116 research outputs found
Correspondence of Borislav Pekić
No full textУ овом раду осврћемо се на тешке године живота познатог писца, које је са супругом Љиљаном и кћерком Маријом провео у Лондону. Као израз његових размишљања о литератури, пријатељима, носталгичним тренуцима и осјећањима настала су два остварења, уврштена у његова Изабрана дела, Кореспонденција као живот и Кореспонденција као живот – преписка са пријатељима (1965–1986), публикована 2002. године у новосадском издавачком предузећу „Соларис“. Из ових остварења могу се сагледати важни сегменти Пекићевог личног односа с људима који су представљали елиту београдских културних кругова.In the work Correspondence of Borislav Pekić author writes of the difficult years the famous writer spent in London, with his wife Ljiljana and daughter Maria. As an expression of his thoughts on literature, friends, moments and feelings of the past, he wrote two books included in his Selected Works: Correspondence as a Life and Correspondence as a life – conversation with friends (1965-1986), published in 2002 (Solaris, Novi Sad). It is through the focus of these works that we can find out more about important aspects of his personal relationships with members of the Belgrade cultural circle
Ornament because of crime : learning from Mafia Baroque
No full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2019Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-101).The thesis looks at the very specific economic and political circumstances in post-Communist Bulgaria that led to the emergence of Mafia Baroque as a distinct architectural style and an instrument for communicating power. Building on the context of the economic meltdown of the mid-1990s, the urban development out-pacing the changing regulatory environment due to corruption, , and the unclear laws relating to land restitution and private development- it seeks to understand how these mafia individuals exploited the construction industry and architecture, and what the future manifestations of these mechanisms could be. A new wave of rural migration to the cities and the current construction boom, present an opportunity for these macho nationalist "businessmen" to establish themselves as "righteous members and builders of society". The thesis will neither seek to create a dialectical- "cleaned up" version of Mafia Baroque nor will it just serve as a cautionary tale projecting a bleak future. If ornament used to be a direct product of crime, could it now express its patron's ulterior motive for an improved urban environment as it takes on additional collective functions besides communicating power? The previous flat kit bashing of parts will be replaced with new programmatic and spatial explorations that seek to project a new synthetic urban condition replacing the individualized enclaves of the present.by Borislav Angelov.M. Arch.M.Arch. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architectur
BORISLAV PEKIĆ’S HOMODIEGETICAL NOVEL: THE BEGINNING OF SERBIAN POSTMODERNISM
No full textThe paper starts from the genre definition of “homodiegetic novel” as a narrative type based on the specific position of the narrator in the text. The significant role of Borislav Pekić as an author who, together with Danilo Kiš, participated in the transformation of modernist Serbian literature during 1960s and 1970s is pointed out. In particular, the specific narrative submodel Pekić used in his early novels is analyzed ‒ the homodiegetic narrator who records his own narration. The implications of the applied narrative “strategy of the found manuscript” are examined on the example of the novel Hodočašće Arsenija Njegovana [The Pilgrimage of Arsenije Njegovan], the first in a series of four Pekić’s homodiegetical texts. The interpretation of the effects of the narrative procedure used in the novel, as well as the complexity of the meaning of the text, indicate the author’s opposition to the modernist artistic paradigm which was dominant in the Serbian literature of the period. The analysis of the applied narrative-technical solutions in the novel reveals that the inversion of the implied relationship between text and reality is a key element of Pekić’s postmodern creative approach.Publishe
Trechus thessalonicus Jeannel 1930
No full textTrechus thessalonicus Jeannel, 1930 References. Trechus thessalonicus: Jeannel 1930: 101 (Kajmakčalan loc. typ.); Casale & Laneyrie 1982: 151; Drovenik & Peks 1994: 42 (Kajmakčalan); Drovenik & Peks 1999: 48 (Kajmakčalan); Moravec et al. 2003: 342; Guéorguiev 2007 a: 309 (west Macedonia). Trechus thessallicus: Nonveiller et al. 1994: 9. Material studied. “Nidže: Kajmakčalan (čemerika, šip, molika), 16.06. 1971, Z. Karaman”, 9 s. (MMNH); Kožuf, 1600–1740m, below Dudica Peak, 15.06.2009, 1 s., beesh litter, leg. B. Guéorguiev & S. Hristovski (NMNHS). Distribution. 46, 48. Notes. Nonveiller et al. (1994: 9) cited “ Trechus thessallicus Jeannel, 1930 ” for Macedonia. The correct binomen for that species is Trechus thessalicus Meixner, 1928 and it is credited to other author. We suppose that the first aforementioned authors meant to say Trechus thessalonicus Jeannel, 1930.Published as part of Hristovski, Slavčo & Guéorguiev, Borislav, 2015, Annotated catalogue of the carabid beetles of the Republic of Macedonia (Coleoptera: Carabidae), pp. 1-190 in Zootaxa 4002 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4002.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/23894
Microlestes Schmidt-Gobel 1846
No full textgenus <i>Microlestes</i> Schmidt-Göbel, 1846 <p> <b>Notes.</b> The identification of species of <i>Microlestes</i> is difficult since no modern revision is available at the moment.</p> <p>The distribution of the species is also not well known. For the determination of species we relied mainly on Apfelbeck (1904), Jeannel (1942) and Lompe (2011). The study of material from the MMNH and private collection of the first author established five new species for the fauna of Macedonia (SH).</p>Published as part of <i>Hristovski, Slavčo & Guéorguiev, Borislav, 2015, Annotated catalogue of the carabid beetles of the Republic of Macedonia (Coleoptera: Carabidae), pp. 1-190 in Zootaxa 4002 (1)</i> on pages 107-108, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4002.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/238945">http://zenodo.org/record/238945</a>
Injection of botulinum toxin for treatment of chronic lateral epicondylitis: systematic review and meta-analysis
No full textObjectives: lateral epicondylitis can be chronic and difficult to manage with conservative measures such as physical therapy and corticosteroid injection. We attempted to determine the efficacy of botulinumtoxin for the treatment of chroniclateral epicondylitis.Methods: we searched PubMed, MEDLINE, CINAHL, Google Scholar, EMBASE, PEDro, and ISI web of Science databases from inception until November 2009. Studies were included if they used any formulation of botulinumtoxin A for treatment of chroniclateral epicondylitis and reported at least 1 pain outcome. One author extracted the relevant data using a standardized data extraction sheet and a second author checked the data. We performed a meta-analysis by computing effect sizes for each study separately for pain and grip strength at 3 months after injection. Impact of bias was assessed independently by 2 authors.Results: the search found 10 studies relevant to the question. Four of these were randomized controlled trials that could be pooled in a meta-analysis. Results showed a moderate effect for pain favoring botulinumtoxin (effect size ?0.5, 95% CI ?0.9, ?0.1, I2 = 56%) at 3 months and a no effect for grip strength. Qualitative analysis of the studies that could not be pooled also showed improvement in pain, but was limited by potential bias.Conclusions: present literature provides support for use of botulinumtoxin A injections into the forearm extensor muscles (60 units) for treatment of chronictreatment-resistant lateral epicondylitis. It is minimally invasive and can be performed in an outpatient settin
Gothic Elements in Representations of a Pandemic: Borislav Pekic’s Rabies
No full textThe paper deals with the Gothic elements in the representation of a pandemic based on the 1983 novel Besnilo (‘Rabies’) by Serbian author Borislav Pekic. The authors start from the premise that the elements ‘borrowed’ from the Gothic genre play a key role in creating the main plot of the novel: a catastrophe caused by an extremely contagious and deadly man-manipulated version of the rabies virus. The theoretical framework is based on Fred Botting’s (1995) and Jerrold E. Hogle’s (2002) views of Gothic writing as a diffused mode that exceeds genres and categories and contributes its various elements to various literary forms. Furthermore, Gothic elements characteristic of Gothic science fiction, such as madness, monstrosity, the Mad Scientist, people meddling with nature with catastrophic consequences, the apocalyptic vision of human future and “the removal of man from his natural, living state and entry instead into a state of being neither completely human or monster, and neither fully alive or completely dead” (MacArthur 2015: 79) are traced in the novel and analysed in the context of literary representations of a pandemic. As Pekic’s novel is a mixture of various genres and is often defined and described as a horror thriller novel, an attempt is made to offer a new reading that would consider its constituent Gothic elements against a backdrop of the deeply and inherently human drama of the everlasting struggle between good and evil. Thus, pandemics are represented as a kind of catalyst that exposes both deeply human and rational, and deeply inhuman and irrational, impulses, leaving the final outcome of that struggle uncertain
Reproduction of agricultural households in Kosovo and Metohia
No full textThis article is an interpretation of the investigation carried out among 1,754 agricultural households in Autonomous Province Kosovo and Metohia. The author concentrates his attention on the investigation results concerning the reproduction, and nonreproduction respectively, of households as agricultural units in the next
generation. Kosovo and Metohia belongs to the most underdeveloped regions in Yugoslavia. In that Province a numerous national minority group, called Siptari lives. Therefore the investigation embraced approximately the same number ot Siptari’s and Serbian households.
The author divided the households into three groups according to the fact whether will they remain agricultural household in near future or not. In the first group there were 9,l% of interviewed households without »agricultural« successors. Families in this group had no children or their children had completed their schooling and now live on their own. In the second group there were 36,9% of households. Families in this group intend to school their children so will lose
their possible »agricultural« successors. Finally in the third group there were 54% of households. They declared their intention to keep a successor on their farms. The author in the next part of the article figures out some characteristics of each group of households. For instance the third group of households intend to withhold on their farms 1,3 children on the average though the median number of children in these households amounted to 4,2. It means that; nearly 3 descendants from each household in this group will be leaving agricultural occupation too. Beside this the author points out that the first and the second group of households keep in their
ownership about 40¼ of the agricultural land while remaining 60% is in ownership of the third group. This fact indicates the possibilities for the expansion of socialistic agricultural enterprises. However it should be borne in mind that agrarian overpopulation in this Province has not been yet overcome and therefore the expansion of the socialistic sector in agriculture will still encounter certain difficulties
MUTUAL RELATIONSHIPS AND INFLUENCES OF AUTOCHTONS AND COLONISTS AFTER THE SECOND WORLD
No full textThis paper the author starts with presenting some of the factors and reasons
for the colonization to the regions of Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. For centures
Vojvodina has been an attractive immigration area. Nowdavs in Vojvodina
live over 31% of population born in other regions of Yugoslavia. After the la^t
world war a large number of German inhabitants deserted their estates and homes
in Vojvodina having left the land without proprietors. On the other hand in mountainous
and backward areas of the country there w'ere many former partizan
fighters, invalids and u'ar widows mostly landless and homeless. Their colonization
to Vojvodina was the sole and the right solution of their imperilled existence.
In the second part, the author presents his methodological approach to the
undertaken investigation. He used the method of direct observation and survey
sample comprising 222 households with 1,050 members in one of many typical
colonist communities in Vojvodina. He divided the population into three groups
1) autochtons are those inhabitants w'ho settled in before the last w'orld war, 2)
internal colonist are those who moved in and settled there after the II world war
but from the vicinity of the observed colonist community and 3) external colonists
who were colonized under the program of colonization of the new established
socialistic state from other regions of Yugoslavia after the II world w?ar. The
author analysed the mutual relations and attitudes of noted groups according to
marriage, changes in occupation, transformation of family, friendly relations,
attitudes of groups to each other before and after the colonization and in that
connection notes the different social characteristics of groups as an explanation
of the results and conclusions of his analysis. The author drew very interesting
conclusions from the questionnaire designed to find out what are the attitudes
of colonists towards their former native communities. The general conclusion ol
the author says that the group of external colonists, in comparison wnth the other
two groups, is more mobile horizontally and vertically and that the process ol
adaptations of both groups of colonists developed considerably slower than it was
expected
Croatian historiography about Požega and the Požega county in the High and Late Middle Ages
No full textU radu autor prikazuje dostignuća hrvatske historiografije posljednjih
stotinjak godina o srednjovjekovnoj povijesti Požege i Požeške županije. Prateći literaturu u dijakronijskoj perspektivi, autor je grupirao radove u tri cjeline: one nastale do kraja Drugog svjetskog rata (1945.), zatim one u socijalističkom razdoblju (1945-1990) te konačno radove o srednjovjekovnoj povijesti Požege i Požeške županije od osamostaljenja Hrvatske do danas. Pri tome je pokušao pokazati i naglasiti metodološke postavke pojedinih autora, kao i specifične značajke pristupa unutar svakog od pojedinih razdoblja. Na kraju teksta autor daje i neke prijedloge za napredak u istraživanjima požeškog srednjovjekovlja.In this paper the author made an overview of the Croatian historiography during the last century on the Town and County of Požega in the Middle Ages. Following the literature in the diachronic perspective, he grouped the various books and articles into three groups: firstly, those that were written till the end of the World War II, secondly, the ones from the socialist period (1945-1990), and finally those that were written after 1990. The author focused his attention on the methodological concepts of various authors and some specific features of each of the above-mentioned periods in historiography.
In the conclusion the author gave several suggestions how to make a step forward in the research on medieval Požega
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