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The Battle of “the Dynamo” and “the Virgin” in Turn-of-the-Century New York City Narratives: A Sociohistorical Reading of America’s Urban Frontier in Steven Millhauser and Henry James
No full textWasn’t America the land of opportunity? And wasn’t the Vanderlyn Hotel a golden opportunity?” (MD 18):[1] Steven Millhauser’s Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (1996) aptly dramatizes the role of Henry Adams’s agonistic clash between “the Dynamo and the Virgin” in the construction of America’s exceptionalist urban frontier. Particularly, his protagonist’s vertical experimentations in the par excellence modernist city of New York capture the zeitgeist of America’s Gilded Age, rendering the novel as a postmodernist reworking of Henry James’s experience in The American Scene travelogue, where he delineates the irreversible technological changes in the city grid. In both narratives, the locus of the modern hotel appears as the American Adam’s ultimate means for his mission of taming the city wilderness. My comparison of the two writers’ city narratives reflects on the era’s two dominant trends towards space, i.e., skepticism and respect for the machinery, bringing to the forefront America’s disrespectful treatment of space, where skyscrapers threaten to erase the city’s “pleasant and promiscuous patina of time” (TAS 97).[2] Drawing from Jamesian scholars (T. L. Follini, W. Graham) who focus on James’s treatment of space, the paper argues that “The Jolly Corner” foreshadows America’s overweening technological future by presenting memories as the protagonist’s defense mechanism to salvage a sense of at-homeness in the face of the ever-changing urban grid. In the same vein, Millhauser’s historiographic metafiction exposes American Adam’s “yearning for the exhaustive” (256) through Grand Cosmo’s “architectural gigantism” (MD 256), and by extension, the nation’s blind devotion to vertical “forms of abstraction” (Follini 36) as a way of self-representation.[1] MD: Millhauser, Steven. Martin Dressler: The Tale of the American Dreamer. 2nd ed., Corsair, 2015.[2] TAS: James, Henry. The American Scene. Chapman and Hall, 1907
Pseudo-Wellness, Dead Ends, and the Struggle for Equality: Exploring Gender and Wellness in Original and Translated Commercials
No full textThis study examines three interrelated issues: testimonies of pseudo-wellness in audiovisual advertising, gender-related dead ends in the translation of commercials, and the struggle for gender equality in which consumers, translators, and companies/advertisers may engage in different ways. Commercials frequently offer narratives that serve as testimonies of wellness achieved through the use of a product. However, these “testimonies” are constructed for the purposes of the commercials and given by paid actors. This paper explores whether wellness—although promised—is actually realized. Furthermore, it examines how commercials can contribute to societal unwellness through discriminatory gender representations. To this end, commercials from 2010 and 2012 promoting the chocolate bar Snickers are presented as examples of advertising from one of the largest companies in the United States. An analysis of the original English-language commercials and their German and Greek translations demonstrates the dead ends to which translators of commercials may be led when dealing with themes of gender. Finally, this paper discusses how consumers, translators, and companies/advertisers can utilize the tool of advertising literacy to navigate and mitigate the ongoing social crisis of gender inequality.
Self-Portrait from the Exile: Nikephoros Basilakes’ Third Letter
No full textNikephoros Basilakes was a Byzantine rhetorician of the second half of the twelfth century, whose works have all in all recently drawn scholars’ attention. In this paper, I will focus on one of his minor works, namely the Letters. We have four surviving letters written during the exile of the author, in which nostalgia, solitude, and discomfort are a predominant part of his self-expression. After a brief introduction on the main themes of the four letters, I will analyse the complex literary pattern that characterizes the third one (offering also the first-ever translation into a modern language), in which the sophisticated combination of “reused” materials taken from the Classics and the Holy Scriptures, the resignification of traditional images and the overlapping of several meanings can be found as typical elements of Basilakes’ writing
Ανέκδοτη ακολουθία της Αγίας Νεομάρτυρος Ακυλίνας (= Αγγελίνας) της Ζαγκλιβερινής (1746-1764)
No full textImmunohistochemical study of IL-10 and CD46 in placental tissues in recurrent pregnancy loss
No full textPurpose: The is to clarify the role of IL-10 and CD46 in recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL), via an immunohistochemical case-control study in placenta tissues.Materials and Methods: This is a case-control study in which the experimental group consisted of 20 women, 30 to 42 years old, who miscarried during the first trimester of pregnancy for unknown reasons, while the control group consisted of 20 women, 27 to 39 years old, who had voluntarily performed in termination of pregnancy in the first trimester. An immunohistochemical study was performed on histological samples of decidua basalis, decidua parietalis and trophoblast, using the immunohistochemical markers IL-10 and CD46. The results were statistically analyzed by the Mann-Whitney test.Results: A statistically significant difference in IL-10 expression was detected between the control group and the miscarriage group on decidual cells (p-value .0001). There was increased immunohistochemical staining on the decidua of the control group in comparison to the miscarriage group. Regarding CD46, the immunohistochemical analysis did not reveal a statistically significant difference between the two groups in either the decidual or trophoblastic cells.Conclusion: IL-10 seems to be associated with the RPL phenomena. It is necessary to further investigate the involvement of immune factors with RPL.
LncRNA MYCNOS promotes prostate cancer cell proliferation by regulating the miR-466/RUNX2 axis
No full textThe function of lncRNA MYCNOS has only been reported in hepatocellular carcinoma. We studied the role of MYCNOS in prostate cancer (PC). In this study, MYCNOS expression in tissue samples from 64 PC patients was studied by RT-qPCR. Base pairing formed by MYCNOS and miR-466 were predicted by IntaRNA 2.0 and confirmed using dual luciferase activity assay. Overexpression of MYCNOS, miR-466, and RUNX2 was performed to explore their interactions. CCK-8 assay was applied to quantify cell proliferation. We found that MYCNOS was upregulated in PC. MYCNOS is predicted to interact with miR-466. However, MYCNOS and miR-466 did not regulate the expression of each other in overexpression experiments. Instead, MYCNOS increased RUNX2 expression, a target of miR-466. MYCNOS and RUNX2 overexpression resulted in increased PC cell proliferation, while miR-466 overexpression suppressed cell proliferation. In addition, MYCNOS reduced the inhibitory effect of miR-466 on cell proliferation. In conclusion, MYCNOS may promote PC cell proliferation by upregulating RUNX2 via sponging miR-466
Διασκευάζοντας για παιδιά ένα μεσαιωνικό θρύλο: Βασίλειος Διγενής Ακρίτας
No full textLes œuvres de la littérature orale/folklorique sont, en raison de leur oralité, en perpétuelle évolution et changement. Transférés dans une langue écrite, les « textes » oraux sont à nouveau alimentés par de nouvelles idées et de nouveaux médias et continuent ainsi à changer. Les contes de fées et les légendes s’adaptent aux nouvelles formes pour de nombreuses raisons, telles que: a) leur audience d'origine se modifie, par ex. les contes de fées qui s’adressaient à un public adulte à nos jours s’adressent aux enfants et par conséquent les manières stylistiques se modifient, b) le cadre idéologique – ce que John Stephens et Robyn McCallum appellent metaethic – change, ainsi que de nouvelles idées entrent pour remodeler l'intrigue, les personnages, la personne du narrateur, etc. et c) les nouveaux médias et la technologie créent différentes formes de l’écriture littéraire. Dans le présent article, nous allons examiner les métamorphoses d'une légende médiévale bien connue, celle de Basile Digenis Acritas, en explorant comment elle se présente dans trois livres modernes pour enfants, les deux livres illustrés, écrits par les Kalokyris et par Poulos, et un roman fantastique historique de Hatzopoulos
Hellenic Music Education and Practice in Macedonia during the Ottoman Empire
No full textThis paper focuses on the study of the original proliferation of western music in the Hellenic population of Macedonia, which took place during the late Ottoman Empire. Greek schools, in which music was taught, are examined from a historical and musical-pedagogical point of view. The proposal also examines the contributions of the Associations and Philharmonic Societies, where various musical groups were operating and, with the help of specialized music instructors, taught their members (adult and minors) music theory and practice. The study involves significant urban centers of Macedonia, in which Hellenic communities developed substantial educational and cultural activities, such as Thessaloniki, Serres, Veria, Monastir, Kozani, Choristi, and Kavala, notwithstanding whether those cities were eventually incorporated into the Hellenic national space or not