From anti-idyll to the “poem of desolation”: the traditions of M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin in the “estate text” of the early XX century

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-47
Author(s):  
Galina I. Romanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Present State ◽  
Final Solution ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Speech Genre ◽  
Formal Features

On the basis of thematic proximity and similarity of a number of formal features (chronotope of the noble nest; the image of the negative aspects of the es- tate life; the weakening of cause-and-effect relations between the events; the system of characters, tied by relation, but separated spiritually; the specificity of organization of speech) genre transformations in the last novel of M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin “Old Years in Poshe khonye” (1889) and in the short stories cycle of I.A. Bunin “Black Earth” (1903) have compared. The theme of returning to their homeland also brings them closer together — a mental appeal to the past, that is, in Poshekhon’s childhood by Saltykov-Shchedrin, the road to the family estate — by Bunin. In both works embodied a persistent conflict that does not find a final solution. The sharp denial of the present state of reality, characteristic of satire, presupposes the existence of an ideal, which in the works by Saltykov-Shchedrin and appears as an idyllic picture of the world. In relation to it, the image of estate life in both “Old Years in Poshekhonye” and “Black Earth” is anti-idyllic: here everything is the opposite and contradicts the idyllic notions of peaceful life in harmony with nature. In Bunin’s story, this feature is shown in the appeal to the genre of “poem of desolation”.

scholarly journals She Persisted Around the World by C. Clinton

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leone Socha
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
Nobel Peace Prize ◽  
Marie Curie ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Past ◽  
Personal Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
Speak Up

Clinton, Chelsea. She Persisted Around the World. Illustrated by Alexandra Boiger, Philomel Books, 2018. Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger give us a walk through historic and present day women showing us each woman’s great submission to the world we live in. Whether it be through overcoming their own disability, overcoming others’ views on placement of women, or overcoming another’s thoughts on what women are allowed to do, the main focus is on the fact that they persisted. Using these circumstances that could have gobbled them up, they chose to take the road less travelled and fight for what they believed in—these are stories of women who did not give up but persisted through whatever was trying to hold them back. This book gives us short stories about strong women from the past, like Marie Curie, all the way to amazing women that we are lucky enough to have with us today, like Malala Yousafzai and J.K. Rowling. This shows us that we can look to the past for heroes, but sometimes there are heroes who can be found in our own generation. Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger did a beautiful job displaying beautiful, imagination igniting pictures and thought-inducing stories that describe the women, what they persisted through, and what they accomplished. Some women even received the Nobel Peace Prize for their contributions. The beautiful drawings showcase each woman’s struggle to persist through her personal issue. Some are simple drawings and others are intricate interpretations that bring their story to life. The illustrations show people from different areas of the world and it even includes a Canadian connection. As Canadians, we can see our faces in this book as a mirror and can see it does not matter what colour our skin is, what area of the world we come from, or what our family circumstances are, we just need to be true to our beliefs and true to our voice in our world. This book empowers young girls to become powerful women.    As the author, Chelsea Clinton, says eloquently at the end of the book for our girls to “speak up, rise up, dream big. These women did that and more. They persisted and so should you.”    Recommended: 3 out of 4 starsReviewer: Leone Socha Leone Socha is a University of Alberta undergraduate student who has loved reading her whole life. When she is not busy studying she is running after her husband and three children!

scholarly journals Cataclysmic Variables - Concluding Remarks

1987 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 795-798
Author(s):  
Z.Deněk Kopal
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
Cataclysmic Variables ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Remaining Time

Kitamura sensei, ladies and gentlemen: the remarks which follow will be the last communication by which our colloquium on cataclysmic variables is to be brought to its conclusion; and I appreciate the invitation of its organizing committee to use the remaining time we have together in the congenial atmosphere created for us at Bamberg, in an attempt at a summary of what we heard here in the past few days from several hundred colleagues who gathered here from many parts of the world - to survey the present state of our subject, and consider together where do we go from here. The time for this purpose makes it impossible to touch upon all exciting developments in the field of cataclysmic variables reported at Bamberg in the past few days; but certain general features have emerged from the programme of our colloquium which it may be appropriate to recall.

Standing in Line

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-223
Author(s):  
Sharif Islam
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Law ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Professional Background ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Past ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Shed Light

Over the past two decades, immigration receiving states have resorted to extraordinary legal, political, spatial tactics to curtail and prevent different types of migrants from legally entering the states. Some of these processes increased the number of undocumented and unauthorized immigrants in certain countries. These processes also lead to enormous personal sacrifices and hardships for families across the world. My personal experiences are probably not the worst case due to my educational and professional background, although there were few bumps in the road. Some of the following notes, I hope, will shed light on the personal experiences dealing with immigration law and processes.

The Common Fossils of The British Rocks

The Geologist ◽  
1858 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-29
Author(s):  
S. J. Mackie
Keyword(s):  
Past History ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common

In a magazine devoted especially to the propagation of Geological knowledge, it seems no infringement of its space, no deterioration of its value, tha t some pains should be taken to aid the student in his early efforts, and to disperse broadcast some useful elementary information, which may prove to the mass at once a source of instruction and of enjoyment, and so, by clearing the road to future and higher studies, may foster a dawning taste, and ultimately prove the means of adding many volunteers, and not unlikely even some brilliant master-minds to the ranks of Geologists, that otherwise, deterred at the outset, might perhaps have turned their attention and talents to some more accessible, if not more congenial study.Who does not feel some interest in the past history of this beautiful world—the scene of our labours and of our loves—of our successes and of our failures—the stage of our existence and the tomb of our dust ? If the animated creations of the past were dumb brute animals, still the earth was green and gay with trees, and plants and flowers—the hu m of insects vibrated on the summer's air, and the snows of winter covered the ancient lands with their hyemal mantle—the tides of ocean rose and fell, and the world went rolling on through time and space, through years and seasons. There were earthquakes the n and blazing volcanos—and winds and storms—great waves and merry dancing ripples on the sea.

scholarly journals Recent Contributions to the Irish Novel by Sara Baume, Anna Burns and Eleanor O’Reilly: On Language, Words and Wordlessness

Oceánide ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
Margarita Estévez-Saá
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Unstable Condition ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Irish Women ◽  
Identity Crises

The purpose of this contribution is to study three young writers who have offered, in the past three years, in a distinctively new voice, further instances of the Irish writers’ endless ability to experiment with the form of the novel. Sara Baume’s "A Line Made by Walking" (2017), Anna Burns’s "Milkman" (2018), and Eleanor O’Reilly’s "m for mammy" (2019) are three representative instances of the potential of the form of the novel in the hands of Irish women writers. Each of these novels deserve a study in its own due to their complexity and interest, but analysing them together offers us a unique opportunity to assess the thriving state of novel writing in Ireland, especially in the hands of Irish women writers.The three novels object of our study deal with identity crises, and they similarly represent their protagonists as struggling against society and its structures, be it the family, local communities, the world of art, nature or politics. Furthermore, the three authors have been able to devise alternative narrative styles, techniques and even endings that enabled them to render the complexities of the topics dealt with as well as to represent the unstable condition of their protagonists. In addition, Baume, Burns and O’Reilly have significantly chosen as protagonists female characters with artistic or intellectual aspirations who allow the authors to endow their respective narratives with metaliterary meditations on the possibilities as well as limits of language, words and wordlessness.

The Concept “Family” in the Oral Autobiographical Stories of Siberians

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-68
Author(s):  
Svetlana V. Voloshina ◽  
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Tatiana A. Demeshkina ◽  
Maria A. Tolstova ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Tomsk Oblast ◽  
Moral Norms ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Speech Genre ◽  
Time Changes ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Ordinary Consciousness

The aim of the article is to analyze the implementation of the concept “family” in the speech genre of an autobiographical story. The research material is 200 oral autobiographical stories, which were recorded in the villages of Tomsk Oblast during dialectological expeditions from 1946 till 2021. The informants are residents of villages of Tomsk Oblast; they are representatives of different types of speech culture (native speakers of dialect and literary language). All stories are characterized by a relatively stable theme, means of language implementation, and structure, which allows qualifying them as a speech genre whose communicative purpose is to tell about life from the moment of birth to the moment of communication. The novelty of the article is connected with: (1) its appeal to the problem of interaction and mutual influence of the concept and the speech genre in oral everyday discourse, (2) the identification of cognitive features of the concept, (3) the definition of factors of transformation of ideas about the family in ordinary consciousness. The analysis of the concept makes it possible to obtain new data about the speech genre of the autobiographical story and its construction. The speech genre shows the dependence of the features of the content and implementation of the concept “family” on the sphere of functioning. This factor determines the theoretical significance of the results obtained. The analysis of the concept in the speech genre is carried out using the method of modeling and description of the conceptual, figurative, and value layers in the structure of the concept. As a result of contextual analysis, 16 cognitive features were identified; they are represented in the conceptual layer of the concept “family” and actualized in the speech of informants (family size, social status, compliance with moral norms, relations between family members, attitude to work, etc.). The conceptual layer is developed in detail in the oral everyday communication of Siberians. It is represented by a large number of lexical units. The figurative layer of the concept is characterized by single actualizations. At the same time, the variety of their expression is noted: metaphor, metonymy, comparisons are used. The world of the family can form the initial and resulting spheres of metaphorical models. In the initial sphere, the world of plants (roots, mushrooms), products (noodles) is mainly reflected; the semantics of unity and kinship is actualized in the initial sphere. The value layer of the concept “family” is well represented in the oral autobiographical discourse. It indicates that the family occupies one of the main places in the system of life values of peasants. The specifics of structuring this concept in the oral everyday discourse are determined mainly by the attitudes, norms of traditional culture (the family should be large, friendly, hardworking, young members of family honor the older ones, etc.). At the same time, changes in the system of family values determined by sociohistorical processes are noted. These changes are evaluated ambiguously by informants, and the family is still one of the main values of life for them. Regional (natural, social, historical, geographic) specificity is reflected in the actualization of the concept.

Managing Human Resources in Artificial Intelligence Era 5.0

2022 ◽  
pp. 150-164
Author(s):  
Jyotsna Oswal ◽  
Namita Rajput ◽  
Sunny Seth
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Past ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
The World ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency

Artificial intelligence (AI) has grown by leaps and bounds in the past few years making it a necessary tool for organizations all over the world to pave the road to a smart future by entering into its various functions and making it more efficient. However, companies in India have been hesitant and slow to adapt this technology, and this hesitation is ever so clearly seen in the human resources function of the organization. The primary purpose of this chapter is to explore the application, benefits and challenges of integration, and the limitations of AI in HRM within the Indian context. The study is relevant and beneficial to organisations that seek to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of their HRM functions by leveraging the power of AI.

scholarly journals EVOLUTIONARY MODEL FAMILY BUSINESS - concept of special model

2020 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 01047
Author(s):  
Zdeněk Mikoláš ◽  
Iveta Vozňáková
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Evolutionary Model ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Model Family

The authors of the article present the practical and theoretical knowledge which they have achieved in the framework of the entrepreneurship research over the past 10 years. The practical and research activities have focused in the last period, in particular, on the synergy of the links between the family business, innovative dynamism and competitiveness of the companies. The paper offers a generalization of the findings to the theory of synergy, economics of the time, the family business, especially in the innovation and dynamism of the evolutionary family business potential in the process of succession. The findings are also based on empirical research in more than 230 small and medium-sized family companies in the Czech Republic and Poland. Presented results deserves a broad discussion and verification in practice, depending on the cultural differences in manifestations of globalization in various parts of the world and under the influence of the industrial revolution 4:0

Development and Devastation

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 398-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Roy
Keyword(s):  
Single Image ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
The Past ◽  
Visual Evidence ◽  
The World ◽  
Industrial Civilization ◽  
Visual Artist ◽  
Definition Of

Quebec visual artist Isabelle Hayeur has become known internationally over the past decade for a body of photographic and video work that deals mostly in pseudorealistic landscapes of man-made desolation and devastation, created by the digital photomanipulation of visual evidence of the entropy generated by “development.” Collapsing time and space, cause and effect, visible power and its hidden costs in a single image, she subtly conflates seemingly contradictory aspects of industrial civilization (construction/destruction, spectacle/invisible, power/refuse) in deadpan epics of tragic irony characterized by a disenchanted sublime. Heidegger’s concept of the gigantic helps elucidate this paradox; his definition of modernity as “the conquest of the world as picture” is used here to understand the dark spectacle of its development in terms of the photographic medium itself in a sample of Hayeur’s work since 2008.

Beyond the Family Resemblance: Mapping the Normative Roles of Journalists Across Europe in the Early 2010s

2021 ◽  
pp. 194016122199409
Author(s):  
Olivier Standaert
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Detailed Comparison ◽  
Family Resemblance ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Vision

This article describes and discusses how normative journalistic roles are formulated across Europe. The material was obtained from the 2012–2016 wave of the Worlds of Journalism Study, a comparative study designed to assess the state of journalism throughout the world. The advantage of this study over similar undertakings in the past is that we did not confront journalists with ready-made statements but invited them to tell us, in their own words, what they thought the major roles of journalists in their countries ought to be. Open responses of more than 10,200 journalists from twenty-seven European countries yielded 12,860 references. Results show that the most important roles refer to the domain of political life, especially the informational-instructive and the critical-monitorial functions—a finding that is consistent across the twenty-seven countries investigated. Beyond this shared global vision, it is, however, possible to point out some national specificities, keeping in mind that even if the core of the normative roles remains somewhat universal, a detailed comparison of those roles in their cultural context allows us to grasp some differences in their hierarchy and their meaning.

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