scholarly journals Minarets et pagodes

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-70
Author(s):  
Michel Duchesneau
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Maurice Ravel ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Nous Appellerons

L’œuvre du compositeur Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) fait résonner un Orient singulier. Si on y découvre l’ombre scintillante du monde de la pacotille « fin de siècle », on y trouve aussi les couleurs chaudes et rêveuses que la littérature et la peinture ont données à un Orient imaginé depuis plus de deux siècles. Au cours de cet article, nous présenterons quelques aspects de l’œuvre de Ravel qui font appel à une culture de l’Orient basée sur le récit et l’imagination. C’est par un processus d’appropriation très particulier que le compositeur réalise certaines de ses œuvres les plus emblématiques et caractéristiques de ce que nous appellerons un orientalisme « poétique ». Nous puiserons nos exemples musicaux dans Shéhérazade (1903) et Ma Mère l’Oye (1910).

Illustrated Media, the Built Environment and Identity Politics in Fin-de-siècle Catalonia: Printing Images, Making the Nation

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-135
Author(s):  
Lucila Mallart
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This article explores the role of visuality in the identity politics of fin-de-siècle Catalonia. It engages with the recent reevaluation of the visual, both as a source for the history of modern nation-building, and as a constitutive element in the emergence of civic identities in the liberal urban environment. In doing so, it offers a reading of the mutually constitutive relationship of the built environment and the print media in late-nineteenth century Catalonia, and explores the role of this relation as the mechanism by which the so-called ‘imagined communities’ come to exist. Engaging with debates on urban planning and educational policies, it challenges established views on the interplay between tradition and modernity in modern nation-building, and reveals long-term connections between late-nineteenth-century imaginaries and early-twentieth-century beliefs and practices.

Medical Humanism and Blackwood’s Magazine at the Fin de Siècle

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Coyer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Medical Humanism

If Blackwood’s helped to generate a recuperative medical humanism in the first half of the nineteenth century, what was its legacy? This ‘Coda’ turns to the fin de siècle to trace some key examples of a resurgence of the magazine’s mode of medical humanism at a time of perceived crisis for the medical profession, when many began ‘to worry that the transformation of medicine into a science, as well as the epistemological and technical successes of the new sciences, may have been bought at too great a price’....

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