Writing Bestsellers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Wilkins ◽  
Lisa Bennett

While the term 'bestseller' explicitly relates books to sales, commercially successful books are also products of individual creative work. This Element presents a new perspective on the relationship between art and the market, with particular reference to bestselling writers and books. We examine some existing perspectives on art's relationship to the marketplace to trouble persistent binaries that see the two in opposition; we break down the monolith of the marketplace by thinking of it as made up of a range of invested, non-hostile participants such as publishing personnel and readers; we articulate the material dimensions of creative writing in the industry through the words of bestselling writers themselves; and we examine how the existence of bestselling books and writers in the world of letters bears enormous influence on the industry, and on the practice of other writers.

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Márcio Silveira Nascimento ◽  
Jaqueline Do Espírito Santo Soares Dos Santos

Resumo Este artigo objetiva a análise do espaço amazônico por meio das representações geográficas contidas na obra Amazônia: Natureza, Homem e Tempo, a qual apresenta a história da região em dois tempos: o primeiro num período de expedições em nossos rios, descrito nas obras de cronistas europeus nos séculos XVI e XVII. E num segundo tempo onde ressalta a economia regional baseada nos produtos da floresta. Elucida-se como se deu a descoberta do principal vetor de riqueza daquela época, a borracha, seu uso pelos indígenas e sua consagração na economia mundial. No entanto, a borracha teve seu declínio e levou consigo toda a riqueza, deixando apenas a paisagem bucólica. Também, destacamos a ocupação populacional, mostrando personagens fundamentais na formação social amazônica. Descreve-se ainda um terceiro tempo amazônico que mostra uma nova perspectiva para a região, enaltecendo a relação homem e natureza pautada no viés ecológico que ganhou força com os movimentos sociais e ambientalistas, uma nova visão acerca do espaço da floresta, divergindo das ambições ou da lógica da economia mundial.Palavras-chave: espaço amazônico, representações geográficas, formação social, borracha. AbstractThis article aims to analyze the Amazon region through geographic representations contained in the Amazon work: Nature, Man and Time, which presents the history of the area in two stages: the first a period of expeditions in our rivers, described in the works of chroniclers Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. And a second time it emphasizes the regional economy based on forest products. it elucidates how was the discovery of the main vector of wealth that time, rubber, its use by indigenous people and their consecration in the world economy. However, the rubber had its decline and took all the wealth, leaving only the bucolic landscape. Also, we highlight the population occupation, showing key characters in the Amazon social formation. also describes a third Amazonian time showing a new perspective for the region, highlighting the relationship between man and nature guided the ecological bias that gained momentum with social movements and environmentalists, a new vision of the forest space, diverging ambitions or the logic of the world economy.Keywords: amazon region, geographic representations, social formation, rubber. ResumenEste artículo objetiva el análisis del espacio amazónico por medio de representaciones geográficas contenidas en la obra de Amazonia: La  Naturaleza, El Hombre y El Tiempo, a cual presenta la historia de la región en dos etapas: la primera en un período de expediciones en nuestros ríos, que se describen en las obras de cronistas europeos en los siglos XVI y XVII. Y la segunda etapa donde rebota la economía regional basada en los productos forestales. Aclara como se dio la descubierta del principal vector de la riqueza en aquella época, el caucho, y su uso por los indígenas y su consagración en la economía mundial. Sin embargo, el caucho tuvo su declive y se llevó toda la riqueza, dejando sólo el paisaje bucólico. También, destacamos la población ocupacional, que muestra personajes clave en la formación social del Amazonas. Aún se describe una tercera etapa amazónica que muestra una nueva perspectiva para la región, destacando la relación entre el hombre y la naturaleza enumerada en el oblicuo ecológico que ganó fuerza con los movimientos sociales y ambientalistas, una nueva visión acerca del espacio forestal, divergiendo de las ambiciones o de la lógica de la economía mundial.Palabras clave: región amazónica, representaciones geográficas, la formación social, caucho.


Metabolites ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mar Quesada-Molina ◽  
Araceli Muñoz-Garach ◽  
Francisco J. Tinahones ◽  
Isabel Moreno-Indias

Beer is the most widely consumed fermented beverage in the world. A moderate consumption of beer has been related to important healthy outcomes, although the mechanisms have not been fully understood. Beer contains only a few raw ingredients but transformations that occur during the brewing process turn beer into a beverage that is enriched in micronutrients. Beer also contains an important number of phenolic compounds and it could be considered to be a source of dietary polyphenols. On the other hand, gut microbiota is now attracting special attention due to its metabolic effects and as because polyphenols are known to interact with gut microbiota. Among others, ferulic acid, xanthohumol, catechins, epicatechins, proanthocyanidins, quercetin, and rutin are some of the beer polyphenols that have been related to microbiota. However, scarce literature exists about the effects of moderate beer consumption on gut microbiota. In this review, we focus on the relationship between beer polyphenols and gut microbiota, with special emphasis on the health outcomes.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juncen Guo ◽  
Kai Sheng ◽  
Sixian Wu ◽  
Hanxiao Chen ◽  
Wenming Xu

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19, up to now, infection cases have been continuously rising to over 200 million around the world. Male bias in morbidity and mortality has emerged in the COVID-19 pandemic. The infection of SARS-CoV-2 has been reported to cause the impairment of multiple organs that highly express the viral receptor angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), including lung, kidney, and testis. Adverse effects on the male reproductive system, such as infertility and sexual dysfunction, have been associated with COVID-19. This causes a rising concern among couples intending to have a conception or who need assisted reproduction. To date, a body of studies explored the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on male reproduction from different aspects. This review aims to provide a panoramic view to understand the effect of the virus on male reproduction and a new perspective of further research for reproductive clinicians and scientists.


2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 326-352
Author(s):  
Marina Zavarkina

The article analyzes A. Platonov's novel Bread and Reading, which is the first part of an unfinished trilogy called Technical Novel. Different approaches to the analysis of the writer's anti-utopian strategy are considered, and certain terms related to the intra-genre typology of his works, which are still the subject of controversy in Platonov studies, i.e., utopia, anti-utopia, metautopia, dystopia, and cacotopia are clarified. The article offers a new perspective on this problem and concludes that the short novel is characterized by a complex conflict between utopia and anti-utopia, namely, utopian consciousness is embodied in the form of anti-utopia, which leads to the ambivalence in meaning and the appearance of internal antinomies. This mainly revealed in the title of the story, the epigraph, a special type of plot situation and the character system structure. Platonov's work is characterized not only by the problem of the relationship between man and nature, but also that of between man and technology, which becomes a part of the anthropological worldview and acquires human features. Platonov's characters dream of a time when technology, nature and man are in a harmonious relationship, helping each other overcome universal entropy. The motif of construction sacrifice, traditional in the poetics of Platonov's works, plays an important role in the story: it is premature and shameful to think about personal happiness in the world of socialism that has not yet been built, without enough “bread and reading.” The work reflects Platonov's own hopes and doubts, and if the “principle of hope” (E. Bloch) is the main principle of utopian consciousness, then the writer's doubt becomes the main feature of his anti-utopia strategy. On the one hand, this makes it difficult to identify the genre of the short novel Bread and Reading (utopia or anti-utopia), on the other, it does not lead to an “imbalance” of forces, but, rather, to a meek awareness of the place of man in the world and his limited capabilities. An important role is also played by the fact that The Juvenile Sea was supposed to become the second part of the trilogy, and Dzhan may have made up the third part: the three works not only complement, but also “explain” each other. In the finale of Bread and Reading, the characters remain focused on the “distant,” as they stay in the same utopian dream space. Likely never having found a way out of the “impasse of utopia,” Platonov leaves Technical Novel unfinished.


2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Caracciolo

Internally focalized passages in narrative often employ metaphors to capture the experiential states of the focalizing character. My investigation of these metaphors – ‘phenomenological metaphors’, as I call them – has two important precedents in the fields of narratology and literary stylistics: Dorrit Cohn’s (1978) treatment of ‘psycho-analogies’ and Semino and Swindlehurst’s (1996) approach to metaphor and ‘mind style’. After positioning phenomenological metaphors vis-à-vis these related concepts, I put forward the central claim of this article: metaphorical language plays a role in readers’ engagement with focalizing characters because it can sustain readers’ illusion of experiencing a storyworld through the consciousness of a fictional being. But what is it about metaphorical language that makes it especially suited to bring about this effect on readers? In order to answer this question, I use Ian McEwan’s novel Saturday (2005) as a case study, presenting two different lines of argument. First, I contend that metaphors reflect, at a linguistic level, the seamless integration of perception, emotion and language that characterizes our everyday transactions with the world. Second, I look at the relationship between understanding metaphorical language and readers’ empathy for characters, arguing that the continuity between these psychological processes is grounded in their perspectival nature: just as metaphors invite recipients to adopt a new perspective on a conceptual domain, engaging with a focalizing character encourages readers to ‘try on’ his or her experiential perspective and worldview. Taken together, these hypotheses provide an explanation for the effectiveness of phenomenological metaphors at conveying to readers the qualitative ‘feel’ of characters’ experiences.


2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
E. A. Frolova

The article considers the poem by S. A. Yesenin «You have been used by someone else ...», which was included in the «Hooligans’s Love» cycle. In an attempt to determine the place of autumn motives in the poet’s love lyrics, the author of the article seeks to characterize the place of this poem in the poet’s work in the early 20th century. The author carries out a linguostylistic analysis of the text using the methods of comparative and associative analysis. The article shows the transformation of love lyrics in Yesenin’s work, the relationship of the poem with the «Tavern Moscow» cycle and his subsequent works. The author focuses on the linguistic means of realizing the inner self of the lyrical hero and his connection with the image of his beloved and the world around him. The article draws a conclusion about the significance of the poem «You have been used by someone else ...» in Yesenin’s creative work; it is shown that the poet perceives the autumn of life as a turning point associated with gaining clarity in understanding of the world, the advent of calm, but sad wisdom.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-120
Author(s):  
Donnalyn Xu

In response to the shifts of communication following the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, this research investigates the disorienting experience of navigating loneliness and intimacy in the digital space. Creative writing is a relatively unexplored but recently emerging field of academic inquiry (Skains 2018, 84). Poetry in particular involves research into the language and textures of the world—it is a critical way of thinking that incorporates not just the signified meaning of words, but also the phonaesthetics, placement, space, and textual structure. This practice-based creative work is presented in the form of a 9-part autoethnographic prose poem that echoes the fragmented and asynchronous nature of digital communication (Bonner 2016, 11). Through stream-of-consciousness vignettes that could be read in any order, I emulate the experience of scrolling through a feed. I explore ideas of limitlessness in the face of apocalyptic endings, where our desire for more is troubled by having too much. This experimental and experiential paper is ultimately an interrogation of the tension between affective relations and isolation, where mediated bodies are troubled by longing, loneliness, and looking.


2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Tekieli ◽  
Marion Festing ◽  
Xavier Baeten

Abstract. Based on responses from 158 reward managers located at the headquarters or subsidiaries of multinational enterprises, the present study examines the relationship between the centralization of reward management decision making and its perceived effectiveness in multinational enterprises. Our results show that headquarters managers perceive a centralized approach as being more effective, while for subsidiary managers this relationship is moderated by the manager’s role identity. Referring to social identity theory, the present study enriches the standardization versus localization debate through a new perspective focusing on psychological processes, thereby indicating the importance of in-group favoritism in headquarters and the influence of subsidiary managers’ role identities on reward management decision making.


2006 ◽  
pp. 133-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Arystanbekov

Kazakhstan’s economic policy results in 1995-2005 are considered in the article. In particular, the analysis of the relationship between economic growth and some indicators of nation states - population, territory, direct access to the World Ocean, and extraction of crude petroleum - is presented. Basic problems in the sphere of economic policy in Kazakhstan are formulated.


Author(s):  
Emma Simone

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world: A Heideggerian Study explores Woolf’s treatment of the relationship between self and world from a phenomenological-existential perspective. This study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolf’s novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual’s connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, the perspectives of Woolf and Heidegger are founded upon certain shared concerns, including the sustained critique of Cartesian dualism, particularly the resultant binary oppositions of subject and object, and self and Other; the understanding that the individual is a temporal being; an emphasis upon intersubjective relations insofar as Being-in-the-world is defined by Being-with-Others; and a consistent emphasis upon average everydayness as both determinative and representative of the individual’s relationship to and with the world.


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