209 research outputs found
"I don’t really like tedious, monotonous work": working-class young women, service sector employment and social mobility in contemporary Russia
No full textThis article contributes a global perspective to the emerging literature on girlhood in western contexts by examining the changing shape of transitions to adulthood amongst working-class young women in St. Petersburg, Russia. As in many western countries, new forms of service sector employment and an increasingly accessible higher education system appear to offer young women new prospects for social mobility. In contrast to the increasingly impoverished and denigrated traditional pathways into work, the young women in the study derive significant value from these new opportunities, constructing narratives of self-actualisation and approximating notions of respectable femininity. Nevertheless, actual social mobility is elusive, as familiar patterns of classed and gendered stratification limit their prospects. Despite its specificity, the case thus further illustrates the limited nature of the transformations available to young women through the new forms of education and work characteristic of global neoliberal contexts
Roald Dahl: the Author for Two Audiences. A comparison of His Writings for Children and Adults
No full textKatedra anglistiky a amerikanistikyDokončená práce s úspěšnou obhajobo
On the Benthic Invertebrate Megafauna at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, in the Vicinity of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone
No full textLittle is known about the fauna that inhabits non-chemosynthetic environments associated with mid-ocean ridges. This thesis investigates a ridge and fracture zone system to assess its influence as a barrier to faunal dispersal, and as a unique bathyal habitat. It also describes the ecology of megabenthic communities inhabiting a ridge. Sites were chosen on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the vicinity of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone, at a target depth of 2,500 m. Four superstations were chosen north and south of the Fracture Zone, on either side of the ridge. Different productivity levels and hydrographic features were characteristic for the northern and southern sites. In order to characterise the benthic megafauna 50 ha were trawled and 32,000 m2 of seafloor were sampled with HD video footage, targeting both flat and 10 ? sloped habitats. Holothurians were the most abundant megafauna. In order to assess their evolutionary relationship 43 holothurian specimens were genetically studied by modelling five of their genes (16S, 18S, 28S, COI, H3) in a phylogenetic analysis. All four sites exhibited noticeably different faunal characteristics. The biomass was highest at the SE, and lowest at the NW site. Body sizes differed between sites for most taxa, that were sufficient in numbers to be compared between sites, most likely as a result of different adaptations to food supply. Differences in species richness were observed between the sampling methods, with the highest richness at the SE site in trawl samples, and highest at the NW and SW sites in the video survey. Species densities were highest at the northern sites with both methods. Differences in diversity were also observed, with trawl samples providing a higher taxonomic resolution than the video survey and showing highest diversity at the SE site and lowest at the NE site. Community composition was significantly different between sites. Variations in the composition of megabenthic assemblages were observed between flat and 10 ? sloped habitats, although the effect of slope appears to be site dependent. The genetic analyses revealed a close relationship between individuals from different families. The extent to which the Ridge acts as a faunal barrier was unclear as the southern sites lacked an obvious difference in community composition. Faunal differences to the north and south of the Fracture Zone, however, suggest that this feature is a barrier to dispersal. The contrasting megafaunal assemblages of the sites probably reflect a combination of environmental drivers including sediment type, phytodetrital quality, hydrography, and habitat complexity
Meer dan woorden in de duisternis: Charlie Marlow en het postuur van een oeuvre-personage
No full textLiterary critics have often read Joseph Conrad’s character Charlie Marlow as either autobiographical or as a literary trope, leaving ample space for his mimetic features. This thesis sets out to make an ontological space within literary theory for the mimetic aspects of one of Conrad’s most important characters. By fusing Jérôme Meizoz’s theories on author postures with Algirdas Julien Greimas’ pragmatic semiotic models, it looks at the construction and development of Charlie Marlow’s posture within, and in between, the following works of Joseph Conrad: “Youth”, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and Chance (NB in that order). The ‘Marlovian’ antithesis between responsibility to group standards and individual idealism, between ‘solidarity’ and ‘solitariness’, forms the central theme of Marlow’s struggles and his posture is researched specifically in relation to this inner conflict
Animating the image : reflections on character and process in the "The First and Last Loves of Leonardo Lopes"
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 27-30).In reflecting on the process of making the short film "The First and Last Loves of Leonardo Lopes" the author argues against interpretation as a method for working with character and its development. It is contended that the formative unconscious imagers) at the heart of a character requires a director to be more sensory in her/his response and to develop an intimate process of animating the image. The descriptive personal vocabularies of feeling, intuition and sensation are accordingly juxtaposed against prescriptive impersonal intellectual modalities that diminish immediacy as a by-product of its "latent content". Active imagination, poetry and music are seen as more appropriate models for the filmmaker than theories and theses. The author goes on to consider the dialectical reinforcement of interpretive strategies as a result of the economic pressures of the film industry and argues for a more process friendly conception of production. After reflecting on the role and insecurities of the director in a collaborative art form, a motivation is provided for the "natural voice" of the accompanying director's commentary
Communography in Phyllis Naidoo's "Charlie and Jo"
No full textPhyllis Naidoo’s Footprints beyond Grey Street (2007) adjusts conventional
boundaries of the autobiographical genre: it is written by Naidoo but appears not to
be principally concerned with the author’s life. It is written largely about her comrades
in the African National Congress who were in exile in African countries. Of the stories
in Naidoo’s “autobiography”, “Charlie and Jo” in particular epitomises the absence of
the author: a stylistic and generic anomaly which merits particular attention and thus
forms the focus of this article. This memory-tale of social recollection evidences
autobiographical self-displacement: the privileging of collective memory as opposed
to an individual’s nostalgic journey towards self-definition. This foregrounding of a
collective identity has been identified and termed communography in the writings of
comparable political groups such as the Irish Republican Army. d termed communography in the writings of comparable political groups such as the Irish Republican Army
Automatically Generated Keywords: A Comparison to Author-Generated Keywords in the Sciences
No full textThis paper examines the differences between author-generated keywords and automatically generated keywords in one area of scientific and technical literature. Using inverse frequency, keywords produced using both methods are examined using a maximum likelihood algorithm. By reducing the scope and size of the corpus of literature examined, this study more closely emulates the information gathering processes of scientists and technologists. Care was taken in developing the sample used, balancing statistical factors to allow interpretable outcomes and replication. The results of the study indicated there are no statistically significant differences between the two techniques
Dracocephalum grandiflorum Linnaeus 1753
No full textDracocephalum grandiflorum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 595. 1753. "Habitat in Sibiria." RCN: 4320. Lectotype (Budantzev in Jarvis & al. in Taxon 50: 511. 2001): Gmelin s.n., Herb. Linn. No. 746.8 (LINN). Current name: Dracocephalum grandiflorum L. (Lamiaceae). Note: Tscherneva (in Grubov & al., Pl. C. Asia 5: 48-49. 2002) stated "Type in London (Linn.)" and cited Keenan (in Baileya 5: 33. 1957) as saying there are three collections in LINN. Two of these were reported to be “typical” (the third is supposed to be D. stellerianum Hiltebr.), which Tscherneva stated "were evidently collected from Barguzin and should be treated as type of D. grandiflorum L.". Keenan regarded all three as conspecific, but 746.8 (from Gmelin) as the atypical one of the three (with smaller flowers and entire bracts) from which "Linnaeus obviously drew his description". However, neither author made a statement clearly designating any one of these collections as the type.Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part D), pp. 474-489 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 487, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.29197
Selachian faunas from the earliest Cretaceous Purbeck Group of Dorset, southern England.
No full textAbundant selachian remains have been recovered from a number of horizons through the Purbeck Group at Durlston Bay, Lulworth Cove and Stair Hole in southern England. The remains, primarily teeth, but additionally fin spines and dermal denticles, belong to selachians from two major groups, the Hybodontoidea and the Rhinobatoidei. The assemblage of hybodont sharks is quite diverse, comprising six species from the four genera ‘Hybodus’, Egertonodus, Polyacrodus and Lonchidion. The rhinobatoid rays include two species, one belonging to the genus Belemnobatis and another, larger, indeterminate ray. Within the Purbeck fauna, two species are new: Lonchidion inflexum sp. nov. and Belemnobatis variabilis sp. nov. Within the entirely non-marine succession of the Purbeck Group, the beds containing ray teeth also contain molluscs indicative of more saline intervals. In all of the sampled beds, the hybodont faunas recovered were relatively homogenous
Canyons, deltas and plains: towards a unified sculptural model of location-based hypertext
No full textWith the growing ubiquity of mobile devices, new ways of sensing context and the emergence of the mobile Web, digital storytelling is escaping the confines of the desktop and intertwinging in new and interesting ways with the physical world. Mobile, location aware, narrative systems are being applied to a range of areas including tour guides, educational tools and interactive fiction. Despite this there is little understanding of how these applications are related or how they link with existing hypertext models and theory.We argue that location aware narrative systems tend to follow three patterns (canyons, deltas and plains) and that it is possible to represent all of these patterns in a conceptual sculptural hypertext model. Our model builds on a general sculptural mechansim (of pre-conditions and behaviours) to include locality and narrative transitions as first class elements, opening the possibility of standardised viewers, formats, and hybrid stories. We show how existing structures can be mapped onto this conceptual sculptural model, and how narratives defined in the model can take advantage of open data sources and sensed contextual data. To demonstrate this we present the GeoYarn system, a prototype which implements the model to create interactive, location aware narratives, using all three patterns
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