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The Dilemmas of 'Post-Communism': Elizabeth Wilson’s The Lost Time Café
Get PDFDiscussion of the merits and failings of socialism is one of the major features of post-1945 European literature. Although the literary right has dominated fiction in the West, left-wing writing has persisted into the twenty-first century, offering a powerful critique of the neoliberalism that has established control over continental integration. This essay examines this critique through a study of Elizabeth Wilson’s The Lost Time Café (1993), a British dystopian thriller set at the millennium’s end. Delving into the history of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Wilson argues that the radical tradition is necessary for understanding and solving the crises of the late twentieth-century, challenging the poverty, inequality and austerity of the post-welfarist European Union with a more socialist vision of united Europe
“Our Embattled Humanity”:Global Literature in an Authoritarian Age
Get PDFDuring the Cold War, a large percentage of the world’s population was governed by authoritarian regimes. The practices and effects of dictatorship became central concerns of global literature, which was often obstructed by systems of persecution and constraint, although also inspired to evermore inventive forms of ideological and stylistic dissidence. Drawing on the burgeoning field of human rights scholarship, this chapter analyses some of the major genres and themes that characterised anti-authoritarian writing across the blocs, examining writers’ advocacy of gender equality, ethnic equality, creative freedom, economic justice and the equal right to citizenship and material well-being. As the chapter argues, literature did more than any official pronouncement in the Cold War era to establish universal rights in the global imaginary.<br/
Father Andrew Mullen 1790-1818: a study in early nineteenth century spirituality
Get PDFThis thesis is laid out in three parts: Part I. The life and death of Andrew Mullen. The life is based, to a large extent, on a long letter to his mother, Catherine Mullen, dated 7 January 1810. The letter gives a definite insight into his spirituality based on his membership of the Archconfraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. There is a hint that he had a premonition of an early death. Part II. The burial of Andrew Mullen and the immediate cult to him This is based on documentary evidence. Part III. Most of this part is a catalogue of testimonies taken from 1993 onwards. Then there is the conclusion on the popular devotion to Andrew Mullen stressing the theological aspect of the subject. In the course of writing the thesis it was decided to separate the documentary evidence from the oral tradition. This was advantageous in developing the thesis, and the documents provided a secure basis for the oral tradition. Two pieces of information were found in March 1997. They are death notices: 2 January 1819, The Leinster Journal and 7 January 1819, The Car low Morning Post. There is a slight discrepancy between the two on the date of his death. Also this discrepancy shows a slight difference from the date of the tombstone
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No full textDivided Worlds: The Political Interventions of Science Fiction
Get PDFPartly because of the low critical standing of science fiction during the Cold War, its authors could sidestep restrictions on publishing and use the genre as a forum for oppositional commentary. Expanding on the current transnational turn in SF studies, this chapter argues that many SF writings from Western, Eastern and non-aligned countries revealed a remarkably similar set of concerns and approaches between 1945 and 1989. Alongside a critique of authoritarian government were scathing commentaries on the degenerative potential of contemporary technology, particularly in the realms of nuclear weaponry, consumerism, mass entertainment and superpower interventionism. In its commonalities across blocs, this dissident strain of SF transcended the geopolitical divisions of the Cold War and gained international resonance
European Fiction on the Borders: The Case of Herta Müller
No full textAlthough European frontiers have often been sites of exchange and contact, their role in national and ideological division is a more pronounced feature of post-1945 continental arrangements. This essay explores the disciplinary function of borders via a study of Herta Müller’s Herztier (The Land of Green Plums, 1994). Set in late Cold War Romania, the novel dramatizes the manner in which the regime’s closed borders helped to shape the identity of the domestic population, conditioning not only public activity, but also the private realms of thought and emotion. As the essay points out, despite the dismantling of the Iron Curtain in 1989, Müller’s text retains its relevance to a ‘Fortress Europe’ still defined by national and ‘civilisational’ boundaries
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Debated Lands: British and American Representations of the Balkans
No full textAndrew Hammond focuses mainly on the genres of travel writing, fiction and poetry to explore the tradition of the Balkans denigration in the nineteenth century, the romanticism of it in much of the twentieth century, and the return to denigration.Includes bibliographical references and index.The concept of the Balkans -- Nineteenth-century Balkanism -- Representation and power -- The Victorian traveller -- Wartime alliance -- The escape from modernity -- Travel in the modernist era -- Cold War discourse -- The return to denigration -- The postmodern traveller.Andrew Hammond focuses mainly on the genres of travel writing, fiction and poetry to explore the tradition of the Balkans denigration in the nineteenth century, the romanticism of it in much of the twentieth century, and the return to denigration
The 14 Brexit negotiations
No full textThe process of Brexit goes far beyond invoking Article 50. In this Strategic Update, Andrew Hammond and Tim Oliver identify some 14 Brexit negotiations underway - both formal diplomatic discussions and wider debates between and within the UK and EU. How will these range of negotiations bring the EU centre stage, and do they point towards a ‘hard exit’ for the UK
author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 – Supplemental material for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct
No full textSupplemental material, author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct by George Wood, Daria Roithmayr and Andrew V. Papachristos in Socius</p
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