scholarly journals POST-POSTMODERN CHANGE OF SENSIBILITY IN PAUL AUSTER’S SUNSET PARK

2021 ◽  
pp. 173-184
Author(s):  
Jesús Bolaño Quintero
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Processing Modes

At the turn of the millennium, the young writers of the New Sincerity movement tried to create a new realist literature by getting rid of the destructive power of postmodern irony. The consecrated writers of the old postmodern guard, whose Weltanschauung was conformed to the style and the relativistic reality-processing modes of the previous paradigm, saw this change with scepticism. Nevertheless, there was a change in their sensibility when approaching certain themes. This article analyses Paul Auster’s Sunset Park as paradigmatic example of that shift in order to shed some light on its nature.

Christian unity: the search for ways to achieve

2001 ◽  
pp. 91-100
Author(s):  
Yu. Ye. Reshetnikov
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
The Press ◽  
Christian Unity ◽  
Future Policy

Last year, the anniversary of all Christianity, witnessed a number of significant events caused by a new interest in understanding the problem of the unity of the Christian Church on the turn of the millennium. Due to the confidentiality of Ukraine, some of these events have or will have an immediate impact on Christianity in Ukraine and on the whole Ukrainian society as a whole. Undoubtedly, the main event, or more enlightened in the press, is a new impetus to the unification of the UOC-KP and the UAOC. But we would like to focus on two documents relating to the problem of Christian unity, the emergence of which was almost unnoticed by the wider public. But at the same time, these documents are too important as they outline the future policy of other Christian denominations by two influential Ukrainian christian churches - the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. These are the "Basic Principles of the attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church to the" I ", adopted by the Anniversary Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Concept of the Ecumenical Position of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, adopted by the Synod of the Bishops of the UGCC. It is clear that the theme of the second document is wider, but at the same time, ecumenism, unification is impossible without solving the problem of relations with others, which makes it possible to compare the approaches laid down in the mentioned documents to the building of relations with other Christian confessions.

Ecology, Dharma and Direct Action: A Brief Survey of Contemporary Eco-Buddhist Activism in Korea

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-311
Author(s):  
Young-Hae Yoon ◽  
Sherwin Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Engagement ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Hunger Strike ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Reclamation Project ◽  
Self Immolation

Over the last few decades there has emerged a small, yet influential eco-Buddhism movement in South Korea which, since the turn of the millennium, has seen several S?n (J. Zen) Buddhist clerics engage in high-profile protests and activism campaigns opposing massive development projects which threatened widespread ecological destruction. This article will survey the issues and events surrounding three such protests; the 2003 samboilbae, or ‘threesteps- one-bow’, march led by Venerable Suky?ng against the Saemangeum Reclamation Project, Venerable Jiyul’s Anti-Mt. Ch?ns?ng tunnel hunger-strike campaign between 2002 and 2006, and lastly Venerable Munsu’s self-immolation protesting the Four Rivers Project in 2010. This article will additionally analyze the attempts by these clerics to deploy innovative and distinctively Buddhist forms of protest, the effects of these protests, and how these protests have altered public perceptions of the role of Buddhist clergy in Korean society. This study will additionally highlight issues relevant to the broader discourse regarding the intersection of Buddhism and social activism, such as the appropriation of traditional Buddhist practices as protest tactics and the potential for conflict between social engagement and the pursuit of Buddhist soteriological goals.

The Past, Present, and Future of Accounting History

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-40
Author(s):  
Derek Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Downward Trend ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Accounting History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Death Rattle ◽  
Secular Decline

ABSTRACT This paper seeks to establish statistically and explain the past, present, and likely future of accounting history. The article is based on a recently constructed database of publications in accounting history from 1989 to 2016. The data reveal that the output of accounting history articles grew very rapidly in the 1980s and 1990s attributed to the increased demand from the profession for accountancy teaching in universities, out of which emerged a relatively small number of accountancy academics who took an interest in history. From the turn of the millennium the output of articles has gone into a slow secular decline largely because the growth of accountancy teaching at universities has stalled. If the downward trend continues, the viability of the discipline is threatened. However, action might be taken at least to slow the “death rattle” of accounting history feared by Radcliffe; and some suggestions for doing so are made.

Economies of Prestige and the Editorial Program Era: Literary Sociology and Tim Groenland's The Art of Editing

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 502-507
Author(s):  
DANIEL ROBERT KING
Keyword(s):  
History Of The Book ◽  
First Century ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Literary Marketplace ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literary Sociology ◽  
Significant Figures ◽  
Sociological Studies

Tim Groenland's The Art of Editing is an exciting new addition to the field of literary sociology, making a valuable contribution to a discipline which has seen a resurgence since the turn of the millennium. In his seminal early work in the field, John Sutherland traces the origins of this kind of publishing history to Robert Escarpit's Sociology of Literature (1958), which he describes as the beginning of “modern, serious work” in considering the effects of the literary marketplace on the fiction of a particular era. However, it is the first two decades of the twenty-first century that have seen the most significant growth in sociological studies of literary production, a trend that Alan Liu calls “the resurgent history of the book.” This is a “resurgence” that Liu argues has resulted in “restoring to view … vital nodes in the circuit” of literary production, including “editors, publishers, translators, booksellers,” and many others. This recent growth in scholarly interest in the production and circulation of literary texts includes other significant figures such as James F. English, Mark McGurl, John B. Thompson, Loren Glass, Paul Crosthwaite, and David D. Hall.

The Law and Economics of the Going-Public Decision

2018 ◽  
pp. 26-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay B. Kesten
Keyword(s):  
Initial Public Offering ◽  
Law And Economics ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Going Public ◽  
Public Offerings ◽  
Secular Decline ◽  
The Law ◽  
Public Offering ◽  
Macroeconomic Determinants ◽  
Public Decision

An initial public offering (IPO) is one of the most important events in the life cycle of a developing firm. The decision to “go public,” however, is complicated by the persistently cyclical market for public offerings. This chapter analyzes the macroeconomic determinants of IPO market cyclicality alongside the strategic and corporate governance considerations faced by private firms, arising from the costs and benefits of going public. The law and economics of the going-public decision also are relevant to the secular decline in IPOs since the turn of the millennium. This chapter evaluates several competing and complementary hypotheses that attempt to explain this phenomenon, each of which relies at least in part on the various features of the going-public decision-making process.

Standardization, Bureaucratization, and Convergence: The Transformation of Governance of Religion in Urbanizing China

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Xiaoxuan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Religious Life ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
State Initiatives ◽  
Chinese State ◽  
Scholarly Attention

This article explores critical shifts in the governance of religion amid massive urbanization and technological advances in contemporary China. Since the turn of the millennium, along with rapid urban transformation, the Chinese state has greatly expanded its reach into and surveillance of religious communities. At the same time, tensions between state initiatives and religious communities have come to the forefront of public attention. So far, scholarly attention has mostly focused on the repression of religious communities, especially Christians. The goal of this article is to highlight broader transitions in the ways religion is governed in China and to reflect on how these transitions should be understood alongside the government's social and political agendas. The advancement of technologies and the extension of the bureaucratic system to maintain control of a rapidly urbanizing society, I argue, have brought about a “technological turn” of secularism in China, which will have a far-reaching impact on religious life.

Gravity and magnetic methods at the turn of the millennium

Geophysics ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. O. Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Magnetic Methods ◽  
Maximum Value ◽  
Gravity And Magnetic ◽  
New Instrumentation ◽  
New Instruments

Innovation in the 1980s and 1990s has been dominated by new instrumentation. Only recently has processing and interpretation technology appeared which will extract the maximum value from the new instruments. In the following sections, the instrumentation advances are outlined. Processing and interpretation advances are sketched in the last section.

The Possibility of Manufacturing Long-Length Metal Products with Ultra-Fine Grain Structure by Combination of Strain Effects

2016 ◽  
Vol 685 ◽  
pp. 487-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikhail Chukin ◽  
Marina Polyakova ◽  
Alexandr Gulin ◽  
Olga Nikitenko
Keyword(s):  
Steel Wire ◽  
Continuous Method ◽  
Grain Structure ◽  
Strain Effect ◽  
Strain Effects ◽  
Fine Grain ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Processing Modes ◽  
Efficiency Estimation ◽  
Metal Products

It is shown that combination of strain effects leads to possessing the ultra-fine grain structure in carbon wire. The continuous method of wire deformation nanostructuring was developed on the basis of simultaneous applying of tension deformation by drawing, bending deformation when going through the system of rolls and torsional deformation on a continuously moving wire. One of the main advantages of the developed method is that various hardware devices and tools already applied for steel wire production can be used to implement this method thus simplifying its introduction to the current industrial equipment. The efficiency estimation of the developed continuous method of deformation nanostructuring was carried out using carbon wire with different carbon content. It is shown that the mechanical properties of the wire after combination of different kinds of strain can vary over a wide range. This method makes it possible to choose such modes of strain effect, which can provide the necessary combination of strength and ductile properties of carbon wire depending on its further processing modes and application.

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