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Common Equity Investors’ Assessments of the Dilution and Solvency Effects of Preferred Stock Instruments

Journal of Business Finance &Accounting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) requires dichotomous classification of financial claims as liabilities or equity. Classifying claims is challenging when instruments have attributes of both liabilities and equity (i.e., hybrid instruments).
Thomas J. Linsmeier, Clay Partridge, Catherine Shakespeare   +2 more
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Czech-ing Shakespeare: Tracing Shakespeare’s Influence (not only) in Czech Advertisements

American and British Studies Annual
Shakespeare’s plays are indisputably among the most translated, staged, and adapted works for both theatre and screen. The texts undergo updating, recontextualization, and transcultural adaptation to engage audiences across different age groups, thereby
Ivona Mišterová
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Shakespeare in Germany: Critical Reception and Translation

The Journal of English Language and Literature, 2013
Shakespeare’s plays were widely received in German Theatre Houses and in school education—in the original language as well as in translations. This rich reception is due to their popularity and to their appreciation by German writers and audiences in the last 300 years. It all began in the 18 century when German critics were more and more influenced by
openaire   +1 more source

Claiming the Isle? Islandness and Territorial Demands

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between insularity and territorial demands, focusing on whether island territories are more likely to support regionalist and secessionist parties. To address this question, we compare electoral support for such parties across island and mainland territories using a large‐N dataset.
Pau Torres, Marc Sanjaume‐Calvet
wiley   +1 more source

Shakespearean allusions and reminiscences in “The Aristos” and “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” by J.R. Fowles

Studia Humanitatis, 2017
The paper focuses on the strategies to realize the creative potential of Shakespeare’s legacy in “The Aristos” and “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” by John Fowles. The paper deals with John Fowles’s reminiscences and allusions to Shakespeare’s work aiming
Drozdova Maria Sergeevna
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
wiley   +1 more source

“This is you”: Encountering Shakespeare with Tim Crouch

Altre Modernità, 2017
This essay considers Tim Crouch's "I Shakespeare", a suite of monologue plays based on "The Tempest" ("I, Caliban", 2003), "A Midsummer Night's Dream" ("I, Peaseblossom", 2004), "Macbeth" ("I, Banquo", 2005), "Twelfth Night" ("I, Malvolio", 2010) and ...
Sara Soncini
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Shakespeare at the Español: Franco and the Construction of a "National" Culture [PDF]

, 2007
All translations from Spanish are my own.The paper, which is part of a wide-ranging project concerned with the reception of Shakespeare in Spain, focuses on the early stages of the Franco dictatorship (the 1940s) and the place Shakespeare’s plays ...
Gregor, Keith
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Wittgenstein's Enigmatic Remarks on Shakespeare [PDF]

, 2018
Wittgenstein's occasional remarks on Shakespeare have raised a considerable amount of interest and bewilderment among scholars. They have been read as a harsh critique of the Bard and as the result of a misreading that displays Wittgenstein's feeling of ...
Huemer, Wolfgang Andreas
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
wiley   +1 more source