scholarly journals The Curricular Canon of Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century British and Irish Literature at Polish Universities

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Wojciech Drąg
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Irish Literature ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Harold Bloom ◽  
Similar Survey ◽  
British And Irish Literature ◽  
Post War ◽  
Canonical Texts

In 2007 Philip Tew and Mark Addis released Final Report: Survey on Teaching Contemporary British Fiction, whose aim was to establish the most popular authors and works as taught by academics at British universities. The purpose of this article is to present the results of a similar survey, which examines the reading lists of British and Irish literature courses offered in the Eng­lish departments of chosen Polish universities in Warsaw, Gdańsk, Toruń, Poznań, Łódź, Lublin, Wrocław, Opole and Kraków. A discussion of the results — most commonly taught writers and texts — is accompanied by an analysis based on an online survey of the lecturers’ motivations behind including certain texts and omitting others. I will argue that whereas the teaching canon of modernist texts appears fixed all the reading lists include works by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats and T.S. Eliot, the canon of post-war and contemporary literature is yet to emerge. I shall also assert the appearance of the so called “canon lag” and review the selection criteria for the inclusion of canonical texts. The article concludes with a consideration of the texts that appear most likely to join the curricular canons at Polish universities in the near future. All the discussions are set in the context of critical contributions to the study of canonicity made by Harold Bloom, Nick Bentley, Dominic Head and others.

scholarly journals Mental Health and Well-Being During the First vs. Second COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown in Cyprus

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 40-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danae Papageorgiou ◽  
Angelos P. Kassianos ◽  
Marios Constantinou ◽  
Demetris Lamnisos ◽  
Christiana Nicolaou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Similar Survey ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract. Introduction: Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, most countries imposed strict governmental lockdowns. Research investigating the psychological impact of pandemic-induced lockdowns is accumulating, though to date no study has examined the psychological health and associated parameters of well-being in countries that underwent additional lockdowns as the pandemic continued into resurgence “waves.” Aim: The present study provides an overview of the psychological impact of COVID-19 across the two lockdowns in the Cypriot population. Methods: In total, 957 participants completed an online survey during the first lockdown, 134 of whom completed a similar survey again during the second lockdown. The outcomes assessed included stress, positive and negative affect, and well-being. Results: The results indicated no population-wide severe reactions in the participants. Repeated measures analyses showed similar mental health levels during both the first and the second lockdowns. Further inspection of participants’ scores indicated that, for all mental health variables, approximately half of the participants improved, while the other half deteriorated. Discussion: Perceived social support and psychological flexibility predicted most psychological outcomes during both lockdowns. Further research is necessary to understand the continuing effects of the pandemic and associated lockdowns on mental health.

Sustaining Dominant Narratives

Andean Truths ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 30-59
Author(s):  
Anne Lambright
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Final Report ◽  
National Discourse ◽  
Upper Middle Class ◽  
Post War ◽  
Dominant Narratives

Chapter One examines post-2003 novels by celebrated authors Alonso Cueto, Santiago Roncagliolo, and Ivan Thays. These texts present a lens through which to read the CVR’s Final Report, by teasing out and focusing on its central themes and revealing how a certain sector, namely upper-middle-class, limeño, male intellectuals, process the civil war and its consequences. The novels elucidate postconflict efforts to redefine concepts of sovereignty and citizenship, while reifying dominant understandings of class, race, and ethnicity within national discourse. Even as they construct stories set in the post-war period, with protagonists who must intimately struggle with the vestiges of violence, these novels further a sustained project of symbolic violence that began with the Conquest and that engendered and sustained the war itself.

scholarly journals Soviet Information Bureau in the USSR and Abroad During World War II

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-28
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Davydov ◽  
Olesya Balandina
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Dominant Factor ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Socialist Society ◽  
World War ◽  
Soviet People ◽  
The Media ◽  
Post War ◽  
Canonical Texts

The article studies aspects of the Soviet outreach during World War II. The tool of such outreach was the Soviet Information Bureau, established on June 24, 1941. The authors focus on main directions of the operation of the Bureau. The novelty of the authors’ findings lies in the fact that canonical texts of the Soviet Information Bureau were actually censored by Joseph Stalin himself. The article questions the significance of the underlying patterns for the development of domestic media content. The authors study how Stalin managed the media with the help of reports. The study is relevant, as it reveals and argues the key role of Marxist ideologemes, contained in the reports, as the dominant factor defining the whole complex of newspaper and journal sources. Upon studying Stalin’s notes, the authors conclude that the tenet of exceptional progressivity of Soviet socialist society was unquestionable for its leader. The argument on the excellence of the society and the proof of extreme reactivity of the opposing regime that cast shadow on the perfect society are connected with a complete perversion of facts. The article also contains the authors’ investigation into information expansion organized by Soviet Information Bureau in the international arena during the studied period. According to the researchers, the expansion was aimed at creating a springboard to launch an agenda offensive in the post-war period. The authors conclude that Bureau’s campaigns never succeeded despite major financial and labour investments due to deep ideological motivation: the majority of Soviet people, as well as most foreigners had no trust towards Soviet media.

scholarly journals Gail Jones’s Intertextual Mirrors: In the footsteps of Virginia Woolf

Oceánide ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 120-126
Author(s):  
María Socorro Suárez Lafuente
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Complex Operation ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
Culture History ◽  
The World

I aim to prove that the word, understood as “double-voiced”, as belonging to the world of the speaker and to the world of the interlocutor, and the life that is not life but is all we know, are the axis of storytelling and post modernist narrative. Derrida’s notion of “dissemination” and our individual strife to solve it are present in every work of literature. In this article I intend to show that, with a difference of approximately three generations, Australian Gail Jones follows in the steps of Virginia Woolf’s images of mirrors and looking glasses as cornerstones of reflection and reflexion about culture, history and individual development. Life and living have to be turned into stories in order to become “real”, visible, a vision that will open possibilities for change and advancement. To make this possible, writers need a reflective subject - a subject able to carry out this complex operation in contemporary literature has to possess the characteristics of a nómade subject, a term coined by Rosi Braidotti – that is, subjects ready to follow the traces left by apparent realities, ready to confront their own past and to subvert not only the certainties held as the Truth but also the norms that were given as a “must” in their contemporary culture in order to sustain those fictional truths, as explained by Michael Riffaterre.

Telling the Story of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Theatre History and Mythmaking

1990 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-199
Author(s):  
Susan Spector
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
Theatre History ◽  
The West ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Post War

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opened on Broadway on 13 October 1962. The author, producers, director and two leading actors won Tony Awards for that season; the play won the New York Drama Critics' Award, and two members of the Pulitzer Committee resigned when that group refused to give Virginia Woolf its top honor. This production of the play captured the vigor and emotional daring of off-Broadway, brought it uptown, and made it pay, running for 644 performances on Broadway. Early in 1964, when Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill repeated their roles in London for twelve weeks, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? became the first post-war American production to achieve a critical success in the West End. The story of this landmark production has been told piecemeal by writers in the popular press, by theatre historians, and in sharply differing accounts by its director, Alan Schneider. Collation of published testimony about the production with unpublished materials such as correspondence, diaries, and interviews with principals reveals the complex artistic process that led to the success of this play. The different versions of the story reveal the risks of storytelling and some of the challenges storytellers present to theatre historians.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF RULE CHANGES AND LEGISLATION ON THE INCIDENCE OF CONCUSSION IN HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4_suppl3) ◽  
pp. 2325967120S0023
Author(s):  
Eric D. Nussbaum ◽  
Jaynie Bjornaraa ◽  
Charles J. Gatt
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
School Setting ◽  
The State ◽  
High School Sports ◽  
School Sports ◽  
Rule Changes ◽  
Similar Survey ◽  
The Impact

Background: There is much concern over the incidence of concussion in high school sports, with a growing focus on soccer, necessitating the need for legislation and formal rule changes for safety reasons. Objective: To note differences in concussive injury between boys and girls soccer and determine the change in reported concussion rates from 2011 vs. 2017 in order to study the impact of legislation and rule changes on the rates of concussion in high school soccer in the state of New Jersey. Design: Comparative Study Methods: Licensed athletic trainers working in the secondary school setting in the state of New Jersey voluntarily participated in an online survey on the incidence of concussion in boys and girls soccer. This de-identified data was compared with data collected from a similar survey conducted in 2011. Results: In 2017 there were 168 concussions occurred among 3255 male soccer athletes. Eight-five percent of concussions (145/168) occurred during games, with the remainder occurring in practice. Forty-five percent (76/168) occurred to varsity players with the majority occurring during games (84%). Fewer concussions were reported to junior varsity and freshman players.. In 2017, Incidence Rate (IR) for all male soccer athletes was calculated at 0.36 concussions per 1000 athletic exposures (AE). Injury Proportion (IP) was 5%. Clinical Incidence was 0.05 concussions per athlete. This represented a 38% increase in IR/1000 AE from 2011 to 2017, and a 39% increase in IP 2011 vs 2017 In 2017, a total of 2604 female soccer athletes, reported 195 concussions with the majority occurring during games (83%). Varsity athlete reported the higher number of concussions relative to junior varsity and freshman soccer athletes IR/1000 AE was 0.48 vs 0.43 in 2011 (12% increase), while IP was 7% vs 6% in 2011 (17% increase Females had a greater IR/1000 AE than males (.48 vs. .36). Clinical incidence was also greater for female soccer athletes than male soccer athletes (0.075 vs. 0.05). Conclusion: Despite legislation and rule changes, the incidence of concussion in both boys and girls high school soccer is increasing and particularly during games. Playing at the varsity level and game play has the highest association with injury and should be subject to greater scrutiny. Additionally, more concussions are occurring to female soccer athletes than male players. This information provides a snapshot of a significant problem that deserves greater attention. [Table: see text][Table: see text]

scholarly journals 66. What Worked (And Didn’t Work): A Survey of COVID-19 Response in Michigan Nursing Homes in the Midst of the Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S164-S165
Author(s):  
Julia Mantey ◽  
Karen Jones ◽  
Payal K Patel ◽  
Jennifer Meddings ◽  
Lona Mody
Keyword(s):  
Infection Prevention ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
High Yield ◽  
Pandemic Preparedness ◽  
Pandemic Planning ◽  
Similar Survey ◽  
Response Plan ◽  
Pandemic Response ◽  
Communication Lines ◽  
Pandemic Wave

Abstract Background Nursing home (NH) populations are at higher risk for morbidity and mortality due to COVID-19. A March 2020 NH survey indicated improvements in pandemic planning when compared to a similar survey in 2007. We surveyed NHs to evaluate how well pandemic preparedness plans and infection prevention strategies met the reality of COVID-19. Methods The first COVID-19 case in Michigan was reported March 10, 2020. In the setting of 46,088 cases and 4,327 deaths statewide as of May 1, we disseminated an online survey to state department-registered NHs to describe their experience of the initial pandemic wave. Responses were collected May 1–12, during which the state averaged 585 cases/day. We were particularly interested in NH preparedness, challenges, testing capacity, and adaptations made. Results Of 452 NHs contacted, 145 opened the survey and 143 (32%) responded. A majority (68%) indicated that their facility’s pandemic response plan addressed > 90% of issues they experienced; 29% reported their plan addressed most but not all anticipated concerns (Table 1). As the pandemic evolved, all facilities (100%) provided additional staff education on proper personal protective equipment (PPE) use. 66% reported experiencing shortages of PPE and other supplies. Half of all facilities (50%) lacked sufficient resources to test asymptomatic residents or staff; only 36% were able to test all residents and staff with suspected COVID-19 infection. Half (52%) considered their communication regarding COVID-19 with nearby hospitals “very good.” The majority of facilities (55%) experienced staffing shortages, often relying on remaining staff to work additional hours and/or contracted staff to fill deficits (Table 2). NH staff resignations increased, with 63% of NHs experiencing resignations; staff with greater bedside contact were more likely to leave, including nurses and nurse assistants. Conclusion While most NHs had a plan to respond to COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, many facilities experienced a lack of available resources, less than ideal communication lines with local hospitals, lack of testing capacity and insufficient staff. These shortcomings indicate potential high-yield areas of improvement in pandemic preparedness in the NH setting. Disclosures All Authors: No reported disclosures

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