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Lucia Ruprecht's study is the first monograph in English to analyse
the relationship between nineteenth-century German literature and
theatrical dance. Combining cultural history with close readings of
major texts by Heinrich von Kleist, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich
Heine, the author brings to light little-known German resources on
dance to address the theoretical implications of examining the
interdiscursive and intermedial relations between the three
authors' literary works, aesthetic reflections on dance, and dance
of the period. In doing so, she not only shows how dancing and
writing relate to one another but reveals the characteristics that
make each mode of expression distinct unto itself. Readings engage
with literary modes of understanding physical movement that are
neglected under the regime of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory,
and of classical ballet, setting the human, frail and expressive
body against the smoothly idealised neoclassicist ideal.
Particularly important is the way juxtaposing texts and performance
practice allows for the emergence of meta-discourses about trauma
and repetition and their impact on aesthetics and formulations of
the self and the human body. Related to this is the author's
concept of performative exercises or dances of the self which
constitute a decisive force within the formation of subjectivity
that is enacted in the literary texts. Joining performance studies
with psychoanalytical theory, this book opens up new pathways for
understanding Western theatrical dance's theoretical, historical
and literary continuum.
Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”: The Case
for Reparations is an inspired contribution to the scholarship on
one of the most influential American novels and novelists. The
author positions this contemporary classic as a meditation on
historical justice and re-comprehends it as both a formal
tragedy— a generic translation of fiction and tragedy or a
“novel-tragedy” (Kliger)—and a novel of objects. Its many
things—literary, conceptual, linguistic— are viewed as vessels
carrying the (hi)story and the political concerns. From this, a
third conclusion is drawn: Fadem argues for a view of Beloved as a
case for reparations. That status is founded on two outstanding
object lessons: the character of Beloved as embodiment of the
subject-object relations defining the slave state and the
grammatical object “weather” in the sentence “The rest
is…” on the novel’s final page. This intertextual reference
places Beloved in a comparative link with Hamlet and Oresteia.
Fadem’s research is meticulous in engaging the full spectrum of
tragedy theory, much critical theory, and a full swathe of
scholarship on the novel. Few critics take up the matter of
reparations, still fewer the politics of genre, craft, and form.
This scholar posits Morrison’s tragedy as constituting a searing
critique of modernity, as composed through meaningful
intertextualities and as crafted by profound “thingly” objects
(Brown). Altogether, Fadem has divined a fascinating singular
treatment of Beloved exploring the connections between form and
craft together with critical historical and political implications.
The book argues, finally, that this novel’s first concern is
justice, and its chief aim to serve as a clarion call for
material— and not merely symbolic—reparations. This book is
freely available to read at
https://taylorandfrancis.com/socialjustice/?c=language-literature-arts#
The Economics of Empire: Genealogies of Capital and the Colonial
Encounter is a multidisciplinary intervention into postcolonial
theory that constructs and theorizes a political economy of empire.
This comprehensive collection traces the financial genealogies
associated with the colonial enterprise, the strategies of economic
precarity, the pedigrees of capital, and the narratives of
exploitation that underlay and determined the course of modern
history. One of the first attempts to take this approach in
postcolonial studies, the book seeks to sketch the commensal
relation-a symbiotic "phoresy"-between capitalism and colonialism,
reading them as linked structures that carried and sustained each
other through and across the modern era. The scholars represented
here are all postcolonial critics working in a range of
disciplines, including Political Science, Sociology, History, Peace
and Conflict Studies, Legal Studies, and Literary Criticism,
exploring the connections between empire and capital, and the
historical and political implications of that structural hinge.
Each author engages existing postcolonial and poststructuralist
theory and criticism while bridging it over to research and
analytic lenses less frequently engaged by postcolonial critics. In
so doing, they devise novel intersectional and interdisciplinary
frameworks through which to produce more greatly nuanced
understandings of imperialism, capitalism, and their inextricable
relation, "new" postcolonial critiques of empire for the
twenty-first century. This book will be an excellent resource for
students and researchers of Postcolonial Studies, Literature,
History, Sociology, Economics, Political Science and International
Studies, among others.
The Economics of Empire: Genealogies of Capital and the Colonial
Encounter is a multidisciplinary intervention into postcolonial
theory that constructs and theorizes a political economy of empire.
This comprehensive collection traces the financial genealogies
associated with the colonial enterprise, the strategies of economic
precarity, the pedigrees of capital, and the narratives of
exploitation that underlay and determined the course of modern
history. One of the first attempts to take this approach in
postcolonial studies, the book seeks to sketch the commensal
relation-a symbiotic "phoresy"-between capitalism and colonialism,
reading them as linked structures that carried and sustained each
other through and across the modern era. The scholars represented
here are all postcolonial critics working in a range of
disciplines, including Political Science, Sociology, History, Peace
and Conflict Studies, Legal Studies, and Literary Criticism,
exploring the connections between empire and capital, and the
historical and political implications of that structural hinge.
Each author engages existing postcolonial and poststructuralist
theory and criticism while bridging it over to research and
analytic lenses less frequently engaged by postcolonial critics. In
so doing, they devise novel intersectional and interdisciplinary
frameworks through which to produce more greatly nuanced
understandings of imperialism, capitalism, and their inextricable
relation, "new" postcolonial critiques of empire for the
twenty-first century. This book will be an excellent resource for
students and researchers of Postcolonial Studies, Literature,
History, Sociology, Economics, Political Science and International
Studies, among others.
Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison's "Beloved": The Case for
Reparations is an inspired contribution to the scholarship on one
of the most influential American novels and novelists. The author
positions this contemporary classic as a meditation on historical
justice and re-comprehends it as both a formal tragedy- a generic
translation of fiction and tragedy or a "novel-tragedy"
(Kliger)-and a novel of objects. Its many things-literary,
conceptual, linguistic- are viewed as vessels carrying the
(hi)story and the political concerns. From this, a third conclusion
is drawn: Fadem argues for a view of Beloved as a case for
reparations. That status is founded on two outstanding object
lessons: the character of Beloved as embodiment of the
subject-object relations defining the slave state and the
grammatical object "weather" in the sentence "The rest is..." on
the novel's final page. This intertextual reference places Beloved
in a comparative link with Hamlet and Oresteia. Fadem's research is
meticulous in engaging the full spectrum of tragedy theory, much
critical theory, and a full swathe of scholarship on the novel. Few
critics take up the matter of reparations, still fewer the politics
of genre, craft, and form. This scholar posits Morrison's tragedy
as constituting a searing critique of modernity, as composed
through meaningful intertextualities and as crafted by profound
"thingly" objects (Brown). Altogether, Fadem has divined a
fascinating singular treatment of Beloved exploring the connections
between form and craft together with critical historical and
political implications. The book argues, finally, that this novel's
first concern is justice, and its chief aim to serve as a clarion
call for material- and not merely symbolic-reparations. This book
is freely available to read at
https://taylorandfrancis.com/socialjustice/?c=language-literature-arts#
Examines Joseph Joachim's vital legacy through a range of
philological, philosophical and critical approaches. Joseph Joachim
(1831-1907), violinist, composer, teacher, and founding director of
Berlin's Royal Academy of Music, was one of the most eminent and
influential musicians of the long nineteenth century. Born in a
tiny Jewish community on the Austro-Hungarian border, he rose to a
position of unsurpassed prominence in European cultural life. This
timely collection of essays explores important yet little-known
aspects of Joachim's life and art. Studies of his Jewish
background, early assimilation into Christian society, Felix
Mendelssohn's mentorship, and the influence of Hungarian vernacular
music on the formation of his musical style elucidate the roots of
Joachim's identity. The later chapters focus on his personal and
creative responses to the contentious and rapidly evolving cultural
milieu in which he lived: his choice of instruments as his musical
"voice," his performances as sites of (re)enchantment in the modern
age, his pathbreaking British career, his calling and sway as a
quartet player, his pedagogical legacy, his influence on the
establishment of the musical canon, and several of his most
distinctive and original compositions. With a wide variety of
approaches-analytical, philological, archival, philosophical, and
critical-this collection will prove enlightening to scholars,
performers, and others interested in this brilliant artist and the
musical aesthetics, culture, and styles of his time.
Through close readings of texts by playwright Anne Devlin, poet
Medbh McGuckian, and novelist Anna Burns, this book examines the
ways Irish cultural production has been disturbed by partition.
Ruprecht Fadem argues that literary texts address this tension
through spectral, bordered metaphors and juxtapositions of the
ancient and the contemporary.
Through close readings of texts by playwright Anne Devlin, poet
Medbh McGuckian, and novelist Anna Burns, this book examines the
ways Irish cultural production has been disturbed by partition.
Ruprecht Fadem argues that literary texts address this tension
through spectral, bordered metaphors and juxtapositions of the
ancient and the contemporary.
Ruprecht hopes to show that Quatremere's true importance emerges
only if we situate him in his own times, one generation after
Winckelmann, in a very different, and a far more revolutionary and
secularizing cultural moment."
Verbs denoting 'to give' have developed grammatical meanings in
many languages of the world. The present study analyses the
grammaticalization of give in causative and modal constructions in
the closely related Slavic languages Russian, Polish and Czech.
Adopting a corpus driven approach, it takes departure from a
detailed analysis of the use of these constructions in large
reference corpora. This synchronic approach is supplemented by an
analysis of the use of these constructions in Old Church Slavonic
and by diachronic corpus-based accounts of the developments in
Czech and Polish. The study provides thorough descriptions of the
syntax and semantics of causative constructions, ranging from
permissive (letting someone do something) and reflexive permissive
(letting something be done to oneself) to factitive causative
(having something done by someone). It traces the development and
synchronic status of modals that have developed out of reflexive
permissives in Polish and Czech. General issues discussed in the
study include polarity sensitivity in causatives, types of causee
coding, the emergence of non-agreeing diathesis structures in
Polish and the role of language contact with German.
Volume therapy or infusion therapy is used worldwide for the
treatment of hypovolemia caused by surgical blood and plasma
losses, trauma, burns, or infections. Interestingly, significant
differences exist between countries regarding the use of plasma
substitutes. In the United States, crystalloids and albumin are
more popular, whereas in Europe artificial colloids such as
hydroxyethyl starch are preferred. From an international
perspective, it is notable that volume therapy using hydroxyethyl
starch is an established therapy for the treatment of cerebral,
retinal, otogenic, and peripheral circulation disorders in Germany.
In other countries, crys talloids are mostly used to treat
dehydration or hypovolemia, for example in brain stroke. In recent
years, new data made it possible to overcome national differences
and agree on an evidence-based, international con sensus. The
efficacy of different plasma substitutes for a volume therapy last
ing several days has not been sufficiently studied in the past.
Long-term volume therapy of patients with cerebral perfusion
disorders is an excel lent model for studying the effects of
artificial colloids in detail, because of the high doses of
colloids that are administered. Through a compari son of commonly
used plasma substitutes, we were able to show that sig nificant
differences exist between different colloids, for example in their
effect on coagulation. After repeated infusion, hydroxyethyl
starches that are difficult to degrade lead to an accumulation of
large molecules that are difficult to eliminate. These large
molecules impair factor VIII/von Willebrand factor."
"Using the palace records from the Vatican's Secret Archives,
Ruprecht demonstrates that the Vatican museum was the brainchild of
J.J. Winckelmann, the so-called father of Art History. Tracing both
Winckelmann's secret involvement in the emergence of modern art
museums and modern art history and their emergence from within
religious institutions, the author offers a new perspective on the
relationship of religion and art in the modern world"--
Talking openly with sick and dying children about their illness
is always difficult and often agonizing. It is honesty, however,
that these children deserve and need. Dietrich Niethammer, a
prominent pediatric oncologist, explains why it is so important to
speak frankly and respectfully to young patients about their
disease.
The question at the heart of this book is how children and
adolescents feel and think about death and dying. Dr. Niethammer
thoroughly examines the literature on the topic, arguing that
children and adolescents not only are capable of discussing their
illness but benefit from doing so. Puzzled why it took medical
practitioners so long to accept truth-telling in their care of
dying children, Niethammer traces the development of this notion
from the early twentieth-century work of Sigmund Freud to the
discomfort surrounding it still today.
Severely sick children and adolescents think about the
consequences of their disease, whether adults discuss it with them
or not. When adults remain silent, they do a disservice to the
children. Dr. Niethammer urges doctors to practice not in silence
and denial but in open communication with ill children, giving the
children an opportunity to express their fears and anxieties and to
cope with their disease on their own terms.
Dr. Niethammer's compelling personal experiences combined with
the latest research make this a compassionate and invaluable
resource for physicians, nurses, social workers, teachers,
parents--for all who care for sick and dying children and
adolescents.
The Greeks are on trial. They have been for generations, if not millennia, fromRome in the first century, to Romanticism in the nineteenth. We debate the place of the Greeks in the university curriculum, in New World culture--we even debate the place of the Greeks in the European Union. This book notices the lingering and half-hidden presence of the Greeks in some strange places--everywhere from the US Supreme Court to the Modern Olympic Games--and in so doing makes an important new contribution to a very old debate.
The Greeks are on trial. They have been for generations, if not millennia, fromRome in the first century, to Romanticism in the nineteenth. We debate the place of the Greeks in the university curriculum, in New World culture--we even debate the place of the Greeks in the European Union. This book notices the lingering and half-hidden presence of the Greeks in some strange places--everywhere from the US Supreme Court to the Modern Olympic Games--and in so doing makes an important new contribution to a very old debate.
Talking openly with sick and dying children about their illness
is always difficult and often agonizing. It is honesty, however,
that these children deserve and need. Dietrich Niethammer, a
prominent pediatric oncologist, explains why it is so important to
speak frankly and respectfully to young patients about their
disease.
The question at the heart of this book is how children and
adolescents feel and think about death and dying. Dr. Niethammer
thoroughly examines the literature on the topic, arguing that
children and adolescents not only are capable of discussing their
illness but benefit from doing so. Puzzled why it took medical
practitioners so long to accept truth-telling in their care of
dying children, Niethammer traces the development of this notion
from the early twentieth-century work of Sigmund Freud to the
discomfort surrounding it still today.
Severely sick children and adolescents think about the
consequences of their disease, whether adults discuss it with them
or not. When adults remain silent, they do a disservice to the
children. Dr. Niethammer urges doctors to practice not in silence
and denial but in open communication with ill children, giving the
children an opportunity to express their fears and anxieties and to
cope with their disease on their own terms.
Dr. Niethammer's compelling personal experiences combined with
the latest research make this a compassionate and invaluable
resource for physicians, nurses, social workers, teachers,
parents--for all who care for sick and dying children and
adolescents.
The volume Rare Earth Elements C 11 deals with the compounds and
systems of the rare earth elements with boron, i.e. borides,
borates, and associated alkali double compounds. As in all earlier
volumes of "Rare Earth Elements" Series C (Seltenerdelemente Reihe
C) comparative data are presented in sections preceding treatment
of the individual compounds and systems. Topics of the present
volume C 11 a are the comparative data on the borides and the
individual sections on the systems and borides containing Sc, Y,
and La. The individual sections for the systems and borides with Ce
to Lu can be found in the following volume C 11 b together with the
borates, its alkali double compounds and other compounds containing
Ce to Lu, boron and elements related by the Gmelin system. The most
extensively studied borides treated in the comparative sections are
of the type MB6. These rare earth hexaborides are refractory
compounds and some of them, especially LaB6, are good thermionic
emissive materials or exhibit other interesting physical
properties. The most comprehensive chapter in the individual
sections of volume C 11 a deals with LaB6, which is a well-known
thermionic material of great practical importance with high
electron emission efficiency and an excellent stability in the
surface composition at high temperatures. The effects of
preparation conditions, composition, temperature, surface
structures, surface treatment, and of the atmosphere on the
thermionic emission are studied thoroughly. Another important item
of the LaB6 chapter is the electronic structure, which often serves
as an example for the other rare earth hexaborides.
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