scholarly journals Passion beyond death? Tracing "Wuthering Heights" in Stephenie Meyer's "Eclipse"

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Marta Miquel Baldellou
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Popular Romance ◽  
Wuthering Heights ◽  
Stephenie Meyer ◽  
Twilight Series ◽  
The Way

Stephenie Meyers’ Twilight tetralogy has lately become an enormously successful phenomenon in contemporary popular fiction, especially among a young adult readership. Regarded as a mixture of genres, the Twilight series can be described as a paradigm of contemporary popularculture gothic romance. Stephenie Meyer has recently acknowledged she bore one literary classic in mind when writing each of the volumes in the series. In particular, her third book, Eclipse (2007), is loosely based on Emily Brontë’s Victorian classic Wuthering Heights (1847). This paper aims at providing a comparative analysis of both Brontë’s novel and Meyer’s adaptation, taking into consideration the way the protofeminist discourse that underlines Brontë’s text is not only subverted but also acquires significantly reactionary undertones in Meyer’s popular romance despite its contemporariness.

Market Reforms in Russia: Can the Vicious Circle Be Teared Open?

2004 ◽  
pp. 114-128
Author(s):  
V. Nimushin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Vicious Circle ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Market Reforms ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Forward Movement ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
The Way

In the framework of broad philosophic and historical context the author conducts comparative analysis of the conditions for assimilating liberal values in leading countries of the modern world and in Russia. He defends the idea of inevitable forward movement of Russia on the way of rationalization and cultivation of all aspects of life, but, to his opinion, it will occur not so fast as the "first wave" reformers thought and in other ideological and sociocultural forms than in Europe and America. The author sees the main task of the reformist forces in Russia in consolidation of the society and inplementation of socially responsible economic policy.

scholarly journals Athlete as Agitator, Assaulter, and Armor

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-56
Author(s):  
SHELBY BOEHM ◽  
KATHLEEN COLANTONIO-YURKO ◽  
KATHLEEN OLMSTEAD ◽  
HENRY "CODY" MILLER
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Figured Worlds ◽  
Male Athletes ◽  
English Classrooms ◽  
The Way

An increasing number of young adult literature features male athletes sexually assaulting female classmates. These books can be generative spaces for examining relationships between athletic identities and sexual violence. This manuscript provides an analysis of six YAL novels addressing sexual assault: Moxie (Mathieu, 2017), The Nowhere Girls (Reed, 2017), The Way I Used to Be (Smith, 2017), Some Boys (Blount, 2014), Asking For It (O’Neill, 2016), All the Rage (Summers, 2015). The authors examine athlete identities and figured worlds in the six titles and then present teaching suggestions to investigate in English classrooms athlete identities and sexual assault.

scholarly journals The use of traditional versus e-marketing in SMEs in a developing country: A comparative analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 202-212
Author(s):  
Leanne Manley
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Target Market ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Marketing Tool ◽  
Marketing Costs ◽  
Small Medium Enterprises ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Way

The revolution of the internet has changed the way many organisations conduct business in today’s market environment, and has specifically changed in the way companies market products to consumers. E-marketing allows a marketer to not only reach a broader target market than traditional methods, but substantially reduces marketing costs as well, which can mean the difference between success or failure in small medium enterprises (SMEs). Multiple studies have investigated traditional and e-marketing practices, however, few studies have focused on SME marketing practices and their use of e-marketing in developing economies. This article provides an insight into current marketing tools employed by SMEs in South Africa and provides a comparative analysis between traditional and e-marketing tool usage. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to SME owners, whereby data was analysed by means of frequency occurrence. The main results stemming from the research indicate that SME owners have no preference in using either traditional or e-marketing tools, with majority preferring to use both. However, the majority of marketing tools being used and receiving the most effective rating according to SME owners is directed towards e-marketing tools. From the results obtained recommendations are made to policy-makers, SME managers, development agencies and business owners so as to establish an appropriate strategy to improve SME marketability within South Africa. The findings can be universally applied as studies have shown that there is a lot of similarity in the challenges faced by SMEs irrespective of where they come from.

Bridling Dictators

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Gill
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Regime Types ◽  
The Way

Authoritarian regimes are usually seen as being run by arbitrary and often violent dictators. However, this is a misreading of most dictatorial regimes. Based on a wide comparative analysis of communist single-party, military, electoral authoritarian, personal dictatorial and dynastic monarchical regimes, this book argues that such leaderships actually function on the basis of a set of accepted rules. These rules are outlined, their operation in different regime types described, and their differential application across those regimes explained. This provides a new understanding of how these different types of regime function and recasts our understanding of the way leadership in authoritarian regimes works.

Foggy Muddle

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-128
Author(s):  
Jesper Gulddal
Keyword(s):  
Popular Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Modes Of Operation ◽  
Circular Structure ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Car Accident ◽  
Investigative Process ◽  
The Way

This chapter on Dashiell Hammett’s The Dain Curse takes a narratively unmotivated car accident as the starting point for a discussion of genre negation as a force of innovation in Hammett’s writing. As a violent interruption of preestablished modes of operation, the accident embodies the way in which the novel relates to the conventions of popular fiction only to wreck and overturn them. Thus, the linearity of the investigative process is replaced with a circular structure; the purity of genre is replaced with references to a catalogue of popular fiction templates, none of which are fully executed; narrative closure is replaced with ambiguity and contingency; and the classic figure of the ‘sidekick’ is literarily blown to pieces in what Gulddal reads as another emblematic representation of the principle of genre mobility.

English as a Medium of Instruction on the Way to Sustainability and Internationalization in Non-English-Speaking Countries

2020 ◽  
pp. 239-256
Author(s):  
Aizhan Daukenova ◽  
Ainur Askhatova ◽  
Zhibek Kaisar
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Medium Of Instruction ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Way

The present chapter describes the comparative analysis of the implementation of English as a medium of instruction in Kazakhstan and other non-English speaking countries by presenting a small-scale study of revealing the attitudes of graduate students and lecturers towards EMI in Kazakhstan. Compared to other countries, Kazakhstan has a number of similar issues in the implementation of English as a medium of instruction, which creates the possibility of performing a practice based on the experience of others. The research on English as a medium of instruction has revealed that EMI in Kazakhstan is in need of further guidance and investigation.

scholarly journals Determining efficiency of cycloid reducers using different calculation methods

2019 ◽  
Vol 290 ◽  
pp. 01008
Author(s):  
Milos Matejic ◽  
Mirko Blagojevic ◽  
Ileana Ioana Cofaru ◽  
Nenad Kostic ◽  
Nenad Petrovic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Analytical Methods ◽  
Common Property ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Calculation Methods ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Gear Trains ◽  
Central Gear ◽  
The Way

Cycloid reducers are gear trains which can be classified as planetary transmissions. These transmissions have a very wide range of uses in industry in transporters, robots, satellites, etc. This research presents a comparative analysis of three analytical methods for determining cycloid drive efficiency. The paper explores every mathematically formulated method and compares them to experimental results from literature. The presented methods for determining efficiency have a common property, in that they all determine losses due to friction on the bearing cam surface of the shaft, the rollers of the central gear and the output rollers. The calculation of efficiency values is done for standard power values. The methods differ primarily in the way they calculate losses. For each method of calculating efficiency there is an analysis of pros and cons. The paper concludes with suggestions as well as possible directions for further research.

Heptapod B and the Paradox of Foreknowledge: Confronting Literature and its Filmic Adaptation

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-100
Author(s):  
Israel A. C. Noletto ◽  
Sebastião A. T. Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Free Will ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Artificial Language ◽  
Adaptation Process ◽  
Terrestrial Origin ◽  
Philosophical Criticism ◽  
Narrative Framework ◽  
The Way

Abstract Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life (1998) and its filmic adaptation Arrival (2016) both use Heptapod B, an artificial language from extra-terrestrial origin, capable of conferring on its speakers the ability of precognition, as a primordial narrative framework. Innovative as it is, it not only determines the way the stories are recounted, but also raises some very interesting philosophical issues. Focusing on that fantastical language, we promote a comparative analysis of the differing perspectives of the novella writer and the filmmakers regarding the free will and determinism dichotomy in connection with foreknowledge, and how these distinct views may have been influenced by the adaptation process. With the aim of providing a solid basis for such discussion, we collect and review the contributions of Linda Hutcheon, Brian McFarlane, George Bluestone, Linda Gualda as well as of others in relation to the plot developments in the literary text and its filmic adaptation. As a result, we point out what is prioritized or transformed in the adaptation process, thus offering a theoretical and philosophical criticism on the two stories and a comprehensive exegesis of the texts.

Water, Ritual, and Power in the Inca Empire

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara L. Bray
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Inca Empire ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way ◽  
Water Ritual

Archaeological, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic evidence provides ample indication that water was a key symbol in Andean thought. During the late precolumbian era, the attention lavished on waterworks and features by the Inca emphasizes a clear concern with control over water and its movement. This paper examines the way in which specific relations of power and identity were constructed through Inca management of water. To this end, I offer a comparative analysis of water-related features from different sectors of the Empire, representing different moments in its historical development. The intent is to further our understanding of how the manipulation of water figured in the imperializing process and how its use and meaning may have evolved over time. The architectural evidence from the sites included in the study suggests that conspicuous exercise of control over the movement and flow of water may have been more critical to the establishment of Inca hegemony than to its subsequent maintenance.

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