1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465440603321

Autore

Machan Tibor R

Titolo

The liberty option [[electronic resource] /] / Tibor R. Machan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Exeter, : Imprint Academic, c2003

ISBN

1-283-69260-0

1-84540-363-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (135 p.)

Collana

Societas : essays in political and cultural criticism ; ; 5

Disciplina

320.51

Soggetti

Liberty - Philosophy

Equality

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.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: A Short Lesson About Liberty; Body matter; 1: Why Freedom Remains the Priority; 2: Financing Law Without Taxation; 3: Private Property Rights; 4: The Gist of a System of Liberty; 5: Liberty - Abstract & Concrete; Back matter; References

Sommario/riassunto

The Liberty Option advances the idea that for compelling moral as well as practical reasons it is the free society - with the rule of law founded on the principles of private property rights, its complete respect for individual sovereignty and properly limited legal authorities - not one or another version of statism that serves justice best, is most prosperous and encourages the greatest measure of individual virtue on the part of the citizenry. The work shows why this is so and lays out so...



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781394403321

Autore

Hanretty Chris.

Titolo

Public broadcasting and political interference / / Chris Hanretty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-70210-5

1-283-24160-9

9786613241603

1-136-70211-3

0-203-81372-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in political communication

Disciplina

384.54

Soggetti

Public broadcasting - Political aspects

Public broadcasting - Europe

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Public Broadcasting and Political Interference; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of acronyms; Preface; Part IThe broad picture; 1 Introduction; 1 Setting the scene; 2 What are public service broadcasters?; 3 What is political independence?; 4 Why does political independence matter?; 5 Why do other things matter less?; 6 What is my explanation of political independence?; 7 How do I demonstrate these claims?; 8 Outline of the book; 2 The broad picture: testing rival theories of independence on36 public broadcasters; 1 Measuring independence by proxy

2 What explanations exist already?3 My explanation; 4 Data and model; 5 Summary; Part IISpecific cases; 3 Italy: the absence of Caesars; 1 Fascism and the post-warperiod (1924-1960); 2 The Bernabei era (1961-1974); 3 Reform to reform (1975-1992); 4 New hopes dashed (1993-2008); 5 Conclusion; 4 Spain: huge steps forward?; 1 From dictatorship to transition (1923-1977); 2 The early democratic years (1977-1996); 3 From Aznar to Zapatero; 4 Conclusion; 5 The United Kingdom: "treading delicately like Agag"; 1 From foundation to competition (1922-1955); 2 The years of Butskellism (1954-1979)

3 From Thatcher to Blair (1979-2005)4 Conclusion; 6 Ireland:



importing experience; 1 From 2RN to television (1926-1960); 2 Refoundation, confrontation (1960-1976); 3 1976 until the present day; 4 Conclusion; 7 Sweden: "disturbing neither God nor Hitler"; 1 An abundance of caution (1922-1955); 2 Diplomats and exegetes (1955-1969); 3 The centre does not hold (1969-); 4 Conclusion; 8 Denmark: being driven to the left?; 1 Establishment until the 1950s (1922-1955); 2 The 1950s until Vänstervridning (1957-1974); 3 The professionalization turn? (1980-); 4 Conclusion

Part IIIComparisons and conclusions9 Comparing the six broadcasters; 1 The market and professionalization; 2 The journalists; 3 Management; 4 Rules; 5 Conclusion; 10 Conclusions; 1 Reassessing independence; 2 Reassessing legal protection; 3 Reassessing the causal chain; 4 Implications for reform; 5 Continued relevance; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Public broadcasters, like the BBC and the Italian broadcaster RAI, are some of the most important media organisations in the world. Politicians are often tempted to interfere in the workings of these broadcasters and when this happens, the results are highly controversial, as both the Blair and Berlusconi governments have discovered. Public Broadcasting and Political Interference explains why some broadcasters are good at resisting politicians' attempts at interference, and have won a reputation for independence - and why other broadcasters have failed to do the same. It tak



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956654403321

Autore

Hardy Barbara Nathan

Titolo

Dickens and creativity / Barbara Hardy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : Continuum, 2008

ISBN

9786613272393

0826495265 (hbk.) :

9780826495266 (hbk.) :

1847064590 (pbk.) :

9781847064592 (pbk.) :

9781474211321

1474211321

9781283272391

1283272393

9781441197825

1441197826

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xvi, 181 p. ; ; 25 cm

Disciplina

823/.8

Soggetti

Imagination in literature

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

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 (pages [175]-177) and index

Nota di contenuto

A career and its context  -- Dickens discusses creativity -- The awareness of art in Sketches by Boz, Pickwick papers, Oliver Twist, Barnaby Rudge, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas carol and The chimes -- The artist as narrator in Doctor Marigold, David Copperfield, Bleak House and Great expectations -- Talkative men and women in Pickwick papers, Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit and Little Dorrit --  Imaginative extremes, negations and norms -- Subversions and oppositions -- Crises of imagination in Oliver Twist, A Christmas carol, Domeby and son, Bleak house, Hard times and The lazy tour of two idle apprentices -- Forecast and fantasy in Little Dorrit --  Creative conversation in Hard times, Great expectations and Our mutual friend -- Assertions of style : rhythm and repetition in A tale of two cities and



Our mutual friend -- Shakespeare in Dickens : David Copperfield and Great expectations -- Dickens in the twentieth century

Acknowledgments -- Editions and Works Cited -- Preface -- 1. A Career and its Context -- 2. Dickens discusses Creativity -- 3. Awareness of Art in Sketches By Boz, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Barnaby Rudge, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol and The Chimes -- 4. The Artist as Narrator in Doctor Marigold, David Copperfield, Bleak House and Great Expectations -- 5. Talkative Men and Women -- 6. Imaginative Extremes, Norms and Negations -- 7. Subversions and Oppositions -- 8. Crises of Imagination -- 9. Forecast and Fantasy in Little Dorrit -- 10. Creative Conversation in Hard Times, Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend -- 11. Assertions of Style: Rhythm and Repetition in A Tale of Two Cities and Our Mutual Friend -- 12. Dialogues with Shakespeare in David Copperfield and Great Expectations -- 13. Dickens in the Twentieth Century -- Index --

Sommario/riassunto

Charles Dickens's experience and imagining of creativity is at the heart of his self-awareness, subject-matter and narrative. His intelligence works intuitively rather than conceptually and ideas about imagination often emerge informally in personal letters and implicitly through characters, language and story. His self-analysis and reflexive tendency are embedded in his styles and forms of narrative and dialogue, images of normality, madness, extremity, subversion and disorder, poetry and inter-textuality, anticipating and shaping the languages of modernism, influencing James Joyce and Virginia Woolf as well as traditionalists like H.G. Wells and Evelyn Waugh.  Discussing Dickens's novels and some of his letters, sketches, essays and stories, Barbara Hardy offers a fascinating demonstration of creativity.