Place, Space and Identity in Modern Drama: Analysis of Four Selected Plays

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 103-122
Author(s):  
Mohd Ahmad Rawashdah
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Cherry Orchard ◽  
Concrete Entity ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Modern Identity ◽  
Modern Era

Individual’s identity has always been expressed by abstract terms like culture, beliefs, religion, values etc. In this paper, I argue that modern playwrights show that the generations of the modern era tend to identify more with place, a concrete entity, than they do with the traditional constitutive elements of identity since these abstractions started to lose their glamour and value in an age marked by tremendous advancement in technology and materialism. With the modern generations increasingly associating themselves with place, an identity crisis has emerged since place is contingent to economic and social factors i.e. is not as stable as culture or religion. The vulnerability of modern identity turns it into a notion in flux, with no fixed or clear-cut boundaries. Thus, modern age people may live with multilayered identity or swing between two or more identities. Place, with whatever experience is practiced in it, remains the hinge on which modern identity revolves. To show that the phenomenon is a global one, the paper studies four plays representing different cultures and spheres—Anton Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, William Saroyan’s The Time of Your Life, and Wakako Yamuchi’s And the Soul Shall Dance.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Quranic Lectures of Dr.Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi and Maulana Dr. Sher Ali Shah

Fahm-i-Islam ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-120
Author(s):  
Dr. Saeed Ul Haq Jadoon ◽  
M. Saeed Shafiq
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
International Level ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The People ◽  
Holy Quran ◽  
The Holy Quran ◽  
Modern Era

The teaching and learning of Quran is a great blessing that is why the Islamic scholar have played a pivotal role in this regard. They also intensified their efforts immensely in publishing of Quranic knowledge. Allah took great services of Quranic words and meanings fromUlama and Islamic Researchers. The modern age due to specialization which were introduced in the Holy Quran, among these one is Quranic lectures. The monumental scholars, Researchers and the experts of Quranic Knowledge deliver lectures on different subjects from which general and specific people take advantage equallly. This kind of teaching adopted the shape of permanent Art in the modern era. Dr. Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi and maulana Dr. Sher Ali Shah were also international level scholars and researchers, who were called upon by the people for Quranic lectures in country and foreign. The Quranic lectures delivered by Dr Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi and Dr.Sher Ali Shah were very beneficial for Quranic students and scholars. In this Article we discuss Comparative Study of Quranic lectures of Dr. Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi and Molana Dr. Sher Ali Shah

scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JUSTICE AND RATIONALITY IN ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN ERA: A CRITICAL INVESTIGATION OF MACINTYRE’S CONCEPTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-259
Author(s):  
Anila Yasmin ◽  
Riffat Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Modern Times ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Strong Relation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Critical Investigation

The present study aims to explore the nature of justice and rationality and a relationship between them that how it has become a base for any society and culture in ancient, medieval and modern age. And how different thinkers present rival and compatible views about justice and rationality and how they both impact in our society. Any society benefits from having justice as a prevailing virtue. This helps ensure that wrongs will be ended and rights will be upheld thereby leading to a safer society for everyone. Its strong relation with virtues maintains that it cannot uphold without the presence of virtues. The most basic virtue is rationality without which no justice is possible. Different thinkers in ancient medieval and modern times give different views about the relationship between justice and rationality. But Macintyre holds that there is no neutral conception of justice but there are different standards of justice and rationality in every society.

Media Language and Representations of Identity

1999 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 57-71
Author(s):  
Allan Bell
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
The Self ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
The Media ◽  
Modern Identity ◽  
Late Modern

The use of language in the mass media is an act of identity. The media offer us representations of the identities of groups and individuals, and are even implicated in the very nature of contemporary identity. Drawing on the work of the British socio-logist Anthony Giddens on late modernity, this paper examines four aspects of identity in contemporary society, and illustrates and evidences them by analysis of New Zealand television advertisements. Firstly, human identity in the late modern age is 'reflexive', by which the media and their language reflect back images of the self. Secondly, modern identity is at least in part a 'narrative of the self, and many advertisements frame their appeal as aspects of personal biographies, including in particular personal choices and the lifestyle which constitutes them. Thirdly, the media are the crucial technologies in the re-organisation of time and place in the modern wodd, and offer a wodd for consumption. Lastly, the media are the means by which the global reaches into the local, and the local can be disseminated to the rest of the globe. These characteristics are manifested and identifiable across all levels of language.

scholarly journals STUDI ATAS BERBAGAI MACAM METODE MEMBACA ALQUR’AN SEJAK TAHUN 50-AN SAMPAI SEKARANG

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
H.M Abduh
Keyword(s):  
Junior High School ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Elementary Children ◽  
Learning To Read ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
North Sulawesi ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Modern Era

This paper wants to describe the methods used by the teachers of the Qur'an in teaching the reading of Al-Qur'an in Indonesia, including South Kalimantan. The Qur'an is the revelation of Allah SWT sent down to the Prophet Muhammad, to be a guide of human life. In the history since the time of revelation until now, the Qur'an is always read, studied and memorized by Muslims every day, this fact proves the achievement of the purpose of naming the Qur'an (mashdar form of the word qara'a which means "reading") . The naming of the Qur'an shows that this holy book has always been preserved in the form of recitation and recitation by the qurra 'wal huffazh since the time of the Prophet until now, even in this modern age the Qur'an is increasingly preserved in the form of cassettes, CDs, etc.In accordance with the development of this modern era, then the ways of studying the Qur'an is also more advanced as well, including ways to learn to read it. If in the time of the Prophet and the companions in reading and writing the Qur'an did not experience significant difficulties, because the Qur'an is derived in Arabic itself, but after Islam developed into various corners of the world that most do not use Arabic, start the scholars of the Qur'an think of how to make Muslims who are not good at Arabic can read the Qur'an properly and correctly. Appears Imam As-Suyuthi created a method of studying the Qur'an reading under the name "Qaidah Bagdadiyah" which for hundreds of years was used by Muslims to learn to read the Qur'an. In Indonesia, around the year 1985-an emerging ustadz H. As'ad Humam of Jogyakarta created a new method called "Iqra" with 6 Volume. This method is considered easier and faster for kindergarten and elementary children in learning to read Al-Qur'an that is managed by the school system / formal. After this Iqra method, then emerged various other methods in learning to read Al-Qur'an which is the development of Iqra 'method, such as in Kalsel own Team LPTQ Prov. South Kalimantan created the "AlBanjary" method of the 1995s for elementary and junior high school ages. Then from North Sulawesi emerged ustadz Muhajir Sulton with the method "Al-Barqy" in 1997's for the adults / parents. Furthermore, more recently discovered methods that are considered faster and easier than Iqra 'method for children of kindergarten and elementary school, the method of "Tilawati".One of the causes of a long time mastering the way of reading the Qur'an is the method of learning to read by spelling or tahajji like "alif fathah a, alif kasrah i" etc. so it takes a long time a learner to master the rules of how to combine letters to find a sentence, this method also applies in some Arabian peninsula. But in essence all of them have been instrumental in creating methods (ways) in the effort to learn to read the Qur'an for Muslims, each method must have advantages and disadvantages, then this paper would like to describe the various methods in learning to read Al-Qur ' which is considered popular among Muslim communities and their respective advantages and disadvantages.

scholarly journals Storia di un paradosso. Il mito di Giorgio Luti in Età Moderna

2020 ◽  
pp. 267-281
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Manenti
Keyword(s):  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
A Company

The essay resumes, with new historical sources, the research concerning the biography of the Sienese Jesuat Giorgio Luti, the prophecy of 1491 attributed to him and the exegetical evolution of this text in the Modern Age, published in Giorgio Luti da Siena a Lucca. Il viaggio di un mito fra Umanesimo e Controriforma, Siena, Accademia degli Intronati (Monografie di storia e letteratura senese, XV) 2008. The essay is divided into two parts. The first is a study of historical sources on Giorgio Luti in the Venetian area. The second part is dedicated to the study of historians from Lucca who lived between the XVI and XVIII centuries: Gherardo Sergiusti, Giovanni Cividale, Giuseppe Bonafede and Giovanni Domenico Mansi. They paid attention to the content of the Sienese prophecy for the description about wars and devastation of the Towers of Lucca, the conversion of Islamic peoples to Christianity, thanks to a company of Lucca men and women, attributing a meaning of political pacification and religious palingenesis. Overall, however, the evolution of the myth about Giorgio Luti, paradoxically, reflects in particulary the identity crisis of the Jesuats between the XV and XVI centuries.

scholarly journals Folk Moral Objectivism: The Case of Harmful Actions

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Sousa ◽  
Aurélien Allard ◽  
Jared Piazza ◽  
Geoffrey P. Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
Ordinary People ◽  
Reliable Test ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Harmful Action ◽  
Reliable Evidence ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Moral Objectivism

It is controversial whether ordinary people regard beliefs about the wrongness of harmful actions as objectively correct. Our deflationary hypothesis, consistent with much of the evidence, is that people are objectivists about harmful actions that are perceived to involve injustice: when two parties disagree about whether such an action is wrong, people think that only one party is correct (the party believing that the action is wrong). However, Sarkissian and colleagues claimed that this evidence is misleading, showing that when the two disagreeing parties are from radically different cultures or species, people tend to think that both parties are correct (a non-objectivist position). We argue that Sarkissian et al.'s studies have some methodological limitations. In particular, participants may have assumed that the exotic or alien party misunderstood the harmful action, and this assumption, rather than a genuinely non-objectivist stance, may have contributed to the increase in non-objectivist responses. Study 1 replicated Sarkissian et al.'s results with additional follow-up measures probing participants' assumptions about how the exotic or alien party understood the harmful action, which supported our suspicion that their results are inconclusive and therefore do not constitute reliable evidence against the deflationary hypothesis. Studies 2 and 3 modified Sarkissian et al.'s design to provide a clear-cut and reliable test of the deflationary hypothesis. In Study 2, we addressed potential issues with their design, including those concerning participants' assumptions about how the exotic or alien party understood the harmful action. In Study 3, we manipulated the alien party's capacity to understand the harmful action. With these changes to the design, high rates of objectivism emerged, consistent with the deflationary hypothesis. Studies 4a and 4b targeted the deflationary hypothesis more precisely by manipulating perceptions of injustice to see the effect on objectivist responding and by probing the more specific notion of objectivism entailed by our hypothesis. The results fully supported the deflationary hypothesis.

scholarly journals The Identity Crisis of the Contemporary Muslim Ummah: The Loss of Tawhidic Epistomoly as its Root Cause

ICR Journal ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 637-653
Author(s):  
Osman Bakar
Keyword(s):  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Knowledge Community ◽  
Substantial Loss ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Modern Era

The author aims to show that the identity of the Muslim community (ummah) in the modern and contemporary period is in a state of crisis. The ummah is defined as a knowledge-community founded on, nourished and sustained by the quranic tawhidic epistemology. The article presents an established concept and theory of crisis for the purpose of arguing that the ummah is facing a knowledge- and identity-crisis. It traces the roots of this crisis to the substantial loss of the tawhidic epistemology that has helped sustain this identity for the greater part of Islamic history before the modern era. It argues further that Muslim modern education in the colonial era based on secular epistemologies quickened the decline of tawhidic epistemology to the point of making it helpless to respond effectively to the challenges posed by those modern epistemologies. The author argues that an unresolved intellectual conflict between the surviving elements of tawhidic epistemology and modern epistemologies has resulted in an epistemological crisis of great consequences to Muslim life and thought. To help overcome this epistemological crisis, he argues for the renewal (tajdid) of tawhidic epistemology in the light of contemporary human thought. Concrete measures are also suggested as to helping make this renewal a reality.  

scholarly journals Gender projections in the novel Soul in A Mask by N. V. Nedobrovo

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 188-200
Author(s):  
Marianna V. Kaplun
Keyword(s):  
Opposite Effect ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Gender Discourse ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
The Social ◽  
Feminine Discourse ◽  
Basic Ideas ◽  
Modern Era

The prose novel by N. V. Nedobrovo Soul in A Mask, written in 1914, incorporates basic ideas of the writer’s work and continues development of gender (feminine) discourse of the modern era. To a large extent, the search for a “soul in a mask”, the ability to express a lyrical “I”, coupled with the theatricality of being, the need for a social masquerade, are characteristic of the majority of modernist works. The theme of masks is equally present in the lyrics of symbolism and close to Nedobrovo acmeism (for example, in the work of A. A. Akhmatova, Nedobrovo’s closest friend). The masquerade performs two functions in the novel — plot-forming and philosophical. Having made the center of the story of the reflecting heroine Olga, Nedobrovo displays a number of male characters, a collision which meant to reveal the title female character. Male / female opposition (masculinity / femininity) informs the main conflict of the novel, related to the inability of an intelligent woman of expressing herself in a male society without wearing a mask. The paper shows that the mask serves as a kind of gender projection and represents an attempt to overcome the social masquerade, which is always associated with an identity crisis. Mask, as applied to the heroine and her ready-made social mask gives an opposite effect, only emphasizing the gender difference and, accordingly, leading to the disclosure of the heroine’s femininity. Based on this, “female issue” raised in the story is resolved in compliance with patriarchal ideas of the conservative gender discourse of the turn of the century.

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