scholarly journals The performative Katherine Mansfield

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Nicola Saker
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Katherine Mansfield ◽  
Performance Culture ◽  
The Third ◽  
Personal Performance

<p>This thesis looks at the role of performance in Katherine Mansfield’s life and its influence on her writing technique. It argues that there is a consistent thread of active engagement with performance throughout Mansfield’s life which profoundly influenced the content, construction and technique of her writing.   It is divided into three chapters. The first examines Mansfield’s early years and the cultural context of colonial, Victorian Wellington and its performance culture as well as the familial and educational influences that surrounded her.  The second chapter explores her later cultural context in London in the first decade after the turn of the century. The importance of popular culture such as music hall is examined, and Mansfield’s professional and personal performance experience is defined.  The third chapter involves a close reading and analysis of Mansfield’s dramatic techniques through the examination of the stories as well as her use of theatrical imagery, motifs, allusions and plot details.</p>

scholarly journals The performative Katherine Mansfield

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Nicola Saker
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Katherine Mansfield ◽  
Performance Culture ◽  
The Third ◽  
Personal Performance

<p>This thesis looks at the role of performance in Katherine Mansfield’s life and its influence on her writing technique. It argues that there is a consistent thread of active engagement with performance throughout Mansfield’s life which profoundly influenced the content, construction and technique of her writing.   It is divided into three chapters. The first examines Mansfield’s early years and the cultural context of colonial, Victorian Wellington and its performance culture as well as the familial and educational influences that surrounded her.  The second chapter explores her later cultural context in London in the first decade after the turn of the century. The importance of popular culture such as music hall is examined, and Mansfield’s professional and personal performance experience is defined.  The third chapter involves a close reading and analysis of Mansfield’s dramatic techniques through the examination of the stories as well as her use of theatrical imagery, motifs, allusions and plot details.</p>

Performance of pasture grasses in mixtures with Townsville lucerne at Katherine, N.T

1962 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 221 ◽  
Author(s):  
MJT Norman
Keyword(s):  
Dry Matter ◽  
Perennial Grass ◽  
Early Years ◽  
First Year ◽  
Wet Season ◽  
Buffel Grass ◽  
The Third ◽  
Matter Production ◽  
Pasture Grasses

At Katherine, N.T., between 1959-60 and 1961-62, the performance of Townsville lucerne alone and of mixtures of Townsville lucerne with Gayndah buffel grass, Biloela buffel grass, birdwood grass, and Sorghum almum was compared at three frequencies of wet-season cutting. The two most satisfactory mixtures, Townsville lucerne with Gaynahh buffel and birdwood grass, differed little in performance. Over three years, their average dry matter production exceeded that of Townsville lucerne alone by 45 per cent, but average nitrogen production was not appreciably greater than that of the pure legume pasture. Biloela buffel grass is considered to be an unsuitable companion grass for Townsville lucerne because of its competitive power. After three years, the dry matter contribution of the legume in Biloela buffel mixtures was only 18 per cent under the most favourable cutting treatment. The Sorghum almum mixture gave the highest dry matter yield in the first year, but the grass did not survive well, and by the third year the pasture was mainly Townsville lucerne. Sorghum almum may be useful in providing bulk in the early years of an intended pure legume pasture. The role of a perennial grass component in Townsville lucerne pastures is discussed.

Father Time, Speed, and the Temporality of Posters Around 1900

KronoScope ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Iskin
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The Media

AbstractThe essay proposes that advertising posters around 1900 construct a popular-culture iconography of a modern temporality associated with new technologies. In addition, it proposes, posters themselves embody a new temporality as a medium. The essay analyses how posters portray time by focusing on several images, some of which depict an updated allegorical figure of Father Time in order to advertise a racing automobile or precision watch.The essay also addresses the temporality of posters as a medium by investigating their conditions of viewing and the role of their advertising function. The discussion of the media specificity of posters, their cultural context, and a detailed analysis of their imagery, concludes that posters both elicit a certain kind of temporal viewing and portray a conflictual transition between old and new temporalities.

Mahler: Music, Reception, Identity

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 219-242
Author(s):  
Lóránt Péteri
Keyword(s):  
Early Years ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Central European ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

Writings on the socio-cultural complexities of Mahler’s identity and his music in context vary in relation to four basic motifs: his Jewishness; his Germanness; the partly Slav environment of his early years; and his relationship to the Austro-Hungar-ian Dual Monarchy. Studies combine these elements, or privilege one above another. It may help to rethink this subject if we consider that his self-awareness formed amid a changing social environment; if his personal identity will be studied in the context of the identity history of his family; and through scrutinizing the decisive socializing role of the localities in which he lived. These conclusions can reveal the unparalleled mobility of his career in a rapidly-transforming context. Late nineteenth-century Central European societies drew at once on the “past” (post-feudal, pre-modern attitudes and practices), “present” (constitutionalism based on equal civilian rights, and nationalism), and “future” (populist and racist ideologies questioning the enlightened, liberal consensus). All three impacted not only Mahler’s identity, but his image: how the surrounding society perceived him. These approaches also facilitate critical readings of the contemporaneous attempts to embed Mahler’s music in national, regional, and ethno-cultural contexts. This paper examines the reception of the third movement of Symphony No. 1 as a case study, exploring how Mahler’s construed images were reflected in different interpretations of this music.

scholarly journals Carnivalism of parody religions in the context of popular culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 52-60
Author(s):  
Sergey Sokovikov
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Religious Images ◽  
Actual Meaning

Parody religions are symptomatic phenomena of the cultural space. They signal some of the crisis features of the modern state of the religious sphere. At the same time, parodic religions, travesty of religious images, continue their projection in a transformed, carnivalized form. The most important circumstance is the environment for the emergence of these phenomena - popular culture as a sphere of spontaneous cultural creation. In the analytics devoted to this problem, the specificity of such a socio-cultural context of parody religions is practically not touched upon. Hence, there are many discrepancies and imprecise interpretations of the phenomenon. At the same time, it is his analysis at the intersection of the "new religiosity", carnivalism and the contextual role of popular culture that makes it possible to more accurately determine the origins, actual meaning and prospects of parodic religions, this bizarre fractal of modern culture.

The Coronel and the Rural Poor

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Sarzynski
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Rural Poor ◽  
Rural Workers ◽  
Rural Worker ◽  
The Third ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
Historical Figure ◽  
Rural Social Movements

The third chapter evaluates discursive debates over the potential for change in Northeastern Brazil and competing descriptions of regional poverty as a motivation for or limitation to change. It examines representations of the nordestino landowning rural elite and the rural worker in the 1950s and 60s in popular culture, rural social movement publications, and conservative discourse. Although hegemonic perceptions of rural workers drew on historical notions of nordestino poverty as an inherent condition, rural social movements appealed to rural men’s honor and masculinity to encourage resistance to the landowner’s power, gain support for agrarian reform, and advocate for class struggle. At the same time, rural elites looked to the past to find a symbol for a “new Northeast.” In their effort to redefine the role of rural elites, they appropriated the historical figure of the coronél as a solution to poverty and inequality in Northeastern Brazil, applauding a patriarchal modernization.

Modern Languages

Russomania ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 319-342
Author(s):  
Rebecca Beasley
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
The Third ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
The Creation

The third interchapter chapter looks at how Russian language and literature was taught and learned in Britain. While the main chapters show that the British canon of Russian literature was largely the creation of a small number of amateur translators and critics, at the turn of the century the study of Russian was becoming professionalized, with increasing numbers of schools and universities offering courses in Russian. Political imperatives shaped styles of teaching, and in particular the role of literature on Russian courses. The narrow association of Russian literature with realism, deployed by the populists of the nineteenth century, also served the purposes of those who promoted the teaching of Russian as a means of understanding a political and, it was hoped, commercial ally.

scholarly journals Irish Women’s Fiction of the Twentieth Century: The Importance of Being Catholic

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
Vesna Ukić Košta
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Women's Fiction ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Fiction Writers ◽  
The Relationship

This paper explores the ways in which some of the best and most representative Irish women fiction writers of the twentieth century responded to the exigencies of Catholicism in their selected works. It also attempts to demonstrate how the treatment of Catholicism in Irish women’s fiction changed throughout the century. The body of texts that are examined in the paper span almost seventy years, from the early years of the independent Irish state to the turn-of-the-century Ireland, during which time both Irish society and the Irish Catholic Church underwent fundamental changes. How these authors tackle the relationship between the dominant religion and the shaping of woman’s identity, how they see the role of woman within the confines of Irish Catholicism, and to what extent their novels mirror the period in which they are written are the main issues which lie in the focus of the paper.

A ‘Jurist-linguistic’ Reading of the wuḍūʾ Verse (Q. 5:6)

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 313-282
Author(s):  
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Mūsā
Keyword(s):  
The Third

This article sheds light on the role of grammar in understanding legislative texts, with reference to the wuḍūʾ verse (Q. 5:6). The first section deals with the issue of washing the elbows along with the feet as part of ritual ablution, and lists the various interpretations of the preposition ilā in the aya, and discusses the grammatical theory used by different fuqahāʾ to support their arguments. The second section tackles how much of the head should be rubbed in ritual ablution, with regard to the use of the preposition bi- in the phrase bi-ruʾūsikum, while the third focuses on the two readings of the phrase arjulakum/arjulikum (‘your feet’) and on passing legislative judgement on whether the feet be washed or just rubbed. The study concludes that lugha and fiqh theory are of mutual importance and together help to clarify legislative judgements, and, on this basis, that jurists should not pass any legislative judgement without referring to language.

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