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Journal articles on the topic "Swiss literature"

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Spycher, Peter, and H. M. Waidson. "Anthology of Modern Swiss Literature." World Literature Today 59, no. 4 (1985): 664. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40142185.

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Rash, Felicity. "Language-use as a theme in German-language Swiss literature." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 9, no. 4 (November 2000): 317–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096394700000900402.

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This article explores the treatment of the theme of language-use in germanophone Swiss fiction.1 I aim to show that the frequency with which this theme manifests itself in literature reflects a widespread interest in linguistic issues on the part of the German-speaking Swiss. The views on language expressed by literary characters discussed in this article are, in fact, no different from those voiced by the real-life Swiss - and most Swiss fiction is about Swiss characters. That the germanophone Swiss give so much attention to linguistic issues testifies to their sensitivity to the social function of language-use as well as to their respect for tradition. The ability to use language according to prescribed conventions is seen as more than merely desirable; it is recognized as a vital requirement of social cohesion and national identity. I conclude that the Swiss preoccupation with language has a political dimension. The unique linguistic situation of German-speaking Switzerland - that of a diglossic German-language community within a multilingual nation - is used by the germanophone Swiss as a means of asserting their individuality among other German-speaking populations.
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Skrine, Peter, and John L. Flood. "Modern Swiss Literature: Unity and Diversity." Modern Language Review 82, no. 1 (January 1987): 258. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3729995.

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Otremba, P. "The Swiss Are Coming! The Swiss Are Coming!" Minnesota review 2013, no. 81 (January 1, 2013): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00265667-2331886.

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Williams, Seán M. "Home Truths and Uncomfortable Spaces: Swiss Hotels and Literature of the 1920s." Forum for Modern Language Studies 55, no. 4 (October 1, 2019): 444–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqz037.

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Abstract Switzerland was at the centre of the European grand hotel scene, geographically and discursively. This article considers Swiss hotel literature and life in the 1920s, a decade in which the country’s hotel landscape became politicized and, relatedly, was often portrayed in popular literature. Against the backdrop of more canonical and intellectual hotel literature set in Switzerland, the following reads Meinrad Inglin’s Grand Hotel Excelsior (1928) as a response to a contemporary ‘culture war’, and as an attempt at centrist cultural criticism. Drawing especially on magazine and other archival evidence, this article also uncovers the promotion, sponsorship and discussion of hotel literature by Swiss hotel lobbyists, which was concerned with increasing the commercial viability of hotels after the First World War, and improving their image at a time of polarized debates about the direction of Swiss society. Thus Inglin’s novel occupies a centre ground not only in its argument, but in a formal sense as well. Grand Hotel Excelsior is a literary means of mediating the problems of Swiss culture in the 1920s, manifest in hotels as actual spaces or subjects, rather than a novel written for, or adaptable to, vested interests, or a work that employs – in the vein of Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse – the hotel as a material setting to explore abstract ideas.
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Brusadelli, Federico. "Swiss Enchantment." Asian Studies 9, no. 2 (May 7, 2021): 145–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/as.2021.9.2.145-164.

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A vast and hyper-centralized Asian empire built on the premise of an alleged cultural homogeneity. A small, federalist Alpine state sustained by the ideal of coexistence of different languages and religions. The differences between China and Switzerland could not be wider, and it is therefore understandable that the Swiss confederacy has been fascinating Chinese intellectuals in both the modern and contemporary era. In the late Qing and early Republican period, Switzerland was mentioned by prominent figures like Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, who praised its democracy, and in the 1920s the Swiss political system became a source of inspiration for “provincial patriots” in Hunan or for Chinese federalists such as Chen Jiongming. The present paper intends to survey these political encounters and perceptions, focusing on the transformation of the Swiss institutional model and historical experience into a “political concept”, and on the reasons for its final rejection as an unrealistic utopia unsuited for China.
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Southard, David. "German and Swiss Publications on Spanish Literature, 1982–1983." Kentucky Romance Quarterly 32, no. 4 (January 1985): 415–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03648664.1985.9928326.

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GOSNELL, JONATHAN K. "Resisting the Image: Heidi, Sheep and Swiss Trash." Australian Journal of French Studies: Volume 59, Issue 2 59, no. 2 (April 1, 2022): 198–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/ajfs.2022.16.

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The novel Swiss Trash, written by Dunia Miralles in 2000, interrogates stereotypes around immigration and nationhood in contemporary francophone Switzerland, with the intention of turning some notions on their head and letting others fester, uncomfortably. The French-language text underscores the divisions, the startling differences present within a seemingly perfect “Heidiland.” Its English title hints at complex and often equivocal cultural denotations extant within the Helvetic Confederation. A simultaneous reading of Swiss Trash and Heidi, of familiar Swiss citizens and intrusive immigrants, offers, this article contends, revealing visions of a dismal present/future and an idealized past. Read alongside works of literature, this essay examines powerful political images conveying a foreign threat on Swiss billboards during referenda in 2010-2011 in the city of Geneva. It compares divergent visual, journalistic and literary depictions of Swiss and other-ness, interpretations that investigate the oxymoron “Swiss Trash.”
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Eykman, Christoph. "The Intellectual in Contemporary German and Swiss Literature: Four Examples." Antioch Review 45, no. 3 (1987): 348. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4611772.

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Haines, Brigid. "The Eastern Turn in Contemporary German, Swiss and Austrian Literature." Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 16, no. 2 (August 2008): 135–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09651560802316899.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Swiss literature"

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Schultz, Bryan J. "The portrayal of Switzerland and the role of the Swiss detective in the modern Swiss crime novel /." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79977.

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The primary objective of this M.A. thesis is to examine the portrayal of Switzerland and the role of the Swiss detective in the modern Swiss crime novel, with special focus on the works of three modern Swiss authors of different social status: Friedrich Glauser, Friedrich Durrenmatt and Hansjorg Schneider. While the crime novel is generally considered trivial entertainment for mass audiences within the realm of German literature, the case is somewhat different in Switzerland, a country with a small state mentality. The forthcoming analysis will demonstrate how these authors employ the crime novel as an educational device to convey a very important message to their fellow countrymen about the society in which they live. In their portrayal of Switzerland, the authors cover a wide range of circumstances relevant to their respective time periods, often dealing with controversial issues. Consequently, the Swiss detective plays a major role, as he must often solve difficult cases while faced with tremendous pressure from society. By focusing exclusively on Switzerland, this analysis will ultimately prove that the modern Swiss crime novel contains not only an entertainment aspect, but also important political, sociological and historical elements that distinguish the phenomenon from its international counterparts.
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Liston, Andrew Adams. "The ecological voice in recent German-Swiss prose." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11287.

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This thesis seeks to investigate the ecological theme in German-Swiss prose of the last thirty years. The role of nature has understandably always been significant in Swiss literature. In a nation that has eked out its living, in such an impressive and violent landscape, there is of necessity a highly developed awareness of the environment. Furthermore, the close relationship between mankind and the environment is inherently ambiguous, with each acting alternately as curse and blessing to the other. The bond between people and geography is made all the more vital in the Alps, where existence is under the constant threat of avalanches and landslides. In light of this heightened environmental sensibility, it is unsurprising that, with the growing profile of ecological debate in general, Swiss writers should demonstrate an acute cognisance of the significance of ecological problems. The notion of an ecological voice takes the discussion further. The question is posed whether these works merely represent a reflection of societal concern for the environment, or whether literary responses may constitute solutions. This investigation therefore contributes both to literary criticism on Swiss writing and to the understanding of the role of conceptualisation in finding solutions to ecological problems. To explore and analyse these ideas, this thesis considers a representatively broad spectrum of differing responses to ecological crisis. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of recent Swiss ‘Öko-Literatur', but instead to be an investigation of the variety of narrative strategies employed in this period of growing ecological awareness.
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Cox, Emma Lucie Frances. "Robert Walser as a model for the modern Swiss writer." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260088.

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Reid, C. S. "National identity in Scottish and Swiss children's and young people's books : a comparative study." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.356405.

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Behr, Teresa Marie. "A Study in Translation: Max's Frisch's Don Juan." Thesis, Boston College, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/409.

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Thesis advisor: Paul Doherty
Thesis advisor: Michael Resler
This thesis is a case study of translation, based upon the translation of Max Frisch's play "Don Juan: oder, die Liebe zur Geometrie". It includes a brief overview of translation theory from the Romans to the present century, an introduction to the life and works of Frisch and post WWII Swiss literature, and a translation of the full text of the play, complete with notes and observations on the translation
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2006
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
Discipline: Germanic Studies
Discipline: College Honors Program
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Bayer, Penny. "Women's alchemical literature 1560-1616 in Italy, France, the Swiss Cantons and England, and its diffusion to 1660." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/71980/.

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This thesis seeks to show that there were alchemical writings associated with women from Italy, France, the Swiss Cantons and England which originated in the period 1560 to 1616, and that these writings were read, translated, circulated, and referred to, at least up to 1660. The main evidence is provided by case studies: a printed book of secrets by Isabella Cortese (Venice, 1561); a sequence of late sixteenth and early seventeenth century manuscripts associated with Madame de la Martinville and Quercitan’s daughter (Jeanne du Port); and material, including an alchemical receipt book, associated with Lady Margaret Clifford (1560-1616). Supporting evidence suggests these women represent a wider participation of women in philosophical and practical alchemy, and adds to the evidence for evaluating women's participation in early modern philosophy and science. Women apparently read and wrote about alchemy, and assisted its diffusion through their work as editors, compilers, translators and patrons. The thesis compares writings from different genres and languages, and addresses issues such as the problem of defining alchemy, complexities of textual interpretation, and the difficulty of ascertaining women’s authorship or symbolic representation. Through a comparative process, the thesis discusses possible reasons for representations of women's alchemical practice based in key cultural themes: Paracelsian ideas, ambiguous readings of texts, women’s education, spiritual practice and household work, and their liaison with male experts and European networks. The underlying association of the alchemical metaphor of knowledge, that the material world could be returned to a perfected heavenly state, is interpreted with varying sophistication. The thesis considers how these women accommodated gender to alchemical philosophy. It suggests that there was scope for ambiguous interpretation, both of alchemical texts and of shared injunctions for early modern women and medieval alchemist monks to be silent, chaste, and obedient. Women may have used alchemy as an area in which to resist passivity and demonstrate their agency.
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Tonetti, Ilenia. "Linguistic Trust-Building Strategies in Swiss Banks’ Public Discourse: : A Diachronic Study of Annual Reports and Corporate Responsibility Reports from UBS and Credit Suisse." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-30335.

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To be perceived as trustworthy in the eyes of the stakeholders is one of the main assets of any successful firm, for a positive image will reflect positively on business. This study focuses on the analysis of trust-building strategies in Annual Reports (ARs) and Corporate Responsibility Reports (CRRs) of two Swiss banks, UBS and Credit Suisse. The analysis aims to identify the linguistic means used to project a trustworthy image, as well as to point out any changes in their use which might have occurred after the financial crisis of 2008. For this purpose, a corpus of ARs and CRRs from the years 2007, 2012 and 2017 has been compiled. The corpus was analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively to identify the frequency and distribution of lexical expressions indexing competence, benevolence, and integrity. The results, though tentative, provide insights into the use of trust-building linguistic means and their diachronic development.
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Sorel, Françoise. "Les nouvelles de Peter Stamm : le cours des textes." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BOR30046.

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L’œuvre de l’écrivain suisse Peter Stamm se caractérise par sa diversité. Elle s’adosse à plusieurs genres littéraires. Elle comporte, à côté de romans, de pièces, d’ouvrages jeunesse et de textes poétologiques, une part importante de nouvelles. Classique par ses thèmes essentiels, les relations interhumaines, l’amour, la mort, la prose brève de l’écrivain de langue allemande né en 1963 est intrigante par ses effets, puissants. Les histoires de Peter Stamm ont pour cadre le monde contemporain, la vie au quotidien, présentés sous des traits obéissant à une esthétique mimétique. Cette image spéculaire du réel est contestée de l’intérieur par un réseau obsédant d’éléments imaginaires. Le cours des choses données à voir est ainsi travaillé par des forces contraires. Elles coexistent. La topographie de l’œuvre atteste elle aussi d’une concomitance des contraires. L’ici et l’ailleurs s’y côtoient continûment. Dans le registre de la temporalité, ce sont encore des conceptions ou des catégories opposées qui sont mises en tension : la linéarité et la circularité du temps, l’instant et l’éternité. L’univers des personnages est également marqué par la coexistence de profils très variés et apporte un nouveau témoignage du degré d’ouverture de l’œuvre. Le schéma logique du paradoxe, associant les contraires, figure l’élément structurant majeur de la production nouvellistique de Stamm. Les modèles génériques de la Kurzgeschichte et de la Novelle, théoriquement incompatibles, cohabitent au sein de l’œuvre de la même manière. Ses textes portent, plus généralement encore, la trace manifeste d’un héritage double, renvoyant à la fois au romantisme et à la Modernité. C’est en explorant toutes ces zones en friction que se laisse saisir l’orientation poétique des nouvelles de Stamm, le cours des textes
The work of the Swiss writer Peter Stamm is characterized by its diversity. It relies on several literary genres, including novels, plays, youth books, poetological essays and an important set of short stories. The essential themes are classical : the human relationships, love, death. The brief prose of the German-speaking writer, born in 1963, strikes the reader by its powerful effects. The stories of Peter Stamm take place in the contemporary world, in the everyday life. They are told in the terms of a mimetic aesthetic. The specular image of reality is challenged from within by a haunting network of imaginary elements. Hence, the way of things offered to see is subjected to contrary forces. They coexist. The topography in the work also testifies that opposites do coexist. The notions of here and elsewhere meet continuously. In the temporal field also, opposite conceptions or categories are put in tension: linearity and circularity of time, present moment and eternity. The category of the characters is also marked by the coexistence of very varied profiles and brings another testimony of the degree of openness of the work. The logical scheme of the paradox, associating opposites, is the major structuring element of Stamm's short stories production. The genre models of Kurzgeschichte and Novelle, theoretically incompatible, coexist in Stamm’s world. His texts contain, more generally, tangible traces of a double heritage, referring to both Romanticism and Modernity. The poetic orientation of Stamm's short stories, the way the texts go, can be grasped by exploring all these areas in friction
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Toumsy, Salima. "Entre la clarté et la nuit: Jean-Pierre Monnier, écrivain suisse romand." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211855.

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Marinot-Marchand, Delphine. "Le Rhin suisse dans la littérature de voyage européenne du XVe au XIXe siècle." Phd thesis, Université du Maine, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00669625.

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Au coeur de la culture et de l'histoire européennes depuis plus de deux mille ans, le Rhin faitl'objet d'une abondante littérature. La fascination qu'il exerce s'accompagne généralementd'une focalisation sur certains secteurs de son cours dont la Suisse semble exclue, alors que lefleuve prend sa source dans ce pays et qu'il le traverse ou le longe sur environ 250 kilomètres.La Suisse étant, surtout depuis le milieu du XVIIIe siècle, une destination de voyage trèsprisée, l'objectif de notre recherche a été de savoir si l'intérêt apparemment limité pour leRhin helvétique valait également dans le domaine de la littérature de voyage. Basé surl'analyse de guides, d'ouvrages descriptifs et iconographiques et de récits de voyage, leprésent travail a pour objet de mettre en lumière les représentations du fleuve depuis sessources jusqu'à Bâle telles qu'elles ont été véhiculées par la littérature viatique européenne duXVe au XIXe siècle. Notre corpus ne se limitant pas à la sphère germanophone, nous abordonsl'image du Rhin suisse sous un angle comparatiste et proposons un panorama européen desreprésentations en question. Par ailleurs, notre enquête s'inscrit dans l'évolution de laperception du paysage, tant dans ses manifestations naturelles que culturelles, et s'efforce defaire ressortir l'influence de notions comme le sublime et le pittoresque sur les écrits que nosauteurs ont consacrés au tronçon helvétique du fleuve.
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Books on the topic "Swiss literature"

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L, Flood John, Pro Helvetia (Foundation), Switzerland Botschaft (Great Britain), and University of London. Institute of Germanic Studies., eds. Modern Swiss literature: Unity and diversity. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.

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Wenger, Bernhard. Die vier Literaturen der Schweiz. 4th ed. Zürich: Pro Helvetia, 1988.

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écrivains, Association vaudoise des. Associations vaudoise des écrivains: Catalogue des œuvres. [Vaud: Association vaudoise des écrivanis, 2000.

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Rutschmann, Verena. Fortschritt und Freiheit: Nationale Tugenden in historischen Jugendbüchern seit 1880. Zürich: Chronos, 1994.

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L, Flood John, Pro Helvetia (Foundation), Switzerland Botschaft (Great Britain), and University of London. Institute of Germanic Studies., eds. Modern Swiss literature: Unity and diversity : papers from a symposium. London: Oswald Wolff in association with the Institute of Germanic Studies (University of London), 1985.

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S, Pavlova N., Markin A. V, Sedelʹnik V, and Institut mirovoĭ literatury imeni A.M. Gorʹkogo., eds. Istorii︠a︡ shveĭt︠s︡arskoĭ literatury. Moskva: IMLI RAN, 2002.

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Zahnd, René. Jardin d'hiver. Lausanne: L'Age dhomme, 1995.

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Wyss, Johann David. The Swiss Family Robinson. New York: Penguin Group USA, Inc., 2008.

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Hasler, Eveline. Der Riese im Baum: Roman. Zürich/Frauenfeld: Nagel & Kimche, 1988.

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Grünitz-Camastral, Hanna. Vo dä Gemschi: Und anderi Gschichtä us em Riiwaald. Splügen: Walservereinigung Graubünden, 2001.

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Miller, J. Hillis. "Reading. The Swiss Family Robinson as Virtual Reality." In Children's Literature, 78–92. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230523777_4.

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Scheurle, Patrick. "Literature Review." In Predictability of the Swiss Stock Market with Respect to Style, 6–18. Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-8729-7_2.

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Haelg, Leonore, Tobias S. Schmidt, and Sebastian Sewerin. "The Design of the Swiss Feed-In Tariff." In Swiss Energy Governance, 93–113. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80787-0_5.

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AbstractIn light of climate change mitigation and the transformation of the energy sector, many jurisdictions have adopted deployment policies for renewable energy (RE) technologies. Several RE deployment policy instruments have diffused from frontrunner countries to other jurisdictions. Switzerland implemented its first comprehensive RE support policy with the adoption of a cost-covering and technology-specific feed-in tariff in 2009, following Germany’s example. Yet, policy designs look very different in the two countries and, importantly, also result in different policy outcomes. In this chapter, we examine the reasons for these policy design differences. We unpack the design of the Swiss feed-in tariff and analyze which of the policy’s elements were directly adopted from Germany and which were accommodated to the Swiss context and why. In particular, we compare the specific instrument designs for two renewable power generation technologies, solar photovoltaics (PV) and biomass, and study the role of technology-related actors in shaping these policy designs. We draw from the policy diffusion and policy transfer literatures and offer important extensions to the literature by showing that, instead of entire policies, it is possible that only certain design elements of a policy diffuse from one jurisdiction to another. Additionally, we find that the composition of the existing technology-related actor bases in the donor and recipient countries is important in determining whether the accommodation of the design elements to the domestic context occurs.
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Bürer, Mary Jean, Matthieu de Lapparent, Massimiliano Capezzali, and Mauro Carpita. "Governance Drivers and Barriers for Business Model Transformation in the Energy Sector." In Swiss Energy Governance, 195–243. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80787-0_10.

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AbstractSmart second-generation policies for energy transition governance have been less studied and reviewed in the literature. They are also difficult to compare or measure in terms of their effectiveness with regard to the energy transition, not only because each country’s objectives and underlying drivers for an energy transition are different. Technological innovation and new technology deployment are only the tip of the iceberg. Understanding how to redesign energy governance to allow for business model reconfiguration among incumbents and how to stimulate business model innovation by start-ups and new entrants is key for an effective and sustainable energy transition in the long term. However, beyond this, countries must address the underlying driving forces such as consumption patterns and the financial system. Therefore, business model transformation is not the only solution, but it is an important one and it requires well-designed policies. It also requires the involvement of all stakeholders at all levels of the economic fabric of each region and country. At the same time, we continue to measure progress on energy transitions in a superficial and extremely limited way. Policies must now be smarter, not just more ambitious in terms of appearances, and the measurement of energy transition progress must evolve as well. We discuss the full story of an energy transition to the extent possible in a single chapter. For example, we will review business models in different sub-sectors, policies that either block or promote such changes in each sub-sector chosen, and the elements that are necessary for energy transitions to become successful and sustainable without long-term government intervention and financial support. Finally, we also provide insights from an expert workshop held in 2019 and we outline our upcoming work on an Energy Transition Preparedness Index.
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Rickenbach, Marc Cesar. "Writing Beyond the Border: Max Frisch, Dialect and Place in Swiss-German Literature." In Self-Translation and Power, 265–87. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50781-5_12.

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Zizka, Laura, Meng-Mei Chen, Effie Zhang, and Amandine Favre. "Hear No Virus, See No Virus, Speak No Virus: Swiss Hotels’ Online Communication Regarding Coronavirus." In Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2021, 441–51. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65785-7_43.

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AbstractTourism is a lucrative business, and Swiss hotels rely heavily on international clientele to book their rooms. The Coronavirus pandemic has halted travel and hotel stays from March to June 2020. Based on Situational Crisis Communication Theory (SCCT), this paper investigates the messages Swiss hotels have posted on their official websites and Facebook pages to reassure guests that it is safe to book rooms in Switzerland again. The findings from 73 independent 4 and 5-star hotels show that most hotels did not publish messages regarding the Coronavirus or the measures they have taken; instead, the hotels posted positive messages about reopening their rooms and services. Official hotel websites emphasized deals and offers while the Facebook pages concentrated on enthusiastic ‘welcome back’ messages. The findings presented here contribute to the literature by offering the first results of a larger project on communication during the de-confinement stage of a pandemic.
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Stotz, Peter. "Chapter 5. Switzerland." In Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, 121–34. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xxxiv.05sto.

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The territory now known as Switzerland was a contact zone for a range of ethnicities, linguistic areas and literary influences. There was no such thing as a specifically Swiss literary landscape in the Latin Middle Ages. Nor did the first beginnings of the formation of a state come into view until the late Middle Ages. In the western areas, significant influence from Gaul/France can be detected. The south-east belongs to the Rhaeto-Romance cultural area. In the east, settled by the Alemanni, the environs of Lake Constance, with the abbeys of St. Gall and Reichenau, were highly productive. Basel was oriented towards the north and the Upper Rhine. Literature was first produced in monasteries and bishoprics, later increasingly in towns. The most popular genres were hagiography and regional historiography, followed by spiritual poetry, theological and profane literature, and didactic poetry.
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Zizka, Laura, Meng-Mei Chen, Effie Zhang, and Amandine Favre. "Communicating to Tourists During and Post-Covid-19: What Do They Want (Need) to Hear?" In Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2022, 235–44. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94751-4_21.

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AbstractSwiss tourism relies heavily on international clientele to book rooms and purchase goods and services. However, from March to June 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, travel and subsequent bookings slowed and, in some cases, stopped altogether. Based predominantly on Situational Crisis Communication Theory (SCCT), this paper investigates Swiss hotels’ messages on their official Facebook pages and the SCCT strategies they employed during this crisis. The findings from 48 independent four- and five-star hotels show that the Victimage strategy was the most often employed when communicating about the COVID-19 pandemic in general. Further, most hotels published positive messages during this period (68%) and strongly emphasized their roles as victims at this time. Only 5% of the messages posted were negative messages. Hotels ‘blamed’ the government and the sanitary measures for their closing or reduced services. The findings presented here contribute to the literature by offering a pattern of crisis responses from Swiss hotels in the early period of the pandemic. These results are currently being updated with the messages communicated in the 12 months since the beginning of this study. The findings of this crisis communication during an early stage of the pandemic will be used to make concrete recommendations for the strategies that should be implemented in the future if the COVID-19 crisis continues or when faced with other crises.
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Gamondi, Claudia. "Relatives’ Experiences in Assisted Suicide Decision-making: Overview of the Literature with Specific Focus on the Swiss Experience." In Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Deutsches, Europäisches und Internationales Medizinrecht, Gesundheitsrecht und Bioethik der Universitäten Heidelberg und Mannheim, 41–50. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52669-9_5.

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Heffernan, Valerie. "The (M)other’s Voice: Representations of Motherhood in Contemporary Swiss Writing by Women." In Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing, 115–34. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3_7.

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AbstractThe mother-daughter relationship has long been a focus in writing by women, and many female authors have sought to explore the close and sometimes complex connections between mothers and daughters. However, as Marianne Hirsch has argued, the stories of mothers are all too often presented from the point of view of their daughters, so that the maternal perspective tends to be absent from literature. This chapter compares the presentation of the mother-daughter relationship in two novels by contemporary Swiss writers, Zoë Jenny’s The Pollen Room (1997) and Ruth Schweikert’s Augen zu [Close Your Eyes] (1998). Both texts feature mothers who struggle to cope with the demands of their daily lives and the responsibility of the maternal role and daughters who can neither understand their mothers’ suffering nor accept their difference. While both novels point to the difficulty of retaining one’s subjectivity as mother, I argue that Schweikert’s novel offers a more nuanced and potentially more productive portrayal of the complexities of maternal identity. In particular, through her use of a polyphonic narrative structure that gives equal weight to maternal and filial perspectives, Schweikert answers Hirsch’s call for a “double voice” that offers a way forward for women’s writing.
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Conference papers on the topic "Swiss literature"

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Simonin, A., A. Rusconi, and P. Otten. "Giant Calcified Extra-Axial Cavernoma of the Falx Cerebri. Case Report and Review of the Literature." In Joint Annual Meeting 2017: Swiss Society of Neurosurgery, Swiss Society of Neuroradiology. Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0037-1603866.

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Simonin, A., R. Maduri, E. Viaroli, M. Levivier, R. T. Daniel, and M. Messerer. "Correlation of Papilledema and Intracranial Hypertension in Crouzon Syndrome: Case Report and Review of the Literature." In Joint Annual Meeting 2018: Swiss Society of Neurosurgery, Swiss Society of Neuroradiology. Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1660722.

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Stricker, S., R. Guzman, J. Soleman, and B. Cecile. "Dizygotic Twins of Different Gender with Concordant Myelomeningocele: A Case Report and Review of the Literature." In Joint Annual Meeting 2018: Swiss Society of Neurosurgery, Swiss Society of Neuroradiology. Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1660747.

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Simonin, A., A. Rusconi, and G. Maestretti. "Differences between Pulmonary and Intracardiac Cement Embolism Migration after Percutaneous Cementoplasty: Report of Two Cases and Review of the Literature." In Joint Annual Meeting 2017: Swiss Society of Neurosurgery, Swiss Society of Neuroradiology. Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0037-1603867.

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Safran, Marc R. "Hip Arthroscopy: The Next Frontier in Orthopaedic Surgery and Its Challenges." In ASME 2009 4th Frontiers in Biomedical Devices Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/biomed2009-83061.

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Hip Arthroscopy is the most rapidly growing field in Orthopaedic Surgery. The volume of hip arthroscopy has tripled since 2003. Yet, despite the rapid recent growth, it is felt that only 10% of problems that can be treated with hip arthroscopy are currently being done so. The reasons for this are multiple — lack of recognition of problems in the hip by those not experienced with non-arthritic hip problems, insufficient numbers of surgeons trained to do hip arthroscopy, and, not unimportantly, the difficulty of performing hip arthroscopy. One of the most common underlying problems affecting individuals with non-arthritic hip pain is femoroacetabular impingement (FAI). FAI was first described by Ganz in the Swiss literature in 1995, and did not make it into the English literature until 1999. Due to its very recent identification, acceptance of this problem and dissemination to clinicians has resulted in a relatively low number of clinicians being aware of this problem.
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Meier, Aline, Lucas M. Bachmann, and Urs Steiner. "P141 Occurrence of neuropsychiatric manifestations in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: results from the swiss lupus cohort and meta-analysis of the pertinent literature." In 12th European Lupus Meeting. Lupus Foundation of America, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/lupus-2020-eurolupus.184.

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Can, Zeynep Gizem, Ufuk Can, and Harun Bal. "Inclusive Growth and Globalization: The Case of Turkey." In International Conference on Eurasian Economies. Eurasian Economists Association, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.36880/c11.02277.

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This study aims to determine the relationship between inclusive growth and globalization. Since both concepts are multidimensional and do not directly related data on these concepts, an inclusive growth index is formed which covers sixteen different data with the help of principal component analysis. The globalization data are compiled from the KOF Swiss Economic Institute and the relationship between them is determined by Engle-Granger cointegration, Granger causality and ARDL bounds tests. Econometric findings show that inclusive growth has accelerated in the period between 1991 and 2015, that there is a long-term relationship with the inclusive growth index and the globalization index. This situation is contradictory with the conclusion that the causality relationship in the literature is towards global growth through inclusive growth. Information, social, economic and financial globalizations are directly related to economic performance, education, health and infrastructure investments and its funding conditions.
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Montandon, Corinne, and Marianne Zentriegen. "Applications of Customer Focused E-Learning." In 2003 Informing Science + IT Education Conference. Informing Science Institute, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/2703.

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This paper provides information on customer focused e-learning (CFEL). It is an overview on the application area of CFEL and the potential of its business applications. Training of customers holds some undiscovered potential. CFEL is a new concept and little technical literature is available yet. In the majority of cases a differentiation is made between the category groups e-learning as business segment (private training) and e-learning as marketing instrument (educommerce). In this paper product training is considered as a third type of CFEL. For the illustration of possible applications of CFEL, numerous practical examples are given. This paper then goes on to develop these ideas in a practical way through case studies of the e-learning provision of three Swiss companies. This paper refers solely to corporate e-learning, whereas employee and supplier training is not considered. Especially in the sectors of computer science, financial services, staffing and employment service, and health care, the odds for an early breakthrough of CFEL are promising.
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Niederhauser, Luca, Toni Waefler, Sebastian Huber, Uta Juettner, Karina Von Dem Berge, Charles Huber, and Simona Burri. "Matching B2B-Partners in the Sharing Economy." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002246.

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The sharing economy offers great potential for companies to access resources in a more sustainable way, to create knowledge synergies or to save costs. This potential is particularly attractive to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as it provides access to scarce resources that otherwise are not affordable. However, sharing resources in B2B is not yet widespread. Therefore, in this project, which is supported by the Swiss federation, we aimed at promoting sharing between SMEs. To do so, we developed tools supporting different phases of sharing projects. This paper focuses on the initial phase of a sharing project where SMEs interested in sharing need to find partners. The tool we developed for that purpose supports partner matching. To develop the tool, we started with an extensive literature review to identify the factors that contribute to a successful sharing. This review revealed a total of about 40 success factors. From these, the most critical factors were selected through expert judgment and testing as described below. This resulted in a final set of 16 factors deemed important and demonstrated to be distinctive. Expert judgment to validate the success factors was conducted by the means of interviews (n=10) with representatives of Swiss SMEs interested in B2B sharing. Beside factor validation, results from the interviews showed that companies have a very heterogeneous understanding of what factors are important for a successful sharing. The importance assigned to the different success factors seemed to strongly depend on characteristics of the resource to be shared and on the importance of a particular resource to the individual SME's business. We concluded that consensus on the importance of success factors is not a prerequisite for successful sharing. Rather, it is important that the different objectives and associated expectations for sharing are not incompatible. Thus, the success factors can help identify potential areas of incompatibility and thus clarify where consensus needs to be found and where heterogeneous views will not have a negative impact on a successful partnership. To test the success factors, we operationalized and integrated them into a diagnostic tool that allows interested companies to self-assess and enables them to find potentially suitable sharing partners. This tool was tested by Swiss SMEs (n=10). Based on the tests, two version of the diagnostic tool were developed: A short version with five items that supports platform-based online matching, and a long version with 16 items that supports a more comprehensive negotiating process between partners willing to share resources. The two versions of the tool, the operationalized criteria as well as the tool application will be presented in the paper.
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Navas de Maya, Beatriz, Yaser Farag, Hadi Bantan, Rafet Kurt, Osman Turan, Esma Uflaz, Rithvik Dandu Basappa, Panagiotis Sotiralis, and Nikolaos Ventikos. "Human Factors' Contribution into Maritime Accidents by Applying the SHIELD HF Taxonomy." In SNAME 14th International Marine Design Conference. SNAME, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5957/imdc-2022-336.

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Despite the continuous improvement of safety measures, maritime accidents remain a concern in our society. Thus, as the literature has shown, over the last ten years, the frequency of groundings and collisions accidents in the maritime domain has increased. An official accident investigation is conducted for each serious maritime accident, however, the level of detail changes from accident to accident, hence, the details about human contributors and organisational issues are not systematically analysed and reported in a way that makes future extraction of trends and comparisons possible. With the aim to better capture human and organisational factors, this paper proposes to utilise the Safety Human Incident & Error Learning Database (SHIELD) HF Taxonomy, which was developed in the context of the European Union SAFEMODE project, in line with the key components of NASA-HFACS, HERA, and Reason’s Swiss Cheese Model. Therefore, in this study, ten collision and ten grounding maritime accidents reported by various maritime agencies are analysed via the SHIELD HF Taxonomy to identify the main accident contributors, including design deficiencies. The paper further proposes a framework for how these results can be utilised to develop the design and operational measures to prevent collision and grounding accidents. The paper demonstrates the benefits of using HF taxonomy for identifying the underlying causes as well as developing mitigating design solutions.
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Reports on the topic "Swiss literature"

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Barbuscia, Anna, and Chiara Comolli. Gender and socioeconomic inequalities in health and wellbeing across age in France and Switzerland. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1553/populationyearbook2021.res2.2.

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There is increasing evidence that wellbeing is unequally distributed across sociodemographicgroups in contemporary societies. However, less is known about thedivergence across social groups of trajectories of wellbeing across age groups.This issue is of great relevance in contexts characterised by changing populationstructures and growing imbalances across and within generations, and in whichensuring that everyone has the opportunity to have a happy and healthy life courseis a primary welfare goal. In this study, we investigate wellbeing trends in Franceand Switzerland across age, gender, and socioeconomic status groups. We use twohousehold surveys (the Sant´e et Itin´eraires Professionnels and the Swiss HouseholdPanel) to compare the unfolding inequalities in health and wellbeing across agegroups in two rich countries. We view wellbeing as multidimensional, followingthe literature highlighting the importance of considering different dimensions andmeasures of wellbeing. Thus, we investigate a number of outcomes, includingdifferent measures of physical and mental health, as well as of relational wellbeing,using a linear regression model and a linear probability model. Our findings showinteresting country and dimension-specific heterogeneities in the development ofhealth and wellbeing over age. While our results indicate that there are gender andeducational inequalities in both Switzerland and France, and that gender inequalitiesin mental health accumulate with age in both countries, we also find that educationalinequalities in health and wellbeing remain rather stable across age groups.
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