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Trauma in Autobiographical Videogames: The Case of Father and I (2012)
No full textAlthough trauma and memory have been a focus of cultural studies for more than twenty years now, few scholarly works focus on medium-specific representations of trauma and even fewer comment on the tendency of trauma representations to be autobiographical in the 21st Century. The present paper is part of a larger project that seeks to tackle precisely these issues. Here, I look at the representation of trauma in a relatively recent autobiographical video game, namely Vince Caballero’s Father and I (2012). I argue that the use of trauma as a trope adds a further narrative demand to video games, making it even more difficult to negotiate the specificities of the medium. At the same time, however, it functions as a stock story that enhances the narrative dimensions of the game under discussion
The Extensive Air Shower (EAS) Experiment
No full textInvestigation of the pseudorapidity and momentum of muons in EAS with the KASCADE muon tracking detector J. Zabierowski a ∗ †,T.Antoni, b W.D. Apel c,F.Badea c ‡,K.Bekk c, A. Bercuci d,H.Blümer b c, H. Bozdog c,C.Büttner b, I.M. Brancus d, A. Chilingarian e, K. Daumiller b,P.Doll c,R.Engel c
Making international mobility student-friendly: a linguistically embedded assessment of higher education internationalisation strategies
No full text[EN] Internationalisation is a desired goal for contemporary universities, which are increasingly using concepts like cultural diversity or globalism as selling points to attract students. However, these concepts are not always clearly defined in terms of underlying values and lived experience. We used a corpus linguistics approach to extract university descriptors of the term ‘internationalisation’. For that purpose, we compiled the INTER corpus (Corpus of Internationalisation Terminology in Higher Education Institutions in Europe), which includes texts extracted from the websites of 50 European Universities. We analyse the lexical profile of the tokens semantically connected to the concept of ‘internationalisation’. To verify whether the advertised concepts of internationalisation match the lived experience of the students, we use a second corpus, LIVIT (Corpus of Lived Internationalisation Experiences), which includes 300 testimonies of student mobility. All data and analyses capture the pre-COVID situation and are intended to inform the post-COVID university policymaking. Ivan, O.; Bercuci, L.; Chitez, M.; Rogobete, R.; Dinca, A. (2022). Making international mobility student-friendly: a linguistically embedded assessment of higher education internationalisation strategies. En 8th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'22). Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 679-687. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAd22.2022.14635OCS67968
Investigation of hadronic interaction models with the KASCADE
No full textexperiment J. Milke a ∗,T.Antoni b,W.D.Apel a,F.Badea a †,K.Bekk a, A. Bercuci c,H.Blümer ab,H.Bozdog a, I.M. Brancus c,C.Büttner b, A. Chilingarian d, K. Daumiller a,P.Doll a,R.Engel a,J.Engler a,F.Feßler a
On the influence of cross sections and elasticities of hadronic interactions on air shower observables J.R. Hörandel a ∗,T.Antoni a,W.D.Apel b,F.Badea b †,K.Bekk b, A. Bercuci c,M.Bertaina d, J. Blümer ba H. Bozdog b,I.M.Brancus c,M.Brüggemann e, P. Buchholz e,C.Büttner a, A. Chiavassa d
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No full textlongitudinal development of showers induced by high-energy hadrons in an iron-sampling calorimeter J. Milke a ∗,T.Antoni b,W.D.Apel a,F.Badea a †,K.Bekk a, A. Bercuci c,M.Bertaina d,H.Blümer ab H. Bozdog a,I.M.Brancus c,M.Brüggemann e, P. Buchholz e,C.Büttner b,A.Chiavassa d
JAMES BALDWIN’S "GIOVANNI’S ROOM" (1956) AS A TRANSGRESSIVE WHITE-LIFE NOVEL
No full textJames Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956) as a Transgressive White-Life Novel. In the wake of the Second World War, American literature saw the rise of a type of novel that is little known today: the white-life novel. This type of novel is written by black writers but describes white characters acting in a mostly white milieu. While at the time African-American critics praised this new way of writing as a sign of maturity, many have since criticized it for being regressive by pandering to white tastes. This paper sets out to analyze the most famous of these novels, namely James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956). It is my contention that Giovanni’s Room connects blackness and queerness through the use of visual metaphors in the novel, disrupting thus the post-war consensus on ideals of white masculinity. The novel, while seemingly abandoning black protagonists, enacts a subtle critique of white heteronormativity akin to Baldwin’s own positioning within American thought of the post-war era.
REZUMAT. Giovanni’s Room (1956) de James Baldwin ca roman white-life transgresiv. În perioada de după al Doilea Război Mondial, în literatura americană a apărut un nou tip de roman, puțin cunoscut astăzi: romanul white-life. Acest tip de roman, scris de autori de culoare, se diferenția de literatura Afro-Americană din acea perioadă prin protagoniștii săi albi. Mulți dintre intelectualii Afro-Americani din acea vreme au apreciat acest tip de literatură, văzându-l-l ca pe un semn al maturității culturale. Alți critici, mai ales cei de mai târziu, au criticat-o ca fiind regresivă, încercând să satisfacă gusturile populației albe. Acest studiu analizează cel mai cunoscut dintre aceste romane, anume romanul Giovanni’s Room (1956) de James Baldwin, argumentând că acesta stabilește o conexiune între rasă și cultura queer prin metaforele vizuale folosite. Astfel, romanul pune sub semnul întrebării noțiunile legate de rasa albă și masculinitate din acea perioadă. Acest proces oglindește poziția autorului în cultura americană, concretizând-se într-o critică subtilă a mentalității americane din a doua jumătate a secolului al XX-lea.
Cuvinte-cheie: de culoare, James Baldwin, literatura americană post-1945, roman white-lif
The detection of the high-energy EAS muon component with the LST detector of KASCADE-Grande
No full textThe KASCADE-Grande Experiment and the LOPES Project A.F. Badea a∗ †,T.Antoni a,W.D.Apel a,K.Bekk a, A. Bercuci b,M.Bertaina c,H.Blümer a,H.Bozdog a,
No full textR. Obenland a,J.Oehlschläger a,S.Ostapchenko a ‡,M.Petcu b,S.Plewnia a,H.Rebel a,A.Risse h
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