I Felt It Was Me on Trial

2021 ◽  
pp. 103-124
Author(s):  
Yuan-tsung Chen

Yuan-tsung reunited with two friends from her Chongqing days, Yu Dayin and her husband, Zeng Zhaolun, who took her to a meeting of the Political Consultative Conference, where she witnessed Mao’s withering attack on Liang Shumin, a Confucian scholar, who criticized Mao’s agricultural policy. This was followed by Mao’s purge of Hu Feng, a maverick literary critic, who had criticized Mao’s dictates on culture and had written a manifesto challenging them. The two incidents led Yuan-tsung to come to some painful political realizations—among them that writing under Mao’s reign was a life-and-death matter.

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 123-136
Author(s):  
Lyubov V. Ulyanova

The article analyzes the political discourse of the officials of the main political surveillance structure, – the Police Department, – in the period of 1880s (organization of the Department) and until October, 1905, when the Western-type Constitution project finally prevailed. The comparative analysis of the conceptual instruments (“Constitutionalists”, “Oppositionists”, “Radicals”, “Liberals”) typically used in the Police Department allows one to come o the conclusion that the leaders of the Russian empire political police did not follow the “reactionary and protective” discourse, did not share its postulates, but preferred the moderate-liberal-conservative path of political development. Along with that, the Police Department also demonstrated loyal attitude to zemsky administration and zemsky figures, covert criticism of “bureaucratic mediastinum”, the tendency to come to an agreement with public figures through personal negotiations, intentional omittance of reactionary and protective repressive measures in preserving autocracy. All this allows to come to the conclusion that the officials of the Police Department shares Slavophil public and political doctrine.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1097184X2110085
Author(s):  
Sofia Aboim ◽  
Pedro Vasconcelos

Confronted with the centrality of the body for trans-masculine individuals interviewed in the United Kingdom and Portugal, we explore how bodily-reflexive practices are central for doing masculinity. Following Connell’s early insight that bodies needed to come back to the political and sociological agendas, we propose that bodily-reflexive practice is a concept suited to account for the production of trans-masculinities. Although multiple, the journeys of trans-masculine individuals demonstrate how bodily experiences shape and redefine masculinities in ways that illuminate the nexus between bodies, embodiments, and discursive enactments of masculinity. Rather than oppositions between bodily conformity to and transgression of the norms of hegemonic masculinity, often encountered in idealizations of the medicalized transsexual against the genderqueer rebel, lived bodily experiences shape masculinities beyond linear oppositions. Tensions between natural and technological, material and discursive, or feminine and masculine were keys for understanding trans-masculine narratives about the body, embodiment, and identity.


Management ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 473-487
Author(s):  
Andrzej Czyżewski ◽  
Sebastian Stępień

Summary The objective of the paper is to present the results of negotiations on the EU budget for 2014-2020, with particular emphasis on the Common Agricultural Policy. Authors indicate the steps for establishing the budget, from the proposal of the European Commission presented in 2011, ending with the draft of UE budget agreed at the meeting of the European Council on February 2013 and the meeting of the AGRIFISH on March 2013 and then approved by the political agreement of the European Commission, European Parliament and European Council on June 2013. In this context, there will be an assessment of the new budget from the point of view of Polish economy and agriculture.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Lesley A. Wright

Respected as one of four ‘feuilles de qualité’ in nineteenth-century France, the Journal des débats politiques et littéraires published articles by some of the most talented writers/critics of its time. In ‘feuilletons’, large articles that ran across the bottom of the first and second pages, these authors gave perceptive critiques in high-quality prose and provided their readers with relief from the political news discussed on the page above. In January 1858 literary critic Hippolyte Rigault asserted that modern criticism communicated not just through forthright judgements but also through innuendo and nuance. A sophisticated readership could then be expected to take up the task of understanding the allusions and filling in the blanks. Like Rigault, Hector Berlioz (music critic of the Débats from 1835 to 1863) and Ernest Reyer (from 1866 to 1898) used both text and subtext to convey their assessments. This study, with the goal of examining how shades of approval and disapproval could be alluded to or directly revealed, traces how they wrote about their younger contemporary Georges Bizet in the years following Rigault's article.


2019 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 123-135
Author(s):  
Anna Horniatko-Szumiłowicz

On the scales of fate. Motifs and imagery of death in Vasil Tkachuk’s novellasAlthough Vasil Tkachuk’s 1916–1944 novellas are considered to be somewhat optimistic in comparison to the works of his great predecessor Vasil Stefanyk, they are also abundant with imagery and motifs of death. In Tkachuk’s writings, death is ever-present in its various forms, be it a natural death, a sudden death caused by natural disaster, or murder. Death afflicts everyone. It strikes down the innocent and young, the mature and elderly. Tkachuk’s characters balance on edge between life and death, sensing that death is approaching, fearing it, provoking, waiting for it to come, and finally, grieving their beloved ones. Tkachuk’s literary preoccupation with death seems to be even more interesting because he died prematurely, at the age of 28. He was a self-made talent, an essential voice in the Ukrainian literature of the 1930s, a writer whose works duly deserve more attention from literary scholars. Na szalach losu. Motywy i obrazy śmierci w nowelistyce Wasyla TkaczukaChociaż nowele Wasyla Tkaczuka 1916–1944 w porównaniu z utworami jego wielkiego poprzednika — Wasyla Stefanyka — postrzegane są jako bardziej optymistyczne, również one w znacznej mierze przesycone są motywami i obrazami śmierci. W tekstach Tkaczuka śmierć jest nieustannie obecna, w jej rozmaitych odmianach — pojawia się śmierć naturalna, nagła śmierć z powodu klęski żywiołowej, gwałtowna śmierć na skutek zabójstwa itp. Śmierć dopada bohaterów w różnym wieku: dziecięcym, młodzieńczym, dorosłym, podeszłym. Bohaterowie utworów Tkaczuka balansują na granicy życia i śmierci, przeczuwając jej nadejście, obawiając się jej, prowokując ją, oczekując jej wizyty, wreszcie — opłakując bliskich im zmarłych. Zgłębienie tematu śmierci w tekstach Tkaczuka jest tym bardziej interesujące, iż ów przedwcześnie zmarły w wieku 28 lat pisarz to samorodny, nowo odkryty talent ukraińskiej literatury lat trzydziestych XX wieku, który w pełni zasługuje na należytą uwagę badaczy.


2020 ◽  
pp. 9-23
Author(s):  
Alexey V. Fedorov

The article proposes to consider the creative individuality of A.A. Fet as a poet-thinker. It places a special emphasis on his ideological views, expressed in his enthusiasm for the teachings of A. Schopenhauer’s and in disputes with L.N. Tolstoy; extensive epistolary material is involved (this correspondence with Ya.P. Polonsky, L.N. and S.A. Tolstoy, N.N. Strakhov, K.R. and others); a brief overview of the critical reviews of contemporaries on the poet’s poetry collections is given. Here, Fet’s philosophical lyrics are analyzed in particular detail (first of all – the late, period of “Evening Lights”, in which there is an understanding of the universal categories of being – life and death, good and evil, the world and man, time and eternity), some parallels are drawn with F.I. Tyutchev. The article traces the development of spiritual and religious issues in the work of Fet’s (gospel stories and motives, the image of the Lord, the genre of prayer, etc.). The article raises the question of expanding the concept of “poet-thinker” taking into account the category “mind of the heart” designated by Fet himself. From these positions, his poem “I am waiting, embraced by anxiety...” from the “Evening Lights” collection is analyzed. Considering Fet’s work as “the poetry of thought” does not cancel, but enriches his airy image in our minds, allows us to present Fet’s personality in more volume, to clarify and expand the idea of the real complexity and versatility of his artistic nature, to come closer to understanding “lyrical insolence” as “the property of great poets” (words of L.N. Tolstoy about A.A. Fet).


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