scholarly journals The East and the West in the polemical context of the Serbian music between the two World Wars

Muzikologija ◽  
2005 ◽  
pp. 119-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarina Tomasevic
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
World War ◽  
The West ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The World ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
East West ◽  
Serbian Academy

This article represents a fragment of the author's doctoral dissertation Serbian Music at the Crossroads of the East and the West? On the Dialogue between the Traditional and the Modern in Serbian Music between the Two World Wars (the review of the thesis see on www.newsound.org.yu, issue No 24). The thesis (mentor: prof. Dr Mirjana Veselinovic-Hofman) was defended at the Faculty of Music, Belgrade, on January 2004. A revised text of the dissertation is forthcoming, in an edition of the Institute of Musicology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The article describes the creative orientation of composers Miloje Milojevic, Petar Konjovic and Josip Slavenski as the key figures of the epoch, indicates their choices of an Eastern or Western orientation, and explains the antagonism between the poetics of the "Europeans" and the representatives of avant-garde trends. The topicality of the East-West dichotomy in the critical consciousness of the protagonist of this period is marked as one of the main and the most important dilemma of the polemical context of the Serbian art after the World War I. Conducted from standpoints "Pro et Contra Europe", East-West discussion was also the part of the debate of Serbian national art's development strategy in the new, modern epoch of its history.

scholarly journals Milutin Bojic’s letters to Milan Grol sent from Corfu 1916-1917.

2015 ◽  
pp. 189-199
Author(s):  
Miroslav Jovanovic
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Young Writer ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Serbian Academy

The Archive of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade holds three letters that the young writer Milutin Bojic (1892-1917) sent to dramaturge and politician Milan Grol (1876-1952). Bojic wrote to Grol from the island of Corfu, where, together with the Serbian government and the army, he was spending his days in exile. Bojic had a great desire to continue his education and thus to contribute to the Serbian people and the state. These letters are very important historical sources about the life of a young poet who has famously described the suffering of Serbian Army in World War I in his Ode to a Blue Sea Tomb.

scholarly journals Doing Occidentalism in contemporary Japan: Nation anthropomorphism and sexualized parody in Axis Powers Hetalia

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshio Miyake
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
South Korea ◽  
World War ◽  
The West ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
National Characteristics ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cross

Axis Powers Hetalia (2006–present), a Japanese gag comic and animation series, depicts relations between nations personified as cute boys against a background of World War I and World War II. The stereotypical rendering of national characteristics as well as the reduction of historically charged issues into amusing quarrels between nice-looking but incompetent boys was immensely popular, especially among female audiences in Japan and Asia, and among Euro-American manga, anime, and cosplay fans, but it also met with vehement criticism. Netizens from South Korea, for example, considered the Korean character insulting and in early 2009 mounted a protest campaign that was discussed in the Korean national assembly. Hetalia's controversial success relies to a great extent on the inventive conflation of male-oriented otaku fantasies about nations, weapons, and concepts represented as cute little girls, and of female-oriented yaoi parodies of male-male intimacy between powerful "white" characters and more passive Japanese ones. This investigation of the original Hetalia by male author Hidekaz Himaruya (b. 1985) and its many adaptations in female-oriented dōjinshi (fanzine) texts and conventions (between 2009 and 2011, Hetalia was by far the most adapted work) refers to notions of interrelationality, intersectionality, and positionality in order to address hegemonic representations of "the West," the orientalized "Rest" of the world, and "Japan" in the cross-gendered and sexually parodied mediascape of Japanese transnational subcultures.

scholarly journals Rethinking of the Crisis of Universalism: Toward a Pluralistic Orientation of Cosmopolitanism

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-144
Author(s):  
Ning Wang
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
World War ◽  
The West ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The World

In commemorating the centenary of the end of World War I, we could not but reflect on many of the valuable legacies and lessons the War has left behind it. To us humanities scholars, what we are most concerned about is the legitimacy of universalism or whether there is such a thing as absolute universalism. The same is true of modernity, for people may well think that modernity represents the great interest of all people in the world. But modernity manifests itself in different modes in different countries and nations as different countries and nations have different conditions, especially in such an ancient country as China. The present article will illustrate how modernity was imported from the West into China and how it has been readjusted according to its own condition and thereby developing in an uneven way. Through some theoretical elaboration the article has deconstructed the so-called “singular” or “universalist” modernity with the Chinese practice and reconsidered the concept of cosmopolitanism which has certain parallel elements in ancient Chinese philosophy. Considering the pluralistic orientation of contemporary cosmopolitanism, the author offers his own reconstruction of a sort of new cosmopolitanism in the era of globalization.

scholarly journals Augusta Cesarca (nie)realistyczny portret przygłuchej Tonki

2020 ◽  
pp. 173-193
Author(s):  
Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Social Realism ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
World War ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The World ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
The Aesthetic

In the centre of the article’s interest, there are the expressionist ideas present in the work by Croatian writer from the inter-war period (1893–1941). The mini-novel/novella in question entitled Tonkina jedina ljubav (1931) is considered the work belonging to the epoch of the new/social realism which dominated in the 1930s, however, the author, as is shown on the basis of the article’s research, did not managed to free himself from influence of expressionism that shaped the most Croatian consciousness as for the avant-garde historical time (1910–1930). Focusing attention on a disabled woman along with her small-town environment of Zagreb before the World War I, the author draws her exaggerated, cartoonish portrait which has little to do with the realistic and mimetic reflection of reality. The work is a kind of aesthetic and ethical provocation, and serves as unmasking the idyllic image of Zagreb which turns out to be a city inhabited by intolerant and narrow-minded society convinced, however, of its civilisation superiority. The titular character is a victim of this society, and at the same time she remains its part. The aesthetic and ethical provocation concerns the disabled woman together with „inefficient” society living in the terrifying city.

Horde vs Ordnung: Eurasians and O. Spengler in the Context of Discussions about Russia and Germany in the 1920s-1930s

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 151-166
Author(s):  
Alexey B. Panchenko
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Characteristic Feature ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Western World ◽  
World War ◽  
The West ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
The World ◽  
Oswald Spengler

World War I, which significantly reshaped the world map, also stirred lively debates about the fate of Russia and Germany, as they were the most affected by its outcome. German cultural scientist Oswald Spengler and a group of Russian emigrants, who united to form a movement called “Eurasianism” were active participants of those debates. However, the origins of their views lay in the scientific and social thought of Germany and Russia in the second half of the nineteenth – early twentieth centuries. Spengler and the Eurasianists were united in their rejection of Eurocentrism in the study of cultures and the assignment of the West and Russia-Europe as subjects on the equal level. Spengler pointed out that the Western world was on the brink of decline and that the only nation, that could lead it against the awakening East was the German one. The strict order was seen as characteristic feature of contemporary Germany, which would enable it to withstand the nomadic and chaotic hordes coming from the East. The Eurasianists, in turn, pointed out that stability and orderliness could be named as the Eastern features in the Russian nation. Russia-Eurasia was perceived by them as the bulwark of the rest of mankind against the onslaught of the West that sought to spread its culture to other nations. Thus, the confrontation of the West, as represented by Germany and Russia, was seen by both sides as defensive struggle of order against aggressive chaos.

W.F.T.U. and Decolonisation: A Tunisian Case Study

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 551-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willard A. Beling
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
The Other ◽  
World Federation ◽  
World War ◽  
The West ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
The World

The World Federation of Trade Unions (W.F.T.U.) was one of the most hopeful ventures of all the Communist front organisations. Unlike some of the other fronts the Russians did not create it. They captured the W.F.T.U. after it was established, and had a good start. Once captured, however, the W.F.T.U. represented merely an extension of the pattern of the earlier Red International which had been created by the Comintern following World War I as a vehicle to reach the working masses of the world and rally them to Moscow. But like its predecessor—dissolved in 1937—the W.F.T.U. has also failed to make significant inroads among the workers in western countries and win control over them. While it has affiliates in the west, the French Confédération Générale du Travail (C.G.T.) and the Italian Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (C.G.I.L.) being the most outstanding examples, the W.F.T.U. does not at all dominate these movements. Rather, control for the most part is exercised through the local Communist parties, some of which, while still very much an integral part of an international apparatus, have won some measure of autonomy from Moscow.1

Irish Modernism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fionna Barber
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
World War ◽  
The West ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Paul Gauguin ◽  
Irish Modernism ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Achill Island

Modernism in Ireland was bound up with major social and political factors during the first part of the twentieth century, especially the effects of independence and Partition in 1922 and the role of the visual within national identity. This is an important context for Irish artists’ engagement with the wider development of European modernism; Cubism and Expressionism were particularly significant and, to a lesser extent, Surrealism. In 1910 the painters Paul and Grace Henry traveled from Dublin to Achill Island on Ireland’s Western Seaboard, where they remained until the end of World War I. This move, to some degree, emulated the earlier example of European avant-garde artists—such as Paul Gauguin in abandoning Paris for initially Brittany and then Tahiti—but it was also a sign of the fascination with the West that became an important cultural focus for an independent Ireland. The rural West, Catholic and Gaelic speaking, in many ways embodied the ideologies of the new Irish Free State. In addition to being the subject of Henry’s pastel-toned landscapes it became a major focus for both realist artists such as Seán Keating and modernist painters including Jack B. Yeats and Patrick Collins.

scholarly journals ZUNR in the Struggle for Independence of the Paris Peace Conference in 1919

2016 ◽  
pp. 147-168
Author(s):  
I. Datskiv
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
World War ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
Paris Peace Conference ◽  
Liberation Struggle ◽  
The Right

The article investigates the events that took place after World War I, and directly affect the fate of the West Ukrainian People's Republic. Particular attention is paid to foreign factors profound rethinking of the liberation struggle in 1918-1921. ZUNR diplomatic action in defense of statehood at the Paris Peace Conference is analyzed. The activities of Ukrainian diplomats at the conference, their attempts to protect the right to self-determination of the Galician Ukrainian are considered in details. It was the first outing ZUNR diplomacy on the international scene and the active participation of the Ukrainian delegation at the conference, along with the leading states of the world. It is noticed that in Paris the victorious powers regarded Ukrainian problem in the anti-Bolshevik aspect, relying mainly on Poland, Romania and Russia white than ZUNR.

Squatting: The Fight for Decent Shelter, 1970s–1980s

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-50
Author(s):  
John Marsland
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
Housing Needs ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

During the twenty years after the Second World War, housing began to be seen as a basic right among many in the west, and the British welfare state included many policies and provisions to provide decent shelter for its citizens. This article focuses on the period circa 1968–85, because this was a time in England when the lack of affordable, secure-tenured housing reached a crisis level at the same time that central and local governmental housing policies received wider scrutiny for their ineffectiveness. My argument is that despite post-war laws and rhetoric, many Britons lived through a housing disaster and for many the most rational way they could solve their housing needs was to exploit loopholes in the law (as well as to break them out right). While the main focus of the article is on young British squatters, there is scope for transnational comparison. Squatters in other parts of the world looked to their example to address the housing needs in their own countries, especially as privatization of public services spread globally in the 1980s and 1990s. Dutch, Spanish, German and American squatters were involved in a symbiotic exchange of ideas and sometimes people with the British squatters and each other, and practices and rhetoric from one place were quickly adopted or rejected based on the success or failure in each place.

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