1,689 research outputs found
On Nahuat-Pipil hermeneutics: a Salvadoran native language under erasure
No full textThis paper examines how a literary national canon is consolidated excluding the study of the most important Native language of the country. Adapting Natives to a folkloric figure and assimilating Otherness to the Same, Nahuat-Pipil linguistic legacy was ignored during the 20th century. The paper reveals a huge disparity between foreign and Salvadoran linguistics. It outlines a scientific discrepancy, as well as it sketches the nationalistic perspectives that timidly approach the study of the Nahuat-Pipil language: P. Arauz (1926/1960) T. Fidias Jiménez (1935), J. Todd (1953), M. de Baratta (1959), P. Geoffroy Rivas (1961). Salvadoran artistic canon invents the figure of a Native without a mother tongue. Indeed, two foreigners accomplished the main grammatical and mythological compilations: Leonhard Schultze-Jena (1935) and Lyle Campbell (1985). For this reason, the advance of Nahuatl-Mexicano studies —with more than four hundred and fifty works (M. León- Portilla in T. Sullivan, 1976) — has barely affected Salvadoran monolingual canon. At the verge of the civil war, the Native’s image was reduced to an ancient inhabitant of Atlantis (Salarrué, 1974) or to a guerrilla fighter (Dalton, 1974), according to the philosophy and politics of the author. Nowadays, despite a new intellectual sphere, current works on Native linguistics (R. Andrews (2003), M. Launay (1994), J. Lockhart (2001), etc.), and ethno-history (L. Matthew and S. Romero, 2012) have not yet produced a radical change in the viewpoint that Salvadoran intellectual history bestows on Nahuat-Pipil language and literature. As a political being —but barely gifted with language— Nahuat-Pipil research is still missing, despite the rise of Central American Cultural Studies. Its hermeneutics —grammatical categories, syntax and poetics— continue to be unexplored
The chivalric discourse in M. Yogansen’s “Travelling…” and G.K. Chesterson’s “The Return of Don Quixote”
No full textThe article deals with the peculiarities of chivalric discourse in M. Yogansen’s “Travelling…” and G. K. Chesterson’s “The Return of Don Quixote”. The author shows the most important chivalric novels’ features and their transformation in the texts of Ukrainian and English writers.Стаття присвячена дослідженню особливостей лицарського дискурсу в “Подорожі…” М. Йогансена та “Поверненні Дон Кіхота” Г. К. Честертона. Автор виділяє характерні риси лицарського роману та досліджує їх трансформацію у творах українського та англійського
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Hydraulic simulations to evaluate and predict design and operation of the Chashma Right Bank Canal
No full textIrrigation systems / Irrigation canals / Flow control / Velocity / Canal regulation techniques / Hydraulics / Simulation models / Design / Operations / Crop-based irrigation / Distributary canals / Water delivery / Policy / Protective irrigation / Water allocation / Water requirements / Sedimentation / Water distribution / Equity / Water conveyance / Pakistan / Chashma Right Bank Canal
Revisiting Don/ovan
No full textIn this piece, the author, a heterosexual woman, travels to her hometown of Lake City, MN to reconnect with Donovan Marshall, a gay man she last saw in 1986. Revisiting Don/ovan explores opportunities and challenges of coming out, leaving, and returning to live in a small town
Don Quixote and Romanticism in nineteenth-century England: irony in Duffield’s, Ormsby’s and Watts’ translations
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to offer a comparative analysis of the nineteenth-century
translations of Don Quixote into English, which have received little critical attention to date.
During this process I will focus on the issue of translating irony, in order to engage in the
discussion regarding reader response to Don Quixote in England during the nineteenth
century. This reader reception represents another area of research yet to be studied in any
significant detail.
This thesis will take the following structure: in the first chapter I will provide a
background into the existing problems and working concepts as they have been researched
so far. In the course of this I will look at the work of Allen (2008) in particular, as the critic
who has provided the longest known, though by no means exhaustive, list of examples of
irony identified in Don Quixote. This will be followed by a review of reader response along
the centuries, beginning with the seventeenth and eighteenth and then an overview of the
nineteenth. I will then engage in an analysis of specific examples of irony, using a
representative sample taken from Allen’s selection. The conclusions this analysis will offer
will shed further light on the importance of studying irony in Don Quixote, and also on how
irony can be used as an explanation as to why so many translations of it were produced in
such quick succession in the 1880s, after so long without any new versions. This research
also considers the question of the transience of irony and the extent to which what
constitutes irony changes over time, as reflected by a similar list of examples of irony
compiled by Albert Calvert (1905).
My analysis will also add further evidence to the two main debates surrounding
critical opinion on Don Quixote in the nineteenth century; firstly, that Ormsby’s is justified
in being regarded as the best translation of the three produced in that century, if not of all
time, and secondly, the ongoing debate over whether or not Don Quixote was or should still
have been regarded as a Romantic novel during the 1880s. By tracking trends and shifts in
critical thinking down the centuries since Don Quixote first appeared at the start of the
seventeenth century, my analysis will also offer some comment on the novel’s subsequent
twentieth-century reception. Moreover, as the first study of all three of the nineteenth-century
translations of Don Quixote into English, my conclusions make an important and
original contribution to the emerging area of study into Cervantes in a transnational
context
Letter from Patrick M. Duignan to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from Patrick M. Duignan, Summer Hill College Sligo, to Hagan. At the wish of the bishop, enclosing three documents of correspondence between the O'Conor Don, Clonalis, Castlerea, County Roscommon, and Bishop Bernard Coyne, St. Mary's, Sligo: the O'Conor Don recommends his friend Fr. Roche, now of St. John's Church, Brentford, London, for the rectorship at the Irish College. He has good command of Italian (marginal comment 'no Irish!') and is a 'kind zealous and polished priest'. The bishop replies that the present vice-rector �'a distinguished writer and author'- has a prior claim; the O'Conor Don concurs. Duignan offers himself as a potential vice-rector; asking for frank reply. Musing that the bishop's interest in the matter is surprising; he is intolerant of English interference and whole-heartedly supports Hagan
Don Quijote y Roque Guinart frente al estilo de vida de los poderosos
No full textThe apocryphal Second part of don Quixote altered many of the purposes of Cervantes. He changed the destination of his hero. As observed by don Quixote when visiting a printinghouse, its publication took place in Barcelona. The author gave prominence to a town as in picaresque novels. However, he did not modify his attitude towards the behaviour of the influential people, in keeping with Erasmus’ concept of stupidity. Surely, Cervantes reaffirmed his approach to the golden age through the presence of Roque Guinart, the only historical character who appears in the novel. This paper examines how the influential people behave in front of don Quixote, and how his performance is similar to that of Roque Guinart.La Segunda parte apócrifa del Quijote modificó muchos de los propósitos de Cervantes. Varió el destino de su héroe. Sostuvo que la publicación tuvo lugar en Barcelona como don Quijote observa en la visita a una imprenta. Dio protagonismo a un núcleo urbano como en la novela picaresca. Ahora bien, no cambió su actitud frente a los poderosos que actuaban en la línea de la estulticia de Erasmo. Seguramente reafirmó su planteamiento de la Edad Dorada con la presencia de Roque Guinart, el único personaje histórico, que aparece en la novela. Este trabajo analiza cómo se comportan los poderosos frente a don Quijote y cómo coincide su actuación con la de Roque Guinart
Analysis of the opinions and use of open access repositories by researchers in different disciplines; with specific focus on the development of a new institutional repository at Leeds Metropolitan University
No full textInstitutional repositories, which have been in existence since 2002, are open, web-based archives of research publications produced by members of a particular institution. Many UK Universities are now hosting or developing institutional repositories, believing that they will enhance the scholarly communication at the University and they will help to promote the institution. For IRs to become an accepted method of sharing information, a significant amount of work must be deposited in them, however to date researchers have shown little interest in depositing work in IRs. It has been suggested that differences between disciplines in terms of culture, funding, means of research and means of sharing information may account for the difference in uptake to IRs. I carried out an analysis of all the UK University IRs, and found that while there is a bias towards science/technology and medical research in the IRs compared with arts and humanities research, this corresponded to the bias in publishing output in these disciplines. Other studies have highlighted barriers that researchers perceive to placing their research in IRs. Leeds Metropolitan University is currently developing an IR and I undertook a questionnaire survey and follow-up interviews with Leeds Met research staff to compare their attitudes and behaviours towards depositing their work in IRs. I found that awareness of open access amongst research staff is quite high, with 66% having some knowledge of open access. Also, many researchers appear to understand the benefits offered by this alternative to traditional journal publishing. Concerns raised amongst the research staff included many of the same concerns as published in previous studies. I found little difference between disciplines and length-of-service of the researchers (although my survey numbers were low). The IR development team at Leeds Met should endeavour to address these concerns in order to achieve successful uptake of the new IR at the University. The success of the Leeds Met IR also depends to some extent on the self-archiving policies of publishers with which Leeds Met researchers have published their work. These self-archiving policies are not clear for many publishers, who may be re-considering their policies due to recent changes and may see the development of IRs as a threat to their business
Essays in Derivatives: Risk-Transfer Tools and Topics Made Easy
No full textIn the updated second edition of Don Chance\u27s well-received Essays in Derivatives, the author once again keeps derivatives simple enough for the beginner, but offers enough in-depth information to satisfy even the most experienced investor. This book provides up-to-date and detailed coverage of various financial products related to derivatives and contains completely new chapters covering subjects that include why derivatives are used, forward and futures pricing, operational risk, and best practices.https://repository.lsu.edu/facultybooks/1422/thumbnail.jp
The design and construction of eight costumes for leading characters in the opera Don Pasquale : a creative project
No full textThis creative project is the design and construction of costumes for the opera "Don Pasquale" using flat pattern, draping and fitting methods. This creative project enabled the author to gain an understanding of the methods and skills of the craft of costume construction with emphesis on short cuts for rapid construction and methods for making changes in costumes for future use.This project also involved a thorough study of the 18th century period costumes and textiles and the planning of each costume in relationship to the stage setting and lighting.Thesis (M.A.
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