A.S. Byatt's novel Possession: A Romance attracted international acclaim in 1990, winning both the Booker Prize and the Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize. In her long and eminent ...career, Byatt has steadily published both fiction and non-fiction, the latest of which has not, until now, been given full critical consideration. Enter Jane Campbell's new book, A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination, a comprehensive critical reading of Byatt's fiction from The Shadow of the Sun and The Game, published in the 1960s, to A Whistling Woman (2002). The book begins with an overview of Byatt's writing and, drawing on her interviews and essays, sets forth the critical principles that inform the novelist's work. Following this introduction, a chronologically structured account of the novels and short stories traces Byatt's literary development. As well as exploring the ways in which Byatt has successfully negotiated a path between twentieth-century realism and postmodern experiment, Campbell employs a critical perspective appropriate to the author's individualistic feminist stance, stressing the breadth of Byatt's intellectual concerns and her insistence on placing her female characters in a living, changing context of ideas and experience, especially in their search for creative voice.
Policing Stalin's Socialismis one of the first books to emphasize the importance of social order repression by Stalin's Soviet regime in contrast to the traditional emphasis of historians on ...political repression. Based on extensive examination of new archival materials, David Shearer finds that most repression during the Stalinist dictatorship of the 1930s was against marginal social groups such as petty criminals, deviant youth, sectarians, and the unemployed and unproductive.
It was because Soviet leaders regarded social disorder as more of a danger to the state than political opposition that they instituted a new form of class war to defend themselves against this perceived threat. Despite the combined work of the political and civil police the efforts to cleanse society failed; this failure set the stage for the massive purges that decimated the country in the late 1930s.
La novia oscura (1999) irrumpe como un raro ejemplo narrativo dentro de la producción literaria colombiana que, al final del siglo XX, se enfocaba en la representación de la violencia urbana y de la ...narcocultura. El presente artículo examina el giro telúrico de Laura Restrepo en La novia oscura, donde reemplaza a las ciudades como escenarios de confrontaciones violentas para retomar no sólo las temáticas, sino la estilística de la novela telúrica. Se argumenta que, con La novia oscura, Restrepo descoloniza la novela de la selva humanizando la historia concreta de violencia institucional contra la comunidad guahiba, desde la experiencia femenina. Así, de la novela de Restrepo, emerge la voz de la mujer guahiba para denunciar el legado de la expropiación territorial, el desplazamiento forzado y la violencia rural, que tradicionalmente han impactado a las poblaciones originarias de la Orinoquía. Esta región colombo-venezolana, que ha servido de escenario geográfico a emblemáticas novelas de la selva como La vorágine (1924), Doña Barbara (1929) y Los pasos perdidos (1953), es re-creada en La novia oscura para subvertir la representación de las comunidades ancestrales y sus procesos históricos consignados por escritores en novelas telúricas anteriores.
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U.S. income inequality has varied inversely with union density over the past 100 years. But moving beyond this aggregate relationship has proven difficult, in part because of limited ...microdata on union membership prior to 1973. We develop a new source of microdata on union membership dating back to 1936, survey data primarily from Gallup (N ≈ 980,000), to examine the long-run relationship between unions and inequality. We document dramatic changes in the demographics of union members: when density was at its mid-century peak, union households were much less educated and more nonwhite than other households, whereas pre-World War II and today they are more similar to nonunion households on these dimensions. However, despite large changes in composition and density since 1936, the household union premium holds relatively steady between 10 and 20 log points. We use our data to examine the effect of unions on income inequality. Using distributional decompositions, time series regressions, state-year regressions, as well as a new instrumental-variable strategy based on the 1935 legalization of unions and the World War II–era War Labor Board, we find consistent evidence that unions reduce inequality, explaining a significant share of the dramatic fall in inequality between the mid-1930s and late 1940s.
This is the first musicological study entirely devoted to a comprehensive analysis of musical Holocaust representations in the western art music tradition. Through a series of chronological case ...studies grounded in primary source analysis, Amy Lynn Wlodarski analyses the compositional processes and conceptual frameworks that provide key pieces with their unique representational structures and critical receptions. The study examines works composed in a variety of musical languages – from Arnold Schoenberg's dodecaphonic A Survivor from Warsaw to Steve Reich's minimalist Different Trains – and situates them within interdisciplinary discussions about the aesthetics and ethics of artistic witness. At the heart of this book are important questions about how music interacts with language and history; memory and trauma; politics and mourning. Wlodarski's detailed musical and cultural analyses provide new models for the assessment of the genre, illustrating the benefits and consequences of musical Holocaust representation in the second half of the twentieth century.
CHIVU, Cătălina VĂTĂŞESCU (eds.), Omagiu profesorului Grigore Brâncuş la 90 de ani, Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2019, 602 p. Volumele de omagiere a personalităţilor lumii contemporane la ...vârsta de 90 de ani sunt apariţii de excepţie pentru că fac dovada puterii umane de creaţie până la vârste considerate „patriarhale". Este firesc ca florilegiul de contribuţii preponderente din acest volum să fie consacrate istoriei limbii române şi legăturilor ei în special cu limba albaneză. Petru Maior (Eugen Pavel), B.P. Hasdeu (Luiza Marinescu, Z. Mihail) sau, indirect, redactorii Bibliei de la Bucureşti (1688) (Mihaela Marin); identificarea şi analiza unor manuscrise inedite: O redacţie românească inedită a Visului Maicii Domnului (Manuela Timotin) sau a unei psaltiri în versuri din 1846, de la Biblioteca Academiei Române (Eugenia Dima).
Para el caso peruano, me parece fundamental empezar diferenciando que existe una violencia política de la década de 1960 y otra de 1980. Mientras que César Calvo dedica su poemario El cetro de los ...jóvenes (1967) a Heraud, Tello y Luis de la Puente Uceda.4 En relación con estas experiencias guerrilleras de los sesenta, Cisneros incluyó como texto final de Canto ceremonial contra un oso hormiguero, su cuarto poemario, de 1968, el mencionado «Crónica de Chapi, 1965», que, en palabras de Julio Ortega, es «el mejor poema que se ha escrito sobre las guerrillas peruanas y que no casualmente es, en verdad, una elegía al costo humano de esa experiencia, verdadero horizonte trágico de la década» («La poesía», p. 281). Debo ir a Ayacucho a establecer contactos en la ciudad, ya tenemos a la gente por el campo, necesitamos una infraestructura en la ciudad: coordinación, apoyo, víveres, etc. Con la frase «voy a la guerra por la alegría», en una carta escrita en 1962, cuando ya había asumido la causa guerrillera y el correspondiente seudónimo literario de Rodrigo Machado, el jovencísimo poeta se despedía de su madre poco antes de partir de La Habana hacia el Perú con el propósito de hacer llegar, «como ahora a Cuba, la hora de la justicia social» y conseguir que América Latina entera se «emancipe del imperio que la saquea, de las castas que la explotan, de las fuerzas que la ofenden y reprimen». El Círculo Literario Javier Heraud, por su parte, publicaría una revista de título vallejiano, Masa, en la que difundiría cuentos y poemas de clara denuncia social, así como manifiestos de estirpe mariateguista y revolucionaria. En ese sentido, se trata de un arco temporal que va de 1961 a 1969 y que hemos ilustrado directamente a través de la obra poética de Javier Heraud, Antonio Cisneros, Rodolfo Hinostroza y César Calvo, y teniendo a Marco Martos como poeta-puente con el segundo período de violencia política, que enseguida pasaré a relatar, y que se sintió y repercutió prácticamente en toda la
Unearthing new evidence to provide a richer understanding of her life, this study, now available in paperback, delves beyond the familiar image of Ellen Wilkinson on the Jarrow Crusade. From a humble ...background, she ascended to the rank of minister in the 1945 Labour government. Yet she was much more than a conventional Labour politician. She wrote journalism, political theory and novels. She was both a socialist and a feminist; at times, she described herself as a revolutionary. She experienced Soviet Russia, the Indian civil disobedience campaign, the Spanish Civil War and the Third Reich. This study deploys transnational and social movement theory perspectives to grapple with the complex itinerary of her ideas. Interest in Wilkinson remains strong among academic and non-academic audiences alike. This is in part because her principal concerns – working-class representation, the status of women, capitalist crisis, war, anti-fascism – remain central to contentious politics today.
American director Philip Kaufman is hard to pin down: a visual stylist who is truly literate, a San Franciscan who often makes European films, he is an accessible storyteller with a sophisticated ...touch. Celebrated for his vigorous, sexy, and reflective cinema, Kaufman is best known for his masterpiece The Unbearable Lightness of Being and the astronaut saga The Right Stuff. His latest film, Hemingway & Gellhorn (premiering May 2012 on HBO), stars Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen._x000B__x000B_In this study, Annette Insdorf argues that the stylistic and philosophical richness of Kaufman's cinema makes him a versatile auteur. She demonstrates Kaufman's skill at adaptation, how he finds the precise cinematic device for a story drawn from seemingly unadaptable sources, and how his eye translates the authorial voice from books that serve as inspiration for his films. Closely analyzing his movies to date (including Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Wanderers, and Quills), Insdorf links them by exploring the recurring and resonant themes of sensuality, artistic creation, codes of honor, and freedom from manipulation. While there is no overarching label or bold signature that can be applied to his oeuvre, she illustrates the consistency of themes, techniques, images, and concerns that permeates all of Kaufman's works.
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