◽  
The Past ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Belle Époque

Did Europe’s ‘age of catastrophe’ (1914–1945) represent a break with the past or did it amplify the tensions of the preceding era? Was it a ‘parenthesis’ or a ‘revelation’? Historians have usually taken the latter view and have dismissed popular nostalgia for the period before 1914 as mere hindsight. Yet Europeans had good reason to be nostalgic. The period 1900–1914 had its moments of crisis and ominous trends (e.g. anti-Semitism), but it was essentially defined by stability, democratization, and significant improvements in social conditions. Nor should one exaggerate the desire for war in society or among Europe’s political elites. Prior to the July Crisis, a great Continental war seemed neither inevitable nor likely, all of which has implications for our understanding of Europe’s later descent into barbarism. Simply put, the dynamics of violence and instability that characterized the ‘age of catastrophe’ were largely generated during that period.

Revue Franco-Brésilienne (Rio de Janeiro, 1898) Uma aventura parnasiana na Belle Époque tropical

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-125
Author(s):  
Valeria Guimarães
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Belle Epoque ◽  
Belle Époque

O artigo é um estudo sobre a Revue Franco-Brésilienne publicada em fins do século XIX no Rio de Janeiro e que reuniu nomes expressivos da intelectualidade da época. O objetivo desse artigo é analisar um dos periódicos literários que tinha como proposta explícita a cooperação binacional. A análise está focada no papel de alguns de seus editores e colaboradores na consolidação desses vínculos e na constituição de um campo cultural e literário do início do século XX sob uma perpectiva transnacional.

Le Paris des Ottomans à la Belle Époque

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-120
Author(s):  
Klaus Kreiser
Keyword(s):  
Belle Epoque ◽  
Belle Époque
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