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Journal articles on the topic "Macdonald identity"
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Cooper, Shaun. "A new proof of the Macdonald identities for An−1." Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society. Series A. Pure Mathematics and Statistics 62, no. 3 (June 1997): 345–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1446788700001051.
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AbstractA new, elementary proof of the Macdonald identities for An−1 using induction on n is given. Specifically, the Macdonald identity for An is deduced by multiplying the Macdonald identity for An−1 and n Jacobi triple product identities together.
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Jeffrey Johnson, Kirstin. "Rooted Deep: Discovering the Literary Identity of Mythopoeic Fantasist George Macdonald." Linguaculture 2014, no. 2 (December 1, 2014): 25–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lincu-2015-0027.
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Abstract This paper is a conversational reassessment of George MacDonald, the Victorian fantasist who so profoundly shaped such writers as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Primary research challenges the common portrayal of MacDonald as an accidental novelist, revealing instead his clear trajectory and vocation as a devoted literary scholar. Clarifying the definition of mythopoeic as applied by the Oxford Inklings to MacDonald draws attention to their conviction that attentive response to one’s literary roots is what engenders novel literature with transformative potential. Further research proves this to be in keeping with the work and legacy of MacDonald and his mentor A.J. Scott. An intentional participation in this relational nature of literary tradition is a crucial element of the work and legacy to which the Inklings and their successors are heirs.
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Kaneko, Jyoichi. "A Triple Product Identity for Macdonald Polynomials." Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 200, no. 2 (June 1996): 355–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jmaa.1996.0210.
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Akyildiz, E., and J. B. Carrell. "A generalization of the Kostant--Macdonald identity." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 86, no. 11 (June 1, 1989): 3934–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.86.11.3934.
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Cai, Tommy Wuxing, Naihuan Jing, and Jian Zhang. "Modular Macdonald functions and generalized Newton's identity." Journal of Algebra 442 (November 2015): 124–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2014.10.014.
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Cofnas, Nathan. "The Anti-Jewish Narrative." Philosophia 49, no. 4 (February 3, 2021): 1329–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-021-00322-w.
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AbstractAccording to the mainstream narrative about race, all groups have the same innate dispositions and potential, and all disparities—at least those favoring whites—are due to past or present racism. Some people who reject this narrative gravitate toward an alternative, anti-Jewish narrative, which sees recent history in terms of a Jewish/gentile conflict. The most sophisticated promoter of the anti-Jewish narrative is the evolutionary psychologist Kevin MacDonald. MacDonald argues that Jews have a suite of genetic adaptations—including high intelligence and ethnocentrism—and cultural practices that lead them to undermine gentile society to advance their own evolutionary interests. He says that Jewish-designed intellectual movements have weakened gentile identity and culture while preserving Jewish identity and separatism. Cofnas recently argued that MacDonald’s theory is based on “systematically misrepresented sources and cherry-picked facts.” However, Cofnas gave short shrift to at least three key claims: (a) Jews are highly ethnocentric, (b) liberal Jews hypocritically advocate liberal multiculturalism for gentiles/gentile countries but racial purity and separatism for Jews/Israel, and (c) Jews are responsible for liberalism and mass immigration to the United States. The present paper examines these claims and concludes that MacDonald’s views are not supported.
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Cai, Tommy Wuxing, and Naihuan Jing. "A generalization of Newton's identity and Macdonald functions." Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 125 (July 2014): 342–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcta.2014.04.001.
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Miccoli, Dario. "Sharon MacDonald, Memorylands. Heritage and Identity in Europe Today." Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire, no. 118 (October 1, 2014): 187–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/temoigner.1013.
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Zielinski, Andrea. "Identity Structures of Religious Jews in Post-war Germany." European Judaism 33, no. 2 (September 1, 2000): 38–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ej.2000.330205.
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The word 'identity' actually means 'absolute sameness'. Here, one speaks of 'self identity' or 'social identity'. Sharon Macdonald describes social identity as 'allegiance to people, group and often, place and past'. With regard to this topic we would rather say that identity is the process of assimilating to a norm regarded as given and static.
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Testa, Alessandro. "Memorylands: heritage and identity in Europe today by Macdonald, Sharon." Social Anthropology 22, no. 4 (November 2014): 512–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12092_20.
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George, Carla Elizabeth. "Identity and the children's literature of George MacDonald." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96975.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACTThe Victorian period, often heralded as the golden age of children‘s literature, saw both a break and a continuation with the traditions of the fairy tale genre, with many authors choosing this platform to question and subvert social and literary expectations (Honic, Breaking the Angelic Image 1; Zipes, Art of Subversion 97). George MacDonald (1824-1905), a prolific Scottish theologian, whose unspoken sermons, essays, novels, fantasies and children‘s fairy tales deliberately engage with such issues as gender, mortality, class, poverty and morality, was one such author (Ellison 92).
This thesis critically examines how the Victorian writer George MacDonald portrays the notion of a ‗self‘ in terms of fixed ‗character‘ and mutable physical appearance in his fairy tales for children. Chapter One provides a foundation for this study by studying MacDonald‘s literary and religious context, particularly important for this former preacher banned from his pulpit (Reis, 24). Chapter Two explores a series of examples of the interaction between characters and their physical bodies. This begins with examining portrayals of characters synonymous with their bodies, before contrasting this with characters whose bodies appear differently than their inner selves. Chapter Two finishes by observing those characters whose physical forms alter throughout the course of the tale. As these different character-body interactions are observed, a marked separation between character and body emerges.
In Chapter Three, the implications of this separation between character and body are explored. By writing such separations between the character and their body, MacDonald creates a space where further questions can be asked about our understanding of issues such as identity and mortality. Chapter Three begins with an analysis of the observations made in the first chapter, posing that MacDonald crafted characters consisting of an inner self and a physical body. This was then further explored through images of recognition in the tales, finding that characters are expected to recognize one another despite complete physical alterations; the inner self is able to know and be known. Chapter Three concludes by studying mortality in the tales, particularly MacDonald‘s portrayals of the possibility of life after death.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die Viktoriaanseperiode, wat gereeld voorgehou word as die goue era vir kinderliteratuur, het beide breuke en kontinuïteit gehad met die tradisies van die genre van sprokiesverhale. Menigte skrywers het sprokiesverhale gekies as ‘n middel waardeur hulle sosiale en literêre verwagtinge kon bevraagteken en omseil (Honic, Breaking the Angelic Image 1; Zipes, Art of Subversion 97). George MacDonald (1824—1905) — 'n prolifieke Skotse teoloog, wie se onuitgesproke preke, opstelle, novelle, fantasieë en kindersprokies doelgerig kwessies soos geslag, moraliteit, klas en armoede getakel het — was een só 'n skrywer (Ellison 92).
Hierdie tesis ondersoek krities hoe die Viktoriaanse skrywer George MacDonald die idee van ‗self‘ uitgebeeld het in terme van 'n vaste "karakter" en veranderbare fisiese voorkoms in sy sprokiesverhale vir kinders. Hoofstuk Een verskaf 'n fondasie vir hierdie studie deur MacDonald se literêre- en geloofskonteks te bestudeer. Hierdie is besonders belangrik, omdat hierdie gewese predikant voorheen van die kansel verban was (Reis, 24). Hoofstuk Twee ondersoek 'n reeks voorbeelde van die interaksie tussen karakters en hul fisiese gestaltes. Dit begin met 'n ondersoek van uitbeeldings waarin karakters sinoniem met hul voorkoms is. Daarna word 'n kontras getrek met karakters wie se uiterlike voorkoms verskillend is van wie hulle innerlik is. Hoofstuk Twee sluit af deur merking te maak van karakters wie se fisiese voorkoms verander deur die verloop van die verhaal. Soos hierdie verskillende interaksies tussen karakter en voorkoms ondersoek word, word 'n merkbare verdeling tussen karakter en voorkoms ontbloot.
In Hoofstuk Drie word die implikasies van hierdie verdeling tussen karakter en voorkoms ondersoek. Deur so 'n verdeling tussen karakter en voorkoms uit te beeld, skep MacDonald 'n ruimte waarbinne verdere vrae gevra kan word oor hoe ons kwessies soos identiteit en moraliteit verstaan. Hoofstuk Drie begin met 'n analise van die opmerkings wat in die eerste hoofstuk gemaak is, waarin gestel word dat MacDonald sy karakters ontwerp het om te bestaan uit 'n innerlike self en 'n fisiese voorkoms. Hierdie word dan verder ondersoek deur te kyk na voorbeelde van gewaarwording in die verhale, waar daar gevind is dat daar van die karakters verwag word om mekaar te herken ten spyte van gehele fisiese veranderinge; die innerlike self kan ken en geken word. Hoofstuk Drie sluit af deur die moraliteit van die stories te bestudeer, veral MacDonald se uitbeelding van die moontlikheid van lewe na die dood.
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Johnson, Rachel E. "A complete identity : the image of the hero in the work of G.A. Henty (1832-1902) and George MacDonald (1824-1905)." Thesis, Coventry University, 2008. http://eprints.worc.ac.uk/545/.
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This study is an examination of the hero image in the work of G.A. Henty (1832-1902) and George MacDonald (1824-1905) and a reassessment of the hitherto oppositional critiques of their writing. The argument driving the reassessment is that their writing is not oppositional but is complementary and that the ideology embedded in their work is communicated through the character of the hero through genre and through their interpretation of their historical period. The central hypothesis is that the reflexive characteristics of the hero image demonstrate a complete identity commensurate with the hero figure of the Victorian ideal. This hypothesis is demonstrated through the analysis of chosen texts from the work of Henty and MacDonald categorised by critics as written for children and by the application of ethical, genre and new historic theory. The relationship between the expansion of the British Empire and youthful heroism is established through investigation of the Victorian political, social and religious milieu, the construct of the child and the construct of the hero. The connection between the exotic geographical space of empire and the unknown psychological space is conducted through examination of the representation of the ‘other' in the work of Henty and MacDonald. The study demonstrates that Henty’s work is more complex than the stereotypically linear, masculine, imperialistic critique of his stories as historical realism allows and that MacDonald’s work displays more evidence of historical embedding and ideological interpellation than the critical focus on his work as fantasy and fairy tale considers. The contribution of this study to existing research on Henty and MacDonald is firstly by an examination of the ideology embedded in the construct of the hero figure as this construct impacted Victorian culture and secondly by reassessing the existing criticism of their work. Greater understanding of the effect of this heroic ideal on nineteenth century society leads to a greater understanding of the implications for subsequent cultures including that of the twenty first century. This aspect is examined in relation to the current reprinting programmes for Henty and MacDonald and is proposed as a subject for continued research.
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Bui, Van Binh. "Intégrales de Selberg complexes et p-adiques et identités de Dyson-Macdonald." Toulouse 3, 2014. http://thesesups.ups-tlse.fr/2359/.
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Cette thèse fait partie d'un programme de recherche sur la théorie conforme des champs et les représentations de l'algèbre de Lie dollar\frak{sl}_2dollar (réelle, complexe, dollarpdollar-adique, dollarqdollar-déformée). Nous étudions des versions réelle, dollarpdollar-adique et dollarqdollar-déformée d'une intégrale triple apparaissant en physique en connection avec le modèle de Liouville de la théorie conforme des champs. Ces intégrales se trouvent être aussi reliées aux identités de terme constant de Dyson-MacDonald. Et puis, nous donnons une approche différente pour calculer la version comlexe, qui utilise la technique de Bernstein-Reznikov. L'idée principale est d'appliquer des fonctionnelles invariantes à des représentations de séries principales de dollarG=SL(2,\mathbb{C})dollar. Enfin, nous définissons une dollarqdollar-déformation de Jacquet-Langlands de représentations de séries principales de dollarGL_2(\mathbb{R})dollar et nous prouvons l'unicité d'une fonctionnelle triple invariante sur ces objets en utilisant la méthode de H. Y. Loke. Nous trouvons aussi des relations semblables aux équations différentielles de [NSU]<br>This thesis is part of a research program on Conformal field theory and representations of Lie algebra of dollar\frak{sl}_2dollar (real, complex, dollarpdollar-adic, dollarqdollar-derfomed). We study a real, dollarpdollar-adic and dollarqdollar-deformed versions of a triple integral appeared in physics in connection with the Liouville model of the Conformal field theory. These integrals turn out to be connected with the Dyson-Macdonald constant term identities. We also give another approach to compute the complex case by using Bernstein-Reznikov's technique. The main idea is to apply invariant functionals on principal series representations of dollarG=SL(2,\mathbb C)dollar. Finally, one defines a dollarqdollar-deformation of Jacquet-Langlands principal series representations of dollarGL_2(\mathbb R)dollar and prove the uniqueness of an invariant triple functional on them by using method of H. Y. Loke. Alongside, we find out some relations to similar differential equations in [NSU]
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Nguyen, Viet anh. "Contributions to tensor models, Hurwitz numbers and Macdonald-Koornwinder polynomials." Thesis, Angers, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017ANGE0052/document.
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Dans cette thèse, j’étudie trois sujets reliés : les modèles de tenseurs, les nombres de Hurwitz et les polynômes de Macdonald-Koornwinder. Les modèles de tenseurs généralisent les modèles de matrices en tant qu’une approche à la gravité quantique en dimension arbitraire (les modèles de matrices donnent une version bidimensionnelle). J’étudie un modèle particulier qui s’appelle le modèle quartique mélonique. Sa spécialité est qu’il s’écrit en termes d’un modèle de matrices qui est lui-même aussi intéressant. En utilisant les outils bien établis, je calcule les deux premiers ordres de leur 1=N expansion. Parmi plusieurs interprétations, les nombres de Hurwitz comptent le nombre de revêtements ramifiés de surfaces de Riemann. Ils sont connectés avec de nombreux sujets en mathématiques contemporaines telles que les modèles de matrices, les équations intégrables et les espaces de modules. Ma contribution principale est une formule explicite pour les nombres doubles avec 3-cycles complétées d’une part. Cette formule me permet de prouver plusieurs propriétés intéressantes de ces nombres. Le dernier sujet de mon étude est les polynôme de Macdonald et Koornwinder, plus précisément les identités de Littlewood. Ces polynômes forment les bases importantes de l’algèbre des polynômes symétriques. Un des problèmes intrinsèques dans la théorie des fonctions symétriques est la décomposition d’un polynôme symétrique dans la base de Macdonald. La décomposition obtenue (notamment si les coefficients sont raisonnablement explicites et compacts) est nommée une identité de Littlewood. Dans cette thèse, j’étudie les identités démontrées récemment par Rains et Warnaar. Mes contributions incluent une preuve d’une extension d’une telle identité et quelques progrès partiels vers la généralisation d’une autre<br>In this thesis, I study three related subjects: tensor models, Hurwitz numbers and Macdonald-Koornwinder polynomials. Tensor models are generalizations of matrix models as an approach to quantum gravity in arbitrary dimensions (matrix models give a 2D version). I study a specific model called the quartic melonic tensor model. Its specialty is that it can be transformed into a multi-matrix model which is very interesting by itself. With the help of well-established tools, I am able to compute the first two leading orders of their 1=N expansion. Among many interpretations, Hurwitz numbers count the number of weighted ramified coverings of Riemann surfaces. They are connected to many subjects of contemporary mathematics such as matrix models, integrable equations and moduli spaces of complex curves. My main contribution is an explicit formula for one-part double Hurwitz numbers with completed 3-cycles. This explicit formula also allows me to prove many interesting properties of these numbers. The final subject of my study is Macdonald-Koornwinder polynomials, in particular their Littlewood identities. These polynomials form important bases of the algebra of symmetric polynomials. One of the most important problems in symmetric function theory is to decompose a symmetric polynomial into the Macdonald basis. The obtained decomposition (in particular, if the coefficients are explicit and reasonably compact) is called a Littlewood identity. In this thesis, I study many recent Littlewood identities of Rains and Warnaar. My own contributions include a proof of an extension of one of their identities and partial progress towards generalization of one another
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Lee, Jenny Rose. "Empire, modernity and design : visual culture and Cable & Wireless' corporate identities, 1924-1955." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/16467.
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During the twentieth century, Cable & Wireless was the world’s biggest and most important telegraphy company, employing large numbers of people in stations across the world. Its network of submarine cables and wireless routes circumnavigated the globe, connecting Britain with the Empire. This thesis examines the ways in which the British Empire and modernity shaped Cable & Wireless’ corporate identity in order to understand the historical geography of the relationships between Empire, state, and modernity. Additionally, it investigates the role of design in the Company’s engagement with the discourses of modernity and imperialism. Historical Geography has not paid sufficient attention to the role of companies, in particular technology companies, as institutions of imperialism and instruments of modernity. The study of businesses within Historical Geography is in its infancy, and this thesis will provide a major contribution to this developing field. This thesis takes an interdisciplinary approach that sits at the intersection of three main disciplines: Historical Geography, Design History and Business History. This thesis examines how Cable & Wireless’ identity was produced, transmitted and consumed. This thesis is based on detailed research in Cable &Wireless’ corporate archive at Porthcurno, examining a wide range of visual and textual sources. This pays particular attention to how the Company designed its corporate identity through maps, posters, ephemera, corporate magazines and exhibitions. Drawing upon the conceptualizations of the Empire as a network, it argues that Cable & Wireless’ identity was networked like its submarine cables with decision-making power, money and identity traversing this network. This thesis seeks to place both the company and the concept of corporate identity within a broader historical and artistic context, tracing the development of both the company’s institutional narrative and the corporate uses of visual technologies. No study has been conducted into the corporate identity and visual culture of Cable & Wireless. This thesis not only provides a new dimension to knowledge and understanding of the historical operations of Cable & Wireless, but also makes a substantive contribution to the wider fields of Historical Geography, Business History, Design History and the study of visual culture.
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Pétréolle, Mathias. "Quelques développements combinatoires autour des groupes de Coxeter et des partitions d'entiers." Thesis, Lyon 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LYO10237/document.
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Cette thèse porte sur l'étude de la combinatoire énumérative, plus particulièrement autour des partitions d'entiers et des groupes de Coxeter. Dans une première partie, à l'instar de Han et de Nekrasov-Okounkov, nous étudions des développements combinatoires des puissances de la fonction êta de Dedekind, en termes de longueurs d'équerres de partitions d'entiers. Notre approche, bijective, utilise notamment les identités de Macdonald en types affines (en particulier le type C), généralisant l'approche de Han en type A. Nous étendons ensuite avec de nouveaux paramètres ces développements, grâce à de nouvelles propriétés de la décomposition de Littlewood vis-à-vis des partitions et statistiques considérées. Cela nous permet de déduire des formules des équerres symplectiques, ainsi qu'une connexion avec la théorie des représentations. Dans une seconde partie, nous étudions les éléments cycliquement pleinement commutatifs dans les groupes de Coxeter introduits par Boothby et al., qui forment une sous famille des éléments pleinement commutatifs. Nous commençons par développer une construction, la clôture cylindrique, donnant un cadre théorique qui est aux éléments CPC ce que les empilements de Viennot sont aux éléments PC. Nous donnons une caractérisation des éléments CPC en terme de clôtures cylindriques pour n'importe quel système de Coxeter. Celle-ci nous permet de déterminer en termes d'expressions réduites les éléments CPC dans tous les groupes de Coxeter finis ou affines, et d'en déduire dans tous ces groupes l'énumération de ces éléments. En utilisant la théorie des automates finis, nous montrons aussi que la série génératrice de ces éléments est une fraction rationnelle<br>This thesis focuses on enumerative combinatorics, particularly on integer partitions and Coxeter groups. In the first part, like Han and Nekrasov-Okounkov, we study the combinatorial expansion of power of the Dedekind's eta function, in terms of hook lengths of integer partitions. Our approach, bijective, use the Macdonald identities in affine types, generalizing the study of Han in the case of type A. We extend with new parameters the expansions that we obtained through new properties of the Littlewood decomposition. This enables us to deduce symplectic hook length formulas and a connexion with representation theory. In the second part, we study the cyclically fully commutative elements in Coxeter groups, introduced by Boothby et al., which are a sub family of the fully commutative elements. We start by introducing a new construction, the cylindrical closure, which give a theoretical framework for the CPC elements analogous to the Viennot's heaps for fully commutative elements. We give a characterization of CPC elements in terms of cylindrical closures in any Coxeter groups. This allows to deduce a characterization of these elements in terms of reduced decompositions in all finite and affine Coxeter and their enumerations in those groups. By using the theory of finite state automata, we show that the generating function of these elements is always rational, in all Coxeter groups
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Manole, Diana Maria. "Poetics of Denial: Expressions of National Identity and Imagined Exile in English-Canadian and Romanian Dramas." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/35755.
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After the change of their country’s political and international statuses, post-colonial and respectively post-communist individuals and collectives develop feelings of alienation and estrangement that do not involve physical dislocation. Eventually, they start imagining their national community as a collective of individuals who share this state. Paraphrasing Benedict Anderson’s definition of the nation as an “imagined community,” this study identifies this process as “imagined exile,” an act that temporarily compensates for the absence of a metanarrative of the nation during the post-colonial and post-communist transitions.
This dissertation analyzes and compares ten English Canadian and Romanian plays, written between 1976 and 2004, and argues that they function as expressions and agents of post-colonial and respectively post-communist imagined exile, helping their readers and audiences overcome the identity crisis and regain the feeling of belonging to a national community. Chapter 1 explores the development of major theoretical concepts, such as nation, national identity, national identity crisis, post-colonialism, and post-communism. Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 analyze dramatic rewritings of historical events, in “1837: The Farmers’ Revolt” by the theatre Passe Muraille with Rick Salutin as dramaturge, and “A Cold” by Marin Sorescu, and of past political leaders, in “Sir John, Eh!” by Jim Garrard and “A Day from the Life of Nicolae Ceausescu” by Denis Dinulescu. Chapter 4 examines the expression of the individual and collective identity crises in “Sled” by Judith Thompson and “The Future Is Rubbish” by Vlad Zografi. Chapter 5 explores the treatment of physical and cultural borders and borderlands in Kelly Rebar’s “Bordertown Café”, Guillermo Verdecchia’s “Fronteras Americanas”, Petre Barbu’s “God Bless America”, and Saviana Stanescu’s “Waxing West”. The concluding chapter briefly discusses the concept of imagined exile in relation to other investigations of post-colonial and post-communist dramas and reviews some of the latest perspectives of national identity, reassessing this study from a diachronic perspective.
Books on the topic "Macdonald identity"
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A complete identity: The youthful hero in the work of G.A. Henty and George MacDonald. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2014.
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Newton, Michael, ed. Victorian Fairy Tales. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198737599.001.0001.
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The Queen and the bat had been talking a good deal that afternoon...' The Victorian fascination with fairyland vivified the literature of the period, and led to some of the most imaginative fairy tales ever written. They offer the shortest path to the age's dreams, desires, and wishes. Authors central to the nineteenth-century canon such as W. M. Thackeray, Oscar Wilde, Ford Madox Ford, and Rudyard Kipling wrote fairy tales, and authors primarily famous for their work in the genre include George MacDonald, Juliana Ewing, Mary De Morgan, and Andrew Lang. This anthology brings together fourteen of the best stories, by these and other outstanding practitioners, to show the vibrancy and variety of the form and its abilities to reflect our deepest concerns. In tales of whimsy and romance, witty satire and uncanny mystery, love, suffering, family and the travails of identity are imaginatively explored. Michael Newton's introduction and notes provide illuminating contextual and biographical information about the authors and the development of the literary fairy tale. A selection of original illustrations is also included.
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Sugars, Cynthia. Canada. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199679775.003.0009.
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This chapter examines the history of the English-language novel in Canada since 1950. It first considers how the promotion of Canadian cultural identity and attempts to articulate a distinctly Canadian social ethos became increasingly mobilized in the decades following World War II. It then discusses the newfound optimism about the future of Canadian literature and culture that flourished following the Massey Commission initiatives, as well as Canadian novels published during the 1960s and 1970s — a period regarded as a time of social emancipation, sexual freedom, and counter-culture revolution. It also explores developments in the 1980s and 1990s and during the period 2000–2015, citing a number of important novels published in these years, including Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees (1996), Austin Clarke's The Polished Hoe (2002), Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For (2005), and David Chariandy's Soucouyant (2007).
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Young, Brian. A. G. MacDonell’s England, their England. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198736233.003.0014.
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England, their England, a now forgotten bestseller, was one of a series of travelogues produced by survivors of the First World War during the 1930s in a country recovering its sense of purpose and identity; unusually, in this case it took the form of an autobiographical novel. A. G. MacDonell was an insider/outsider, a Scottish Wykehamist, a journalist and a partisan Liberal writing with astringent wit about the fusion of reactionary, self-serving Toryism and unprincipled Socialism that underpinned the National Government quietly pilloried throughout the book. He also glances disapprovingly at colonialism, both internal and external, as he berates a nation that has lost its sense of diplomatic purpose. A bucolic work, hovering uneasily between sentimentalism and satire, it insists that the real England is that of the shires (and particularly country cricket). But MacDonell’s strongest work was the much less pleasing Autobiography of a Cad, which merits reassessment accordingly.
Book chapters on the topic "Macdonald identity"
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Jenkins, Ruth Y. "Imagining the Abject in Kingsley, MacDonald, and Carroll: Disrupting Dominant Values and Cultural Identity in Children’s Literature." In Victorian Children’s Literature, 21–43. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32762-4_2.
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Gray, William. "The Angel in the House of Death: Gender and Identity in George MacDonald’s Lilith." In Women of Faith in Victorian Culture, 117–27. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26749-1_9.
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Wyss, Peter. "Identity with a Difference: Comments on Macdonald and Macdonald." In Emergence in Mind, 169–78. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199583621.003.0011.
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MacDonald, Ewen. "Chapter 10: Eikaiwa vs. juku: The affordances and constraints of each context." In Teacher Narratives From the Eikaiwa Classroom: Moving Beyond "McEnglish", 111–22. Candlin & Mynard ePublishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47908/13/10.
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In this chapter, Ewen MacDonald compares eikaiwa and juku (cram schools), arguably the two most overlooked contexts in TESOL research in Japan. Having simultaneously worked in both contexts, he relates the affordances and constraints he experienced in each classroom and explores the ways in which he feels his experiences in eikaiwa and juku contributed to his evolving teacher identity.
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Pullen, Christopher. "Youth, Realism and Form." In Straight Girls and Queer Guys. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694846.003.0007.
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This chapter explores the straight girl and queer guy relationship in relation to the transgressive potential of social realism, and the context of youth. Initially Beautiful Thing (Hettie MacDonald 1996, UK) and The Way He Looks [Hoje eu quero voltar sozinho] (2014, Brazil) are examined as exemplars of social realism, framing the affective youthful queer body as a site of feeling and agency. Later the landmark television series Glee (Fox 2009-2015, US) explores the abject position of the queer guy and the straight girl, hypothesizing the significance of youth culture within TV form. After this the queer independent films Gayby (Jonathan Lisecki 2012, US) and G.B.F. (Darren Stein 2013, US) are examined considering diverse issues such as dating, child-raising, the commodity of identity and the significance of masquerade..
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Macdonald, Elizabeth, Ruth Atkins, and Jens Krebs. "12. Mistake." In Koffman & Macdonald's Law of Contract. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198752844.003.0012.
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This chapter deals with mistake. First it looks at mistake in relation to the agreement, exploring the relevance of the identity and attributes distinction and its application in case law including the important decision of the House of Lords in Shogun Finance Ltd v Hudson. The equitable jurisdiction of the courts permits a more flexible approach and this too is considered. Second, the chapter explores mistake relating to questions of performability, often referred to as common mistake. In a situation where both parties share the same misapprehension about an underlying fact, this could constitute a mistake as to the existence, or a mistake as to the quality, of the subject matter. The significance of the leading case of Great Peace Shipping Ltd and its influence on the scope of common mistake is dealt with. The possibility of a document being signed by mistake is also addressed.