“ʼTis but the chance of War”: Fortune and Opportunity in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-58
Author(s):  
Marina Ansaldo
Keyword(s):  
Successful Outcome ◽  
Brute Force ◽  
Troilus And Cressida ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Perspectives

The study of the representation of the interrelated notions of Fortune andOccasioin Shakespeare’sTroilus and Cressidahas been largely neglected by critics. This is particularly surprising because this play, where all that takes place is nothing “but the chance of war,” and characters’ efforts and expectations are often contradicted by the turns of events, seems to invite us to meditate upon what determines a successful outcome. This article shows that considering the concepts of Fortune and Occasion, and the imagery traditionally associated with them, can provide original critical perspectives on this play. The manner in which the characters refer to Fortune/Occasioreveals the extent to which each of them is willing and capable of exercising agency. Sheer opportunism and brute force are what is required to win in the world of the play, where valor, honor and chivalry have become obsolete vestiges of a lost mythical past.

Rushing for Gold Redux

2019 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 336-344
Author(s):  
Andrew C. Isenberg
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
Critical Perspectives

Seventy years ago, Pacific Historical Review published one of the journal’s first “special issues,” looking back on the California Gold Rush. The special issue came at a significant transitional moment in the study of the Gold Rush. In the late 1940s, historians had begun to turn away from nationalist and celebratory accounts of the Gold Rush and toward more critical perspectives. The influence of the World War II was acute, particularly in encouraging a more international perspective on the Gold Rush. (The full text of the 1949 special issue, “Rushing for Gold,” is available at http://phr.ucpress.edu/content/18/1.)

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eve E. Buckley
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Northeast Brazil ◽  
Military Dictatorship ◽  
The World ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Similar Development ◽  
Critical Perspectives

This concluding section briefly traces the shift in approaches to regional development that took place under Brazil’s military dictatorship during the late 1960s and 1970s, with increased focus on urban industrialization and reduced interest in smallholder irrigated farming. Critical perspectives on approaches to northeast development during and after the dictatorship, from Brazilian academics and intellectuals like Celso Furtado—first director of SUDENE (the Superintendencia de Desenvolvimento do Nordeste)—and others are emphasized. The book ends by evaluating the limits of technocratic solutions to problems rooted in social and political organization—of which drought in northeast Brazil is an exemplar—with reference to similar development projects elsewhere in the world.

scholarly journals A path out of COVID-19 quarantine: an analysis of policy scenarios

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lia Humphrey ◽  
Edward W. Thommes ◽  
Roie Fields ◽  
Naseem Hakim ◽  
Ayman Chit ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latent Infection ◽  
Average Rate ◽  
The United States ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Brute Force ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Testing Rate ◽  
Universal Testing ◽  
The World ◽  
Brute Force Approach

In this work we present an analysis of the two major strategies currently implemented around the world in the fight against COVID-19: Social distancing & shelter-in-place measures to protect the susceptible, and testing & contact-tracing to identify, isolate and treat the infected. The majority of countries have principally relied on the former; we consider the examples of Italy, Canada and the United States. By fitting a disease transmission model to daily case report data, we infer that in each of the three countries, the current level of national shutdown is equivalent to about half the population being under quarantine. We demonstrate that in the absence of other measures, scaling back social distancing in such a way as to prevent a second wave will take prohibitively long. In contrast, South Korea, a country that has managed to control and suppress its outbreak principally through mass testing and contact tracing, and has only instated a partial shutdown. For all four countries, we estimate the level of testing which would be required to allow a complete exit from shutdown and a full lifting of social distancing measures, without a resurgence of COVID-19. We find that a “brute-force” approach of untargeted universal testing requires an average testing rate of once every 36 to 48 hours for every individual, depending on the country. If testing is combined with contact tracing, and/or if tests are able to identify latent infection, then an average rate of once every 4 to 5 days is sufficient.Significance StatementWe demonstrate how current quarantine measures can be lifted after the current pandemic wave by large-scale, frequent-testing and contact tracing on the remaining susceptible populations. We present an analysis of the two major strategies currently implemented around the world against COVID-19: Social distancing & shelter-in-place measures to protect the susceptible, and testing & contact-tracing to identify, isolate and treat the infected. We find that a “brute-force” approach of untargeted universal testing requires an average testing rate of once every 36 to 48 hours for every individual, depending on the country. If testing is combined with contact tracing, and/or if tests are able to identify latent infection, then an average rate of once every 4 to 5 days is sufficient.

scholarly journals The Question of Nationalism and Belonging

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 351
Author(s):  
David Buyze
Keyword(s):  
World Today ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
The World ◽  
East West ◽  
Critical Perspectives

This paper situates an analysis on the commonalities and ordinariness of Jewish and Muslim experiences vis-à-vis a critique on nationalism and belonging in the literature of Edeet Ravel and Mohsin Hamid, in addition to other writers. These literary writers are highlighted by an exploration of Eran Riklis’ film A Borrowed Identity amidst the critical perspectives of Ari Shavit, Leila Ahmed, Edward W. Said, and Justin Trudeau. The focus on Israel/Palestine is complemented by addressing sustained issues of nationalism and belonging in America that reverberate on global degrees of awareness as to how religious degrees of belonging can be reconsidered in light of understanding instantiations of cultural mise-en-scène from nuanced degrees of awareness. In turn, a multifaceted unsettling of identity, religion, and culture is posited that vividly collapses distinctions between East/West in revealing highly different ways of contemplating perceptions of Jews and Muslims in the world today.

scholarly journals An advance encryption standard cryptosystem in IoT transaction

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 1548
Author(s):  
Zolidah Kasiran ◽  
Shapina Abdullah ◽  
Normazlie Mohd Nor
Keyword(s):  
Processing Time ◽  
Brute Force ◽  
Advance Encryption Standard ◽  
Protocol Security ◽  
Device Model ◽  
Eavesdropping Attack ◽  
The World ◽  
Secure Data ◽  
Brute Force Attack ◽  
Security Of Iot

IoT create an ecosystem that can be useful to the world with its various services. That make the security of IoT is more important. This paper presents a proposed technique to secure data transaction from IoT device to other node using cryptography technique. AES cryptography and IoT device model ESP8266 is used as a client to send data to a server via HTTP protocol. Security performance matrices used eavesdropping attack with Wireshark sniffing and brute-force attack. will be simulated to the proposed method in order to ensure if there is any possibility it can be cracked using those attacks and to evaluate the performance of ESP8266, several experiments were be conducted. Result gather from this experiment was evaluated based on processing time to see the effectiveness of the platform compare to different data size used while adapting this technique.

A Conversation on The Wooster Group's Troilus and Cressida with the RSC

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth LeCompte ◽  
Kate Valk ◽  
Maria Shevtsova
Keyword(s):  
Joint Venture ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Theatre Arts ◽  
Royal Shakespeare Company ◽  
Troilus And Cressida ◽  
The World ◽  
The Olympic Games

Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk here discuss with Maria Shevtsova The Wooster Group's work with the Royal Shakespeare Company on Troilus and Cressida and the challenges posed for them by this joint venture. The project was initially proposed by Rupert Goold, but was brought to fruition by playwright Mark Ravenhill, his first directing experience. Troilus and Cressida was part of the World Shakespeare Festival, during which all Shakespeare's plays were performed by different companies from countries across the globe. The Festival, four years in the making and spanning eight months, was part of the cultural programme of the Olympic Games held in London in 2012. Troilus and Cressida was first performed at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon from 3 to 18 August 2012, and then at the Riverside Studios in London from 24 August to 8 September. This conversation took place at the Riverside Studios on 30 August 2012, and pairs with the discussion of The Wooster Group's Hamlet, the company's first Shakespeare production, published in NTQ 114 (May 2013). Maria Shevtsova holds the Chair in Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London and is co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly. Her most recent book is the co-authored Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing (2013).

scholarly journals THE POWER AND PROMISE OF 21ST- CENTURY LITERARY CRITICISM

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonor M. Martínez Serrano
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Transdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Critical Perspectives

Abstract: Literature is an ancestral enterprise whereby humans seek to understand reality and make sense of the world at large. A sophisticated construct of the human imagination, Literary Criticism has served the purpose of scrutinizing verbal works of art from a wide range of critical perspectives to find out the truths contained in them about humanity and our world. This is a way of honouring the deep thinking and the beauty inherent in Literature. In this paper, we look at the concept of ‘liminality’ in Anglophone Studies, as well as to the power and promise of 21st-century Literary Criticism as part of the Humanities, at a time where there is a fierce need for a transdisciplinary approach to the study of literature that brings together the lessons of contemporary Philosophy and other relevant fields of knowledge that may shed light on our understanding of literature. Título en español: “El poder y la promesa de la Crítica literaria del siglo XXI”Resumen: La literatura es una empresa ancestral con la que los seres humanos tratan de comprender la realidad y el mundo en toda su extensión. Sofisticado constructo de la imaginación humana en sí misma, la Crítica Literaria ha estudiado las obras literarias desde múltiples perspectivas teóricas a lo largo de los siglos con el objeto de sacar a la luz las verdades que encierran sobre la humanidad y nuestro mundo. La Crítica Literaria no deja de ser una forma de honrar el pensamiento profundo y la belleza inherentes a la propia literatura. En este artículo meditamos acerca del concepto de ‘liminalidad’ en los Estudios Anglófonos, y reflexionamos sobre el poder y la promesa de la Crítica Literaria del siglo XXI como parte de las Humanidades, en unos tiempos en que urge apostar por un acercamiento holístico y transdisciplinar al estudio del fenómeno literario que aúne las lecciones de la Filosofía contemporánea y de otras disciplinas que acaso puedan arrojar luz sobre nuestra comprensión de la literatura

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