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Protoconch morphology of Conoteuthis (Diplobelida, Coleoidea) and its implications on the presumed origin of the Sepiida
No full textThe phylogenetic origin of the Sepiida is still unclear. The presumed derivation from diplobelid belemnoids can be tested by comparison of their initial chambers (protoconchs). The first investigation of a juvenile phragmocone of the diplobelid Conoteuthis hayakawai from the Cenomanian of Hokkaido (northern Japan) yielded surprising insights into the internal protoconch morphology of the Diplobelida. The Conoteuthis protoconch exhibits in many aspects a mosaic of the belemnitid and the spirulid protoconch types. Whereas the sepiid protoconch represents most probably a modification of the spirulid type, the Conoteuthis protoconch is unique in having a closed (imperforated) proseptum. Apart from this, Conoteuthis differs in many other characters from the earliest sepiids (Ceratisepia, Belosepia), which makes a closer relationship unlikely. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.German Research Foundation [FU 762/1-1
Le clown travesti : le cas de Pieter-Dirk Uys
No full textEn 1981 deux clowns modernes, Michel Colucci, alias Coluche, et Pieter-Dirk Uys, se sont lancés dans une campagne électorale dans leurs pays respectifs. Tout le monde a certainement encore à l’esprit la tête de Coluche qui briguait la présidence de la France, le visage barbouillé de blanc et affublé d’un nez rouge ; on connaît peut-être moins le dramaturge et clown de la satire politique sud-africain, Pieter-Dirk Uys. Nous allons essayer de démontrer qu’outre la dimension de clown « clotpoll ..
Entertainer: Pieter-Dirk Uys
No full textThis booklet celebrates the life and work of Pieter-Dirk Uys, internationally acclaimed playwright, author, role-model and one of South Africa's living treasures
Entertainer: Pieter-Dirk Uys
No full textThis booklet celebrates the life and work of Pieter-Dirk Uys, internationally acclaimed playwright, author, role-model and one of South Africa's living treasures
Entertainer: Pieter-Dirk Uys
No full textThis booklet celebrates the life and work of Pieter-Dirk Uys, internationally acclaimed playwright, author, role-model and one of South Africa's living treasures
Formal Techniques and Self/Other Relations in the Novels of Dirk Bogarde
No full textThe thesis foregrounds the distinctive contribution Dirk Bogarde made to
contemporary writing in a second career that developed in parallel to his screen
commitments. It dispels the notion that Bogarde followed a familiar path as an actor
who wrote books. Instead it establishes his reputation as an innovative writer whose
formal technique was substantially influenced by the textual systems of cinema and
the cross-fertilisation from acting to writing.
In examining the formative factors that steered Bogarde towards authorship, the
thesis addresses the role of performance as a generative factor in the evolution of the
novels, establishing a discursive link with Bakhtinian dialogism, and specifically,
transgredience as a formal imperative. Secondly, it affords a critical insight into why
the major concerns with staging and performativity preoccupy his writing career.
The thesis claims that Bogarde was an empirically dialogical writer whose use
of camera-eye narration fostered the proliferation of competing discourses across the
fiction. This formal dynamic is centred on the relationship between stages and
dialogism, which incorporates the work of Erving Goffinan as a complementary
critique to Bakhtinian theory with its emphasis on self-presentation. The concern
with socially-constructed behaviour leads the thesis to address the associated issues of
stereotyping and 'otherness', which in terms of body politics is articulated by the
mono logic drive to confine the sexual 'other' to a fixed representation.
Bogarde's ability to draw on cinematic and performance techniques identifies
an area of expertise unavailable to most other writers. This is an unusual repository
of skills to bring to writing which is why the thesis makes the claim for his singular
achievement as a contemporary author. There are fruitful points of intersection to be
explored in this respect with the work of Christopher Isherwood, whom Bogarde read
and admired, as a basis for further research. It is hoped that the thesis will play its
part in opening up new possibilities for Bogarde's writing to be re-visited by future
critics
"The end of national models? Integration courses and citizenship trajectories in Europe"
No full textSeveral European countries have recently introduced or are planning to introduce citizenship trajectories (voluntary or obligatory inclusion programs for recent immigrants) or citizen integration tests (tests one should pass to be able and acquire permanent residence or state citizenship). Authors like Joppke claim this is an articulation of a more general shift towards the logic of assimilation (and away from a multicultural agenda) in integration policy paradigms of European States. Integration policies would even be converging in such a fashion that it would no longer make sense to think in terms of national models for immigrant integration. One cannot deny the empirical fact of diffusion of civic integration policies throughout Europe. This paper claims there is, however, still sufficient distinctiveness between immigrant integration policies in order to continue and use an analytical framework which distinguishes national models
PRÄDIKTIVE GENETISCHE TESTS: "HEALTH PURPOSES" UND INDIKATIONSSTELLUNG ALS KRITERIEN DER ANWENDUNG
No full textEinleitung / Michael Fuchs and Dirk Lanzerath -- Pt. I. "Health purposes" als ethisches Kriterium zur Eingrenzung prädiktiver genetischer Tests -- 1. Theologische Überlegungen / Martin Honecker -- 2. Medical Aspects / Kåre Berg -- 3. Philosophische Aspekte / Ludwig Siep -- Pt. II. "Health purposes" vs. informationelle Selbstbestimmung -- 1. The Point of view of the geneticist / Jörg Schmidtke -- 2. Juristische Aspekte / Meinhard Heinze -- 3. Health purposes and informed consent / Göran Hermerén -- Pt. III. Indikation und Auftrag des Arztes vs. Anspruch und Erwartung des Patienten -- 1. The point of view of the gynecologist / Matthias W. Beckmann and Hans Georg Bender -- 2. Die Sicht des Chirurgen / Martin K. Walz -- 3. Philosophische Aspekte / Dieter Birnbacher -- Pt. IV. "Health purposes" und medizinische Indikation: Offene Fragen und Forschungsdesiderate -- 1. Regelungsfragen angesichts der deutschen Rechtslage / Detlev von Bülow -- 2. Regelungsansätze der postnatal-prädiktiven Medizin im französischen Recht / Carmen Rauch and Jean François Mattéi -- Pt. V. Anhang -- 1. Convention on human rights and biomedicine / Council of Europe -- 2. Explanatory report to the convention on human rights and biomedicine / Council of Europe -- 3. Working document on the applications of genetics for health purposes / Council of Europe -- 4. Explanatory note to the working document on the applications of genetics for health purposes / Council of Europe -- 5. Autorenregiste
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