scholarly journals SCRIITORI ROMÂNI DE EXPRESIE STRĂINĂ TRADUCĂTORI AI OPERELOR ROMÂNEŞTI: CAZUL ANDREI CODRESCU

2021 ◽  
pp. 285-295
Author(s):  
Luiza MARINESCU ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Host Country ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Foreign Country ◽  
National Literature ◽  
American Writer ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Literary Histories ◽  
Romanian Literature ◽  
National Literatures

The literary tradition and the production of literary histories has long focused upon “national literature,” which is to say those works written in the tongue of the country in question. As a result, writers of Romanian origin who lived in a foreign country and wrote in the language of their host country were often overlooked by Romanian critics, because such writers were considered to be exponents of the national literatures of the foreign countries in which they resided. In the case of Romanian literature, there are several generations of writers of multilingual expression, and the above dynamic has proven to be the case for a very long time. Throughout the centuries, the language of administration and culture was often different from Romanian vernacular, and the writers who managed to become internationally known were those writing in the language of culture rather than those writing in Romanian. This study analyzes the work of Andrei Codrescu, a Romanian-American writer who managed to transform his experience of exile into a “Road Scholar” (according to his film of this name) leading to a profitable university career enlightened by literature.

scholarly journals From Distant to Public Reading The (Hebrew) Novel in the Eyes of Many

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yael Dekel ◽  
Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Literary Histories ◽  
Literary System ◽  
Fusion Approach ◽  
National Literatures

From its very beginning, the term “distant reading” (Moretti 2000) was controversial, displacing ‘close reading’ by relying on literary histories and thereby reflecting on the entire global literary system. One of the weaknesses of this approach lies in its exclusive reliance on canonical and authoritative historiographies, one or two for each national literature, something which is bound to over-simplify the complexities of national literatures. As is known, Moretti’s proposal became a ‘slogan’ for Digital Humanities while algorithmic manipulation of texts has taken the place of reading literary (human) histories. Yet the problem of over-simplification remains, albeit differently. As an alternative, we offer a fusion approach, radicalising Moretti’s idea. In this article, we demonstrate how computer-based analysis of different readings carried out by many readers – not necessarily professionals – produces a relatively minute picture. Our case study will be the Hebrew novel, from its emergence in 1853 to the present day; a manageable corpus on which we gather information using questionnaires we have carefully created in our lab. Alongside the presentation of our approach, the actual research, and its initial findings, we will reflect theoretically on the conceptual benefits, as well as the limits, of public distance reading.

Migration, not migrants, is the problem: Delinquency among migrants and non-migrants in Switzerland and ex-Yugoslavia

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 896-917 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Killias ◽  
Anastasiia Lukash
Keyword(s):  
Host Country ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Physical Punishment ◽  
Foreign Country ◽  
Parental Violence ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The Family

The nexus between migration and crime has been studied over nearly a century across many countries from all continents. Research has concentrated on comparisons of migrants (or their offspring) with natives. Comparisons between migrants and comparable samples from their countries of origin have not been undertaken so far, however, because data were usually limited to the host country. The International Self-Reported Delinquency Study (ISRD-3, Enzmann et al., 2018) allows this gap to be overcome. In Switzerland, with its large immigrant minority – one student in two has roots in a foreign country – migrants of different backgrounds can be compared with native Swiss and with students who attend schools in ex-Yugoslavia where many migrants are from. We compare data on self-reported offences and victimization in the family collected through interviews with some 4000 juveniles in Switzerland and more than 6000 students of the same age in four countries of ex-Yugoslavia (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia). Native-born youths in Switzerland report fewer offences than their immigrant peers, including those from ex-Yugoslavia. Although differences between students from ex-Yugoslavia and other foreign countries are relatively small, juveniles in ex-Yugoslavia report far lower offending rates than immigrants of the same age in Switzerland. Their rates are similar or lower than among native Swiss students. Further, rates of physical punishment and maltreatment are higher among immigrants than among non-migrants in Switzerland and in ex-Yugoslavia. We conclude that cultural background is unrelated to delinquency and parental punishment, but the experience of migrating goes along with violence within the family and self-reported offending. Differences exist between various family constellations, students born or with at least one parent born in Switzerland committing fewer offences and experiencing less parental violence.

scholarly journals From “the Moon Is Rounder Abroad” to “Bravo, My Country”: How China Misperceives the World

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haifeng Huang
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Global Affairs ◽  
Chinese Public

AbstractFor a long time, since China’s opening to the outside world in the late 1970s, admiration for foreign socioeconomic prosperity and quality of life characterized much of the Chinese society, which contributed to dissatisfaction with the country’s development and government and a large-scale exodus of students and emigrants to foreign countries. More recently, however, overestimating China’s standing and popularity in the world has become a more conspicuous feature of Chinese public opinion and the social backdrop of the country’s overreach in global affairs in the last few years. This essay discusses the effects of these misperceptions about the world, their potential sources, and the outcomes of correcting misperceptions. It concludes that while the world should get China right and not misinterpret China’s intentions and actions, China should also get the world right and have a more balanced understanding of its relationship with the world.

Primul mythos de stânga al literaturii române contemporane

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 139-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radu Vancu
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Ideological Bias ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literary Histories ◽  
Romanian Literature

Mihai Iovănel’s History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020 is the first leftist major narrative of Romanian literature – and the shockwaves it generated were due even more to this firm ideological option (the first such one in the history of major Romanian literary histories) than to its literary content proper. The present article aims at asserting the main three accomplishments and shortcomings generated by this ideological option – namely that: i) it succeeds in coalescing the first coherent narrative of the last three decades of Romanian literature; ii) it sometimes turns from an ideological option into an ideological bias – and modifies the factuality of Romanian literature, eliminating important writers, exaggerating the qualities of some other ones, searching to distribute merits (to leftist writers) and punishments (to right-wing ones) according with their political option, and not with their literary qualifications; iii) it is an impressive stylistic achievement in itself, even though quite ironically its author disregards the virtues of aestheticism.

Contemporaneitatea literaturii – o chestiune de metodă

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 90-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Neuman
Keyword(s):  
National Literature ◽  
Global Literature ◽  
Dead End ◽  
History Of ◽  
Romanian Literature

The following article critically deals with Mihai Iovănel's Istoria literaturii române contemporane. 1990-2020 [The History of Contemporary Romanian Literature. 1990-2020] (Polirom, 2021) from three different, yet intertwined, perspectives, namely 1) the methodological turn, highlighted by an overt post-Marxist attempt at interpreting contemporary Romanian literature, 2) the question of what is - or if there is any - literariness in Istoria literaturii române contemporane. 1990-2020, 3) the issue of transcending normative aesthetics into post-aestheticism as a last resort or perhaps as a new dead-end. Finally, the ideological threshold that divides - or rather emphasis - local national literature as substantially distinct from global literature will be tentatively broached.

The Economic Consequences of Hosting the Olympic Games: International Evidence from Cross-Listings

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Tsang ◽  
Kun Tracy Wang ◽  
Nathan Zhenghang Zhu ◽  
Li YU
Keyword(s):  
Host Country ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
International Evidence ◽  
Cross Listing ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
The Olympic Games

Based on evidence from nine countries that hosted the Olympic Games, we show that relative to firms domiciled in non-Olympics-hosting countries, firms domiciled in Olympics-hosting countries engage in more cross-listing in the years following the Olympics. The effect of hosting the Olympics on firms’ cross-listing activities is more pronounced for firms domiciled in host countries with better performance in the Games; for firms domiciled in countries hosting the Summer Olympics; and for domestic firms. We also find that cross-listing firms domiciled in an Olympics-hosting country tend to cross-list in foreign countries with a greater institutional distance from the host country after the Olympics. Finally, we document a positive effect of Olympics-hosting on the consequences of cross-listing. Taken together, our findings suggest that hosting the Olympics improves the international reputation of the host country, which helps firms domiciled in that country to overcome the liability of foreignness when making cross-listing decisions.

scholarly journals DETERMINANTS OF ASSETS GROWTH OF FOREIGN OWNED BANKS IN INDONESIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Aswin Rivai ◽  
Rina Indiastuti
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Interest Rate ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Bilateral Trade ◽  
Operating Experience ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Long Time

The aim of this research is to assess the dominant factors enabling foreign owned banks to increase their assets in Indonesia and to confirm whether the “follow the customers hypothesis” is also applicable in motivating foreign owned banks to do business in Indonesia to support investment and trade activities of the companies originated from foreign countries. Using the panel data of 28 foreign owned commercial banks in Indonesia between 2006-2015 obtained from Indonesian Banking Directory, Indonesian Banking Statistics databases, foreign country central bank websites, a least square dummy variable (LSDV) regression model was applied to examine the effect of Bilateral Trade, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Interest Rate Differences, Domestic Deposits, Parent banks Return on Assets (ROA) and Length of Time presence of the foreign owned banks in Indonesia on Assets or Size of Foreign Owned Banks. The main findings is that the decisions by foreign owned banks to operate and to expand its business in Indonesia is predominantly affected by the increase in realization of projects funded by Foreign Direct Investment from counterpart countries, third parties fund or domestic deposit denominated in foreign currencies, profitability of the parent banks in home country and long time presence in Indonesia to enable parent bank and their branches or subsidiaries gain better operating experience, better general managerial expertise and better knowledge of local environment. Bilateral Trade and Interest Rate Differences between home and host country has no impacts at all on Assets of Foreign Owned Banks. “Follow the customer hypothesis” is applicable in Indonesia only in terms of FDIs but not applicable in terms of bilateral trade. The findings will help management of the banks in designing more reliable business plan and also used as input or tools for policy makers prior issuing the license for the newly open foreign owned banks offices or increase of its branch offices. It is suggested foreign owned banks to consider empowering its trade financing scheme which will increase the banks size or assets.

scholarly journals On the Form of Organizing the Institution of Condominium Ownership in Russia

Legal Concept ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 107-115
Author(s):  
Maxim Permyakov
Keyword(s):  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Real Form ◽  
Progressive Development ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Domestic Legislation ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Domestic Institution

Introduction: despite the fact that Russia is a country in which the majority of the population lives in apartment buildings, the institution of condominium ownership is one of the least developed, both in doctrinal and practical terms, in connection with which the theoretical and practical difficulties arise in the domestic legal order. The solution of such problems is impossible without the search for the root cause, which is the lack of choice of the form of organization of the legal institution, so that the legal regulation cannot be harmonious. Purpose: based on the study of the formation, evolution and unification of the institution of law in foreign countries, to address the problems of the domestic institution of condominium ownership. Methods: the methodological framework for this study is a set of methods of scientific knowledge, among which the main ones are the methods of specific historical, historical and comparative, social and legal, as well as the methods of analysis and synthesis. Results: the prerequisites for the emergence of condominium ownership in classical civil law were: the limitation of land as a natural resource, as well as capital for individual construction. The institution of condominium ownership is approved in the countries of continental law in two forms: “real” and “unreal”. In Russia, due to the lack of a long time of progressive development of property law, this institution was formed without taking into account its classical prerequisites, within the framework of privatization processes, which led to the emergence of the problems which are atypical for the European law and order. Conclusions: the domestic legislation tends to the organization of the institution of condominium ownership in the “real” form; however, the modern interpretation of this form entails many legal problems, which clearly indicates the need for its reform.

scholarly journals Recoveries of Ringed Red-Footed Falcons (Falco vespertinus) in Germany - An update documentation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dietmar Kunze ◽  
Lisa Nennstiel
Keyword(s):  
Reporting System ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Satellite Tracking ◽  
Migration Routes ◽  
Inexpensive Method ◽  
Identification Rate ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Major Disadvantage ◽  
Ecological Aspects ◽  
Long Time

AbstractBird ringing is used for a long time for scientific investigation of migration routes and to better understand breeding events as well as population ecological aspects. It is applied as an inexpensive method although the well-known and major disadvantage of bird ringing is the usually low response rate. In the case of rarer species such as the Red-Footed Falcon (RFF), however, this quota could be higher due to the exclusivity and greater attention of observers. Motivated by own field observations of color-ringed RFF south of Brunswick, Germany in 2019 and no clear and comprehensive publication of verified additional recoveries and ringings, we did further research regarding this issue by following methods: 1) Contacting European Bird Ringing Centers and associated projects, 2) Query and comparison of files with the three national German Bird Ringing Stations, 3) Expanded literature research, 4) Evaluating reports in the citizen science platform ornitho.de, 5) Checking websites of ringing projects (in particular satellite tracking programs) and 6) Own observations.Surprisingly, this study revealed 18 recovered RFF ringed in foreign countries (14 Hungary, 3 Italy, 1 Romania (GPS tracked bird)) during migration or post-nuptial pre-migration time. Additionally, 1 RFF that was caught and ringed in Germany was recovered abroad.This result updates and increases the number of recoveries of RFF in Germany compared to the actual published state on the order of 18 (so far none) and on the order of 6 concerning ID-encoded RFF (GPS-bird excluded) compared to documentation state of the three Bird Ringing Centers in Germany (so far 3 at Beringungszentrale [BZ] Hiddensee, 1 at Institut für Vogelforschung [IfV] Heligoland). Our research and evaluation of raw data succeeded to a 100% identification rate of the bird’s origin countries (n=18) while the rate of ID-encoded RFF by color ring codes revealed 58.8% (n=10, GPS-bird excluded). The reported-by-observer response rate was 41.2%. Interesting data of about the phenology, age and origin of the RFF recovered in Germany are presented. Questions and considerations about the recent reporting system of ringed birds and the increased numbers of RFF during the last years in Germany are discussed.

Going Forward to the Past: The Future of Literary Studies in Australian Universities

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-16
Author(s):  
Patrick Buckridge
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Reading Groups ◽  
Head Of School ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Imminent Death ◽  
To Come ◽  
Australian Universities

The imminent death of the study of past literature in Australian universities has been pronounced many times since the 1980s. It seems to have been taking several decades to die, but its time may finally be upon us. When I first joined Griffith Humanities in 1981, the then Head of School, David Saunders, told me that though he might wish it otherwise, the literature of the past wouldalwaysbe studied in universities — if only because there was so much of it and because, like Everest, it was simply ‘there’. I now think he may have been wrong. It is likely enough, in my view, that some — mainly older — peoplewillkeep reading, studying and discussing the literary tradition for a long time to come: in reading groups, U3A classes and the like. More about that later. But I doubt if anyone will be doing it in Australianuniversitiesfor very much longer.

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