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Critical Realism and Semiosis. [PDF]
, 2002 This paper explores the mutual implication of critical realism and semiosis (or the intersubjective production of meaning). It argues that critical realism must integrate semiosis into its account of social relations and social structuration.
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen +5 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra +3 more
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Charlotte Pommer: Resistance fighter and female pioneer of German anatomy
Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the biography and unique case of Charlotte Pommer (1914–2004), the only anatomist documented to have left the field during the Nazi period after encountering the regime's victims on the dissection table. While she is known for her resistance activities, newly presented documentation reveals her role as the provisional ...
Tim S. Goldmann
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The Key Features and Periodization of Socialist Realism in the Literary Context [PDF]
, 2020 The article deals with the research on various aspects of socialist realism from the perspective of belles-lettres. It analyzes the essence and key features of this phenomenon, makes a generalization of approaches to the periodization of socialist ...
Шаров, Сергей Владимирович +5 more
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Kto się boi Krajewskich? Narodziny dyskursu antykomunistycznego w polskim polu sztuki lat 80.
Artium QuaestionesHelena and Juliusz Krajewski were iconic figures of Polish socialist realism who, unlike the entire generation of their contemporary artists, never renounced this trend. The purpose of the article is to show that the art field’s changing approach toward
Zofia Rohozińska
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CONVERTING NATIONALISM INTO SOCIALISM THROUGH FOLK MUSIC IN STALINIST ROMANIA
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Musica, 2022 When a political change occurs, either in democratic or under authoritarian circumstances, the institutional dimension is the first that manifests the control exerted by the new power. We know that the socialist realism was imposed by politicians but in
Otilia-Maria BADEA
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract While Gaokao, the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE), has been extensively discussed outside the Chinese academic circle, the retake policy of the test has not received much attention. Moreover, Gaokao research in China has predominantly examined the effectiveness of the retake decision in relation to students' demographic ...
Yifeng Cheng, M. Obaidul Hamid
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An Interview with Hermann Kant
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1979 In an interview with Joan E. Holmes (University of Kansas), Hermann Kant, novelist and current president of the Writers Union of the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany), discusses his own work, literary developments since 1949 in the GDR ...
Joan E. Holmes
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THE POETICS OF REALISM AND THAT OF SOCIALIST REALISM
The International Journal of Applied Language Studies and Culture, 2019 When discussing the poetics of realism, we consider the fact that the indisputable dominant literary genre is the novel which, since the 18th century, in the context of romantization, turned out to be a suitable form for expressing the basic contradiction of romantization, the one between the individual and the community, where the hero is a direct ...
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