1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451845903321

Autore

Vernon Alex <1967->

Titolo

Soldiers once and still [[electronic resource] ] : Ernest Hemingway, James Salter & Tim O'Brien / / Alex Vernon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2004

ISBN

1-58729-487-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Disciplina

813/.509358

Soggetti

War stories, American - History and criticism

War and literature - United States - History - 20th century

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Soldiers' writings, American - History and criticism

Veterans' writings, American - History and criticism

Soldiers - United States - Intellectual life

Veterans - United States - Intellectual life

War in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-308) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part 1: Reading American War Literature, Reading Ernest Hemingway; 1.ReadingTwentieth-Century American War Literature; 2. War, Gender, and Ernest Hemingway; Part 2. Reading James Salter; 3. James Salter Biographic and Cultural Context; 4. The Hemingway Influence and the Very Modern _A Sport and a Pastime_; 5. From Flying to Writing; 6. Death, Desire, and the Homosocial; Part 3: Reading Tim O'Brien; 7. O'Brien's Literary Project; 8. Submission and Resistance to the Self as Soldier: Tim O'Brien's War Memoir

9. Salvation, Storytelling, and Pilgrimage in _The Things They Carried_10. O'Brien's War, O'Brien's Women; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

As the world enters a new century, as it embarks on new wars and sees new developments in the waging of war, reconsiderations of the last



century's legacy of warfare are necessary to our understanding of the current world order. In Soldiers Once and Still, Alex Vernon looks back through the twentieth century in order to confront issues of self and community in veterans' literature, exploring how war and the military have shaped the identities of Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien, three of the twentieth century's most respected authors. Vernon specifically explores the various way

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786485203321

Autore

Irwin Timothy

Titolo

Some Algebra of Fiscal Transparency : : How Accounting Devices Work and How to Reveal Them / / Timothy Irwin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012

ISBN

1-4755-6423-6

1-4755-9244-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (20 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/12/228

Soggetti

Accounting - Standards

Finance, Public

Budget deficits

Accounting

Money and Monetary Policy

Statistics

Public Administration

Public Sector Accounting and Audits

National Budget, Deficit, and Debt: General

Monetary Systems

Standards

Regimes

Government and the Monetary System

Payment Systems

Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology

Computer Programs: Other

Public finance accounting

Monetary economics

Financial reporting, financial statements

Econometrics & economic statistics



Fiscal accounting and reporting

Accrual accounting

Currencies

Financial statements

Government finance statistics

Public financial management (PFM)

Money

Economic and financial statistics

Finance

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"September 2012."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; I. Introduction; II. One True Deficit; A. Deficit Devices; B. Debt; III. Multiple Deficits; Figures; 1. Sets of Assets and Liabilities Recognized in Different Accounting Systems; A. Accounting Systems and the Devices They Allow; B. Extended Fiscal Accounts; C. Fiscal Sustainability; Tables; 1. Summary Extended Accounts, Clean Surpluses; IV. Dirty Deficits; A. Components of Clean Surpluses; B. Devices Revisited; V. Conclusion; References

Sommario/riassunto

Accounting devices that artificially reduce the measured fiscal deficit can be analyzed as transactions involving unrecognized assets and liabilities. Different accounting systems recognize different sets of assets and liabilities and are thus vulnerable to different sets of devices. Some devices can be revealed by moving progressively from cash accounting to modified accrual accounting to full accrual accounting. Revealing all would require the publication of extended fiscal accounts in which all future cash flows give rise to assets or liabilities.