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Roth\u27s Fiction from Nemesis to Nemesis
No full textIn her article Roth\u27s Fiction from Nemesis to Nemesis Emily Budick discusses Philip Roth\u27s novel Nemesis as the culminating work of a career in which one nemesis or another has afflicted almost all of the author\u27s protagonists. During the bulk of Roth\u27s career, the hero\u27s nemesis was generally, as in the ordinary, literary usage of the term, the protagonist\u27s enemy, whether Judge Wapter in The Ghost Writer or the alter-Roth in The Counterlife. In Nemesis Roth restores the word nemesis to its classical meaning: Nemesis, as the goddess of revenge and cosmic balance. The nemesis in Roth\u27s novel, therefore, is mortality itself, against which human beings vainly strive. It is also the condition of disease and filth that human beings shares with each other and the natural world, that some humans would, with hubris, attempt to put themselves beyond
The Subject of Holocaust Fiction
No full textConsidering works by Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Aharon Appelfeld, Michael Chabon, and others, Budick investigates how the reading subject makes sense of these fictionalized presentations of memory and trauma, victims and victimizers.Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue: Ghostwriting the Holocaust: The Ghost Writer, The Diary, The Kindly Ones, and Me -- SECTION I. Psychoanalytic Listening and Fictions of the Holocaust -- 1 Voyeurism, Complicated Mourning, and the Fetish: Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl -- 2 Forced Confessions: Subject Position, Framing, and the "Art" of Spiegelman's Maus -- 3 Aryeh Lev Stollman's The Far Euphrates: Re-Picturing the Pre-Memory Moment -- SECTION II. Golems, Ghosts, Idols, and Messiahs: Complicated Mourning and the Intertextual Construction of a Jewish Symptom -- 4 Bruno Schulz, the Messiah, and Ghost/writing the Past -- 5 A Jewish History of Blocked Mourning and Love -- 6 See Under: Mourning -- SECTION III. Mourning Becomes the Nations: Styron, Schlink, Sebald -- 7 Blacks, Jews, and Southerners in William Styron's Sophie's Choice -- 8 (Re)Reading the Holocaust from a German Point of View: Bernhard Schlink's The Reader -- 9 Mourning and Melancholia in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz -- Epilogue: Holocaust, Apartheid, and the Slaughter of Animals: J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Cora Diamond's "Difficulty of Reality" -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ZConsidering works by Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Aharon Appelfeld, Michael Chabon, and others, Budick investigates how the reading subject makes sense of these fictionalized presentations of memory and trauma, victims and victimizers.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Triglycerides potentiate the inflammatory response in rat Kupffer cells
No full textAccumulation of fat in the liver, also known as steatosis, may lead to inflammation and tissue damage. Kupffer cells (KCs) are the resident macrophages of the liver and have an important role in inflammatory reactions. The inflammatory response of isolated rat KCs to endotoxin in the presence of lipids was investigated in this study. KCs were treated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and triglycerides (TGs) alone or in combination. TGs had no effect on the expression of pro-inflammatory mediators, but adding TGs to LPS enhanced the induction of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), compared with LPS treatment alone. Increased DNA binding of NF-kappa B transcription factor was seen on simultaneous exposure of the cells to TGs and LPS, which was accompanied by decreased intracellular ROS production and increased GSH levels. The inflammation-potentiating effect of TGs on iNOS expression was abolished on NF-kappa B inhibition. This enhanced inflammatory response might indicate a contribution of lipids to the inflammatory conditions in the fatty liver by increased activation of KCs
Writing and the rights of reality: usurpation and potentiality in Derrida, Plato, Nietzsche, and Beckett
No full textThe thesis critically evaluates Jacques Derrida's conferral of the rights of reality on writing, focussing on his theory of an arche-text in light of the speculative nature of this theory. The theory is initially considered in the context of Derrida's elucidation of the usurpatory status of writing within the Platonic and Nietzschean texts. This consideration reveals an admission of writing's usurpatory status by both writers while at the same time demonstrating their awareness of the intrinsically speculative nature of this view, the significance of writing lying in its ability to exteriorise the radically indeterminate status of consciousness m relation to reality rather than its ability to displace consciousness or reality The analyses, therefore, not only bring the Derridean hypothesis of a repressive or phonocentric metaphysical episteme into question but also exhibit the historical and philosophical role of potentiality in relation to writing, writing's ultimate significance lying in its capacity to exteriorise our existence as a mode of potentiality. Accordingly, in the second half of the thesis the Derridean theory of writing is countered with a specifically Aristotelian theory of the text as it is exhibited in the prose of Samuel Beckett, an author whose significance lies in his close alignment with Derridean theory within contemporary criticism. It is demonstrated that this identification has obviated an awareness of the significance of potentiality within the Beckettian text, his work consequently being appraised in the previously neglected context of Aristotelian metaphysics
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The Beam-Beam Counters for the BRAHMS Experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Final Technical Report
No full textThe BRAHMS Beam-Beam counters were designed to provide vertex and triggering information as well as charged particle multiplicity densities in heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The Beam-Beam counters cover the pseudorapidity range 2.7<{eta}<4.5. They continue to function in all three of these capacities. As a result, all of the major discoveries of BRAHMS have been dependent on the Beam-Beam counters
Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation
No full textBlacks and Jews in Literary Conversation explores the works of a range of black and Jewish writers, critics, and academics from the 1950s to the 1980s. By recording conversations both direct, such as essays and letters, and indirect, such as the fiction of Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Alice Walker, Cynthia Ozick, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin, this book shows how dialogue can engender misperceptions and misunderstandings, and how blacks and Jews in America have both sought and resisted assimilation. By analyzing the history of this discourse, the author explores the ways in which ethnic fiction works in interethnic America, the effects of identity politics, and the tensions and bonds created as African and Jewish Americans continue to construct their ethnic and religious identities in the United States.</jats:p
Nuclear quadrupole moment of palladium-105 from HFS [hyperfine splitting] constants
No full textThe ground state of Pd is 1So and it had electronic configuration of 1s22s22p63s23p63d104s24p64d10. The next configuration...4d95s is responsible for giving rise to 3D3, 3D2, 3D1 and 1D2 metastable states. By using the peviously measured quadrupole interaction const. B of the 3D3 state, the nuclear quadrupole moment Q of 105Pd was obtained from the relation: B = (e2/h)qJQ where qJ is the field gradient at the nucleus and is related to 〈1/r3〉, which is evaluated by knowing the fine-structure sepn. between the 3D3 and 3D1 metastable levels of Pd. The calcn. gives Q = +0.73b for 105Pd, which compares very well with Q = +0.724b obtained by using 〈1/r3〉 = 6.1ao-3 reported by B Budick (1968)
Polarization Corrections for Shielding and Antishielding Configurations of the Copper Atom
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