12 research outputs found
Postmodern Casinos
No full textChapter in Productive Postmodernism: Consuming Histories and Cultural Studies.
Investigates a broad range of contemporary fiction, film, and architecture to address the role of history in postmodern cultural productions. Productive Postmodernism addresses the differing accounts of postmodernism found in the work of Fredric Jameson and Linda Hutcheon, a debate that centers around the two theorists\u27 senses of pastiche and parody. For Jameson, postmodern texts are ahistorical, playing with pastiched images and aesthetic forms, and are therefore unable to provide a critical purchase on culture and capital. For Hutcheon, postmodern fiction and architecture remain political, opening spaces for social critique through a parody that deconstructs official history. Thinking in the space between these two sharply different positions, the essays in this collection investigate a broad range of contemporary fiction, film, and architecture—from such narratives as Don DeLillo\u27s Libra, Toni Morrison\u27s Beloved, and Ridley Scott\u27s Blade Runner, to the vastly different spaces of Las Vegas casinos and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum—in order to ask what the cultural work of a postmodern aesthetic might be. “Although there are many books on postmodernism, I don\u27t know of any that theorize Jameson and Hutcheon this way or that bring history-fiction-architecture together so provocatively. I like the way these essays, all of them, put theory into practice.” — Dawne McCance, author of Posts: Re Addressing the Ethical “The text articulates well the shift from postmodernism as a de(con)structive fragmenting theory/act (as it is so often in both popular and academic contexts) to a productive fragmenting theory/act. The book contributes to the field of postmodern theory as well as to the literary, architectural, historical, and aesthetic fields tapped into through the individual essays.” — Beth Martin Birky, Goshen College Contributors include Paul Budra, Thomas Carmichael, Kimberly Chabot Davis, John N. Duvall, W. Lawrence Hogue, Linda Hutcheon, Kevin R. McNamara, Stacey Olster, Nancy J. Peterson, Shelton Waldrep, and Michael Zeitlin.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1452/thumbnail.jp
New aerosol drug delivery systems for the treatment of immune-mediated pulmonary diseases
No full textReview of: \u3cem\u3eBlessed Are the Peacemakers: Small Histories during World War II, Letter Writing, and Family History Methodology\u3c/em\u3e—Suzanne Kesler Rumsey
No full textSuzanne Kesler Rumsey’s Blessed Are the Peacemakers is, on the surface, the reconstructed story of the author’s paternal grandparents during World War II. The saga of Benjamin and Miriam Kesler, members of the Dunkard Brethren Church in northern Indiana, in and out of the Civilian Public Service (CPS), is one that will be familiar to most readers of twentieth-century North American Anabaptist history: a young husband called into CPS service as a conscientious objector, the young wife he left behind. What makes it richer is the trove of letters back and forth between the young couple that the author has inherited, as well as the fact that Miriam eventually joined her husband in Rhode Island for the final stage of his service. The letters provide an intimate window into life for nonresistant Christians during World War II. [First paragraph.
A study of 99mtechnetium-labelled beclomethasone dipropionate dilauroylphosphatidylcholine liposome aerosol in normal volunteers
No full textThe Wilde Legacy: Performing Wilde’s Paradigm in the Twenty-First Century
No full textWilde has reached iconic status within the fields of English literary and cultural studies; the secret of his success is given by the artist’s capacity of translating his life into a form of writing and his writing into a vital gesture which articulates a complex critique of late Nineteenth Century English society. According to Waldrep: “Wilde’s legacy as both a writer and a literary figure of social, political and cultural significance is such that Wilde the man cannot be readily separated by Wilde the careerist. His roles, as aesthete, lecturer, businessman, family man, poet, editor, playwright, seducer, prisoner and exile are part of a broader role of writer as performer that he used self-consciously in an attempt to destroy the binary opposition, separating art and life”. In this sense, the Anglo-Irish writer chose London as the stage for the performance of the most important of his plays: Oscar Wilde; it is not a chance that theatre – as a space in which the literary word is enacted – gave the author of The Importance of being Earnest enormous fame. Interestingly, in the Twenty-First Century, Wilde’s self-conscious construction of his identity and his performance of an ironic masculinity - which sharply contrasted with the imperial one embraced by many of his contemporaries (Beynon) - have become sources of inspiration for many artists (Truman Capote, Andy Warhol Stephen Fry, David Bowie, Morrissey, just to name a few) in key fields such as literature, cinema, television and music. This article analyses Wilde’s life and works and his legacy focusing on the interplay of performance and identity, showing the complexity and importance of a literary and artistic experience which has often been misunderstood
A novel method of articular cartilage repair.
No full textArticular cartilage repair of post-traumatic articular cartilage defects and well-defined articular cartilage pathology is challenging in clinical practice and has been the focus of investigations for many years. In the present thesis a newly developed polymer system, based on poly-ethyl-methacrylate PEMA polymer and tetra-hydro-furfuryl methacrylate THFMA monomer has been exploited for the repair of large, full-thickness articular cartilage defects, created in a weight-bearing surface in the rabbit knee joint. The method of implantation is simple and easily reproducible and can be performed in one stage with open arthrotomy or arthroscopy in clinical applications. Intravenous administration of the monomer did not elicit significant cardiorespiratory side effects. The repair tissue in defects treated with PEMA/THFMA was compared to control defects that healed 'naturally'. Macroscopic and histological/histochemical evaluation using the newly developed Articular Cartilage Repair Scoring System, immunohistochemistry, electron microscopy, image analysis as well as biochemical analysis were used for the characterisation of the repair tissue. The results demonstrated that the PEMA/THFMA polymer enhanced significantly the quality of repair up to 1 year postoperatively. The repair tissue contained numerous chondrocytes producing large amounts of proteoglycans and collagen type II, and it was completely bonded to the adjacent normal articular cartilage in the vast majority of the specimens. The enhancing effect of PEMA/THFMA in articular cartilage defects was also demonstrated in three age groups of rabbits at 6 weeks, thus increasing the potential clinical applications of the polymer. Furthermore, PEMA/THFMA was compared to the conventional bone cement PMMA/MMA. At 6 weeks post-implantation PEMA/THFMA produced significantly superior repair tissue, compared to PMMA/MMA, confirming the importance of the properties of the new polymer. Finally, PEMA/THFMA was exploited as a potential drug delivery system in vivo by loading human growth hormone in the polymer. It was shown that the loaded polymer repaired the defects with a proliferative type of tissue, resembling immature articular cartilage
