The spectacle of Helen in Euripides’ Helen and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dustin W Dixon ◽  
John S Garrison
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Primary Case ◽  
Doctor Faustus

Abstract This essay traces a line of thought through post-Homeric receptions of Helen, taking as its primary case studies Euripides’ Helen and Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. Both plays feature Helen as a figure for articulating the phenomenological challenges that audiences face when viewing mimetic art on the stage. This essay argues that these profoundly metatheatrical plays use scenes of characters’ seeing the distinctive beauty of Helen to compare the power of theatrical spectacle to witnessing the supernatural.

Private firms, public entities, and microeconomic incentives

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Keating ◽  
Maryann Keating
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Allocative Efficiency ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Primary Case ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Optimal Output

PurposePublic private partnerships (PPPs) centralize decision making into a hybrid type of firm, consisting of a government entity with a private firm, that is either a profit‐seeking or non‐profit entity, that initiates, constructs, maintains, or provides a service. The PPP model recognizes that both the public and the private sectors have certain comparative advantages in the performance of specific tasks. PPPs, grounded in cost/benefit analysis, have been used in Australia for decades and are presently being introduced in the USA as a form of innovate contracting. This paper aims to evaluate PPPs as a potentially transferable model for the delivery of public services. PPP firms are evaluated in terms of capital asset management, productive and allocative efficiency, transfer of risk between the public and private sectors, rights to the residual, and the public interest. A case study comparison of Fremantle Ports (Australia) and the Indiana Toll Road (USA) is employed to demonstrate PPP design and function.Design/methodology/approachA description and evaluation of public private partnerships (PPP) is presented and two original and primary case studies are reviewed.FindingsA PPP functioning as a monopoly provider of a common pool public asset approximates economic efficiency when user fees cover virtually full cost. Identifying optimal output and quality assessment is more challenging in the case of social goods in which the public goal is subsidy minimization and clients cannot assess quality. Best practices are helpful; they guarantee the PPP process, but not the outcome. All PPPs, in whatever country or industry, are vulnerable to bureaucratic expansion whenever they are given access to subsidized loans underwritten by taxpayers.Originality/valueThe two case studies in this paper are 100 percent original; they were examined in person by the authors, and the managers of the two entities were interviewed in Indiana (USA) and Fremantle, Western Australia.

Introduction

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malini Guha
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Primary Case ◽  
City Space ◽  
Cinematic City ◽  
The City

This introductory chapter examines a configuration that brings together globalization, urban space and the cinema, taking a series of contemporary films set in London and Paris as primary case studies. What these films have in common are migrant mobilities of various types, ranging from asylum seekers and clandestine migrants, to the first generation of settled migrants as well as economic migrants. The chapter focuses on mobilities that reveal the contradictions of the globalizing process while also contesting a view of city space in these films as non-places. The analysis of these films also exhibits early scholarly trends on the cinematic city and its central preoccupation with European modernity, the city, and the cinema.

Developing “Extra Distance” as a measure for the evaluation of road freight transport performance

2014 ◽  
Vol 63 (7) ◽  
pp. 822-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasco Sanchez Rodrigues ◽  
John Cowburn ◽  
Andrew Potter ◽  
Mohamed Naim ◽  
Anthony Whiteing
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Distance Measure ◽  
Distribution Networks ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Performance Measure ◽  
Primary Case ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Road Freight ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a measure that links the causes and consequences of disruptions in freight transport operations. Such a measure is needed to quantify the scale of impact and identify the root causes of disruptions. Design/methodology/approach – In order to develop this measure, an inductive approach was adopted, using four primary case studies to test the measure in an industrial environment. The case studies are from the fast moving consumer goods sector with primary and secondary distribution networks included. The “Extra Distance” measure has been evaluated against established generic criteria that define the quality of any performance measure. Findings – The research indicates good compliance with the criteria used to evaluate the “Extra Distance” measure. The measure is also found to be useful for practitioners who are able to directly relate the measure to their distribution network operations. Research limitations/implications – Further research should see the “Extra Distance” measure further tested in other freight transport operations and industrial sectors. Practical implications – The measure is directly related to a number of causes of uncertainty which helps freight transport managers to quickly identify potential solutions. The “Extra Distance” measure can be used to quantify the effects of disruptions which can occur in road freight transport networks generate unnecessary cost within distribution networks, potentially eroding profit margins which are known to be very low in the road freight transport industry. Originality/value – This paper presents a novel approach to the assessment of the impact caused by uncertainty within freight transport operations.

Self-Narratives and Nonhuman Selves

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Herman
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Short Story ◽  
The Other ◽  
Primary Case ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Species Ecology

This chapter, like the other chapters in Part I of the book, uses the concept of “self-narrative” to explore a variety of texts featuring nonhuman animals and human-animal relationships. Self-narratives have been defined by social psychologists as the stories people tell in order to make sense of and justify their own actions—with this storytelling process at once reflecting and helping establish relational ties with others. Using two primary case studies—Lauren Groff’s 2011 short story “Above and Below” and Jesse Reklaw’s 2006 graphic memoir Thirteen Cats of My Childhood—chapter 1 explores how different storytelling media as well as different methods of narration bear on the project of using self-narratives to situate human selves within a larger, trans-species ecology of selves.

scholarly journals TRUST AND MANAGEMENT CONTROL SYSTEM: A STUDY ON META-SINTHETIC INTERACTIONS

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-178
Author(s):  
Patricia Villa Costa Vaz ◽  
Márcia Maria dos Santos Bortolocci Espejo
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Control Systems ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Management Control Systems ◽  
Primary Case ◽  
Management Control System ◽  
Trust In Management ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Organizational Objectives

ABSTRACT Management accounting has been associated to the institutionalization of trust inside organizations. Trust allows the implementation of systems which grant freedom to choose without trying to process more information about the world than it ought to be done. (TOMKINS, 2001). Regarding such aspects, this paper questions: how have previous studies been relating trust and Management Control Systems (MCS) towards reaching organizational objectives? To achieve this, we object to examine the role of trust in Management Control System, and its relation with organizational objectives, according to Hoon’s (2014) methodology, which allow the construction of a theory based on primary case studies. On developing the methodology four causal networks have been examined on selected studies: institutions, Management Control Systems, trust and organizational objectives. The institutions represent the effective background of the case studies, specially as a series of habits, rules, routines and procedures; the approaches regarding management control systems include budget and performance evaluation; in relation to trust, previous studies have primarily discussed it through contract, communication and competence approaches; and, as to organizational objectives, changes on current systems, focus on performance and business risk reduction are tackled. Feedback, however, was dealt with after achieving objectives, when management incorporates trust on personnel relationships – the primary step towards goals and objectives.

The framing of value

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 633-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lahey
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Primary Case ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
Television Industry ◽  
Late Night ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship

This article investigates the relationship between the television industry and participatory audiences through a rhetoric of empowerment that frames audience engagement in particular ways. I focus on how contests based on the creation of user-generated content are utilized in the industry–audience relationship; here my primary case studies are the use of user-generated video contests for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and The Office. I explore how these shows try to produce and harness the activity of participatory audiences. Further, I argue that an emphasis on understanding the regimes of value for participants is key to understanding these experiments in digital audience retention.

Black pussy power: Performing acts of black eroticism in Pam Grier’s Blaxploitation films

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shoniqua Roach
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Primary Case ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Feminine Sexuality ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Black Queer

This article contends that black feminist conceptions of ‘pussy power’ have prematurely foreclosed an examination of both pussy and its powers, thereby missing the erotic potential inherent in a ‘pussy power’ that is distinctly black – what I term black pussy power. Taking Pam Grier’s Blaxploitation performances in Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974) as my primary case studies, I use black pussy power as a conceptual framework through which to read Grier’s performances of black eroticism, which enable her to resist racialised gendered sexual subjection and tap into modes of erotic agency otherwise denied to her. Moving away from delimited understandings of pussy as female genitalia or an objectified entity of female sexuality, I mobilise black queer feminist theorisations of the ‘arbitrary relation between black sex and gender’ to theorise the polymorphous potential of black pussy to signify beyond the narrow gender and sexual grammars currently available to us. 1 At the same time, black pussy’s discursive connection to black feminine sexuality animates the insurgent potential of black pussy power to secure nominal black freedoms in the face of state-sanctioned infringements on black erotic life.

Tracing Ibn Ṭūlūn’s Autograph Corpus, with Emphasis on the 19th–20th Centuries

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 308-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torsten Wollina
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Primary Case ◽  
Current State ◽  
Manuscript Tradition ◽  
One Step ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractMuḥammad Ibn Ṭūlūn is today fairly well known as a historian of Damascus. Yet, his numerous writings cover many more areas of contemporaneous knowledge production and some of those might have been more impactful for his reputation as a scholar. One area that has so far not received much attention is the scrutiny Ibn Ṭūlūn put into the organisation of knowledge within his library, his corpus, and even individual manuscripts. This article attempts one step at closing this lacuna by addressing the contents statements with which Ibn Ṭūlūn prefaced all his autograph manuscripts. It also proposes a methodology for utilising them as sources for manuscript history. Based on four primary case studies, the chapter uses a triad of extraction, recompilation, and reconstruction of manuscripts to assess the current state of multiple-text manuscripts vis-a-vis their original compilations. All four manuscripts ended up in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin by the 1930s. The chapter makes use of a wide array of sources within and without these manuscripts to elucidate their historical trajectories from Ibn Ṭūlūn’s endowed library until their acquisition by Chester Beatty. Specific attention will be paid to their peregrinations in the 19th and early-20th centuries. In particular, early 20th-century photographic reproductions of those manuscripts can shed light on the most recent recompilations and reconstructions of these manuscripts. No survey on the emergence of contents statements in the Arabic manuscript tradition has yet been made. A focus on one author’s autograph corpus thus seems a more promising approach which generates verifiable results. Thus, it appears that Ibn Ṭūlūn’s contents statements were already standardised and would even be expanded by at least one (near-)contemporary.

scholarly journals Embossment and its significance approach to practicing Contemporary Artporary Art

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tikendra Kumar Sahu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Primary Case ◽  
Artistic Process

Embossing is the art term of any process – e.g. casting, chasing, stamping, carving or molding- designed to make a pattern or figurative composition stand out in relief. The present paper discusses the contemporary practices of embossing by different Indian artists under three broad categories: Pressing, Carving and Punching. This will discuss the artworks of the artists for exploring the motivational aspects and for examining the development of visual language. All the primary case studies of were evidently researched by having a direct observation of their practices through interviews and by examining primary and secondary textual sources moderated by their artistic process as the contemporary modernist approaches.

scholarly journals Recompensas e sistemas de controle gerencial: uma meta-síntese de estudos de caso primários

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-332
Author(s):  
Patricia Villa Costa Vaz ◽  
Henrique Portulhak ◽  
Márcia Maria dos Santos Bortolocci Espejo ◽  
Vicente Pacheco
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Control Systems ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Primary Case ◽  
Management Control System ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Qualitative Case Studies

The research aimed at establishing how primary case studies have related the “reward” element with management control systems in the pursuit of organizational goals. To that end, a survey based on the meta-synthesis of primary qualitative case studies was carried out, in line with the strategy proposed by Hoon (2013), in order to provide a theoretical contribution beyond what could be achieved by the original studies. Using five articles identified in the Web of Science database, the results suggest the following meta-casual network: reward and compensation policies, as part of the management control system, are influenced by both the institutional and the external environments and aim at promoting and enabling the achievement of the organization’s goals. This research contributes by proposing a theoretical model that relates the reward system with the external and institutional environments, thus allowing the achievement of goals set by the management control system.

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