Academic literature on the topic 'Writers Developing Connections'

This article focuses upon Alicia LeFanu (fl. 1809–36), author of several poems, six multi-volume novels, a critical biography of her grandmother, Frances Sheridan, and articles for the Court Magazine. Descended from an eminent literary family, and since misremembered as a mere ‘petticoat novelist’, LeFanu complicates ideas of the centre and the periphery in her writing. I explore how this interest is figured in LeFanu's use of the chapter epigraph, developing work I have undertaken as editor of LeFanu's early novel, Strathallan (1816). LeFanu's epigraphs persist across her fiction as a dimension in which she not only reflects upon literary legacies, but also contests the boundaries of her own print culture. Through its consideration of LeFanu, as author and reader, the article further reflects upon the significance of her example for a broader understanding of other women writers at the edges and borders of Romanticism, and of their literary networks.

This research assignment invites students in a first-year writing preparation course to explore topics of social justice through protest art. The course is taught at a small, private liberal arts college in a course for “emerging writers.” I have taught this assignment at a predominantly White institution (PWI), in a course where the majority of students are Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). Students choose a work of protest art from the campus library special collections, frame the social justice issue it addresses in a local context using local sources, and then write an essay that puts that research in conversation with their own story. Finally, linking public history to civic engagement, students create their own protest art as a community call to action. The multimodal, local, and personal nature of this writing assignment creates opportunities for students to see the connections between their emerging identities as writers and civic actors. This assignment can create space for students to use their multilingual identities to speak back to the structural inequality within our institution, developing confidence in their own voices to call for meaningful change.

The article is devoted to the study of the functions of the characters’ weapons in A.N. and B.N. Strugatsky’s novel “Hard to be a God”. It is important for writing a commentary on the prologue of the novel. The authors used the historical-typological and mythopoetic research methods. As the result of reviewing the history of words-concepts, as it made by A.N. Veselovsky, the authors managed to study the intertextual connections of “Hard to be a God” with V.T. Shalamov’s poem “Crossbow” and his story “May”, as well as N.S. Gumilev’s poem “Just looks through the cliffs...” and E. Hemingway’s play “The fifth column”. Through these connections, the image of weapons is formed in the work of science fiction writers. It is necessary to destruct the mythological enemy – the sea monster, which symbolizes the social evil within the novel framework. As we have found out, the reason for such an intricate symbolism lies in the peculiarities of the age: the image of the sea monster standing for public evil is due to historical reasons. And since the elimination of social problems by such radical methods, according to the authors, is impossible, the movement towards a bright future should be only gradual and peaceful. As in reality, weapons are fundamentally unable to perform their task. Moreover, the weapon is dangerous for its owner, which indicates the ambivalence of the image. In addition, the comparison, important for the novel “Hard to be God”, of the past and future appears the first in the comparison of crossbows and carbines, further developing by other means. Weapons are involved in creating a number of important motives: doom, the danger of using force, and interference in the course of history.

The essay surveys the works written by C. Irod, one of the leading contemporary Ukrainian writers of Romania. The main attention is paid to his trilogy of novels “The Feast” and stories that vary in thematic features and stylistics, some of them belonging to a particular type of short prose works – allegoric pieces called “blunder stories”. Considering main themes and ideas of C. Irod’s works and focusing on peculiarities of their literary interpretation, the researcher intends to represent the originality of the writer’s prose heritage, to determine his role in developing the genre of the modern novel and renovating flash fiction in Ukrainian literature of Romania. To achieve this aim, the researcher adds a comparative aspect and refers to the major development patterns of the world novel of the 1960s–1980s, in particular, focusing on such a remarkable feature as ‘new epics’. The themes and issues of the works by C. Irod have been compared to those in the works by Romanian writers, in particular D. R. Popescu. It is noted that C. Irode’s stories have the inherent connection with the flash fiction of the Ukrainian masters – H. Tiutiunnyk and Ye. Hutsalo. The essay follows correspondences in themes and literary technique that relate the Romanian writer to the mentioned Ukrainian authors. The essay also informs about C. Irod’s achievements in the Цeld of literary translation. In particular, he worked over translation of T. Shevchenko’s “Diary”, as well as the book “Taras Shevchenko’s life” by P. Zaitsev. The researcher also gives some details concerning C. Irod’s translations of the tales “When the animals could talk” and “Mykyta the Fox” by I. Franko, the stories written by H. Tiutiunnyk and some pieces in poetry and prose by junior Ukrainian authors.

Modern national literature is developing on the basis of Russian classical traditions, however reflecting the problems and the issues, principles and the methods of fictional works of writers’ classics. Today, there are various artistic systems, and realism is progressing in a complicated way of connecting with naturalism, modernism, sentimentalism and etc. These all aspects make up the whole picture of modern Russian literature. Here it gives the conception of the last decades the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century as special direction in general growth of Russian literature.

With increasing calls for a greater connection between management education and practice, teaching cases play a vital role in the business curriculum. Cases not only allow instructors to expose students to practical problems but also let educators contribute to the scholarship of teaching and learning. An important reason why faculty members may refrain from writing cases is they perceive it is difficult to develop publishable cases that are also novel. Reviewers of the journals that publish teaching cases are increasingly asking authors to place the case in the extant literature and explain what makes their case unique. To overcome some of the challenges encountered when attempting to write and publish novel teaching cases, this article presents a useful framework—Design Thinking—for tackling the “wicked problem” of developing novel cases and provides experience-based tips to implement the framework. By introducing the concepts and language of design thinking, we provide case writers with an iterative approach that leads to the development of novel cases by identifying and innovatively addressing instructors’, students’, and editors’ demands. We argue that by applying a design-thinking approach, case writers can produce novel and publishable instructional cases.

Capital Market is a part of financial market, besides money market which has essential role for national development, and specifically become funding alternative for small-medium business. Securities in Indonesia have been developing since 1980 after economic deregulation in financial field. This regulation brings some changes in Indonesia’s financial market development, in terms of securities as a result of financial market development. Capital market instrument can be divided into bonds and stocks/equities. In this research, the writer focuses the research on capital market instruments in the form of Medium Term Notes (MTN). Unlike bonds, there are no regulations that have been regulated until now about Medium Term Notes. So that in this research, the focus is to discuss legal issues, namely the legal relationship of the parties in the Medium Term Notes sale and purchase agreement and the form of legal protection for investors holding Medium Term Notes. This research uses normative research method because this research tries to review legal norms, examining all constitutions and regulations which related to views and doctrines in laws. And the writer's main objective in this research is was to analyze the legal construction of the Medium Term Notes sale and purchase agreement and analyze the form of legal protection against buyers of Medium Term Notes. From this research, it is expected to contribute ideas in the field of law, especially in capital market legal disciplines and used to prevent and resolve legal problems that will arise in connection with the Medium Term Notes. Hopefully this journal can bring benefits, adding broader insight to readers

This article examines the career of pioneer British psychoanalyst David Eder (1865–1936). Credited by Freud as the first practising psychoanalyst in England, active in early British socialism and then a significant figure in Zionism in post-war Palestine, and in between an adventurer in South America, a pioneer in the field of school medicine, and a writer on shell-shock, Eder is a strangely neglected figure in existing historiography. The connections between his interest in medicine, psychoanalysis, socialism and Zionism are also explored. In doing so, this article contributes to our developing understanding of the psychoanalytic culture of early twentieth-century Britain, pointing to its shifting relationship to broader ideology and the practical social and political challenges of the period. The article also reflects on the challenges for both Eder’s contemporaries and his biographers in making sense of such a life.

В статье на основе анализа осетинской литературы выделены и проанализированы этапы становления личности человека как субъекта труда в философско-эстетическом осмыслении художественным сознанием осетин. Показано, что осетинское художественное сознание рассматривало труд как мощный фактор формирования сущности человека, с одной стороны, и как комплексное общественное явление, органично связанное с законами развития общества, – с другой. На это обстоятельство обратили внимание еще осетинские просветители, и они же впервые задумались о диалектике необходимости и свободы общественного труда. Просветители также отмечали сословно-политическую обусловленность труда в классовом обществе. Осмысление процесса становления человека как субъекта труда фольклорным сознанием осетин, отражающим отношения личной зависимости в первобытную и феодальную эпоху, можно условно отнести к первому этапу. Затем осетинская литература критического реализма отразила специфику становления субъекта труда в капиталистическом обществе, где реализуются частнособственнические отношения и происходит становление человека с богатыми социальными и духовными свойствами, потребностями, связями как целостного и универсального продукта общества (К. Маркс). Это – второй этап становления человека как творца, субъекта труда, в понимании художественного сознания осетин. При этом человек в мире товарно-денежных отношений приобретает способность к напряженному труду, значительно развивая отношения личной зависимости, что и отразилось в творчестве просветителей, писателей (К. Хетагурова, И. Канукова, С. Гадиева, Е. Бритаева, А. Кубалова и др.). Третий этап, отраженный в литературе социалистического реализма и реализованный в советском обществе, характеризуется развитием свободной индивидуальности в результате изменения форм собственности, ориентации субъекта, При этом существенно возросли требования к человеку как к субъекту общественного производства. Это понимание своей социальной и моральной ответственности, повышение уровня профессионализма. Осетинская литература отразила и то обстоятельство, что человек в мире тоталитарно-плановой экономики сталкивается с весьма существенным противоречием между партийными, политико-идеологическими установками и реальностью, в результате творчество, труд и образованность в некотором смысле девальвируют в условиях административно-хозяйственного диктата, а отношения личной независимости заменяются экономико-административной зависимостью. The article based on the analysis of Ossetian literature identifies and analyzes the stages of the formation of an individual’s personality as a subject of labor in the philosophical-aesthetic comprehension by the artistic consciousness of the Ossetians. It is shown that, on the one hand, the Ossetian artistic consciousness considered labor as a powerful factor in the formation of the essence of a person, and as a complex social phenomenon, organically connected with the laws of the development of society, on the other hand. It was the Ossetian enlighteners, who paid attention to this circumstance, and for the first time thought about the dialectics of the necessity and freedom of social labor. The enlighteners also noted the estate-political conditionality of labor in a class society. Comprehension of the process of formation of a person as a subject of labor by the folklore consciousness of Ossetians, reflecting the relationship of personal dependence in the primitive and feudal eras, can be conditionally attributed to the first stage. Then the Ossetian literature of critical realism reflected the specifics of the formation of the subject of labor in a capitalist society, where private property relations are realized and a person is formed with rich social and spiritual properties, needs, connections as an integral and universal product of society (K. Marx). This is the second stage in the formation of a person as a creator, a subject of labor, in the understanding of the artistic consciousness of the Ossetians. At the same time, a person in the world of commodity-money relations acquires the ability to work hard, significantly developing relations of personal dependence, which is reflected in the work of educators, writers (K. Khetagurov, I. Kanukov, S. Gadiev, E. Britaev, A. Kubalov and etc.). The third stage, reflected in the literature of socialist realism and implemented in Soviet society, is characterized by the development of free individuality as a result of changes in the forms of ownership, the orientation of the subject, while the requirements for a person as a subject of social production have significantly increased. This is an understanding of one’s social and moral responsibility, an increase in the level of professionalism. Ossetian literature also reflected the fact that a person in the world of a totalitarian-planned economy is faced with a very significant contradiction between party, political and ideological attitudes and reality, as a result, creativity, work and education in a sense devalue under the conditions of administrative and economic dictate, and relations personal independence is replaced by economic and administrative dependence.

One of the pitfalls on the road of any commentator on any author is that of seizing upon a single aspect of his work and developing this aspect to the exclusion of others equally important. What is said may then be true enough, yet the total picture becomes a distorted one. The danger of a selective reading pulling the whole critical super-structure awry is peculiarly evident in connection with John Updike. He is a comic writer, a fabulist, a poet, a moralist, an observer of social mores, a religious believer, a student of history, an “earnest meditator” on the ego, a critic of other authors—and sometimes all of these things at once. Those who would bake a critical cake must not only include all the ingredients he has supplied but also mix them in the right proportions. If they fail, the cake will turn out flat.

Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms in the United States. In The Portrait's Subject, Sarah Blackwood tells a wide-ranging story about how images of human surfaces came to signal expressions of human depth during this era in paintings, photographs, and illustrations, as well as in literary and cultural representations of portrait making and viewing. Combining visual theory, literary close reading, and archival research, Blackwood examines portraiture's changing symbolic and aesthetic practices, from daguerreotype to X-ray. Portraiture, the book argues, was a provocative art form used by writers, artists, and early psychologists to imagine selfhood as hidden, deep, and in need of revelation, ideas that were then taken up by the developing discipline of psychology. The Portrait’s Subject reveals the underappreciated connections between portraiture's representations of the material human body and developing modern ideas about the human mind. It encouraged figures like Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Eakins, Harriet Jacobs, and Henry James to reimagine how we might see inner life, offering a rich array of metaphors and aesthetic approaches that helped reconfigure the relationship between body and mind, exterior and interior. In the end, Blackwood shows how nineteenth-century psychological discourse developed as much through aesthetic fabulation as through scientific experimentation.

Despite extensive critical attention, Arthur C. Clarke’s distinctive science fiction has never been fully or properly understood. This study examines some of his lighthearted shorter works for the first time and explores how Clarke’s views regularly diverge from those of other science fiction writers. Clarke thought new inventions would likely bring more problems than benefits and suspected that human space travel would never extend beyond the solar system. He accepted that humanity would probably become extinct in the future or be transformed by evolution into unimaginable new forms. He anticipated that aliens would be genuinely alien in both their physiology and psychology. He perceived a deep bond between humanity and the oceans, perhaps stronger than any developing bond between humanity and space. Despite his lifelong atheism, he frequently pondered why humans developed religions, how they might abandon them, and why religions might endure in defiance of expectations. Finally, Clarke’s characters, often criticized as bland, actually are merely reticent, and the isolated lifestyles they adopt--remaining distant or alienated from their families and relying upon connections to broader communities and long-distance communication to ameliorate their solitude--not only reflect Clarke’s own personality, as a closeted homosexual and victim of a disability, but they also constitute his most important prediction, since increasing numbers of twenty-first-century citizens are now living in this manner.

This book is the first systematic discussion of the bodhisattva path in Māhayāna Buddhism from the perspective of Christian comparative theology. With the increasing interest and participation of Christians in Buddhist practice, many are seeking a deeper exploration of this topic, and of the way the two traditions and their teachings might interface. Crucified Wisdom provides important scholarly background material for this discussion, as well as a constructive proposal for Christian engagement. The text combines a rich exposition of the bodhisattva path with detailed reflection on it in connection with specific Christian convictions. The description of bodhisattva teachings centers on Śāntideva’s classic work the Bodicaryāvatāra and its interpretation by Tibetan commentators. The book argues that Christian theology can take direct instruction from Buddhism in three respects: developing an understanding of a “no-self” dimension in all creatures, recognizing an unvarying nondual dimension of divine immanence in the world, and appreciating that both of these are constituent dimensions in Christ’s incarnation and human redemption. The writer argues that Christians rightly remain committed to the value of novelty in history, the enduring significance of human persons, and the Trinitarian reality of God. A notable feature of the book is its exploration of the tensions around the crucifixion of Jesus in Buddhist-Christian interpretation. This work will be of particular value for those interested in “dual belonging” in connection to these traditions.

Why is management style so important to Six Sigma implementation? Many writers have attempted to define managers as effective quality leaders. Particularly following the 1920s, a great deal of research focused on worker motivation. Prior to the 1920s most employees were looked at as machines and their needs and wants were ignored. Employees were viewed as a disposable resource, driving the belief that motivating employees and sharing organizational development ideas were not integral to business practice. This style of management discouraged employees from feeling as a part of the organization and taking a stake in development efforts. McGregor identified two distinct managerial approaches, labeling them Theory X and Y; theory X was the more prevalent behavioral style identified among managers in the first half of the twentieth century. A statistical approach to quality control was also beginning to emerge during this period, with origins in the well-known so-called Hawthorne experiments. At this time, while Japanese companies were developing quality methods, western manufacturers were focusing their efforts on marketing, production quantity, and financial performance. An awakening to quality in western firms did not occur until the 1980s, with Six Sigma as one of the offspring of this movement. Six Sigma is a set of strategies, techniques, and tools for process improvement. One of the outcome of Six Sigma implementation is an infrastructure of people within the organization who are experts in this method. Six Sigma not only emphasizes setting rigorous objectives, collecting data, and analyzing results to a fine degree as a way to reduce defects in products and services, but it can also be an effective management tool. As such, successful implementation requires managerial commitment. This level of commitment will depend on the managers’ perceptions of their workers’ motivation. Although a great deal of research has been conducted on worker motivation, limited research exists that explores the possible connection between managers’ perception of workers’ motivation and Six Sigma commitment and success. The writers of this chapter have explored this issue and found that the majority of participants in their study were Theory Y managers with the same level of interest in Six Sigma as Theory X managers. The results indicate that although successful implementation of Six Sigma is independent from the management style (Theory X or Y), it requires management support and determination. Furthermore, the findings did not rule out other possible factors that could be influencing Six Sigma success, such as the dedication of Six Sigma champions or their skills in implementing Six Sigma.