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Authors: Norman Simms (1997) - The Lucky Chance: orAnAlderman's Bargain (1686)1 by Aphra Behn (ca. 1640-1688) seems superficially typical of late Restoration Comedy in which there is a display of various levels of wit and a contest between an intelligent woman seeking the one honest man whocanjoin her in asserting the primacy of unsentimental love amidst a world of fools and knaves.
Behn's comedy, however, is not simply the generic vision of hedonism that mocked narrow-minded Calvinism and especially ridiculed pedantic schol-arship, tight-fisted commercialism and prudish domesticity.
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Authors: John L. Curry (1998) - Within the text of the anonymous lay of Doonl, there are three elements which have hitherto been considered to have contributed to a weak story line in what could otherwise be taken as an accurate account of events in the life of a Breton knight named Doon2• The three elements in question are: (i) The ride from 'Sothantone sor la mer' to Daneborc; (ii) the mysterious deaths of the successful riders overnight in the room set aside for their repose and (iii) Doon's second ride in pursuit of the lady's swan.
If we tum our attention to the world of nature, these three elements may have valid explanations in terms of reality, and any interpretation of them need not necessarily lie in the realms of the merveille.
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Authors: Nguyễn Thị Thanh Nga (2023-11) - Pháp là một trong những quốc gia có sự giao thoa văn hóa lâu đời và mạnh mẽ nhất đối với Việt Nam. Trong những năm đô hộ nước ta, thực dân Pháp đã thực thi nhiều chính sách để phục vụ cống cuộc cai trị. Chính sách “Pháp hóa ” trong nhiều lĩnh vực, trong đó có ngôn ngữ sớm được thực hiện nhằm đẩy mạnh sự ảnh hưởng của tiêng Pháp đối với tiếng Việt, cũng như khuếch trương ảnh hưởng của nước Pháp đối với Việt Nam. Trong bối cảnh lịch sử đó, hệ thống những từ vay mượn gốc Pháp trong tiếng Việt đã ra đời. Bài viết trình bày những lớp từ vay mượn trong tiếng Việt thuộc lĩnh vực ẩm thực và sự tồn tại của chúng cho đến ngày nay, qua đó thấy được sự giao thoa văn hóa mạnh mẽ giữa hai quốc gia.; France, among others, experiences the deepest and most lasting cultural interference with Vietnam....
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Authors: Nguyễn Thanh Tùng (2023-04) - Vinh danh gia tộc là mối quan tâm tương đối thường xuyên của người Việt cả trong quá khứ và hiện tại. Với tư cách là những hoạt động mang tính tổ chức, và mang đậm màu sắc thân tộc, vinh danh gia tộc liên kết với nhiều thực tiễn của quan hệ thân tộc, văn hóa địa phương và mở rộng hơn nữa. Các thực hành dù khác nhau nhưng đều phản ánh một nhu cầu, một tâm lý chung, đó là sự đề cao gia tộc-dòng họ thông qua việc khẳng định về lịch sử, truyền thống và các giá trị mà người ta tin là tốt đẹp, cần được phát huy. Thời hiện đại, vinh danh gia tộc tiếp tục phát triển về cả nội dung và phương thức. Nó không đơn thuần chỉ là sự nhắc lại, làm nổi bật lên những giá trị truyền thống hay quá khứ vinh quang của gia tộc-dòng họ, mà chính nó cũng là phương tiện đắc lực để tạo nên những thực tiễn mới,...
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Authors: Jeehyun Kim; Yong-Chan Kim; Ahra Cho; Euikyung Shin; Yeji Kwon (2022) - The purposes of the current study were to examine the effects of social media use on facilitating compassion and civic actions regarding the Sewol Ferry disaster in Korea and mitigating compassion fatigue compared with the uses of traditional media, and to investigate whether the link between compassion (and compassion fatigue) and civic action would be moderated by social media use. With online survey data (n = 717) collected in 2017, we found that (1) social media users experienced less compassion fatigue than other media users for news about the disaster: (2) there was no difference in compassion among the different media use groups; and (3) social media users were more likely to participate in disaster-related civic actions than were network TV users and newspaper users; (4) we ...
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Authors: Raylene Ramsay (1998) - 'Verisimilitude, realism, positive images are the demands that women of colour make of their own writing as critical and political practice; white women demand instead simulation, textual performances, double displacements.' I Teresa de Lauretis argues here for differences between races particularly in respect to the centrality of the issue of personal identity. The importance of identity for writers from colonised cultures is considered to determine their preference for traditional realism. Realism would produce real, round, colored, individualised characters, in words characterising a culturally situated narrator. Postmodernism, on the other hand, stages a decentered linguistic subject, made not of flesh and blood, but of the ready-made words of others.
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Authors: Timothy Unwin (2000) - In 1994 a long lost Jules Verne manuscript re-emerged after an absence of no less than one hundred and thirty-one years. Its publication was an immediate cause celebre, both in the world of literary scholarship and among the wider reading public. This novel would, we were told, throw new light on the entire corpus of the Voyages extraordinaires, notwithstanding the fact that Verne's editor Hetzel had summarily rejected the manuscript and that Verne himself had subsequently lost interest in it. Clearly, the discovery of this text so long after the event was serendipitous, for, while there are explicit references to it in Verne's correspondence and elsewhere, its contents had remained a matter of pure speculation among scholars.
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Authors: Rosemary Weatherston (2001) - The political claims that are most urgent in decolonized space are tacitly recognized as coded within the legacy of imperialism: nationhood, constitutionality, citizenship, democracy, socialism, even culturalism. In tlle historical frame of exploration, colonization, decolonization-what is being effediveIJ reclaimed is a series of regulative political concepts, the supposedly authoritative narrative of the production of which was written elsewhere, in the social fonnations of Western Europe.
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Authors: Tonia l. Payne (2001) - If there is a particularly pressing need in our time to forge, through language, a new relationship between ourselves and others, then the fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin can be used to study the ways in which literature reflects changed and changing relationships between people and others, both human and nonhuman. In considering Le Guin's writing in this context, I align the effect of her works with that of contemporary nature writers.
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Authors: - (1998) - Harry Love's introduction to his translation/adaptation of Euripides'
Bacchae demonstrates a clear if rather superficial understanding of this most difficult and complex of plays. As such the introduction would be suitable reading for students of Classical Studies at high school or at the first-year University level. Whether or not a play of such depth and significance as the Bacchae is suitable reading in itself at that level is another matter altogether, although a convincing performance could presumably carry along even an uninitiated audience.
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