Malaysia in 2020: Political Fragmentation, Power Plays and Shifting Coalitions
In: Southeast Asian Affairs, Band SEAA21, Heft 1, S. 169-184
In: Southeast Asian Affairs, Band SEAA21, Heft 1, S. 169-184
"In Reliving the Trenches, three plays written by returned soldiers who served in the Great War with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium appear in print for the first time. With a critical introduction that references the authors' service files to establish the plays as memoirs, these plays are an important addition to Canadian literature of the Great War. Important but overlooked war memoirs that relive trench life and warfare as experienced by combat veterans, the three plays include The P.B.I., written and staged in 1920 by recently returned veterans at the University of Toronto. Parts of this play appeared in print in serial form in 1922. Glory Hole, written in 1929 by William Stabler Atkinson, and Dawn in Heaven, written and staged in Winnipeg in 1934 by Simon Jauvoish, have never been published. These plays impact Canadian literature and theatre history by revealing a body of previously unknown modernist writing, and they impact life writing studies by showing how memoirs can be concealed behind genre conventions. They offer fascinating details of the daily routines of the soldiers in the trenches by bringing them back to life in theatrical re-enactment."--
In: The Middle East, Heft 154, S. 30-31
ISSN: 0305-0734
An account of the June meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Vienna and of the general optimism regarding the new measures of disciplining production and of stabilising prices. It is argued, that the testing time for the cautious strategy, decided upon, still lies ahead. The Iran-Iraq war is seen as the crux of the problem of enforcing the new rules upon each member state. (DÜI-Asd)
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In: The Middle East, Heft 155, S. 26-27
ISSN: 0305-0734
An interview with Jordan's minister for the occupied territories, Marwan Dudin, in which he explains how his country was dealing with the prickly issues of Palestinian leadership and Israeli repression following the recent conference in Amman of Arab countries on Palestinian refugees. (DÜI-Asd)
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One of the key-metaphor complexes in conceptualizing national identity is that of the nation as a body or a person, especially in English-speaking cultures, as evidenced in the lexicalization of phrases such as body politic, head of state). It has a long conceptual history and still figures prominently in present-day political discourse, both in Inner Circle English-speaking countries and internationally. It thus seems to show considerable semantic stability; however, it is still an open question whether the use of body-or person-based metaphors in international English means that recipients in different cultures understand these metaphors uniformly. This paper discusses empirical evidence from an international interpretation survey that shows substantial variation in conceptualization of the nation as a body, with five main conceptual scenarios (nation as body, nation's territory as body, nation as body part, nation as part of ego and nation as person).
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In: Interpretation: a journal of political philosophy, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 307-312
ISSN: 0020-9635
In: Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta: naučnyj recenziruemyj žurnal = MGIMO review of international relations : scientific peer-reviewed journal, Heft 5(38), S. 221-224
ISSN: 2541-9099
Department of English Language № 7 was founded in 2001. Originally its teaching staff included the specialists of the Department of English Language Chair. Since its inception, the chair has paid particular attention to the introduction of innovative teaching methods and techniques. This is realized by a competence-based and personalized approach, implemented by I.A. Winter as well as and cognitive and communicative approaches to education. The development of intellectual, communicative and personal qualities of students and the teachers is the main goal of the educational process, achieved by the teaching staff witch the use of innovative competence-oriented teaching techniques, and types of assessment at the different levels of education.
"With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the Reformation, and the threat of foreign enemies, Shakespeare's England was fraught with unparalleled anxiety and complicated problems. In this monumental work, Peter Lake reveals, more than any previous critic, the extent to which Shakespeare's plays speak to the depth and sophistication of Elizabethan political culture and the Elizabethan imagination. Lake reveals the complex ways in which Shakespeare's major plays engaged with the events of his day, particularly regarding the uncertain royal succession, theological and doctrinal debates, and virtue and virtù in politics. Through his plays, Lake demonstrates, Shakespeare was boldly in conversation with his audience about a range of contemporary issues. This remarkable literary and historical analysis pulls the curtain back on what Shakespeare was really telling his audience and what his plays tell us today about the times in which they were written"--
The dilemma that seems to haunt the Canadian theatre audiences and makers alike has been the ever-pervading sense of national consciousness and identity whereby both the theatre going audiences and that of the theatre producing ones are grappling with the duality inherent in the subjective identity of their own. Theatre has been intricately connected to the notions of identity and selfhood within the ambits of national identity. While on the one hand they have been the mediums of highlighting a national identity, on the other hand they have also been seen as tools for propagating social and political changes in Canadian society. The theatrical stage become another source and space for subjectivising the natives in the mould of the colonizer, namely, the French and later the British in Canada, especially during the later cultural skirmishes for a bilingual and bi-national identity. This paper aims to study the notions of race, colonization and marginality in contemporary Canadian perspective. It was seen that that from its very inception Canadian theatre can be thought of to be as political theatre of protest against the other dominant culture while at the same time also as a tool by the said cultures to entrench nationalistic fervour and values espoused by the state.
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In: Contemporary theatre studies, volume 23
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
In: The review of politics, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 239-241
ISSN: 1748-6858
The American settlement has created a very interesting situation in domestic English politics—a situation in which there are bound to be developments, mough no one can yet say what they will be. It is still very arguable whether the decision of the nation to return to party politics immediately after the German collapse was a wise one. There are arguments in favour of a National Government and arguments against one. An advantage of party politics is certainly that an effective opposition has an important part to play in keeping die Government up to the mark. The absence of such an Opposition in war-time does not so much matter, for then we have the enemy to perform this function of pace maker. But a National Government in peace-time certainly runs the danger of contracting fatty degeneration of the heart.