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Without claiming to be exhaustive, this article proposes to outline the trends in Brazilian fiction during the seventies, analyzing them as reflections of a specific social, political, and economic situation. During this period a solid and sophisticated cultural industry began to emerge, exhibiting its own logic and dynamic and signaling a new stage in modes of cultural production. As examples the author uses three narratives that achieved both critical and popular acclaim: "Incidente em Antares", by the gaucho writer Erico Verissimo, Ignacio de Loyola Brandao's "Zero", and "O que e isso, companheiro?" by the journalist Fernando Gabeira. (LA Persp.)

"Der Natur der Gesellschaft liegt par excellence in ihrer sexuellen Reproduktion, d.h. in ihrer Bevölkerungsweise. Doch die Art und Weise, wie die Soziologie und die Öffentlichkeit das Verhältnis von Gesellschaft und Bevölkerung sieht, wechselt unvermittelt zwischen zwei Extremen. Entweder wird die Bevölkerung schlicht negiert und aus dem Gesellschaftsbegriff eliminiert (wie z.B. in der Systemtheorie) oder es wird eine Art Überdeterminertheit der Gesellschaft durch die demographische Entwicklung unterstellt, wie z.B. in der gegenwärtigen Debatte über das 'Altern' oder 'Schrumpfen' der Gesellschaft. Der Beitrag weist beide dieser Positionen zurück und exploriert unterschiedliche Mechanismen des Zusammenhangs zwischen Bevölkerungsentwicklung und gesellschaftlicher Entwicklung. Als möglicher Schlüsselbegriff entpuppt sich die Idee einer 'Stellengesellschaft'." (Autorenreferat)

In this substantially revised and enlarged second edition of a classic text that has been used throughout the world in numerous translations, Tom Bottomore reconsiders élite theory in the light of more recent studies. He examines the role and significance of élites in relation to classes and class structure in both advanced industrial and developing countries, and expounds the criticism of élites and élitism that have been formulated by democratic and socialist thinkers and movements. In a new concluding chapter, Professor Bottomore considers the prospect, as humanity approaches the millenium

Over a fifty year career as an architectural critic and historian Kenneth Frampton has consistently defended the Modernist agenda of the Twentieth Century. However, he has also been fiercely critical of its failings and shortcomings. He has taught at the world's most prestigious institutions, produced a body of work that can be defined as kaleidoscopic and has written texts which have become part of the canon of architectural history and theory. His encyclopedic Modern Architecture: a Critical History, is in its fourth edition and still remains a bedrock text for our understanding of the Modern Movement more than twenty years after its initial publication. His ground-breaking essay of 1983, Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance set the agenda for a reconsideration of Modernism that continues to resonate today. He has published internationally on a whole range of issues and remains committed to a critical analysis of Modernism which places architecture firmly in the context of the social and political milieu of the left. In this fifty year career, the ideas of the social and political theorist Hannah Arendt have operated as a form of conceptual and ethical foundation. His 1979 essay, The Status of Man and the Status of his Objects, is a form of analysis of her theories that explores, amongst other things, her distinction between work and labour in the specific context of architecture. This essay is also given primary importance in his 2002 book Labour, Work and Architecture: Collected Essays on Architecture and Design, which he dedicates to the memory of Arendt. In his 1979 essay, he suggests that reading Arendt's work in 1965 illuminated the "invariably confusing distinction between building (as process) and architecture (as stasis)", with architecture having as its primary charge the creation of the public realm. He begins this interview-article by summarising these themes, but also by drawing out the relevance of Arendt's ideas in the context of contemporary commodified culture. He goes on to explore a whole range of other ideas including the mediatisation of architecture, high rise development, suburbia and the role of government in the architecture of the United States and the United Kingdom.

On myth and mythologizing : an introduction / Diana Dimitrova -- Religion, myth, and gender. Seeking God : narratives of the spiritual in Amrita Bharati's work and Hindi poetry / Lucy Rosenstein -- Who is Afraid of Mīrābāī? : Gulzar's antidote for Mīrā's poison / Heidi Pauwels -- Religion and gender in Bollywood film / Diana Dimitrova -- The creative modern and the myths of the goddess Mariyamman / Perundevi Srinivasan -- Religion, myth and politics. Constructed religious feelings and communal identities in Hamārā Śahar us baras by Gītāñjali Śrī / Alessandra Consolaro -- Dharma reconsidered : the inappropriate poetry of Arun Kolatkar in Sarpa Satra / Laetitia Zecchini -- From otherland to the divine land : exile, mysticism, and secularism in K.B. Vaid's Dard lā davā / Anne Castaing -- In the face of even lesser breeds : reading Nayantara Sahgal with Indian Christians / Clara Joseph -- Censorship, social reform, and mythological drama in colonial India / Nandi Bhatia -- From Kuruksetra to Rāmarājya : a comparative analysis of the star personas of Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan / Sunny Singh

In 1972, the French theorists Deleuze and Guattari unleashed their collaborative project-which they termed schizoanalysis-upon the world. Today, few disciplines in the humanities and social sciences have been left untouched by its influence. Through a series of groundbreaking applications of Deleuze and Guattari's work to a diverse range of literary contexts, from Shakespeare to science fiction, this collection demonstrates how schizoanalysis has transformed and is transforming literary scholarship. Intended for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars with an interest in contin

Dans cet article, on suggère que la conscience humaine est basée sur un modèle de connaissance socialement acquis, mais inconscient. Ce modèle, appelé ici 'syntaxe,' peut être different et la connaissance consciente de l'environnement est, elle aussi, différente. Les systèmes sociaux, les modèles de comportement et d'institutions existent distincte‐ment en fonction de leur syntaxe propre. Une perception consciente, particulière, des fonctions de l'environnement, agit uniquement à l'intérieur d'une syntaxe précise; elle ne peut fonctionner à l'intérieur d'une autre syntaxe. Cette etude trace les grandes lignes de deux syntaxes opposées, et suggère qu'on gagnerait à analyser les differences historiques dans la pensée sociale, politique, scientifique et philosophique sur la base de l'existence de syntaxes différentes.In this paper I suggest that human consciousness is based on a socially learned, yet unconscious, pattern of cognition. This pattern, which I term 'syntax,' can differ, and the conscious cognition of the environment then also differs. Social systems, institutions, and behavioral patterns are specific to their particular syntax. A particular conscious perception of the environment functions only within a specific syntax; it cannot function within a different syntax. This paper outlines two contrasting syntaxes and suggests that historical differences in social, political, scientific, and philosophical thought can be fruitfully analyzed as based on different existing syntaxes.