Introduction

More Time ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Lee Clark Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Late Style ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Jhumpa Lahiri ◽  
History Of ◽  
Contemporary Writers ◽  
Richard Ford

This introduction begins with a comprehensive analysis of the short story’s range, encapsulating a brief history of its practice and criticism from Poe onwards. As prelude to chapter analyses of four contemporary writers who have transformed the field, it offers an assessment of two exceptional stories focused on memory, by Richard Ford and Jhumpa Lahiri, before turning to Raymond Carver’s minimalism and issues raised by his stylistic alterations. The conception of “late style,” introduced by Theodor Adorno and revived by Edward Said in 2006, is then brought into question, along with the short story’s treatment as a distinct genre. A conclusion provides an overview of the book’s structure and rationale, outlining the distinctive storytelling qualities of the quartet of writers, as well as definitions of their late styles.

Grand Illusion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Richard Wagner ◽  
Giuseppe Verdi ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Tristan Und Isolde ◽  
Giacomo Meyerbeer ◽  
History Of ◽  
Grand Opera ◽  
Philosophical Understanding

Grand Illusion is a new history of grand opera as an art of illusion facilitated by the introduction of gaslight illumination at the Académie Royale de Musique (Paris) in the 1820s. It contends that gas lighting and the technologies of illusion used in the theater after the 1820s spurred the development of a new lyrical art, attentive to the conditions of darkness and radiance, and inspired by the model of phantasmagoria. Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor Adorno have used the concept of phantasmagoria to arrive at a philosophical understanding of modern life as total spectacle, in which the appearance of things supplants their reality. The book argues that the Académie became an early laboratory for this historical process of commodification, for the transformation of opera into an audio-visual spectacle delivering dream-like images. It shows that this transformation began in Paris and then defined opera after the mid-century. In the hands of Giacomo Meyerbeer (Robert le diable, L’Africaine), Richard Wagner (Der fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin, and Tristan und Isolde), and Giuseppe Verdi (Aida), opera became an expanded form of phantasmagoria.

Legal Fictions in Private Law

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liron Shmilovits
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Private Law ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law ◽  
Legal Fictions

Legal fictions are falsehoods that the law knowingly relies on. It is the most bizarre feature of our legal system; we know something is false, and we still assume it. But why do we rely on blatant falsehood? What are the implications of doing so? Should we continue to use fictions, and, if not, what is the alternative? Legal Fictions in Private Law answers these questions in an accessible and engaging manner, looking at the history of fictions, the theory of fictions, and current fictions from a practical perspective. It proposes a solution to what to do about fictions going forward, and how to decide whether they should be accepted or rejected. It addresses the latest literature and deals with the law in detail. This book is a comprehensive analysis of legal fictions in private law and a blueprint for reform.

scholarly journals O civilizador gentil das Américas: considerações em torno da obra The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas: Empire and Legal Networks, de Juan Pablo Scarfi

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cicero Krupp da Luz
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of International Law

O criativo título do livro de Juan Pablo Scarfi faz uma promessa incendiária: desvelar a história não contada da formação do direito internacional nas Américas. Após promover a curiosidade, o subtítulo indica a reflexões sobre conceitos de império e de redes jurídicas. Este último pretende promover diferenciada relevância ao redor de associações de intelectuais, políticos e juristas que, de acordo com o autor, colaboraram de maneira irrefutável para formação do direito internacional nas Américas. Já o império faz referência ao modo hegemônico de civilizador gentil dos Estados Unidos da América na incipiente construção do direito internacional, que embora índole legalista, nunca deixou de ter um caráter de dominação, como no forjar das diferenças entre orientais e ocidentais, da obra inaugural do pensamento pós-colonialista, de Edward Said: “Há ocidentais, e há orientais. Os primeiros dominam; os últimos devem ser dominados, o que geralmente significa ter suas terras ocupadas, seus assuntos internos rigidamente controlados, seu sangue e seu tesouro colocados à disposição de uma ou outra potência ocidental.”

scholarly journals El concepto de interés en España, 1770-1823 / The Concept of Interest in Spain, 1770-1823

2017 ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Luis Fernández Torres
Keyword(s):  
Political Community ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Concepts ◽  
Contemporary Writers ◽  
Semantic Transformation ◽  
Spanish Enlightenment

The extension in the use, its semantic transformation during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and its comparatively scarce interest as a subject of reflection for contemporary writers constitute three features that distinguished and provided with a peculiar history the concept of interest. Only in rare occasions this dominated the centre of discourse over that period. Notwithstanding this minor position, the concept of interest proved to be a key lexical tool in the efforts to redefine both the idea of social and political community and the nature of links that help maintain this community united.Key WordsInterest, Spanish Enlightenment, history of concepts, liberalism, common good.ResumenLa extensión en el uso, su transformación semántica entre finales del siglo XVIII y comienzos del XIX y su comparativamente escasa atracción como objeto de estudio en los autores coetáneos constituyen tres rasgos que singularizan y dotan de una historia peculiar al concepto de interés. Solo en raras ocasiones este se erigió en centro del discurso en el citado período. A pesar de esa posición secundaria, dicho concepto fue un instrumento léxico clave en los esfuerzos de reformulación tanto de la idea de comunidad social y política como de la naturaleza de los vínculos que mantienen unida de dicha comunidad.Palabras claveInterés, Ilustración española, historia de los conceptos, liberalismo, bien común.

scholarly journals O estilo tardio em Giorgio Agamben

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (46) ◽  
pp. 77-94
Author(s):  
Kelvin Falcão Klein
Keyword(s):  
Edward Said ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Nello Studio

RESUMO O objetivo deste artigo é resgatar a noção de “estilo tardio”, apresentada por Theodor Adorno em ensaio de 1937 e utilizada por Edward Said em livro de mesmo nome, publicado postumamente em 2006. Mais especificamente, o artigo investiga a produtividade hermenêutica de reler a produção mais recente do filósofo Giorgio Agamben a partir da noção de estilo tardio. A hipótese é a de que o recurso ao estilo tardio permite observar de forma privilegiada, na produção de Agamben, um peculiar e produtivo modo de abordar a historicidade dos textos e das imagens. Para aprofundar tal perspectiva, o artigo mobiliza dois grupos principais de obras do autor: em um primeiro momento, é feita a análise de um conjunto de ensaios publicados a partir de 2009; em um segundo e conclusivo momento, propõe-se a análise de dois livros recentes, Autoritratto nello studio, de 2017, e Studiolo, de 2019.

scholarly journals Four Portraits, No Retouching

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-113
Author(s):  
Pavel Fokin
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Comprehensive Examination ◽  
State Museum ◽  
History Of ◽  
Made In

Researchers are still raising questions related to the time and place of shooting of certain portraits in the scarce photographic iconography of F. M. Dostoevsky. First of all, this pertains to a set of early photographs, whose dating ranges between 1857 and 1863, according to various sources. The article offers new arguments in favor of attributing several portraits of F. M. Dostoevsky to 1859. This refers to photographs that captured an image of F. M. Dostoevsky that is unusual for most of his admirers, namely, without a beard. Two of them were taken in Semipalatinsk by the photographer S. A. Leibin, while in one of them F. M. Dostoevsky was captured together with the Kazakh educator Ch. Ch. Valikhanov, whom he befriended during the years of his exile. Another photo has not been precisely attributed. A comprehensive analysis of the details depicted on them, the facts of the biography of Ch. Ch. Valikhanov and the letters of F. M. Dostoevsky allows to date the Semipalatisk photographs with greater accuracy. The article proposes that another one of the portraits taken in Tver was carried out simultaneously with the shooting of the portrait of M. M. Dostoevsky. A comprehensive examination of various details and circumstances also leads to the same conclusions. To date, only a few copies of photographs with Ch. Ch. Valikhanov and a photograph allegedly taken in Tver are known. The original solitary portrait made in Semipalatinsk has been lost. The conducted research allows to assert that other copies of these photographs may exist. The proposed conclusions are made on the basis of a study of the originals of photographs in the collection of The V. I. Dahl State Museum of the History of Russian Literature.

Theodor Adorno, Paul Lazarsfeld, and the Public Interest Mandate of Early Communications Research, 1935–1941

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Shepperd
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Educational Broadcasting ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Noncommercial Media

Abstract Through detailed archival analysis of personal letters, this article examines how the “public interest” mandate of the Communications Act of 1934 inspired the formation of the Princeton Radio Research Project (PRRP), and influenced Paul Lazarsfeld’s development of two-step flows and media effects research. Buried in federal records, a post-Act Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Pursuant that mandated analysis of educational broadcasting additionally turns out to be the causative reason that Theodor Adorno was brought to America by the Rockefeller Foundation. Crucial to the intellectual history of media and communication theory, Lazarsfeld invited Adorno not only to develop techniques to inform educational music study, but to strategically formulate advocacy language for the media reform movement to help noncommercial media obtain frequency licenses. The limits and pressures exerted by the FCC Pursuant influenced the trajectory of the PRRP research, and consequently, the methodological investments of Communication Studies.

A Comprehensive Analysis of Minority Interest Discounts in Estate and Gift Taxation

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-134
Author(s):  
Gregg S. Woodruff ◽  
Craig J. Langstraat ◽  
John M. Malloy
Keyword(s):  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Internal Revenue Service ◽  
Tax Base ◽  
Internal Revenue ◽  
Legal Duty ◽  
History Of ◽  
Minority Interests ◽  
Gift Tax ◽  
Minority Interest Discount

One of the most litigated and adjusted areas in taxation has been the determination of the minority interest discount in estate and gift taxation. Valuation disputes arise because the valuation processes for estate and gift taxation are “inherently imprecise,” and the goals of the taxpayer and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are diametrically opposed. The IRS's vigorous defense of the estate and gift tax base and the taxpayersa' attempts to pay no more tax than is their legal duty have resulted in a history of situations where the taxpayer and the IRS turn to the courts for adjudication. This paper addresses the basis for a minority interest discount, the determination whether ownership interests are in fact minority interests, and the importance of facts and law in the determination of the minority interest discount. A comprehensive analysis of estate and gift tax cases that determined minority interest discounts is used as a basis for planning ideas to maximize these discounts.

Rushdie and the Art of Modernism

2018 ◽  
pp. 125-143
Author(s):  
Richard Begam
Keyword(s):  
James Joyce ◽  
Salman Rushdie ◽  
Accelerated Aging ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Aesthetic Autonomy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Commitments ◽  
Fredric Jameson

This chapter positions The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995)—the first full-fledged novel Salman Rushdie wrote following the 1989 fatwa—in relation to criticisms of modernism advanced not only by Ayatollah Khomeini but also by scholars such as Fredric Jameson and Edward Said. It is significant that the novel’s subject is modernism itself, represented by Aurora Zogoiby, whose work synthesizes virtually every avant-garde movement, from fauvism, surrealism, and Dadaism to cubism, expressionism, and abstractionism. In offering a history of twentieth-century art, Rushdie explores how modernism can retain its aesthetic autonomy while giving voice to its social and political commitments. The chapter concludes by examining two aspects of the novel that are usually considered postmodern: the figure of the palimpsest and Moraes’s accelerated aging. The former is associated with James Joyce and T. S. Eliot’s mythic method, while the latter—with its sense of accelerated temporality—functions as a metaphor for modernism itself.

Sheep of the synthetic lines BCP and SCP in practical breeding and experimental research

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz M. Gruszecki ◽  
Czesława Lipecka ◽  
Anna Szymanowska ◽  
Andrzej Jankuszew ◽  
Krzysztof Patkowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Research ◽  
Small Ruminant ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Environmental Determinants ◽  
Scientific Experiments ◽  
Rearing Conditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sheep Production

The study presented the history of the synthetic sheep lines BCP and SCP and the method by which they were created by the employees of the Department of Small Ruminant Breeding and Agricultural Advisory, University of Life Sciences in Lublin. The article additionally describes the role of these animals in sheep production and experimental research. Comprehensive analysis of the effects of breeding work in these populations, together with the results of scientific research using them as subjects, indicates that sheep of the synthetic universal prolific meat lines BCP and SCP are fully suitable for production of meat lambs in both intensive and extensive rearing conditions. Animals of both lines underwent experiments related to the genetic, physiological and environmental determinants of the level of reproductive and meat performance, which showed that these populations are well-suited for scientific experiments. According to the authors, in further selection work on the synthetic BCP and SCP lines greater focus should be placed on the percentage of reared lambs and the conformation of the dorsal part of the torso. They also indicated the need for monitoring of genetic variation due to the risk of increased inbreeding.

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