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Barter has been commonly portrayed as a dangerous element in international relations. Barter is portrayed in much of the literature as a cyclical phenomenon which flourishes with economic depression and fades away with prosperity. It is also said by many critics that barter should be considered a destructive economic practice. Finally, great emphasis is placed on the geopolitical importance of barter. In particular, barter is associated with the aggressive economic statecraft practiced by Nazi Germany in the 1930s.This article attempts to look more closely at the assumptions of the critics of modem barter. The author concludes that there are fundamental differences between the 1930s and the 1980s. Barter in the 1980s appears not to point towards a destructive past but a dynamic and complex future.
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The identification of particular vocal techniques in singing, which combine to form distinctive vocal idioms, is important for an understanding of both "classical" and "vernacular" musical styles. The modern critical literature on song is based largely on the limited concept of a "word-tone relationship," with musico-poetic synthesis as its ideal. Performance practices are as important to song criticism as is the study of written scores. The elements of voice quality and vocal articulation, with specific reference to the physiology and acoustics of the human voice, provide the analytical tools for defining vocal idioms and their role in the value and success of a song. The description of such idioms requires a rapprochement between vocal history, pedagogy, and science. Using the bel canto paradigm as a reference point, this article discusses a variety of vocal idioms. Gluck's aria, "Che farò senza Euridice" is used to illustrate how an understanding of vocal idioms can alter our judgment of a piece which has sometimes been condemned for its poor word-tone relationship.
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AbstractThis article is both a study of the French-writing Spaniard Jorge Semprún's multilingual trajectory and a sociological analysis of the translational aspects of the Formentor prize, which he received in 1963 for his novel Le Grand Voyage. Created by Carlos Barral in the Majorcan peninsula of the same name and sponsored by several leading publishers (Seix-Barral, Einaudi, Gallimard, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Rowohlt), the Formentor would become one of the major publishing initiatives in 1960s Europe, leavings its mark on a decade of avant-garde writing and opening up the literary borders of Franco's Spain in the process. When awarded the Formentor, writers saw their work immediately translated in some ten languages (often by renowned translators) and distributed almost simultaneously in more than a dozen countries. A closer examination of the translational traffic generated by Semprún's Grand Voyage serves to illustrate the legitimizing force of a to this day unique initiative in the European annals of literary translation.
Keywords: sociologie de la traduction, prix littéraires, prix Formentor, Jorge Semprún, Carlos Barral, sociology of translation, literary awards, Formentor prize, Jorge Semprún, Carlos Barral
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Urban self-management is an activity that can be exhausting and may not always be sustainable over the long term. This is partly because it involves not only typical activist activities but also the management and maintenance of a physical space. Drawing on a study conducted with activists from five self-managed spaces in Rome, I analysed the mechanisms that explain why some individuals continue to engage in activism for years, despite various challenges, while others choose to leave. It became clear that the decision to stay or leave results from a delicate and complex balance between centripetal forces (which hold the activists back) and centrifugal forces (which compel them to leave). To prevent the balance from tipping towards leaving, self-managed spaces must be more than just arenas of struggle and interaction; they must also be spaces of care, which can make these experiences not only valuable but also sustainably humane.
Keywords: urban self-management, human sustainability, care, commons, urban movements
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This essay explores the relative dominance of plot, character, and theme as core concepts in English Language Arts (ELA) and argues for a renewed focus on literary discourses and the teaching of interpretive procedures. Using Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses as a case study, it illustrates how instructional attention to narrative style, point of view, and form can reveal and nurture the processes of literary meaning making and better align high school ELA with disciplinary practices of reading.
Keywords: Literary discourse, interpretive practices, literature instruction, secondary English
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