1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464129903321

Titolo

Amy Levy : critical essays / / edited by Naomi Hetherington and Nadia Valman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens : , : Ohio University Press, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

0-8214-4307-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Disciplina

828/.809

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Women - England - London - Intellectual life

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1: "We Are Photographers, Not Mountebanks!"; Chapter 2: Why Wasn't Amy Levy More of a Socialist?; Chapter 3: Between Two Stools; Chapter 4: Amy Levy and the Literary Representation of the Jewess; Chapter 5: "Such Are Not Woman's Thoughts"; Chapter 6: "Mongrel Words"; Chapter 7: Passing in the City; Chapter 8: "A Jewish Robert Elsmere"?; Chapter 9: Verse or Vitality?; Afterword; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Amy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation. Embraced by feminist scholars for her radical experimentation with queer poetic voice and her witty journalistic pieces on female independence, she remains controversial for her representations of London Jewry that draw unmistakably on contemporary antisemitic discourse.  Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women's poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910130593003321

Autore

Mattheeuws Alain <1952->

Titolo

Amarsi per donarsi : il sacramento del matrimonio / / Alain Mattheeuws ; prefazione di Jean-Luis Bruguès

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Venezia, : Marcianum, 2008

ISBN

88-89736-42-9

Descrizione fisica

373 p

Collana

Teologia ; ; 5

Disciplina

241

234

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Orig. title: S'aimer pour se donner.

Transl. by Paolo Caena.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786001803321

Autore

Link Perry <1944->

Titolo

An anatomy of Chinese [[electronic resource] ] : rhythm, metaphor, politics / / Perry Link

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-674-07115-8

0-674-06768-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 367 p.)

Disciplina

495.1/16

Soggetti

Chinese language - Rhythm

Chinese language - Metaphors

Chinese language

Chinese language - Semantics

Chinese language - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Rhythm -- 2 Metaphor -- 3 Politics -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

During the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese people to "smash the four olds": old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Yet when the Red Guards in Tiananmen Square chanted "We want to see Chairman Mao," they unknowingly used a classical rhythm that dates back to the Han period and is the very embodiment of the four olds. An Anatomy of Chinese reveals how rhythms, conceptual metaphors, and political language convey time-honored meanings of which Chinese speakers themselves may not be consciously aware, and contributes to the ongoing debate over whether language shapes thought, or vice versa. Perry Link's inquiry into the workings of Chinese reveals convergences and divergences with English, most strikingly in the area of conceptual metaphor. Different spatial metaphors for consciousness, for instance, mean that English speakers wake up while speakers of Chinese wake across. Other underlying metaphors in the two languages are similar, lending support to theories that locate the origins of language in the brain. The distinction between daily-life



language and official language has been unusually significant in contemporary China, and Link explores how ordinary citizens learn to play language games, artfully wielding officialese to advance their interests or defend themselves from others. Particularly provocative is Link's consideration of how Indo-European languages, with their preference for abstract nouns, generate philosophical puzzles that Chinese, with its preference for verbs, avoids. The mind-body problem that has plagued Western culture may be fundamentally less problematic for speakers of Chinese.

4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973346103321

Autore

Klemm Alexander

Titolo

Allowances for Corporate Equity in Practice / / Alexander Klemm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

9786613820778

9781462350803

1462350801

9781451985313

1451985312

9781282392342

1282392344

9781451909722

1451909721

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (35 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Corporations - Finance

Corporations - Taxation

Allowance for corporate equity

Business Taxes and Subsidies

Corporate & business tax

Corporate income tax

Corporate Taxation

Corporations

Effective tax rate

Financial Instruments

Income tax systems

Income tax

Institutional Investors



Investment & securities

Investments: Stocks

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Pension Funds

Public finance & taxation

Stocks

Tax administration and procedure

Taxation

Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General

Brazil

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"November 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. ACE TAX SYSTEMS""; ""III. ACE SYSTEMS IN PRACTICE""; ""IV. PREVIOUS ANALYSES OF ACE TAX SYSTEMS""; ""V. THE BRAZILIAN ACE VARIANT""; ""VI. CONCLUSION""; ""Appendix I. Effective Tax Rates""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper provides an overview of full and partial allowance for corporate equity (ACE) tax systems in practice. In the recent past, ACE systems have been used in Austria, Croatia, and Italy. Brazil still applies a variant of such a system and Belgium introduced one this year. This paper summarizes the empirical literature on past ACE systems, and provides a theoretical and empirical assessment of the Brazilian ACE variant. The main finding is that the Brazilian reform introduced an ACE system for a minority of firms only, with the majority instead having a system of dividend deductibility. Despite the reduction in the tax preference for debt finance, capital structures have not changed much, but dividends have increased. Investment appears to have benefited from the reform, although the extent to which this was due to the new structure rather than the tax cut is unclear.