322 research outputs found
Alexia: Antigone Kefala's overdue fairytale
No full textThe aim of this paper is to examine the way in which Antigone Kefala constructs her story to become an author. She narrates her experience in her book Alexia (Antigone Kefala"s persona) in a fairytale manner. In the book we learn that Alexia spent some of the most important years of her young life in New Zealand, as a migrant. The most important part of this experience is based on her difficulty to come to terms with, and learn, a new language (English). What begins by being a traumatic experience for Alexia, later evolves into a creative force that guides her decision to become an author. In that way the English language becomes the most powerful, the most creative and the most productive tool in her life.
In order to challenge Alexia's process of becoming an author, her experience is compared to that of two famous French authors, Aragon and Sartre, who also decided to become authors in their childhood years. There was an obvious parallel between the French authors’ experiences through their first language, which corresponded in an astonishing way to Alexia's. Therefore, no matter whether one wishes to express oneself in one’s mother tongue or a foreign language, the process of becoming an author is always to consider a language as an unknown field of strange sounds, musicality and scattered grains of meanings
Publication in BMC Research Notes: Shifts in soil and plant functional diversity along an altitudinal gradient in the French Alps
No full textAuthors: Stokes A., Angeles G., Barois I., Bounous M, Cruz-Maldonaldo N, Decaëns T, Freschet G., Gabriac Q, Hernandez D., Jimenez L., Ma J, Mao Z, Marin-Castro B, Merino-Martin L, Mohamed A, Reverchon F, Selli L., Sieron K., Weemstra M., Roumet
Lateralization of the visual word form area in patients with alexia after stroke
No full textBackground Knowledge of the process by which visual information is integrated into the brain reading system promotes a better understanding of writing and reading models. Objective This study aimed to use functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to explore whether the Blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) contrast imaging patterns, of putative cortical region of the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA), are distinct in aphasia patients with moder- ate and severe alexia. Methods Twelve chronic stroke patients (5 patients with severe alexia and 7 pa- tients with moderate alexia) were included. A word categorization task was used to examine responses in the VWFA and its right homolog re- gion. Patients performed a semantic decision task in which words were contrasted with non-verbal fonts to assess the lateralization of reading ability in the ventral occipitotemporal region. Results A fixed effects (FFX) general linear model (GLM) multi-study from the contrast of patients with moderate alexia and those with severe alexia (FDR, p = 0.05, corrected for multiples comparisons using a Threshold Estimator plugin (1000 Monte Carlo simulations), was per- formed. Activation of the left VWFA was robust in patients with mod- erate alexia. Aphasia patients with severe reading deficits also activated the right homolog VWFA. Conclusions This bilateral activation pattern only in patients with severe alexia could be interpreted as a result of reduced recruitment of the left VWFA for reading tasks due to the severe reading deficit. This study provides some new insights about reading pathways and possible neuroplasti- city mechanisms in aphasia patients with alexia. Additional reports could explore the predictive value of right VWFA activation for reading recovery and aid language therapy in patients with aphasia.N/
Introducción (del volumen II de Esquiveles Y Manriques)
No full textIntroducción a cargo de Alexia Dotras Bravo sobre el II tomo de Esquiveles y Manriques. La corrupcion, la ambicion de poder de los españoles y el erotismo inherente a todos los personajes siguen siendo material narrativo de El semental negro, que concentra el peso del argumento sobre el triangulo amoroso formado por el Virrey, su esposa y Rodrigo Manrique. Sin embargo, habremos de esperar a Satanael para que los caminos de Esquiveles y Manriques terminen por unirse definitivamente, aunque a diferencia de las obras precedentes, ahora nos encontramos en escenarios tan variados como Venezuela, Cuba o España, y en pleno siglo XVIII prerrevolucionario con todos los grandes cambios que ello acarrea
Esquiveles y Manriques: una gota de tiempo: el semental negro: Satanael
No full textSegundo tomo de la publicación del ciclo de novela histórica de Salvador de Madariaga, Esquiveles y Manriques II, edición a cargo de Alexia Dotras Bravo. La corrupción, la ambición de poder de los españoles y el erotismo inherente a todos los personajes siguen siendo material narrativo de El semental negro, que concentra el peso del argumento sobre el triángulo amoroso formado por el Virrey, su esposa y Rodrigo Manrique. Sin embargo, habremos de esperar a Satanael para que los caminos de Esquiveles y Manriques terminen por unirse definitivamente, aunque a diferencia de las obras precedentes, ahora nos encontramos en escenarios tan variados como Venezuela, Cuba o España, y en pleno siglo XVIII prerrevolucionario con todos los grandes cambios que ello acarrea.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Esquiveles y Manriques: una gota de tiempo: el semental negro: Satanael
No full textSegundo tomo de la publicación del ciclo de novela histórica de Salvador de Madariaga, Esquiveles y Manriques II, edición a cargo de Alexia Dotras Bravo. La corrupción, la ambición de poder de los españoles y el erotismo inherente a todos los personajes siguen siendo material narrativo de El semental negro, que concentra el peso del argumento sobre el triángulo amoroso formado por el Virrey, su esposa y Rodrigo Manrique. Sin embargo, habremos de esperar a Satanael para que los caminos de Esquiveles y Manriques terminen por unirse definitivamente, aunque a diferencia de las obras precedentes, ahora nos encontramos en escenarios tan variados como Venezuela, Cuba o España, y en pleno siglo XVIII prerrevolucionario con todos los grandes cambios que ello acarrea.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Introducción (del volumen II de Esquiveles Y Manriques
No full textIntroducción a cargo de Alexia Dotras Bravo sobre el II tomo de Esquiveles y Manriques. La corrupcion, la ambicion de poder de los españoles y el erotismo inherente a todos los personajes siguen siendo material narrativo de El semental negro, que concentra el peso del argumento sobre el triangulo amoroso formado por el Virrey, su esposa y Rodrigo Manrique. Sin embargo, habremos de esperar a Satanael para que los caminos de Esquiveles y Manriques terminen por unirse definitivamente, aunque a diferencia de las obras precedentes, ahora nos encontramos en escenarios tan variados como Venezuela, Cuba o España, y en pleno siglo XVIII prerrevolucionario con todos los grandes cambios que ello acarrea.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Nonconvulsive status epilepticus manifesting as pure alexia (alexia without agraphia)
No full textPure alexia is a rare disorder usually caused by an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke. We describe a case of pure alexia due to nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE). This 57-year-old man presented in a hyperosmolar, nonketotic state with fluctuations in mental status and an inability to read. His EEG was diagnostic of NCSE originating from the left temporo-occipital region. MRI of the brain revealed increased FLAIR signal over the left occipitotemporal region. Following initiation of antiepileptic treatment, his neurological examination normalized concomitantly with resolution of the NCSE. A follow-up MRI scan of the brain obtained 1 month later was normal. NCSE can have unusual clinical manifestations, and a high index of suspicion is necessary to correctly diagnose these patients. © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Bauer G, 2006, EPILEPSY BEHAV, V8, P666, DOI 10.1016-j.yebeh.2006.01.002; Bhatoe HS, 2002, NEUROL INDIA, V50, P226; BINDER JR, 1992, BRAIN, V115, P1807, DOI 10.1093-brain-115.6.1807; Cohen L, 2003, CEREB CORTEX, V13, P1313, DOI 10.1093-cercor-bhg079; Dogulu CF, 1996, J NEUROL NEUROSUR PS, V61, P528, DOI 10.1136-jnnp.61.5.528; ERDEM S, 1995, J NEURO-OPHTHALMOL, V15, P102; Estanol B, 1999, REV NEUROLOGIA, V28, P243; HENRY TR, 1994, EPILEPSIA, V35, P35, DOI 10.1111-j.1528-1157.1994.tb02909.x; Kavuk I, 2005, EUR J MED RES, V10, P243; KOSNIK E, 1976, NEUROLOGY, V26, P248; Leff AP, 2006, J NEUROL NEUROSUR PS, V77, P1004, DOI 10.1136-jnnp.2005.086983; Leff AP, 2001, BRAIN, V124, P510, DOI 10.1093-brain-124.3.510; LUSCHER C, 1992, EUR NEUROL, V32, P26, DOI 10.1159-000116783; Sabet HY, 2004, AM J NEURORADIOL, V25, P419; Stahlman G C, 1988, J Tenn Med Assoc, V81, P77; TURGMAN J, 1979, ANN NEUROL, V6, P265, DOI 10.1002-ana.41006031666
Craftsmen and Society: the Lysippean Kairos
No full textThe debate on the social status of the craftsman in the ancient world involved various generations of
scholars.
In classical Greece the word “art” in its aesthetic significance, as is known, does not exist and it does
not exist a term used to indicate the “artist” as an expression of the creative process. Two sets of constraints
hampered full recognition of “téchne” as a craft activity: the one, ontological and epistemological, and the other
practical ethical and socio-political.
The conceptualization of beauty with its intrinsic ethical stance, not exclusively referred to téchnai,
does not have the qualities to substantiate téchnai themself systematically and become a specific category at the
same time.
This premise is necessary to reconsiderate the aesthetic and historical content of the Lysippean Kairos.
The bronze graphic reconstruction shows the child on tiptoe on the ball, with broad wings back and a small
pairs at the ankles. He grabs with his right hand a razor which support the balance, and touches a left dish with
the index finger. Long hair descends on the forehead, leaving bare occiput and nape.
The subject has been studied extensively, but going deep in the cultural evidence some ambiguities
emerge and stimulate us to reevaluate the matter. A way forward to clarify the intent of the author and
therefore the archetypal image of the work seems to consider different reading levels, both the symbolic valu
Comments on Alexia Yates’ Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital
No full textThis comment is part of a roundtable on Alexia Yates’ book, Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital (Harvard University Press, 2015). In it, the author summarizes Yates’ argument, discusses her source base, and explains why historians whose interests lie beyond 19th century France should read the book.Ce commentaire fait partie de la table ronde portant sur le livre d’Alexia Yates, Selling Paris: Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital (Harvard University Press, 2015). L’auteur y résume le propos de Yates, discute de ses sources et explique pourquoi les historiens qui s’intéressent au XIXe siècle français devraient lire ce livre
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