Search results for "Romanticism"
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An English Poet in Scotland: John Keats's Letters To His Brother Tom
2005
This paper studies the letters John Keats sent to his brother during his walking tour of Scotland. This means of expression provided the young poet with a medium in which to share his doubts and shocks when confronted with what was still a very foreign country for an Englishman at the time. The article first shows how letter-writing plays a part in creating distance from unpleasant experiences, mostly thanks to humour. It then moves on to a study of Keats's reactions in front of the Scottish landscape and Burns's cottage and tombstone, two aspects of Scotland he had been eager to discover. The language in the letters thus gradually becomes more literary, and the last part of the article foc…
Qu’est-ce qu’un conte pour enfant ? Les Casse-noisette de Hoffmann et Dumas
2019
Le conte Casse-noisette et le Roi des Rats de Hoffmann paraît initialement dans Les Frères de Saint-Sérapion, encadré par un débat sur ce qui fait la singularité d’un conte pour enfants. Le texte entre en France détaché du recueil originel ; il est réécrit par Dumas en 1844. La comparaison des versions de Hoffmann et Dumas permet de réfléchir à la nature problématique des contes pour enfants : le conte pourrait bien être en définitive un genre sur l’enfance.
La continuïtat «bioliterària» al País Valencià: de Carles Ros a Carles Salvador (o de Gregori Maians a Vicent Andrés Estellés, passant per Teodor Llo…
2015
Resum: L’article fa evident un fil conductor que va dels novatores preil·lustrats valencians de la fi del s. XVII fins a l’actualitat. També la connexió directa de València amb Londres i París al segle XIX –no sols amb Cadis, Madrid o Barcelona. Els poemes «En los dies del rei Fernando» d’Antoni Maria Peyrolon (1830) i «Lo somni» de Vicent Salvà (1831) són exponents valencians de cultura avançada. Teodor Llorente és també valorat com l’eix que connecta malgré lui l’esforç cultural dignificador valencià anterior a 1859 –amb l’Escola Pia de València com a focus primigeni de l’evolució romàntica– i l’esforç cultural dignificador valencià posterior a 1909. És a dir, entre la celebració dels Joc…
Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Italy
2009
Elizabeth Barrett Browning ran away to Italy after she secretly married Robert Browning, and she spent the rest of her life there. Her letters and Aurora Leigh reveal at the same time her romantic love for the country, the dramatic improvement in her health that ensued, probably linked to the liberation it represented for her, artistically as well as sexually. But they also speak of the difficult position in which she found herself as a published poet cut off from her roots and the literary resources and circles of London and the enduring sorrow of the daughter unforgiven by her father for her run away match. This tension produced the great Italian poems of her maturity but also a support o…
Indigenous Research and Romantic Nationalism
2016
In recent years, “indigenous research” and “indigenous methods” have become prominent themes in the general field of qualitative methodology. These ideas and their implications raise serious questions for the wider conduct of social research. We will outline some of those ideas, subjecting them to scrutiny, and ultimately using them to question the rise of Romanticism in contemporary social methodology. We develop these ideas to question the contemporary emphasis on the personal and the experiential in current methodological commentary.
Blackwood's Magazine - "Nodier's Promenade"
2013
We have translated and annotated an extended review from "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine" reporting on the publication, in English translation, of "Promenade de Dieppe aux montagnes d'Écosse" by Charles Nodier ("Promenade from Dieppe to the Mountains of Scotland", Edinburg, Blackwood, London, Cadell, 1822). The reference of the original article is as follows: "Nodier's Promenade", Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine", march 1822, vol. XI (January - June 1822).
Dos Hesíodes per a una teogonia: mitologia nacional catalana
2008
This article emphasizes the decisive role played by Antoni de Bofarull and Víctor Balaguer in constructing the ideas and imagery which would feed Catalanist thought as well as their role in creating a Catalan national mythology. The analysis centres on the activities of these two writers from the 1840s to the 1860s, which fostered a better understanding among Catalans of their own history and which, above all, provided the foundation on which Catalonia could be characterized as an intrinsically democratic country. This said, they also gave importance to Catalan medieval institutions (and to those who defended them when any king tried to devalue them) as well as justifying the rebellious cha…
"Il più bel giovane che abbia mai visto". Ludwig II e Richard Wagner
2013
Il saggio prende le mosse dalla partecipazione di Wagner ai "moti di Dresda" del 1849 e dal suo successivo esilio in Svizzera, soffermandosi sui rapporti fra il compositore tedesco e il Re di Baviera Ludwig II, del quale viene tracciato un breve profilo biografico.
Zentrierung und Peripherisierung. Ideengeschichte und Sprachbeobachtungen anhand von Ricarda Huchs romantischem Syntheseentwurf
2017
The above text constitutes an attempt of thinking over the topie of displacement to the centre of the apprehension of the natural Sciences and pushing the humanities down to the outskirts. This process was introduced on the example of the literary texts reflecting the ideological changes of the ending XIX. century and starting XX. century. The change of apprehension paradigms of an individual in the world and the apprehension of the world by the individual is visible in our times also. On the example of the literary characteristic of Novalis written by Ricarda Huch, it was shown that it is possible to achieve a synthesis between the internal and external human zone and that only the achieve…
Śródziemnomorskie kody polskości w twórczości Jana Parandowskiego
2018
One is used to regarding Jan Parandowski (1895–1978) as a great connoisseur of the ancient world and a kind of “Olympic” writer with a distance to his own time and space. A thorough examination of his literary essays, short stories and novels hardly proves this opinion. Treating Polish history and culture, especially of the Renaissance epoch, as originating from and inspired by the ancient Roman/Greek tradition (“Poland is situated in the Mediterranean”), he conceals at the same time an evidently emotional approach to national legacy. There are several modes in which he evokes unique Polish history in the 19th century, with the great but problematic heritage of Romanticism as well as the co…