Society of Author Rémunération
Extraits
Non classé
Margery Kempe
Traditionally, the feminist movement in England is dated at the threshold of the eighteenth century. A close reading of The Book of Margery Kempe has revealed irrefutable evidence of much earlier roots. To her reputation as a minor mystic and the author of the first autobiography in the English language can be added a greater claim. The Book, Margery Kempe's record of her struggle for self-definition, demands inclusion among the serious contributions to feminist literature.
07/1994
Non classé
Studies in Elizabethan Audience Response to the Theatre
The aim of this volume is to apply the findings of volume 1, the actor-character relationship in documentary evidence of Elizabethans, to a set of plays particularly teasing to the visual sense : the female page plays, in which a boy actor presents a female character in male disguise. The study concludes that such transformations were often intentionally deceiving. As a consequence, the homoerotic aspect deserves further consideration, which results in an analysis of the ways in which male sexual disguise and feminine men or boys were related in the power structure of Elizabethan society as expressed in (literary) texts. A detailed analysis of the individual plays points out where, when, and how authors used the device of the female page, distinguishing between the several theatres and groups in Elizabethan London.
02/1993
Religion
The Christology of Hans Küng
No-one can read christology today without reference to the work of Hans Küng. But has Küng been widely misunderstood ? Alrah L.M. Pitchers maintains that he has, and offers a critique of Küng's christology against the background of the German and Anglo-Saxon traditions with particular emphasis on Küng's brilliant grasp of Hegel. The author concludes that Hans Küng is among the most significant contributors to the christological debate today.
07/1997
Non classé
Grenzpfähle der Wirklichkeit- Approaches to the Poetry of R.S. Thomas
R.S. Thomas is one of the most important contemporary poets in Great Britain. The author of this study uses a twofold approach in order to sketch a portrait of his work. On the one hand, R.S. Thomas's historical and literary Welsh background with its particular problems of language and identity is delineated. On the other hand, groups of poems which focus on specific themes are analyzed extensively, so that the principles of the poet's thoughts and the development of his work from the 40s up to the present become transparent.
12/1984
Non classé
Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis Book 10 - A Commentary
The final and most important book of Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis is examined as a paradigm for both the compositional techniques and the meaning of the whole poem. These techniques are shown as being reliant on the medieval arts of composition, the strategies inherited from the Biblical paraphrasts and the strict discipline of classical epic hexameter. The author shows that Walter of Châtillon is not simply a classicising epigone of Vergil, but a master poet refining contemporary epic techniques and incorporating scientific and philosophic materials into an elegant moral diatribe against arrogance.
08/1991
Non classé
Labouring Lives
Labouring Lives unravels the huge changes which have so fundamentally altered the life courses of ordinary women over the past one hundred and fifty years, namely the changes in marriage and fertility patterns. Using dynamic data from Dutch population registers and analytical techniques from the life course approach, the book offers new evidence on women's changing position in the labour market, their role in pre-nuptial sexuality, and their contribution to marriage and fertility change in the Netherlands between 1880 and 1960. The author reconstructs the socio-economic and demographic worlds of different groups of working and non-working women, and by doing so she is able to locate the various groups driving the changes. Advanced statistical tools enable the author to analyse differences in fertility strategies, stopping versus spacing, employed by various social and cultural groups in the Netherlands. This book leads to conclusions which challenge a number of orthodoxies in the field.
10/2014
Littérature française
Letters of Kavi Yogi, Volume 1, Correspondence of Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati
Preface Letters of Kaviyogi is a book which is an inspiration to any reader. This giant of a man was the author of the epic Bharata Shakti but remained a humble seeker after truth and God's grace. During his lifetime, Kaviyogi wrote many letters to his family, fellow poets, fighters for Indian independence and other great thinkers he met during his travels. In these letters he sets out his philosophy and beliefs, describing the struggles he had to overcome in order to live according to his principles. He offers many wise words of guidance on important matters ; including the correct education of young men and women, and the need for justice and fairness in society. We cannot fail to be touched by the insights he offers and his generosity in sharing his thoughts with us. Daye Craddock Editor's Notes A warm thank you to Daye Craddock for her help in careful editing of this book. It is a real pleasure for me to present Letters of Kavi, Volume 1 to you. Thank you, Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati for having transmitted Letters of Kavi, Volume 1 to us. With the blessing of Aum Shuddha Shakti Aum. Christian Piaget
03/2012
Littérature française
Letters of Kavi Yogi, Volume 2, Correspondence of Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati
Preface Letters of Kaviyogi is a book which is an inspiration to any reader. This giant of a man was the author of the epic Bharata Shakti but remained a humble seeker after truth and God's grace. During his lifetime, Kaviyogi wrote many letters to his family, fellow poets, fighters for Indian independence and other great thinkers he met during his travels. In these letters he sets out his philosophy and beliefs, describing the struggles he had to overcome in order to live according to his principles. He offers many wise words of guidance on important matters ; including the correct education of young men and women, and the need for justice and fairness in society. We cannot fail to be touched by the insights he offers and his generosity in sharing his thoughts with us. Daye Craddock Editor's Notes A warm thank you to Daye Craddock for her help in careful editing of this book. It is a real pleasure for me to present Letters of Kavi, Volume 1 to you. Thank you, Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati for having transmitted Letters of Kavi, Volume 1 to us. With the blessing of Aum Shuddha Shakti Aum. Christian Piaget
05/2012
Histoire internationale
Voyages to the "Spice Islands". The spice trade as a point of departure for European penetration into Asia
In order to describe the role played by spices during the late Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Age, the author Anna Unali focuses on the reports written by merchants, travellers, geographers and government officials. Their voices emerge powerfully and incisively in any recreation of this topic as the most important interpretative elements.
10/2021
Monographies
Arts du Nigéria Central revisités. Mumuye et peuples environnants
In previous studies, Jan Strybol pointed out that sculpture in Northern Nigeria - contrary to what is generally assumed - flourished. Wood sculptures could be found just about everywhere, with the exception of a part of the Far North. In this study, the author first examines the sculptural traditions of a number of peoples in Central Nigeria, in particular from the Jos Plateau and from the valley of the Middle Benue to the source area of the Taraba River. These peoples can be described as non-centralized communities where mainly art in perishable materials was produced by part-time specialists, in contrast to the centralized empires in the South (Ife, Benin) where full-time specialists created complex works of art in durable materials (stone, bronze, iron). Perhaps the most well-known ethnic group in the Middle Benue region among aficionados of African art are the Mumuye. Since the end of the last century, the traditional rites of the Mumuye have rapidly disappeared as a result of the advance of the world religions and with them the Mumuye sculpture so much admired in Europe and America. In addition to wood sculpture, Jan Strybol also pays attention to objects in bronze, iron, terracotta and other materials. Until now, these art forms have been very underexposed and have now almost completely disappeared. Finally, the author also elaborates on some artistic achievements of a number of little-known residual groups within the Mumuye territory, which can boast a rich art tradition.
05/2023
Rémunération
La Rémunération des grands patrons. Halte à la démesure !
Comment sont fixées les rémunérations des grands patrons ? Pourquoi ces retraites chapeau et ces indemnités de départ qui ont tant choqué l'opinion publique ? Au cours des trente dernières années les grands patrons ont-ils mérité leur salaire ? A-t-on réellement rémunéré les grands dirigeants selon leurs performances, leurs retraites sont-elles trop généreuses ? les actions qu'ils ont perçues sont-elles méritées ? les a-t-on indemnisé trop "grassement" lorsqu'il leur a été demandé de partir ? C'est à ces questions que Charles Henri Le Chevalier tente de répondre en s'appuyant sur des exemples vécus, en distinguant les performances et les rémunérations justifiées de certains grands patrons (Essilor International, SEB...) de toutes les dérives auxquelles on a assisté : la rémunération strastosphérique de Carlos Goshn, les indemnités de Patrick Kron lors de son départ d'Alstom, la retraite chapeau annuelle de Lindsay Owen Jones de 3,4 millions d'euros ! Ces rémunérations sont elles légitimes par rapport aux collaborateurs dans l'entreprise à l'heure d'internet où la transparence est de règle ? Au "pas vu, pas pris , pas grave ", succède désormais le "vu, pris, très grave", surtout lorsque le Patron part avec un pactole alors que des plans sociaux se mettent en place dans le groupe. Et pourtant comment ne pas souligner la difficulté de sélectionner le bon dirigeant, celui qui a en main l'avenir de plusieurs dizaines de milliers de salariés ? Comment ne pas reconnaître qu'il doit avoir une rémunération élevée conforme à sa fonction et à ses résultats ? Comment ne pas rappeler que la plupart ont des exigences vis-à-vis d'eux-mêmes et de leurs proches collaborateurs ! Comparées à des stars du ballon rond, à des traders souvent bons mais parfois sans scrupules, au show business, les rémunérations des grands patrons font parfois pâle figure ! Est-ce si normal ?
10/2021
Non classé
«In the Interest of Democracy»
Until recently, there has been little concrete evidence linking the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to the U.S. government's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In this book, based upon recently opened archival collections, the author investigates this controversial and complicated early Cold War relationship. Contrary to arguments that the AFL's international activities were entirely controlled by the U.S. government to the detriment of the independent international labor movement, or that the AFL acted on its own without government involvement to foster legitimate anti-communist trade unions, the author's examination of the archival sources reveals that the AFL and the CIA made an alliance of convenience based upon common goals and ideologies, which dissolved when the balance of power shifted away from the AFL and into the hands of the CIA. In addition to tracing the complicated historical threads which resulted in an apparently unlikely relationship, three specific examples of how the AFL worked with the CIA are investigated in this book : the development of the anti-communist trade union federation Force Ouvrière in France ; the AFL campaign against the Soviet Union's use of "slave labor" at the UN ; and labor's role in the activities of the National Committee for a Free Europe, including Radio Free Europe and the Free Trade Union Center in Exile.
07/2011
Ethnologie
Les structures élémentaires de la parenté
In Les Structures Elémentaires de la Parenté, the early opus magnum of French Structuralism, Lévi-Strauss tries to explain the systems of kinship and-marriage in their enormous diversity and their frequently bizarre institutions, by means of a single principle: the exchange. Exchange is perceived to be the manifestation of fundamental structural constants of the human mind which may also be discerned in other subsystems of culture, most obviously in language. This book represents the first great result of the author's life-long research, dedicated to exploring this relationship, which also led him into the fields of the classification-systems of language and of mythology.
01/2002
Non classé
Autobiography: Self Into Form
"The autobiographical impulse" dominated German-language literature of the 1970's, finding its expression in autobiographies of crisis, women's coming-to-consciousness, and disrupted childhoods. This study examines the historical, sociological, political and literary-historical context for this phenomenon, and in so doing engages the critical international discussion of autobiography as a changing genre. Detailed analyses of works by Ingeborg Bachmann, Elisabeth Plessen, Christa Wolf and Peter Handke suggest new critical approaches to autobiographical form. The author provides an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources, as well as a chronological table of autobiographical works of the decade.
12/1983
Non classé
The Christology of Mark
In our world of research, logics and measurement many of the ideas of (the New Testament and of) the Fathers (pre-existence, incarnation, Virgin Birth, demons,etc.) are today no longer acceptable. For those people who, like the author, see in the Chalcedonian Jesus Christ a mythological creature, Markus' christology is an alternative which at present will surely be more welcome. "Jesus could be, ontologically speaking, nothing more than a man and, nevertheless, he could have been used by God... in a unique way for the sake of our salvation".
02/1991
Technologies
SOIL MECHANICS AND FOUNDATIONS. CD-Rom included
With its simplicity in presentation, this new book makes the difficult concepts of soil mechanics and foundations much easier to understand! The author explains basic concepts and fundamental principles in the context of basic mechanics, physics, and mathematics. From Practical Situations and Essential Points to Practical Examples and Questions to Guide Your Reading the book is packed with helpful hints and pedagogy that make the material crystal clear.
This book also includes a CD-ROM that offers readers hands-on learning. The CD contains interactive animations of basic concepts, interactive problem solving, electronic quizzes, interactive computer programs for special topics, virtual labs and much more. With the help of this CD and text, anyone can quickly master the key principles behind soil mechanics and foundations.
KEY FEATURES
* A What you should be able to do list at the beginning of each chapter alerts readers to what they should learn after studying each chapter.
* The author maintains a solid level of technical rigor despite the simplicity in presentation.
* A large number of examples are worked out step-by-step to illustrate problem-solving techniques.
* The CD-ROM includes The Virtual Soils Laboratory, which allows readers to do sophisticated soil testing at their own convenience.
01/2000
Non classé
Brecht and France
The present study Brecht and France, (as distinct from "Brecht in France") addresses an area in Brecht Studies which has been rather unjustly neglected. The author attempts to assess Brecht's relationship with France, its impact on his creativity and the image of France as reflected in his works. A thorough examination of Brecht's own writings (including minor and lesser-known works), his private library, published as well as unpublished biographical, autobiographical and contemporary records reveals that France was an intellectual treasure-house from which he could derive great benefit in terms of source-materials, socio-political ideas, dramaturgical principles and, above all, artistic inspirations. Particularly those works based on what the author calls the "Matière de France" and dealing with France in crisis are vested with artistic conviction, emotional poignancy and universal message that well merit the pronouncement made by Jean-Paul Sartre that "Brecht est nôtre".
11/1993
Histoire de France
The External Relations of the European Union
The book analyses the attitudes of non-EU countries towards European integration in historical and contemporary perspectives. The authors study a range of actors in Europe and beyond to explain the impact of the creation of the European Communities on the international system and how the EU is perceived in the world. The book further shows the significance of the institutional interplay within the EU, and between EU institutions, member states and external actors led by their own internal dynamics to explain policy outcomes. It investigates to what extent the perceptions of the international community towards the European Communities and the EU have been influenced by the complexity of their decision-making and the difficulty of reconciling the views of member states on key external relations issues. The authors also study the interplay of non-EU countries and the EU within the broader context of international and regional institutions and forums for international cooperation.
12/1987
Science-fiction
Arthor Tome 1 : Le dragon et la licorne
Une reine, un pèlerin, un démon - et un roi censé sauver un monde. Né à l'aube des temps, à l'époque où le Dragon prit forme, le puissant Lailoken s'est retrouvé emprisonné dans un corps humain qui seul peut circonscrire ses pouvoirs. Il est devenu Merlinus, un sage itinérant expert en magie, destiné à oeuvrer pour le bien des hommes. Sa rencontre avec la Licorne, elle-même une puissante créature éternelle, va le conduire à Ygrane, reine des Celtes, qui lui confie pour mission de trouver son roi, qu'un jour elle a entrevu en songe. Merlinus s'acquitte de sa tâche, mais l'homme qu'il découvre est tout sauf un roi. Peut-être cependant le mage saura-t-il modeler son destin. C'est l'histoire épique d'une quête, celle de l'immortalité, qui va couvrir l'ensemble de l'histoire de l'humanité - et celle des créatures magiques qui peuplent les recoins de son imaginaire. C'est une quête qui finit - et commence - en un lieu légendaire situé au bord de la mer Occidentale, avec le premier cri d'un roi nouveau-né. Un lieu nommé Tintagel. Un roi, héritier des Pendragon, nommé Aigle de Thor ou Arthor. Dans la droite lignée des Brumes d'Avalon de Marion Zimmer Bradley, A A Attanasio unit toutes les légendes de création et de rédemption dans un songe aussi intemporel que les chants des druides, aussi puissant qu'un sortilège de Merlin.
04/2009
Science-fiction
Arthor Tome 2 : La louve et le démon
Merlinus, le puissant démon enfermé dans un corps humain afin de contenir ses pouvoirs, a accompli la mission qu'Ygrane, reine des Celtes, lui a confiée: trouver son roi, qu'un jour elle a entrevu en songe. Mais l'homme qu'il a rencontré est tout sauf un souverain-né. Héritier déchu d'une noble lignée, il vivait d'expédients quand le magicien a décidé de modeler son destin. Au terme d'une ascension irrésistible vers le pouvoir, qui aura vu son frère succomber à son ambition vengeresse, celui qu'on nomme désormais Uther Pendragon va entre-prendre l'unification de son royaume insulaire au prix de luttes sans merci. Un combat qui en dissimule un autre, plus impitoyable encore: celui opposant le démon Merlinus à la fée Morgane, qu'on surnomme la Louve... Voici l'histoire épique d'une quête, celle de l'immortalité, qui va couvrir l'ensemble de l'histoire de l'humanité - et celle des créatures magiques qui peuplent les recoins de son imaginaire. C'est une histoire qui finit - et commence - en un lieu légendaire, avec le premier cri d'un enfant nouveau-né. Un lieu nommé Tintagel. Un roi nommé Aigle de Thor, ou... Arthor. Dans la droite lignée des Brumes d'Avalon de Marion Zimmer Bradley, A.A. Attanasio unit toutes les légendes de création et de rédemption dans un songe aussi intemporel que les chants des druides, aussi puissant qu'un sortilège de Merlin.
10/2009
Non classé
Race and Realpolitik
German colonisation in Samoa from 1900 to 1914 was characterised by the interplay of conflicting definitions of race. The central question this study asks is to what extent, and in which ways, ideologies of race shaped German colonial policy in Samoa. It analyses the administration's paternalist development policies, debates over white settlement, the introduction and treatment of indentured labourers, and the legal classification of mixed marriages and half-castes. The author argues that rather than uniting the colonising community in a racist mission of domination, racial thought amplified the fissures in German Samoa's population and supported the administration's Realpolitik.
06/2002
Non classé
Studies in Elizabethan Audience Response to the Theatre
The aim of this volume is to give an analytic description of how Elizabethan Spectators in documentary evidence responded to the theatre performances they watched or knew to be about. It also considers why they responded in that way. Opposing dual consciousness to the reification of the character (its 'ideal presence'), the author concludes that Elizabethan spectators were predominantly interested in the characters' 'ideal presence'. Why they were, is explained by relating their statements to the Renaissance theory of visual perception, (demonic) transformation, and ideas on acting.
02/1993
Non classé
Ruling Class Men
What is it like to be a master of the universe ? The authors have researched the desires and fears of the world's most powerful men. The Murdochs, Packers, Kennedys, Agnellis and other men like them, directly determine the fates of thousands and influence the future of the world like no other people. Described as ‘sacred monsters' by one of their own, they are carefully created to be what they are and to enjoy shaping the world in their own likeness. To learn about these often reclusive men, the authors extended the life-history technique to interrogate autobiographies, diaries and biographies and have created a composite picture, a collective portrait, of tycoons over three generations. The book carefully explores the childhoods, schooling, work and play, sexual activities, marriages and deaths of the wealthiest men who have ever lived. It exposes the nature of ruling-class masculinity itself.
02/2007
Non classé
Chaos, Control, and Consistency:- The Narrative Vision of Wolfgang Koeppen
Wolfgang Koeppen's critical and popular reputations stem largely from his literary success in the 1950s, a success which has overshadowed the author's activities in the earlier years of his career. It is in the interest of redressing this imbalance that the present study has been undertaken. It traces a consistent line of development from Koeppen's journalistic activities in the Berlin of the 1930s, through his earliest creative writing, and on, in this light, to the post-war publications for which he is most famous. It is thus possible to place the whole of Koeppen's career within the social and literary context of sixty years of German history.
06/1993
Non classé
The Regulation of Rental Contracts in the Housing Market
In many countries (part of) the rental housing market is subject to regulations concerning determination of rent and security of tenure. The author provides fresh theoretical analysis of these measures by taking into account special features of the housing market, like indivisibility, mobility cost and incomplete contracts. The impact a rent ceiling has on contracting, the allocation of the housing stock, rationing cost and on rents in the free housing sector is examined. In some cases tenure laws provide for tenure security and rules for the updating of rent while leaving the initial rent for new leases freely negotiable. The analysis shows that the efficiency of the market could be improved through this type of regulation.
10/1991
Non classé
Sociolinguistic reflexes of dialect interference in West Wirral
Studies of the phonology of urban language varieties in the Labovian vein have generally concentrated on structural and statistical differentiation along the "standard"-"non-standard" dimension. In this work the author reports the results of an attempt to apply the relevant methodology and theory to a more complex situation involving the encroachment of an extraneous vernacular on a formerly rural area in England where prestige standard forms are also well represented. The dialectological findings are described in some detail, and innovatory perspectives on various methodological and theoretical issues are developed.
12/1986
Non classé
Willibald Alexis' Zeitroman «Das Haus Düsterweg» and the «Vormärz»
On publication in 1835 Willibald Alexis' Zeitroman Das Haus Düsterweg sparked controversy only to be subsequently ignored by specialists on the Vormärz (1815-48). It has been viewed as an anomaly in Alexis' literary production, but in fact lies at the core of the intellectual interests and formal experimentation of Alexis, the prominent Vormärz author, theorist, critic and journalist. Based on techniques derived from Walter Scott, it anticipates the theory and practice of Gutzkow's "Roman des Nebeneinander". Under the aspect of Zerrissenheit it records and analyzes the psychological and political agony of the contemporary scene.
12/1984
Histoire internationale
'Eine untergeordnete Meisterschaft?'
This study represents an attempt to assess the critical impact of Dickens' work in Germany from the appearance of The Pickwick Papers till his death in 1870. Its main aim is to place the ongoing engagement of German critics with the English novelist in the context of the social and literary-critical tensions of the time and to bring about a new, more differentiated and penetrating understanding of his influence in these decades. The author argues that all the significant attempts to define the function and possibilities of the contemporary novel in German in this period were linked in one way or another with critical attitudes to the hugely popular, but always intractably controversial work of the English novelist.
03/1991
Littérature française
La jangada. .
"La Jangada" is a novel written by the renowned French author Jules Verne. This adventure novel is part of Verne's extraordinary voyages series and features the Amazon River as its central setting. The story follows the journey of a Brazilian family aboard the riverboat Jangada. As they navigate the mighty Amazon River, they encounter various adventures, challenges, and mysteries. The novel combines elements of exploration, adventure, and romance as the characters explore the exotic and dangerous landscapes of the Amazon rainforest. "La Jangada" is known for its vivid descriptions of the Amazon River and the surrounding environment, offering readers a captivating and immersive experience of this unique setting.
06/1981
Non classé
The Phantom and the Abyss
The book focuses on the evolution of the Gothic fiction in America from Charles Brockden Brown to Herman Melville in the context of the aesthetics of the sublime. Starting with a reading of Brown's Gothic romances – Wieland and Edgar Huntly – and concluding with an analysis of Melville's Pierre, the author demonstrates the relevance of the Kantian concept of the sublime for the nineteenth-century American literature of horror. An inspiration to present the development of the American Gothic in the period under scrutiny as a coherent process has been also the psychoanalytic theory of Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. Moreover, the study contains an attempt to place R.H. Dana, Sr and W. Allston in the American literary canon.
11/1999
