The narrative art of modernist fiction : a corpus stylistic and cognitive narratological approach

This thesis explores modernist narrative art embodied in modernist style of constructing narrative space. Within Chatman’s conceptual framework, narrative space can be divided into story-space (settings and characters) and discourse-space (focus of spatial attention). In a corpus-stylistic approach, the structuration of the story-space in The Mill on the Floss, The Good Soldier and To the Lighthouse is examined. The findings show that modernist tendency to deemphasise particularity of place shapes a narrative design of spatial detachment. In consequence, the establishment of settings in early modernist fiction is generally sketchy, but sometimes spatially informative. This is a mixed character. By contrast, settings in classic modernist fiction are symbolic of viewers’ psychological states, a clear manifestation of a modernist interest in characters’ interiority. To further trace the style change from early modernism to high modernism, a cross-disciplinary model for character analysis and a cross-axial model for the examination of discourse-space have been constructed. They help detect some similarities and dissimilarities between early and classic modernist styles of spatialisation. As a whole, this thesis has two features. First, it applies corpus stylistic methods to inform cognitive narratological interpretation. Second, it resorts to visualisation as an attempt at a multi-modal study of narrative space.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

The politics of income redistribution : factional strife and vote mobilization under Thatcher

Digitised version produced by the EUI Library and made available online in 2020

Sfide economiche e risposte della politica

Il progetto affronta temi di political economy, in particolare l'interazione tra sfera economica e sfera politica a livello nazionale e internazionale a seguito della crisi economica del 2008 in alcuni paesi europei, negli USA, e negli Stati MEN

Introduction: Two spaces of subsidiarity?

Scholarship on subsidiarity conducted since the nineteenth century has developed two strands of interpretation suggesting competing models of social organisation as far as the potential location of decision-making power is concerned. While this intellectual effort has mainly concentrated on political experiences in continental Europe, and gained further traction with the principle’s recognition in European Union law, the institutional architecture of Commonwealth countries has experienced relative neglect. This collection, however, examines the debates around competing ordering principles with evidence coming from operational problems of Westminster style democracies in four world regions, and considers how a multi-disciplinary perspective can guide comparative analysis

The Political Economy of Crisis and Change in the New Global Context

The interplay between politics and the economy in times of crisis and change is one of the most challenging dynamics of our time. While relevant per se, political economy has become pervasive in the new global context, taking centre stage in academic and policy debates. Whether the focus is on the Great recession or the EU regulation and enlargement processes, the timing and quality of political responses to the crisis has been powerfully influenced by the interaction between political-economic actors and institutions. Questioning the exogenous interpretation of crisis and change, the contributions to this volume offer new explanations for the responses of nation-states to one of the most pressing challenges of globalized capitalism. In The political economy of crisis and change in the new global context the authors explore the frontiers of the interaction between politics and markets towards the understanding of the 2008 crisis and responses to it. They do so from both Comparative (CPE) and International Political Economy (IPE) perspectives. A reference for scholars in CPE, IPE, International relations and Political science, the book will be of value to both academic and non-academic readers that have an interest in the political economy of crisis and change in the USA, the European Union and the MENA region