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Tony Woodman et Jonathan Powell (Ed.), Author and Audience in Latin Literature
No full textTordeur Pol. Tony Woodman et Jonathan Powell (Ed.), Author and Audience in Latin Literature. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 63, 1994. pp. 382-383
To what extent is Lemuel Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift a reflection of the writer with regard to political and religious views, and attitudes toward women and the concept of family?
No full textThis extended essay is an examination of the extent to which the protagonist Lemuel Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels is a reflection of Jonathan Swift. It involves the exploration of this research question in terms of politics, religion, attitude to women and family; with references to this piece of literature and some secondary resources when necessary. The quotations from published literary criticism are either refuted by examples from the novel or supported in the light of evidence from the novel. Other secondary resources include Swift’s two other prose works, The Modest Proposal and A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage, which are referred to briefly for clarification of the evidence. The purpose of this study is to analyse in what ways and to what extent the protagonist is an author-surrogate in the abovementioned ways.
This essay is comprised of two sections, namely “politics and religion” and “women and family”, each focusing on a particular aspect of the investigation. In the first section, Swift’s political and religious standpoint is discussed extensively in order to correctly evaluate Gulliver’s paradigm. By making connections between the beliefs of the author and those of Gulliver, the relation between the two is established to support the claim of this essay. In the second section, the female figures in the novel and Gulliver’s perception of them are inspected. The plot is also taken into consideration in this part of the inquiry although the central focus is on the persona.
In the conclusion, it is validated that Gulliver is a reflection of Jonathan Swift with regard to political and religious vision, and attitude towards women and family, by juxtaposing and assembling the main elements of personification of Gulliver and Jonathan Swift’s personal ideas and experiences
The sentiments of a Church-of-England man : a study of Swift's politics
No full textThis contextualist study re-examines the contested critical
question of Jonathan Swift's political character. It is
concerned with the historical meaning of Swift's texts
and attempts to recover their original political impact.
Politically-literate contemporaries claimed to read Jacobite
Tory politics in Swift's texts. Rather than dismiss the
judgement of Swift's contemporaries, this study asks whether
there is anything about Swift's political writing in polemical
context that could have led contemporaries to construe
the politics of his texts as Jacobite Tory. The conclusion
this study reaches is that aspects of Swift's political
rhetoric are consonant with Tory and Jacobite polemic.
While contesting current conceptions of Swift as a Whig,
this study offers a partial revision of that scholarship
which describes Swift as a non-Jacobite Tory.
The thesis is based on an analysis of Swift's prose, poetry
and correspondence and contemporary (mainly printed) sources
books, pamphlets, poems on affairs of state and newspapers.
Some new or neglected polemical contexts and analogues
for Swift's works are suggested. Chapter 1 considers some
of the problems and contested issues in interpretation
of Swift's political biography and writing. Chapter 2
witnesses Swift's combination of High Church attitudes
with a radical political critique of Whig establishment.
Swift is read in juxtaposition with Jacobite Tory authors
such as George Granville, Lord Lansdowne. Chapter 3 relocates
A Tale of a Tub in historical context to reveal the satire's
relation to High Church Tory polemical languages. Chapter
4 discusses the disaffected Tory aspect of Gulliver's
Travels. Chapter 5 attempts to register the complexity
of the textual evidence of Swift's attitude to Jacobitism.
Detailed attention is given to his politically-revealing
attitudes to the Dutch. A coda briefly describes Swift's
discontent with the Revolution settlement, examines this
Church-of-England Man's sentiments on the crucial ideological
issue of resistance, and suggests the importance of Hugo
Grotius in Swift's political thought
Paranoia and irony in the Anglophone dectective narrative and the novels of Umberto Eco
No full textThe thesis provides a reading of Umberto Eco's three novels, The Name of the
Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, and The Island of the Day Before, that, while it
acknowledges the importance of the Italian literary tradition in which they stand, also
seeks to explain why their author appeals so frequently to literary models outside
Italy, and in particular the Anglo-American detective genre.
Chapter One explains Eco's relationship to the development of Italian literature
through his lifetime. It is noted that Eco is beginning, both in his semiotics and his
fiction, from a position where post-structuralism has been extensively explored by
neo-avant-gardew riters. Eco positions himself alongsides uchw riters as Italo Calvino
and Jorge Luis Borges, who wish to explore the ludic possibilities of working within
structures, while all the time acknowledging the epistemological limitations of so
doing. Eco's chosen structure, more often than not, is the highly defined genre of
the detective story.
From here, the following chapters engage in close readings of the three novels,
with particular emphasis on The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum,
demonstrating that they explore problems of interpretation central to the detective
narrative. In doing this, they display an intimate knowledge of generic developments
within the detective tradition, and of the philosophical and aesthetic uses made of the
genre by other writers. The embedding of intertextual references to other detective
narratives within Eco's novels is an important factor, as they come together to form
a narrative of epistemological inquiry that itself follows Eco's philosophical progress
through the years. In short, the novels, inter alia, map a systematic inquiry into the
possibility of systematic inquiry. They reserve the space to engage in such an ironic
and self-referential project precisely through their fictionality
10-05 "The Macroeconomics of Development without Throughput Growth"
No full textSerious discussion has begun of policies to promote the goal of increasing well-being without material growth. Moving towards this goal requires a profound reorientation of macroeconomic theory. Importantly, the call by ecological economists to move away from traditional growth-oriented models comes at a moment when standard macroeconomics is in considerable turmoil. The financial crisis of 2008/2009 seriously undermined the basis for mainstream macroeconomics and brought renewed attention to various forms of Keynesian analysis and policy previously regarded as outdated. There is a close complementarity between new Keynesian and ecological perspectives. While older Keynesian analysis was oriented towards promoting growth, a true Keynesian analysis of the relationship between investment and consumption does not depend on a growth orientation. What this analysis has in common with an ecological perspective is the rejection of market optimality assumed in classical models. Moving away from the neoclassical goal of inter-temporal utility maximization allows for different, pluralistic economic goals: full employment, provision of basic needs, social and infrastructure investment, and income equity. These goals are compatible with environmental preservation and resource sustainability, whereas indefinite growth is not. But they require a revitalization of the sphere of social investment, seriously neglected (indeed often omitted completely) in standard models. Reintroducing this perspective allows the development of an economic theory suitable for the transition to a stable-population, low-carbon, resource-conserving global economy. The barriers to this transition are primarily political and institutional, not economic. Specifically, an eco-Keynesian perspective emphasizes new macroeconomic categories including: * human-capital-intensive services * investment in energy-conserving capital * investment in natural and human capital The expansion of these categories provides a basis for growth in wellbeing without growth in throughput, while preserving full employment and economic stability. This paper explores some of the implications of this altered macroeconomic perspective for development in both the global "North" and "South". It is suggested that the problems following the global financial crisis cannot be resolved by a return to traditional growth patterns, and will require large-scale practical policies based on eco-Keynesianism.
The U.K.'s rocky road to stability
No full textThis paper provides an overview, using extensive documentary material, of developments in U.K. macroeconomic policy in the last half-century. Rather than focusing on well-known recent changes in policy arrangements (such as the introduction of inflation targeting in 1992 or central bank independence in 1997), we instead take a longer perspective, which characterizes the favorable economic performance in the 1990s and 2000s as the culmination of an overhaul of macroeconomic policy since the late 1970s. We stress that policymaking in recent decades has discarded various misconceptions about the macroeconomy and the monetary transmission mechanism that officials held in earlier periods. The misconceptions included: an underestimation of the importance of monetary policy in demand management until 1970; a failure to distinguish real and nominal interest rates until the late 1960s; the deployment until the mid-1980s of ineffective monetary control devices that did not alter the monetary base; and the adherence by policymakers in the 1960s and 1970s to nonmonetary views of the inflation process. We also consider developments in fiscal policy in light of changes in the doctrines underlying U.K. macroeconomic decisions.Monetary policy - Great Britain ; Inflation (Finance) - Great Britain
Two hats or one: the co-dependent worlds of Jonathan Harvey's church and concert music
No full textThis article scrutinises the composer Jonathan Harvey’s remark that ‘most of my colleagues see me as wearing two hats: one a church music composer’s, the other an avant-garde instrumental/electronic composer’s. I wish I could say it was one hat. I think of all my music as sacred in a sense’. The article considers Harvey’s church and concert works as linked worlds in order to propose a more holistic appreciation of his stylistic and technical innovations and that, far from being occasional pieces, his music for the church played an active role in the development of the composer’s language, in part because singing was a formative experience for Harvey, and in part because collaborative work with choirs, church musicians, and associated artists and thinkers, was so frequently fertile. Based on the composer’s own notes to the author, the article concludes with an account of the composition process involved in the creation of Plainsongs for Peace and Light (2012), a work for unaccompanied mixed choir or sixteen solo voices, which the composer described as ‘elaborations’ of chant
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Two hats or one: the co-dependent worlds of Jonathan Harvey's church and concert music
No full textThis article scrutinises the composer Jonathan Harvey’s remark that ‘most of my colleagues see me as wearing two hats: one a church music composer’s, the other an avant-garde instrumental/electronic composer’s. I wish I could say it was one hat. I think of all my music as sacred in a sense’. The article considers Harvey’s church and concert works as linked worlds in order to propose a more holistic appreciation of his stylistic and technical innovations and that, far from being occasional pieces, his music for the church played an active role in the development of the composer’s language, in part because singing was a formative experience for Harvey, and in part because collaborative work with choirs, church musicians, and associated artists and thinkers, was so frequently fertile. Based on the composer’s own notes to the author, the article concludes with an account of the composition process involved in the creation of Plainsongs for Peace and Light (2012), a work for unaccompanied mixed choir or sixteen solo voices, which the composer described as ‘elaborations’ of chant
Rent - seeking trade policy : a time series approach
No full textUsing a time-series approach, the author analyzes the relationship between the extent of rent-seeking trade policy and both political and economic variables. For rent-seeking trade policy, the indicator he uses is the number of foreign-trade regulations passed each year for the benefit of a single firm or industry. The author uses data from Uruguay for 1925-83. Uruguay, which experienced an impressive economic decline, is an outstanding example of a rent-seeking society. After being a wealthy economy in midcentury, it suffered almost complete stagnation, which led to social and policital disintegration by the end of the 1960s. Three decades of restrictive regulations on foreign trade had created a nearly closed economy by the end of the 1960s. It was worth analyzing whether policymakers'great receptiveness to demands for protection could account for Uruguay's decline. Over the period 1925-83, the author finds almost 4,000 laws, decrees, and administrative resolutions that create, maintain, or modify a foreign-trade regulation for the benefit of a single firm or industry. About half of them explicitly identify the petitioner - usually a firm or guild. Since the size of the Uruguayan economy changed over the period studied, the author scales the annual number of regulations by output or exports to measure the extent of rent-seeking trade policy. The author shows that the extent of rent-seeking trade policy increased with discretionary policies and under dictatorship. (In the period studied, there were two stages of democracy - until 1932 and from 1943-72 - and two stages of dictatorship.) He also shows that rent-seeking trade restrictions increased under import-substitution strategies and, more unexpectedly, under active export promotion. This suggests that discretionary power leads to wasteful distribution, whether it is used to support inward- or outward-oriented policies. Finally, the author analyzes the correlation between innovations in the trade policy indicator and innovations in the growth rates of output and exports, with a lag of up to 20 years. Surprisingly, he finds a positive correlation with output growth rates after two or three years. But the correlation becomes negative some years later, particularly in the case of exports. The short-run positive impact on growth rates, together with the surprisingly long time lag before the negative impact, may account for policymakers'receptiveness to demands for protection.Trade Policy,Achieving Shared Growth,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies
Godfrey Diekmann Center Graduate Symposium 2024: Jonathan Tan Lecture “Doing Liturgy Intersectionally: Opportunities and Implications”
No full textWhat is the relationship betvveen liturgy and ecclesiology? How does the way we worship shape the way we are church, and vice versa? How do ongoing issues like race reconciliation, migration, cultural diversity, and other hot button issues confronting the church shape the way we worship and in turn, our worship shapes the way we address these issues? How do we address issues of agency and representation, challenges of power dynamics, cultural dominance, and ethnocentrism in our liturgies? Th_e powerful and moving images of diverse and pluralistic communities gathering around the baptismal font for baptism, and the altar table to break bread and share a cup is powerful witness to the fact that liturgy is about the gathering of the many and their intersecting experiences into one church sharing one baptism, one bread and cup. This lecture explores the opportunities and implications for doing liturgy at the intersection of diverse languages, ethnicities and cultures, generational shifts and border crossings, hybridities and multiple belongings, as well as the marginalizing experiences of being migrant, poor, different, and invisible in society and church. It considers how intersectional liturgizing enables us to move away from an us/them duality towards a \u27\u27both/and mutuality which facilitates a hospitable and welcoming environment, as well as fosters mutuality and interdependence, reconciliation and koinonia, friendship and collaboration, where every is able to listen to, and experience each other\u27s stories, experiences, traditions, dreams, and hopes in solidarity and empathy. It discusses how intersectional liturgizing is also a new way of being church -building a truly intersectional church in the fullness of diversity arid plurality, hybridities and multiple belongings, differences yet united by one baptism and one bread and cup, such that everyone is welcomed and no one is marginalized, excluded, or left behind. Jonathan Y. Tan is The Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor of Catholic Studies at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, as well as Organist and Director of Music at The Church of Our Saviour, a bilingual and intercultural urban Episcopal parish in the Mount Auburn neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio with a significant indigenous Mayan Guatemalan and Honduran majority. He holds a Ph.D. in theology and culture from The Catholic University of America in Washington1 DC, a M.A. in liturgical studies from the Graduate Theological Union/ Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California, and a LLB. (Honours) from the National University of Singapore Law School. Previously, he taught at Australian Catholic University in Sydney, Australia, Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, and The Catholic University of America. Jonathan works at the intersection of World Christianity, Global Catholicism, Liturgical Studies, and Liturgical Music. He is the author of Introducing Asian American Theologies (Orbis Books, 2008), which was funded by the Louisville Institute\u27s First Book Grant for Scholars of Color, 2005 and remains the principal one-volume survey of Asian American Christian theologies. His second book, Christian Mission among the Peoples of Asia (Orbis Books, 2014) has been named by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research as one of 15 outstanding books of 2014 for mission studies. His most recent book, The Federation of Asian Bishops\u27 Conferences {FABC): Bearing Witness to the Gospel and the Reign of God in Asia (Fortress Press, 2021) is a definitive study of the contributions of the Federation of Asian Bishops\u27 Conferences (F ABC) to an emerging contemporary Asian Catholic way of being church and doing theology. Jonathan is also the lead editor of World Christianity: Perspectives and Insights (Orbis Books, 2016), which has been named by the International Bulletin of Mission Research as one of the 10 outstanding books of 2016 for mission studies, and co-editor of Theological Reflections on the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), which remains the principal work on Christian theologizing on the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement. In the field of liturgical studies, Jonathan\u27s essay, Beyond Sacrosanctum Concilium: The Future of Liturgical Renewal in the Asian Catholic Church, Studia Liturgica, 44 (2014) remains the principal study of the impact and implications of Vatican II\u27s Constitution on the Liturgy in Asia. His recent essay, The Church\u27s Liturgical Music is Countercultural, in Living the Church\u27s Song: Propositions for an Ecumenical Theology of Liturgical Music (GIA, 2023) examines the complex relationship behveen culture and liturgical music. He makes the case for liturgical traditioning in his 2012 essay, Asian American Catholics and Contemporary Liturgical Migrations: From Tradition-Maintenance to Traditioning in Liturgy in Migration: From the Upper Room to Cyberspace, ed. Teresa Berger (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2012)
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