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Altunbay, Müzeyyen. "Using Literature in Bibliotheraphy: Biography Sampling." Journal of Education and Training Studies 6, no. 11 (October 9, 2018): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/jets.v6i11.3593.
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Bibliotherapy is consisted of a combination of the Greek “biblion (book)” and “therapeia (therapy-healing)” which have become popular since the 20th century as one of the alternative therapy methods. It is used to make individuals identify themselves with the works they read through works of high literary and aesthetic value and make them powerful individuals in the spiritual direction by producing solutions to the problems they experience in this way. In other words, bibliotherapy can also be defined as bringing the right books to the individual at the right time. That is, the history of accepting the idea that books are good for man is very old. In this study, the importance of using biographies will be explained in one of the important alternative therapy methods, bibliotherapy. There are some criteria in the selection of books because they are the most important materials that form the basis of bibliotherapy. As it is known, the process is three dimensions as the advisee, book preference and consultant. However, it is not possible to use every work in bibliotherapy. It is important to use the works that are high in reality dimension and keeping a mirror on the problems of the individual in bibliotherapy. This process includes the works that will develop the imaginary world of the individual, as well as the works suitable for real life. As is known, the common point in biographies is not only the success that the person who wrote the biography has achieved, but also this person's struggle for reaching his goal is his patience and perseverance. As a result, in the process of bibliotherapy, reading the biographies that will increase the morale and motivation of the individual and develop self-confidence will contribute positively to the person. Moreover, the preference of the biographies of the positive role-model in the society will be the example for the individual.
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Groń, Ryszard. "Biograf Aelreda z Rievaulx i jego źródła." Vox Patrum 64 (December 15, 2015): 151–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/vp.3710.
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The article was written to illustrate the difficulties we encounter when attempting to convey the biography of Aelred, a famous 12th century English abbot of Rievaulx. The difficulties are linked with the fact that Aelred lived in medieval times and his biography was written in the form of a hagiography. This style of writing was very popular in the middle ages and usually served to emphasize the holiness of a person’s life, i.e. to demonstrate an exemplary life of Christian virtues rather than as an attempt to concentrate on biographical details. The latter rather served as points of reference to the person in question and were expressed in hagiographic style, i.e. with focus on models of behavior, achievements and miracles that fit the style, based on examples taken from the Bible and the lives of other popular saints. Written in monastic circles, such works took on the form of biographies of saints and were often written to satisfy a specific cause (T.J. Heffernan). This is the type of biography we are dealing with here. When attempting to convey Aelred’s biography in the contemporary meaning of the term, we must first sift through its hagiographic form and supplement information contained therein with other historical and literary sources. In our case, the attempt was carried out in six points, with focus on: the primary source of Aelred of Rievaulx’s biography, Vita Aelredi (1); its author, Walter Daniel (2); the reasons why this work was written (3); its hagiographic form (4); the work’s internal sources, i.e. sources linked with the author’s own circles (5); as well as outside historical and literary sources of information concerning Aelred (6).
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Jubinville, Ginette. "Pour en finir avec les Monomanes de Géricault : considérons leur rôle dans la construction du mythe de l’artiste." RACAR : Revue d'art canadienne 41, no. 1 (September 30, 2016): 62–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1037555ar.
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Théodore Géricault’s Monomanes (Portraits of the Insane ; 1820s) were rediscovered in 1863, just four years before his first biography was published. This article examines this previously unstudied conjuncture in order to put to rest some of the myths surrounding these works and to show that their circulation contributed to the discourse on Géricault that was taking shape at the time. These five portraits have been described as displaying a duality that places them between art and psychiatry, between science and popular culture. This article argues that this resulted from the amalgamation of two distinct understandings of monomania : the scientific one at the time of their production and the popular one at the time of their rediscovery.
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BENTLEY, MICHAEL. "VICTORIAN POLITICS AND THE LINGUISTIC TURN." Historical Journal 42, no. 3 (September 1999): 883–902. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x99008560.
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This article subjects a variety of works on nineteenth-century politics to critical analysis, focusing on recent work in biography, popular politics, and on those works that have shown an interest in post-structuralist approaches. Mostly it examines texts produced between 1993 and about 1997 with a view to sensing an historiographical mood. Although the argument urges an open-minded reception to the linguistic turn in historical work, it brings the work of some of its adherents – perhaps especially James Vernon – under critical scrutiny and concludes that a price has been paid for the attempt at constructing a ‘cultural politics’. In particular the article expresses alarm at the apparent incoherence and sub-literacy of some post-structural statements.
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Shapoval, Mariana. "The intellectual's artistic biography in S. Rosovetskyi's dramatic." Synopsis: Text Context Media 26, no. 1 (2020): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2311-259x.2020.1.1.
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The global trend of digitalization and publishing of historical sources, in particular fiction and its existence in different eras, makes the reader constantly reconsider the lives and work of persons who are regarded as prototypes of characters in literary works. As a result, an artistic image, linked to real life and rooted in the past, generates a consistent literary story in the form of artistic biography. The number and variety of such literary works, including dramatic ones, is constantly growing, which determines the topicality of this study. Over the recent decades, biographical fiction drastically changed its forms, and was enriched with numerous genre varieties and modifications. And this process remains far from complete. The term ‘meta-genre of artistic biography’ is introduced to designate it. This term emphasizes the scale of a certain phenomenon and allows defining the subject of the study — the artistic biographical description of the intellectual in contemporary Ukrainian drama — as well as clarify the understanding of the concept of the ‘intellectual,’ and problematize ways of describing characters of this type. The purpose of the article is to identify the genre-style unity of Ukraine’s modern drama about intellectuals and prove the expediency of the application to it of interpretive approaches to popular knowledge from related areas (history, philosophy, art). Specifically, such varieties of genres as personal artistic biography and intellectual artistic biography were singled out and proposed for the first time on the literary material (S. Rosovetskyi), and that is the research novelty. The research methodology is defined by an interdisciplinary approach that appeals to the achievements of literary criticism, art criticism, history, and philosophy. Results of the Study are connected with considerations that the interest in the artistic biography of the intellectual is associated with a general trend to anthropologize scientific knowledge, coupled with the growing interest of the audience in the individual and personal in the history and in the present, with the dominance of the emotional component in contemporary media discourses, resulting in the actualization of an emotional narrative of the intellectual’s biography, which often sounds tragic nowadays in the context of the catastrophic past of the Ukrainian science and culture.
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Tatari, Eren. "Islam in Modern Turkey." American Journal of Islam and Society 25, no. 1 (January 1, 2008): 117–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v25i1.1495.
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Sukran Vahide’s Islam inModern Turkey: An Intellectual Biography of BediuzzamanSaid Nursi is a timely contribution to the study of one of the most prominent Islamic thinkers of the twentieth century. This comprehensivestudy on Nursi’s life (1876-1960) and works would be appropriate for use ingraduate and undergraduate courses in religious, Islamic, andMiddle Easternstudies departments.Vahide fills an important gap in the study of Nursi and his works, whichhas become increasingly popular among western scholars in recent decades.Prior to its publication, only a few brief biographies of Nursi existed, andthose focused solely on presenting a chronological account of his life. Hencethis book’s most significant contribution is, as pointed out in the subtitle, thefact that it is an “intellectual biography.” Although Vahide organizes thebook into sections that correspond with the chronological developments inhis life, the book is divided into three parts that denote the significant intellectualphases (also pointed out by Nursi himself in his writings): “The OldSaid,” “The New Said,” and “The Third Said.” In this way, the author situatesNursi’s writings and ideas, which have inspired the most prominent faithmovement in modern Turkey (approximately 7 million followers), into thehistorical context in which they were developed and transmitted to others ata much needed time in Turkish history ...
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Daija, Pauls. "Kārlis Hūgenbergers 19. gadsimta sākumā latviešu literārās kultūras vēsturē." Aktuālās problēmas literatūras un kultūras pētniecībā: rakstu krājums, no. 26/2 (March 11, 2021): 137–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.37384/aplkp.2021.26-2.137.
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In the article, the literary works of Baltic German writer Carl Hugenberger have been explored. Anthology of his poetry translations, “Derrigs laika kaweklis” (Useful Pastime, I–II, 1826–1827), has been analysed. The anthology was significant in the emancipation of Latvian literary culture and liberation from moral didacticism as well as the development of the self-sufficient aesthetic value of literature. Thus, the anthology prepared the way for the formation of Latvian national literature in the mid-19th century. Special attention has been turned towards Hugenberger’s translations of poems by Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Friedrich Schiller. Besides, the evaluation and reception of Hugenberger’s works have been explored. The article concludes that despite the innovative role and poetic achievements of Hugenberger’s poetry, it did not gain popularity among wider circles of the Latvian reading public and met criticism regarding the shortcomings in the translation techniques that can be explained by the limits of the underdeveloped Latvian language at the time. The most important episodes in Hugenberger’s biography have been outlined as well as his religious hymns and works of popular enlightenment, including translations of “Schillings-Bücher des Rauhen Hauses”, a book series of German Inner mission, works by Jeremias Gotthelf, August Kotzebue, Gottfried August Bürger et al. Special attention has been paid to previously unidentified originals of Hugenberger’s translations – works by Matthias Claudius, Johann Hinrich Wichern, Heinrich Alexander Seidel, and Adolph Krüger as well as previously underexamined partial translation of Johann Peter Hebel’s “Allemanische Gedichte”. The literary works of Hugenberger have been interpreted within the context of the literary praxis of the late popular enlightenment in the Baltics.
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Fenlon, Dermot. "Elite and Popular Religion: The Case of Newman." Studies in Church History 42 (2006): 372–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400004083.
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Among the signal insights of twentieth-century scholarship was the recognition that early Christianity accorded personal importance to the plebs. First, Eric Auerbach analysed the humble speech forms of early Christianity, contrasting them with the literature of learned pagans. The point was developed by Ramsay MacMullen in an important essay entitled ‘Sermo humilis’. Arnaldo Momigliano applied these insights to the theologians, historians and hagiographers of the fourth and fifth centuries. He showed how Augustine, Jerome, Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret of Cyr succeeded, as pagan intellectuals had not succeeded, in ‘abolishing the internal frontiers between the learned and the vulgar’. Finally, Peter Brown, in a series of brilliant works from The Cult of the Saints to his revised biography of Augustine, supplied a means of discerning in the practice of universal baptism the ‘antidote’ to the exaggerations of fourth-century ascetical elitism. Augustine imparted to the Western Middle Ages a confidence in the power of sacramental grace as efficacious not only for the ascetic few, but as communicating to the many a capacity for growth in charity, purity, and prayer. Such a perspective on the religion of the many bids adieu to Gibbon’s story of ‘philosophy’ collapsing into ‘barbarism and religion’; to Hume’s account of the superstitious and the credulous; and to Henry Hart Milman’s Romantic brand of Liberal Anglicanism as marked by ‘condescension’ towards ‘popular religion’ occluding ‘the thought processes of the average man’; a habit of mind to which Peter Brown surprisingly appended the name of Newman.
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Ue, Tom. "From Whitman to Hugo: An interview with Brian Selznick." Book 2.0 10, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 175–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/btwo_00028_7.
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‘Walt Whitman loved words’. So begins Barbara Kerley’s and Brian Selznick’s Walt Whitman: Words for America (2004), a biography of the American poet for young readers that has been recognized as a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book. Kerley and Selznick trace the poet from his beginnings as a printer’s apprentice to his volunteer work as a nurse during the American Civil War; and from the young Walt poring over the pages of Arabian Nights and Ivanhoe to his own creative output being interpreted as the voice of his nation. Like all of Selznick’s books, Walt Whitman is illustrated with precise, evocative drawings for all ages. The New York Times bestselling author and illustrator returns to the poet with his latest, Live Oak, with Moss (2019). Among Selznick’s many other popular books for children are The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) and Wonderstruck (2011) (covers available at https://www.thebrianselznick.com/books.htm). These two works have now been adapted into award-winning films by Martin Scorsese (2011) and Todd Haynes (2017), respectively.
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Strashnov, S. L. "Twice lived youth of Yaroslav Smelyakov." Voprosy literatury, no. 5 (November 9, 2019): 158–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2019-5-158-186.
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The article discusses the interaction of Y. Smelyakov’s (1913–1972) poetry with mass consciousness and describes the major events of the poet’s biography. Milestones on his literary path have been reconstructed, as has his evolution from a carefree lyrical hero into a confident author. The analysis of Smelyakov’s poetry is supplemented with numerous references to everyday Soviet realia. Especially detailed are descriptions of his debut poems, but the author also takes into account the latest interpretation of the poet’s youthful years in the early 1930s. The context of 1920s–1970s Soviet literature is a pivotal element of the analysis. In particular, the author suggests mutual affinity of Smelyakov’s works with the genre of popular sentimental songs, the works of proletarian poets, and the Sixtiers’ poetry. The article recalls the polemics around Smelyakov’s work, especially in the years before the war in 1941 and in the post-Soviet era. Soviet critics often reproached Smelyakov for excessive lyricism, attention to mundane details, and sentimentalism.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Biography – Popular works"
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Rosa, Tâmara Harumi Yamagute. "Juventudes e trajetórias de jovens populares urbanos: autonomia, oportunidades sociais e acesso a direitos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5170/tde-02082018-085411/.
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Este trabalho se baseia na perspectiva da juventude como construção social, compreendendo a trajetória para a vida adulta como processo não linear resultante dos diferentes modos pelos quais os jovens vivenciam suas experiências. O objetivo é conhecer a percepção de jovens populares urbanos de 18 a 24 anos sobre o processo de construção de sua autonomia e o acesso a oportunidades e direitos sociais, a partir do estudo de suas trajetórias de vida. Por meio da história oral de vida e temática, e da hermenêutica-dialética, são apresentadas narrativas de quatro jovens egressos de Programa de Aprendizagem Profissional e Programas de Medidas Socioeducativas em Meio Aberto - Liberdade Assistida e Prestação de Serviços à Comunidade, do Centro de Orientação ao Adolescente de Campinas - COMEC, partindo das perguntas disparadoras \"Como tem sido a sua trajetória para vida adulta? Como a transição para a vida adulta se relaciona com sua história de vida? Você poderia contar sobre seus caminhos, suas escolhas, suas experiências (escola, trabalho, amigos etc), seus projetos?\". As análises das histórias indicaram quatro eixos temáticos: percursos familiares e de vida, afetos e amizades sob a marca da vulnerabilidade social; a escola e suas (in) visibilidades; trabalho formal, informal, legal e ilegal: fronteiras tênues no acesso ao trabalho; vida, oportunidades sociais, interesses e projetos; apontando para a relevância destes em suas trajetórias para a vida adulta, bem como a necessidade de se pensar alternativas que tragam oportunidades de se alcançar autonomia frente a complexa realidade contemporâneaThis study is based on understanding youth as a social construction, taking the trajectory to adulthood as a non linear process as the result from the different ways young people live their experiences. The aim is to study the perceptions of youth from age 18 to 24 years old about the process of autonomy and the access to social opportunities and rights through their life stories. By means of Oral Life History, Thematic Oral History, and Hermeneutic Dialectics methodology, narratives are here presented of four young people who were participants of The Occupational Apprenticeship Program and Social Educational Programs, namely The Assisted Freedom Program and Community Services for youth in conflict with the law from Centro de Orientação ao Adolescente de Campinas - COMEC. The motivating questions were \"How has happened your trajectory to adulthood? How does this transition to adulthood relate to your life story? Can you tell me about your paths, choices projects and experiences (school, work, friends etc)? The analysis of the stories indicated four main themes: family and life paths/affection and friendship under social vulnerability; the the (in) visibility of school; formal, informal, legal and ilegal work: the tenuous line in access to work; social opportunities, interests and projects. They show important features to transition to adulthood, as well as the need of alternatives that bring opportunities to autonomy taking into account the complex contemporary reality
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Espmark, Kristina. "Utanför gränserna : En vetenskapshistorisk biografi om Astrid Cleve von Euler." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-60926.
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This dissertation is a scientific biography of Astrid Cleve von Euler. She was Sweden’s first female Ph.D. graduate in the natural sciences (1898) and pursued a scientific career in spite of formal and cultural limitations. Though she failed to secure a professional position as a scientist, she published numerous papers throughout her life. The dissertation studies her life in general and analyses her research in particular. How did her research change over time in relation to the rest of her life? How did established scientists receive her research? How did her status as a woman on the fringes of academia affect her research? Sociologist Thomas F. Gieryn’s concepts of boundary-work and credibility contests are important analytical tools in the interpretation of these questions, as Cleve’sresearch was regulated by various boundaries: between professionals and amateurs, between men and women and between different academic disciplines. The study is divided into seven chapters. The first chapter introduces the dissertation, its objective and theoretical framework. The remaining chapters follow Cleve’s life in a chronological and sometimes thematic order and the source material is continually analysed. Chapter two accounts for Cleve’s childhood and student years in Uppsala, ending with her Ph.D. graduation. Chapter tree focuses on her research as a chemist and her ten years of marriage to a fellow researcher, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, a marriage that was closely intertwined with their academic studies. The fourth chapter studies Cleve’s controversy with some of the leading quaternary geologists in Sweden at the time, regarding the level changes of the Scandinavian land mass following the latest Ice Age. The fifth chapter diverges slightly from Cleve’s research, and investigates her undertakings in popular science and her political standpoints. Chapter six analyses her archaeological studies as part of the scientific controversy she was involved in, but also as influenced by political and religious views. Finally, the seventh chapter begins with a closer look at Cleve’s diatom studies, already part of most of the study but thus far not focused on as such, and ends with the main conclusions of the entire dissertation project. The dissertation shows that while science was part of Cleve’s life from childhood to death, factors other than her personal desire to uncover scientific truths governed her research opportunities and the topics of her studies. While she was consistently highly regarded as a diatom expert and gained some success as a chemist, disciplines she was formally educated in, she was met with scepticism and eventually silence when she tried to make an impact in quaternary geology and archaeology, fields of research in which she had no formal training. This demonstrates a possibility to simultaneously be regarded as credible and non-credible as a scientist, as credibility is not necessarily attached to the individual, but to his or her formal expertise in a particular area.
Books on the topic "Biography – Popular works"
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Tattersall, Robert. Diabetes: The biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Tattersall, Robert. Diabetes: The biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Tattersall, Robert. Diabetes: The biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Robert, Roper, ed. Bite size biography: 150 facts you won't believe! New York: Scholastic, 2000.
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John, Emsley. The shocking history of phosphorus: A biography of the devil's element. London: Pan, 2000.
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The shocking history of phosphorus: A biography of the devil's element. London: Macmillan, 2000.
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Hodge, Nicola. The A-Z of art: The world'sgreatest and most popular artists and their works. London: BCA, 1996.
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1962-, Anson Libby, ed. The A-Z of art: The world's greatest and most popular artists and their works. San Diego, Calif: Thunder Bay Press, 1996.
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1962-, Anson Libby, ed. The A-Z of art: The world's greatest and most popular artists and their works. London: Carlton, 2004.
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Donaldson, Ian. "National Biography and the Arts of Memory: From Thomas Fuller to Colin Matthew." In Mapping Lives. British Academy, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197263181.003.0005.
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The arts of memory and of biography have always been closely related. For instance, the memoir, which is an act of remembrance, has a double sense: it looks at the past and to the future, selecting from the stream of memories to form an enduring record called memorial by which events and people can be remembered in the years to come. In Restoration England, memoirs and memorials were popular forms when the word ‘biography’ first appeared. During this period there was an intense interest in the chronicling of the lives of those who contributed much to political and religious events. This commemoration of lives, which gained momentum in Restoration England, was an ancient enterprise. Biographies were regarded as durable monuments wherein the idea of remembrance took an important place. This attributed significance made those endowed with powerful memories venerated people. This chapter discusses the remarkable memorialists of the period. It looks at the career of Reverend Dr. Thomas Fuller as a biographer and as an author of many historical works. Fuller exhibited a photographic memory and an inclination to the memorization of long passages. In addition to this technique, he also adopted a rule that assisted memory; he employed the methodical distribution of facts into discrete locations. As for his biographical methods, Fuller considered two factors: the sense of pragmatism, and the sense of piety.
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November, Nancy. "Popular and Early Reception." In Beethoven's String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131, 25–48. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190059200.003.0003.
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Chapter 2 takes in two popular contemporary reception documents—a film and a TV drama—which reinforce themes found in the reception of the work from Wagner onwards: lack, loss, and tragedy. The typical conflation of biography and work in the reception of late Beethoven is nicely exemplified by the 2012 film A Late Quartet. Sequences from the film help one to understand this work as a portrayal of struggle brought on by lack—of health, of power, of ability to express passion and love, and of time. The later reception, especially the popular later reception, contrasts sharply with the early reception of Op. 131, which underscores fantasy, fecundity, and plenitude.
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Keeble, N. H. "Milton’s Christian Temper." In John Milton. British Academy, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264706.003.0006.
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This chapter discusses Milton's Christian temper. It is believed Milton did not belong to any worshipping Christian community. No existing records ecist to attest that he attended Christian service, or associated with a specific parish, or joined congregations. In an age of great divines, pastors, and preachers, Milton acknowledged no indebtedness to any man's ministerial support or guidance. The practice of his Christianity was non-congregational, domestic, and private. Milton's external Christian observance and inner spiritual life were both invisible. He never offered anything approaching a conversion narrative. When Milton approached matters of personal belief, it is intellectually and not experientially. In his Miltonic equivalent of a spiritual biography, the De Doctrina Christiana, he asserted that his search for truth was from his own original systematic exposition of the Christina doctrine. In his The Reason of Church-Government, Milton illustrates his own religious life by illustrating the coercive authority of the Episcopal Church and his conscientious refusal to submit to it. His anticlerical stance and his firm belief in the free debate and liberty to religion encouraged him to write prose and poems of unwavering intolerance of Roman Catholicism. Milton's Christian vision is neither congregation nor a remnant but that of just one man, who is reliant on his own intellectual and spiritual resource, and who, regardless of popular opinion, walked with integrity. Among Milton's critical and anticlerical works are Paradise Lost, The Reason of Church-Government, and Samson Agonistes.
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Penn, Michael. "Afterlives." In Melania. University of California Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520292086.003.0014.
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In 1903, the Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Mariano Rampolla was heir apparent to the papacy. But he became unexpectedly out of a job due to a veto by the Austro-Hungarian emperor. Rampolla retreated to a life of scholarship to edit a manuscript he had discovered in a monastic library decades earlier, Gerontius’s Life of Melania the Younger. Rampolla’s publication spawned a series of early twentieth-century reactions to Melania’s biography. This work sometimes appeared in scholarly journals. Much appeared in popular press articles such as one that compared Melania’s fasts to those of early twentieth-century suffragettes’ or a series of newspaper headlines referring to “the richest woman in the history of the world!” The hagiography also inspired early twentieth-century imitations, such as Sainte Mélanie, a pious and expanded version of Melania’s Life. This chapter examines an earlier rediscovery of this “indomitable little saint” who was seen as “Richer than Rockefeller.”
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Silber, Nina. "A Passionate Addiction to Lincoln." In This War Ain't Over, 99–122. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646541.003.0005.
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No historical figure became as prominent in 1930s America as Abraham Lincoln. Once seen mainly as a figure of moderation and reconciliation, Lincoln became a more powerful figure associated with state building and the broadly defined work of emancipation. Under the influence of poet and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg, important parallels were drawn between Lincoln and FDR. Yet, because of Roosevelt’s limited attention to racial oppression, there was a tendency to make Lincoln a more race neutral figure, one who freed white people more than black. At the same time, African Americans, who were increasingly shifting their political interests to the Democratic Party, invested Lincoln with more of a racial justice agenda. Conservatives, for their part, took aim at the way New Dealers and Popular Fronters re-imagined Lincoln, especially on the Federal stage.
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Bryan, Simms. "The Celebrated Composer, 1928–34." In Berg, 289–316. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190931445.003.0009.
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In this chapter aspects of Berg’s life during his last eight years are recounted. Berg’s childhood friend Hermann Watznauer proposed a biography of Berg, in which project the composer concurred. Berg was offered an academic appointment at the Berlin Musikhochschule, but he preferred to stay in Vienna, hoping for a position at the Vienna Music Academy, which did not materialize. His complex relations with his family contributed to a slowing of his attention to music. As his mood darkened, he complained of losing his ability to compose, and he attempted to revive his spirits by flirtations with two women, Anny Askenase and Edith Edwards. Berg purchased a summer retreat, the Waldhaus, in 1932. From about this time, with the rise of the Nazis, Berg’s music had few performances in Germany and Austria and he gradually faced a financial crisis. In 1929 he received a lucrative commission from the soprano Ružena Herlinger to compose a concert aria for her use. Berg then composed Der Wein, a setting for voice and orchestra of poetry by Baudelaire. The work was his first to bring in styles from popular dance music such as the tango.