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Geology and story in Alice Munro's "Axis" 爱丽丝·门罗《轴心》中的地质与故事
Brno Studies in English Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5817/bse2020-2-5
Jason A. Blake
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引用次数: 0
Depicting a political rival : evolution of Richard Steele's essay periodical writing 描绘政治对手:理查德·斯蒂尔的论文期刊写作演变
Brno Studies in English Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5817/bse2020-2-11
K. Kozak
{"title":"Depicting a political rival : evolution of Richard Steele's essay periodical writing","authors":"K. Kozak","doi":"10.5817/bse2020-2-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/bse2020-2-11","url":null,"abstract":"The period between the Glorious Revolution and the end of Queen Anne’s reign was a time when political parties struggled with one another in order to create their own distinctive identity. The rivalry between Whigs and Tories defined the political situation in early eighteenthcentury Britain and laid the foundation for the development of the ministerial machine of propaganda aimed at discrediting opponents and justifying the policies of the government. The rhetoric adopted by the contemporary political writers included the reason-passion bias so inextricably associated with the philosophical background of the ‘Age of Reason’. From this perspective, this article sets out to trace the evolution in Steele’s journalistic productions (The Spectator, The Englishman, The Reader) and to delineate key changes in his strategies for achieving political goals and, at the same time, discredit his rival paper – The Examiner.","PeriodicalId":35227,"journal":{"name":"Brno Studies in English","volume":"29 21 1","pages":"195-209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71336122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Italian corporate codes of ethics : the influence of national regulatory framework 意大利企业道德准则:国家监管框架的影响
Brno Studies in English Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5817/bse2020-1-1
Cinzia Giglioni
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引用次数: 1
Humour as an art of descent and negative dialectics : a deleuzian analysis of the functions of humour in Trevor Griffiths' Comedians 幽默作为一种衰落的艺术和消极的辩证法——对格里菲思《喜剧家》中幽默功能的德勒兹式分析
Brno Studies in English Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5817/bse2020-1-5
A. Fakhrkonandeh
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引用次数: 2
Beckett's Waiting for Godot : a historical play with two Jews as main characters 贝克特的《等待戈多》:一部以两个犹太人为主角的历史剧
Brno Studies in English Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5817/bse2020-1-8
O. Hirsch
{"title":"Beckett's Waiting for Godot : a historical play with two Jews as main characters","authors":"O. Hirsch","doi":"10.5817/bse2020-1-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/bse2020-1-8","url":null,"abstract":"In a new interpretation of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, Valentin and Pierre Temkine came to the conclusion that it is not a piece of absurd theatre, but a play with a concrete historical background. Based on geographical locations and specific terms used in the original French version, they locate the play in German-occupied France during the Second World War. This article shows that Beckett assimilated his wartime experiences in the play and showed sympathy for the Jews who were hunted by the Germans and their collaborators. Vladimir and Estragon can be regarded as two Jews waiting for someone who will bring them deeper into either the Italian-occupied zone or Switzerland. Godot is therefore an alias for a smuggler taking precautions against arrest. Concrete references in the play are discussed against the historical background to support the thesis of a historical foundation. Several other authors have also stated that the play makes references to the Holocaust.","PeriodicalId":35227,"journal":{"name":"Brno Studies in English","volume":"46 1","pages":"175-194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71336030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Vimy, Gallipoli, trauma, and the poetics of grief : re-reading the myths of the First World War in Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers and Brenda Walker's The Wing of Night 维米、加里波利、创伤和悲伤的诗学:重读简·厄克特的《石刻者》和布伦达·沃克的《夜之翼》中的第一次世界大战神话
Brno Studies in English Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5817/bse2020-1-4
A. Branach-Kallas
{"title":"Vimy, Gallipoli, trauma, and the poetics of grief : re-reading the myths of the First World War in Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers and Brenda Walker's The Wing of Night","authors":"A. Branach-Kallas","doi":"10.5817/bse2020-1-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/bse2020-1-4","url":null,"abstract":"The article is a comparative analysis of The Stone Carvers (2001) by Canadian author Jane Urquhart and The Wing of Night (2005) by Australian writer Brenda Walker, which explore the First World War and its aftermath. My purpose is to demonstrate how the two novels engage with the foundational myths of Vimy and Gallipoli by representing the two battles from unusual perspectives. Instead of celebrating the violent crisis seen as the birthplace of their respective nations, Urquhart and Walker foreground violence as the foundation of the nation-state. Using trauma theories, I explore Urquhart’s and Walker’s representation of war injuries, as well as the traumatic impact of national ideologies on personal and collective identities. While both texts offer an insightful re-reading of the myths of the Great War, Urquhart creates a vision of harmony resulting from the tragedy of the past, whereas Walker’s gesture of revision is more radical, as she insists on the impossibility of post-war reconstruction.","PeriodicalId":35227,"journal":{"name":"Brno Studies in English","volume":"46 1","pages":"91-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71336384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Revisiting William Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell : a reading against Kathleen Raine's Blake and Antiquity 重读威廉·布莱克的《天堂与地狱的婚姻》:对照凯瑟琳·雷恩的《布莱克与古代》的解读
Brno Studies in English Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5817/bse2020-1-14
Krešimir Vunić
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"Making my Meaning Understood" : analysing metaphors in Great Expectations “让我的意思被理解”:《远大前程》中的隐喻分析
Brno Studies in English Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5817/bse2020-1-12
T. Caballero, Juan de Dios
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Pre-cinematic vision and the modern episteme of sympathy in George Eliot's Middlemarch 乔治·艾略特《米德尔马契》中的前电影视觉与现代同情认知
Brno Studies in English Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5817/bse2020-1-6
A. Gabriele
{"title":"Pre-cinematic vision and the modern episteme of sympathy in George Eliot's Middlemarch","authors":"A. Gabriele","doi":"10.5817/bse2020-1-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5817/bse2020-1-6","url":null,"abstract":"The investment of George Eliot’s narrative in characters impersonating the new epistemological concerns of philology (Casaubon) and biology (Lydgate), makes Dorothea’s own peculiar vision-in-action guided by sympathy, which brings the novel to a close, despite the hesitant asides of the narrator about her uneven web, a contribution to the modern episteme, an engagement with the modern question of how to encompass the teeming multiplicity of modernity in one binding synthesis. This is done by emplotting the dichotomy fragmentation/unity that runs throughout the novel, and by incorporating many forms of visual representation that project an intuited sense of unity going past fragmentation. The aesthetic polarities explored in the novel are isomorphous with pre-cinematic spectacles: they both offer provisional, fragmented perspectives of parts, while demanding a new rearrangement of these parts on a higher plane. These spectacles, therefore, are not a symptom of a crisis in representation, but rather naturalize, through a long history of self-reflexivity harking back to the late Renaissance, the paradoxical nature of realism.","PeriodicalId":35227,"journal":{"name":"Brno Studies in English","volume":"46 1","pages":"133-152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71336009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Children in the blood jet of poetry : Sylvia Plath's poetic tale of infanticide 诗中的孩子:西尔维娅·普拉斯关于杀婴的诗意故事
Brno Studies in English Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5817/bse2020-1-7
Sylwia Gryciuk
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