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Emotional Intelligence among the Health Care Providers Working in a Tertiary Level Hospital
Authors: Thapa Pramila , Bhatta Ramesh , Khanal Josana , Chaudhary Anil
Published: November 2021

Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to be aware of and control one's emotions and empathize with others. EI is essential for the well-being of a health care provider and their professional practice. A health care provider’s empathy is important in building a strong relationship with the patient which results in enhanced positive service outcomes. Emotional intelligence competence can be acquired through training and implementation in our own life. As every person is unique, he or she needs to learn concepts that will be suitable for him or her. The objective of the study is to assess the emotional intelligence among health care providers working in a tertiary level hospital and also to understand the association of emotional intelligence with demographic variables of work experience and age of health care providers working in a tertiary level hospital. A descriptive cross-sectional research design was conducted in the Tertiary Level Hospital of Kathmandu District, Nepal to assess the emotional intelligence among health care providers. Through convenience non-probability sampling technique 100 health care providers were selected and to assess the status of emotional intelligence Standard Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT) was used. Results of the study revealed that the highest forty per cent of the respondents have a low level of emotional intelligence and only thirty-two per cent of respondents have a high level of emotional intelligence. Lower in the level of EI among the health workers may be due to the lack of awareness on EI There was also significant association between the level of emotional intelligence with the respondent’s age (p= 0.003). which shows with the increasing age, individuals have different working exposures that improve in their maturity, which may support increasing the level of EI, and there is no significant association with respondent’s working experience.
The Impact of Corruption on Economic Growth in Nigeria
Authors: Olarinde Muftau Olaiya , Jonathan Jacob Msonter
Published: November 2021

This study empirically analyses the impact of corruption on economic growth in Nigeria, using time series data for the period 1980-2015 analyzed through the ARDL technique.  The result of the Bound test confirmed the existence of Cointegration among the variables. The ARDL results revealed that corruption has a significant negative influence on economic growth both in the short run and long run. It was further confirmed that external debt, agricultural output, and human capital development positively impact growth while FDI and inflation rate endanger growth, in both the short and long run. The result of the interacting term revealed the damaging influence of corruption on the positive impact of human capital expenditure and external debt on economic growth. Based on the findings of the study, it is obvious that achievement of growth that is sustainable will remain elusive in a corrupt environment. The study, therefore recommends that government should strengthen the activities of the anti-corruption agencies in Nigeria to reduce the rate of corruption.
Malaysia’s Energy-Growth Nexus and Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis: Empirical Analysis Using the VECM and ARDL Cointegration Techniques
Authors: Fukuda Takashi
Published: November 2021

This paper investigated Malaysia’s energy-growth nexus and environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis over the period 1971-2014 by taking the globalization variables of trade openness and foreign direct investment (FDI) and the structural break dummy of the Asian financial crisis of 1997 into estimation. To give interference, the Granger causality tests were implemented in the framework of two cointegration techniques: vector error correction model (VECM) and autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL). As per Malaysia’s energy-growth nexus, referring to different results of the two approaches, we concluded that the presence of the energy-growth nexus was statistically confirmed, but it has not been fully established yet in the country. On the other hand, both the VECM and ARDL results provided the same conclusion for Malaysia’s EKC hypothesis, that is, in the initial stage, as the higher economic growth, the less CO2 emissions, but after a threshold, the higher economic growth, the more CO2 emissions.
Sinécdoques de las antípodas
Authors: Torres Huitrón Alenjandro
Published: November 2021

¿Cómo se nombra lo que no se conoce? ¿Cómo se construye, visualiza, reproduce y almacena el conocimiento? ¿De cuántas capas de olvido está escrita la memoria? Inmersos en estas preguntas retomamos el llamado proceso de alegorisis americana. El artículo sostiene que la retórica como eje epistémico permitió aglutinar y articular la enorme cantidad de materiales que se generaron sobre el llamado Nuevo Mundo. Por ello, y como un ejercicio de la imaginación, empleamos algunas de las figuras de la retórica que permiten discutir entre los diferentes estratos de la imagen americana.
Comercios del deseo y políticas de la imagen. Fotografía mexicana 1890-1940
Authors: Fernández Romero Mariafernanda , Pardo Hernández Marisela
Published: November 2021

Partiendo de la pregunta sobre el origen y destino de fotografías eróticas en México entre 1863 y 1940, en acervos privados; hemos ampliado el objeto de estudio a los archivos públicos que contienen fotografías de trabajadoras sexuales para registros médicos y policiacos. Este artículo consta de dos propuestas principales: en primer lugar, acuñar un término para el conjunto documental

de fotografías ligadas a la prostitución femenina como parte de un fenómeno mucho más extenso y complejo al que llamaremos “comercios del deseo”, que incluye la producción fotográfica y las diferentes formas de comercialización. En segundo lugar, proponemos una metodología para reclasificar acervos públicos de fotografías catalogadas bajo el criterio de “prostitución”, que evite juicios morales

y ayude a los investigadores a reescribir una memoria histórica con perspectiva de género.
Tehuanismo
Authors: Matta Abbud Alexa
Published: November 2021

Desde los artistas viajeros hasta el presente, un sinfín de artistas se han dedicado a producir obras que representan a las mujeres de Tehuantepec, famosas por su participación activa en la economía y en la vida pública de la ciudad. Este repertorio de obras ha consolidado la manera en la que entendemos y percibimos a la cultura de Tehuantepec, lo que ha llevado a representar una violencia simbólica en contra de estas mujeres, pues ellas se han definido a través de la mirada de otros. Estas miradas comúnmente pueden ser fetichizantes y exotizantes, o que conlleva intereses políticos propios, alejándose de la “realidad”. El artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación que parte de los estudios de género, específicamente del feminismo interseccional, para problematizar las obras que se han creado sobre el tema y las implicaciones políticas que las formas pictóricas pueden llegar a tener, para así exponer las violencias que estos procesos implican.
García-Martínez, O. (Comp.) (2020) Gráfica urbana entre lo público y lo privado: expresión, cultura e imagen de seis localidades de la ciudad de Bogotá. Editorial Fundación Universitaria San Mateo
Authors: Morales Torres Luis
Published: November 2021

La investigación se enmarca entre lo público y lo privado. El primero como círculo tradicional dentro del hábitat de las expresiones visuales como el grafiti, el muralismo o el street art; pero también en lugares de tránsito libre como bibliotecas que abren la puerta a esta representación como forma de comunicación con la actualidad de la imagen. En cambio, lo privado se centra en las intervenciones en el interior de las arquitecturas a manera de decoración, estableciendo un vínculo casi ritual como se desarrollaba en el pasado.
Hvem bruker natur- og friluftsbarnehager?
Authors: Hoås Moen Kari , Blekesaune Arild , K. Bakke Hjørdis
Published: November 2021

I de senere årene har antall natur- og friluftsbarnehager i Norge økt kraftig. Målet med denne studien har vært å få økt kunnskap om hvem som bruker slike barnehager sammenliknet med en gruppe andre barnehager. Undersøkelsen tester ut om det er sosiale forskjeller og forskjeller i friluftsorientering mellom foreldre til barn i de to gruppene barnehager, og om det er forskjeller i rekruttering ut ifra barnas alder og om de har alvorlig funksjonshemming eller kronisk sykdom. Datagrunnlaget for analysen omfatter 369 barn i alderen 3–6 år i 45 natur- og friluftsbarnehager og 377 barn i 46 andre barnehager. Resultatene av analysen ved bruk av multippel logistisk regresjon gir ingen signifikante forskjeller i foreldrenes utdannings- og inntektsnivå eller friluftsorientering i de to gruppene barnehager. Det er heller ingen signifikante forskjeller i andelen barn med alvorlig funksjonshemming eller kronisk sykdom. Andel 3-åringer er signifikant lavere i natur- og friluftbarnehager enn i andre barnehager.
The Ethiopian ”family collective” and child agency
Authors: Abebe Tatek
Published: November 2021

Any discussion of the “family collective” and the place of children within it requires an understanding of what constitutes a family and what a child is. Since ”family”, “child” and “agency” are all value-laden notions full of meanings, and vary cross-culturally, they need to be unpacked, and this is one of the things I will be doing throughout this lecture. What is a family? Is there one ideal Ethiopian family collective? Who is the ageless, genderless and culture-neutral “child”? Also, how is the agency of children in the plural differentiated, intersected and dissected by religion, ethnicity, stage of childhood, and social maturity, as well as rural and urban locations? To what extent are the actions of children constrained or enhanced by the family collective and vice versa? Clearly, these are very broad and complex questions, and while I do not attempt to answer them all, I try to approach them from the perspective of my own discipline of geography, largely focusing on rural-urban contrasts, differences and linkages. In so doing, I underline some overlaps, contradictions and peculiarities in the ways in which children exercise agency within families by drawing on (and sometimes inferring from) the limited sociological and anthropological literature on the issue (Hammond 2004, Poluha 2004, 2008, Hamer 1987, Hamer & Hamer 1994), as well as my own research (Abebe 2008). My lecture is organized along the following lines. I begin with problematizing the Ethiopian family collective and present a discussion of families and households, and their diverse structures, forms and functions. Second, I explore the concept of childhood, focusing on how notable lifecycle events, such as birth, name-giving, circumcision, and christening, are infused with notions of agency, particularly ones related to symbolic agency. Finally, I discuss how children experience authority while growing up, and exercise agency to varying degrees and in contexts in which they find themselves. I wish to emphasize from the outset that this attempt is only descriptive and although I give examples whenever possible, this is at the risk of making generalizations about the otherwise ethnically and culturally diverse country of Ethiopia, which, demographically speaking, is also the second most populous nation in sub-Saharan Africa.
Dimensiones del confort en pacientes hospitalizados
Authors: Valle Dávila María Fernanda , Yapud Vizcaino Emy Donatella , Acosta Balseca Silvia Lorena
Published: November 2021

Los preceptos teóricos de Kolcaba reafirman que el enfoque de las intervenciones del confort no suele ser únicamente técnico, complementa la asistencia clínica y contribuye a satisfacer las necesidades humanas básicas del paciente. En este sentido, la disciplina enfermera tiene un rol  relevante.

El objetivo de este estudio fue categorizar las dimensiones del confort enfocadas en la teoría de Kolcaba en pacientes hospitalizados. Diseño de abordaje cuantitativo, de alcance descriptivo y transversal. La muestra estuvo conformada por 86 pacientes del área de Medicina Interna del Hospital San Vicente de Paúl, se aplicó el instrumento denominado S-GCQ General Comfort Questionnaire Spanish, diseñado por Kolcaba. En relación a la dimensión física se observó que los pacientes presentan dificultad para soportar el dolor y carecen de acompañamiento familiar para realizar la deambulación.

En la dimensión psicoespiritual, la fe y creencias promueven un estado de paz y tranquilidad en el paciente. La falta de tiempo y entrenamiento por parte de los profesionales impide ejecutar las intervenciones que se requiere en esta dimensión.

 En la dimensión ambiental los pacientes no tienen suficiente intimidad debido a la falta de biombos o cortinas en cada cubículo. El profesional de enfermería debe sustentar el cuidado en los preceptos enunciados por Kolcaba para brindar una atención holística al paciente.
Nivel de satisfacción de los usuarios en el proceso de atención ante el Covid-19 en el Centro de Salud Martínez
Authors: Nuñez Evelyn , Jimenez Ana
Published: November 2021

Los Centros de Salud, dotan servicios de atención médica de primer nivel, cuya principal característica es la relación participativa con la población, garantizando un servicio de equidad, solidaridad social y efectividad, sin embargo, la emergencia sanitaria ha llevado a cambios drásticos en la atención médica de primer nivel, ocasionando una crisis. Por ende, la presente investigación busca determinar los niveles de satisfacción de los usuarios en el proceso de atención ante el Covid -19  en el Centro de Salud  Martínez , empleando un enfoque cuantitativo y de campo de nivel descriptivo, que tomó como muestra a 84 casos de Covid-19 atendidos durante el periodo marzo – septiembre del 2020, a quienes se les aplicó una encuesta basada en el cuestionario SERVQUAL (Quality Service) que mide los niveles de satisfacción bajo las dimensiones de fiabilidad, capacidad de respuesta, seguridad, empatía y tangibles realizando una comparación entre las expectativas y percepciones. La cual ha permitido determinar una satisfacción del 45% en dimensión de fiabilidad, el 34% en la capacidad de respuesta, 70% en la seguridad, 70% en la empatía y 86% en la dimensión de tangibles. Por lo cual se concluye un alcance de un 61% de satisfacción en los usuarios atendidos ante el Covid-19 en el centro de Salud Martínez, dando como resultado un 39% de insatisfacción que se considera dentro de los rangos aceptables, estableciendo así aspectos a mejorar como la reducción del tiempo de espera, el respetar el orden de llegada para ser atendidos y el abastecimiento de la farmacia.
Estado general de salud mental en pandemia covid-19, en choferes de la cooperativa supertaxis “Julio Andrade”
Authors: Escobar Chapués Ana Elizabeth , Noroña Salcedo Darwin Raúl , Garcia Orozco Lucas , Morillo Cano Julio Rodrigo , Escalona Rabaza Milagros , García Boyx Gabriela , Proaño Ramón Salomón , Cargua Janeta Segundo Wilfrido
Published: November 2021

La salud mental es parte esencial de cada individuo, determinada por factores socioeconómicos, biológicos y medioambientales; asociada a los continuos cambios sociales, las condiciones de trabajo, sobre todo aquellas que generan estrés laboral, a los modos de vida poco insalubres y de riesgos, además del inadecuado estado de salud, entre las más importantes. Se realizó un estudio descriptivo de corte transversal, en el que se evaluaron 31 personas que laboraban como choferes profesionales activos de la Cooperativa Supertaxis “Julio Andrade” del Cantón Tulcán, provincia Carchi, Ecuador; durante abril a octubre de 2020, para analizar las dimensiones del estado general de salud mental postpandemia COVID-19, utilizando el cuestionario de salud general de Goldberg GHQ-30. Se determinó que los factores de disfunción social (67,7%), insomnio (29%) y síntomas somáticos (22,6%) se presentaron como situaciones intermedias y nocivas, de mayor relevancia. De igual manera, existió una relación estadísticamente significativa entre los síntomas psicosomáticos y la jornada laboral (p = 0,009), y con el horario de trabajo (p = 0,000); además de relación de significancia estadística entre el insomnio y el cargo desempeñado (p = 0,031). Se demostró que los síntomas psicosomáticos y el insomnio fueron los factores relacionados significativamente con la jornada y horario laboral, además del cargo del trabajador; asumiendo por tanto que los mismos se relacionaban por consiguiente con la mayor tensión emocional experimentada por la COVID 19 en el periodo analizado.
Evaluation of soils with average potassium content summation for implantation of Musa sp in the municipality of Teotônio Vilela, Alagoas
Authors: Silva Cosme Ângelo da , Albuquerque Alciênia Silva , Freitas Amanda de Lira , Santos Denise Maria , Pacheco Alexsandro Gonçalves , Almeida Camila Alexandre Cavalcante de , Pinto Andréa de Vasconcelos Freitas , Leite Maria José de Holanda
Published: November 2021

Soil fertility is one of the crucial factors for agriculture, whose main objective is to increase production. Therefore it is extremely important to know the nutritional requirement of cultivars. Fertility-focused studies are essential for fertilization recommendations in all regions, especially in banana cultivation which is a very demanding plant in fertility. Thus, the present work aimed to evaluate soil fertility, emphasizing the quantification of nutrients necessary to ensure the agricultural productivity of musa sp. The research was developed at laudelino farm, municipality of Teotônio Vilela/Alagoas, between 2019 and 2020, where soil amotragens were performed, randomly collected in the 0-20 cm depth layer, removing 1 kg of soil and sent to the soil laboratory of the Campus of Engineering and Agrarian Sciences (CECA) of the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) located in the municipality of Rio Largo-AL, for chemical analysis. The hydrogenic potential (pH), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K+) accessible were analyzed; calcium (Ca+2) and tradable magnesium (Mg+2); saturation by exchangeable aluminum (m%), cation exchange capacity CTC at pH 7.0 (T); base saturation (V%) and; organic matter (OM). As a result of the analysis, the following results were obtained: pH content (5.6); OM (14.1 g/kg) P (5.0 mg/dm³) K (110 mg/dm³), Ca2+ (3.42 cmolc/dm³), Mg2+ (2.53 cmolc/dm³); Al3+ (0.00 cmolc/dm³), H (4.41 cmolc/dm³), and CTC (T) (10.73 cmolc/dm³); m (0.0 %) and V (59 %). Based on the above results, it is suggested the application of 1,103 kg of limestone in order to increase the base saturation to 70%, in addition to the addition of 50 kg/ha of N and 343.5 kg/ha of P2O5 and 96.7 kg/ha of K2O. It is worth mentioning that their applications in the soil must be carried out through sources of 837.8 kg/ha of triple superphosphate; 161.2 kg/ha of potassium chloride and 111 kg/ha of urea. It is also essential to add 30 to 50 t/ha of organic matter, such as bovine manure to the soil, aiming at better utilization of the material by crops.
The Value of Social Media Advertising Strategies on Tourist Behavior: A Game-Changer for Small Rural Businesses
Authors: Jones Nory B. , Miles Patti , Beaulieu Tanya
Published: November 2021

Nature-based tourism represents a growing sector within the tourism industry, and these interests could help improve the conditions of economically disadvantaged rural communities. The new digital landscape, including Internet and social media usage, represents a critical strategic opportunity to inform, educate and reach these tourism segments. The present research examines the impact of social media advertising on nature-based tourism within rural communities. In this research, we utilize the COBRA (Consumers’ Online Brand-Related Activities) model (Muntinga et al., 2011) of consumer behavior to assess the impact social media advertising plays in generating Pre-Consumption, Consumption, Creation, Contribution, and Engagement in rural business. The results are significant, finding that incorporating digital strategies within rural firms is beneficial. According to our research, the careful placement of a social media advertisement can statistically increase engagement components by more than 50%. In theory, this can increase tourism and economic activity in these rural, economically disadvantaged areas.
Why Small Deals Don’t Get Done: Evidence From Rural Entrepreneurs
Authors: Stambaugh Jeff , Yu Andy
Published: November 2021

For myriad reasons, rural entrepreneurs may want to harvest by selling their business. While these entrepreneurs may look for inspiration to larger, public deals, there are few relevant insights to glean from these deals. Despite the high stakes involved for rural entrepreneurs and potential buyers, researchers have placed little attention on dealmaking at the lower end of the spectrum. We address this lack of research by answering the research question: Why do deals involving small companies go unconsummated? Because research on why large deals fall through is sparse and of limited applicability, we ground our research using insights from the venture financing arena (venture capitalists and angel investors) about why deals between entrepreneurs and investors do not close successfully. Applying a novel dataset from an economic development effort in a small southwestern U.S. city, we analyze the reasons why an investor group investigated 20 potential small deals, but none eventually closed. We found that issues both with the potential buyers and sellers led to the deal failures, with issues involving the valuation and also the selling entrepreneur being the most common deal-breakers. Furthermore, through this investigation, we gained insights into the challenges of an investor-driven model for economic development.
Mapping Roots in Derec Walcott's Omeros
Authors: Tynan Maeve
Published: November 2021

Like most epic poetry Derek Walcott’s Omeros concerns itself with the fate of a nation or people, in this instance ‘our wide country, The Caribbean Sea.’ Engaging with the epic genre, a form commonly identified as an ‘imperial genre’ highlights a problematic area for the postcolonial writer whose identity is necessarily ‘split’ or ‘hybrid’ as a result of the vicissitudes of colonial history. Marking an inner struggle, his troubled relationship to Western canonical texts has proved a most fruitful zone of inspiration for the poet whose own divided heritage causes him to frequently question how to choose ‘between this Africa and the English tongue I love?’ Seamus Heaney has made the point that Walcott has made a career out of the impossibility of choosing either. Omeros then, maps a program of cultural integration that has been a fundamental theme of his writing for decades. Assuming an entitlement to all the diverse cultural traditions available in the region he freely draws from African and European sources, and is irreverent in his ironic reconfigurations of mythic themes and figures. This article examines the role of the sea-swift as both transatlantic guide and as a central transcendent metaphor for cultural integration within the poem. Crossing east-west meridians the swift explores the cathartic potentiality of the journey, a trope that the poet continually invokes in his writing. For Walcott, the swift is a comfortable hybrid able to inhabit a mixed society, without forgetting the individual cultures that compose its heritage.
Cloud 9, Metadrama, and the Postsemiotics of the Subject
Authors: Kiss Attila
Published: November 2021

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate, through the example of Caryl Churchill's Cloud 9, the way dramatic literature can address central problems of contemporary culture and cultural identity with metadramatic techniques. The interpretation relies on the critical apparatus of the postsemiotics of the subject. The metatheatrical framework of the play focuses on the question of subjectivity as cultural, ideological product. The metadramatic markers break the mimetic illusion on the stage, and the dislocated spectator gains a metaperspective on his or her ideological positionality.
Nonsense on the Margins
Authors: Sánta Balázs
Published: November 2021

The paper charts certain nuances of the diction of two minor characters in Dickens’s early fiction, Sam Weller from The Pickwick Papers and Mrs Nickleby from Nicholas Nickleby. The paper focuses on what David Ellis calls Sam’s “extended comic comparisons” and Mrs Nickleby’s typical speech acts, called here, by analogy, extended comic recollections. After examining the role both characters’ verbal comedy plays in the novels, the paper invites Jean-Jacques Lecercle’s critical insight into a Victorian genre contemporary to Dickens: nonsense literature. I approach the underlying structural parallel between Sam’s and MrsNickleby’s comic verbal instances with the aid of the definitive trait of nonsense as established by Lecercle, the paradox of excess and lack on different levels of language. Though not arguing for the novels’ inclusion in a nonsense literary canon, I show that Lecercle’s conceptualisation of nonsense linguistics proves useful in making sense of the two characters’ monologues. Their role in each novel may thus be grasped as functional nonsense.
Unorthodox Theists
Authors: László Noémi
Published: November 2021

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Puck’s Broom and the Ontology of Play
Authors: Matuska Ágnes , Kettnich Karen
Published: November 2021

In this paper, we explore the ways Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream stages its own status as theatrical fiction, then analyse the subtle web of fiction and reality it creates, and the ways it incites the audience to take part in this network. The most intriguing instances of the play’s undertaking of relating fiction and fact are the ones which hold out promises of illuminating the transition between the two. After presenting some important instances of such transition, or, in the play’s own terminology; “translations,” this paper will deal in particular with Puck’s closing speeches, with a special focus on a puzzling reference to his broom as well as to his sweeping. By focusing on the potentially diverse functions, and even more importantly, on the rich dramatic heritage of Puck’s broom, we will examine what more general things it tells us about the ways theatrical fiction and the audience’s reality interact.
'Till by Degrees of Merit Raised'
Authors: Ittzés Gábor
Published: November 2021

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The Accursed Tongue
Authors: Vince Máté
Published: November 2021

In what turns out to be one of his last moments, right after learning from Macduff that the prophecy of the Weird Sisters is finally fulfilled, Macbeth curses the tongue. But why does he direct his anger towards "that" tongue, instead of "thy," that is, Macduff's tongue? And why does Macbeth curse the tongue at all, instead of Macduff himself? This six-line curse is an inventory of all of Macbeth's misapprehensions. For his misfortune, he accuses the "juggling fiends" who "palter . . . in a double sense." This paper is a study into how Macbeth's intentional misdeeds and mistakes in thinking become evident in the formulation of his speeches. By examining Macbeth's metaphors and sentence structures, the paper presents how Macbeth (with the help of his wife and the Weird Sisters) drives himself into more and more impenetrable paradoxes. The last of those being that his death is brought about by his recognising one of his misapprehensions: when he becomes aware of the performative force of words, that recognition kills him, in the form of Macduff's accursed tongue.
Attention as Proof of Faith
Authors: Marno Dávid
Published: November 2021

This essay asks the question: can a poem serve as proof for religious belief? By reading John Donne’s devotional sonnets in light of the Pauline letters, the argument unfolds in two parallel directions. First, it shows that in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, the concept of pistis (proof or belief) refers primarily to Christian faith as a self-referential proof. Second, it argues that Donne’s poems enact this sense of faith-as-proof by using language as material for attention exercises. The essay concludes by suggesting that the connection that these poems reveal about certainty and attentiveness gives us a way to think about the continuity between early modern devotion and emergent discourses of philosophy.
'They got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves'
Authors: Gaál-Szabó Péter
Published: November 2021

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Miracle-Working Poetry, Poetry Worth a Miracle?
Authors: Halácsy Scholz Katalin
Published: November 2021

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Shelley
Authors: Fehér Zsuzsa
Published: November 2021

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Blake's Fourth Fold
Authors: Csikós Dóra
Published: November 2021

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Milton's Selfie
Authors: Péti Miklós
Published: November 2021

“Fixe heere,” a curious fragment by the young Milton, has been interpreted by critics as an emblematic piece expressing the poet’s pervasive sense of belatedness. In my “speculative flight of fancy,” I propose a different reading, one that finds a general sense of anticipation and adventure in Milton’s couplet.
'A Pinch of Romance in the Commercial Kitchen'
Authors: Juhász Tamás
Published: November 2021

This paper argues that the theme of colonial trade has been both suppressed and used as narratologically vital material in Conrad's story. The analysis focuses mainly on the second, for many aesthetically flawed part of the novel, and demonstrates that the "free and wandering" Patusan tale is a logical and inevitable reproduction of the commercial dynamics from where Jim departed with the cancellation of his certificate. This reproductive process is shown to have an impact on both the plot and the language of the novel. Jim's behaviour in Patusan is determined by various exchange mechanisms, during which his objective is to be recognized as a blameless man in return for his political services to the local native community. Languagewise, the tropes of the conversion and transformation (implicit in any process of trade), psychological renewal, or ethical improvement, are identified as symbol and allegory. It is through the interplay between these two rhetorical figures that Conrad exposes colonial dominance, forced trade and the limitations of personal reformation.
Tropics
Authors: Bényei Tamás
Published: November 2021

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Defiance against God
Authors: Csapó Csaba
Published: November 2021

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Reading Emily Dickinson's 'Now I lay thee down to sleep' as a Variant
Authors: Limpár Ildikó
Published: November 2021

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The Politics of Realism
Authors: Lee Taek-Gwang
Published: November 2021

This essay claims that the rejection of Lukács's realism is quite problematic, in the sense that his opponents such as Adorno and Althusser symbolically used the name of Lukács and perpetuated the suspicion of Lukács's compromise with Stalinism. The essay argues that Lukács's model of reflection is not couched in Stalin's socialist realism, a theory that assumes the transparency between aesthetic forms and reality, but rather raises the essential problems of the condition of writers in capitalist society. Lukács's realism aims at providing a practical strategy to overcome cultural reification, focusing on the mediation between an author and his material condition. An investigation of Lukács's realism reveals that Lukács's way of understanding realism arises from his emphasis on objectivity rather than subjective reflection such as Kantian philosophy. The essay claims that this is the kernel of Lukácsean reflection theory signified by an aesthetic of realism definitively opposed to Stalin's socialist realism. From this perspective, the essay takes Althusserian Marxism as the occasion to stage a wide consideration of anti-realism. I propose to elucidate the implicit assumptions behind the decline of Lukács's realism, and the reification of cultural fields that gradually came to dominate Western literary apparatuses.
Haphazardly Ambidextrous
Authors: Matuska Ágnes
Published: November 2021

The paper examines the Vice character of English drama from non-cycle interludes - both interpretations of the character as well as Vices from specific plays, such as The Play of the Weather, Cambises, Appius and Virginia and others, and it argues for a complex view of the character, where his typical villainy, his humour and mockery and his histrionic skills form a unique merger, which is essential in understanding the figure. According to the argument the Vice may but does not have to sustain the moral message of the play, and examples are given for showing that his characteristic comedy is misunderstood as mere buffoonery or condemnable evil. Instead of trying to separate the dark and vicious Vice from the buffoonish evil who is not harmful, it is suggested that we take into account the strong connections between the Vice and the popular fool, and see the Vice as the specimen of the trickster-archetype.
Rushdie's Postmodern Nations
Authors: Györke Ágnes
Published: November 2021

This paper argues that Midnight’s Children allegorizes India in two ways. First, the allegory of Saleem Sinai’s body speaks about the official version of India, the pedagogical nation that is modern by definition, since it aims to parade as a transcendental, seamless, and disembodied master narrative. Second, the dissonant “noise” of the midnight’s children attempts to provide an alternative: their miraculous community allegorizes an enchanting yet fragile postmodern nation, which reintroduces the voice of the subject into national discourses. This second allegory depicts India as an “elephantiasic” imagined community, which, even though it aims to act as an alternative, inherits the structure of the modern nation, and falls apart precisely for this reason. Unable to redefine the modern paradigm, the novel attempts to reconcile the postmodern nation with it, which overburdens this miraculous yet feeble entity. Therefore, the postmodern nation remains an enchanting but never fulfilled promise in the novel.
The Personae of the Muse in the Fair Youth Sonnets
Authors: Törék Eszter
Published: November 2021

The figure of the Muse in Shakespeare’s sonnets, seemingly inconstant in its depiction, on a closer inspection, is revealed to be the signifier of a number of different entities, ones that are somewhat removed from concepts usually associated with the nine mythical Muses of Classical antiquity. These “personae,” or in other words, various manifestations or appearances of the Muse function in markedly different ways from each other and reveal the workings or the modus operandi of the Poet with regard to his endeavour of eternalising the Fair Youth’s beauty. The words of the Muse in sonnet 101 raise questions about the representational powers of pen vs. pencil, invoking the Renaissance paragone of poetry and painting, which leads to a number of enquiries concerning mimesis, invention, style, and Platonic realism. In my paper, I shall examine the forces and circumstances that shape the figure of the Muse, as well as what those forms could represent, in hopes of illuminating the poetic process of eternalisation in verse.
'Artfully placed mirrors'
Authors: Faragó Borbála
Published: November 2021

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A Generative Concept of Poetic Truth
Authors: Horvath Raymond
Published: November 2021

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Family Romances in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
Authors: Asztalos Márta
Published: November 2021

This paper examines narration and storytelling in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! Narration and storytelling are a paternal legacy and a family destiny as well, which bind the son to the father and the Grandfather. However, they also become the means of overwriting the paternal meta-narrative and endeavors of narrative self-fathering, self-begetting. In this reading, the “story-weaving” of the narrators and the story woven (by them) swirl around the same conflict: the “battle” of fathers and sons. It is explored how these paternal-filial power relations and conflicts work in both “layers” of the novel and how they influence each other. The argument will build on the insights of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, especially the theory of the Freudian family romance.
The “Strange Self-power in the Imagination”
Authors: Page-Jones Kimberley
Published: November 2021

This paper will focus on Coleridge’s writing of epileptic signs in the light of contemporary debates on the physiology and psychology of the brain. By examining the medical narratives of epilepsy, widely debated at a time where both evangelical movements and consumer behaviors were threatening the nerves and brains of English society, I intend to explore the cultural components and meanings attached to epileptic fits in order to understand Coleridge’s dreadful fear of epilepsy and its relation to fanciful imagination. I will argue that his fear of epileptic seizures may have laid the ground for his theory of fancy: body and brain could create against the will of the poet thus acting as moral alibis for his more radical poems.
Back to Shakespeare
Authors: Kiséry András
Published: November 2021

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Postmodernism in Hungary
Authors: Friedrich Judit
Published: November 2021

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Ruminating More and More Realism
Authors: Tóta Benedek Péter
Published: November 2021

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The New Series of The AnaChronisT
Authors: Komáromy Zsolt
Published: November 2021

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A Novel between Gossip and a Court Testimony
Authors: Vogrinčič Ana C.
Published: November 2021

This paper analyses a curious pseudo-documentary narrative entitled The Widow of the Wood, published anonymously in 1755 by a largely forgotten writer and theatre person, Benjamin Victor. It recounts real events that took place in Staffordshire in 1752 and could be best described as a cunning widow’s amorous trickery. In the article I explore the subtle ways in which what is in fact a documentation of a court trial and a gossip chronicle is turned into a novel, and I try to track down the techniques of ‘novelisation’ as used in eighteenth century English literature, endeavouring to articulate how one discourse has been translated into another. The paper concludes by linking the case to the thematic and discursive role of gossip in eighteenth century English society and literature, namely novels.
Epistemology and Existential Thought in Virginia Woolf's Mature Novels
Authors: Frank Orsolya
Published: November 2021

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Poetics of Un/feeling
Authors: Ruttkay Veronika
Published: November 2021

This article contributes to the re-assessment of the role of affect in the writings of T. S. Eliot and argues that Eliot’s thinking was shaped by earlier—notably Coleridgean—discussions of the feeling and writing self. It offers a dialogical reading of the two poet-critics, in which Coleridge’s interpretation of Venus and Adonis and the typist scene of The Waste Land play central parts.
Traduttore, Traditore?
Authors: Mihálka Réka
Published: November 2021

This paper focuses on Ezra Pound's Chinese creative translations or adaptations in Cathay (1915). Evidence is given why the poems in this volume should not be considered to be regular translations, failing to obey the most evident requirements of "translation" proper. Although adaptations of Cathay retain foreign peculiarities of the original poems, some additional features of Western 20th-century literature are also infused into them. After some preliminary theoretical considerations about Pound's translation theory, a few exemplary poems of the volume will be analysed with respect to the techniques of adaptation Pound applied. The Fenollosa manuscripts Pound used as a source will be taken into account for comparative purposes.
The Boke of Comforte Agaynste All Trybulacyons
Authors: Ecsedy Ágnes
Published: November 2021

This paper explores the textual history, readership, and the literary and spiritual context of The Boke of Comforte Agaynste All Trybulacyons, printed in London around 1505. The Boke is the English version of the Livret des consolacions printed some years earlier in Paris. I propose that the Boke and its French antecedent are the direct descendants of a Latin compilation printed on the Continent, including the works of Jacobus Gruytrodius, Petrus Blesensis, and Isidore of Seville. I also aim to point out the Boke's stylistic properties and its place in the tradition of English prose. Both this work and its contemporaries (i.e., early printed material from the 16th century) can contribute greatly to our understanding of early Tudor English literature, spirituality, and book culture.
Restorative and Reflective Nostalgia in Doctor Faustus, Macbeth and The Tempest
Authors: Hargitai Márta
Published: November 2021

In the paper nostalgia and their types will first be explained and revisited; then, three examples will be provided for early modern dramatic representations of the then-unnamed concept of the pain of missing one’s homeland and the yearning to return safely to where one belongs. The frustration felt by various characters for to the means of escape and return safely home, to be finally saved and recover/retrieve/reclaim their possessions, rights, original place, title, etc. (cf. the etymology of nostalgia from Greek nostos “homecoming,” ultimately from PIE nes- “escape from, survive, be saved” + Greek algos “pain”) can be seen to play a key role in each of the three plays under investigation. The plays investigated here are Doctor Faustus, Macbeth, and The Tempest, and the paper demonstrates that despite their generic and thematic differences all three represent the synthesis of two types of nostalgia—reflective and restorative—giving voice to both elements reflected in the etymology of the word: nostos and algos; thereby informing us of the striking abundance of nostalgic tendencies in the literature of the period.
Apocalypse without End
Authors: Ruttkay Veronika
Published: November 2021

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Shakespeare’s Momentary Lapses of Reason
Authors: Nyusztay Iván
Published: November 2021

In Shakespearean drama reason at times falters and becomes ineffective in coping with the events. Its limits appear as temporary but dramatic reminders of the necessarily curbed scope of human understanding. Instances of ‘reasonless’ and meaningless phenomena abound in the plays and present themselves mostly in the forms of paradox and the absurd. In the selective recourse to paradoxes in Shakespeare, this article will focus on the tragedies—together with a potentially tragic instance in a chronicle play—which most blatantly expose the limits of reason. I believe that these momentary lapses demonstrate recurring structures of containment characteristic of Shakespeare. Demonstrating the ways paradox and the absurd are contained in Shakespearean drama also entails an overview of the fundamentally different handling of these concepts in the Theatre of the Absurd.
The 'House of Fiction'
Authors: Krassóy Ákos
Published: November 2021

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Shepherds, Regents and Lecherous Widows
Authors: Cawsey Kathy
Published: November 2021

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Kazuo Ishiguro and Orphanhood
Authors: Christensen Tim
Published: November 2021

In When We Were Orphans, detective Christopher Banks discovers that the problem of recovering the truth about his past is in fact a problem of memory and that the problem of memory involves a reiterative confrontation with a trauma - the disappearance of his parents - that has structured his adult life. Banks's problem of recovering his family's past is, moreover, simultaneously a problem of recovering a national past, for he believes that his parents' disappearance is somehow related to his not being properly English, or "not English enough." Banks therefore believes that if he can ascertain the elusive truth regarding the mysterious disappearance of his parents when he was a child, he will simultaneously restore English authority to pre-World War II Shanghai. Because Banks views nationality as both the cause of and the solution to an Oedipal trauma, the ideal of attaining a true or genuine national identity becomes, within the novel, identical to the wish to "restore" oneself to an idyllic state of childhood contentment, an imaginary state of pre-Oedipal, prelapsarian plenitude. Banks's development as a character, however, also suggests the possibility of moving beyond a state of eternal return to a traumatic past, beyond a fixation on an Oedipal fantasy. Banks's eventual acceptance of his orphaned state signals the possibility of an escape from the symbolic parent/nation authority and the possibility of a far more fluid and syncretic understanding of the self as the basis of future relationships. Orphanhood becomes a trope for a post-national identity.
The Rhetoric of Wounds
Authors: Kiséry András
Published: November 2021

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American Literature in Hungary
Authors: Sarbu Aladár
Published: November 2021

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Disbelief in Disbelief
Authors: Péter Ágnes
Published: November 2021

This essay is focused on some temperamental and conceptual relations between Blake’s vision and Ludwig Zinzendorf’s theology and practice, and hopes to contribute, however modestly, to the clarification of the question of how much Blake’s hypothetical contacts with the Moravian Church may alter his position among artists and thinkers concerned with the “limits” of the Enlightenment.
Disbelief Against Disbelief
Authors: Kállay G. Katalin
Published: November 2021

In this paper I examine a nineteenth-century Hungarian poem and a twentieth-century American short story. The central characters are both widows who cannot comprehend the death of their husbands, and gradually turn insane, both of them obsessively get occupied with an irrational activity. Goodwife Agnes had helped her lover to kill her husband—but in the text, she is oblivious of the deed: all she knows is that she has to wash her bloodstained linen in the streamlet. Her disbelief is directed against the fact of death and murder, as well as against the fact that the sheet is spotless. Mrs. Larkin’s husband died of an accident in the garden, her disbelief is directed against the powerlessness of her own most intimate protective words, as well as against the fact that her husband was killed by her garden, all she knows is that she feverishly has to plant more and more green life in the chaotic sloping plot behind her house. From the point of view of the gesture of abandoning oneself to disbelief, the difference between murder and accident seems to be irrelevant. However, the central metaphors of cleaning and planting might subtly indicate separate attitudes to disbelief in death, i.e. to the continuity of life.
More's Utopia
Authors: Pintér Károly
Published: November 2021

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Disbelief in Romanticism
Authors: Timár Andrea
Published: November 2021

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'I'm a Tradesman'
Authors: Minier Márta
Published: November 2021

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Memory, War and Trauma in Late Modernism
Authors: Tukacs Tamás
Published: November 2021

This paper deals with Henry Green’s Caught (1943), with occasional references to Green’s previous novel, Party Going (1939), examining how the war setting influences the nature of remembering and how remembering is traumatised by these circumstances. The paper ultimately argues that in the 1930s and 40s a definite shift may be detected from the High Modernist, epiphanic, revelatory, transcendental kind of remembering, initiated by the Proustian “mémoire involontaire” towards traumatic modes that enact the invasion of the present by the past, rather than their happy co-existence in a moment of epiphany. The essay introduces elements of trauma in Green’s novels in general and then moves on to identify the three main facets of traumatic narratives: their ontological, epistemological and narrative paradoxes. Most of the characters in Caught can be regarded as strange survivors of traumatic occurrences, who have to bear the consequences of this ontological dilemma and fight against the principles of fluidity and the danger of invasion that seem to threaten the boundaries of the past, the present and the future. The essay also presents the three main strategies of coping or failing to cope with trauma, exemplified by the three main characters, Roe, Pye and Christopher.
Poets and Masks
Authors: Maróti Zsolt
Published: November 2021

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Case Closed
Authors: Dragomán György
Published: November 2021

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