Academic literature on the topic 'Christina life in literature'

Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen: Otto Sperling the younger’s Latin biography of Leonora Christina (ca. 1690) Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen: The Danish antiquarian Otto Sperling the younger (1634‑1715) worked for most of his life on a manuscript titled ‘De foeminis doctis’, now in the collection of the Royal Library, shelfmark GKS 2110 quarto, which containedshort biographies of a total of 1,399 learned women from all ages and nations (cf. Fund og Forskning, 2012, pp. 187‑212). One of these is Leonora Christina (1621‑1698), the daughter of Christian IV and his morganatic wife, Kirsten Munk, and a major figure in Danish literature thanks to her prison narrative Jammers Minde and her so-called ‘French Autobiography’. Sperling’s Latin biography focuses on her literary achievements and contains information not found elsewhere. It has been known to scholarship for generations, and a partial translation from the eighteenth century exists in manuscript, but the text has never been published, probably because it consists of 24 pieces distributed over 18 different pages between pp. 306 and 401 of vol. I of the manuscript. It is here edited and translated into Danish for the first time, and it is argued that Sperling composed it on the basis of a series of interviews with the ageing Leonora Christina after her release from prison in 1685. In other words, Sperling functioned as Leonora Christina’s ghostwriter, and the text should really be considered autobiographical and placed alongside the Jammers Minde and her French Autobiography as an authentic expression of her personality.

This paper focuses on the songs circulated in the first Christian woman’s magazine in China, Nü duo (1912–1951). Its first editor, American missionary Laura M. White (1867–1937), played a crucial role in creating a wide range of music for Chinese girls through journalism. White used print media to circulate songs that were viewed as an integral part of the spiritual life of ideal womanhood. Unlike the hymnody confined to congregational worship, the music circulated through Nü duo aimed to promote a vocalised expression of Christian faith in everyday life. This spiritual life was interwoven with secular concerns about the nation, social issues and home life. An exploration of music literature published in Nü duo shows how Western music was translated into local language that aimed to reach female Christians in mission schools and at home. It provided an alternative to the dominant indigenous development of Protestant hymnody in the Republican era. It went beyond the foreign and local dichotomy with a concept of universal modern citizenship. Furthermore, it added a gendered perspective to Christian sacred music that was linked to the creation of a sense of a female fellowship.

Abstract: This study aims to reveal information about the forms, causes, and the completion of social conflicts described by the author in the novel "I am Malala" by Christina Lamb. Research has been conducted in Jakarta from July 2014 through the month of August 2015. This study uses descriptive qualitative content analysis method using sociological approach literature both of the focus of research, ask questions, data collection, verification of the validity of the data, analyzing, interpreting, find, verify, and concluded. The results show that this novel contains positive values ​​that can be used as a reference to examine the contents of the novel literature and attached to public life, although it contains about social conflict. Based on the research results, it is suggested that the novel "I am Malala," by Christina Lamb could be a medium in teaching social values ​​and working to tackle the problem of social conflict on students happens in literary learning process.
 Keywords: Novel, Social Conflict, main figure and Sociologi Literary.
 
 Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan berbagai informasi tentang bentuk-bentuk, penyebab, dan penyelesaian terhadap konflik sosial yang dijelaskan oleh penulis dalam novel “I Am Malala,” Karya Christina Lamb. Penelitian telah dilakukan di Jakarta dari bulan Juli 2014 sampai dengan bulan Agustus 2015. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif dengan metode analisis isi menggunakan pendekatan sosiologi sastra baik dari fokus penelitian, mengajukan pertanyaan, pengumpulan data, verifikasi keabsahan data, menganalisis, menafsirkan, menemukan, memverifikasi, dan menyimpulkan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa novel ini mengandung nilai-nilai positif yang dapat dijadikan acuan untuk menelaah sastra dan isi novel tersebut lekat dengan kehidupan masyarakat, walaupun berisi tentang konflik sosial. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, disarankan bahwa novel “I am Malala,” karya Christina Lamb bisa menjadi media dalam mengajar nilai sosial dan dapat berupaya menangani masalah konflik sosial pada anak didik yang terjadi dalam proses pembelajaran kesusastraan.
 Kata Kunci: Novel, Konflik Sosial, Tokoh Utama, dan Sosiologi Sastra.

We have more leisure time today than in any period in history. We also have more options for spending that leisure time. For most people (unless you are an English professor, like me), reading fiction is easily seen as purely a leisure activity. And for many, watching sports, streaming movies, or scrolling Twitter seem like more relaxing, less demanding ways to fill non-working hours. Adding the reading of fiction to already overscheduled and overthinking lives can seem frivolous in a world of hurry, need, and stress. Even the Christian who is an avid reader can be tempted to view time spent on imaginative literature as taking away from more important material such as Scripture, theology, and history. Yet, fiction—and here I will be talking primarily of literary fiction—has much to offer the Christian.

Mignon Nixon reflects on the Manchester Arena bombing, London Bridge and Borough Market attack, and Grenfell Tower fire in London, as well as the 2017 Venice Biennial, via J-B Pontalis's writings on the psychoanalytic notion of death-work. Nixon argues that the defining problem of Christina Macel's exhibition Viva Art Viva in Venice, an exhibition so insistently art- and artist-positive—“designed with artists, by artists, and for artists” as the press release notes—is that its aesthetics of redemption is predicated on a negation of life, and thereby a negation of art.

Descartes died in Stockholm on 11 February 1650 from pneumonia contracted during the freezing cold mornings spent in his philosophical colloquia with Queen Christina. According to Chanut, who stayed with him until the very end, his death was "sweet and very much like his life". These words have always been held to be of fundamental importance in the different accounts of the philosopher's death, especially in Adrien Baillet's Vie de Monsieur Descartes. The literature that flourished around Descartes' death has always presented this ‘trespassing' as the final declaration of his philosophy, inspired by those principles he had theorized in his works as a philosophy of life and that he would play out even in the crowning moment as an ethic of wisdom which has to be lived out in the first person, and for the last time.

An enormous volume of literature has emerged in the past decade regarding stress and its management. As the Christian views this literature in psychology, an immediate impression is gratefulness for the contribution these advancements have made to Christ's Church. In addition, one has some reservations regarding the almost value-free environment surrounding some of the literature as well as the tendency of a few authors in this field to expand stress management techniques into an all-embracing philosophy of life. It is helpful for Christians to understand stress and its management in the context of the more familiar death and dying spectrum of truth. Learning from stress may be more appropriate for the Christian than simply managing or reducing it.