The style, before it shifts into didacticism, evokes a nightmare.
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But van Hove was risking didacticism — and scrambling some issues.
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The story's prose is likewise awkward, sometimes slipping into didacticism and repetition.
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But like the movie, this "Network" often eclipses character with its bloviating didacticism.
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Direct didacticism is not Mr. Ijames's method, and topical references are used sparingly.
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That's a political act, yes, but in practice there is no didacticism to it.
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In other words, the exhibit commits the cardinal sin of art, which is naked didacticism.
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There's a certain didacticism to "The Magicians," a common feature of the young-adult fantasy genre.
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The result is a riveting visual history lesson, whose occasional didacticism is integral to its power.
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Devoid of didacticism, the program confronts hot-button topics like consent, white supremacy, and sexual fluidity.
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Pressure, didacticism, human frailty — the greater question is less why books disappoint than why any succeed.
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The work offers zero didacticism to challenge or promote, and therefore seems to lack a constructive discourse.
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She avoids the didacticism of other late night shows, while also delivering salient commentary on cultural zeitgeist.
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But Ms. Monk's approach to political content, so free of didacticism, is seductively clear and persuasive here.
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But, like Mr. Porter, she uses a striking command to project a mix of didacticism and sweetness.
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Even as pieces like Rechmaoui's skirt close to a science museum's instructiveness, Let's Talk avoids obvious didacticism.
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The risk of didacticism is high, but the book's rigor and crystalline insights pay off, aesthetically and morally.
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And if the script wanders into finger-wagging didacticism over her fate, it is not Ms. Roy's fault.
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Not for an instant does "Happily After Ever," directed by Sherri Eden Barber for Ricochet Collective, lapse into didacticism.
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Ms. Lockwood avoids didacticism, believing that the immediacy of her work makes its own case directly to the body.
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"The Haunting" is classic activist theater — the haphazard acting is typical of the genre — that prefers didacticism to dialectic.
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It is a much-needed injection of politics into the public realm, but one that refrains from forceful didacticism.
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Then there were my contemporaries, Laura Mulvey and Peter Woolen, who made "talking pictures" with a lot of dialogue and didacticism.
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In the midst of all this disturbing excess, Al-Maria remains fascinated, which is why her work doesn't devolve into didacticism.
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The novel's timely political subject, distressing and confounding, could easily have worked against its success: The risk of didacticism is high.
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The series steers between didacticism and denialism with the narration of David Attenborough, the 92-year-old veteran of nature filmmaking.
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He had the face of a monk, the obsessive auto-didacticism of a collector and a habit of speaking in fulsome paragraphs.
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It's all deeply funny and deeply sad, Toni sweetly offers some bitter truths about life, while Ade's script provides depth without veering towards didacticism.
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Both directors make their points without falling into didacticism or cheap provocation; like the great Chéreau, they deliver critique in the guise of spectacle.
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"I want you to put all the books down because I want to teach you from scratch," the professor said, of his auto-didacticism.
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It has Murphy's gleeful sadism in spades, but none of his manic camp energy; it has his treacly didacticism, but none of his genuine emotion.
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Elements often work better individually than as a whole — Mr. McIntyre's arc in miniature is chilling — since the playwright relies on didacticism more than emotion.
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And while she hasn't been taught that having sex with a man more than twice her age isn't right, the film never mires itself in didacticism.
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This, among other qualities, makes "Beasts of No Nation" didactic, but didacticism in novels is not nearly as despised as some critics would have you think.
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In the #MeToo era, her work represents a relief from didacticism: she doesn't just tell you about inequality, but shows it to you from every angle.
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When it comes to her personal artwork, though, she is able to eschew didacticism, favoring a zanier exploration of the cultures and histories that inform current events.
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In New Delhi, Mukherjee had encountered the Modernist painter Jagdish Swaminathan, whose proclivity for mysticism and the metaphysical counterbalanced the didacticism and pedagogy of her other mentor, Subramanyam.
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And for those eager to follow the artist's line of thinking, the exhibition is a bold, playful, and inventive engagement with local history that never devolves into didacticism.
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From the 1970s on, Godard dedicated much of his work to Brechtian agitprop, Maoist didacticism, and, later, films in collaboration with his long-time partner Anne-Marie Miéville.
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He rejects didacticism — "My story isn't an attempt to prove something" — pirouetting between saying and unsaying, creating a mass of competing meanings from which Adam's tormented psychology emerges.
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But if you have seen "Snowpiercer," a parable of global inequality set aboard a high-speed train, you know that Mr. Bong juggles delight and didacticism with exquisite grace.
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Directed at a bouncy pace by David Mercatali, this is a blithely told fable for the age of unaffordable housing, blunt in its didacticism but often nastily entertaining (2150:265).
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Directed at a bouncy pace by David Mercatali, this is a blithely told fable for the age of unaffordable housing, blunt in its didacticism but often nastily entertaining (1:35).
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But the episode resists easy moral didacticism, too, because it's not simply about man's inhumanity to man, or about how easy it is to stoke paranoia with the faintest of rumors.
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" Bosch's didacticism, he observes, evolves with Bruegel, who later in the 16th century presents a vision in which devilish characters roam free, but "no one is against man except man himself.
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It could easily have lapsed into didacticism, or into the kind of sentimental wishful thinking that so often afflicts Hollywood's attempts to deal with the seductive, morally ambiguous world of big money.
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She takes as given the constraints facing Héloïse and Marianne and the burdens of inequality that affect Sophie (Luana Bajrami), a young household servant, but resists the temptations of melodrama or didacticism.
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Golub's incisive exploration of form, coupled with his psychological acuity, allows his classicism to address a theme like racial tension in the cold light of day, without tripping up on nostalgia or didacticism.
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At this point, the slight didacticism of the early part of the book softens to humility, as Kuo describes intimate literary discussions and wonders how things might have been different had she stayed.
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The sentences take on an Orwellian clarity — they're lean and clean, flensed of the tics, doodles and strenuous self-consciousness of his early work, and of the dour didacticism of the new novels.
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There was a time when political correctness in black art was linked with realist aesthetics and didacticism, but it's been widely since recognized that this stance led to the marginalization of black abstractionists.
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This kind of instant didacticism pervades "All That Man Is." Each of its characters is caught on the horns of his particular "life situation," and Szalay efficiently points us toward the dilemma at stake.
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Which is to say that he is able to plumb the daily anxiety and powerlessness that many people of color feel every day of their lives, and he does this through nuance rather than didacticism.
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However, the second criticism — that Ridley and his writers often dive deep into didacticism, having characters recite what amount to position papers on what's wrong with the country they live in — has been massively improved upon.
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That is a steadfast and heroic thing to do in this day and age — inhabit an island of your own making, one that welcomes anybody who chooses to stop by — and never once descend into didacticism.
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The risks inherent in making fiction out of the encounter between privileged Europeans and powerless dark-skinned non-Europeans are immense: earnestness without rigor, the mere confirmation of the right kind of political "concern," sentimental didacticism.
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In her treatment room, over a low R&B soundtrack, she combines the intoxicating, fluid enthusiasm of a Mary Kay rep with the didacticism Thomas Eakins so vividly rendered in his paintings of surgical theater lecturers.
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Nina's quest to get her kids to feel poetry "from the inside" does now and then smack of didacticism and self-indulgence, but there's no doubting Goodman's ability to make her readers feel things that way.
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In doing so, it mostly sidesteps the didacticism and sermonizing implied by its charged premise — with the exception of the first episode, which engages with that assumption before the show blows it to pieces in subsequent entries.
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Rather than employing didacticism and facts, The Hottest August slowly spools out its view of the impact climate change has on ordinary people, and how people are finding ways to cope with the future before it arrives.
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Without undue didacticism — but also without euphemism or antiquarian excuse-making — Mr. Jude, drawing in part from contemporary records and writings, exposes how deeply the oppression of the Roma was woven into the 19th-century Balkan social order.
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Free from tribal identity didacticism that often crystallizes in revenge fantasies, this cunning collection of oblique contemporary art and fetishist objects offers partially concealed meanings up to viewers to unearth for themselves, as a complex, self-therapeutic undertaking.
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Mr. Manning take pains to show the many sides of an issue and can't be accused of hardened didacticism, but his efforts to be evenhanded can err on the side of safety and often sap the show's energy.
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The book's tone winds up being less revisionist than matter-of-fact, although at times the necessity of stripping away centuries of nostalgia-fueled lore results in a hectoring didacticism that credits the reader with neither curiosity nor wisdom.
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An off note in the play — a plot strand that begins with great charm before taking on an awkward didacticism — concerns Eric's involvement with Sylvia (Salma Shaw), a Muslim vocalist whose narrative purpose ultimately seems to be to debunk stereotypes.
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" Mountains " reads in places like a United Nations report, while " Home " succumbs to didacticism, an easy pitfall for this kind of book, and "Archeology," in its effort to avoid stuffiness, veers too far in the direction of bad jokes and bad taste.
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Rather than tie these with blunt didacticism to current conflicts (or ones in the past, since Ms. Simmons once spent time with Buddhist monks retracing slave trade routes), Ms. Simmons has created a show that surges with energy, but also has cryptic ambiguity.
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In some of her later books, she gave in to a tendency toward didacticism, as if she were losing patience with humanity for not learning the hard lessons — about the need for balance and compassion — that her best work so astutely embodies.
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In his review for The Times, A.O. Scott praised the balance of delight and didacticism Bong strikes, writing that "rather than turn out cardboard heroes and villains, he savors the eccentricity of his characters, in the sheer weirdness of our ingenious and idiotic species."
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As an artist who worked quietly and with only a small amount of attention throughout most of the '80s, she never fit neatly into the macho neo-abstraction that was popular at the time, nor did she deploy didacticism of the era's conceptual art.
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Moral didacticism has been on its way out for ages now, and the idea of ending each story with a neatly wrapped message, complete with a bow on top, is likely to elicit sneers from the more critical set (which, let's face it, includes me).
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His ear for language and his ability to take ownership of ideas by finding the poetry in them rather than falling into didacticism — "A ghost is a manifestation of guilt," he writes, "a forgiveness demanded, a memory contested" — is the kind of thing that cannot be taught.
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Although he knew that leaders of art movements can abuse their power and, in the fashion of André Breton and surrealism, become immersed in incestuous internal gamesmanship, Higgins did regard himself as a spokesman for a "new mentality" and was comfortable making pronouncements ex cathedra, even as he was wary of didacticism.
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Paglen has long explored the ways in which technology helps keep liberty suppressed, and his presentation of the AI visuals seems to want to warn us of our impending doom, but the elegance and slickness of his aesthetics and the tastefully tony gallery hang (no text on the walls, please!) subsume any lingering didacticism.
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That difficult work — the work of co-suffering — rightfully belongs to the reader and requires no didacticism or manipulation to aid it along, only the facts: eight million horses dead in World War I, 1.8 million German horses alone in World War II and then the countless dead that litter the trail of human progress, which has slaughtered animal life in impossible numbers, both impossible to tally and almost impossible to feel.
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Critics often faulted King's fiction for its sentimentality and didacticism. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on June 22, 1928.
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The term has its roots in the Ancient Greek words (, ) and (, ). The related term didacticism defines an artistic philosophy of education.
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Jeffrey Riegel, "Shih-ching Poetry and Didacticism in Ancient Chinese Literature" in The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, Victor H Mair ed. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001) p. 100.
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The novel is simple in syntax and sentence structure, part of Vonnegut's signature style. Likewise, irony, sentimentality, black humor, and didacticism, are prevalent throughout the novel.Westbrook, Perry D. "Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: Overview." Contemporary Novelists.
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The novel is simple in syntax and sentence structure, part of Vonnegut's signature style. Likewise, irony, sentimentality, black humor, and didacticism, are prevalent throughout the work.Westbrook, Perry D. "Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: Overview." Contemporary Novelists.
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The Battle of Thannuris (Tannuris) (or Battle of Mindouos Conor Whately, Battles and Generals: Combat, Culture, and Didacticism in Procopius, 2006, Netherlands, p.71 & 238) was fought between the forces of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire under Belisarius and Coutzes and the Persian Sasanian Empire under Xerxes in summer 528, near Dara in northern Mesopotamia. As they were trying to build a fortress in Mindouos, the Byzantines were defeated by the Sasanian army.Conor Whately, Battles and Generals: Combat, Culture, and Didacticism in Procopius, 2006, Netherlands, p.
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Morceaux choisis par A. K. (3rd e., Norwich, 1869).Bibliographic details from British Library Integrated Catalogue. Knight's verses are well crafted and her stories well told, but they exhibit a didacticism that does not suit modern tastes.
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The poems were cited to villagers in public plazas. Two traits separate this form from the mester de juglaría: didacticism and erudition. Gonzalo de Berceo was one of the greatest advocates of this school, writing on religious subjects.
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This was the time of his explicit emancipation from Dobrogeanu-Gherea's left-wing didacticism and from Ibrăileanu's Poporanism. Didactic and social art, Zarifopol contended, had no real artistic value, and politics were irrelevant in assessing the quality of artistic endeavor.
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The work of Charlotte Tucker as a children's writer was imbued with her Evangelical religious beliefs. Most of her stories were allegories with a clear moral, but she leavened her didacticism with a degree of realism and naturalism.Orlando Project. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
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See also: Ștefănescu, p.308; Suciu, p.106 However, the group as a whole was still nominally opposed to the socialist circles of literary theorist Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea and his Contemporanul review, who primarily advocated a working class and realistic version of didacticism.
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Retrieved on 2010-05-19. Jeff Weiss of the Los Angeles Times commented that the album "vacillates between the dreary and dynamic", and criticized its "didacticism": "[L]eadened by reductive philosophies and crippling self- seriousness, the record often feels overly ponderous".Weiss, Jeff. Review: Distant Relatives.
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Iorga's tolerance for the national bias in historiography and his own political profile were complemented in the field of literature and the arts by his strong belief in didacticism. Art's mission was, in his view, to educate and empower the Romanian peasant.Călinescu, pp. 601–602, 949, 968; Crohmălniceanu, pp.
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History of the Wars, I.7.1-2; Greatrex & Lieu 2002, p. 63. The city was being defended by Cyrus, the praeses of Mesopotamia. Having discovered a weak point in the walls, Kavadh sent a small squad to breach them at night.Conor Whately, Battles and Generals: Combat, Culture, and Didacticism in Procopius’ Wars, p.
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Though Poe is referring to poetry here, it is believed that Poe's philosophy against didacticism extends to fiction. Kagle, Steven E. "The Corpse Within Us" as collected in Poe and His Times: The Artist and His Milieu, edited by Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV. Baltimore: The Edgar Allan Poe Society, Inc., 1990: 104.
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The period of the late 19th century in Maharashtra is the period of colonial modernity. Like the corresponding periods in the other Indian languages, this was the period dominated by the English educated intellectuals. It was the age of prose and reason. It was the period of reformist didacticism and a great intellectual ferment.
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Dorothy Kilner (17 February 1755 – 5 February 1836), who used the pseudonyms M. P. and Mary Pelham, was a prolific English writer of children's books, who combined didacticism with a strong knowledge of children's character.Patricia Wright: Kilner, Dorothy (1755–1836). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online e. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2004).
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Known under the pen name As., he was a noted proponent of socialist literature and didacticism in art, following the theories of socialist thinker Constantin Dobrogeanu- Gherea. Victor Durnea, "Enigmaticul I. Saint Pierre", in Cultura, Nr. 312, February 2011 As a result, Steuerman had his works published in the Moldavian socialist review, Contemporanul.Cioculescu et al., p.
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He elaborated: "Aksh aya Kavya imbibes this spirit in an extensive way . It is a long narrative sans story, sans didacticism, sans any aim, a sort of poetic sojourn with a lot of gaps. It is long and fragmentary at the same time: my models are Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and Charles Olson." The work won him Sahitya Akademi Award for 2016.
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Also featured, on his debut, was the aspiring humorist George Ranetti, who received the signature Namuna, and who referred to Bacalbașa as "my literary godfather". Bacalbașa's efforts were again mainly dedicated to the promotion of didactic art. The main cultural battle was no longer carried between the PSDMR and Junimea, but between the socialist and non-socialist advocates of didacticism.
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Richard Garnett holds that "the genuine passion that filled her early works of fiction had not unnaturally faded out of middle life," to be replaced by didacticism and an increase in self-awareness. Garnett judges Craik's poetry as "a woman's poems, tender, domestic, and sometimes enthusiastic, always genuine song, and the product of real feeling."Dinah Craik, The Unkind Word & Other Stories. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1870.
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Silverman, 40 Poe adopted some of the common themes of the day, including imagery of heavenly bliss and angelic beauty. He steps away from the typical use of didacticism of the time and instead focuses on psychological reverie and symbolist aesthetics,Reynolds, David S. Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988: 44.
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This form is also known as the cuaderna vía or the fourfold way, and was borrowed from France and was popular until the late fourteenth century. Popular themes of these poets were Christian legends, lives of saints, and tales from classical antiquity. The poems were cited to villagers in public plazas. Two traits separate this form from the mester de juglaría: didacticism and erudition.
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Poe's writing reflects his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as "The Poetic Principle". He disliked didacticism and allegory, though he believed that meaning in literature should be an undercurrent just beneath the surface. Works with obvious meanings, he wrote, cease to be art. He believed that work of quality should be brief and focus on a specific single effect.
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His literature is one that "by the people and for the people". As Lovinescu puts it, his work blends an "aggressive affirmation of nationhood" and "healthy ethics pushed to the limit of tendentiousness and didacticism" with a cultivation of dialectal speech patterns.Lovinescu, pp. 187–188 In this immediate context, Agârbiceanu seems to have been inspired by Ion Pop ReteganulDragomirescu, p. 84 and Ioan Slavici,Eftimiu, pp.
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The single received positive reviews upon its release, with Music News calling it a "trademark soaring smash" and The Guardian commenting that the single is "lilting and uplifting in a way that avoids pop’s obsession with heavy-handed didacticism". Continuing, they also praised its production, calling it "spacious and precise, with each different element – the marching- band beat, the acoustic strums, the echoey synths – all meticulously layered".
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Spencer never married. She was active in civic organizations such as Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. She moved to California at the end of her life, probably working for the Pasadena Star.Author bio accompanying Spencer's short story "Little Mother" in Irreantum 9.2/10.1 (2007-2008) The bulk of Spencer's work is typical of the Home Literature style of LDS literature, characterized by didacticism and stringent morality.
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An evangelical academy is a Protestant Christian conference center in Germany which bridges church and world by offering thematic, open discussions on contemporary social, economic, political and scientific questions. The evangelical academy movement arose after the Second World War in response to the moral collapse of German society. Helmut Thielicke and Eberhard Müller worked out the practical framework in 1945. Loosely modeled on Plato’s academy, the academies emphasized dialogue over didacticism.
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Although the purpose of all morality plays is to instruct listeners on the means of receiving redemption, morality plays after the Protestant Reformation are of a distinctly different didacticism than the morality plays before the Reformation. Morality plays before the Reformation teach a Catholic approach to redemption, with an emphasis on works and the sacraments, a view originating with Tertullian (c. 155 – c. 240 AD) and Cyprian (d. 258).
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Share received positive reviews from film critics. It holds a 83% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 24 reviews, with a weighted average of 7.15/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Grim yet compelling, Share avoids rote didacticism thanks to sensitive direction and committed central performances." On Metacritic, the film holds a rating of 73 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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A collection of these works, Satyros trupiniai (Crumbs of Satire), was published in 1928. His tragicomedy Laisvė (Freedom) which borrowed plot from the antiquity but discussed Lithuania's democracy was staged by the in 1923. His works described lives of Lithuanian peasants, the beginnings of capitalism in the village, and cultural backwardness of the rural population. His stories moved away from didacticism (which was prevalent in contemporary Lithuanian literature) to literary realism.
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He received the Order of Vytautas the Great (1st class), the highest state award in Lithuania, in 1931. Kriščiukaitis died suddenly in 1933. As a writer, Kriščiukaitis is known for his short stories that moved away from didacticism (which was prevalent in contemporary Lithuanian literature) to literary realism as well as satires and feuilletons. He published his works, articles, and translated texts in various Lithuanian periodicals, including Aušra and Varpas.
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He also noted a fundamental conservatism and didacticism in Barry: "Although Barry's literary style was modern, his mind was closer to Langdon Mitchell than to S. N. Behrman."Atkinson, p. 242. He was appreciated by the many actresses (e.g. Laurette Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Ethel Barrymore) who felt that he wrote great parts for women, even if the vehicles themselves were not always as strong as the performances they inspired.
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Călinescu, p.389, 390 With time, however, Ghica moved away from Romanticism, and developed his own brand of Realism, which did not exclude imagination and speculation, and which hailed Alecsandri as a prime example of writing. He was also opposed to Macedonski's notion of "sublime absurdity", arguing that the definitive criterion for creating poetic imagery was significance, and proposing elements of didacticism to feature in every work.Călinescu, p.
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Social as well as seasonal changes mark the passage of time. The Port William stories allow Berry to explore the human dimensions of the decline of the family farm and farm community, under the influence of expanding post-World War II agribusiness. But these works rarely fall into simple didacticism, and are never merely tales of decline. Each is grounded in a realistic depiction of character and community.
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The works of American author Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) include many poems, short stories, and one novel. His fiction spans multiple genres, including horror fiction, adventure, science fiction, and detective fiction, a genre he is credited with inventing. These works are generally considered part of the Dark romanticism movement, a literary reaction to Transcendentalism. Poe's writing reflects his literary theories: he disagreed with didacticism and allegory.
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Other works include Queechy (1852), The Law and the Testimony, (1853), The Hills of the Shatemuc, (1856), The Old Helmet (1863), and Melbourne House (1864). In the nineteenth century, critics admired the depictions of rural American life in her early novels. American reviewers also praised Warner's Christian and moral teachings, while London reviewers tended not to favor her didacticism. Early twentieth-century critics classified Warner's work as "sentimental" and thus lacking in literary value.
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XIII In subsequent years, members of the association carried out the translation of French theater and other foreign pieces, while encouraging Romanian-language dramatists, an effort which was to become successful during and after the 1840s (when Constantin Aristia and Costache Caragiale entered their most creative periods).Măciucă, p.XIII–XIV Heliade himself advocated didacticism in drama (defining it as "the preservation of social health"), and supported professionalism in acting.Ion Massoff, in "Aprecieri critice", p.
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74 According Procopius, the Persians had a stroke of luck in their attempt. Indeed, it seems that some guards were drunk and fell asleep after celebrating a festival,Conor Whately, Battles and Generals: Combat, Culture, and Didacticism in Procopius’ Wars, p.74 allowing the Persians to quietly scale the walls and get inside the city.J. A. S. Evans, The Age of Justinian: The Circumstances of Imperial Power, Taylor and Francis e-library, 2001, p.
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III, p.353-356 In reference to these incidents, critic Mihai Zamfir noted: "Actually, with the incompatibility between Maiorescu and Macedonski, between Junimea and the Macedonskian club, a border is traced [...] separating the 19th century from the 20th." While Eminescu's approach still evolved within the limits set by Junimea, it served to inspire a large number of non-Junimist traditionalists, whose didacticism, shaped by populist values, was hotly opposed by Macedonski and his followers.Călinescu, p.
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315, 319-320 He declared himself disappointed by Lovinescu having disregarded the post-Symbolist poetry of George Bacovia, and criticized him for deriding the lyricized prose of traditionalist author Mihail Sadoveanu.Cernat, p.319-321 He commented with irony on Lovinescu's primarily historicist perspective, arguing that it closely resembled what he himself criticized in the didacticism of Mihail Dragomirescu and Henric Sanielevici, and claiming that his rival's Sburătorul society aggravated "the dependence on literary schools".Cernat, p.
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Maurice even forgives Dame Smithson, who stole him from his nurse. The story aims to generate sympathy in its readers. In contrast with other children's stories of its day, it lacks didacticism and draws no clear distinctions between virtue and vice. Despite the appeal to sympathy, loss is the predominant theme of Maurice: parents lose their child; a mother yearns for a child to the point that she steals one; and "Maurice" loses his sense of identity.
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VII Ten years after, the prize was the center of a scandal, involving on one side the dramatist Ion Luca Caragiale and, on the other, the cultural establishment formed around members of the National Liberal Party, including Hasdeu and Dimitrie Sturdza. The latter disapproved of Caragiale's anti-Liberal stance and his association with Junimea, as well as to his anti-nationalism, dislike of didacticism, and alleged cosmopolitanism.Şerban Cioculescu, Caragialiana, Editura Eminescu, Bucharest, 1974, p.124–125, 128–132.
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In his youth and during the disruption and suffering of the Great Depression, Day-Lewis adopted communist views, becoming a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain from 1935 to 1938. His early poetry was marked by didacticism and a preoccupation with social themes.Day Lewis, C, Infoplease In 1937 he edited The Mind in Chains: Socialism and the Cultural Revolution. In the introduction, he supported a popular front against a "Capitalism that has no further use for culture".
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51, 126, 127 Nevertheless, the "young socialist" militant also published articles in the Junimea magazine, Convorbiri Literare. Additionally, he was a leading contributor to, and for a while editorial secretary of,Durnea (2006), p.58, 59, 63 the eclectic journal Noua Revistă Română, run by the ex- Junimist philosopher Constantin Rădulescu-Motru. It was there that he began a series of articles in defense of didacticism, with which he established his reputation as a cultural journalist.
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Rameau's 1722 Treatise on Harmony initiated a revolution in music theory. Rameau posited the discovery of the "fundamental law" or what he referred to as the "fundamental bass" of all Western music. Heavily influenced by new Cartesian modes of thought and analysis, Rameau's methodology incorporated mathematics, commentary, analysis and a didacticism that was specifically intended to illuminate, scientifically, the structure and principles of music. With careful deductive reasoning, he attempted to derive universal harmonic principles from natural causes.
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While praising the poem's sublimity and intellectual power, he took to task the intrusive egotism of its author. Clothing landscape and incident with the poet's personal thoughts and feelings suited this new sort of poetry very well; but his abstract philosophical musing too often steered the poem into didacticism, a leaden counterweight to its more imaginative flights.Wordsworth might as well, wrote Hazlitt, have "given to his work the form of a didactic poem altogether." Works, vol. 4, p. 113.
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Critics praised Cézanne's Quarry for its vivid historical details, and Ephron said it "received immediate critical acclaim...", calling it a "highly accomplished, compelling novel". Margaret Donsbach of Historical Novels Info said, "Cézanne's Quarry is an insightful, psychologically astute debut novel," but commented on the slow pacing: "...it could have benefited from editing". Sowerwine commented that didacticism — explaining the historical and sociological contexts — slowed the plot, though he concluded these "asides do make valid points and illuminate Bernard’s personality".
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The boldness of this Christian displeased Diocletian, and he left the city and made for Nicomedia to spend the winter, accompanied by Galerius.Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 20-21. Throughout these years the moral and religious didacticism of the emperors was reaching a fevered pitch; now, at the behest of an oracle, it was to hit its peak.Lane Fox, 595. According to Lactantius, Diocletian and Galerius entered into an argument over what imperial policy towards Christians should be while at Nicomedia in 302.
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The death of his second wife Frances, as biographer Charles Calhoun wrote, deeply affected Longfellow personally but "seemed not to touch his poetry, at least directly". His memorial poem to her was the sonnet "The Cross of Snow" and was not published in his lifetime. Longfellow often used didacticism in his poetry, but he focused on it less in his later years. Much of his poetry imparts cultural and moral values, particularly focused on life being more than material pursuits.
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Parkina works in a variety of media, including performance, sculpture, paper and video works. She uses collage as her key artistic method. Her works contain multiple references to Soviet constructivism, American noir movies of the 40s and 50s, and pop art, especially collages by Richard Hamilton. American curator John Zarobell considers her pieces of political character but not motivated by politics; he believes they successfully combine Kazimir Malevich’s idealism with technical characteristics of constructivism, but lack in didacticism at the same time.
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Tucker's contemporaries criticized the strong didacticism in her writing, but her creed was concerned not with original sin but with the chance of improvement for all people and races. Her realistic portrayals of the poor may have drawn on her experience as a workhouse visitor in Marylebone. Titles of hers are still occasionally reissued by publishers specializing in Christian books, including Lamplighter Ministries, an American nonprofit organization headquartered in Mount Morris, New York, best known for its Lamplighter Family Collection series.E. g.
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Two traits separate this form from the mester de juglaría: didacticism and erudition. Castilian priest and poet Gonzalo de Berceo was one of the greatest followers of the mester de clerecía. All of his works were religious; two of the most well known are Milagros de Nuestra Señora (about the miracles worked by the Virgin Mary) and Vida de Santa Oria. Fourteenth-century poet Juan Ruíz, also known as the Arcipreste de Hita, used the cuaderna vía in parts of his famous work Libro de buen amor.
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An example of didactism in music is the chant Ut queant laxis, which was used by Guido of Arezzo to teach solfege syllables. Around the 19th century the term didactic came to also be used as a criticism for work that appears to be overburdened with instructive, factual, or otherwise educational information, to the detriment of the enjoyment of the reader (a meaning that was quite foreign to Greek thought). Edgar Allan Poe called didacticism the worst of "heresies" in his essay The Poetic Principle.
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Kenneth Lloyd Billingsly (1998). Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s. Rocklin, CA: Prima/Forum Lawson organized and led a critical attack in 1946 on Albert Maltz after he published an article, "What Shall We Ask of Writers", in The New Masses, challenging the didacticism of the American Communist Party's censorship of writers. Surprised by the ferocity of attack from his fellow writers, including Lawson, Howard Fast, Alvah Bessie, Ring Lardner, Jr., Samuel Sillen, and others, Maltz publicly recanted.
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"I know I have many bad things in me and do not deserve to be praised or pitied," he explained. Leskov was interred in the Literatorskiye Mostki necropolis at the Volkovo Cemetery in Saint Petersburg (the section reserved for literary figures). Due to Leskov's purportedly difficult nature (he has been described as despotic, vindictive, quick-tempered and prone to didacticism), he spent the last years of his life alone, his biological daughter Vera (from his first marriage) living far away and never visiting; his son Andrey residing in the capital but avoiding his father.
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That's a hard thing to do well." Slant critic Jonathan Keefe noted that even 25 years after the song's initial release its "optimism...is still inspiring and relevant." He goes on to note that the song's message "reflects an intelligent and decidedly nonpartisan approach to political reconstruction without resorting to...didacticism." Pitchfork Media critic Stephen M. Deusner states that "With its rousing chorus and pensive bass line, 'Cuyahoga' mails postcard dispatches from a museum where rivers and plains are artifacts, consigned to diorama and memory rather than reality.
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Some authors, however, have expressed doubt as to the pure historicity of Procopius' account and state that while instances of single combat did likely occur during the course of the battle, Procopius' description is intended to be a narrative device rather than a factual account. Another source, believed to be based on official documents, does indeed reference individual combat, but makes no mention of Andreas and, furthermore, places any single combat engagements at a different stage of the battle.Whately, Connor. "Battles and Generals: Combat, Culture, and Didacticism in Procopius' wars".
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Beyond such rhetoric, Sanielevici rejected the traditionalism of Sămănătorul right-wingers not because of its didacticism, but because of its supposed inconsistencies. Researchers argue that he was simply prone to attack Sămănătorul "at any opportunity", and was motivated by the wish to "counter Iorga". Overall, Eugen Lovinescu argues, his was a "sentimental deception", sparked by the revelation that Iorga's followers were all Neoromantics. Consequently, Sanielevici alleged that the Sămănătorist stories, about violent and promiscuous hajduks, or about modern-day adulterous affairs, set bad moral examples and were needlessly titillating.
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"The stories are hard but they are hard because there is nothing harder or less sentimental than Christian realism. ...When I see these stories described as horror stories I am always amused because the reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror." She felt deeply informed by the sacramental and by the Thomist notion that the created world is charged with God. Yet she did not write apologetic fiction of the kind prevalent in the Catholic literature of the time, explaining that a writer's meaning must be evident in his or her fiction without didacticism.
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Moș Teacă reading about himself in the eponymous magazine—caricature by Constantin Jiquidi, February 1896 During his 1890s polemics, Anton Bacalbașa explained at length what his vision of didacticism meant. His stated belief was that: "In all of our works, that which is alive first and foremost is ourselves."Călinescu, p.565 Nevertheless, George Călinescu writes, Toni "was far from pouring socialism over everything", and believed that poetry in particular should be apolitical. As early as 1894, Avram Steuerman-Rodion noted that the Adevărul Literar editor had been straying away from Dobrogeanu-Gherea's didactic path.
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Critic Milan Rešetar considered the painting one of Predić's best works Upon seeing reproductions of the painting, the villagers did not interpret it as a call to change their ways. Instead, they were flattered by Predić's decision to depict them. "To local audiences in particular", Filipovitch-Robinson writes, "such lighthearted didacticism entwined with a familiar and beloved world was immensely satisfying". It is said that on one of his visits home, Predić went to the local pub and encountered the patrons examining a calendar with a reproduction of his painting inside it.
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In, Chhayavad Yug is 1918 to 1937, and is preceded by Bharatendu Yug (1868–1900), and Dwivedi Yug (1900–1918), and is in turn, followed by the Contemporary Period, 1937 onwards.Hindi LanguageHistorical Development of Hindi University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign Chhayavad continued till later half of the 1930s, when the golden era of modern Hindi poetry was gradually replaced by social didacticism inspired by the uprising nationalist fervour, when some of the later poets of this era, like Dinkar, Mahadevi and Bachchan took nationalist and social critiquing within their poetry.
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The essay argues that a poem should be written "for a poem's sake" and that the ultimate goal of art is aesthetic. He also argues against the concept of a long poem, saying that an epic, if it is to be worth anything, must instead be structured as a collection of shorter pieces, each of which is not too long to be read in a single sitting. The essay critiques, sometimes rather sharply, the works of other poets of his time. His most common complaint is against didacticism, which he calls a "heresy".
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Marilyn Kaye was born in 1949 in New Britain, Connecticut. She spent most of her childhood in Atlanta, Georgia, although she spent her tenth year in Montgomery, Alabama and her thirteenth in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She kept a diary as a child and wrote in a wide range of formats. Marilyn majored in English at Emory University, going on to study a master's degree in library science at Emory and a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Chicago, with the thesis title "The nature of didacticism as related to romance and sexuality in young adult novels, 1965–1978".
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Like Maiorescu himself, he derided didacticism, "social ideals" in art, and the Marxist school of Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea. He detailed this hostility in his essay Idealuri ("Ideals"), serialized by the Junimea magazine, Convorbiri Literare, in 1892 and 1893: Philippide thought it absurd that Dobrogeanu-Gherea equated cultural heritage with socialist culture, and was infuriated by the Marxist claim that Junimea would not survive at all in cultural memory.Ornea II, pp. 74, 332–333, 339, 340–343, 345, 357 Writing from a Junimist standpoint, he opined that a writer must take literary tradition into account, and that his writing should be devoid of moralizing.
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Socialist imagery in an illustration for Lumea Nouă literary review, 1895 On the left-wing of the political spectrum, the Sămănătorists met the advocates of socialism, who had survived the fall of the Romanian Social Democratic Workers' Party. Although the two currents disagreed over central issues, they also held a set of common beliefs, particularly in matters of literary theory. While he had entered a polemic with Vieața,Ornea (1998), p.333–334, 358 the leading socialist figure and literary critic Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea admired (and probably inspired) Vlahuţă's branch of didacticism, preferring it to early Junimism.
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Michelle Kaske of Booklist found that the novel, based on true historical crimes, worked tension and moments of charm into its squalid subject matter, and showed "intricate relationships between women of limited power". She concluded, "What is most amazing is Donoghue's capacity for tackling weighty issues (prostitution, crime, and slavery) while avoiding didacticism." Natasha Tripney of The Guardian wrote, "The novel is structured in such a way that it exerts a considerable grip, the tension slowly, painfully building". She found it to be a believable fiction, never romanticising Mary, and praised Donoghue's use of costume and its associated status.
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Both The Parliament Man and The Adventures of Peter Playne are spoilt by religious sentimentality and didacticism, as are the short stories The Special Messenger and Peter, Bingo and Those Others. Under Eastern Skies, a retelling of stories about Old Testament kings is a workmanlike but otherwise undistinguished book. The Bells of Moulton – a history of the BMS for young people – could have been a dull subject but is entertainingly told by combining history, fiction and travelogue. Cule's novelette The Prince of Zell is a curiosity – a Ruritanian romance with a wildly improbable plot and a denouement that strains credulity to the limit.
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Widely and often cited, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage is renowned for its witty passages, such as: > ; Didacticism : The speaker who has discovered that Juan and Quixote are not > pronounced in Spain as he used to pronounce them as a boy is not content to > keep so important a piece of information to himself; he must have the rest > of us call them Hwan and Keehotay; at any rate he will give us the chance of > mending our ignorant ways by doing so.A Dictionary of Modern Usage, Second > Edition, 1965. H.W. Fowler. Oxford University Press:New York, Oxford. p.
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Arrest warrants were issued for the Adevărul staff: Mille and Alexandru Ionescu were taken into custody and released a short while after, whereas Bacalbașa absconded. "Știri", in Universul Literar, Nr. 21/1894, p.6 (digitized by the Babeș-Bolyai University Transsylvanica Online Library) Mille's group found a friend in Constantin Stere, by then a maverick member of the PNL, who began maneuvering against the PNL's right-wing from the inside. Managing a literary sheet put out by the pro-PNL Evenimentul, Stere supported Adevărul in its campaign for literary didacticism, and organized rallies of solidarity with the Bucharest socialists.
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Reviews in the Spectator magazine in November 1886 described her novel Bear and Forbear as "one of the good things of the year," and in 1891 described The White House at Inch Gow as "a quite harmless story, prettily told". Pitt's second novel, Fritters: or, 'It's a Long Lane that has no Turning' appeared in 1885 in the "Proverbs" series of "original stories by popular authors founded upon and illustrating well-known proverbs".Selections from Cassell & Company's Publications. It is a "bad-boy- turns-good" story, in which didacticism is accompanied by a realistic narrative set in the London Docklands.
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He married Ruth Charlotte Smith and they had four children including Richard Henry Dana Jr. Despite having graduated from there, Dana accused Harvard of smothering genius, and believed that the minds of poets were more insightful than the general community. He seldom practiced law. Dana's home on Beacon Hill, Boston Between 1817 and 1827, he was the first American to write major critiques of Romanticism, though his views were unconventional for his time. In a review of the poetry of Washington Allston, he noted his belief that poetry was the highest form of art, though it should be simple and must avoid didacticism.
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El hijo del ladrón is set on Tenerife; El rugido de la vida, on La Palma; Las sirenas del alma, on La Gomera; El desafío de la leyenda, on El Hierro...Video in which César Fernández García expresses his love for the islands As readers, we don't find explicit didacticism or moralist allegory in his fictions. César Fernández García believes that meaning in literature should be an undercurrent just beneath the surface. César Fernández García in Filedby website His works – belonging to several literary genres - mix mystery, tenderness, horror, reality, love and adventure. He has written fantasy novels such as El bibliobús mágico and El rugido de la vida.
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The plague may, in fact, represent typical attributes of human life and mortality, which would imply the entire story is an allegory about man's futile attempts to stave off death (a commonly accepted interpretation). However, there is much dispute over how to interpret "The Masque of the Red Death"; some suggest it is not allegorical, especially due to Poe's admission of a distaste for didacticism in literature. If the story really does have a moral, Poe does not explicitly state that moral in the text. Blood, emphasized throughout the tale, along with the color red, serves as a dual symbol, representing both death and life.
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Aderca's advocacy of Lovinescu's ideas, with its critique of didacticism and political command in art, was the connecting element of the essays he published in 1929: Mic tratat de estetică sau lumea văzută estetic ("A Concise Tract on Aesthetics or The World Seen in Aesthetic Terms").Crohmălniceanu (1972), p.25-26, 31 Also that year, Aderca compiled interviews with literary figures, intellectuals and artists, under the title Mărturia unei generații ("A Generation's Testimony"). The book, illustrated with ink portraits drawn by the Constructivist artist Marcel Janco, Simona Vasilache, "Reporter de leat", in România Literară, Nr. 31/2008 was, its title notwithstanding, a homage to writers of several generations.
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Michael Blackwood created over 150 films covering art, architecture, dance, music, history, and culture with such figures as Thelonious Monk, Philip Guston, Zaha Hadid, Francis Bacon, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Andy Warhol. Blackwood helped define a cinema verité observational style of filmmaking that was practiced by such contemporaries as Albert Maysles and D.A. Pennebaker. His diverse array of films and subjects contain a common thread of didacticism and austerity, favoring pure reporting over the art of filmmaking. Blackwood's core belief is that in the cinema lies the power to enlighten the viewer, and thus reconcile the masses with the art of the postwar world.
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Livezeanu, p.120 Neo-Sămănătorism had a special impact in Bessarabia, a former province of the Russian Empire which formed part of Greater Romania: soon after the political union, traditionalism acquired a special force, but its position was challenged by young writers who followed Symbolism or Expressionism (Alexandru Robot among them). Alexandru Burlacu, "Poezia basarabeană: Arcadia în negativ (I)", in Convorbiri Literare, March 2002 Alexandru Burlacu, "Poezia basarabeană: Arcadia în negativ (II)", in Convorbiri Literare, April 2002 Although motivated by nationalist didacticism and supportive of Cuget Clar, writer Nicolai Costenco and his Viața Basarabiei review were more receptive of innovation, and even pioneered a symbiosis between the two cultural extremes.
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Not all traditional readings considered that "Guan ju" contained political and allegorical references. The excavation in 1973 of the text known as Wuxingpian (五行篇) at the Mawangdui revealed a style of Confucian thinking which focused more on the moral and emotional messages evoked by the everyday human situations found in the lyrics. The Wuxingpian explains "Guan ju" as a poem about sexual desire, more specifically, the inherent human moral urge to regulate one's sexual desire to accord with the mores of one's community.Jeffrey Riegel, "Shih-ching Poetry and Didacticism in Ancient Chinese Literature" in The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, Victor H. Mair ed.
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Carlson identifies a single instance of Scribe's critical commentary from a speech Scribe gave to the Académie française in 1836. Scribe expressed his view of what draws the audiences to theater: "not for instruction or improvement, but for diversion and distraction, and that which diverts them [audience] most is not truth, but fiction. To see again what you have before your eyes daily will not please you, but that which is not available to you in every day life - the extraordinary and the romantic." Although Scribe advocated for a theater of amusement over didacticism, other writers, beginning with Alexandre Dumas, fils, adopted Scribe's structure to create didactic plays.
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According to Adams and van Straten, the protagonist of the book embodies the "shared world view and values" of the authors: the gnomes revere nature and are tempered creatures. They show "the moral didacticism of Poortvliet", who loved nature since his youth and was an advocate for "selectful (sic) and respectful hunting." The gnomes from the book are also guided by Huygen's "medical compassion", as described by Poortvliet. In an article about 1977 environmentalist literature, George H. Siehl highlighted Huygen's book, alongside The Foxes' Union (1977), for its "unique approach to providing natural history cum environmental message" and noted that the "brief closing chapters make the environmental message explicit".
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The naive maiden-heroine Nandini rallies her subject-compatriots to defeat the greed of the realm's sardar class—with the morally roused king's belated help. Skirting the "good- vs-evil" trope, the work pits a vital and joyous lèse majesté against the monotonous fealty of the king's varletry, giving rise to an allegorical struggle akin to that found in Animal Farm or Gulliver's Travels. The original, though prized in Bengal, long failed to spawn a "free and comprehensible" translation, and its archaic and sonorous didacticism failed to attract interest from abroad. Chitrangada, Chandalika, and Shyama are other key plays that have dance-drama adaptations, which together are known as Rabindra Nritya Natya.
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Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle... and other Modern Verse is a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award-winning anthology of poetry edited by Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith. Compiled in an effort to present modern poetry in a way that would appeal to the young, Watermelon Pickle was long a standard in high school curricula, and has been described as a classic. The anthology consists of 114 poems, including ones by Ezra Pound, Edna St. Vincent Millay and E. E. Cummings, but also ones by lesser-known poets. It is particularly noted for "espous[ing] no specific morality, no politesse, and no didacticism", as well as for giving a relatively modern presentation with photographs and modern typefaces.
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Ornea, Vol.I, p.183-188 He joined in the socialists Bacalbașa and Ibrăileanu in a cultural polemic with the poet Alexandru Vlahuță and his magazine Vieața.Ornea, Vol.I, p.190-197, 199 Vlahuță, who had sided with Dobrogeanu-Gherea during the latter's conflict with Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu,Ornea, Vol.I, p.193 nonetheless clashed with the leftists over the issue of "art for art's sake", arguing that the interest his adversaries took in didacticism was harming literature.Ornea, Vol.I, p.193-197 This exchange of replies soon involved the former socialist Eduard Dioghenide, who attacked Evenimentul Literar with Antisemitic language, contending that Stere was "an employee of the little kikes" and had "lost his soul to the Jews".
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The play received several awards, including the prestigious Prix Italia. There were mostly positive reviews from the press for its distanced naturalism and avoidance of didacticism which 'for some reviewers, made it the masterpiece of that period's socially-concerned drama documentaries.' British nostalgia website, TV Cream, describes the play as 'one of the most powerful dramas the BBC, or anyone, have shown, and as such presents the strongest possible case for the "naturalism" that many Play for Today writers were determined to get away from. The ensemble playing is brilliantly done, with interruptions and improvised stutters giving a documentary feel that, while grossly overused (even misused) these days, is wholly convincing here.
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Cassian Maria Spiridon, "Noica şi Eminescu (II)", in Convorbiri Literare, March 2009 The same author deemed Eminescu's activism an "Annunciation" for the new ideology of a "healthy race".Both, p.32 According to Iorga's rival, cultural historian and classical liberal thinker Eugen Lovinescu, the historian shared in particular the "reactionary" attitudes of Eminescu: a "hatred" of the bourgeoisie who endorsed Romanian liberalism, support for "protectionism" and the nostalgia for "patriarchal life". Ioan Stanomir, "Despre canon, critică și revizuiri: o recapitulare lovinesciană" , in Cuvântul, Nr. 378 Another main element of Sămănătoruls preoccupations was didacticism, twinned with calls for education reform: the magazine urged the education system to actively and primarily dedicate itself to the cause of peasants.
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The term has its origin in the Ancient Greek word διδακτικός (didaktikos), "related to education and teaching", and signified learning in a fascinating and intriguing manner.RELIGIOUS AWAKENING STORIES IN LATE MEDIEVAL JAPAN: THE DYNAMICS OF DIDACTICISM, Retrieved 30 Oct 2013 Didactic art was meant both to entertain and to instruct. Didactic plays, for instance, were intended to convey a moral theme or other rich truth to the audience.Didacticism in Morality Plays, Retrieved 30 Oct 2013Glossary of Literary Terms , The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Retrieved 30 Oct 2013 An example of didactic writing is Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism (1711), which offers a range of advice about critics and criticism.
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The works by Honore de Balzac first published in Russian were translationed by Pavlov. He authored several vaudevilles, numerous essays and critical articles, as well as the book On the Sources and the Forms of the Russian Fable-writing (Об источниках и формах русского баснословия, 1859). The next piece of writing that (according to the literary historian Leonid Krupchanov) "made the whole of educated Russia talk about it" was his set of Four Letters to N.V. Gogol, published originally by Moskovskiye Vedomosti (Nos. 28, 38 and 46, 1847), criticizing the "Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends" which shocked many people with the new tone of religious righteousness and didacticism the great writer had adopted in it.
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Kirkus Reviews praised the novella as having "the feel of a small epic yet never lapses into sentimentality or melodrama". Noting the author's social background before the Cultural Revolution, Rosemary Haddon felt Ouyang Duanli was Wang's persona and wrote that "driven by the proletarian standard, Wang Anyi has won a small victory in China's class struggle". Michael S. Duke, however, was highly critical of the novella for containing "all the major faults of Wang's writing: excessive wordiness, repetitiveness, unrealistic or stereotypical characterizations, overly abrupt changes in moral character, didacticism, and shallow moralizing". Aamer Hussein also noted the "insipid" approach but called Wang's examination of relationships "moving and perceptive" and the novellas an "honest account of a woman's search".
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Cernat, p.8 Some of these texts had echoes in Junimist literature. Active later in the decade, poet Mihai Eminescu probably accommodated some Symbolist themes into his own Romantic and pessimistic fantasy works, most notably in his 1872 novel Poor Dionis.Marian, passim Junimea poet Veronica Micle (Eminescu's lover) may also have assimilated the nostalgia typical of French Symbolists. Elena Vulcănescu, "Valeria Micle Sturdza", in Convorbiri Literare, August 2009 Another point of contact stood at the core of Junimist theory, where the group's doyen, Titu Maiorescu, had placed the concept of "art for art's sake", stating his opposition to the didacticism endorsed by his various rivals while aligning himself with Schopenhauerian aesthetics and other constructs of German philosophy.
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James Spedding wanted to see a long poem from him; he also, along with John Sterling and the anonymous reviewer in the Atlas, thought that human sympathy was the strong point of the volume. On the other hand the Christian Remembrancer believed Tennyson "had not yet become human enough", and similarly the Westminster Review, the London University Magazine and Hogg's Weekly Instructor urged him to draw on the sympathies of his own personal experiences. Many reviewers encouraged him to introduce more contemporary relevance and didacticism into his poems, rather than indulging his Romantic temperament. There was widespread agreement that the best poems were those dealing with domestic life, even when they were somewhat trite.
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The film was well received by critics for portraying the lesser-known culture and exploitation of the poorer classes taking place in Goa (which is otherwise portrayed very glamorously in films). Clarence Tsui of The Hollywood Reporter called the film a "contemplative and topical debut, with a story offering mostly heartbreak but also a faint glimpse of hope." Nikki Baughan of ScreenDaily wrote, "Juze may be an exploration of an existence which is endured, rather than lived, but there’s no trace of melodrama or didacticism." Notably, Juze was screened at the Hong Kong International Film Festival, the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, the Mumbai Film Festival, the International Film Festival of India, the Minsk Film Festival and the Dublin International Film Festival.
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Truth to his main theme has taken Keats rather farther than he meant to go ... This pure cold art makes, in fact, a less appeal to Keats than the Ode as a whole would pretend; and when, in the lines that follow these lines, he indulges the jarring apostrophe 'Cold Pastoral' [...] he has said more than he meant—or wished to mean."Patterson 1968 qtd. pp. 48–49 In 1933, M. R. Ridley described the poem as a "tense ethereal beauty" with a "touch of didacticism that weakens the urgency" of the statements.Ridley 1933 p. 281 Douglas Bush, following in 1937, emphasized the Greek aspects of the poem and stated, "as in the Ode to Maia, the concrete details are suffused with a rich nostalgia.
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Maria Edgeworth Having come to her literary maturity at a time when the ubiquitous and unvarying stated defence of the novel was its educative power, Maria Edgeworth was among the few authors who truly espoused the educator's role. Her novels are morally and socially didactic in the extreme. A close analysis of the alterations which Edgeworth's style underwent when it was pressed into the service of overt didacticism should serve to illuminate the relationship between prose technique and didactic purpose in her work. The convention which Maria Edgeworth has adopted and worked to death is basic to the eighteenth-century novel, but its roots lie in the drama, tracing at least to the Renaissance separation of high and low characters by their forms of speech.
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Good examples of authoritarian literature include Beowulf, Pilgrim's Progress, and in English literature we see vestiges as late as Charles Dickens. While didacticism forms a significant component of Shaw's, Orwell's and C. S. Lewis' fiction as well, their works can not strictly be considered as authoritarian literature because they were not writing at the whim of political leaders. Dickens was not writing for the British government either, but he used the same forms of his predecessors, who did write for the court, particularly in his earlier novels, such as A Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield, where we most easily observe a certain preachiness. Dickens constructed his plots for the sake of demonstration rather than the purpose of exploration.
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Upon its release, Palo Santo received praise from music critics, some of whom lauded its deeper emotional resonance compared to its predecessor and Alexander's refusal to embrace moral didacticism and his vibrant display of character. Commercially, the album debuted in the top three of the UK Albums Chart and became the band's second album to top the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart. Three singles were released from the album—"Sanctify", "If You're Over Me" and "All for You", with the latter two making the top forty on the UK Singles Chart, and "If You're Over Me" becoming a top ten hit. The trio are set to support the album on the Palo Santo Tour, which commenced in October 2018 in North America.
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While Baskaran says Kannadasan wrote "quite a few lines lampooning religion", Rajadhyaksha and Willemen state he "included ironic lines which redeem the didacticism of the script." According to French film historian Yves Thoraval, Paava Mannippu questions religion; in the song "Vantha Naal Muthal" the hero wonders why religions were created. In his book Popular Cinema and Politics in South India: The Films of MGR and Rajinikanth, S. Rajanayagam compared Paava Mannippu to two other Sivaji Ganesan-Bhimsingh films: Pasamalar (1961) and Paarthaal Pasi Theerum (1962) as the three films "sentimentalised the family- based fraternal, filial and paternal love." Writing for The Hindu Tamil, S. S. Vasan made a thematic comparison of "Vantha Naal Muthal" to Hemanta Mukherjee's song "Din Raat Badalte Hain" from Naya Sansaar (1959).
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When Michener told Hammerstein, he laughed and replied, "That's what the show is about!"Michener 1992, pp. 294–295 Boston drama critic Elliot Norton, after seeing the show in tryouts, strongly recommended its removal, or at least that Cable sing it less "briskly", as there was much bigotry in Boston; Logan replied that this was all the more reason for leaving it unaltered.Maslon, p. 162 Several New York reviewers expressed discomfort with the song; Wolcott Gibbs wrote of "something called 'You've Got to Be Taught', a poem in praise of tolerance that somehow I found a little embarrassing" while John Mason Brown opined that he was "somewhat distressed by the dragged-in didacticism of such a plea for tolerance as 'You've Got to Be Taught'".
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Jan Fergus argued that for this reason, Austen's books were subversive, engaging in "emotional didacticism" by showing the reader moral lessons meant to teach young women how to be modest in the conventional sense, thus undercutting the demand made by the conduct books for modesty in the sense of ignorance of one's sexuality.Irvine 127. In the same way, Kirkham used Mansfield Park as an example of Austen undercutting the message of the conduct books, noting that Fanny Price is attractive to Henry Crawford because she outwardly conforms to the conduct books, while, at the same time, rejecting the enfantisisation of women promoted by the conduct books, she is attractive to Edmund Bertram because of her intelligence and spirit.Irvine, 128–29.
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145, 377). This entire generation of critics stood for the legacy of Junimea, a literary society influential in the second half of the 19th century. They followed in the footsteps of Junimist leader and philosopher Titu Maiorescu, who was known for his rationalist approach, his conservative suspicion of nationalism, his calls for pragmatic Westernization and controlled modernization, his advocacy of professionalization in science and literature, and, in particular, his critique of literary didacticism in favor of "art for art's sake".Ornea (1998), p.145-146, 377 Lovinescu referred to himself and his colleagues as "the third post-Maiorescian generation",Ornea (1998), p.145 and, in the 1942 homage to Lovinescu, Perpessicius's essay, called "deepest and most convincing" by 21st century literary historian Nicolae Manolescu, focused primarily on Lovinescu's own study of Maiorescu.
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The Orlando Sentinels Roger Moore called The Edukators "a surprisingly generic German 'Stockholm syndrome' romantic triangle thriller," adding: "It ends interestingly, but it would've ended better, and played better, had it been half an hour shorter." In Slant Magazine, Jason Clark wrote that the film needed "a touch of the perverse", but "Weingartner plays out the drama far too earnestly, and the story barely sustains the length of a movie half of its running time." According to Jack Mathews of the New York Daily News, "The dialogue between the captive and the captors gets a little didactic, and the ending is as contrived as it is cynical." Similar criticism of the film's didacticism was made by Brett Michel of Boston Phoenix, Kriss Allison of Stylus Magazine and Glenn Whipp of the Los Angeles Daily News.
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He referred to the Joan subplot as "colorful and tense" but wrote, "the ultimate resolution of the plot blunted potential charges of didacticism. It was agonizing watching Joan struggle to deal with Joey's swinishness with cutting remarks that barely scratched his thick skin." James Poniewozik of TIME magazine said the use of voice-over "undercuts one of Mad Men’s greatest strengths, which is its use of irony and understatement to show how characters' words and actions often belie their real thoughts and meaning." Poniewozik also noted: "As we get farther into what we usually think of in pop-culture terms as 'the ’60s,' it gets harder even for a show as brilliant as Mad Men to avoid overfamiliar takes", singling out the scene where Don watches Vietnam War news reports.
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Verlyn Klinkenborg of the Los Angeles Times wrote in a 1995 review of Reservation Blues: "you can feel Alexie's purposely divided attention, his alertness to a divided audience, Native American and Anglo." Klinkenborg says that Alexie is "willing to risk didacticism whenever he stops to explain the particulars of the Spokane and, more broadly, the Native American experience to his readers." Indian Killer (1996) is a murder mystery set among Native American adults in contemporary Seattle, where the characters struggle with urban life, mental health, and the knowledge that there is a serial killer on the loose. Characters deal with the racism in the University system, as well as in the community at large, where Indians are subjected to being lectured about their own culture by white professors who are actually ignorant of Indian cultures.
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" Tomris Laffly of RogerEbert.com gave the movie three stars out of four, stating "Still, Scary Stories is a strangely uplifting throwback to old-fashioned clans of investigative teens. While it doesn’t break any new ground, there is plenty of vintage fun to be had with kids who feel their way through life’s impending fears and live to tell the tale." Writing for The Guardian, Simran Hans gave the film three stars out of five, noting "Producer and co-writer Guillermo del Toro brings Alvin Schwartz’s much-loved children’s book series to the big screen, but this uneven film can’t decide who it’s trying to scare." The New Yorker 's Richard Brody mentioned "There’s authentic charm to the fine-grained didacticism of the plot of “Scary Stories,” which embodies the very virtues that it promotes.
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His notable poems such as Notatnik polowy (Field Notebook; 1946), Rękopis Jerozolimski (The Jerusalem Manuscript; 1950–1952, reedited in 1956 and 1957), and Do Kaina i Abla (To Cain and Abel; 1961) had a theme of exploring the world through irony, melancholy, and nostalgia. His later works, usually very short (aphorisms), through techniques such as wordplay, paradox, nonsense, abstract humor, and didacticism convey philosophical thoughts through single phrases and sentences. Collections of Lec’s aphorisms and epigrams include Z tysiąca jednej fraszki (From a Thousand and One Trifles; 1959), Fraszkobranie (Gathering Trifles; 1967); and Myśli nieuczesane (Unkempt Thoughts; 1957, followed by sequels in 1964 and 1966). His work has been translated into a number of languages, including English, German, Slovak, Dutch, Italian, Serbian, Croatian, Swedish, Czech, Finnish, Bulgarian, Russian, Romanian and Spanish.
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On the surface, "The Painted Skin" is a story of a lustful scholar's encounter with a demon who disguises itself as a lady. Pu Songling intended for the story to be viewed as a parable of human desire and its negative consequences, and emphasised this with his appended comment, "a typical piece of moral didacticism that denounces sexual promiscuity, extols faithfulness, and endorses belief in karma and retribution." "The Painted Skin" utilises both the zhiguai and chuanqi styles of writing in bringing out "the ghost's critical and creative writing", whereas the complexity of prose parallels the "cultural ramifications of the ghost." Skin is a major plot device in "The Painted Skin", serving as a "path between the separate worlds of human and animal, or the natural and the supernatural".
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New York: Routledge np Harris had managed the firm for Elizabeth Newbery and in 1801 bought it from her, renaming in his own name. Noticing that playful books such as Mother Goose's Melody sold better than Evangelical fare, in 1805 he issued The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog which departed from Newbery's publications in that it was completely devoid of didacticism and was meant to amuse. The first edition of the book was illustrated with copperplate engravings, one on each page, unlike Newbery's sparse use of woodcuts, and of a relatively small size (4 inches by 5 inches). Mother Hubbard sold well and began a run of similar books such as Whimsical Incidents in 1805 followed a year later by an edition of John Gilpin with colour illustrations.
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26 In Aderca's view, the leftist traditionalists emerging from the Poporanist faction were just as wrong in demanding the application of a "national criterion" in art. He stated this objection in a publicized polemic with the Poporanist doyen Garabet Ibrăileanu: "I do not know if [Romanian cultural products] are not in essence, at the stage where culture has penetrated, the same as those [of peripheral regions] where the iron man of European civilization walks with a heavy stride." He ridiculed the didacticism of other writers, dismissing them with terms borrowed from Ion Luca Caragiale: they were "firemen-citizens and citizens-firemen". However, Aderca was also inclined to question the absolute validity of synchronistic tenets: suggesting that the pursuit of innovation as a goal could prove undermine a one's originality, he cautioned that such imperatives could replicate the negative consequences of public commands.
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While Ian Stuart reports that Restoration received mixed reviews, many critics have praised the play. Mel Gussow of The New York Times stated in 1986 that while the "text does not avoid didacticism and the contemporary connection has not been adequately resolved", Restoration "is, at its core, an abrasive indictment of a society eager to set its own house on fire." University of Washington professor Stephen Weeks, who saw the play in 1992 at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, lauded Restoration as "easily the wittiest of Bond's intertextual adventures [...] Lord Are is a masterly comic creation by any standard". He wrote that while "the unity of working classes against capital – the play's polemical aim – is difficult, in the nineties to regard as anything but historical fantasy [...] what cannot be gainsaid is the brilliance of Bond's language and dramaturgy".
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Nathan Lee in The Village Voice advanced the notion that while Pattern Recognition focused to an extent on "specifying the ambient sense of invasiveness in all aspects of life after the collapse of the towers", Spook Country accepted that anxiety as a premise, and was thus "the more reflective, less unnerving of the two novels". Politics is present as an underlying theme in Spook Country to a greater extent than in any of the author's previous novels. The novel can be read as an exploration of the fear, uncertainty and pervasive paranoia of an America riven by the unending and divisive Iraq War. Although he had avoided overtly political themes in his previous work out of a distaste for didacticism, Gibson found that in the Bush era, politics had "jacked itself up to my level of weirdness".
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In 1970 when the decision was made to establish a national film school in the UK in order to revitalise the British film industry, he was invited to apply to become the founding director, a post which he took up in 1971. He worked there for more than 2 decades, at a time when the school produced alumni including Bill Forsyth, Terence Davies, Julien Temple, Beeban Kidron, and Nick Park. Young believed the difference between film school graduates and those who learned on the job was that the former "will have their time directed by themselves in a school environment which is keyed to their development and will leave within them a spirit of an inner- directed development as opposed to the industry’s outer-directed one." He placed a particular emphasis on documentary, particularly what he called "observational cinema", which sought to avoid both melodrama and didacticism.
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In Satisfying Skepticism, Ellen Spolsky explores the skepticism coming from the conflict between different ways of knowing that occurred during the Reformation, particularly regarding how much an icon could be trusted as a source of truth. While Catholics asserted the value of religious icons as a source of valuable knowledge, Protestants were wary of trusting images and asserted the power of scripture alone as the source of knowledge. In this period fraught with concerns about the power of sight and imagery, Spolsky notes cases such as William Shakespeare’s Othello which show how sight and vision provide overlapping, but ultimately incomplete knowledge of the world. Spolsky also presents pastoral literature and panoramic paintings in order to show how visual works which distanced themselves from intellectualism and didacticism provided solace by offering muted knowledge to those in the midst of reformation conflicts regarding word and image.
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Based on a popular comic strip character, its sentiment, comedy and moral didacticism (common with movies of the time), added to a gritty realism made it a huge success, so much so that the studio immediately scheduled a sequel, Sooky, for the following year. The next few years saw Taurog enter the third chapter of his career, as an established director who could work in a number of genres. He directed a series of well-received films, including If I Had a Million (1932), which showed his ability to work with an all-star cast—Gary Cooper, George Raft, Charles Laughton, and W. C. Fields. In 1934, he directed We're Not Dressing, starring Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen, and Ray Milland. In 1935, he directed the star-studded musical showcase The Big Broadcast of 1936 starring Bing Crosby and George Burns and Gracie Allen.
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In 1821 Hoffmann von Fallersleben published the Bonn fragments of D. Modern critical editions start with that of Graff in 1831, who drew on all three complete MSS. While the Evangelienbuch represents a significant technical achievement, modern critics have generally been dismissive of its literary merits and J.G.Robertson's faint praise is typical: > While it is mainly to his adaptation of rhyme to German verse that Otfrid > owes his position in German literature, it would be unjust to deny him > altogether the possession of higher poetic powers. Overladen as his work is > with theological learning, and hampered, especially in the earlier part of > the poem, by technical difficulties, there are here and there in his verse > flashes of genuine lyric feeling which deserve to be lifted out of the dry > religious didacticism in which they are imbedded. The beauties of Otfrid, a volume published privately in 1936 by two future professors of German, consists of a brief introduction and 136 blank pages.
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Wylie seldom allows her verses to grow agitated, she never permits them to remain dull.... in 'August' the sense of heat is conveyed by tropic luxuriance and contrast; in 'The Eagle and the Mole' she lifts didacticism to a proud level ... never has snow-silence been more unerringly communicated than in 'Velvet Shoes.'" Other notable poems include "Wild Peaches," "A Proud Lady," "Sanctuary," "Winter Sleep," "Madman's Song," "The Church-Bell," and "A Crowded Trolley Car." In Black Armor (1923), "the intellect has grown more fiery, the mood has grown warmer, and the craftsmanship is more dazzling than ever.... she varies the perfect modulation with rhymes that are delightfully acrid and unique departures which never fail of success ... from the nimble dexterity of a rondo like 'Peregrine' to the introspective poignance of 'Self Portrait,' from the fanciful 'Escape' to the grave mockery of 'Let No Charitable Hope.'"Louis Untermeyer, Elinor Wylie,'" Modern American Poetry, (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1930), 538-540.
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Attempting to remedy the deficiencies revealed by these Persian successes, Justinian reorganised the eastern armies by dividing the command of the magister militum of the East in two and appointing a separate magister militum of Armenia over the northern portion.. The most important Roman initiative on the southern front in 528 was Belisarius's expeditions to Thannuris, where he tried to protect Roman workers, undertaking the construction of a fort right on the frontier. His forces were defeated by Xerxes during the battle of Thannuris and he had to retreat to Dara.Conor Whately, Battles and Generals: Combat, Culture, and Didacticism in Procopius, 2006, Netherlands, p.238 Damaging raids on Syria by the Lakhmids in 529 also encouraged Justinian to strengthen his own Arab allies, helping the Ghassanid leader Al-Harith ibn Jabalah turn a loose coalition into a coherent kingdom which was able to gain the upper hand against the Lakhmids over the following decades.
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Christina Alberta's Father (1925) is a novel by H. G. Wells set in London and environs in 1920–1922 with two protagonists: Albert Edward Preemby and his daughter, Christina Alberta. Starting off as a seemingly light-hearted novel of social realism, highlighting the class system of contemporary society, much like he did in Kipps, Wells soon lambasts the then-current state of mental health legislation and of asylums, before ending the novel with the characters discussing feminism and the conflict between individual independence and being a willing part of a greater society. With the title character of the father dying of pneumonia after rescue from a mental hospital, and his daughter Christina Albert refusing to marry her love interest Bobby Roothers (after candidly admitting to him that she is no longer a virgin), the expected happy ending does not occur. Perhaps due to its descent into open didacticism, the novel was not one of Wells' most successful or popular.
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The shift to a modern genre of children's literature occurred in the mid-19th century; didacticism of a previous age began to make way for more humorous, child-oriented books, more attuned to the child's imagination. The availability of children's literature greatly increased as well, as paper and printing became widely available and affordable, the population grew and literacy rates improved. Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes appeared in 1857, and is considered to be the founding book in the school story tradition. However, it was Lewis Carroll's fantasy, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865 in England, that signaled the change in writing style for children to an imaginative and empathetic one. Regarded as the first "English masterpiece written for children" and as a founding book in the development of fantasy literature, its publication opened the "First Golden Age" of children's literature in Britain and Europe that continued until the early 1900s.
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Despite the extraordinary acclaim that Akira Kurosawa's work has received both in Japan and abroad, his films, as well as Kurosawa as an individual, have also been subject to considerable criticism, much of it harsh. It should, however, be noted that, for many of the accusations leveled against the filmmaker's work or his personality that are cited here, commentators taking the contrary view in defense of the director — including Kurosawa himself — have also been cited. The majority of these negative judgments fall into one or more of the following categories: a) accusations, by European commentators, of insufficient "Japaneseness," particularly compared to the work of the older director, Kenji Mizoguchi; b) accusations of sentimentality or didacticism; c) criticisms of the (alleged) political stances taken by Kurosawa in his films; d) objections to his films' treatment of women; e) accusations of elitism; f) accusations of pandering directly to the tastes of Western audiences; g) criticisms of his alleged lack of contact (after 1965) with contemporary realities; and h) claims of personal arrogance and mistreatment of colleagues.
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GraceLand has been well received in the Western literary world. When asked for a book recommendation for "The Today Show"'s January selection, writer Walter Mosley recommended GraceLand. Both authors were featured in a discussion on the show, which helped it gain additional renown. Publishers Weekly highlighted its two-fold ability to tell the story of Elvis, and the larger issues of poverty and globalization: “Relating how an innocent child grows into a hardened young man, the novel also gives a glimpse into a world foreign to most readers-a brutal Third World country permeated by the excesses and wonders of American popular culture…The book is most powerful when it refrains from polemic and didacticism and simply follows its protagonist on his daily journey through the violent, harsh Nigerian landscape.” An equally positive review came from Booklist, which congratulated Abani by stating: “The novel offers a vibrant picture of an alien yet somehow parallel culture, and while the plot runs off the rails from time to time, the mix of surrealistic horror and cross-cultural humor is irresistible.
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According to scholar Donna White, Le Guin was a "major voice in American letters", whose writing was the subject of many volumes of literary critique, more than two hundred scholarly articles, and a number of dissertations. Le Guin was unusual in receiving most of her recognition for her earliest works, which remained her most popular; a commentator in 2018 described a "tendency toward didacticism" in her later works, while John Clute, writing in The Guardian, stated that her later writing "suffers from the need she clearly felt to speak responsibly to her large audience about important things; an artist being responsible can be an artist wearing a crown of thorns". Not all of her works received as positive a reception; The Compass Rose was among the volumes that had a mixed reaction, while the Science Fiction Encyclopedia described The Eye of the Heron as "an over-diagrammatic political fable whose translucent simplicity approaches self-parody." Even the critically well-received The Left Hand of Darkness, in addition to critique from feminists, was described by Alexei Panshin as a "flat failure".
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In addition to its factual content, The Reenactment stands as a metaphor for the people's inability to control their own destinies under the grip of a totalitarian regime, and, through its cultural implications, is also seen as a retrospective condemnation of Socialist realism and its didacticism (see Socialist realism in Romania). To a certain degree, Pintilie's film also criticizes the indifference with which such persecution is received by the public. A recurring motif in the film is the background noise of crowds rooting for their squad during a soccer match, in what the director explains is a satirical allusion to the Greek choir's role in cheering the performers, in this case transfigured by "human dumbness". Silvana Silvestri, "Noile hărţi ale infernului" (interview with Lucian Pintilie) , in Revista 22, Nr. 753, August 2004 In 2004, Lucian Pintilie wrote that his decision to shoot the film was also motivated by his disgust in respect to the invasive practices of communist authorities, having previously been informed that one of his friends, a closeted gay actor, was denounced for breaking Romania's sodomy law, and, in order to avoid the prison sentence, was forced to have intercourse with his wife while investigators watched.
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