William H. Galperin
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781503600195
- eISBN:
- 9781503603103
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9781503600195.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
This study is about the emergence of the everyday as both a concept and a material event and about the practices of retrospection in which it came to awareness in the romantic period in “histories” ...
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This study is about the emergence of the everyday as both a concept and a material event and about the practices of retrospection in which it came to awareness in the romantic period in “histories” of the missed, the unappreciated, the overlooked. Prior to this moment everyday life was both unchanging and paradoxically unpredictable. By the late eighteenth century, however, as life became more predictable and change on a technological and political scale more rapid, the present came into unprecedented focus, yielding a world answerable to neither precedent nor futurity. This alternative world soon appears in literature of the period: in the double takes by which the poet William Wordsworth disencumbers history of memory in demonstrating what subjective or “poetic” experience typically overlooks; in Jane Austen, whose practice of revision returns her to a milieu that time and progress have erased and that reemerges, by previous documentation, as something different. It is observable in Lord Byron, thanks to the “history” to which marriage and domesticity are consigned not only in the wake of his separation from Lady Byron but during their earlier epistolary courtship, where the conjugal present came to consciousness (and prestige) as foredoomed but an opportunity nonetheless. The everyday world that history focalizes in the romantic period and the conceptual void it exposes in so doing remains a recovery on multiple levels: the present is both “a retrospect of what might have been” (Austen) and a “sense,” as Wordsworth put it, “of something ever more about to be.”Less
This study is about the emergence of the everyday as both a concept and a material event and about the practices of retrospection in which it came to awareness in the romantic period in “histories” of the missed, the unappreciated, the overlooked. Prior to this moment everyday life was both unchanging and paradoxically unpredictable. By the late eighteenth century, however, as life became more predictable and change on a technological and political scale more rapid, the present came into unprecedented focus, yielding a world answerable to neither precedent nor futurity. This alternative world soon appears in literature of the period: in the double takes by which the poet William Wordsworth disencumbers history of memory in demonstrating what subjective or “poetic” experience typically overlooks; in Jane Austen, whose practice of revision returns her to a milieu that time and progress have erased and that reemerges, by previous documentation, as something different. It is observable in Lord Byron, thanks to the “history” to which marriage and domesticity are consigned not only in the wake of his separation from Lady Byron but during their earlier epistolary courtship, where the conjugal present came to consciousness (and prestige) as foredoomed but an opportunity nonetheless. The everyday world that history focalizes in the romantic period and the conceptual void it exposes in so doing remains a recovery on multiple levels: the present is both “a retrospect of what might have been” (Austen) and a “sense,” as Wordsworth put it, “of something ever more about to be.”
William Galperin
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780823271030
- eISBN:
- 9780823271085
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823271030.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
Galperin mines Romanticism as a kind of second-sight or retrospective turn that allows for possibility to emerge in the interstices of past, present, and future. In this way, Romanticism uniquely ...
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Galperin mines Romanticism as a kind of second-sight or retrospective turn that allows for possibility to emerge in the interstices of past, present, and future. In this way, Romanticism uniquely serves “as text and context as opposed to a discourse readily contextualized, where the ‘world’ onto which literature opens is so embedded, so barely understood, that it is enough just to mark it.”Less
Galperin mines Romanticism as a kind of second-sight or retrospective turn that allows for possibility to emerge in the interstices of past, present, and future. In this way, Romanticism uniquely serves “as text and context as opposed to a discourse readily contextualized, where the ‘world’ onto which literature opens is so embedded, so barely understood, that it is enough just to mark it.”
Mark Hall and John Purcell
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199605460
- eISBN:
- 9780191746062
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199605460.003.0008
- Subject:
- Business and Management, HRM / IR, Organization Studies
Consultation is important especially at a time of union decline and retreat from collective bargaining revealing a large and growing representation gap. Consultation is the last chance for ...
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Consultation is important especially at a time of union decline and retreat from collective bargaining revealing a large and growing representation gap. Consultation is the last chance for collectivism. It gives employees a strategic voice and is associated with positive business outcomes. Governments have consistently missed the opportunity to provide positive regulations, and regulation is important to embed practice. There has been a lack of leadership from employers and unions. Some lessons can be drawn from European experience both in response to the directive and from ‘mature’ consultative systems in countries like Germany. The ICE directive and especially the UK regulations need revising to promote effective consultation especially concerning the role of unions, the 10 per cent trigger, PEAs, and the rights of representatives. The enforcement procedures need strengthening. Legislative reform is not sufficient. There needs to union engagement and employer commitment to the practice of consultation.Less
Consultation is important especially at a time of union decline and retreat from collective bargaining revealing a large and growing representation gap. Consultation is the last chance for collectivism. It gives employees a strategic voice and is associated with positive business outcomes. Governments have consistently missed the opportunity to provide positive regulations, and regulation is important to embed practice. There has been a lack of leadership from employers and unions. Some lessons can be drawn from European experience both in response to the directive and from ‘mature’ consultative systems in countries like Germany. The ICE directive and especially the UK regulations need revising to promote effective consultation especially concerning the role of unions, the 10 per cent trigger, PEAs, and the rights of representatives. The enforcement procedures need strengthening. Legislative reform is not sufficient. There needs to union engagement and employer commitment to the practice of consultation.
David A. Welch
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780813040233
- eISBN:
- 9780813043852
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813040233.003.0010
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
David A. Welch argues that the Cuban Missile Crisis was a microcosm of U.S.-Cuban relations during the Kennedy years. In 1962, Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev's attempt to sneak strategic nuclear ...
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David A. Welch argues that the Cuban Missile Crisis was a microcosm of U.S.-Cuban relations during the Kennedy years. In 1962, Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev's attempt to sneak strategic nuclear missiles into Cuba caught U.S. president John Fitzgerald Kennedy off guard and precipitated the most serious international crisis in human history. During this period, leaders managed to learn a number of useful and important lessons that could have been turned to mutual advantage, and indeed were turned to mutual advantage for at least some time. But they missed other lessons, and the limited, positive lessons that they did learn had tragically limited traction. Politics, personality, and happenstance conspired to prevent much in the way of progress, with the result that the Kennedy years ended more or less as they began: with the United States and Cuba neither willing nor able to reach a modus vivendi based on mutual respect. The story of U.S.-Cuban relations during the Kennedy years, in short, is largely a story of missed opportunity.Less
David A. Welch argues that the Cuban Missile Crisis was a microcosm of U.S.-Cuban relations during the Kennedy years. In 1962, Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev's attempt to sneak strategic nuclear missiles into Cuba caught U.S. president John Fitzgerald Kennedy off guard and precipitated the most serious international crisis in human history. During this period, leaders managed to learn a number of useful and important lessons that could have been turned to mutual advantage, and indeed were turned to mutual advantage for at least some time. But they missed other lessons, and the limited, positive lessons that they did learn had tragically limited traction. Politics, personality, and happenstance conspired to prevent much in the way of progress, with the result that the Kennedy years ended more or less as they began: with the United States and Cuba neither willing nor able to reach a modus vivendi based on mutual respect. The story of U.S.-Cuban relations during the Kennedy years, in short, is largely a story of missed opportunity.
Jerome Slater
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- November 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190459086
- eISBN:
- 9780190074609
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190459086.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Every nation has narratives or stories about what it believes to be its history, but such narratives typically contain mythologies that are historically inaccurate. In the case of Israel, the central ...
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Every nation has narratives or stories about what it believes to be its history, but such narratives typically contain mythologies that are historically inaccurate. In the case of Israel, the central mythology is that “the Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” The reality is very different: it is Israel that has been responsible for missing or deliberately sabotaging repeated opportunities for peace with both the Arab states and the Palestinians. The audience for the book includes interested general readers, college and graduate students taking courses in the conflict, academicians and journalists writing about the conflict, and policymakers. The general methodology, organization, sources, citation methods, and chapter-by-chapter structure of the book are discussed.Less
Every nation has narratives or stories about what it believes to be its history, but such narratives typically contain mythologies that are historically inaccurate. In the case of Israel, the central mythology is that “the Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” The reality is very different: it is Israel that has been responsible for missing or deliberately sabotaging repeated opportunities for peace with both the Arab states and the Palestinians. The audience for the book includes interested general readers, college and graduate students taking courses in the conflict, academicians and journalists writing about the conflict, and policymakers. The general methodology, organization, sources, citation methods, and chapter-by-chapter structure of the book are discussed.
