Aggrieved crowds throw objects in protest that dole out insult and injury in equal measure. Despite the motley things in a crowd's arsenal, there is a pattern to pelting and the range of causes for ...which rocks, tomatoes, eggs, pies, milkshakes, shoes, and water bottles are thrown with regularity. Pelting overcomes distance by touching the body of a powerful enemy by proxy. In hitting the sublime body with "matters out of place," the crowd relocates the sovereign aura within itself while transgressing the boundaries of high and low. This essay considers pelting in all its joyous, violent, fun, furious, and law-breaking glory and, therefore, as a medium and metaphor of the crowd.
EDITORIAL Taylor, Kevin
The Powys journal,
01/2022, Letnik:
32
Journal Article
Chris Thomas' second article in this issue quotes a number of such eulogistic accounts of JCP's lectures in the 1910s, focusing in particular on Alexander Kaun's review of the lecture on Oscar Wilde ...delivered at the Little Theatre in Chicago in January 1915; and his third piece reproduces, with extensive commentary and annotation, Powys' 1923 introduction to Wilde's The Soul of Man Under Socialism. Dr Beddow combines close-reading with a wide range of cultural reference to reflect on what Powys is doing with language in Wolf Solent, and on how a full appreciation of the writer's narrative technique in a section of the novel like the 'Gerda' chapter depends on a readerly alertness to 'dissonant voices, jarring stylistic juxtapositions' and the lurching between 'high and low registers', which can account for the unnerving sense we have of this as a novel not quite late-Victorian nor yet High Modernist, but generically restless, shifting, disruptive. ...Volume XXXII contains an Editorial Note on a point of clarification regarding the scripts of John Cowpers and Llewelyn's lectures; and reviews of four recent publications of relevance to the Powyses.
The most readily-observable and influential cue to one's credibility is their confidence. Although one's confidence correlates with knowledge, one should not always trust confident sources or ...disregard hesitant ones. Three experiments (N = 662; 3- to 12-year-olds) examined the developmental trajectory of children's understanding of 'calibration': whether a person's confidence or hesitancy correlates with their knowledge. Experiments 1 and 2 provide evidence that children use a person's history of calibration to guide their learning. Experiments 2 and 3 revealed a developmental progression in calibration understanding: Children preferred a well-calibrated over a miscalibrated confident person by around 4 years, whereas even 7- to 8-year-olds were insensitive to calibration in hesitant people. The widespread implications for social learning, impression formation, and social cognition are discussed.
Resumo Este artigo examina os cadernos que Oscar Wilde utilizou para seus estudos no curso de Literae Humaniores na Universidade de Oxford e os conecta às suas obras de maturidade para esclarecer ...alguns aspectos da influência da literatura grega antiga sobre sua concepção moderna de crítica de arte. Mais especificamente, este artigo esclarece como ele se valeu de certas ideias elaboradas por seus precursores—como a de crítica elaborada por Matthew Arnold, a de crítica impressionista elaborada por Walter Pater e a da regência de uma arte canônica elaborada por John Addington Symonds—para substanciar uma proposta bastante ousada à intelectualidade e ao meio cultural vitorianos: a de que na modernidade vitoriana o crítico deve ser elevado à condição de artista e sua crítica à condição de arte por sua própria conta.
Abstract
This article studies the concepts of voice and of the translation pact with regard to Julio Gómez de la Serna’s
translation of
Obras completas
by Oscar Wilde, first published in 1943 after ...Franco had established his rule of
Spain. More precisely, it focuses on the two paratexts that preceded the translations and on the Spanish version of his essay
The Soul of Man Under Socialism
. The study considers how the translator addressed Wilde’s homosexual scandal
and his translation of a potentially controversial text at a time when the censorship office was imposing severe constraints on
the publication of literary works. The analysis shows that Gómez de la Serna managed to circumvent these constraints while
remaining loyal to the author and faithful to his work.
A previously unpublished letter by Oscar Wilde offers a new aphorism and sheds light on his impressions of illustrations of his verse. In December 1887, Wilde published two poems in The Lady's ...Pictorial, (Le Panneau' and {Les Ballons', each illustrated by J. Bernard Partridge (1861-194-5), a young artist who would go on to be a frequent contributor to Punch. Among Wilde's published correspondence are two letters to Partridge. The first is dated 24 September 1887 and outlines the task:
Drama is a genre in which dialogue is at the heart. It comes closest to real life as far as human interactions are concerned. It is worth analysing dramatic dialogue to get a better understanding of ...its conformity to natural interactions. One striking feature of natural speech is turn-taking. This study is an analysis of representative dialogue chunks from selected plays of Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde, who belong to different literary eras. The researcher concludes that dialogue in drama becomes more natural with the passage of time. In the plays of both playwrights, the mental state of a speaker allows or disallows turns to others. Situations influence turn-taking and vice versa.
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