This study focuses on the narrative strategies corporations utilize to communicate their annual results to investors and the financial community. Specifically, the study looks at the sample of ...overperforming and underperforming companies and analyzes how management shapes their performance results using a variety of narrative strategies in their annual reports. The study uses DICTION software in order to perform a computerized content analysis of annual reports of a purposive sample of Standard & Poor’s 500 corporations and identify and compare the usage of the 35 narrative strategies.
Swan Songs and Later Words Farber, Thomas
Manoa (Honolulu, Hawaii. 1989),
01/2020, Volume:
32, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Reading recently that Edna O'Brien (age eighty-eight) and Margaret Atwood (age seventy-nine) each had a new novel out, I wondered if these books would differ from earlier work. Id been thinking about ...what critics have called "late style" or "lateness" In the fine arts, historian Kenneth Clark read in Michelangelo, Titian, and Rembrandt "a sense of isolation, a feeling of holy rage, developing into... transcendental pessimism" Rudolf Arnheim quotes octogenarian artist Hans Richter on qualities of the late paintings of Lyonel Feininger: "A ringing voice without sound, on the border between being and non-being, a man capable of giving utterance in this sphere of the almost divine." Having, Edward Said argued, "the power to render disenchantment and pleasure without resolving the contradiction between them," the artist's "mature subjectivity, stripped of hubris and pomposity, unashamed either of its fallibility or of the modest assurance it has gained as a result of age and exile" Or perhaps, as James Wood wrote, simply "the kind of cussed freedom that one associates with longevity, and with long confidence in artistic practice.
تتركز هذه المقالة على تحديد مفهوم الكلمة «المثل» ومشتقاتها المختلفة في المعاجم العربية وفي التعبيرات القرآنية، وتمعن النظر فيما للكلمة من المدلولات المتباينة كالمثل الخرافي/الفرضي، والمثل القرآني ...والمثل السائر، وتدرس بصفة خاصة مفهوم «المثل السائر» وما يشابهه من العبارات العربية والمصطلحات الأدبية والبلاغية كالحكمة والتشبيه والمجاز وغيره، وذلك لبيان ما بين المثل السائر وبين هذه المصطلحات من الائتلاف والاختلاف، وأهم خصائص المثل السائر وأسرار استعماله مما تتناول المقالة، وذلك لكسب المفهوم الصحيح للمثل السائر ولزيادة الاهتمام به ودراسته. ومما توصلت إليها المقالة من النتائج أن إطلاق اللفظة «المثل» مجردا لا تظهر المقصود منها إلا بإضافة صفة إليها فيقال المثل الفرضي أو المثل السائر، وأنه لا يسمى مثلا سائرا إلا ما يكون سائرا بين الناس من التعبير، وأن المثل السائر يستعمل لتشبيه بين حالين «المورد والمضرب». وقد نسج الباحث في جمع المعلومات وتحليلها على منوال المنهج الوصفي التحليلي كما استعان بالاستبانات المعبئة الالكترونية والورقية. وأخيرا اختمت المقالة بعدد من الاقتراحات والتوصيات التي تمت الصلة بفهوم المثل واسستعمالاته. This paper focuses on explaining the concept of the Arabic word “almatsal” and it’s various derivatives in the Arabic lexicology and Qur’anic expressions.It equally explains different usage of the word (Almathal) as Almatha alkhurafi (legendary proverb) almathal alQur’ani (Quranic proverb) etc. The paper particularly concentrates on what is known as “almatsal as-sair” (Common Proverb) and other related literary and rhetoric terms such as idiomatic/wisdom expression, simile, figure of speech etc, in order to distinguish and make clarification of similarities and dissimilarities among them, characteristics of the said proverb were also discussed. Some of the findings of the paper include the term “almatsal” has several meanings and usage pending on adjective attached to it, alMathel as-sair can only be used for a common expression and that it is for comparing two different instances (almawrid where the statement is made for the first time and almadrab (where the statement is quoted). The researcher followed a descriptive analytical method, and administered both electronic and paper-based questionnaires. The article concluded with a number of suggestions and recommendations.
Este trabalho considera a noção de gambiarra, traço característico da cultura brasileira e latino-americana, como elemento literario em dois microcontos do escritor uruguaio Eduardo Galeano. Nesse ...sentido, propor-se-ão algumas aproximações teórico-críticas a significações possíveis para a gambiarra, não só como elemento materialmente objetivado, mas também como processo, ação e modo de produção. Assinalam-se como hipóteses algumas das determinaçoes sócio-históricas que ensejam a gambiarra enquanto fenômeno social bem como a sua categorização como expressão concreta de certa tendência humana ontológica. A análise dos contos, após breves considerações sobre o autor e sua obra, busca apreender de que forma a articulação da gambiarra se manifesta no interior das narrativas, permitindo, aínda, vislumbres dialéticos sobre sua dinâmica social.
This paper considers the notion of "gambiarra", a feature of Brazilian and Latin American culture, as a literary element in two short stories of the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. In this sense, some theoretical-critical approaches "will be proposed for possible meanings to "gambiarra," not only as a materially objectified element, but also as a process, an action and a production method. I present as hypotheses some of the socio-historical determinations that enable "gambiarra" as a social phenomenon as well as its categorization as a concrete expression of a certain ontological human tendency. The analysis of the short stories, after brief considerations about the author and his work, seeks to under-stand how the articulation of the "gambiarra" manifests itself in the narratives, allowing also dialectical glimpses about its social dynamics.
The exemplum 'Two Princes Born of a She-Bear' from the Gesta Romanorum is unique in its joining of two different folktale types. Billed by twentieth-century editors as 'Androcles and the Lion', which ...reflects the story's opening, the majority of the plot resembles the 'Strong John' narrative, also referred to as 'Juan Oso' or 'John the Bear', with its story of bestiality. Yet it differs from most of these tales of a bear-human child as well, first by changing a male bear abducting a human woman to a human father and bear mother, and then by having three children split along gendered lines into different species. Looking at this adaptation in light of the medieval encyclopedia tradition and ideas about human and non-human animals, this article argues that the text poses questions about the superiority of humans, the distinction of species, and the necessity of women. Although the story seems to make an effort to preserve 'natural' hierarchies, it also leaves open the possibility of dismantling them.
This article contributes to a growing debate over the sources for the account of the formation of the state found in Book 1 Chapter 2 of Machiavelli's Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio. ...While recent scholarship has questioned the longstanding belief that Book 6 of Polybiuss Histories is the chapters principal source, I will argue here that Machiavelli is indeed indebted to Book 6, but in a different manner than previously observed. I will demonstrate this by reconstructing the interpretation of Book 6 that emerged in early sixteenth century Florence before situating the Discorsi within it.
AESTHETICS OF FOOD PORN Tooming, Uku
Crítica; revista hispanoamericana de filosofía,
04/2021, Volume:
53, Issue:
157
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Enticing food photography which stimulates its viewers’ cravings, often given a dismissive label “food porn,” is one of the most popular contents in contemporary digital media. In this paper, I argue ...that the label disguises different ways in which a viewer can engage with it. In particular, food porn enables us to engage in cross-modal gustatory imaginings of a specific kind and an image’s capacity to afford such imaginings can contribute to its artistic merit.
La fotografía de comida que resulta atractiva, se antoja a los espectadores y que, con frecuencia, recibe la etiqueta despectiva de “food porn”, es uno de los contenidos más populares de los medios digitales contemporáneos. En este artículo, argumento que esta etiqueta oculta diferentes modos en los que un espectador puede enfrentarse a ella. En particular, el food porn nos permite participar en proyectos de imaginación gustativa intermodal de un tipo específico y, la capacidad de las imágenes de provocar dichos proyectos imaginativos puede contribuir al mérito artístico.
In addition to all the poems from The Big Gate, The Collected Poems also contains a second book-length manuscript entitled Ribbons and Lace. ...we will see the effortlessness with which Stuckey has ...reconstructed the antebellum era in many of her poems, creating captivating scenes both through the diction (writing in dialect) and the vivid imagery she uses. Towards the end of the interview, Stuckey has an interesting response to Roediger’s claim that she exerts a fair amount of control over her work, enabling the clear conveyance of emotional depth. Dundes also decries the ethnocentrism of white scholars in the treatment of folklore from nonwhite groups, such as the Vietnamese or African Americans.
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