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Literary Festival 2015: Is There Life in the Novel of Ideas?
Is the 'novel of ideas' an outdated genre or are we witnessing its resurgence? What answers can it offer to twenty-first-century questions? In this panel three speakers will discuss examples of the 'novel of ideas' and assess the genre's contemporary relevance. Peter Boxall is Professor of English and Deputy Head of the School of English at the University of Sussex.
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie | CAES Journal | Wiley Online Library
1 Introduction Wetlands are being lost across the Canadian Prairie Provinces (Serran et al., 2018; Watmough & Schmoll, 2007), an agriculturally productive region with growing urban populations. These wetlands are often drained or consolidated to increase the amount of land available for farming and urban development.
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie | CAES Journal | Wiley Online Library
1 INTRODUCTION Wetland conservation is a pressing issue in the Canadian prairies as wetlands continue to be lost due to urban, industrial, and agricultural expansion. The loss in wetlands has been extensively studied by wetland scientists who have determined that these ecosystems provide significant ecological functions, which are negatively affected by the losses.
Austerlitz (novel by W.G. Sebald)
Austerlitz, the final novel written by German-English author W.G. Sebald. Published in 2001, Austerlitz, like all Sebald’s works, explores themes of the Holocaust, memory, time, and identity. It received several awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award. Austerlitz tells the story of Jacques Austerlitz, an architectural historian who had left Prague as a young child as part of the Kindertransport and was brought up as Daffyd Elias by an austere Welsh minister and his wife.
A Revolution of the Screw: Peripheralising Europe
‘Where is your “home” moreover now – what has become of it?’ Henry James, The Ambassadors, 438 Can the documents of the west, Walter Benjamin's famous ‘documents of civilization’, help us to understand and articulate the peripheralisation, the provincialisation, of the west?1 If we are at a moment, as Hamid Dabashi has recently put it, at which ‘“Europe” […] has exhausted its epistemic possibilities and has now positively imploded into itself’, can a European literary and cultural tradition...
Economic Feasibility of a Wetland Certification Program in the Canadian Prairies
By: Valentina Ofori, Patrick Lloyd-Smith, Ken Belcher and Peter Boxall This paper assesses the economic feasibility for a novel market-based instrument for wetland conservation – a certification scheme for agricultural products in the Canadian Prairies. Agricultural producers that restore wetlands on their land would potentially be able to recoup their costs by receiving a price premium for their crops.
High-involvement work processes, work intensification and employee well-being
Introduction In contrast to Taylorist forms of work organization, the high-involvement model fosters the participation of workers in decisions about their work. It aims to enhance their scope to exercise discretion and assume responsibility. Such a process holds the promise of releasing untapped human potential through greater use of workers’ existing skills and greater opportunities for learning (e.g. Ashton and Sung, 2002; Felstead et al., 2010; Gallie, 2013).
Factors predicting Registered Nurses’ intentions to leave their organization and profession: A job demands‐resources framework
Aims To develop a comprehensive model of nursing turnover intention by examining the effects of job demands, job resources, personal demands and personal resources on burnout and work engagement and subsequently on the intention to leave the organization and profession. Background The ageing population and a growing prevalence of multimorbidity are placing increasing strain on an ageing nursing workforce.
Svetlana Alexievich exposes the deep contradictions of the literature Nobel
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2015 has been awarded to the Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich. Her writing, until now not well known in the Anglophone world, is difficult to categorise. In works such as Voices from Chernobyl and War’s Unwomanly Face, Alexievich develops a distinctive kind of documentary writing, drawn from large numbers of interviews, which gives an intimate picture of what it is like to be the victim of war, of state negligence, brutality or totalitarianism.
not much better than Lewis Carroll's caucus race
The caucus race that Alice happens upon in Alice in Wonderland has no start line and no finish line – perhaps because Lewis Carroll knew that we cannot agree where such lines might be drawn. As a result, everyone wins, in one fashion or another. What does it mean for a writer to win a literary prize? Famously, Samuel Beckett’s wife, Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil, responded to the news that Beckett had won the Nobel Prize in 1969 with the lament “quelle catastrophe”.
The Trial | Summary, Legacy, & Facts
Summary The narrative emerges from the book’s opening sentence: “Somebody must have slandered Joseph K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.” It is K.’s 30th birthday, and a pair of guards have arrived at his boardinghouse to inform him that he is under arrest. He is shortly summoned before the inspector, who is in the bedroom of another tenant. The inspector does not know what the charges are but tells K. that he is free to continue living his life as usual. K.
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