Apart from mere linguistic eloquence, the literature (prose, poetry, fiction and even tabloid serials and story lines of movies) reflects the persona and more importantly, the 'psyche' of a country. The dance, drama and music of the country reflect the beauty of its soul.
This is what we have always believed. But today, the world is multi-cultural. Except for 'national efforts' to preserve the original art and literature of our individual countries, we have adopted certain art forms and literary styles from other countries as our own.
So, do the literature and arts of a country continue to reflect its persona and inherent beauty the way they did in earlier times or have they lost their originality?
Yes, I believe this. I´m art terapeut and all of the arts in a country is the sprit of the person. My work is around the arts: picture, literature, music, arts, dance, theater. All is a reflect of the person. And the persons are their country...
The changes that occur socias generate other arts: visual, visual text. But do not believe the other arts die. So just because a lack of energy and a technical problem so nothing virtual function more ... That people think?
We derive our sense of identity as Indian, Russian, English or Spanish from our language and cultural traditions. But the growing trend across the world in accepting just handful of languages to express itself and also the 'thinning' down of domestic cultural practices seems to suggest that we are moving towards a possible 'one world, many cultures' concept that may perhaps help us to construct an identity as 'a citizen of the world' than that of India or Russia or Argentina or Iceland! Is this possible?
hi srinivasan
demarcation and pigeonholing them is far from justifiable , they tend to merge r, even harmonize and enhance one another, there are no ways to separate beauty of and persona, psyche and persona , these are only hackneyed expression made to make abstract intangible concepts more understandable , aside from this function, they don't seem to be licensed in the postmoderm world of relativist and antifoundationalism .
Literatura registra nossa identidade. Todas as artes nos diferenciam e marcam nossa identidade. Nós marcamos a nossa identidade. Sou ainda como Leon Tolstoi. Se queres ser universal, fale de sua aldeia. E assim, vamos nos construindo uns com os outros. Certamente, as identidades poderão se fundir, devido à comunicação entre pessoas de vários países. Penso que será um novo ciclo. E depois? Não estaremos aqui para conferir...
A multicultural world is nothing new. Robert Burns the national poet of Scotland, wrote his masterpiece Tam o' Shanter in Scots, which is heavily influenced by Old Norse (the language of the Vikings). Here you will find my work on the poem.
* a new translation of Tam o' Shanter, which you will find on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-nBVIHJIAE * a monograph on the influence of Old Norse on the poem * a short article about the translation
* a slide set of the translation All found here: https://hcommons.org/members/markperkins/
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