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The Awaken Jungle of Ardalani: Erotism and Mystic Trascendence in the Hybrid-Latin American Lyric
No full textThe lyric work of Mexican-border poet Elvia G. Ardalani overcomes cultural, chronological and natural frontiers. The author, Professor of Peninsular and Latin American literature at the name o f university, Edinburg Texas, has published three books of poetry: “Por recuerdos viejos, por esos recuerdos (1988), Y comerás el pan sentado junto al fuego (2001) and De cruz y media luna (2006). Ardalani contemplates the ‘border identity’ not as a geographic space between Mexico and USA but as self-imposed limits on human essence. She underscores that each human being is a product of his/her life experiences, of what one absorbs or rejects, and that those experiences determine our own frontiers. The author’s poetic corpus reveals her power to create a feminine universe that derives from self-knowledge of her body, her creative capacity whether it is meta-lyric or maternal; and finally from a supernatural ability, that we will call transfiguration from body to spirit. The analysis of a selection of Ardalani’s poems illustrate how the poet transcends borders by claiming: 1) her body, her lover’s body and her feminine desire—breaking with the archaic idea that the female body serves masculine desire. 2) a woman’s understanding of physical and meta-lyrical creation, and finally 3) the capacity of transfiguring virtue from erotic to sacred space. Ardalani initiates her ideology’s proposal when her lover’s physical body and her own become territories to be explored. The corporal pleasure redeems the lovers from their social bondages. The mutual surrender summons a ritual of reconciliation, purification, and renewal from a painful and enslaving past. The poetic voice proposes sensual love as the reconciliation and the renewal of life. The protagonist confronts the anxiety of separation from her lovers and through it is purified of the physical realm. Here, Ardalani revisits in ideology The Songs of Songs and The legend of Layla y Majnun. Both texts, which belong to an oriental tradition—Jewish and Islamic respectively—propose the idea of loving ‘the other’. Unconditional love of the absent lover becomes a sacrilegious devotion with Eros purified through the renunciation of the flesh and transformed into Agape love. The lyric voice evokes the protagonist-lovers of both stories: Shulamite and Layla. Ardalani proposes the lover’s body and her own as an optimal lyrical space ripe for exploration and creativity. This sensual space delivers her to a creative process of meta-writing and to the pinnacle of the creative power of a woman’s body: maternity. With the same authority that the bodily-lyric space is reclaimed, the author reconciles in her poetic corpus antagonistic heritages -Jewish, Muslim, and Christian. This syncretism is emphasized in descriptions of the lyric subject’s mestizo offspring. By applying the linguistic and multicultural concept of Maria Rosa Menocal, which purports that Jewish and Arabic influences are foundational components of our Occidental romantic lyric legacy, Ardalani stands out as a clear example of the multicultural legacy. Ardalani is also aligned with poets who explore the theme of the total surrender in love enabling ascension from the physical to the spiritual realm. In this context the names of two great lyric voices in the Hispanic literary world: Saint John of the Cross and Ibn Hazem of Córdoba, stand out. Ardalani’s lyrics are a search for transcendence that begins in the sensual exploration of the bodies of the lovers. According to the Islamic-Sufi mysticism it is through the delightful corporeal nature where lies the portal that leads to love’s transcendence from the erotic to the divine. More than a Neo-platonic ideology, Ardalani's approach is closer to mystic literature: to Ibn Hazem’s love theory proposed in Ring o f the Dove and to Saint John of the Cross’ Sviritual Canticle o f the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ. The lyric voice describes how the lovers amalgamate and fuse into one being and how such a transfiguration allows them to connect to the supreme reality. In our literary analysis, the Supreme Reality stands for Allah the merciful, the compassionate and Yhw-- Yahwe—The God of the Old Testament. Following the research of Luce Lopez-Baralt about the Islamic mysticism influences in the work of Saint John Cross, this analysis identifies seven Sulfist symbols in the poetic corpus of Ardalani. Ardalani’s poetic proposal is as archaic as contemporary, as erotic as mystic, as oriental as Latin-American.World Languages and Literature
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
[Newspaper Clipping: Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin #1]
No full textNewspaper article titled "Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin." The article states that author Richard J. Whalen concluded "that there is circumstantial evidence to support the theory of a second assassin in the shooting of President John F. Kennedy.
Also By The Same Author: AKTiveAuthor, a Citation Graph Approach to Name Disambiguation
No full textThe desire for definitive data and the semantic web drive for inference over heterogeneous data sources requires co-reference resolution to be performed on those data. In particular, name disambiguation is required to allow accurate publication lists, citation counts and impact measures to be determined. This paper describes a graph-based approach to author disambiguation on large-scale citation networks. Using self-citation, co-authorship and document source analyses, AKTiveAuthor clusters papers, achieving precision of 0.997 and recall of 0.818 over a test group of eight surname clusters
John F. Kennedy telegram to Roosevelt
No full textJersey Homesteads (later the Borough of Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban Jewish garment workers, many of whom had emigrated from Europe. President John F. Kennedy sent a telegram to the citizens of Roosevelt, New Jersey, apologizing for not being able to attend the memorial dedication in honor of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (Jersey Homesteads became Roosevelt in 1945 in honor of the president.) President Kennedy expressed his gratitude to the people of Roosevelt for constructing the memorial, and commented that it will serve as a constant reminder of Roosevelt's good works
Logarithmic variance profiles and the corresponding f-1 spectra of temperature fluctuations in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection
No full textWe report experimental results for the temperature variance 2(z) and the corresponding frequency spectra P(f) in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection (RBC) in a cylindrical sample of aspect ratioT= D/L = 1:00 (D = 1:12 m is the diameter and L = 1:12 m the height). The measurements were conducted in the Rayleigh-number range 1011 < Ra < 1:35 1014 and Pr ' 0:8. For Ra = 1:35x1014, 2(z) could be described well by a logarithmic dependence on the vertical position z in a range of z 1 < z < z 2 with z 1 ' 70 and z 2 = 0:1L. Here L=(2Nu) is the thickness of a thin thermal sublayer adjacent to the horizontal plate where the heat flux (denoted by the Nusselt number Nu) is carried mostly by thermal diffusion. In the log layer, we found that the temperature spectra had a significant frequency range over which P(f) f with close to 1. As Ra decreased, increased so that the log layer became thinner. At Ra = 2:05 1011, z 2 < z 1 and therefore there was no range for a log layer. Correspondingly, the temperature spectrum near the horizontal plate did not have the f1 scaling form either
Maine author Franklin F. Gould recalls his first glimpse of the outside world
No full textMaine author Franklin F. Gould recalls his first glimpse of the outside world as he relates how, as a young farm boy in the late 1800\u27s, he drove his father\u27s horses on an errand to an icebound river
Mapping the Discipline of the Olympic Games An Author-Cocitation Analysis
No full textThe authors conducted an author cocitation analysis on prominent authors writing about the Olympics during the 1990s. Author cocitation is an established bibliometric technique that can be used to measure the relative similarities of topics written about by the cited authors. This enables a visual representation of the “intellectual space” of the discipline, in this case the Olympics, to be created for the period under review. So core and peripheral research areas are identified, along with their major contributors. The representation appears as a two-dimensional cluster-enhanced map. Subject expertise was then applied to the results to place labels on the generated clusters of authors and their topics
Sous-facteurs de L(F∞) d'indice 4cos2π/n,n≥3
No full textLet Q be a factor of type II1, λ a number in the Jones discrete series {4cosπ/m:m≥3}, and {ei} the Jones projections associated with λ. Denote by A2n and A1n the finite-dimensional von Neumann algebras generated, respectively, by {1,e2,⋯,en} and {1,e1,⋯,en}, with the corresponding traces. The author shows that, for n sufficiently large, the index of the inclusion An=(Q⊗A2n)∗A2nA1n⊂(Q⊗A2n+1)∗A2n+1A1n+1=An+1 is equal to λ (here ∗ denotes the reduced, amalgamated free product of the algebras in question). Using the random matrix model of Voiculescu, he proves that if Q is the von Neumann algebra L(F∞) of the free group with infinitely many generators, then An is isomorphic to L(F∞).
The two facts together imply the existence, for any λ in the Jones discrete series, of an irreducible subfactor of L(F∞) of index λ. This constitutes the first example of a nonhyperfinite, non-Γ II1 factor such that its Jones invariant is fully computable (the existence of nonirreducible subfactors of L(F∞) for any index ≥4 is a simple consequence of known results)
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
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