scholarly journals The material and synopsis for Rastko Petrovic’s historical novel on the renaissance

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Tanja Rakic
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Creative Idea ◽  
The Usa ◽  
American Author

Rastko Petrovic?s last manuscripts, related to his work on a historical novel about the Renaissance, are kept at the Endowment of Ljubica Lukovic, home to the Rastko and Nadezda Petrovic Collection. The preserved synopsis is of special importance as it reveals the author?s creative idea and poetic assumptions. The author?s oeuvre is marked by a continued interest in the Renaissance, which is central to the last phase of his creative work as an ?migr? in the USA. The examination of the manuscript and synopsis reveals Petrovic?s thoughts on the Renaissance as he endeavoured to become an American author.

POLITICAL THEATER ON THE SCENES OF BELGRADE INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL

2021 ◽  
pp. 154-175
Author(s):  
Natalia Vagapova
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Social Orientation ◽  
Political Theater ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Independent States ◽  
South Eastern Europe

The article presents a cultural and political analysis of the activities of the Belgrade International Theater Festival (BITEF) - a significant theatrical, general cultural and social phenomenon in Serbia, the Balkans / South-Eastern Europe, and throughout Europe as a whole. Before the collapse of the SFRY (1991-1992), being the official showcase of self-government socialism, the festival was at the same time one of the most representative shows of new theatrical trends in Europe. It was attended by troupes from the countries of the East and West - Western and Eastern Europe, the USSR, the USA, Latin America, China, Japan. Not being by definition a festival of political theater, thanks to the moral and civic position of its founders and leaders M. Trailovich and Y. Chirilov, BITEF has become a space of aesthetic and social free-thinking in the SFRY and in neighbouring socialist countries. The organizers of BITEF found an opportunity to provide a platform for theatrical «dissidents» with their performances dedicated to rethinking modernity and the recent past in any genre. During the existence of the FRY (1992-2003), BITEF became an annual cultural manifestation in opposition to the regimes in power in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with their ideology of chauvinism and isolation from the outside world. At this time, the compilers of the festival programs began to attach special importance to performances of a political and social orientation. Many theaters from Serbia, as well as from the former neighbours of the Yugoslavian federation, and now the newly independent states, in their productions offered not so much a political, as a moral and ideological alternative to ethnic nationalism, militarism and political intolerance. Since 2006, in the independent Republic of Serbia, BITEF has strived not only to revive the traditions of Serbian theater, but also to preserve the best traditions of the theatrical art of the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, placing them in the context of the common European and global development of theater and culture, ideology and philosophy, literature, aesthetics, ethics. In principle opposing nationalism and militarism from the standpoint of humanism, BITEF plays an outstanding role in shaping public attitudes in Serbia, in weakening and overcoming conflicts, in normalizing relations between the peoples of the disintegrated Yugoslavia, in creating an atmosphere of freedom and tolerance.

ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC APPROACH TO SECONDARY BIOMATERIALS USAGE IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-110
Author(s):  
Natal'ya Yu. Sopilko ◽  
◽  
Ol'ga Yu. Myasnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Waste Biomass ◽  
Economic Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Plant Biomaterials

In the presented paper considers the issue associated with the depletion of traditional energy resources (coal, oil, peat, natural gas). Such a situation turns up in a process of their usage as a factor in the deterioration of the environmental situation in terms of Russian Federation transition to a model of a sustainable economic development. The article analyses the possibility of alternative raw materials using based on secondary plant biomaterials as a renewable substitute for the energy supply sources. A tendency of growth in the biomass consumption for energy generation in European countries, the USA, Canada is highlighted. The characteristics of the main economic advantages of its application are presented, along with a notion of the special importance of ecological component. The conducted research is a priority and promising direction for the world economy and energy, and the analysis of basic technical and economic features of various types of the waste biomass and the reasoning of its utilization ways can serve for its well-targeted and full-fledged usage as an energy resource.

Colonial system: balance and prospects after 1945 in the assessments of diplomats of the United States, the USSR and Great Britain

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 181-183
Author(s):  
Yaroslav Alexandrovich Levin
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Third World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Impact

The following paper deals with the views of the ambassadors of the USSR, the USA and Great Britain, expressed in telegrams for foreign affairs agencies. Rolling the world to a new global confrontation, the aggressive rhetoric of each participating country, specific actions to build up political and military capabilities required some kind of balanced assessment from experts who were well-versed in the political and social development of states that appeared after the Second World War on different sides of the barricade. In addition, the third world acquired special importance in the new conditions. The disintegration of the colonial system opened great prospects for each of the great powers. Therefore, besides the analyses of prospects and characteristics of relations between the USSR and Western countries, diplomats in their analytical reports affected the prospects for the development of the former colonies, as well as tried to forecast the actions of the probable enemy and the closest allies, comprehended the existing contradictions on this issue and tried to give some assessment, propose solutions to these problems. Considering the influence of the telegrams analyzed in the framework of this study on the formation of the Cold War, conclusions are drawn about the impact of assessments expressed by diplomats on the development of relations with the countries of the third world. The analysis of J. Kennan, N. Novikov and F. Roberts notes shows the difference in the approaches and understanding of each country, both its opponents and its allies, a different view of the process of decolonization and its prospects. The paper is based on the sources on the diplomatic history of the Cold War and on some references on the topic.

scholarly journals Russian fairy tales in the USA: Alexander Alexeieff’s graphic interpretation and Roman Jacobson’s scientific comprehension

Neophilology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 165-179
Author(s):  
Lola U. Zvonareva ◽  
Oleg V. Zvonarev
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Roman Jakobson ◽  
Artistic Images ◽  
First Time ◽  
Graphic Interpretation

We analyze the graphic commentaries of Alexander Alexeieff, the illustrator and the first wave emigrant, made for The Russian Fairy tales published in the USA in 1946. We believe A. Alexeieff to have been the second to illustrate The Russian Fairy tales in the USA as Ivan Bilibin, the eminent Russian painter and book illustrator had preceded him. A. Alekseev brought his vision of artistic images to the illustration of The Russian Fairy tales, combining ancient Slavonic motives with Christian symbolism. We assume the publication also to be unique as Roman Jakobson, the well-known philologist an ancient Slavonic and Russian folklore explorer wrote the foreword to the book being cited in Russian for the first time. Having briefly considered R. Jakobson’s life and creative work, we presume it to be quite logical Jacobson to have been baptized according to the Russian Orthodox tradition, as well as to have backed up the theory of Eurasianism. From this point of view, the analyzed edition of The Russian Fairy tales is holistic in content, harmoniously combining the traditional values of the cultural heritage of the Russian world and the work of outstanding figures that developed and propagated its values and enduring significance through their works.

Making Waves in Lonely Parallel: Evelyn Scott and Virginia Woolf

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce E. Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
English History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Evelyn Scott ◽  
American Author ◽  
Point To Point ◽  
The Waves

This essay concerns the parallel careers of English author Virginia Woolf and American author Evelyn Scott, focusing primarily on Woolf’s novel The Waves (1931) and on Scott’s The Wave (1929), a historical novel about the American Civil War. Despite their strikingly similar titles, these modernist novels have never been compared, likely due to their very different subject matter. This essay posits that both authors felt that history should be told through accounts of ordinary people; though Woolf’s planned book project of telling English history through obscure lives was never completed, Scott’s The Wave tells the history of the Civil War by shifting through the perspectives of numerous characters as the war transfers energy from point to point, person to person. Woolf’s The Waves is similarly composed as a series of “soliloquies” of six individuals; both texts focus on the wave as a transfer of energy from character to character. Both authors further use the concept of the wave to demonstrate individuals as both alienated and part of a collective, focusing on the theme of subjective experience amid a larger tide of human history. While these women writers shared such points of tangency throughout their careers, they never met or corresponded.

Mycobacterioses

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob Zinsstag ◽  
Borna Müller ◽  
Ivo Pavlik
Keyword(s):  
Bovine Tuberculosis ◽  
Meles Meles ◽  
Effective Control ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Mycobacterial Species ◽  
Wildlife Reservoirs ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Multiple Transmission

The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex MTC is composed of several species of mycobacteria which are M. tuberculosis, the main cause of human tuberculosis, M. canetti, M. africanum, M. microti, M. pinnipedii, M. caprae, and M. bovis. Cattle are the principal host of M. bovis, but a large number of other ruminants and other mammals, particularly wildlife are infected. Human tuberculosis is a global problem of huge proportions. More than 95% of human tuberculosis cases occur in developing and transition countries, of which one third are in Africa but the proportion of cases caused by M. bovis is still not known. Today, bovine tuberculosis (BTB) is re-emerging and threatens the livestock industry in industrialized countries with wildlife reservoirs like the wild tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in the USA or the badger (Meles meles) in the UK. Most developing countries lack the means and capacity for effective control of BTB. A better understanding of its epidemiology is required to identify novel, locally adapted options for control in a given context. BTB in Africa is emphasized here because of the special importance of multiple transmission interfaces between wildlife, livestock and humans.In addition to obligatory pathogenic mycobacteria (esp. members of the MTC), potentially pathogenic mycobacteria (PPM) previously designated as ‘mycobacteria other than tubercle bacilli’ (MOTT) are increasingly important causes of mycobacterioses in humans and animals. Most of them are opportunistic in humans and occur mostly in immunocompromised patients. The mycobacteria that cause human disease are both the M. avium complex (MAC) members and other mycobacterial species MAC members have been detected in more than 95% of cases; this chapter will mainly focus on M. avium subsp. avium, M. a. hominissuis, and M. intracellulare.

scholarly journals The Development of Future Technology Teachers’ Artistic-Projective Abilities: Foreign Experience

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-35
Author(s):  
Mykola Kurach
Keyword(s):  
Creative Work ◽  
Future Technology ◽  
Technology Teachers ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Psychological Mechanism ◽  
Creative Abilities ◽  
Divergent Behavior ◽  
Basic Features

Abstract The necessity to form and develop future technology teachers’ creative abilities has been stressed in the article. The psychologic-pedagogical researches of the leading specialists from Europe, the USA and Japan in the field of creative work and creativity have been analyzed. The main problems of the creative artistic-projective abilities development have been determined based on the analysis and synthesis of foreign and native philosophic, pedagogical and psychological literature dedicated to characteristics of such notions as “creative work” and “creativity”. Approaches and conceptions providing students – future technology teachers – with creative activities have been singled out. The gist of psychological mechanism for forming teachers’ creative personality has been established and its basic features have been determined as a result of the world experience of the theory and methods of creative abilities development generalization. The main features are as follows: an independence and an inclination towards divergent behavior; flexibility of thinking and readiness for everything new; motivation for self-actualization; striving for self-expressing and ability to creative work; ability to find out how to set and solve the problems. It has been mentioned that the technology teachers’ artistic-projective activity requires their creative abilities development, which, in their turn, are formed on the ground of well-developed general and special (art, projective, technological, pedagogical) potencies. Therefore, the effectiveness of the students’ art-projective knowledge and skills forming depends upon the extent their general, special and creative abilities have been developed. That is why skillful and pedagogically correct organization of future technology teachers’ artistic-projective activities will inevitably provide the higher qualitatively new level of their creative abilities and creativity.

scholarly journals “Dear TD”: Ruth Epperson Kennell-Theodore Dreiser Correspondence, 1928-1929

2021 ◽  
pp. 289-423
Author(s):  
Olga Yu. Panova
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Russian Translation ◽  
Theodore Dreiser ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Personal Assistant ◽  
Taking Care

During his travel to the Soviet Union (November 4, 1927 — January 13, 1928) and on his return to the USA Theodore Dreiser was keeping in touch and dealing with Soviet literary institutions, periodicals and his Russian acquaints — publishers, editors, critics, etc. Ruth Epperson Kennell (1889 –1977) played an important role in making and maintaining these contacts in late 1920s-early 1930s. Ruth Kennell, who spent almost ten years in the Soviet Union, was a reference librarian (1925 –1927) in the Comintern Library in Moscow. On November 4, 1927 she got acquainted with Dreiser and was hired by him to serve as his secretary and guide as he toured the Soviet Union. Her role as a “Russian secretary”, personal assistant and friend is depicted in Dreiser’s Russian Diary and Kennell’s memoir Theodore Dreiser and the Soviet Union (1969) as well as in their correspondence that lasted till Dreiser’s death. Kennell continued to take part in Dreiser’s life and creative work in the USA, especially during the years that immediately followed their return from the USSR. The paper dwells at some length on Kennell’s biography, her role in publishing Dreiser’s work in the Soviet Union and USA, her work as an editor, critic and reviewer. Kennel had a long and varied writing career, and Dreiser helped her to start write and publish fiction. Their correspondence portrays Dreiser as a patron taking care of a young author and promoting her work. Kennell’s letters to Dreiser (1928 –1929) stored in the Manusсript Division of A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature are published in the addendum together with the Russian translation of several Dreiser’s letters to Kennell included in Theodore Dreiser: Letters to Women. New Letters (2009).

scholarly journals Dostoevsky, Siberia, and the Russian Person in Donna Tartt’s Novel The Goldfinch

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Turysheva
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Considerable Importance ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
The Road ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
American Author

This article considers the Russian motifs present in the narrative of The Goldfinch (2014), a novel by the American author Donna Tartt. These include the depiction of the main character’s Russian friend, allusions to the creative work of Dostoevsky, the interpretation of his novel The Idiot made by the characters, and a detail testifying to the Siberian descent of the second main character. The author makes an attempt to analyse previously unstudied motifs connecting the story of the character with the Russian context. More particularly, she substantiates the importance of Boris Pavlikovsky’s Siberian roots. The author concludes that Tartt portrays the Russian person not only as a complex of stereotypes found in culture but in close connection with the Russian literary tradition. The article combines immanent analysis of text with hermeneutic, mythopoetical, intermedial, and intertextual methods. The author concludes that by referring to the Siberian descent of the second main character, Tartt introduces the Siberian myth into the receptive context of her novel formed on the basis of the whole corpus of Russian literature. It is a myth of Siberia as a space of liminal death and Christological initiation (acc. to V. I. Tyupa). It is proved that relying on this mythologeme makes it possible for the reader to decode the underlying semantics of the novel. It relates to the idea of the resurrection of the character facing the tragedy of death. The plot of The Goldfinch is interpreted as a plot of returning to life through the experience of staying in the land of the dead, crime, and dying. Additionally, the author analyses the function of motifs connected with Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot. It is not only present as an allusion in Tartt’s work but as an object of the characters’ reflection. For Theo Decker, this reflection results in the acceptance of Dostoevsky’s idea of the resurrection of a great sinner. It is demonstrated that relying on his perception of Dostoevsky’s works, the character realises the circular plot of accepting life and redemption. This interpretation makes it possible to reconstruct the evangelical subtext of the novel. The novel’s ekphrastic aspect also proves it by means of the character’s reflection on The Goldfinch, a painting by Carel Fabritius. Apart from the liminal chronotope, the author analyses other chronotopes of the character that are also of considerable importance: the Christmas chronotope and the road chronotope. The poetological peculiarities revealed prove that Tartt’s works belong to the genre tradition of Bildungsroman (initiation novel). This is illustrated by other images of Dostoevsky’s works, including the ones Tartt used in her first novel The Secret History (1992).

scholarly journals Current issues and development tendencies of the right to a healthy environment in the EU law

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-204
Author(s):  
Bojan Tubić ◽  
Stefan Radojčić
Keyword(s):  
Legal Framework ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Eu

In the light of current global tendencies and a concern for the issue of environmental protection, this paper aims to provide an analysis of most important issues in this field, within the EU Law. Elements of the right to a healthy environment are systematically regulated in the communitarian law. First, there is a long-standing normative activity of these issues, which in the last two years resulted in the adoption of new strategic documents. Second, jurisprudence of the ECJ has also followed development of the legislation, as well as circumstances in which those documents have been applied. Therefore, special attention is drawn to the newly-adopted general acts, created with long-term aims, and based on normative and factual experience over past decades. Its purpose is to achieve sustainable development goals in a multidimensional manner. Furthermore, an analysis of selected judgments of the ECJ shows the efficiency in application of relevant regulations and directives. Moreover, the interpretation of the EU law is of special importance, where the ECJ has a significant role. With regard to the universal character of this topic, the paper provides a short overview of the relevant legal framework in the USA, Norway and Serbia. Negotiations on the joining the EU imply the harmonization of domestic law with the standards of the communitarian law. By observing the Serbian environmental legal framework, it could be said that there is determination and concrete measures in the process of harmonization. On the basis of previously mentioned issues, authors structured the paper and aspects of the research contained therein, followed by the conclusions provided in the final chapter.

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