484 research outputs found
Genre and identity in the work of David Grossman.
No full textDavid Grossman is a central figure in Israeli literature. Widely translated, his work has achieved international acclaim for its bold and innovative engagement in the events and mood of the day. In this study, the first monograph on his work in English, I focus on his process of constructing identity through storytelling. Key themes of identity---adolescence and parent-child relationships, sexuality and the body-soul dichotomy---are interwoven into diverse literary genres. My method is to examine the paradigms and significance of Grossman's literary genres, placing them in the context of Israeli and Western literature. I analyse his technique of manipulating traditional structural features of these genres to reveal the ambiguities and changing nature of identity. I show how he acknowledges his literary forefathers by his use of intertext to develop identity. I contend that Grossman's focus on the adolescent protagonist pinpoints a young person's confrontation with his inherited identity. I discuss The Book of Intimate Grammar as zntx-Bildungsroman, illustrating the instability experienced en route to a cogent sense of self and an accommodation with the adult world. Grossman breaks new ground in his seminal work of Holocaust fiction, See under: Love. Moving beyond the sphere of witness accounts and their consequent fiction, he uses a fragmented plot and complex narratives, revealing the impossibility of viewing the Holocaust as a single synchronic story, exposing the damaged identities that remain. In Be My Knife, his more recent epistolary novel, I find a shift in his construction of identity. Rhythms of internal and external languages combine in this exploration of sexuality and parenthood. I suggest that his narrative techniques of multiple voices and indeterminate endings enhance reader involvement. They are a call to share Grossman's enduring commitment to a "wide-hearted humanism". This credo involves creating an ethical identity of self-examination, facilitating the recognition of difference in self and others, as evidenced in his socio-political novel and essays. I highlight Grossman's artistry: his sensitivity to registers of language, expressing sociological aspects of Israeli life in the past decades. Ultimately, for Grossman, both the world and the "I" are but a narrative
Li–ion diffusion on the surface of Ti3C2-T (T=O, S, F, Cl, Br) MXene
No full textK. A. Papadopoulou, D. Parfitt, A. Chroneos and S.-R. G. Christopoulos, “Li–ion diffusion on the surface of Ti3C2-T (T=O, S, F, Cl, Br) MXene”, European Materials Research Society Spring 2022 meeting, 30 May-3 June 2022, onlin
Theatre Screening: "The Sound of the Light, the Light of the Sound: Wave-Particle, David", "Imaginary Friends", and "Impro Picnic (for Piano and Hands)"
No full textThree films from the GIOGlobal ZOOM recordings were premiered in the Centre for Contemporary Art Theatre, as part of the GIOFest XVII 2025 Evening Concerts.
"The Sound of the Light, the Light of the Sound: Wave-Particle, David", and "Impro Picnic (for Piano and Hands) are playful and profound relay duet pieces that at times unfold to a large ensemble of dancers and musicians, staged by Minori Seki in Soja Art House, with the Okayama creative community.
For Impro Picnic Minori Seki offered the prompt: “Some musicians who come to Soja Art House plays online for the first time.
And maybe some people play improvisation for the first time.
I want them to enjoy online improvisation without being left behind....
I will try to do this in person event at first.It take our time more slowly than online score.
We will spend time lazily like a picnic in the field.”
For Wave-Particle, Minori Seki shared:
"We can feel only eyesight and hearing in our five senses on Zoom session through internet. We can’t feel sense of smell, sense of taste, and sense of touch yet. And sense of spatial recognition, too, the computer display is still two dimensions.
Naturally saying,
All sense of vision is feeling light.
All sense of hearing is feeling sound.
Sometimes when we watch, we can feel the sound.Sometimes when we hear, we can feel the vision.
Even if it's not so much that it's called synaesthesia, we naturally do this. I wonder it is based on our each experience since birth.
Sensations can be mixed together.
In the zoom session, musicians can mixed their sounds together .But visuals are separated, it is displayed on divided windows. This time I will try to mix visuals by using projector. This is only technical aspect.I believe, I always feel that sounds and visuals can be mixed in GIO global sessions! We can feel each other over the long distance.
Please join this session to feel “ 光の音 音の光”.
A diverse cacophony of sounds were elicited by the arresting images of David's virtual background films that integrated with his virtual body, which then were danced with by Minori Seki due to her innovative projection zoom feedback loop installation, bleeding the digital space into projected site specific installations
"Imaginary Friends" is a short spontaneously arising film that spotlights a duet from improvising musician and experimental filmmaker Chris Parfitt, Wales, and Constance Cooper, an actor/composer/musician New York city. The duet is in response to the prompt of our friendships that formed over a ritual of weekly ZOOM recording sessions, between artists that have never met in a shared physical space - we asked, does this mean we are eachothers' imaginary friends? The performers share ambiguous and expressive hand gestures, incorporating humorous illusionistic paper hand props as a way of waving to eachother, across an ocean. The dance stimulates an improvised musical response from the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra Global ZOOM ensemble. This spontaneously arising piece, seemed to plant the seed of the idea for "When is a Mirror not A Mirror", a Hybrid Piece for ZOOM orchestra and ROOM orchestra - which asked Chris Parfitt and Constance Cooper to project physical gestures on ZOOM into the darkened theatre to conduct the ROOM orchestra.
These films allow the audience to feel the ZOOM performers expanded corporeal presence in the large theatre space, conveying the essence of weekly ritualistic performing recording sessions that have amassed over 600 hours of footage since March 2020
Jewish education and learning: published in honour of Dr. David Patterson on the occasion of his seventieth birthday
No full textFirst published in 1994. This volume, dedicated to Dr David Patterson, founding President of the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, takes as its theme Jewish education and learning throughout the ages. But it is the ‘Academy’ - interpreted here to mean an institution of Judaic scholarship - which dominates this collection of essays. For almost three thousand years centres of Jewish learning have flourished in many parts of the world. This volume discusses these institutions from biblical times to the present. From the time of the Mishnaic Academy at Yavneh, established in the first century CE, the academies were more than schools of higher religious education. They incorporated rational analysis of the scriptures, the natural sciences and other secular studies. Some of the most celebrated academies, such as those in Cairo and Tunisia, and later in the Iberian Peninsula were of a very high intellectual order, sometimes superior to the great Christian universities. It was at these institutions that the great Jewish legal and literary works were written and completed. This collection of essays has been written by outstanding scholars who have been associated with David Patterson and the Oxford Centre. The essays explore the nature and function of the ‘Jewish Academies' in the broadest sense, the leading personalities associated with them and their social, cultural and moral effect on the Jewish communities of their day
The role of atmospheric fronts in austral winter precipitation changes across Australia
No full text© The Author(s), 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Lawrence, L., Parfitt, R., & Ummenhofer, C. C. The role of atmospheric fronts in austral winter precipitation changes across Australia. Atmospheric Science Letters, 23(10), (2022): e1117, https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.1117.Over the past few decades, Southeast Australia has experienced severe regional climatic events and some of the most extreme droughts on record, linked in part to influences from both the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). In this article, the extent to which austral winter rainfall anomalies, in years leading into co-occurring ENSO and IOD events, are communicated specifically through variations in atmospheric fronts is quantified. The most extreme wet (dry) conditions occur in winters characterized by sea surface temperature anomaly patterns exhibiting features of La Niña-Negative IOD (El Niño-Positive IOD). It is found that most of these precipitation anomalies are related to changes in the precipitation associated with the passing of atmospheric fronts specifically. Although there is some suggestion that there are accompanying changes in the frequency of atmospheric fronts, the response appears to be dominated by changes in the amount of precipitation per individual atmospheric front. In addition, the distribution in the dynamic strength of individual atmospheric fronts remains relatively unchanged.Rhys Parfitt would like to gratefully acknowledge NSF OCE award number 2023585 and Caroline C. Ummenhofer support from the James E. and Barbara V. Moltz Fellowship for Climate-Related Research at WHOI
Mapping residual strain induced by cold working and by laser shock peening using neutron transmission spectroscopy
No full textThis paper presents 2D mapping of residual strains, induced by cold expansion and laser shock peening processing of aluminium alloy samples, by using Bragg edge neutron transmission. Neutron transmission uses information contained in the neutron beam transmitted through a sample. It is shown that neutron transmission strain mapping with high spatial resolution can provide important insights into the distribution of residual strains associated with processing of materials. The residual strain field around a cold-expanded hole can be revealed in detail, as can be the residual strain profile associated with laser peening. Results are correlated with measurements obtained by conventional neutron diffraction and incremental hole drilling. The residual strain variation around the cold-expanded hole and the depth of compressive residual strain generated by the peening process were captured with high spatial resolution, showing the advantages of neutron transmission over other well-established strain measurement methods by non-destructively generating a map of residual strains over a large area.</p
CBT Columbia River Watershed Simple Poster
No full textGeospatial Technologies & Natural Resource ManagementColumbia Basin Watershed Networ
The Great Fossil Mine of the southern North Sea: exploring the potential of submerged Palaeolithic archaeology
No full textThis research explores the potential of the submerged Palaeolithic archaeology of the southern North Sea for answering questions about how hominins occupied and adapted within their environments in these northerly latitudes throughout the Pleistocene. Recent coastal discoveries in East Anglia have demonstrated occupation as far back as ~1 million years, and yet our appreciation of the how, why and who of this occupation is missing a crucial piece of its puzzle; excluding these now-submerged landscapes is an active bias on our understanding, truncating the archaeological record. Having been subjected to repeated glaciations, trans- and regressions, the very processes that led to the terrestrial exposure of these areas have subsequently led to their neglect: the assumption that pre-LGM deposits will have been eroded or re-worked has prevailed. Recent work, however, has demonstrated the inaccuracy of this assumption, with evidence for extant Pleistocene-age deposits, landscape features and archaeology. Unlocking the clear potential of these submerged landscapes now relies on the approaches that we take to their investigation as, to-date, all archaeological finds have been entirely by chance. In order to move beyond this reactive style of archaeology, methodologies must be developed which tackle these areas in a more focused and reasoned way. The research undertaken throughout this PhD makes steps towards this. Starting from no baseline understanding of the nature of the existing resource, this work located, collated and analysed a prolific collection of 1,019 faunal specimens. Recovered by the 19th and 20th Century UK trawling industry, the development of historical methods has elucidated their locations and conditions of collection. Combining this locational information with species taxonomic evolution, the emergent spatio-temporal patterns provide a fresh understanding of the integrity of the extant deposits and unique opportunities for locating them on the seabed. These results are presented at a range of scales: • First, a broad-scale understanding of offshore regions across the southern North Sea which have demonstrated a dominance of cold-stage species from MIS 8-MIS 2. • Secondly, a local scale: linking faunal remains with seabed features in the near shore area off Happisburgh, identifying Early and early Middle Pleistocene assemblages related to exposures of the CFbF. • Finally, a discrete, high resolution area of seabed off the coast of Clacton has been identified. Through the collection of swath bathymetry, this area has shown the exciting correlation of Pleistocene seabed deposits and faunal remains. This research presents a significant move towards a proactive approach to these submerged landscapes and represents a step-change in our ability to understand, locate and engage with this undervalued archaeological resource. <br/
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