tar·tuffe, contemporary, Super Contemporary, apotheosis

'The Enchanted Wanderer and Other Stories'

By NIKOLAI LESKOV. Translated by RICHARD PEVEAR and LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY.
Reviewed by CLAIRE MESSUD

A collection of short stories by the Russian writer Nikolai Leskov, a contemporary of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy.

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Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (Russian: Никола́й Семёнович Леско́в; 16 February [O.S. 4 February] 1831 — 5 March [O.S. 21 February] 1895) was a Russian ...
本演講會，將論述英國1960-2000年代的設計概念與表現之變遷，以及倫敦當代設計家在「超當代」(Super Contemporary)中所展現的設計特色與價值。

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Athalie/ Tar·tuffe/Cinna

1981年遠景的諾貝爾文學獎 紀德卷為窄門 (揚澤) 偽幣製造者(孟祥森)
後者有三人名 孟祥森只查得一人
現在網路發達 可以補充之

French Literature Companion: Athalie

French Literature Companion
Racine's last tragedy (1691), composed like Esther for performance at Saint-Cyr. It is a five-act play, magnificently written, with choruses between the acts. Based on accounts in the books of Kings and Chronicles, it tells of the overthrow of the usurper Athaliah by forces loyal to the house of David and the boy king Joas (a rare stage appearance by a child in 17th-c. theatre). The rising is managed by the inflexible high priest Joad, but the influence of Jehovah is felt throughout the play. It can be read either as the tragedy of the queen, the latest stage in the unending feud of two warring camps, or as a triumphal hymn to the true God, whose purposes are fulfilled by the crowning of Joas, the precursor of Christ. The play has also been interpreted as referring to contemporary events, in particular the English Revolution of 1688. It was greatly admired in the 18th and 19th c., even by those who, like Voltaire, did not approve of its religious message.


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tar·tuffe tar·tufe (tär-tʊf', -tūf')
also
n.
A hypocrite, especially one who affects religious piety.

[After the protagonist of Tartuffe, a play by Molière.]

tartuffery tar·tuf'fe·ry n.
(tahr-TOOF)

noun
A hypocrite who feigns virtue, especially in religious matters.

Etymology
After the main character in Tartuffe, a play by Molière, pen name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-1673). As if to prove themselves, the religious authorities in Paris had the play banned soon after it was introduced
Usage
"Tony Blair is like Harold Wilson, an empty vessel whose strength derives from his emptiness. (Religion is so often a substitute for depth.) Because he is a Tartuffe who does not really believe in anything, he is brilliant at seizing advantage; when he can't manipulate events, he surfs over them." — A.N. Wilson; Further Trials of Teflon Tony; The Evening Standard (London, UK); May 19, 2003.

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French Literature Companion: Cinna

Tragedy by Pierre Corneille, first performed 1641. Inspired by his love for Émilie, whose father has been killed by the Roman emperor Augustus (Auguste), Cinna leads a plot against Auguste's life, and persists in it even when he and his fellow conspirator Maxime have been consulted by the blood-weary emperor, who wants to abdicate. The conspiracy is betrayed by Maxime, who is vainly in love with Émilie. Helped by the advice of his wife, Livie, Auguste conquers the impulse to have the conspirators executed. His clemency wins the hearts of Cinna, Maxime, and even the irreducible Émilie, and the play ends on a note of moral and political apotheosis.



 魯本斯(Rubens)的絕世畫作《尊奉詹姆斯一世》( Apotheosis of James I)。

apotheosis[a・poth・e・o・sis]

• 発音記号[əpɑ`θióusis | əpɔ`θ-]

[名]（複-ses 〔-siz〕）[U][C]((形式))

1 神格化；神聖視, 理想化, 崇拝；（神聖視された）理想像.

2 典型, 極致；絶頂期((of ...)).

contemporary

Pronunciation: /kənˈtɛmp(ə)r(ər)i/

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Definition of contemporary

adjective

• 1living or occurring at the same time:the event was recorded by a contemporary historian
• dating from the same time:this series of paintings is contemporary with other works in an early style

• 2belonging to or occurring in the present:the tension and complexities of our contemporary society
• following modern ideas in style or design:contemporary ceramics by leading potters

noun (plural contemporaries)

• a person or thing living or existing at the same time as another:he was a contemporary of Darwin
• a person of roughly the same age as another:my contemporaries at school

Derivatives

contemporarily

adverb

contemporariness

noun

Origin:

mid 17th century: from medieval Latin contemporarius, from con- 'together with' + tempus, tempor- 'time' (on the pattern of Latin contemporaneus and late Latin contemporalis)