An award-winning translator presents selections from the haunting final volumes of a leading voice in contemporary Hungarian poetry
Szilárd Borbély, one of the most celebrated writers to emerge from ...post-Communist Hungary, received numerous literary awards in his native country. In this volume, acclaimed translator Ottilie Mulzet reveals the full range and force of Borbély's verse by bringing together generous selections from his last two books,Final MattersandTo the Body. The original Hungarian text is set on pages facing the English translations, and the book also features an afterword by Mulzet that places the poems in literary, historical, and biographical context.
Restless, curious, learned, and alert, Borbély weaves into his work an unlikely mix of Hungarian folk songs, Christian and Jewish hymns, classical myths, police reports, and unsettling accounts of abortions. In her afterword, Mulzet calls this collection "a blasphemous and fragmentary prayer book … that challenges us to rethink the boundaries of victimhood, culpability, and our own religious and cultural definitions."
Forecasting through the Rearview Mirror Ghysels, Eric; Horan, Casidhe; Moench, Emanuel
The Review of financial studies,
02/2018, Letnik:
31, Številka:
2
Journal Article
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A previous literature has documented that bond returns are predicted by macroeconomic information not contained in yields contemporaneously. That literature has mostly relied on final revised, rather ...than real time macroeconomic data. We show that the use of real time data substantially reduces the predictive power of macro variables for future bond returns as well as the implied countercyclicality of term premiums. We discuss potential interpretations of our results.
Este traballo céntrase na análise da novela Circe ou o pracer do azul (2009), de Begoña Caamaño, que integra e redeseña as relacións entre Penélope, Circe e Ulises, personaxes da Odisea, nunha ...recreación do clásico homérico desde unha perspectiva feminista. Esta reescrita transforma o relato a través da estratexia da creación revisionista de mitos (revisionist mythmaking) e incorpora nel a idea de sororidade como ferramenta de empoderamento. A obra concede o protagonismo a dúas figuras femininas contrapostas no poema homérico e na maioría das reescritas posteriores, Circe e Penélope, quen construirán unha fecunda e liberadora amizade mediante o diálogo. Circe ou o pracer do azul propón unha lectura alternativa do relato canónico, o que conecta a novela con outras recreacións contemporáneas en clave de revisionismo feminista dos mitos.
Brazil in Transition Alston, Lee J; Melo, Marcus André; Mueller, Bernardo ...
2016, 2016., 20160524, 2016-05-24, Letnik:
64
eBook
Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the 20th century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While the country underwent two decades of ...unrelenting decline from 1975 to 1994, the economy has rebounded dramatically. How did this nation become an emerging power? 'Brazil in Transition' looks at the factors behind why this particular country has successfully progressed up the economic development ladder.
Referencing scholarly debates on humanitarianism and specifically HIV interventions, this article analyses the commodification of health in Botswana's political arena throughout the HIV pandemic and ...beyond, contributing to a re-evaluation of the distribution of public wealth and international support in welfare states in Africa. The starting point of the analysis is a project to build a private hospital — a move to create a centre of excellence exclusive of international HIV/AIDS donations — and the staging of political responsibilities around it. Public investment into private health is an attempt to reform infrastructures built with HIV/AIDS money and to develop a market of high-paying jobs within the country. This process transforms the inalienable and indivisible condition of health and survival into a political commodity. Mit Bezug auf die wissenschaftliche Debatte über humanitäre Hilfe, insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit HIV/AIDS, analysiert die Autorin die Ökonomisierung von Gesundheit in Botswana während und nach der HIV/AIDS-Pandemie. Damit trägt sie zu einer Wiederbelebung der Diskussion um die Verteilung öffentlicher Güter und die internationale Unterstützung für die öffentliche Fürsorge in afrikanischen Staaten bei. Ausgangspunkt ihrer Analyse ist ein Projekt zum Bau eines privaten Krankenhauses — eines regionalen Zentrums exzellenter Krankenversorgung, unabhängig von internationalen HIV/AIDS-Hilfsmitteln — und die damit verbundene politische Inszenierung. Über öffentliche Investitionen in die private Gesundheitsversorgung strebt die Regierung eine Reform der Institutionen an, die mithilfe von HIV/AIDS-Hilfsgeldern im Land aufgebaut wurden, sowie gleichzeitig die Schaffung hochbezahlter Arbeitsplätze. In diesem Prozess ist das unveräußerliche und unteilbare Recht auf Leben und körperliche Unversehrtheit zu einer politischen Ware geworden.
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