scholarly journals Interpodes: Poland, Tom Keneally and Australian Literary History

Text Matters ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 169-179
Author(s):  
Paul Sharrad
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Home Market ◽  
New Markets ◽  
Reader Responses ◽  
Translation Rights ◽  
Literary Publishing ◽  
Australian History ◽  
Schindler's List ◽  
At Home

This article is framed by a wider interest in how literary careers are made: what mechanisms other than the personal/biographical and the text-centred evaluations of scholars influence a writer’s choices in persisting in building a succession of works that are both varied and yet form a consistently recognizable “brand.” Translation is one element in the wider network of “machinery” that makes modern literary publishing. It is a marker of success that might well keep authors going despite lack of sales or negative reviews at home. Translation rights can provide useful supplementary funds to sustain a writer’s output. Access to new markets overseas might also inspire interest in countries and topics other than their usual focus or the demands of their home market. The Australian novelist and playwright Thomas Keneally achieved a critical regard for fictions of Australian history within a nationalist cultural resurgence, but to make a living as a writer he had to keep one eye on overseas markets as well. While his work on European topics has not always been celebrated at home, he has continued to write about them and to find readers in languages other than English. Poland features in a number of Keneally’s books and is one of the leading sources of translation for his work. The article explores possible causes and effects around this fact, and surveys some reader responses from Poland. It notes the connections that Keneally’s Catholic background and activist sympathies allow to modern Polish history and assesses the central place of his Booker-winning Schindler’s Ark filmed as Schindler’s List.

Breaking fresh ground: New Impulses in Australian Poetry, an anthology

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-257
Author(s):  
Jim Berryman
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Market Potential ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Literary Publishing ◽  
New Type ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractNew Impulses in Australian Poetry was an anthology of contemporary Australian poetry published in Brisbane in 1968. The book was the idea of two Queensland poets, Rodney Hall and Thomas Shapcott. New Impulses was modelled on international modern poetry anthologies. At the time, this type of anthology was unfamiliar in Australia. Hall and Shapcott declared their intentions in modernist terms: to challenge the literary establishment and to promote the new poetry of the 1960s. It was a new type of anthology for a new type of poetry. This article explores the anthology's Queensland origins and examines its modern themes and influences. It concludes with a discussion of the anthology's impact and legacy from the perspective of Australian literary history, especially the ‘New Australian Poetry’, which it prefigured. In addition to its literary significance, New Impulses was an Australian publishing milestone. The book was the first poetry anthology published by University of Queensland Press. Its success demonstrated the market potential for literary publishing in Australia.

The Consolatio ad Liuiam and literary history

2020 ◽  
pp. 223-241
Author(s):  
S. J. Heyworth
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Historical Information

The Consolatio ad Liuiam appears in the 1460s and is attributed to Ovid. It describes the circumstances surrounding Drusus’ death in 9 BC, addressing his family before turning to consolation, particularly of Livia. The versification indicates that it is not by Ovid, but it may still be contemporary. The poem sets itself soon after the funeral, but is it conceived as genuine consolation, a rhetorical exercise, or a commentary on the Julio-Claudian era? The historical information in the poem is strikingly accurate; by comparison of it with Dio, it becomes clear that the Consolatio could easily have been written in the immediate aftermath of Drusus’ death. The poem may thus take a central place in Augustan literary history, alluding to several poets and the early works of Ovid, but itself alluded to by Ovid in exile. The chapter considers some cases in detail, showing that the chains of allusion may plausibly be read so.

scholarly journals Risk of self-Injury by Patients using Video Otoendoscopes Aimed at home Market

2022 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-02
Author(s):  
Waqas Jamil
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Foreign Bodies ◽  
Home Market ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
At Home

These are powered by USB attachments and can be viewed on mobile phones or home PCs. They are targeted at the home market for examination of ears, nose, and mouths and even some sellers advocate using their use on pets too. They often come with attachments to allow ear cleaning of waand removal of foreign bodies etc. These are available on various online seller websites and can cost as little as £11.

Exploring Corporate Culture and Strategy: Sainsbury at Home and Abroad during the Early to Mid 1990s

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 921-940 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Shackleton
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Corporate Strategy ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
Home Market ◽  
Food Retailing ◽  
Food Retailer ◽  
The Uk ◽  
At Home

In this paper the UK food retailer, J Sainsbury pic, is used as an example to illustrate the intimate power relationship between corporate culture and corporate strategy, and it is argued that corporate culture plays a key role in determining the economic performance of firms. Specifically, it is shown how corporate culture can concurrently be advantageous and burdensome within the same firm. Indeed, it is argued that the strength of Sainsbury's corporate culture prevented it from reacting to competitive changes rocking its ‘home’ market in the early 1990s. However, the very corporate culture that was becoming increasingly inappropriate within the UK food retailing market was being successfully employed ‘abroad’ by Sainsbury. In the paper it is demonstrated that the ‘Sainsburyisation’ of its US subsidiary, Shaw's Supermarkets, released Shaw's from its limited trajectory of growth. It is suggested that this move will allow Shaw's to become an increasingly important source of capital accumulation for the Sainsbury Group once opportunities within the ‘home’ market decline further.

Competition at home and foreign market entry timing

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Skylar Powell
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Market ◽  
Foreign Market Entry ◽  
Home Market ◽  
Competitive Intensity ◽  
Competitive Position ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Dominant Firms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Relative Profitability ◽  
At Home

PurposeResearch has identified inverted U-shaped relationships between domestic competitive position, often cast in terms of home-country market share or relative profitability, and speed of entry into a foreign market. However, in some industries, firms may be especially attentive and responsive to competition between firms in their local-home market (i.e. sub-national). Hence, this study aims to explore the effect of local-home market competitive intensity on the relationship between a firm’s overall competitive position and speed of entry into a foreign market.Design/methodology/approachData from 114 large US corporate law firms from 1992 through 2008 were used for Cox proportional-hazards regression models to estimate the moderating effect of local-home market competitive intensity on the relationship between relative profitability at the national level and speed of entry (i.e. hazard rate) into China.FindingsLess-dominant firms from highly competitive local-home markets entered China more quickly than less-dominant firms from less-competitive local-home markets. In addition, first-movers from highly competitive local-home markets tended to have more advantageous competitive profiles, as reflected in profitability, than first-movers from less-competitive local-home markets.Originality/valueThis research explores an important contingency in the relationship between a firm’s competitive position at home and timing of entry into a foreign market. Additionally, the results suggest that first-movers from less-competitive local-home markets may face immediate competition from better-positioned first-movers from more competitive locations within the same home market when they enter new markets.

End of the spice era.

2021 ◽  
pp. 289-299
Author(s):  
James F. Hancock
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
High Status ◽  
New Markets ◽  
Dramatic Shift ◽  
At Home

Abstract As the Dutch and English battled at home and abroad, the major trade commodities also underwent a dramatic shift. Changes in tastes and political climates in Europe caused the profitability of the spices to fall precipitously. This led the VOC and the EIC to seek new markets including cotton, coffee, opium and tea. It was in the middle of the seventeenth century that European interest in spices began to wane. In fact, there was an oversupply of pepper by mid-century, which dropped prices by about 40% compared with that which the Portuguese and then the VOC had long been able to maintain (Lunde, 2005). After a peak of seven million kilograms of pepper imported in 1670, levels fell to about three-and-a-half million kilograms in 1688 (Krondle, 2007). Pepper had lost its status as an exotic luxury in Europe and was now more or less a mundane commodity. The other spices held their high status longer, but they too began to lose their glow by the end of the seventeenth century.

scholarly journals A Critique of the Militarisation of Australian History and Culture Thesis: The Case of Anzac Battlefield Tourism

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim McKay
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Military History ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
Australian History ◽  
Battlefield Tourism ◽  
At Home

This paper analyses the militarisation of Australian history and culture thesis with specific reference to the increasing popularity of Anzac battlefield tourism. I argue that the militarisation thesis contains ontological and epistemological flaws that render it incapable of understanding the multifaceted ways in which Australians experience Anzac battlefield tours. I then argue that in order to study how Australians both at home and overseas respond to the upcoming Anzac Centenary researchers will need to deploy an empirically-grounded and multidisciplinary framework. I demonstrate how proponents of militarisation: (1) ignore the polymorphous properties of Anzac myths; (2) are complicit with constructions of ‘moral panics’ about young Australian tourists; (3) overlook the reflexive capacities of teachers, students and tourists with respect to military history and battlefield tours; and (4) disregard the complex and contradictory aspects of visits to battlefields. My counter-narrative relies both on Stuart Hall’s work on popular culture and empirical studies of battlefield tourism from myriad disciplines.

Corporate Sustainability: Challenge to Managerial Orthodoxies

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dexter Dunphy
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
Sustainability Management

ABSTRACTThis paper addresses the issue of corporate sustainability. It examines why achieving sustainability is becoming an increasingly vital issue for society and organisations, defines sustainability and then outlines a set of phases through which organisations can move to achieve increasing levels of sustainability. Case studies are presented of organisations at various phases indicating the benefits, for the organisation and its stakeholders, which can be made at each phase. Finally the paper argues that there is a marked contrast between the two competing philosophies of neo-conservatism (economic rationalism) and the emerging philosophy of sustainability. Management schools have been strongly influenced by economic rationalism, which underpins the traditional orthodoxies presented in such schools. Sustainability represents an urgent challenge for management schools to rethink these traditional orthodoxies and give sustainability a central place in the curriculum.

Systematic Modification of Parental Input to Train Language Symbols

1981 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Culatta ◽  
Donna Horn
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Meaningful Use ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Parental Input ◽  
Language Exposure ◽  
Therapy Sessions ◽  
Impaired Children ◽  
Hearing Impaired Children ◽  
At Home

This study attempted to maximize environmental language learning for four hearing-impaired children. The children's mothers were systematically trained to present specific language symbols to their children at home. An increase in meaningful use of these words was observed during therapy sessions. In addition, as the mothers began to generalize the language exposure strategies, an increase was observed in the children's use of words not specifically identified by the clinician as targets.

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