The Literary Cartography of Ruins

2020 ◽  
pp. 234-256
Author(s):  
Beryl Pong
Keyword(s):  
Social Formation ◽  
Vichy France ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Literary Cartography ◽  
Post War ◽  
Rose Macaulay ◽  
As If

After air raids destroyed much of London’s landscape, there were attempts at not only material but imaginative reconstruction. Books of photographs comparing London’s landmarks before and after ruination were made; maps of ‘ruin-walks’ were created for tourists to follow; and new editions of past histories of London were reissued without incorporating present-day damage, as if to elide and erase the wartime years. The intersection between memory and ruins is of primordial concern in a post-war Bildungsroman by Rose Macaulay, whose young protagonist remains unable to assimilate into her post-war landscape. Through the chronotope of ruin, Chapter 9 explores how Macaulay combines London’s landscape with that of her character’s traumatized childhood in Vichy France. In doing so, she explores the limits of the Bildungsroman, in its emphasis on individual-social formation, as a genre for the post-war world.

scholarly journals Rearing Drones in Queen Cells of Apis mellifera Honey Bees

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-128
Author(s):  
Georgios Goras ◽  
Chrysoula Tananaki ◽  
Sofia Gounari ◽  
Elissavet Lazaridou ◽  
Dimitrios Kanelis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Apis Mellifera ◽  
Larval Development ◽  
Honey Bees ◽  
Royal Jelly ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Egg Laying ◽  
Horizontal Position ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Queen Larvae ◽  
As If

Abstract We investigated the rearing of drone larvae grafted in queen cells. From the 1200 drone larvae that were grafted during spring and autumn, 875 were accepted (72.9%) and reared as queens. Drone larvae in false queen cells received royal jelly of the same composition and of the same amounts as queen larvae. Workers capped the queen cells as if they were drones, 9-10 days after the egg laying. Out of 60 accepted false queen cells, 21 (35%) were capped. The shape of false queen cells with drone larvae is unusually long with a characteristically elongate tip which is probably due to the falling of larvae. Bees start the destruction of the cells when the larvae were 3 days old and maximised it before and after capping. Protecting false queen cells in the colony by wrapping, reversing them upside down, or placing in a horizontal position, did not help. The only adult drones that emerged from the false queen cells were those protected in an incubator and in push-in cages. Adult drones from false queen cells had smaller wings, legs, and proboscis than regular drones. The results of this study verify previous reports that the bees do not recognise the different sex of the larvae at least at the early stage of larval development. The late destruction of false queen cells, the similarity in quality and quantity of the produced royal jelly, and the bigger drone cells, allow for the use of drone larvae in cups for the production of royal jelly.

Wilhelm Furtwängler

Tempo ◽  
1955 ◽  
pp. 5-5
Author(s):  
Horst Koegler
Keyword(s):  
Classical Music ◽  
Post War ◽  
As If

Only one other death occurring in post-war Berlin has moved Germans and especially Berliners so deeply as the loss of Wilhelm Furtwängler—that of Ernst Reuter, Lord Mayor of this city during the years of suffering. It was as if a personal blow had struck not only the huge masses of regular concertgoers, but those people, too, who normally switch off their radios if a concert of classical music is announced. For both of them Furtwängler was more than just a great conductor, in him, they felt, the very essence of German music was embodied.

The Sculptor’s Dream: Living Statues in Early Cinema

2017 ◽  
pp. 29-45
Author(s):  
Vito Adriaensens ◽  
Steven Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Cinema ◽  
Popular Entertainment ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Tableaux Vivants ◽  
Traditional Arts ◽  
Tableau Vivant ◽  
As If

In its earliest years of existence, cinema seems to have been fascinated by stasis and stillness. As if emphasizing its capacity to represent movement, early cinema comprises many scenes in which moving people interact with static paintings and sculptures. Moreover, films made shortly before and after 1900 often make explicit the contrast between the new medium of film and the traditional arts by means of the motif of the statue or the painting coming to life. In so doing, early film continued a form of popular entertainment that combined the art of the theater with those of painting and sculpture, namely the tableau vivant, or living picture. Focusing on the trick films of Georges Méliès and the early erotic films by the Viennese Saturn Company, this chapter reveals the importance and continuity of nineteenth-century motifs and traditions with regard to tableaux vivants as they were presented on the legitimate stage, in magic, in vaudeville, and in burlesque.

Explaining the Decline of Orangeism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Daniel Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Causal Factor ◽  
Overall Response ◽  
Post War ◽  
The City ◽  
As If

Chapter three analyses the decline of Orangeism in the city. Taking into account the perspectives of Orange officials, the author presents these reasons to the membership and affiliates. The overall response challenges the orthodox perception that post-war slum clearance (and the physical removal of lodges and communities) was the main causal factor in the decline of the Institution, suggesting that other factors were just as (if not more) important; such as apathy, a decline in religious observation, and a lost Orange youth.

Music as a ‘Paper Bridge’ between Generations before and after the Holocaust

2020 ◽  
pp. 451-460
Author(s):  
Bella Szwarcman-Czarnota
Keyword(s):  
Ordinary People ◽  
Performing Artists ◽  
Performance Skills ◽  
Bolshevik Revolution ◽  
Jewish Music ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Post War ◽  
Paper Bridge

This chapter examines how music produced in Vilna before the war provided a bridge to the post-war Jewish generation in Poland. It analyzes the poem written by Kadya Molodowsky in 1942 about the bridge that ordinary people build with honest hands and in pureness of heart. It mentions the Jew's use of the word khurbn for the Holocaust, which is the same term used to describe the destruction of the First and Second Temples. The chapter focuses on performing artists and musicians from Vilna that aim to develop performance skills that are linked to general European music, which can be seen as an expression of post-Haskalah tendencies. It talks about Rafael Rubinstein, who became a director of the reactivated music institute in Russia and returned to Vilna after the Bolshevik revolution in order to aid the Jewish Music Institute.

William Seward and the Diplomacy of the Civil War

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen P. Randolph
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Johnson Administration ◽  
North American Continent ◽  
The North ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Post War

Best known as Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of state during the Civil War, William Henry Seward conducted full careers as a statesman, politician, and visionary of America’s future, both before and after that traumatic conflict. His greatest legacy, however, lay in his service as the secretary of state, leading the diplomatic effort to prevent European intervention in the conflict. His success in that effort marked the margin between the salvation and the destruction of the Union. Beyond his role as diplomat, Seward’s signature qualities of energy, optimism, ambition, and opportunism enabled him to assume a role in the Lincoln administration extending well beyond his diplomatic role as the secretary of state. Those same qualities secured a close working relationship with the president as Seward overcame a rocky first few weeks in office to become Lincoln’s confidant and sounding board. Seward’s career in politics stretched from the 1830s until 1869. Through that time, he maintained a vision of a United States of America built on opportunity and free labor, powered by government’s active role in internal improvement and education. He foresaw a nation fated to expand across the continent and overseas, with expansion occurring peacefully as a result of American industrial and economic strength and its model of government. During his second term as secretary of state, under the Johnson administration, Seward attempted a series of territorial acquisitions in the Caribbean, the Pacific, and on the North American continent. The state of the post-war nation and its fractious politics precluded success in most of these attempts, but Seward was successful in negotiating and securing Congressional ratification of the purchase of Alaska in 1867. In addition, Seward pursued a series of policies establishing paths followed later by US diplomats, including the open door in China and the acquisition of Hawaii and US naval bases in the Caribbean.

Hurricane Betsy and the malfunctioning of the London reinsurance market: an analysis of transatlantic reinsurance trade, 1949–1989

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Welf Werner
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Bilateral Trade ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Financial Services Sector ◽  
The Us ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Reinsurance Market

The international performance of the US reinsurance industry differed sharply from other segments of the US financial services sector in the latter half of the twentieth century. Trade imbalances and loss ratios in international reinsurance business indicate that the American reinsurance industry had pronounced difficulties in getting a foothold in international markets. The dominance of the established western European reinsurance centres, which prevailed throughout the early phases of American reinsurance, continued long into the post-war period. Moreover, bilateral trade with the world's foremost reinsurance centre, London, failed to compensate for American catastrophe losses, a task maintained by reinsurers to be the key function of their international activities. London's failure to perform adequately is described by analysing the underwriting results of the period before and after Hurricane Betsy, the major American catastrophe loss of the 1960s.

scholarly journals Przedsiębiorczość w warunkach integracji europejskiej na przykładzie firmy Leadership Management Polska

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 170-174
Author(s):  
Mateusz Bisikiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Free Market ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Eu Accession ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Foreign Companies ◽  
Leadership Management ◽  
System A ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Post War ◽  
Investment Growth

This paper aims to depict the conditions of running a business in Poland before and after EUaccession. The author presents the business situation in Poland in the post-war period andcharacterizes the changes of the 1980’s as well as their continuation before EU accession andafterwards.He draws attention to the continuing process of change as the free market economy developed,including the changes in the banking system. A separate, but equally significant issueis the growing confidence of foreign companies that has resulted in a higher index of businessactivity initiatives in Poland, as well as an investment growth that is mainly due to an improvementin Poland’s international rating. The abovementioned processes shall be presented usingthe example of the Leadership Management Polska’s experiences and development.

scholarly journals The Contemporaneity of ‘Counter-Enlightenment’. From the French Revolution to German Post-War Sociology

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 940-970
Author(s):  
Sonja Asal
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Before And After ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
German Sociology ◽  
The French Revolution

While resistance to Enlightenment thought occurring in the eighteenth century is often framed by the concept of ‘Counter-Enlightenment’, the term itself was not introduced before the twentieth century. The article first reconstructs the anti-Enlightenment polemic before and after the French Revolution to highlight that while the notion of Counter- Enlightenment is appropriate for the identification of hitherto unexplored strands of thought, in view of a broader and more differentiated approach to the intellectual history of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, it does not allow for a substantial definition. Subsequently, the article examines the history of the concept in French, English and German linguistic contexts, the German sociology of the interwar period and discussions about the legacy of the Enlightenment after World War II, to retrace how the different iterations have to be understood as a key for the self-reflection of modern societies throughout the twentieth century.

scholarly journals LAW ART

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Riberi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
Richard Strauss ◽  
Stefan Zweig ◽  
Post War ◽  
As If

Taking Sides, a 1995 play by British playwright Ronald Harwood, reconstructs the American investigations, during the post-war United States denazification, of the German conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwängler on charges of having served the Nazi regime. In Collaboration (2008) Harwood dramatizes the artistic cooperation between Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig on the opera The Silent Woman, the political circumstances and repercussions of its première in Dresden and the composer’s involvement with Hitler’s regime. Considering the similarity of the issues raised by these works, the essay aims to examine, in an historical-juridical perspective, the two dramas as if they were one with the same subject: the fatal confrontation between culture and power and between freedom and compromise.

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