William K. Malcolm
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781789620627
- eISBN:
- 9781789629859
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620627.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
While Mitchell was offhand about his imaginative romances, they are viewed here as more than just potboilers whose brand of utopian idealism was designed to garner widespread popularity. On the ...
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While Mitchell was offhand about his imaginative romances, they are viewed here as more than just potboilers whose brand of utopian idealism was designed to garner widespread popularity. On the contrary, Mitchell employs a lightweight fiction form to promote key themes about society, human nature and historical evolution. Two of his fantasy novels are explored as classic time-travel yarns of Voyage and Return. The first of these, Three Go Back, invokes a natural Golden Age of the prehistoric past untrammelled by civilised values, while his last fantasy Gay Hunter constitutes a darker dystopian narrative informed by the contemporary rise of fascism in Europe. The intermediate romance The Lost Trumpet is appraised as a classic example of the popular genre of the Quest, an early form of magical realism set in Egypt in which pressing socio-political themes are addressed within the framing fantasy of an archaeological search for Joshua’s talismanic trumpet of Old Testament legend. Ultimately the fantasy form is viewed as uncongenial to Mitchell’s literary aspirations, although his formal experimentation in these novels was important to his literary development.Less
While Mitchell was offhand about his imaginative romances, they are viewed here as more than just potboilers whose brand of utopian idealism was designed to garner widespread popularity. On the contrary, Mitchell employs a lightweight fiction form to promote key themes about society, human nature and historical evolution. Two of his fantasy novels are explored as classic time-travel yarns of Voyage and Return. The first of these, Three Go Back, invokes a natural Golden Age of the prehistoric past untrammelled by civilised values, while his last fantasy Gay Hunter constitutes a darker dystopian narrative informed by the contemporary rise of fascism in Europe. The intermediate romance The Lost Trumpet is appraised as a classic example of the popular genre of the Quest, an early form of magical realism set in Egypt in which pressing socio-political themes are addressed within the framing fantasy of an archaeological search for Joshua’s talismanic trumpet of Old Testament legend. Ultimately the fantasy form is viewed as uncongenial to Mitchell’s literary aspirations, although his formal experimentation in these novels was important to his literary development.
Deane Williams and John Hughes
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780748694136
- eISBN:
- 9781474412193
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694136.003.0003
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter discusses how, over the years, Australian filmmakers have responded to the public broadcaster's control over documentary funding, forms, production, and distribution patterns. It assess ...
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This chapter discusses how, over the years, Australian filmmakers have responded to the public broadcaster's control over documentary funding, forms, production, and distribution patterns. It assess the evolution of the role of Australian television by focusing on a group of films dealing with asylum seekers, refugees, and immigration. Here, independence is not only understood in terms of production and distribution patterns, but also in terms of political stance and social commitment. The chapter examines two projects: one that sits at the commencement of official government filmmaking, and another, a television series emblematic of recent developments in Australian factual programming. Both of these projects, Mike and Stefani (1952) and Go Back to Where You Came From (2011) address Australian responses to asylum seekers and refugees.Less
This chapter discusses how, over the years, Australian filmmakers have responded to the public broadcaster's control over documentary funding, forms, production, and distribution patterns. It assess the evolution of the role of Australian television by focusing on a group of films dealing with asylum seekers, refugees, and immigration. Here, independence is not only understood in terms of production and distribution patterns, but also in terms of political stance and social commitment. The chapter examines two projects: one that sits at the commencement of official government filmmaking, and another, a television series emblematic of recent developments in Australian factual programming. Both of these projects, Mike and Stefani (1952) and Go Back to Where You Came From (2011) address Australian responses to asylum seekers and refugees.
Paul Elbourne
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199660193
- eISBN:
- 9780191757303
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199660193.003.0007
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
In his 1990 book ‘Entities and Indices’, Cresswell showed that naturallanguage has the power of ‘explicit quantification over worlds’; andKratzer, in more recent work, showed that ‘natural languages ...
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In his 1990 book ‘Entities and Indices’, Cresswell showed that naturallanguage has the power of ‘explicit quantification over worlds’; andKratzer, in more recent work, showed that ‘natural languages have thefull expressive power of object language quantification oversituations’. The crucial examples involve what Kratzer calls ‘goingback’: in the truth conditions of the relevant sentences, a set ofnon-actual possible worlds is introduced, and then a further set isintroduced, dependent on the first set; but then further predicates aredefined with respect to the first set, to which we have to ‘go back’.Examples of ‘going back’ crucially involving definite descriptions areanalysed. Since the current system does indeed involve situationvariables in the object language, no problems are encountered. It isalso shown that these situation variables can deal simultaneously withthe ‘going back’ property and with the incompleteness of the relevantdescription.Less
In his 1990 book ‘Entities and Indices’, Cresswell showed that naturallanguage has the power of ‘explicit quantification over worlds’; andKratzer, in more recent work, showed that ‘natural languages have thefull expressive power of object language quantification oversituations’. The crucial examples involve what Kratzer calls ‘goingback’: in the truth conditions of the relevant sentences, a set ofnon-actual possible worlds is introduced, and then a further set isintroduced, dependent on the first set; but then further predicates aredefined with respect to the first set, to which we have to ‘go back’.Examples of ‘going back’ crucially involving definite descriptions areanalysed. Since the current system does indeed involve situationvariables in the object language, no problems are encountered. It isalso shown that these situation variables can deal simultaneously withthe ‘going back’ property and with the incompleteness of the relevantdescription.
Erica Wickerson
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- July 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198793274
- eISBN:
- 9780191835162
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198793274.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature, European Literature
Since space and time are the two fundamental modes of locating experience, the first chapter of the book considers their interaction. Specifically, the ways in which descriptions of space further the ...
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Since space and time are the two fundamental modes of locating experience, the first chapter of the book considers their interaction. Specifically, the ways in which descriptions of space further the sense of the passing of time are explored. Space has been traditionally thought of as the opposite of time, and critics have suggested that spatial description in narrative actually stills time. In this chapter, it is suggested that the opposite is true; that, in fact, describing objects and settings contributes to the multilayered, multidirectional, complex view of temporality that narrative affords. The chapter includes analyses of Mann’s Tonio Kröger, Death in Venice, and The Magic Mountain, in comparison with Kafka’s short story Home-Coming.Less
Since space and time are the two fundamental modes of locating experience, the first chapter of the book considers their interaction. Specifically, the ways in which descriptions of space further the sense of the passing of time are explored. Space has been traditionally thought of as the opposite of time, and critics have suggested that spatial description in narrative actually stills time. In this chapter, it is suggested that the opposite is true; that, in fact, describing objects and settings contributes to the multilayered, multidirectional, complex view of temporality that narrative affords. The chapter includes analyses of Mann’s Tonio Kröger, Death in Venice, and The Magic Mountain, in comparison with Kafka’s short story Home-Coming.
Jack Barbalet
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- July 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780198808732
- eISBN:
- 9780191846465
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198808732.003.0005
- Subject:
- Business and Management, International Business, Knowledge Management
This chapter considers guanxi-like practices in a number of historical and social contexts, from the 1880s to the 1980s, when the term guanxi is first used. By doing so, many aspects of instrumental ...
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This chapter considers guanxi-like practices in a number of historical and social contexts, from the 1880s to the 1980s, when the term guanxi is first used. By doing so, many aspects of instrumental particularism typically ignored become evident. In late imperial literati circles, and in rural China up to the present time, gift-giving occurs without expectation of reciprocation but in order to acquire ‘protection’, to be let alone. The use of money in renqing, thought by many theorists today as problematic for guanxi, was routine in these circumstances. Reciprocal gift exchange in rural China begins with Communist collectivization in the 1950s. It is shown that the vast increase in the numbers of officials from this time, and the relative empowerment of peasants, extended the incidence of guanxi-like practices. Concurrently, a number of distinctive terms were used to describe these practices, until guanxi gained widespread usage in the 1980s.Less
This chapter considers guanxi-like practices in a number of historical and social contexts, from the 1880s to the 1980s, when the term guanxi is first used. By doing so, many aspects of instrumental particularism typically ignored become evident. In late imperial literati circles, and in rural China up to the present time, gift-giving occurs without expectation of reciprocation but in order to acquire ‘protection’, to be let alone. The use of money in renqing, thought by many theorists today as problematic for guanxi, was routine in these circumstances. Reciprocal gift exchange in rural China begins with Communist collectivization in the 1950s. It is shown that the vast increase in the numbers of officials from this time, and the relative empowerment of peasants, extended the incidence of guanxi-like practices. Concurrently, a number of distinctive terms were used to describe these practices, until guanxi gained widespread usage in the 1980s.
