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Lindgren, Marcia. "Latin Language Teaching in the 21st Century: Exploring Fact and Fiction". Syllecta Classica 15, n. 1 (2004): 177–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/syl.2004.0002.
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Arizpe, Evelyn. "Obsidian Knives and High Tech: Latin America in Contemporary Adventures Stories for Young Adults". International Research in Children's Literature 3, n. 2 (dicembre 2010): 190–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2010.0107.
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Adventure fiction set in Latin America remains a largely unexplored territory in children's literature studies. This article examines a group of 21st century young adult novels set in this region and considers the ways in which readers are positioned in relation to the Latin American image repertoire derived from colonial discourse about landscape, culture and inhabitants (Pre-Hispanic civilisations as well as contemporary indigenous and mestizo peoples). It also looks at the juxtaposition of advanced technology and traditional indigenous practices represented in the texts. It argues that despite the persistence of some stereotypes from boys’ popular adventure fiction, the protagonists’ rite of passage experiences in the ‘contact zone’ transform their understanding of the ‘Other,’ leading to a greater social and environmental awareness as well as a questioning of their own values and identity.
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Echeverri Zuluaga, Jonathan. "Tropes of Social Becoming Along a History of Circulation Within West Africa and From There to Latin America". REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana 31, n. 67 (aprile 2023): 37–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-85852503880006704.
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Abstract Since the turn of the 21st century, the circulation of people from West Africa in and out of the African continent has intensified, turning Latin America into an emergent destination and transit zone. Drawing both from scholarly works and fiction, this article reflects on tropes of social becoming within a history of West African human movement that precedes present day circulation. By tropes of social becoming, I mean narratives around people realizing aspirations, in which scholars, storytellers, literary persons, and the media bring it into existence. While some of the tropes this article addresses seem to stretch to pre-colonial times, others are the product of colonial rule, and yet others emerge in times of structural adjustment. These tropes offer an entry point to understanding how present circulations of Africans in West Africa and Latin America relate to continuity and change.
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Marini, Anna Marta, e Enrique Ajuria Ibarra. "Gothic and the Ethnic Other: An Interview with Enrique Ajuria Ibarra". REDEN. Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos 3, n. 2 (15 maggio 2022): 175–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.37536/reden.2022.3.1833.
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Enrique Ajuria Ibarra is a senior assistant professor and director of the PhD program in Creation and Culture Theory at the Universidad De Las Americas Puebla (Mexico) where he teaches courses on film, media, cultural studies, and literary theory. He specializes in visual culture, cinema studies, gothic and horror. He's the editor of the online journal Studies in Gothic Fiction published by the Cardiff University Press and he has published extensively on topics related to the Gothic, in particular focusing on transnational aspects and the Mexican context. Among his most recent publications there have been chapters in volumes such as 21st Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (2019), Gothic Afterlives: Reincarnation of Horror in Film and Popular Media (2019), and Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic (2020).
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Kozlov, Alexey E., e Francesco Varlaro. "The Way of listven’ in the Russian and Siberian Worldview: From Phytonym to Concepts". Critique and Semiotics 40, n. 1 (2022): 183–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2307-1737-2022-1-183-197.
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The article is devoted to the study of the semantic properties of the dialect word listven’ (“larch”) in the narrative prose. Based on the material of encyclopaedias, fiction and travel prose, observations on the lexical and semantic properties of the word “larch” (lat. Larix dahurica; in the studied context – larix sibirica) are presented. It is shown how, being a dialect nomination, the word becomes a part of the individual author’s system. In the treatise of Vitruvius, the word Larix is associated with the name of the citadel Larignum. The historian talks about the fire that started during the storming of the fortress and mentions the amazing durability of the tree. The idea of Larix as being of the same root as the Latin laridum is widespread, which gives the tree a metaphorical resemblance to body. As M. Statley notes, in European shamanism the world tree was often depicted as a larch. It is significant that all these options are equally reflected in the modern village prose, in particular, in the work of V. Rasputin “Farewell to Matera” (1976). The purpose of the article is to trace the stages that a given lexeme goes through on the way from a phytonym to a concept. In particular, the word begins to appear in non-fiction texts related to the development of Siberia and the Far East from the end of the 18th century, for example the Russian travel logs and subsequently reports. In almost all of the considered contexts, a characteristic enumerative intonation is used, while the word is included in the same row as the normative phytonyms. In some contexts, the properties of the tree are recorded, which can be considered proto-metaphors: the extraordinary strength of the wood, the ugliness of the tree itself, and, finally, frequent comparisons of the bark of larch with human skin or paper are noted. These remarks are given in passing and are not developed into a narrative. Ethnographers were not very interested in the picture of the world of the indigenous people, so the rich folklore, pagan idea of larch as the center of hulde. That’s correlated with the spirit or personality of a person in the religion of the Druids, remained out of sight. The considered path of the word demonstrates the specific mechanism of the transition of a marked dialect word into non-fiction writing and narrative reflection on the essence of the word in fiction writing. Referring to the local dialect, D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak and V. G. Korolenko gave to the word the necessary imagery and expressiveness, which became a constructive part of the language of rural prose of the second half of the 20th century, that is to say the new travel prose of the 21st century. Of course, with the development of Siberian literature, these ideas reached their positions in the prose of L. M. Leonova, V. N. Rasputin, E. Aypin and many others. “Farewell to Matera” becomes a precedent text, where larch as a world tree is not only transformed into a dialectal “larch”, but also acquires a different morphological and semantic genus (Nf + sing → Nm + sing). In modern literature, the word turns into a topos, or rather a narrative element that is variable, repeated and recognizable by the reader. In this regard, of course, the question arises of translations of the word “larch” into other languages. Of course, bringing this lexeme to its exact literary equivalent, “larch” significantly impoverishes the style, discourse and plot possibilities contained in the lexeme under consideration.
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Horn, Patrick E. "Reading 21st-Century Southern Fiction". Southern Cultures 22, n. 3 (2016): 14–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/scu.2016.0028.
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Pike, Moss. "Latin in the 21st Century". Journal of Classics Teaching 17, n. 33 (2016): 6–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2058631016000040.
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Every Latin teacher has at some point been asked to justify why the study of Latin, a dead language, matters today. SAT scores, success in the medical and law fields, and its basis for the Romance languages are often cited as valid justifications to study Latin (see the NCSSFL “Benefits of Latin Study”); but these reasons are devoid of any true meaning or purpose, and I cringe when I hear them, even if they do help bolster enrolment.
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CARAIVAN, LUIZA. "21st Century South African Science Fiction". Gender Studies 13, n. 1 (1 dicembre 2014): 93–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/genst-2015-0007.
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Abstract The paper analyses some aspects of South African science fiction, starting with its beginnings in the 1920s and focusing on some 21st century writings. Thus Lauren Beukes’ novels Moxyland (2008) and Zoo City (2010) are taken into consideration in order to present new trends in South African literature and the way science fiction has been marked by Apartheid. The second South African science fiction writer whose writings are examined is Henrietta Rose-Innes (with her novel Nineveh, published in 2011) as this consolidates women's presence in the SF world.
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Bakker, Barbara. "Egyptian Dystopias of the 21st Century". Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 21 (23 ottobre 2021): 79–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/jais.9151.
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During the first two decades of the 21st century an increasing amount of narratives termed as Arabic dystopian fiction appeared on the Arabic literary scene, with a greater part authored by Egyptian writers. However, what characterises/marks a work as a dystopia? This paper investigates the dystopian nature of a selection of Egyptian literary works within the frame of the dystopian narrative tradition. The article begins by introducing the features of the traditional literary dystopias as they will be used in the analysis. It then gives a brief overview of the development of the genre in the Arabic literature. The discussion that follows highlights common elements and identifies specific themes in six Egyptian novels selected for the analysis, thereby highlighting differences and similarities between them and the traditional Western dystopias. The article calls for a categorisation of Arabic dystopian narrative that takes into consideration social, political, historical and cultural factors specific for the Arabic in general, and Egyptian in particular, literary field.
Keywords: Arabic literature, dystopia, dystopian literature, contemporary literature, Egypt, fiction, speculative fiction.
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Tulchin, Joseph S. "Hemispheric Relations in the 21st Century". Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 39, n. 1 (1997): 33–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/166494.
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The key to understanding Latin American relations with the United States as the century, and the millennium, draw to a close is to realize that all of the nations in the Western Hemisphere are still caught up in the transition from the Cold War. That transition, which began nearly a decade ago, is proceeding more slowly, and with greater confusion, than most observers had anticipated. The issues that constitute the framework, or infrastructure, for Hemispheric relations in the coming century emerge from the efforts of each nation in the Hemisphere, including the United States, to effect their insertions into the emerging world order. Given the priority accorded commercial and economic questions in the insertion of most Latin American nations, those are the questions that dominate the discourse. However, questions of governance — and what I call the international code of good behavior — are rapidly assuming greater salience in inter-American relations. It is my judgment that they will dominate relations among the nations of the Hemisphere in the 21st century.
Tesi sul tema "Latin fiction – 21st century"
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Guzman-Medrano, Gael. "Post-Revolutionary Post-Modernism: Central American Detective Fiction by the Turn of the 21st Century". FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/917.
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Contemporary Central American fiction has become a vital project of revision of the tragic events and the social conditions in the recent history of the countries from which they emerge. The literary projects of Sergio Ramirez (Nicaragua), Dante Liano (Guatemala), Horacio Castellanos Moya (El Salvador), and Ramon Fonseca Mora (Panama), are representative of the latest trends in Central American narrative. These trends conform to a new literary paradigm that consists of an amalgam of styles and discourses, which combine the testimonial, the historical, and the political with the mystery and suspense of noir thrillers. Contemporary Central American noir narrative depicts the persistent war against social injustice, violence, criminal activities, as well as the new technological advances and economic challenges of the post-war neo-liberal order that still prevails throughout the region.
Drawing on postmodernism theory proposed by Ihab Hassan, Linda Hutcheon and Brian MacHale, I argued that the new Central American literary paradigm exemplified by Sergio Ramirez’s El cielo llora por mí, Dante Liano’s El hombre de Montserrat, Horacio Castellanos Moya’s El arma en el hombre and La diabla en el espejo, and Ramon Fonseca Mora’s El desenterrador, are highly structured novels that display the characteristic marks of postmodern cultural expression through their ambivalence, which results from the coexistence of multiple styles and conflicting ideologies and narrative trends. The novels analyzed in this dissertation make use of a noir sensitivity in which corruption, decay and disillusionment are at their core to portray the events that shaped the modern history of the countries from which they emerge. The revolutionary armed struggle, the state of terror imposed by military regimes and the fight against drug trafficking and organized crime, are among the major themes of these contemporary works of fiction, which I have categorized as perfect examples of the post-revolutionary post-modernism Central American detective fiction at the turn of the 21st century.
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Popper, Rafael. "21st century foresight". Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:151961.
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21st Century Foresight offers a comprehensive study of ‘foresight’ as an instrument of policy. It covers the development of foresight methodology, the design of foresight activities and their evaluation. The thesis is based on eleven publications collectively making significant contributions to knowledge about global foresight practices and applications in different domains (i.e. research areas and socio-economic sectors). New conceptual frameworks developed include the Foresight Diamond, the SMART Futures Jigsaw and the Methods Combination Matrix (MCM), which can be used as tools for futures research, practical work in the design and management of forward-looking activities and knowledge transfer on foresight. The thesis shows both generalised and specific contributions to knowledge. The former is best demonstrated with the development of a “fully-fledged evaluation” framework with twenty criteria, the identification of critical factors influencing the selection of foresight methods (e.g. geo-R&D context) and the use of network analysis techniques in foresight. The latter is prominent throughout the thesis with examples including the results of particular evaluations and the profiles of foresight practices in Europe and Latin America. A prevailing theme is the use of mapping and benchmarking approaches to evaluate foresight practices and reveal a more detailed understanding of the impacts of foresight in science, technology and innovation systems. The theoretical contributions (e.g. using exploratory research and catastrophe theory) are complemented with a set of practical instruments providing methodological basis and guidelines for increasing the efficiency and outcome of foresight and horizon scanning activities. Overall, the thesis demonstrates original contributions to five distinct yet interconnected areas of knowledge: foresight methodology; foresight practices in Europe and the world; foresight in Latin America; foresight evaluation; and the evaluation of national technology foresight programmes. The various approaches used to frame the morphology of foresight – supported with evidence, comparisons and evaluations – are the main contributions to knowledge.
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Coto-Rivel, Sergio. "Le roman centre-américain contemporain : fictions de l'intime et nouvelles subjectivités". Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014BOR30031/document.
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L’Amérique centrale s’est trouvée au centre de l’attention médiatique pendant les années 80 à cause de l’embrasement produit par les conflits armés et du fait de l’intérêt pour les témoignages liés aux revendications politiques. Le temps est venu de s’interroger aujourd’hui sur les voies empruntées par la littérature centre-américaine une vingtaine d’années après la signature des traités de paix. Cette question se trouve à l’origine de la présente étude : nous essayons de comprendre de quelle manière le roman contemporain s’intéresse à la construction des nouvelles subjectivités, quelles sont les nouvelles modalités de représentation propres à la fiction. La littérature centre-américaine contemporaine se présente de manière générale comme un domaine d’une grande diversité ; nous pouvons y lire une remise en question des contradictions, des luttes sociales et des discours dominants des sociétés de l’Isthme. Ces questionnements sont, à notre avis, reliés au texte littéraire du fait de la position privilégiée accordée à la subjectivité. Celle-ci a différentes manières de définir l’individu contemporain afin de renvoyer au lecteur toute une série d’énoncés tantôt intimistes, tantôt politiques et transgresseurs, qui montrent une crise dans la représentation des identités aussi bien personnelles que nationales. Jusqu’à quel point pouvons-nous considérer que la littérature centre-américaine contemporaine présente un renouvellement concernant les positions des sujets représentés dans les romans ? De quelle manière ces changements interagissent-ils dans une région conflictuelle, une région qui peine encore à définir sa propre identité ? Nous nous efforçons dans la thèse d’approfondir l’analyse des positions subjectives et des procédés littéraires ainsi que la démarche philosophique permettant la construction de nouveaux sujets-personnages dans un corpus constitué de romans publiés entre 1998 et 2009 par les écrivains suivants : Horacio Castellanos Moya, José Ricardo Chaves, Maurice Echeverría, Jacinta Escudos, Mauricio Orellana Suárez, Milagros Palma, Roberto Quesada et Uriel Quesada. Nous nous intéressons de manière particulière aux procédés narratifs mettant en rapport l’intimité et la subjectivité, avec la représentation des espaces corporels dessinés dans les romans, ainsi que les espaces géographiques et les lieux de la violence. Ces éléments vont dévoiler de nouveaux engagements et de nouveaux discours à un moment qui paraît dominé par la subjectivitéCentral America attracted greatly the media attention during the 1980s because of the armed conflicts and the increasing interest in testimonies linked to the political vindications. Now is the time to question the paths taken by Central American literature twenty years after the peace agreements were signed in the region. This question is found at the beginning of the present study on which we try to comprehend in what way the contemporary novel is interested in the construction of new subjectivities and in new means of representation specific to fiction. Contemporary Central American literature presents itself generally as a space of great diversity. We can read in it an important questioning of the contradictions, of the social struggles, and of the dominant discourses of isthmian societies. These questionings are, in our opinion, articulated on the literary text thanks to the privileged position given to subjectivity. It uses different ways to define the contemporary subject with the purpose of confronting the reader to a series of statements, intimist as well as political and transgressive, which express a crisis on the representation of national and personal identities. How far can we consider that contemporary Central American literature shows an important displacement related to the positions of the subjects represented in the novels? In what way said displacements interact in a conflictive region, a region which still has difficulties to define its own identity? On this thesis we make an effort to delve in the analysis of the subjective positions and in the literary and philosophical strategies which allow the construction of new subject-characters, in a corpus constituted of novels published between 1998 and 2009 by the following writers: Horacio Castellanos Moya, José Ricardo Chaves, Maurice Echeverría, Jacinta Escudos, Mauricio Orellana Suárez, Milagros Palma, Roberto Quesada, and Uriel Quesada. We are particularly interested in the narrative processes which relate intimacy and subjectivity with the representation of corporal spaces in the novels, as well as the geographical spaces and violence spaces. These elements will demonstrate new commitments and new discourses in a time that seems dominated by subjectivity
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Allen, Claire. "Beyond postmodernism : London fiction at the millenium". Thesis, University of Northampton, 2010. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/8845/.
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Leiva, Diego. "Latin American Engagement Strategies towards China in the 21st Century". Thesis, Griffith University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/398090.
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Despite a common regional pattern of economic engagement between Latin America and China, consisting of exports of Latin American natural and energy resources and imports of Chinese manufactures, significant variations can be identified between the engagement strategies of Latin American states towards China between 2001 and 2016. To date, no major research efforts have been made to demonstrate and explain these variations by scholars of international relations (IR). This thesis aims to fill this gap building on the literature that explores the economic exchanges between China and the region. The research question that guides this thesis is: Why have Latin American countries developed significantly different engagement strategies for managing their relations with China between 2001 and 2016? To explain the varied strategies, I propose and test a neoclassical realist model, labelled “National Power and Perception” model, which incorporates two Independent Variables: a) Latin American countries’ position in the regional structure of power (systemic variable); and b) Latin American presidents’ perceptions of the US-led liberal order (domestic intervening variable). I develop a small-N comparative study with four cases, one typical case for each proposed type of engagement strategy (Mexico under Vicente Fox, Brazil under Lula da Silva, Chile under Ricardo Lagos, and Venezuela under Hugo Chávez). The findings suggest that the general hypothesis and the four specific hypotheses are confirmed. The interplay of both IVs explains the significant variation in the four types of Latin American engagement strategies towards China analysed in this thesis.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Govt & Int Relations
Griffith Business School
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Akhtar, Jaleel. "Dismemberment in the fiction of Toni Morrison". Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/53849/.
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Dismemberment in the Fiction of Toni Morrison investigates the motif of dismemberment in Morrison's fiction from multiple perspectives—historical, psychological and cultural. My first chapter on A Mercy focusses on the aspect of historical dismemberment in the context of colonialism and slavery. I look at the forced separation of African Americans from their families and motherland in terms of originary experiences of racism and dismemberment. This entailed fragmentation for African Americans who struggled to develop strategies of survival in the New World. My second chapter on Jazz focuses on the impact of transgenerationally transmitted trauma. I argue that experiences of dismemberment – such as feelings of amputation and phantom limbs – arise not from physical amputation but from traumatic experiences and the unconscious of preceding generations as the result of trasgenerational hauntings. I borrow from the psychoanalytic insights of Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok in my explanation of phantom limbs in Jazz. The third section of my project looks at how social order is brought about in the fictive community of Sula through the scapegoating mechanism. I define the scapegoating principle in Sula in terms of cultural dismemberment because of the ways the community members symbolically cut a pariah figure, like Sula, off by performing symbolic acts of violence. The characterization of Sula emphasizes the psychological need for a scapegoat figure who can give an outlet to the defensive tendencies of the community following discrimination. My final chapter focusses on Morrison's most recent novel Home, which is about homecoming. In this novel, Morrison continues with her project of imagining a space of domestic and social comfort which is physically and psychically safe in the broad sense of a homeland for African Americans. Home offers a place of salvation from social, historical and psychic fragmentation or the traumas of racism which result in experiences of disruption, amputation and dismemberment.
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West, Mark Peter. "Between times : 21st century American fiction and the long sixties". Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5621/.
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This thesis examines conceptions of time and history in five American novels published between 1995 and 2012 which take as their subject matter events associated with the counterculture and New Left of the 1960s and 1970s. The thesis is organized around close readings of five novels. The first chapter focuses on Jennifer Egan’s The Invisible Circus (1995) and argues that it incorporates a number of problematic temporal experiences which have the effect of establishing a key tension of all the novels considered here: the concern with contextualizing and historicizing particular events and cultural atmospheres while remaining faithful to utopian ideas of radical change. Chapter two argues that Dana Spiotta’s Eat the Document (2006) is oriented both structurally and thematically towards a future in which the relationship between the 1960s and 1990s will more clearly understandable. The third chapter examines the way Christopher Sorrentino’s Trance (2005) explores the multiplicitous nature of historical narratives, and how he distinguishes between those narratives and a conception of the bare events beneath them. The focus of chapter four is Lauren Groff’s Arcadia (2012) and examines how conceptions of the relationship between humans and nature influence theories of time, mythic histories and post-apocalyptic narratives. The final chapter on David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King (2011) argues that the tension between continuation and change found in the conversion narrative is partly reconciled by a conception of time that allows the moment of radical utopian change (the moment of conversion) to be one of re-entrance into history. At stake throughout is the way these novels’ interpretation of particular events and larger cultural tendencies reveals and makes manifest various processes of historicization. I maintain a dual focus on the way these novels present historicization as something undertaken by individuals and societies and the ways in which these novels themselves not only engage in historicizations of the period but are in various ways self-conscious about doing so. If contemporary scholarship on the emergence of what has been called post-postmodern literature (Stephen J. Burn, Andrew Hoberek, Adam Kelly, Caren Irr) identifies a return to temporal concerns in recent fiction, the readings that comprise my thesis also make use of conceptions of time and history by Mark Currie, Jacques Derrida, Reinhold Niebuhr, Norman Mailer, Christopher Lasch, and Robert N. Bellah (among others) in order to ask: what are the particular material contours of the experiences of time and history manifested in these recent examples of the ‘sixties novel’?
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Raulerson, Joshua Thomas. "Singularities: technoculture, transhumanism, and science fiction in the 21st Century". Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2968.
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A spectre is haunting contemporary technoculture: the spectre of Singularity. Ten years into a century thus far characterized chiefly by the catastrophic failure of global economic and political systems, deepening ecological anxieties, and slow-motion social crisis, the only sector of our collective cultural myth of Progress still vibrantly intact is the technological - a project which, in vivid contrast to the systemic failure that seemingly prevails at nearly every other level, continues to charge forward at breakneck speed. Since the late twentieth century, prompted by the all-but-exponential growth of machine intelligence and global information networks, and by the still largely obscure but increasingly profound-seeming implications of emerging nanotechnology, futurists and fabulists alike have postulated an imminent historical threshold whereupon the nature of human existence will be radically and irrevocably transformed in a sudden explosion of technological development. This moment of transcendence, it is supposed, is at most only a few years off; indeed, some say, it may have already begun. The "Singularity" - a term coined in 1986 by the mathematician and science fiction writer Vernor Vinge, and subsequently adopted throughout technocultural discourse - is at present the primary site of interpenetration between technoscientific and science-fictional figurations of the future, an area in which the longstanding binary distinctions between science and SF, and between present and future, are rapidly dissolving. As much as the Singularity thesis implies a total reorganization of society and of the self - which posthumanist cultural studies and cyborg theory have already begun mapping - it also poses a daunting existential challenge to the enterprise of SF itself, to the extent that the Singularity imposes what Vinge has described as "an opaque wall across the future," an impenetrable cognitive obstacle beyond which the extrapolative imagination cannot glimpse. For a genre long defined by its efforts to assert, through the narrative technique of extrapolation, a meaningful continuity between present and future, the Singularity presents a thorny problem indeed, demanding both a reevaluation of SF's conception of and orientation toward the future, and a new narrative model capable of grappling with the alien and often paradoxical complexity of the postsingular.
This study is an inquiry into the properties and problematics of Singularity across fictional and nonfictional discourses, and as such it operates on two levels. Reading Singularitarian literature against a broadly articulated context of fringe-science and transhumanist movements, consumer culture, political and economic theory, and related areas of contemporary cyber- and technoculture, I examine how the metaphor of Singularity structures and signifies the aspirations and anxieties of late-twentieth and early twenty-first century technocivilization. As a project of literary criticism specifically, the study works to identify and theorize a grouping of texts that is emerging from cyberpunk and postcyberpunk tendencies in contemporary SF, organized around the premises of Singularity and the posthuman, and classifiable primarily in terms of an attempt to mount a response to the formal and conceptual problems Vinge has identified. Primary readings are drawn from a wide-ranging selection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century technocultural fiction, with emphasis on SF works by Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, and William Gibson.
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Ya, Li. "La muerte en literatura contemporánea mexicana en comparación con el pensamiento oriental". Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671143.
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Esta tesis doctoral aspira a analizar la muerte en la narrativa mexicana contemporánea con un especial enfoque en el estudio paralelo de los pensamientos mexicanos y orientales; más específicamente, los chinos. Con el objetivo de desentrañar la esencia de la muerte presentada en las narrativas, haremos, primero, algunas observaciones sobre la función de los mitos de la muerte y el paisaje en las comunidades indígenas y las antiguas comunidades chinas. Mediante la exploración del acervo cultural del pasado y el seguimiento del desarrollo histórico de la perspectiva de la muerte en las dos culturales, procuramos comprender cierta conducta histórica del pueblo y la naturaleza de las costumbres y del espíritu público. Partiendo de esta base, estudiaremos las variadas connotaciones de la muerte y sus coloridos aspectos sensoriales en el panorama literaria, poniendo especial atención en escritores contemporáneos como Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes, Fernando del Paso y algunos vanguardistas chinos. Con la lectura paralela de las novelas mexicanas y chinas en la elaboración del tema de la muerte, intentamos describir las similitudes y destacar sus peculiaridades; de este modo nos adentraremos en la conformación de sus identidades étnicas y nacionales, daremos coherencia al legado tradicional del país, reflexionaremos sobre cómo las ideas de la muerte cimbran dicho edificio y dibujaremos de manera más o menos fidedigna el rostro que caracteriza esta era y que supone la entrada al futuro.This doctoral thesis aims to analyze death in contemporary Mexican narratives with a special focus on the parallel study of Mexican and oriental thoughts; more specifically, the Chinese thoughts. In order to unravel the essence of death presented in the narratives, first, we will make observations on the role of the myths of death and the landscape of indigenous and ancient Chinese communities. By exploring the cultural heritage of the past and monitoring the historical development of the perspective of death in the two cultures, we seek to clarify certain historical behaviors of the people and the nature of customs and public spirit. From this basis, we will study the various connotations of death and its colorful sensory aspects in the literary scene, with particular reference to contemporary writers such as Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes, Fernando del Paso and some Chinese avant-garde writers. Through the parallel study of the Mexican and Chinese novels about their elaboration of the theme of death, we try to describe the similarities and highlight their peculiarities; in this way we will delve into the conformation of their ethnic and national identities, give coherence to the traditional legacy of the country, reflect on how the ideas of death shape its building and draw more or less faithfully the face that can characterize this era and represent the entrance to the future.
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Crotty, Tammy J. "Left of mainstream : genre fiction and its ability to transcend formula". Virtual Press, 2005. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1313073.
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This collection of short stories studies the elements of genre fiction and applies them to literary fiction. Science fiction, fantasy, and horror have specific manners in which they speak to an audience. By using these elements, for example the desensitization of the current generation of readers to most horrors, an author can demonstrate the core of the human relationship to pain, faith, or hope. Though some genre fiction seems to fit certain formulas, there are also horror or science fiction stories which do not fit a conventional mold. This collection sets forth to break away from genre fiction conventions. Also, this project utilizes the genre of magical realism, which is the medium between genre fiction and literary fiction, by using fantastic events within a mundane setting to emphasize the author's ideas. By bridging the gap between genres, magical realism reveals how interrelated the elements of all genres are. In this study stories use magical and horrifying events while maintaining an intention beyond the formulaic thrill. Therefore, genre fiction can have a place amongst literature.Department of English
Libri sul tema "Latin fiction – 21st century"
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Bernal-Meza, Raúl, e Li Xing, a cura di. China–Latin America Relations in the 21st Century. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35614-9.
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1955-, Ramírez Mari Carmen, Papanikolas Theresa e Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, a cura di. Collecting Latin American art for the 21st century. [Houston, Tex.]: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2002.
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Orlando, Albornoz. The Latin American university: Facing the 21st century. New Delhi: Wiley Eastern Limited, 1994.
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Rojas, Victor L., e Maria J. Ruiz. Hispanic psychology in the 21st century. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2011.
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Bradley, Eden. A 21st century courtesan. New York: Delta Trade Paperback, 2009.
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Nilsson, Manuela, e Jan Gustafsson, a cura di. Latin American Responses to Globalization in the 21st Century. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137003126.
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Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers., a cura di. Latin America in the 21st century: Challenges and solutions. Austin, Tex: University of Texas Press, 2002.
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Maxey, Ruth, a cura di. 21st Century US Historical Fiction. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41897-7.
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Khan, Mohammad Ayub, Antonio J. Dieck-Assad, Rosalia G. Castillo-Villar e Trina K. Henderson-Torres. Governance Models for Latin American Universities in the 21st Century. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83465-4.
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Gordon, Gail K. Flying into the 21st century. Glenview, Ill: Pearson/Scott Foresman, 2000.
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Guerra, Aurelio Iván, e Gabriel Osuna Osuna. "Post-apocalyptic Violence in 21st-Century Mexican Fiction". In The Routledge Handbook of Violence in Latin American Literature, 464–78. New York: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780367520069-34.
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Roberts, Adam. "21st-Century Science Fiction". In The History of Science Fiction, 479–512. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56957-8_16.
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Eaton, Mark. "Pathways to Terror: Teaching 9/11 Fiction". In Teaching 21st Century Genres, 129–45. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55391-1_7.
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Maxey, Ruth. "US Historical Fiction Since 2000". In 21st Century US Historical Fiction, 1–14. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41897-7_1.
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Tearle, Oliver. "Other Mothers and Fathers: Teaching Contemporary Dystopian Fiction". In Teaching 21st Century Genres, 109–27. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55391-1_6.
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Shostak, Debra. "Paternity, History, and Misrepresentation in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer". In 21st Century US Historical Fiction, 171–89. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41897-7_10.
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Martin, Rebecca. "Queering the “Lost Year”: Transcription and the Lesbian Continuum in Susan Choi’s American Woman". In 21st Century US Historical Fiction, 191–207. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41897-7_11.
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West, Mark. "The Contemporary Sixties Novel: Post-postmodernism and Historiographic Metafiction". In 21st Century US Historical Fiction, 209–27. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41897-7_12.
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De Cristofaro, Diletta. "“What’s the Plot, Man?”: Alternate History and the Sense of an Ending in David Means’ Hystopia". In 21st Century US Historical Fiction, 229–44. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41897-7_13.
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Hawkes, DeLisa D. "“To Avenging My People”: Speculating Revenge for US Slavery in Dwayne Alexander Smith’s Forty Acres". In 21st Century US Historical Fiction, 245–63. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41897-7_14.
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Cassou-Nogues, Pierre. "Knife in hand: Science and vivisection in Norbert Wiener's autobiography and short fiction". In 2014 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century (21CW). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/norbert.2014.6893935.
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Kronbergs, Tālivaldis. "Translators and Translation in the Public Sphere in Latvia in the 21st Century". In International scientific conference of the University of Latvia. University of Latvia Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.22364/ms23.03.
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Translated fiction has had a special place in the Latvian book publishing since its beginnings in the 16th century. It has not changed even in the 21st century. High-quality translation and publishing of fiction is still unthinkable without enterprising and responsible publishers, which attract highly qualified translators. However, due to the Internet and social media, in the 21st century in Latvia the translators themselves more and more frequently gain recognition in the public sphere. Without the mediation of publishing houses, translators communicate with readers both on the Internet and at various events, – these communications frequently include the issues related to translation (translation quality, new words in translations, training of new translators, etc.). In other words, translators are playing an increasingly prominent role in the book publishing cycle. The research revealed an abundant range of activities related to translators and translation, confirming the important role thereof not only in the book publishing, but also in Latvian cultural life.
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Palyonova, H. S. "THE LATIN AMERICAN VECTOR OF CHINA IN THE 21ST CENTURY". In КИТАЙСЬКА ЦИВІЛІЗАЦІЯ: ТРАДИЦІЇ ТА СУЧАСНІСТЬ. Liha-Pres, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36059/978-966-397-284-8-30.
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Kumar Sahoo, Ajit, Uma Yadav, Deepak Sharma e Javalkar Dinesh Kumar. "From Sci-Fi to reality: Artificial Intelligence in the 21st Century". In International Conference on Cutting-Edge Developments in Engineering Technology and Science. ICCDETS, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.62919/tyeg7632.
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This paper explores the transformative journey of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from its conceptual origins in science fiction to its profound impact on the 21st-century technological landscape. The study delves into the historical evolution of AI, tracing its roots in literary and cinematic works and examining how these creative visions have shaped and inspired the development of real-world AI technologies. It highlights key milestones in AI research and development, illustrating how theoretical models and algorithms have transitioned into practical applications that permeate various sectors such as healthcare, finance, automotive, and more. The paper also addresses the ethical, social, and economic implications of AI, discussing both the opportunities it presents and the challenges it poses, such as job displacement, privacy concerns, and the need for regulatory frameworks. Through a comprehensive analysis, this paper aims to provide a nuanced understanding of how AI has evolved from a speculative idea into a central pillar of modern technology, fundamentally altering human interaction, business practices, and societal norms.
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Rong, Shu, e Xiaofan Dong. ""Socialism of the 21st Century" in Latin American Countries: Major Challenges and Prospects". In Proceedings of the 2018 4th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2018). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icsshe-18.2018.95.
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Serrano Morales, Rosa Maria, Romina Nieto, Rosana Quintana, Paula Alba, Sabrina Porta, Lucia Hernández, Guillermo Berbotto et al. "609 Pregnancy outcomes in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE): data from a multiethnic, multinational Latin American cohort". In Lupus 21st Century 2023 Abstracts, September 27–30, Naples, Florida. Lupus Foundation of America, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/lupus-2023-lupus21century.40.
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D'Aprile, Marianela. "A City Divided: “Fragmented” Urban and Literary Space in 20th-Century Buenos Aires". In 2016 ACSA International Conference. ACSA Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.intl.2016.22.
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When analyzing the state of Latin American cities, particularly large ones like Buenos Aires, São Paolo and Riode Janeiro, scholars of urbanism and sociology often lean heavily on the term “fragmentation.” Through the 1980s and 1990s, the term was quickly and widely adopted to describe the widespread state of abutment between seemingly disparate urban conditions that purportedly prevented Latin American cities from developing into cohesive wholes and instead produced cities in pieces, fragments. This term, “fragmentation,” along with the idea of a city composed of mismatching parts, was central to the conception of Buenos Aires by its citizens and immortalized by the fiction of Esteban Echeverría, Julio Cortázar and César Aira. The idea that Buenos Aires is composed of discrete parts has been used throughout its history to either proactively enable or retroactively justify planning decisions by governments on both ends of the political spectrum. The 1950s and 60s saw a series of governments whose priorities lay in controlling the many newcomers to the city via large housing projects. Aided by the perception of the city as fragmented, they were able to build monster-scale developments in the parts of the city that were seen as “apart.” Later, as neoliberal democracy replaced socialist and populist leadership, commercial centers in the center of the city were built as shrines to an idealized Parisian downtown, separate from the rest of the city. The observations by scholars of the city that Buenos Aires is composed of multiple discrete parts, whether they be physical, economic or social, is accurate. However, the issue here lies not in the accuracy of the assessment but in the word chosen to describe it. The word fragmentation implies that there was a “whole” at once point, a complete entity that could be then broken into pieces, fragments. Its current usage also implies that this is a natural process, out of the hands of both planners and inhabitants. Leaning on the work of Adrián Gorelik, Pedro Pírez and Marie-France Prévôt-Schapira, and utilizing popular fiction to supplement an understanding of the urban experience, I argue that fragmentation, more than a naturally occurring phenomenon, is a fabricated concept that has been used throughout the twentieth century and through today to make all kinds of urban planning projects possible.
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Koblenkova, Diana V. "ON SOME TRENDS IN THE SATIRICAL LITERATURE AND CINEMATOGRAPHY OF SWEDEN AT THE END OF THE 20TH — BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY (C.-J. VALLGREN AND R. ÖSTLUND)". In Second Scientific readings in memory of Professor V. P. Berkov. St. Petersburg State University, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288063576.
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The article deals with satirical tendencies in Swedish literature and cinema of the end of the 20th — beginning of the 21st century. On the example of the book by C.-J. Vallgren “This is for you for a brochure, Mr. Bachmann” and R. Östlund’s paintings “Turist” (“Force Majeure”), “Voluntarily-compulsory”, “The Square” and “Triangle of Sadness”, the main problems of Swedish society are analyzed, which are becoming pan-European scale. The paper concludes that both authors consider the most significant problems to be the disappearance of independent thinking, the distortion of ethical principles, the fear of losing personal well-being against the backdrop of growing ethnic and class contradictions in Europe, indicating the beginning of a new socio-political stage in society. Comprehending European double standards, hypocrisy, ostentatious political correctness, the authors testify that European society is turning into a refined capitalist minority that has lost its main value orientation — Christian humanism. The poetics of the literary and cinematographic works of Vallgren and Östlund differ significantly from the methods of their predecessors: modern authors abandon the satirical principles of secondary convention, allowing themselves only slight exaggeration. This testifies to the desire for journalism, documentary depiction, the movement from fiction to non-fiction, to the understanding of the historical context and socio-political perspective.
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Boca, Marius-Andrei, Alexandru Sover e Launrențiu Slătineanu. "Short foray into the stages of conversion from 2.5D to volumetric printing". In 5th International Conference. Business Meets Technology. València: Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/bmt2023.2023.16748.
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Additive manufacturing gained popularity in the 2000s and is now considered a new or emerging technology of the 21st century. However, the origin of the process is much older and has existed for several decades, more precisely since the 19th century, when it appeared in small science fiction novels. In addition to these layer-by-layer approaches, there are also additive tomographic or volumetric approaches that allow the 3D object to be printed in a single step. These approaches, along with 3D printing of smart materials, are not so popular and consequently not fully understood or utilised. Thus, the paper briefly outlines the history of the transition from classical 2.5D printing, to 3D or non-planar printing, to 4D printing (with smart materials), to 5D printing (on equipment with more than three degrees of freedom), to 6D printing (a combination of 4D and 5D printing) and finally to volumetric printing. The future perspective of this technology are briefly presented with some application and examples.
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Catana, Elisabeta simona. "E-LEARNING TOOLS AND TASKS FOR DEVELOPING THE ENGINEERING STUDENTS' READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS IN ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND WORK PURPOSES". In eLSE 2020. University Publishing House, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-20-228.
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Arguing for the importance of e-learning in developing the engineering students' reading comprehension skills in English for achieving proficiency for academic and work purposes in the multicultural 21st century society, this paper shows that a special focus on using e-learning tools such as e-readers and certain recommended websites plays an important role in meeting our teaching objective and in fulfilling the students' educational needs. These e-learning tools motivate and encourage the engineering students to read at least a minimal bibliography in English to enable them to successfully meet the demands for professional communication, argumentation and writing in the English language seminars in a technical university. Using e-readers and the specialized websites, including the online libraries, to read English fiction and non-fiction to advance the engineering students' knowledge of English and to develop their reading comprehension skills for the Cambridge English exams, for academic and career purposes will lead to achieving proficiency in this foreign language. Not only will these e-learning tools help the students to advance their knowledge of English, but they will also enable them to broaden their cultural and knowledge horizon, to be up-to-date with the latest societal, career changes and challenges in our society. That is why this paper will enlarge upon: 1) the importance of using e-learning tools such as e-readers and specialized websites to develop the engineering students' reading comprehenshin skills in English for achieving proficiency in this language for academic and career purposes; 2) the students' perspective on the importance of e-learning tools for developing their reading comprehension skills in English; 3) a methodological approach to developing the engineering students' reading comprehenshion skills in English using e-learning tools. Being fond of using technology for e-learning purposes, the engineering students will be motivated to use e-readers to read more recommended English texts, including fiction, non-fiction and specialized technical literature, in order to develop their reading comprehension skills in English for linguistic, academic and career purposes.
Rapporti di organizzazioni sul tema "Latin fiction – 21st century"
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Petrie, Christopher, Clara García-Millán e María Mercedes Mateo-Berganza Díaz. Spotlight: 21st Century Skills in Latin America and the Caribbean. Inter-American Development Bank, giugno 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003343.
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There is a wealth of conversation around the world today on the future of the workplace and the skills required for children to thrive in that future. Without certain core abilities, even extreme knowledge or job-specific skills will not be worth much in the long run. To address these issues, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and HundrED conducted this Spotlight project with the goal of identifying and researching leading innovations that focus on 21st Century Skills in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Spotlight program was supported by J.P. Morgan. The purpose of this project is to shine a spotlight, and make globally visible, leading education innovations from Latin America and the Caribbean doing exceptional work on developing 21st Century Skills for all students, teachers, and leaders in schools today. The main aims of this Spotlight are to: Discover the leading innovations cultivating 21st century skills in students globally; understand how schools or organizations can implement these innovations; gain insight into any required social or economic conditions for these innovations to be effectively introduced into a learning context; celebrate and broadcast these innovations to help them spread to new countries. All the findings of the Spotlight in 21st Century Skills are included in this report.
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Petrie, Christopher, e Clara García-Millán. Spotlight: 21st Century Skills in Latin America and the Caribbean. HundrED, giugno 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.58261/jicv5454.
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There is a wealth of conversation around the world today on the future of the workplace and the skills required for children to thrive in that future. Most everyone can agree that the schools of today are not effectively preparing children for that workforce, but it’s much more difficult to predict what it will actually look like. Instead perhaps we should be focusing on outlining a few key principles that will help people thrive in life no matter what happens. Without certain core abilities, even extreme knowledge or job-specific skills will not be worth much in the long run. To address these issues, HundrED and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) conducted this Spotlight project with the goal of identifying and researching leading innovations that focus on 21st Century Skills in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Mateo, Mercedes, César Buenadicha, Monserrat Bustelo, Suzanne Duryea, Elena Heredero, Marta Rubio, Graciana Rucci e Laura Becerra. 21st Century Skills: Transversal Skills Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Inter-American Development Bank, marzo 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0001574.
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Estache, Antonio, e Tomás Serebrisky. Updating Infrastructure Regulation for The 21st Century in Latin America and the Caribbean. Inter-American Development Bank, gennaio 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002159.
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This paper argues that, while most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have managed to significantly improve the short-term efficiency of their infrastructure services since the widespread liberalization of the 1990s, they have been slow to ensure a fair distribution of the gains. They have also been slow in making the investments needed to ensure the prospects of future generations, including by protecting the environment for the long term. The paper places at least part of the blame on regulatory failures. It also shows how past mistakes can be corrected by the significant sectoral transformations, driven by new technologies, now underway. Digitalization is altering the economic characteristics of infrastructure services. Resulting changes in governance and financing options demand adjustments to economic regulations, including by broadening the regulatory toolkit to integrate new insights offered by developments in behavioral economics.
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Oviedo, Maria Eugenia. Skills for Life: Measuring 21st Century Skills in Latin America and the Caribbean. Inter-American Development Bank, gennaio 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004712.
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Measuring 21st century skills is one of the most important tasks of education and training systems. Measurement is what allows program managers to evaluate the effectiveness of a particular education program, diagnose the needs of individual students, or assess their development over time. Still, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and around the world face challenges in this area. Using data from interviews, case studies, and an in-depth literature review, this policy brief evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of different types of assessment tools for measuring 21st century skills, discusses challenges of applying them in less-developed countries, and offers recommendations for stakeholders seeking to measure 21st century skills among children and youth, by utilizing existing instruments or adapting and testing them in local contexts.
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Alvaredo, Facundo, François Bourguignon, Francisco H. G. Ferreira e Nora Lustig. Seventy-five Years of Measuring Income Inequality in Latin America. Inter-American Development Bank, ottobre 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0005211.
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Drawing on a comprehensive compilation of quantile shares and inequality measures for 34 countries, including over 5,600 estimated Gini coefficient, we review the measurement of income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last seven decades. Although the evidence from the first quarter century roughly until the 1970s is too fragmentary and difficult to compare, clearer patterns emerge for last fifty years. The central feature of these patterns is a broad inverted U curve, with inequality rising in most countries prior to the 1990s, and falling during the early 21st Century, at least until the mid-2010s, when trends appear to diverge across countries. This broad pattern is modified by country specificities, with considerable variation in timing and magnitude. Whereas this broad picture emerges for income inequality dynamics, there is much more uncertainty about the exact levels of inequality in the region. The uncertainty arises from the disparity in estimates for the same country/year combinations, depending on whether they come from household surveys exclusively; from some combination of surveys and administrative tax data; and on whether they attempt to scale income aggregates to achieve consistency with National Accounts estimates. Since no single method is fully convincing at present, we are left with (often wide) ranges, or bands, of inequality as our best summaries of inequality levels. Reassuringly, however, the dynamic patterns are generally robust across the bands.
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Frisancho, Verónica, Monserrat Bustelo e Mariana Viollaz. What Is the Labor Market Like for Women in Latin America and the Caribbean? Inter-American Development Bank, dicembre 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0005341.
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The labor force participation of women in Latin America and the Caribbean is low, and the regions gender gap is one of the widest in the world. Although important progress has been made over the last 50 years (with womens participation rate going from around 20% in the 1960s to more than 60% toward the beginning of the 2010s), the pace of growth slowed down in the early 2000s. Once they enter the labor market, women tend to be employed in lower-paying and lower-quality jobs compared to men. This is due to occupational and educational segregation. On top of this unfavorable situation for women, they are in disadvantage in terms of the 21st century skills (those that are highly valued today and that are expected to continue to have a growing demand) and they face “glass ceilings” which limit womens access to hierarchical positions, hindering their professional progression.
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Vélez, Diego, Gabriela Rocha, Izabella Sant’Anna, Regina Acher, Macarena García, Matías Hoyl e Rodulfo Prieto. How Do Disruptive Innovators Prepare Todays Students to be Tomorrows Workforce?: Agile Learning Model. Inter-American Development Bank, dicembre 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0005313.
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In the dynamic landscape of modern education, addressing the diverse needs of students while preparing them for the challenges of the 21st century is a paramount task. Laboratoria, a pioneering social impact organization, has crafted an innovative learning model grounded in agile principles to empower women in Latin America with the skills required for success in the tech industry. This paper offers an insightful exploration of “Laboratorias Agile Learning Framework,” unveiling its key components and the transformative impact it has on students.
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Ramírez Alujas, Álvaro V., e Nicolás Dassen. Winds of Change: The Progress of Open Government Policymaking in Latin America and the Caribbean. Inter-American Development Bank, marzo 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0010577.
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The year 2013 has become known as the year of Open Government. The continuing progress of the Open Government Partnership represents the consolidation of a process that, in less than two years, has strengthened the promotion and implementation of public policies. These policies are founded onthe principles of transparency and access to public information, citizen participation, integrity, and the harnessing of technology on behalf of openness and accountability in 63 participating countries. The Latin American and Caribbean region, in particular, stands out with the most widespread participation, including 15 borrowing member countries of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Fourteen of these have action plans in process for the implementation and/or evaluation of these policies, reinforcing their commitment to open government. Trinidad and Tobago, one of the 15 member countries, will soon present its own action plan. To date, various countries are developing public consultation processes and opportunities for participation for a new two-year period of commitments relating to open government. It is, therefore, worthwhile to review, country-by-country, the commitments that have been carried out and to consider the views expressed by relevant stakeholders. This analysis will further contribute to this emerging domain a new paradigm for public policy and management reform in the 21st century.
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Kholoshyn, I., T. Nazarenko, O. Bondarenko, O. Hanchuk e I. Varfolomyeyeva. The application of geographic information systems in schools around the world: a retrospective analysis. IOP Publishing, marzo 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31812/123456789/4560.
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The article is devoted to the problem of incorporation geographic information systems (GIS) in world school practice. The authors single out the stages of GIS application in school geographical education based on the retrospective analysis of the scientific literature. The first stage (late 70 s – early 90s of the 20th century) is the beginning of the first educational GIS programs and partnership agreements between schools and universities. The second stage (mid-90s of the 20th century – the beginning of the 21st century) comprises the distribution of GIS-educational programs in European and Australian schools with the involvement of leading developers of GIS-packages (ESRI, Intergraph, MapInfo Corp., etc.). The third stage (2005–2012) marks the spread of the GIS school education in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America; on the fourth stage (from 2012 to the present) geographic information systems emerge in school curricula in most countries. The characteristics of the GIS-technologies development stages are given considering the GIS didactic possibilities for the study of school geography, as well as highlighting their advantages and disadvantages.