Regions and the World Economy: The Coming Shape of Global Production, Competition, and Political Order

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One of the dramatic shifts that is occurring in the world system as we enter the twenty-first century is the increasing openness and interpenetration of national economies and sovereign states. This shift is associated on the one hand with the beginnings of a progressive transfer of certain economic and political functions upward to the plurinational and global levels; and on the other hand with a countervailing trend to the reinforcement of economic and political life at the subnational, regional level. This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the economic logic and political meaning of these developments, with special reference to a reconceptualization of the economic geography of the modern world as an emerging global mosaic of regional systems of production and exchange. The steady globalization of economic activity over the last few decades has intensified the re-assertion of the region as a critical locus of economic order and as a potent foundation of competitive advantage. As a corollary, many regions in the modern world are also beginning to acquire an intense self-consciousness of themselves as socio-political and economic entities, and all the more so as they increasingly find themselves bound together in both competitive and collaborative relationships across national borders. The significance of these tendencies for new kinds of political mobilization is explored, and their potential impacts of substantive forms of democracy and citizenship in the new world order are assessed.

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Insightful!.......2001-04-12

Allen J. Scott's short, scholarly book makes a compelling case for the future growth of regional economies and explains the key role they are likely to play in shaping future global political and economic development. Though written in dense, academic language, the book makes its points clearly and supports them with research, theory and statistics. Scott's guidelines for `regional directorates' reflect many experiments that are already under way around the world, and seeks to capture the best features of each. If his basic idea is correct, then a conscious effort to build regional institutions should speed economic development and reduce world economic stresses. This book is heavy reading, but it is concise and to the point. We [...] recommend it to executives in multinational corporations, entrepreneurs thinking about where to locate, urban planners, civic leaders and government officials - in short, anyone who wants to promote or profit from regional economic development.

Regions and the World Economy : The Coming Shape of Global Production, Competition, and Political Order

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Regions and the World Economy : The Coming Shape of Global Production, Competition, and Political Order
Allen J. Scott
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press(UK)
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This book consolidates several different perspectives on antitrust law. First, Keith Hylton presents a detailed description of the law as it has developed through numerous judicial opinions. Second, he presents detailed economic critiques of the judicial opinions, drawing heavily from law and economics journals. Third, he integrates a jurisprudential perspective that views antitrust as a vibrant field of common law. This last perspective leads him to address issues of certainty, stability, and predictability in antitrust law, and to examine the pressures shaping its evolution.

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Business firms and the common law: The evolution of efficient rules

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Business firms and the common law: The evolution of efficient rules
Paul H Rubin
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Evolution and the Common Law
Allan C. Hutchinson
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This book offers a radical challenge to all existing accounts of the common law's development. Contrary to received jurisprudential wisdom, it maintains there is no grand theory which will explain satisfactorily the dynamic interactions of change and stability in the common law's history. Offering fresh and original readings of Charles Darwin's and Hans-Georg Gadamer's works, the book shows that law is a rhetorical activity that can only be properly appreciated in its historical and political context; tradition and transformation are locked in a mutually reinforcing but thoroughly contingent embrace. In contrast to the dewy-eyed offerings of much contemporary work, it demonstrates that, like life, law is an organic process (i.e., events are the products of functional and localized causes) rather than a miraculous one (i.e., events are the result of some grand plan or intervention). In short, common law is a perpetual work-in-progress - evanescent, dynamic, messy, productive, tantalising, and bottom-up.

The Evolution of Efficient Common Law (Economic Approaches to Law Series)

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The Evolution of Efficient Common Law (Economic Approaches to Law Series)

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This volume contains a selection of the most important articles on the issue of the evolution of the common law. The notion that evolutionary forces would lead to common law efficiency has been very influential in the study of the economics of law. Even those scholars who do not believe that the law is efficient will find it useful to consider the evolutionary forces identified in this volume.

In an even-handed approach, Professor Rubin has selected not only articles which advance the hypothesis of efficient evolution, but also those which claim that the evolutionary process is not efficient. Further articles show that the process is indeed sometimes efficient and sometimes not, and identify those conditions which bring about more of less efficiency in the evolution of law. This authoritative collection will be useful to anyone who is concerned with the sources of efficiency and inefficiency in the law, as well as to scholars pursuing research in this area.

22 articles, dating from 1977 to 2006

Contributors include: Y. Barzel, J. Hirshleifer, L. Kornhauser, W.M. Landes, F. Parisi, R.A. Posner, G.L. Priest, M.J. Roe, A. Shleifer, T.J. Zywicki

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Free Press & Fair Trial - Values in Concert: The evolution from our English common law heritage and colonial times to the present day, of the First and Sixth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States of America

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FREE PRESS & FAIR TRIAL THE EVOLUTION, FROM OUR ENGLISH COMMON LAW HERITAGE AND COLONIAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY, OF THE FIRST AND SIXTH AMENDMENTS OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Lincoln and the Common Law a Collection of Lincolns Illinois Supreme Court Cases from 1838 1861 and Their Influence on the Evolution of Illinois commo
Dan Bannister
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Promise, Trust and Evolution: Managing the Commons of South Asia

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From land management to water rights, this volume looks at the current status of Common Property Resources, or CPRs, in South Asia. Developed countries, have managed to establish well-defined property rights over numerous resources and in some instances extended non-exclusionary rights over privately owned resources over an extended period of time. In the developing world, however, the share of community property is extensive, either as a response to an expanding market or because the exposure to markets in still in its nascent stage. This coupled with the demands of globalization, has led to the co-existence of both community ownership of resources as well as an evolving private property rights market. This tension between public versus private ownership rights is particularly relevant in the developing countries of South Asia, not only because of its shared history but also because of its resources frequently cross national boundaries. This book tells the story of CPRs and the commons in a rapidly changing South Asia. Including contributions from those working with natural resources in Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, the papers discuss issues such as equity in distribution; efficiency and productivity of resources; sustainability of resources; and institutional transition and governance.

The Role of Panels in Enhancing Legal Predictability [An article from: International Review of Law & Economics]

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The Role of Panels in Enhancing Legal Predictability [An article from: International Review of Law & Economics]
D.G. Whitman
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This article considers the justification for using panels of judges to make decisions in common law systems. The usual argument is that panels are more likely than lone judges to make correct judgments. This article suggests an additional justification: panels increase the law's predictability, so potential litigants can anticipate correctly which legal rules will apply in their cases. Three models, each with a different conception of the legal process, are employed to demonstrate the predictability-enhancing effect of panels. Comparison of the models suggests the effect is strongest when precedent has a substantial impact on how judges make decisions.

Top 10 in torts: evolution in the common law.(Anniversary Issue): An article from: Trial

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Top 10 in torts: evolution in the common law.(Anniversary Issue): An article from: Trial
Jeffrey Robert White
Manufacturer: Association of Trial Lawyers of America
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This digital document is an article from Trial, published by Association of Trial Lawyers of America on July 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1843 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Tort law's most significant developments in the past 50 years have emerged through the natural evolution of the law, reflecting common law's vitality and broad applicability as well as an essential faith in jurors. The most important developments include strict products liability, damages for emotional harm, sharp limits on immunities, increased admissibility of evidence, comparative negligence, efforts toward tort reform, the revival of state constitutionalism, and higher public awareness of the law.

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Title: Top 10 in torts: evolution in the common law.(Anniversary Issue)
Author: Jeffrey Robert White
Publication: Trial (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 1996
Publisher: Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Volume: 32 Issue: n7 Page: 50(3)

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Cuc reference book.......2000-03-25

An excellent reference book for any person working in the horticultural field. In depth information on all aspects of cucurbit diseases, viruses and associated problems. Well laid out and easily understood information.

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Compendium Of Cucurbit Diseases
Thomas A.; Hopkins, Donald L.; Thomas, Claude E., Editors Zitter
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The present volume of Progress in Brain Research contains the proceedings of a Symposium entitled Cerebellar Modules: Molecules, Morphology and Function, which was held to mark the retirement of Jan Voogd as chairman of the Department of Anatomy at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. The contributions of leading cerebellar scientists representing a variety of disciplines focussed around the issue of the cerebellar modular compartmentalization, the intriguing composition of which has for many decades been the driving force behind Voogd's extraordinarily detailed anatomical analyses.

The first section of the book, Development, concentrates on the genetic basis of different aspects of compartmentalized development including a most important contribution on the postnatal development of the climbing fiber system. Gene expression is also an important element in the next section, Interneurons, which provides striking new data and hypotheses on the functional anatomy of granule cells, Golgi cells and unipolar brush cells. Particularly interesting are several contributions that offer a novel view on parallel fiber function. The section Modules and Circuits provides a number of state-of-the-art analyses using electrophysiological, and classical and transneuronal virus tracing techniques. The emphasis lies on the olivocerebellar circuits and the oculomotor system The final section, Models and Learning, offers an insight into the progress on the mechanisms and network organization of adaptation and learning, not only in classical paradigms like oculomotor and eye blink responses but also in studies linking gene expression to behavioral paradigms

The editors are confident that the exciting data and concepts collected in this volume will strengthen the multidisciplinary approach in the field of cerebellar research.

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The Force of Symmetry gives an elementary introduction to the spectacular interplay among the three great themes of contemporary physics: quantum behavior, relativity, and symmetry. In clear, nontechnical language, it explores many fascinating aspects of modern physics, discussing the nature and interaction of force and matter. All these themes are drawn together toward the end of the book to describe the most successful physics theory in history, the "standard model" of subatomic particles. The book is suitable for undergraduate students in physics and mathematics.

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Modern physics as natural philosophy.......2004-08-26

As I write these words, I stop frequently to consider how they might best be arranged, an activity no different in principle from picking my way along a trail when hiking over tricky terrain. For human beings, walking and language production (at least spoken language) are natural, their potential part of our DNA, their actualization emblematic of a basic level of developmental health and social well being. Mathematics too has been called a language, and indeed certain features of this language (e.g. the ability of neonates to recognize small numbers of things) are innate. But none of us go on in the normal course of development to become fluent in mathematics without a great deal of difficult, sustained effort.

It has become axiomatic among people who write popular books on scientific subjects to suppose that physics cannot really be presented without mathematics. And if that axiom is true for classical physics, it is even more true for modern physics, the surreal world of quantum interference, antimatter, black holes and M theory.

But now along comes Dutch physicist Vincent Icke, and in his book THE FORCE OF SYMMETRY he has, one might say, renormalized popular accounts of modern physics. He has been able to state the concepts of modern physics in a way which is lucid, coherent and, in all but the very simplest instances, nonmathematical. The novice physicist will not have to unlearn any of the concepts he acquires in Ickes' book after he goes on to master the mathematical intricacies of quantum field theory. The advanced student can use Ickes' text to obtain a detailed topography of the field.

There is much to delight in this charming book. The five years I spent studying theoretical physics was a time of painful head banging on questions like, "How do you know this?" Few writers have the grace of Feynman, the ability to say about some arcane point, this is as much we know about it, no deeper than this. Icke, like Feynman, is very careful to signpost his epistemological wanderings. He lets the reader know when it is analogy, intuition, logic, experiment, convention, or metaphysics which is progenitor of some bit of physics knowledge.

Because of his careful attention to the grounding of his discourse, Icke does not fall into the deep pit which is, alas, standard in most popular science writing. You know what I mean. There you are, happy reader, blithely meandering along in someone's account of protein synthesis, the inflationary period, mathematical intractability... the subject doesn't matter. You are reading along, and you are beginning to feel the first faint blush of hope. Maybe you will understand it this time! And then you turn the page. And then the trail disappears. No matter how many times you go back and forth over the ground, there is now a chasm in your understanding as big as the Central Rift Valley. I first had this experience years ago reading Bertrand Russell's account of special relativity. All was well, and suddenly, darkness descended. I took the book to a friend who is a physicist at Lawrence Livermore, and asked, "Why can't I understand this?" He took a look, "You don't understand it because he has left out the following (very long list of) points." Thus I learned that it is OK to be simple minded in the world of science. Almost a gift, really.

Of particular note because of their exceptional clarity are the sections on: quantum interference, superposition, angular momentum, antimatter, gauge theory, isospin, Yang-Mills fields, the color field, symmetry and symmetry breaking. First published in 1995, the book has too little to say on string theory, but prophesied that supersymmetrical theories will lead the way in mapping what was then the frontier. Please Mr. Icke, update your book!

Physics, as Feynman said, keeps the simple stuff. The rest goes to chemistry, biology and engineering. Probably the line that most readers of Icke's book are sure to remember is this one: "Physics is not difficult; it's just weird." A funny little assertion, yet one that points in the direction of the kind of knowledge that physics is. The physics of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has introduced us to a universe too strange (in the lexical sense) to even be imagined. Physics, in its many acts of discovery, has taken us further outside of ourselves than any other human study. The exploration of physics, by lay persons and physicists alike, is a thrilling adventure. It is science become natural philosophy, once again. Better than any other book of its kind, I found Vincent Icke's book to motivate this exploration. The last words are his: "in the book of physics, there never is a final sentence."

too ambitious.......2003-07-05

The author casts such a wide net he is forced
to give short shrift to recondite matters like
gauge theory. This hurried romp through deep
physics leaves the reader with jumbled impressions
and occasional outright misinformation (re e.g.
omission of quantum decoherence). The author is
not an expert in these fields would have been wiser
to bring in a technical collaborator.

A fine introduction.......2002-11-23

First, I feel I must refer back to F.A. Muller's review (also on this page, titled "Erros Abound").
Vincent Icke, the writer of "the force of Symmetry", *did* actually study theoretical physics (on the same university that Mr. Muller now resides) so I'm a little surprised to find that he "shouldn't really understand fundamental physics".

Actually, Mr. Icke studied under Tini Veltman, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics recently (together with Gerard 't Hooft) and is now professor of astrophysics (Leiden university) and cosmology (Amsterdam university).

I think "the Force of Symmetry" is an excellent primer on the subject of quantum behavior, relativity and symmetry. Besides (in my humble opinion) understanding, it's written with dry humour and love for the subject, and that's highly catching.

It urged me to want to know more on the subject(s), which is exactly what I'm going to do. So beware - it might catch on you too ;-)

Erros Abound.......2001-12-11

Enthusiastic and entertaining, but alas errors abound. The author
is an astronomer who doesn't really understand fundamental physics. Entire passages seem to be copied from Feynman.
And where Icke begins making additions of his own, they frequently -- and I imagine unintenionally -- display his lack of insight into physics. I cannot begin to list the examples here.

Excellent on many different levels.......2001-11-06

This book deserves a much wider readership. I think a layperson can not only grok most of the modern physics content in Icke but also see the motivation for why modern physics is formulated the way it is. The post-doc in physics should be equally pleased with the book--as far as I can tell Icke stays quite close to the truth and quite creative with language.

Air Vehicle Optimal Trajectories for Minimization of Radar Exposure

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Air Vehicle Optimal Trajectories for Minimization of Radar Exposure

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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A451093. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This study addresses the problem of analyzing the single vehicle path planning problem for radar exposure minimization. The calculus of Variations and optimal control are applied to formulate the cost function and numerical algorithms are used to solve for the optimal paths. Cost sensitivity to path length is analyzed for flight against one radar; a second radar is then included in the formulation and the optimal path for flight between the radars is found for cases of equal and unequal radar power. The costs of the optimal path, direct path, and Voronoi diagram-generated paths are compared. Results indicate low sensitivity of the cost to suboptimal paths for flight versus one radar; against two radars, approaching the Voronoi curves optimally from the endpoints ma be feasible for on-line use.

Joint Officer Supportability Model: Joint Education and Training of U.S. Navy Aviators

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Joint Officer Supportability Model: Joint Education and Training of U.S. Navy Aviators

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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A924903. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: The objective of this thesis is to analyze the current joint education and training track of Joint Specialty Officers (JSOs) for U.S. Navy aviators in order to forecast the number of future JSO eligible officers within this community. This thesis will consider two separate training paths for officers to complete in order to become JSO eligible. The mos preferred educates officers prior to assignment to a joint billet. The second path allows officers to complete their joint assignment prior to entering joint education. Recent historical transition, continuation and promotion rates by years of service and pay grade are used to forecast future officer output. These various rates and variables are applied within a PC-based spreadsheet to provide a user friendly joint officer management tool.

Testing a Fortran 90 Compiler Using the NSWC Fortran 77 Mathematics Library

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Testing a Fortran 90 Compiler Using the NSWC Fortran 77 Mathematics Library

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This is a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER DAHLGREN DIV VA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A406063. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This report describes tne analysis and associated Fortran program (TEST9O) that were developed to aid in establishing the validity of a new Fortran 90 mainframe compiler. The FORTRAN 77 Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Mathematics Library (MLIB) is used as a source of routines for checking the Fortran 90 compiler. At the same time, this study can be considered as an aid to determine whether MLIB can operate in a Fortran 90 environment The inputs for the routines were chosen so that many of the different possible paths of the routines were executed. Seventy-four directly cable routines, with 293 supporting routines, were chosen for testing. All but 17, and their supporting routines, were taken from MLIB. The ones not belonging to MLIB are double- precision versions of routines in MLIB. Thirteen hundred and twenty five numerical cases were submitted for testing. A true value for each test was obtained independently and given correctly to 35 digits by using MAPLE software. If the difference in the test output and the corresponding true value exceeds a prespecified error tolerance, an error message is printed identifying the routine and the input. Additional test cases were also prepared to check the bit and string instructions, since these do not appear in MUB. TEST90 has been used to test the latest Fortran 90 compilers of the CRAY EL98 and IBM PC machines. No errors were found; however, TEST90 did reveal a complex arithmetic error in an earlier version of the Cray EL98 compiler. MLIB routines ran under TEST90 without any problems on both machines.

Wholeness Restored: Love Of Symmetry As A Shaping Force In The Writings Of Henry James, Kurt Vonnegut, Samuel Butler And Raymond Chandler

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Wholeness Restored: Love Of Symmetry As A Shaping Force In The Writings Of Henry James, Kurt Vonnegut, Samuel Butler And Raymond Chandler
Ralf Norrman
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This book presents a new and exciting theory of love of symmetry as a shaping force in thought, language and literature. The desire to complement any given order with its own inversion, so as to create symmetry and thereby "restore wholeness", is panhuman. Its manifestations can be found during all periods, in all places, and in all societies and individuals, although in varying forms and varying intensity. In the works of Butler, James and Vonnegut the desire is exceptionally strong. Through studying love of symmetry at work as a shaping force in the fiction of these authors we become aware of the extent to which love of symmetry influences human existence generally, and in ways we have not been aware of before.

The force of symmetry revisited: symmetry-to-noise ratios regulate (a)symmetry effects [An article from: Acta Psychologica]

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The force of symmetry revisited: symmetry-to-noise ratios regulate (a)symmetry effects [An article from: Acta Psychologica]
A. Csatho , G. van der Vloed , and P.A. van der Helm
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Freyd and Tversky's [Am. J. Psychol. 97 (1984) 109] data suggested that human observers tend to overestimate relatively high levels of symmetry (symmetry effect), and tend to underestimate relatively low levels of symmetry (asymmetry effect). However, on the basis of their holographic approach to visual regularity, van der Helm and Leeuwenberg [Psychol. Rev. 103(3) (1996) 429] predicted that, at any level of symmetry, both symmetry and asymmetry effects may occur as a consequence of correct estimates of symmetry-to-noise ratios. This prediction was tested in two experiments, with tasks and stimuli similar to those in Freyd and Tversky's study. First, subjects had to judge whether a noisy symmetry is more similar to a slightly more symmetrical variant or to a slightly less symmetrical variant. Second, for every pair of stimuli in such a triadic comparison, subjects had to judge which stimulus is the more symmetrical one. The results from both experiments show that the occurrence of (a)symmetry effects indeed depends on symmetry-to-noise ratios.

Vonnegut in Fact: The Public Spokesmanship of Personal Fiction and Wholeness Restored: Love of Symmetry as a Shaping Force in the Writings of Henry James, ... An article from: Yearbook of English Studies

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Vonnegut in Fact: The Public Spokesmanship of Personal Fiction and Wholeness Restored: Love of Symmetry as a Shaping Force in the Writings of Henry James, ... An article from: Yearbook of English Studies
Daniel Cordle
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Title: Vonnegut in Fact: The Public Spokesmanship of Personal Fiction and Wholeness Restored: Love of Symmetry as a Shaping Force in the Writings of Henry James, Kurt Vonnegut, Samuel Butler and Raymond Chandler. (book review)
Author: Daniel Cordle
Publication: Yearbook of English Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
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The cultural Cold War in Latin America was waged as a war of values--artistic freedom versus communitarianism, Western values versus national cultures, the autonomy of art versus a commitment to liberation struggles--and at a time when the prestige of literature had never been higher. The projects of the historic avant-garde were revitalized by an anti-capitalist ethos and envisaged as the opposite of the republican state. The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City charts the conflicting universals of this period, the clash between avant-garde and political vanguard. This was also a twilight of literature at the threshold of the great cultural revolution of the seventies and eighties, a revolution to which the Cold War indirectly contributed. In the eighties, civil war and military rule, together with the rapid development of mass culture and communication empires, changed the political and cultural map.

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