Academic literature on the topic 'Moore, george, 1852-1933'

The paper analyses the short story collection The Untilled Field by the Irish writer George Moore (1852-1933) with the aim of establishing the subversive potential of these stories in the context of the criticism of the overpowering dogmas within the Irish society at the beginning of the 20th century. With this long neglected short story collection, George Moore reveals a darker, silenced side of Ireland, hidden from the public discourse of the socio-political mainstream of the period. His social criticism is primarily focused on some neuralgic aspects of the Irish society of the time, namely on the dominant influence of the Irish Catholic church on the collective ethos of the nation and, subsequently, on the spiritual and moral paralysis of the Irish people as well as on mass emigrations of the Irish to America. By pinpointing these, in his view, destructive social forces and the complex sociopolitical situation in Ireland during the formation of the modern Irish state, George Moore identifies a state of collective moral lethargy characterised by total absence of any possibility of individual affirmation through artistic agency. The importance of this short story collection, from the point of view of scientific research, lies in the foregrounding motivation behind it. In other words, in George Moore´s intention to dig deep into the relentless existence of the Irish people at one stage in the country´s history and to re-shape the well- established colonial representations which favoured falsely pastoral visions of Ireland. It was not until the second half of the 20th century that the stigma of ´un-patriotic´ and ´subversive´ was lifted from this short story collection giving it, though still limited, well-deserved attention and recognising its literary and artistic importance for Irish national culture and for its literature.

Parcourus par une veine naturaliste, les romans de george moore, ainsi que certaines de ses nouvelles, font du corps du personnage un element crucial autour duquel s'articulent les principaux themes de sa fiction. Exprimant les tensions issues du dualisme entre la chair et l'esprit, les oeuvres de moore revelent une evolution de la vision du corps et de l'identite, evolution qui transforme egalement les representations du personnage. Notre etude tente d'explorer les textes de cet auteur en prenant pour fil conducteur le theme du corps et les multiples images du corps dans les recits. La fin de l'ere victorienne, la prise de conscience d'une alienation fondamentale de l'individu par la societe et l'industrialisation, les theories de darwin, huxley et spencer, les balbutiements de la psychanalyse, l'avenement de la conception d'un art base sur la science, et la reactivation paradoxale du dualisme chair-esprit - pourtant initialement remis en question par les auteurs realistes et naturalistes -, fournissent un cadre ideal pour une exploration des images ambigues du corps que l'on trouve dans les recits de moore, des contraintes et pesanteurs d'un corps captif d'un reseau de forces sociales et religieuses, mais aussi naturelles. Fin xixe - debut xxe : d'une vision du personnage en quelque sorte + dans le crepuscule ;, doublement aliene car oscillant perpetuellement entre societe et univers naturel, dechire entre les imperatifs du corps et ceux de l'esprit, a celle que l'on trouve dans la fiction de d. H. Lawrence par exemple, a la reconnaissance du corps et des instincts, a la recherche souvent angoissee mais egalement exaltee d'une union cosmique, d'une reintegration mystique au sein de l'univers naturel, d'une legerete de l'etre. Corps et religion (ascetisme, mysticisme, haine de la chair), corps et societe (espaces urbains, domestiques, carcan social et rituels qui marquent le corps), corps et art (mise en abyme de processus createurs, personnages artistes confrontes a l'impossible representation du corps), corps et nature (ambivalence des relations entre l'individu et l'univers, conflits et redecouverte - peut-etre - d'un corps lie au desir et a l'instinct), sont les grands axes qui structurent cette etude
Run through with a naturalistic vein, the novels of george moore, together with some of his short-stories, turn the bodies of the characters into a crucial element around which the principal themes of his fiction revolve. Expressing the tensions springing from the dualism between the flesh and the spirit, moore's works reveal an evolution of the vision of the body and of identity, an evolution which also transforms the representations of the character. Our work tries to explore moore's texts, following as a main thread the theme of the body and the numerous images of the body in the narratives. The end of the victorian period, the new awareness that man is radically alienated by society and industrialism, the theories of darwin, huxley, and spencer, the first hesitant steps of psychoanalysis, the belief in the notion that art should be based on science, and the paradoxical reactivation of the dualism between the flesh and the spirit - which was however initially challenged by realist and naturalistic writers -, provide an ideal frame for an exploration of the ambiguous images of the body we find in moore's narratives, of the constraints and weightiness of a body imprisoned within a network of social, religious, but also natural forces. End of the xixth century, beginning of the xxth century : from the vision of the character in a way + in the twilight ;, doubly alienated as he perpetually wavers between society and nature, torn between the demands of the body and those of the mind, to the vision we find in d. H. Lawrence's fiction for example, to the acceptance of the body and its instincts, to the often anguished but also exalted search for cosmic union, for a mystical return to the bosom of the natural universe, for lightness of being. The body and religion (asceticism, mysticism, hatred of the flesh), the body and society (urban and domestic spaces, social constraints and rituals which mark the body), the body and art (embedded creative processes, characters who, as artists, are confronted with the impossibility to represent the body), the body and nature (ambivalence of the relationships between man and the universe, conflicts and rediscovery - perhaps - of a body linked with desire and instinct), are the main lines on which this study is structured

Cette thèse propose une analyse contrastive de la notion de défini telle qu’elle est exprimée dans le système de l’article en anglais et en arabe moderne standard. L’ensemble des notions associées au défini et à l’indéfini sont examinées d’un point de vue sémantique et d’un point de vue syntaxique, afin de découvrir la manière dont les deux langues traitent ces concepts; les différences et les ressemblances sont répertoriées dans le contexte d’une étude détaillée de corpus. Le récit, The Brook Kerith de l’écrivain irlandais George Moore a été choisi pour des raisons géo-historiques et littéraires: les événements racontés se déroulent en Terre Sainte à l’aube de l’ère chrétienne. Les occurrences du syntagme nominal en anglais et en arabe analysées dans le premier chapitre permettent de dégager les convergences et les divergences des deux systèmes. Les résultats sont soumis à une analyse quantitative et statistique. Il en ressort que la valeur de l’article défini en anglais (“the”) et en arabe (“al”) correspondent dans 76% des emplois. La ressemblance entre la valeur de l’article indéfini (“a / an”) en anglais et son équivalent en arabe s'élève à 96%. Cependant, dans la mesure où l’arabe est une langue sans article indéfini, le fonctionnement de l’article zéro en anglais est sans équivalence; on découvre que l’arabe choisit selon le contexte, soit la marque du défini (al), soit la marque sémiologique de l’indéfini. En dernière analyse, on constate une grande ressemblance entre les mécanismes cognitifs sous-jacents; les différences concernent les transformations sémiotiques de la structure profonde
This thesis offers a contrastive analysis of the notion of definiteness as conveyed by the system of the article in English and Standard Arabic. Definiteness and other notions associated with it are investigated semantically and syntactically in an attempt to discover how these two languages approach such notions and when the two languages converge and diverge in this respect. To this end, corpus analysis is chosen as a means to inspect these ideas. The corpus, The Brook Kerith, by the Irish writer, George Moore, is chosen for geo-historical and literary reasons: the story takes place in the Holy Land at the dawn of this Christian era. A contrastive analysis of the first chapter along with its translation is analyzed from a pragmatic and semantic perspective. The analysis is followed by statistical and computational analyses. It is found that the article “the” and the Arabic article “al’ are used for seemingly the same purpose in the proportion of 76%. The occurrence of the article “a/an” is 96% consistent with indefiniteness in Arabic. However, the use of the “zero article” shows discrepancy as whether to use the article “al” or no article in Arabic. In the last analysis, the cognitive operations underlying usage in both languages are similar. The differences are on the level of the semiotic transformation of these deep operations

This thesis offers a contrastive analysis of the notion of definiteness as conveyed by the system of the article in English and Standard Arabic. Definiteness and other notions associated with it are investigated semantically and syntactically in an attempt to discover how these two languages approach such notions and when the two languages converge and diverge in this respect. To this end, corpus analysis is chosen as a means to inspect these ideas. The corpus, The Brook Kerith, by the Irish writer, George Moore, is chosen for geo-historical and literary reasons: the story takes place in the Holy Land at the dawn of this Christian era. A contrastive analysis of the first chapter along with its translation is analyzed from a pragmatic and semantic perspective. The analysis is followed by statistical and computational analyses. It is found that the article "the" and the Arabic article "al' are used for seemingly the same purpose in the proportion of 76%. The occurrence of the article "a/an" is 96% consistent with indefiniteness in Arabic. However, the use of the "zero article" shows discrepancy as whether to use the article "al" or no article in Arabic. In the last analysis, the cognitive operations underlying usage in both languages are similar. The differences are on the level of the semiotic transformation of these deep operations.

In 1870 the first full opera by Wagner was performed in Britain. By the time the Ring Cycle made its way to Her Majesty’s Theatre in 1882, a fanatical devotion had grown up around the composer’s music and writings. This devotion declared itself in print culture simultaneously with the first British Ring, appearing in genres that ranged from the satire of Punch to the literary novels of Oscar Wilde. The Irish writer George Moore (1852–1933), who, though rarely read today, was called by Ford Madox Ford “infinitely the most skilled man of letters of his day … in the whole world,” fell under Wagner's spell. Moore pioneered the style of literary Wagnerism in his two novels Evelyn Innes (1898) and Sister Teresa (1901). The novels are a linked conversion narrative, the story of an English soprano who must choose between her Catholic faith and the new cult of British Wagnerism. Moore drew not only on Wagner's compositional techniques in his writing, but also on the contemporary crisis of faith in Britain, to bring the themes of religious conversion and Wagnerian aesthetics to the British popular novel.