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Christopher Crosbie deposited Aristotelian Time, Ethics, and the Art of Persuasion in Shakespeare’s Henry V in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoIn his response to the Dauphin, his threats before Harfleur’s walls, and his St. Crispin’s Day oration, Henry V deploys what we might call proleptic histories of the present as a means of rhetorical persuasion. Henry invites his audiences, that is, to imagine themselves in the future, understanding the present as part of their own history. Hen…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Un soneto de Quevedo al nacimiento de Cristo: ¿ortodoxo o astrológico? in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoIn this early article, written in the wake of the publication of Alessandro Martinengo’s _La astrología en la obra de Quevedo_ (Madrid: Alhambra, 1983), Dr. Davis focuses on the astrological tropes in a Quevedo sonnet on the nativity of Christ to see whether this poetic text can shed additional light on the poet’s documented penchant for…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Conquistas de las Indias de Dios: Early Poetic Appropriations of the Indies by the Spanish Renaissance in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoProfessor Davis’s early article on appropriations of the Indies by Spanish poets who remained in Spain invites us to contemplate a body of poetry that plays the idea of American treasures against the value of true, spiritual riches.
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Conquistas de las Indias de Dios: Early Poetic Appropriations of the Indies by the Spanish Renaissance in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoProfessor Davis’s early article on appropriations of the Indies by Spanish poets who remained in Spain invites us to contemplate a body of poetry that plays the idea of American treasures against the value of true, spiritual riches.
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Hagiographic Jest in Quevedo: Tradition and Departure in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSeveral of Francisco de Quevedo’s hagiographic poems are puzzling because of their irreverent tone. Edward M. Wilson and Jose Manuel Blecua both noted that “la relacion entre las dos caras de un Quevedo es cuestión difícil y delicada para los modernos;” indeed, the writer’s particular blend of “las burlas con las veras” has attracted attention s…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Time of catastrophe: temporalities in the transatlantic relación of Diego Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoUsing the transatlantic relación of Diego Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra (1657) as an example, this essay tracks some of the ways in which several religious passengers narrated their experience crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the Spanish Indies fleets during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Of particular importance here are the ways in…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Quevedo and the Rending of the Rocks in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis essay analyzes the work of the poetic function as defined by Roman Jakobson in poems by Francisco de Quevedo that concern themselves with the trope of the rending of the rocks at the moment of Christ’s death on the cross, and in other poetic texts of Quevedo.
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Travesías peligrosas: escritos marítimos en España durante la Época Imperial, 1492-1650 in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis chapter is the product of a Keynote Address that Dr. Davis offered at the VII Conference of the Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro which took place at Robinson College, Cambridge, 18-22 July, 2005. Here the author examines a variety of kinds of early modern Spanish maritime writing (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries).
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Pramod Ranjan deposited महिषासुर: मिथक व परंपराएं in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoइक्कसवीं सदी के दूसरे दशक में भारत में महिषासुर आंदोलन द्विज संस्कृति के लिए चुनौती बनकर उभरा। इसके माध्यम से आदिवासियों, पिछड़ों और दलितों के एक बड़े हिस्से ने अपनी सांस्कृतिक दावेदारी पेश की।
लेकिन यह आंदोलन क्या है, इसकी जड़ें समाज में कहां तक फैली हैं, बहुजनों की सांस्कृतिक परंपरा में इसका क्या स्थान है, मौजूदा लोक-जीवन में महिषासुर क…[Read more]
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Robert E. Stansfield-Cudworth deposited The Duchy of Cornwall and the Wars of the Roses: Patronage, Politics, and Power, 1453–1502 in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoFocussing on the Duchy of Cornwall’s organisational structure during the Wars of the Roses, this survey examines the principal offices (which evolved around administration of its marine and terrene regalities) and personnel (administrative elite) in Cornwall and Devon. Consideration of successive Princes’ Councils and counsellors (and Councils of…[Read more]
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Robert E. Stansfield-Cudworth deposited A Duchy Officer and a Gentleman: The Career and Connections of Avery Cornburgh (d.1487) in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAvery Cornburgh (d.1487) of Bere Ferrers (Devon) and Dovers (Essex) – a Lancastrian, Yorkist, and Tudor household servant – was one of the appreciable numbers of crown servants utilised in local government during the fifteenth century. Serving in Cornwall and Essex as JP, MP, sheriff, and commissioner, he was prominent in Cornish affairs as a res…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited महिषासुर से संबंधित परंपराओं और आंदोलन के निहितार्थ in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoमहिषासुर आंदोलन के इस कदर अचानक फैल जाने का एक बड़ा कारण था कि बहुजन समाज में इन परंपराओं की जड़ें बहुत गहरी रही हैं और इनका प्रसार उसके अवचेतन तक रहा है। इन समुदायों से आने वाले फुले, आंबेडकर, पेरियार समेत सभी चिंतकों ने असुर-संस्कृति की न सिर्फ विस्तृत गवेषणा की है, बल्कि अगर आप ध्यान से देखें तो पाएंगे कि यही उनकी वैचारिकी का प्रस्थान…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited बिहारी अस्मिता: शहीद बनाने का खेल in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months ago27 अक्टूबर, 2008 को एक बिहारी नवयुवक राहुल राज की मुंबई पुलिस ने हत्या कर दी थी। इसके बाद बिहार में युवाओं ने व्यापक आंदोलन किया था। कई जगहों पर तोड़फोड़ और आगजनी की घटनाएं हुईं थीं। कई दिनों तक राजधानी पटना ठप रही थी। इस संबंध में आरोप-प्रत्यारोप की लंबी राजनीति चली थी और राहुल राज को बिहारी अस्मिता के प्रतीक के रूप में देखा गया था। इ…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited किन्नौर में बौद्ध धर्म, जाति प्रथा और राजनीति in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months agoखूबसूरत प्राकृतिक दृश्यों से परिपूर्ण किन्नौर का समाज व संस्कृति शेष भारत से अलग है। यह बौद्ध धर्म का इलाका है, जिसे हिंदूवादी संस्कृति लीलती जा रही है। आर्थिक संपन्नता के आगमन से जाति-आधारित उत्पीड़न और भेदभाव कम हो रहा है। प्रमोद रंजन ने इस यात्रा संस्मरण में किन्नौर की विशिष्ट संस्कृति, बहु पत्नी प्रथा, वहां के समाज और राजनीति…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Footsteps of post-humanism in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months agoDiscourse called post-humanism believes that humanism is a phony notion and an excuse for ruling over the other animals — and that it would eventually invite the destruction of the human race. They draw attention to the scientific fact that man is also an ordinary animal and just like other animals and birds is a small part of the huge e…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited स्वर कोकिला लता मंगेशकर के सामाजिक और राजनैतिक सरोकार in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years agoपार्श्व गायिका लता मंगेशकर ने लगभग सात दशकों तक भारतीय संगीत की दुनिया पर राज किया। उनके गाए गीत भारत में ही नहीं, पाकिस्तान, बांग्लादेश समेत कई देशों में पसंद किए जाते थे। इस लेख में उनके सामाजिक सरोकारों और राजनीतिक रुझानों की चर्चा की गई है। उनका वैचारिक जुड़ाव राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ से था, जो कि अपनी नाजीवादी विचारधारा…[Read more]
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Robert E. Stansfield-Cudworth deposited From Minority to Maturity: The Evolution of Later Lollardy in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years agoThough English supporters of the Oxford theologian John Wycliffe (d.1384)—known as “Lollards”—had been drawn from academic and noble/gentry circles during the later-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, persecution, equation of heresy with sedition, and the failure of Sir John Oldcastle’s Rebellion (1414) ensured overt abandonment of Lollard i…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited The Gothicisation of British TV Historical Drama in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years agoThis paper examines a strand in British television historical drama that presents what I term a “Gothicised” version of history. This actively engages with historical trauma as returning to confront its originating society, as the classic Gothic text represents the returning or ongoing effects of a traumatic past in the narrative present. In Peaky…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Gothicising Picnic at Hanging Rock in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years agoThis paper considers the 2018 television adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock as an example of Gothicised historical television drama, which uses the Gothic mode to present a past in a way that challenges our expectations of what prestige historical drama should be like, and to emphasise historical traumas and the way that they are still relevant…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited हिंदी पट्टी में पेरियार in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years agoपेरियार के मूल तमिल लेखन का हिंदी अनुवाद उपलब्ध नहीं था, इस कारण उनकी वैचारिकी से हिंदी क्षेत्रों के दलित-बहुजन आंदोलन का उस तरह का सघन और सक्रिय रिश्ता विकसित नहीं हो था, जैसा कि डॉ. आम्बेडकर और बहुत हद तक जोतिराव फुले से हो सका है। इस कमी को प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा 2020 में संपादित पेरियार पर केंद्रित तीन पुस्तकों की ऋंखला ने पूरा किया। ये पु…[Read more]
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