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The modernist novel and early film: A case study of influences
Para este proyecto, que sitĂșa la novela inglesa modernista en su contexto cultural, tanto mi
tutor como yo hemos decidido enfocar este estudio en las convenciones artĂsticas del cine en
sus primeros años.35 pågina
Glasnost and Perestroika at West Virginia University: The College of Law\u27s Soviet Exchange Program
La Musique dans Pilgrimage de Dorothy Richardson
Music plays an important role in Pilgrimage by Dorothy Richardson. On the one hand, music is a crucial element in the protagonist's search for identity. Reading Pilgrimage as a story of a quest and the formation of an artist shows that the quest of the protagonist Miriam Henderson is also that of a religious, national and feminine identity accompanied by music. Music provides the protagonist with the opportunity to (re)assess her relationship with various organized religions, redefine her Englishness, and build an authentic female identity. Music also reveals the âindependent joy,â at âthe center of being,â where a pre-existing identity can be found upon which the authentic identity that Miriam seeks rests. On the other hand, Richardson relies on music to break with the nineteenth-century writing conventions and express her distrust in the capacity of language to render âreality.â Her effort to integrate musical principles in the construction of the narrative emphasizes her desire to use music as a model for the semiotic functioning of the text, to influence how the text makes sense and communicates it refracting ârealityâ on an axis, both vertical and horizontal, thus presenting her concept of time which is outside the division into past, present and future. Furthermore, Richardson uses music to represent consciousness, the thinking process, and the inner world of the protagonist. Finally, the musical accompaniment generates the cooperation of the reader's creative consciousness securing his collaboration in the construction of the ârealityâ that the novel is trying to represent.La musique dans Pilgrimage de Dorothy Richardson joue un rĂŽle important. C'est avant tout un Ă©lĂ©ment crucial dans la quĂȘte identitaire de la protagoniste, Miriam Henderson. RĂ©cit de la formation d'une artiste, Pilgrimage est aussi celui de la quĂȘte d'une identitĂ© religieuse, nationale et fĂ©minine de la protagoniste. La musique accompagne le rĂ©cit et offre la possibilitĂ© Ă Miriam de (rĂ©)Ă©valuer sa relation aux diffĂ©rentes religions organisĂ©es, de redĂ©finir son anglicitĂ© et de construire une identitĂ© fĂ©minine authentique. La musique ouvre Ă©galement la voie Ă la « joie indĂ©pendante », au « centre de son ĂȘtre » oĂč se loge une identitĂ© prĂ©existante sur laquelle repose l'identitĂ© authentique qu'elle cherche. Par ailleurs, la musique aide Richardson Ă rompre avec la tradition romanesque du dix-neuviĂšme siĂšcle et Ă exprimer sa dĂ©fiance Ă l'Ă©gard du langage et sa capacitĂ© Ă reprĂ©senter la « rĂ©alitĂ© ». En intĂ©grant les principes musicaux Ă la construction du texte narratif, l'auteur met en valeur son dĂ©sir d'utiliser la musique comme modĂšle du fonctionnement sĂ©miotique du texte narratif, d'influer sur la façon dont celui-ci fait sens et le communique en rĂ©fractant la « rĂ©alitĂ© » sur un axe Ă la fois vertical et horizontal et prĂ©sente ainsi sa conception du temps comme Ă©chappant Ă la division entre passĂ©, prĂ©sent et futur. En outre, Richardson a recours Ă la musique pour mieux reprĂ©senter la conscience, le processus de rĂ©flexion et le monde intĂ©rieur de sa protagoniste. Enfin, l'accompagnement musical sollicite la coopĂ©ration de la conscience crĂ©atrice du lecteur en s'assurant sa collaboration dans la construction de la « rĂ©alitĂ© » que le roman tente de reprĂ©senter
The Threat of Data Misuse as an Injury-In-Fact: Establishing a Uniform Framework for Constitutional Standing in the Privacy Era
Behind the Red Curtain: Environmental Concerns and the End of Communism
Twenty years ago, the edifice of Communism collapsed constructed over the preceding three-quarters of a century from Berlin to Vladivostok and from Murmansk to Addis Ababa. Suddenly, between 1989 and 1991, all of the Communist states in Europe collapsed, as well as some Communist states in Asia and Africa, while most of the surviving Communist states largely abandoned Communist economic systems. While the crumbling edifice still hangs on, at least in vestigial forms, in some parts of the world, the collapse of the wall serves as an apt metaphor for the destruction of that edifice. The two years between 1989 and 1991 saw the long-cherished Communist dream fulfilledâa proletarian workersâ revolt that spread from country to country to topple an exploitive economic and political system, ironically directed at the worldâs Communist governments rather than their opponents. Various explanations have been advanced for these events. The most common theme, in both scholarly and popular accounts, is the growing yearning for democracy and human rights, as well as the desire for higher standards of living. Yet these various explanations seem to leave hanging the question of why then, given the persistent failure of earlier efforts to liberalize or overthrow Communist regimes. Something had to crystallize the sentiment that the regimes not only had to go but could be overthrown.
In many of these countries, the something more turned out to be the environment. Communism had a dismal record on the environment. By 1989, sulfurous skies were killing people across the Soviet bloc. Immediately after the end of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation classified one-sixth of its territory as uninhabitable because of pollutionâyet the inhabitants had nowhere to go. Rivers were poisoned beyond anything found in western countries. The Aral Sea, in Central Asia, had become the prime example of âecocide.â Communism performed so conspicuously poorly regarding the environment for six reasons. First, Marxism carried forward the western tradition of treating nature solely as providing resources for human consumption, particularly as expressed in the âlabor theory of value.â A second feature of Marxism reinforced the effect of the labor theory of valueâits denial of individual responsibilityâleading to reckless disregard of environmental consequences. Thirdly, the socialist goal of âtransforming the worldâ led easily to âgigantomaniaââa desire for the largest and most grandiose technological feats. Gigantomania is also found in western countries, but structural features of Communism prevented effective counter-pressure that, at least sometimes, stopped some of the most substantial excesses in the west. This introduces a fourth factorâstructural features rooted in Marxist ideology and the conspiratorial nature of Communismâs rise to powerâthat are perhaps the most important. The âdictatorship of the proletariatâ brooked no countervailing power centers. The Communist obsession with secrecy often kept problems hidden from both the public and the central authorities until catastrophe made the problem obvious to all. Fifth, the determination to keep environmental problems secret was reinforced by the belief that such problems could not arise under Communism, which, after all, represented the most progressive ordering of society and the economy; to admit to environmental failings was to admit that Communism had failed in at least one important respect. Finally, there was the importance of âfulfilling the plan.â Success and promotion for officialsâand all major economic decisions were made by officialsâcame only from fulfilling the plan, which generally was measured solely through quantitative achievements, resulting in pervasive poor quality production. New construction is what the plan called for, not maintenance, while cost, in any rational sense, simply was not a factor.
Communism itself may have looked like an old building in 1986, but it also looked like a sturdily built building that would stand a long time. With the environment in such a problematic state, and structural and ideological problems precluding effective responses within a Communist system, it would have been remarkable if environmental problems did not play a major role in bringing down the system. In fact, a major environmental disaster, Chernobyl, occurred on such a scale and in such a place that it could not be hidden and precipitated a crippling crisis in the USSR itself when it became clear that the government could not cope. The crisis discredited the government and emboldened its critics so much that it could not survive. The structure of dissent in the Soviet bloc, such as it was, further ensured that environmental concerns would be central to the rhetoric, if not perhaps the real reasons, for the toppling of the Communist governments. Moderately large âgreenâ movements with a modest degree of independence had been tolerated as a sort of window dressing for the official power structure. These groups, rather than the âforumsâ created to monitor compliance with the Helsinki Accords or to agitate for democracy or human rights, formed the organizational core for the toppling of most of the Communist governments. The toppling of some governments after an environmental crisis in turn weakened neighboring Communist governments, again often with environmental groups leading the way. Yet the role of the environment (and more pointedly, of environmentalism) in bringing Communism to an end in Europe has largely escaped notice. This paper presents the evidence for just such a central role for environmental concerns in the end of Communism