scholarly journals Dissertation defense board of St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture: 1938−2018

2019 ◽  
pp. 106-114
Author(s):  
T. Zakharchuk ◽  
A. Gruzova
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Political Education ◽  
State Institute ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Petersburg State Institute ◽  
American States ◽  
History Of ◽  
Education Today ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Dissertation Defense

The history of the first in the country dissertation defense board, established at the N. K. Krupskaya Communist Institute of Political Education (today – St.Petersburg State Institute of Culture) is examined. The Board was established to review the theses in librarianship and bibliography. The analysis is based on the bibliography of dissertations defended during 80 years: the bibliography comprises 592 works. The main historical stages of the board are characterized; data on the number of doctor and candidate defenses during various periods is given. Several doctorate theses that made serious impact in the library and information sector are characterized; the geography of degree applicants (USSR republics, Asian, African, Latin American states) is analyzed; the subject scope of their investigations is discussed. The main research vectors and the most efficient supervisors are named. The author reveals the links between the defended dissertations and the Institute’s area of studies and scholar schools in the library and information sciences. The reasons for decreasing number of theses and changing subject scope are discussed.

LITERARY ROMANTICISM AS A THEORETICAL ISSUE

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Vera V. Serdechnaia ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Theoretical Issue ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

The article is devoted to the analysis of the concept of literary romanticism. The research aims at a refinement of the “romanticism” concept in relation to the history of the literary process. The main research methods include conceptual analysis, textual analysis, comparative historical research. The author analyzes the semantic genesis of the term “romanticism”, various interpretations of the concept, compares the definitions of different periods and cultures. The main results of the study are as follows. The history of the term “romanticism” shows a change in a number of definitions for the same concept in relation to the same literary phenomena. By the end of the 20th century, realizing the existence of significant contradictions in the content of the term “romanticism”, researchers often come to abandon it. At the same time, the steady use of the term “romanticism” testifies to the subject-conceptual component that exists in it, which does not lose its relevance, but just needs a theoretical refinement. Conclusion: one have to revise an approach to romanticism as a theoretical concept, based on the change in the concept of an individual in Europe at the end of the 18th century. It is the newly discovered freedom of an individual predetermines the rethinking for the image of the author as a creator and determines the artistic features of literary romanticism.

Political Development and Socioeconomic Development: The Case of Latin America

1968 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 889-897 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin C. Needler
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
Past History ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Latin American Countries

One way of acquiring insight into the processes of political development in Latin America is to compare the countries of the area systematically in terms of the “degree of development” which each can be said to have attained. Ideally, such an enterprise can lead to the understanding of the past history of the “more developed” countries by reference to the present problems of the “less developed” while an understanding of the problems confronting the more developed countries can make possible a glimpse into the future of those now less developed. Isolation of the factors responsible for a state's being more or less developed can moreover prove instructive for the understanding of the relations between political and socioeconomic phenomena.Perhaps most important, such comparisons provide the means for holding constant effects attributable to characteristics shared by all, or nearly all, of the Latin American countries. Thus it can be argued with much plausibility that military intervention in politics, say, derives from elements in the Hispanic tradition. Yet it is clear that the frequency of military intervention varies from country to country, even where they share equally in that tradidition. Thus one is forced to go beyond the “Hispanic tradition” thesis with which the investigation might otherwise have come to rest.In the present article I will be concerned with the problem of the relation of political development to socioeconomic development in the Latin American context. For reasons that will become apparent below, I will not at this point attempt a rigorous analysis of the concept of political development, which has already been the subject of a large and rapidly growing literature.

The Hispanist in the American Historical Association

1964 ◽  
Vol 20 (04) ◽  
pp. 393-406
Author(s):  
John Tate Lanning
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American History ◽  
American Historical Association ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
First Response ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

The following address was presented at the luncheon meeting of the Conference on Latin American History of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia on December 29, 1963. Before you bombard with the china and charge with the cutlery, know that I have taken counsel with my peers. My topic I put to them with a plea that they give me a judgment of my theme, or some notion of the tack I should take. “Singularly barren, your theme,” came the first response. Said the next: “You ask for a tack; I suggest a sledge hammer.” Awesome, though, was this: “If you say what ought to be said, you will be crucified; and if you don’t, can you be pleased with that?” “If you can do it undetected, slide off the subject,” advised a wily one. Another, though he discounted them, had heard rumbles, womblings I take to spring from the viscera, not the head. The secretaries of our academy assure me, however, that these infirmities, already affecting the skin, often break out in a rash upon their records.

scholarly journals TANGO AS THE EPISTEME OF LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL UNIVERSUM IN THE POETIC FANTASY OF THE RUSSIAN EMIGRANT POET ANDREI SHIRIAEV

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Fokina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Search For Self ◽  
Open Process ◽  
Latin American Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Under Construction

The relevance of the lifted problem is caused as the interest of a modern philological thought in a phenomenon of the writer emigrant, and attention in aspects of Dionysian attitudes of literary artists. In the article research search is directed to studying of A. Shiryaev's interpretation of the tango phenomenon as the semiosis of passion and the epistem of Argentine culture. The open process represents at this stage the knowledge of the poetic heritage of the modern emigrant poet A. Shiryaev and requires close attention. The subject of analysis was the process of a mythologization by poetic consciousness of the poet emigrant of history of tragic death of the legendary performer of a tango Carlos Gardel. A. Shiryaev is creates the author's version of the myth about an idol of Argentina. The novelty of the presented material is due to the lack of study of strategies for identifying the author's consciousness of A. Shiryaev as an emigrant poet in the framework of the mastery of mythology and epistles of Latin American culture. The methodology of the study was the establishment of the poet's author's myth about the search for self-identification. The purpose of article is to reveal as in poem by A. Shiryaev «The Creole Thrush Sings Better and Better Every Day …» under construction as paraphrases of the glorified and tragic biography of Carlos Gardel. Reading of author's connotations is presented to interpretations of an image of the female phantom – madam Ivonne. The emphasized sexuality of Madame Ivonne is supplemented by the transformation of erotic codes into gastronomic codes. This subtext level is something like the author's comment. In the Shiryaev poetic fantasy, the metaphor of cannibalism is realized almost literally as an opportunity to eat Madame Ivonne the "flesh" of the burned Gardel. This aspect highlights demonic connotations in heroin, emphasizing the theme of vampirism. The study made it possible to draw the following conclusions. Pronounced metaphorical potential of lyrics of A. Shiryaev is the evidence of proximity author's consciousness of the poet emigrant of elements mysteriological Dionysian a discourse. The poetic myth by A. Shiryaev is characterized by proximity to Dionysian type of attitude and the transgressive nature of author's consciousness of the poet emigrant.

scholarly journals The impact of graphic works of Giovanni Battista Piranesi upon the formation of conceptual architecture and real architectural space

2020 ◽  
pp. 10-18
Author(s):  
Aleksei Yur'evich Lysenkov ◽  
Liliya Faatovna Lysenkova
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Art And Architecture

The subject of this research is the graphic heritage of the prominent Venetian master of the XVIII century Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The goal consists in examination of the role of Piranesi’s heritage in history of art and architecture. The author demonstrates the key milestones of his creative path, reveals the fundamental conceptual questions and themes of his graphic compositions. The defining influence of the depicted architectural compositions of Piranesi on the formation of one or another architectural object is viewed on the particular historical examples. The main research method consists in drawing parallels and designation of continuity of architectural ideas between the works of Giovanni Battista Piranesi and such architects successors as Joseph Paxton, Antonio Sant'Elia, Tony Garnier, Pietro di Gottardo Gonzaga, Ivan Leonidov, etc. The scientific novelty and practical importance of the article lies in tracing the trajectory of influence of the ideas, themes and architectural-spatial solutions of the great aquafortist upon his contemporaries and all following generations of architects. Particular historical examples demonstrate the defining influence of the depicted architectural compositions of Piranesi on the formation of one or another architectural object, as well as the emergence of famous conceptual architectural projects (including projects-utopias) in historical retrospective until the present time.

‘Victim of Improvisation’ in Latin America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfredo Michel Modenessi
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Common Factors ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
History Of ◽  
Independent Life ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Comprehensive Framework ◽  
Future Work

The history of Shakespeare in Latin America spans roughly the same two hundred years as the region’s independent life. Throughout, his works have been the object of performance, translation, and adaptation more than of academic study and discussion. This essay offers a comprehensive framework for application to future work on the subject of Shakespeare performance in Latin America. The chief theoretical tools undepinning the essay are Haroldo de Campos and Silviano Santiago’s elaborations on ‘transcreation’, ‘cultural anthropophagy’, and ‘in-betweenness’. To outline significant common factors among Shakespeare performances in Latin America’s twenty Spanish-speaking nations, the chapter discusses two examples in depth: the first, a simple but powerful Mexican adaptation called Mendoza (2011); the second, an Italian documentary of a Cuban performance called Shakespeare in Avana: Altri Romeo, Altre Giuliette (2010). These analyses suggest the strengths of other Latin American acts of performance based on the complex phenomenon called Shakespeare.

‘Responsibility of the Great Ones’: How the Organization of American States and the United Nations Helped Resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 883-904
Author(s):  
Renata Keller
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Cuban Missile Crisis ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
American States ◽  
History Of ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Latin American Countries

AbstractThis article draws on an international assemblage of sources to recover the history of the involvement of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations (UN) in the Cuban missile crisis. It argues that, through the mechanisms of the OAS and the UN, Latin American citizens and officials helped shape the peaceful outcome of the crisis. This article challenges dismissive portrayals of both Latin American countries and multilateral organisations and, in so doing, joins the growing literature on how supposedly weak Latin American countries have used international organisations to influence world affairs.

U.S.-Panamanian Relations since 1941

1970 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lester D. Langley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
American States ◽  
Economic Sphere ◽  
History Of ◽  
Latin American Countries ◽  
Postwar Decade

Since 1941 United States relations with Latin American countries have fluctuated between the ofñcial cordiality of wartime cooperation, which provided the basis for the Organization of American States and the Rio Treaty, and deep-seated hostility and malaise, which erupted in the Nixon visit and in Castro's revolution, as well as in more recent unpleasant incidents. Latin American leaders have contended that the United States violated its wartime commitments, particularly in the economic sphere, by concentrating on the recovery of Europe in the first postwar decade and on Asian upheaval in the second. The history of U.S.-Panamanian relations since 1941 provides an excellent case study in order to test the validity of these contentions.

Judicial Interactions and Human Rights Contestations in Latin America

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Contesse
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Courts ◽  
American States ◽  
History Of ◽  
Potential Mode ◽  
International Adjudication

Abstract The Inter-American Court of Human Rights is one of the world's most active human rights tribunals. Through an impressive history of case law, the Court has exerted significant influence upon Latin American states. In recent years, however, states and domestic national courts have challenged the Inter-American Court's authority in more complex and potentially more damaging ways than in the past. By exploring how the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has expanded its reach upon states, and how states engage in turn, the Article examines ways of interaction that can enhance or debilitate the Court's authority and influence on states. The Article explores recent dissents as a potential mode of resistance, especially when coupled with states' unease towards international adjudication and suggests ways in which the Court may respond to such challenges in order to protect and enhance its authority.

scholarly journals PORTRAIT OF A POLITICAL LIBERATION THEOLOGIAN: LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND THE MAKING OF ABEL MUZOREWA’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SUBJECTIVITY IN RISE UP AND WALK

Imbizo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-109
Author(s):  
Hazel Tafadzwa Ngoshi
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Textual Production ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Liberation Theologian

 Autobiographical subjects are products of their experiential histories, memories, agency and the discourses of their time lived and time of textual production. This article explores the religious and political discursive economy in which Abel Muzorewa (former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia) narrates the story of his life and how this discursive context constructs his autobiographical subjectivity. The article examines how Muzorewa’s religious beliefs – com­bined with his experiential history of being a colonial subject – are deployed as a strategy of constructing his subjectivity. I argue that the discursive contexts of mass nationalism and his Christian religious beliefs grounded in Latin American liberation theology construct both Mu­zorewa as the subject of Rise up and walk and the narrative discourse. The article posits that the narrative tropes derived from Christian texts that Muzorewa deploys mediate his identity, and that his selfhood emerges with the unfolding of the narrative. What he claims to be politi­cal pragmatism on his part is also inspired by the practical theology which he subscribes to. I argue that his subjectivity is complexly realised through the contradictory relationship between missionary theology and liberation theology.

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