scholarly journals Authorial Self-Fashioning in a Global Era

Prism ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-78
Author(s):  
Frances Weightman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Lu Xun ◽  
Yu Hua ◽  
Global Era ◽  
Ba Jin ◽  
Reading Context ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract The authorial preface to works of fiction provides a unique space for exploration of authorial self-fashioning and author-reader mediation. This article argues that, when works of fiction are translated and new prefaces written for a new readership, these prefaces can provide extra insights into the perceptions, expectations, and constrictions of both producing and consuming literature in a global era. Recent debates on world literature have centered mainly on issues of reception and circulation, preferring to define its scope in terms of the reader and the reading context rather than by the author or production process. This study considers the changing role of authors who consciously attempt to locate themselves within this contested and reconfigured field and how they construct a persona to address a newly defined world readership. This article explores the changes throughout the twentieth century by analyzing a selection of authorial prefaces to translated editions of three influential authors: Lu Xun 魯迅 (1881–1936), Ba Jin 巴金 (1906–2005), and Yu Hua 余華 (1960–). All prolific preface writers, they each have, in different ways, in different periods, engaged with the concept of a global literary readership and marketplace and negotiated their respective places within it.

Otto Kirchheimer - Gesammelte Schriften

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Party Systems ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Post War ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Industrial Societies ◽  
Selection Of

The fifth volume in this six-volume collection of Otto Kirchheimer’s (1905–1965) works is entitled Politische Systeme im Nachkriegseuropa (Political Systems in post-war Europe) and contains 34 works by Kirchheimer, published between 1950 and 1967, on changes to political orders in modern industrial societies. Geographically, these studies focus not only on the Federal Republic of Germany but also on developments in other Western European democracies, the USA and the GDR. In these writings, Kirchheimer pays particular attention to changes in the party systems in these countries, the changing role of the parliamentary opposition, the calculated influence of associations and interest groups, the intensification of bureaucracy and the strengthening of the executive, and the political attitudes and expectations of citizens in modern democracies. In addition, this volume contains a comprehensive bibliography of all Kirchheimer’s published works plus a selection of his unpublished writings. This book will appeal to all those interested in politics, law, contemporary history and sociology.

scholarly journals Geography, Islands and Migration in an Era of Global Mobility

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-84
Author(s):  
Russell King
Keyword(s):  
Human Migration ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Migration Routes ◽  
Global Era ◽  
Global Mobility ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Migration Dynamics ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Changing Role

This paper examines the changing role of islands in the age of globalization and in an era of enhanced and diversified mobility. There are many types of islands, many metaphors of insularity, and many types of migration, so the interactions are far from simple. The ‘mobilities turn’ in migration studies recognizes the diversification in motivations and time-space regimes of human migration. After brief reviews of island studies and of migration studies, and the power of geography to capture and distil the interdisciplinarity and relationality of these two study domains, the paper explores various facets of the generally intense engagement that islands have with migration. Two particular scenarios are identified for islands and migration in the global era: the heuristic role of islands as ‘spatial laboratories’ for the study of diverse migration processes in microcosm; and the way in which, especially in the Mediterranean and near-Atlantic regions, islands have become critical locations in the geopolitics of irregular migration routes. The case of Malta is taken to illustrate some of these new insular migration dynamics.

A Brief History of Motives—Composition

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-54
Author(s):  
Brent Auerbach
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Music Composition ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Western Music ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Changing Role

Chapter 2 provides a brief history of the role of motives in Western music composition. Motive is posited as one of the several generative forces in music, alongside harmony, counterpoint, and form. Motive’s relative prominence is tracked in style periods of the last four centuries, with peak influence manifesting in the late Romantic and early twentieth-century periods. This changing role of motives is illustrated by a set of analyses of chronologically ordered pieces by Handel, Mozart, Brahms, Wagner, Holst, and Schoenberg. The musical examples, in addition to supporting the historical narrative, serve to introduce readers to the new conventions of nomenclature and rules motivic association that will be presented in detail in the methodology chapters of the book.

scholarly journals The Changing Role of CEOs in Dutch Listed Companies, 1957–2007

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
KEETIE SLUYTERMAN ◽  
GERARDA WESTERHUIS
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Liberal Market Economies ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Liberal Market Economy

This paper looks at the position of CEOs in Dutch listed companies in the context of institutional change. Following up on discussions on Varieties of Capitalism and the contrasts between coordinated and liberal market economies, we explore the position of the CEO in the Netherlands in the second half of the twentieth century. On the basis of our database of Dutch CEOs, as well as an analysis of articles and published interviews, we show that the move toward a more liberal market economy had a clear impact on the position of CEOs and on the way their role was perceived. This paper highlights the importance of studying leaders in their historical context, with implications for the selection of future CEOs as they face increasing pressure on issues such as inequality and climate change.

Irish Poets: Keepers of National Lore

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-54
Author(s):  
Asst. Prof. Dr. Amal Nasser Frag
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Poetic Language ◽  
Irish People ◽  
Literary Renaissance ◽  
Language Literature

This paper discusses three noteable Irish poets: Augustine Joseph Clarke (1896-1974), Richard Murphy  (1927- ), and Patrick  Kavanagh  (1904–1967), who are considered as keepers of national lore of Irland. It explains these poets’ contribution to world literature through the renewal of Irish myths, history, and culture. Irish poets tackle the problems of Irish people in the present in a realistic way by criticising the restrictions imposed on the Irish people in their society.Augustine Joseph Clarke’s poems present a deep invocation of Irish past and landscape. While Richard Murphy offers recurring images of islands and the sea. He explores the personal and communal legacies of history, as many of his poems reveal his attempts to reconcile his Anglo-Irish background and education with his boyhood desire to be, in his words, “truly Irish”. Patrick  Kavanagh was not interested in the Irish Literary Renaissance Movement that appeared and continued to influence many Irish writers during the twentieth century which called for the revival of ancient Irish culture, language, literature, and art. He, unlike the Irish revivalists who tried to revive the Gaelic language as the mother tongue of the Irish people like Dillon Johnston and Guinn Batten, uses a poetic language based on the day-to-day speech of the poet and his community rather than on an ideal of compensation for the fractures in his country’s linguistic heritage. The paper conculdes with the importance of the role of the Irish poet as a keeper and a gurdian of his national lore and tradition

Fellowship and philanthropy

2019 ◽  
pp. 215-234
Author(s):  
Derek Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Community Cohesion ◽  
State Welfare ◽  
History Of ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Changing Role

In this chapter the importance of mutual aid and philanthropic endeavour are stressed as a means of community cohesion and as a counter to the fragmentation so characteristic of the Leeds community. As with many other activities, the fellowship bodies were often associated with place of origin, later replaced by national bodies, such as B’nai Brith. The 140-year history of the Board of Guardians, later the Welfare Board, is traced with stress on the desire of Leeds Jewry to look after its own poor. The changing role of charities is explained by reference to the increase in state welfare in the twentieth century

The Challenge of the Believing Intellectual

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
John O. Voll
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Multiple Modernities ◽  
Modern Knowledge ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Alternative Modernity

This paper analyzes the role of Professor al Faruqi as a believing intellectual who contributed toward the development of an alternative model of modernity in which religion plays a definite and contributory role. Alternative modernity is not inevitably secular or nonreligious. This Islamic version of modernity is one amongst the multiple modernities of the globalized world. It puts forth a “modern” knowledge. Professor al Faruqi contributed to this venture through his project called the “Islamization of Knowledge.” In this way, Professor Ismail al-Faruqi illustrates the changing role of believing intellectuals in the second half of the twentieth century.

The Transformation of Sherwood Forest in the Twentieth Century: The Role of Private Estate Forestry

Rural History ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
DUNCAN KOTTLER ◽  
CHARLES WATKINS ◽  
CHRIS LAVERS
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Private Land ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Land Owners ◽  
Forestry Commission ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Changing Role

Despite the demise of many landed estates in the twentieth century, the creation of the Forestry Commission and consequent massive afforestation, over two-thirds of British woodland remained in the hands of private land owners at the end of the century. Little research has been carried out into the changing role of landed estates in forming and maintaining woodland landscapes in this period. This paper examines forestry on the Thoresby estate, Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire using a wide range of sources. It demonstrates the dynamic nature of this landscape during the twentieth century. Rather than being a slowly changing woodland landscape, it has been transformed through interventions by land agents and landowners in response to changing social, economic and government policy pressures.

Psychology of Pain

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie R. Price ◽  
Micah J. Price ◽  
Marc A. Huntoon
Keyword(s):  
Stages Of Change ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Statistical Manual ◽  
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽  
The Past ◽  
Empirically Supported ◽  
Acceptance And Commitment ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Selection Of

The role of psychosocial variables in the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of pain has grown significantly in the past 30 years. Pain is no longer dichotomously thought of as either a purely psychological or physiological condition (mind–body dualism) but, rather, as a combination of biopsychosocial factors and experiences. The questions in this chapter consider the changing role of these psychosocial factors by exploring the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and other pain-related assessments and psychodiagnostics; cognitive–behavioral, acceptance and commitment, behavioral, and other psychological interventions for pain management; the role of stages of change in selection of interventions; and biopsychosocial theoretical models for understanding pain. The answers provide detailed and empirically supported explanations of the biopsychosocial impact of pain, along with references to texts commonly utilized in the training of anesthesiologists, so as to promote a better understanding of the associated materials.

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