440 research outputs found
Enigmas
No full textArising from the 2020 Darwin College Lectures, this book presents eight essays from prominent public intellectuals on the theme of Enigmas. Each author examines this theme through the lens of their own particular area of expertise, together constituting an illuminating and diverse interdisciplinary volume. Enigmas features contributions by professor of physics Sean M. Carroll, author Jo Marchant, writer and broadcaster Adam Rutherford, professor of earth sciences Tamsin A. Mather, professor of the history of the book Erik Kwakkel, reader in cultural history Tiffany Watt Smith, mathematician and public speaker James Grime, assistant professor of positive AI J. Derek Lomas, and explorer Albert Y.- M. Lin. This volume will appeal to anyone fascinated by puzzles and mysteries, solved and unsolved
Lendas, histórias infantis e contos policiais: eixos narrativos na produção literária de Emily Santa-Cruz
No full textThe research focuses on studying the main threads detected in the prose work of the writer Emily Santa-Cruz. In the first place, the works of the author whose principal thread is her native city, Córdoba, will be analyzed. Along with this unifying thread, other elements –objects, literary devices, or characters– that act as a link in these and other works of this hidden Andalusian writer will also be delved into. This study will also address the works in which Emily Santa-Cruz cultivated the genre of detective fiction so as to examine, likewise, the common threads they share, among which are the figure of the main character and the didactic role that all the stories assume. With this analysis it is intended to bring this author to the fore and explore the common elements with which she wanted to interrelate much of her production in order to give unity to her work.El estudio se centra en analizar los principales ejes narrativos detectados en la obra en prosa de la escritora Emily Santa-Cruz. En primer lugar, se estudiarán las obras de la autora, cuyo hilo conductor cardinal es su ciudad natal, Córdoba. Junto a este eje narrativo se profundizará también en otros elementos −objetos, recursos literarios o personajes− que actúan como enlace en estas y otras obras nacidas de la pluma de esta escritora andaluza oculta. Este estudio abordará también las obras en las que Emily Santa-Cruz cultivó el género policíaco para examinar, asimismo, los ejes narrativos que comparten, entre los que se encuentran la figura del personaje protagonista y el carácter didáctico que asumen todos los relatos. Con este análisis se pretende visibilizar a esta autora y ahondar en los elementos comunes con los que quiso interrelacionar gran parte de su producción con el objetivo de conferir unidad a su obra.O estudo centra-se em analisar dos principais eixos narrativos detetados na obra em prosa da escritora Emily Santa-Cruz. Em primeiro lugar, serão estudadas as obras da autora cujo fio condutor principal é a sua cidade natal, Córdoba. A par deste eixo, serão examinados também outros elementos –objetos, recursos literários ou personagens– que atuam como elo de ligação nestas e noutras obras nascidas da mão desta escritora andaluza oculta. Este estudo também contará com a análise às obras onde Emily Santa-Cruz cultivou o género policial, com o intuito de observar os eixos narrativos que partilham, entre os quais estão a figura do personagem principal e o caráter didático que todas as histórias assumem. Com esta análise, pretende-se dar visibilidade a esta autora e aprofundar os elementos comuns com os quais queria inter-relacionar uma grande parte da sua produção a fim de dar unidade ao seu trabalho
Lendas, histórias infantis e contos policiais: eixos narrativos na produção literária de Emily Santa-Cruz
No full textThe research focuses on studying the main threads detected in the prose work of the writer Emily Santa-Cruz. In the first place, the works of the author whose principal thread is her native city, Córdoba, will be analyzed. Along with this unifying thread, other elements –objects, literary devices, or characters– that act as a link in these and other works of this hidden Andalusian writer will also be delved into. This study will also address the works in which Emily Santa-Cruz cultivated the genre of detective fiction so as to examine, likewise, the common threads they share, among which are the figure of the main character and the didactic role that all the stories assume. With this analysis it is intended to bring this author to the fore and explore the common elements with which she wanted to interrelate much of her production in order to give unity to her work.El estudio se centra en analizar los principales ejes narrativos detectados en la obra en prosa de la escritora Emily Santa-Cruz. En primer lugar, se estudiarán las obras de la autora, cuyo hilo conductor cardinal es su ciudad natal, Córdoba. Junto a este eje narrativo se profundizará también en otros elementos −objetos, recursos literarios o personajes− que actúan como enlace en estas y otras obras nacidas de la pluma de esta escritora andaluza oculta. Este estudio abordará también las obras en las que Emily Santa-Cruz cultivó el género policíaco para examinar, asimismo, los ejes narrativos que comparten, entre los que se encuentran la figura del personaje protagonista y el carácter didáctico que asumen todos los relatos. Con este análisis se pretende visibilizar a esta autora y ahondar en los elementos comunes con los que quiso interrelacionar gran parte de su producción con el objetivo de conferir unidad a su obra.O estudo centra-se em analisar dos principais eixos narrativos detetados na obra em prosa da escritora Emily Santa-Cruz. Em primeiro lugar, serão estudadas as obras da autora cujo fio condutor principal é a sua cidade natal, Córdoba. A par deste eixo, serão examinados também outros elementos –objetos, recursos literários ou personagens– que atuam como elo de ligação nestas e noutras obras nascidas da mão desta escritora andaluza oculta. Este estudo também contará com a análise às obras onde Emily Santa-Cruz cultivou o género policial, com o intuito de observar os eixos narrativos que partilham, entre os quais estão a figura do personagem principal e o caráter didático que todas as histórias assumem. Com esta análise, pretende-se dar visibilidade a esta autora e aprofundar os elementos comuns com os quais queria inter-relacionar uma grande parte da sua produção a fim de dar unidade ao seu trabalho
Social and Regional Dialects of Spanish
No full textEste libro presenta un curso a nivel intermédio-avanzado que emplea recursos ya existentes y materiales creados por su creadora, Doctora Emily Kuder, para facililar el aprendizaje de temas relacionados a la dialectología y sociolingüística hispana a través de recursos abiertamente disponible. El libro puede ser usado por un aprendiz motivado como un curso autoguiado o por un grupo de aprendices en una clase convencional como un libro de texto.
This book presents an intermediate-advanced level course that employs preexisting resources and materials created by the author, Dr. Emily Kuder, to facilitate the learning of topics related to hispanic dialectology and sociolinguistics through openly available content. The book can be used by learners as a self-guided course or by a group of learners in a conventional class as a textbook.
This work is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/oer/1003/thumbnail.jp
Consumptive death in Victorian literature: 1830 - 1880.
No full textPhDVictorian medical men, writers, relatives of the dying and consumptive sufferers
themselves seized on the narrative potential of representations of the disease in a
variety of ways.
I argue that both medical and lay writers subscribed to a common set of beliefs
about the disease and that medical knowledge, moreover, shared a common
narrative way of knowing and understanding it. I analyse aspects of general
clinical expository texts, including accompanying illustrations, showing how a
narrative knowledge of death and the tubercular body was elaborated.
Furthermore, I show how documents used in the compilation of medical statistics
on the cause of death were fundamentally narrative through their reliance on case
narratives.
It is demonstrated that Dickens uses a seldom noticed consumptive death and
decline to offset his heroine's development in Bleak House, in ways similar to
those developed in Jane Eyre. Similarly, it is shown that Mrs Gaskell's use of a
consumptive alcoholic 'fallen woman' unsettles her account of her heroine in Mary
Barton. George Eliot's 'Janet's Repentance' is analysed, showing how the
psychological struggle between an orientation towards life or death is played out
across both alcoholism and consumption. I also examine how consumption
presents a narrative opportunity whereby plots involving setbacks in love are
resolved through women's consumptive deaths in popular fiction by Rhoda
Broughton,Ladv Georgiana Fullerton and others. Through an examination of the Journal of Emily Shore and accounts of other actual
deaths, I illustrate how experiences and accounts of consumptive deaths were
structured and rendered intelligible through reliance on beliefs encountered in both
fiction and medicine. In conclusion, the thesis alerts readers to the presence of
signifiers of consumption in Victorian texts, showing how various narrative
strategies are integral to any understanding of representations of its dying victim
Comprensión de Emily Dickinson en la traducción intercultural de Hernán Vargascarreño
No full textUna de las maneras de acercarnos al estudio de una cultura y de conocerla mejor, es por medio de su literatura. Mediante la lectura nos acercamos a un autor y a su cultura. Cuando no es posible leer al autor directamente, debido a barreras lingüísticas, entonces la traducción juega un papel vital. La búsqueda poética de Emily Dickinson podría interpretarse como “transcultural” ya que buscó dar expresión a lo más recóndito del alma humana. ¿La universalidad de la experiencia se pierde en la traducción intercultural? La hipótesis básica es que hay un nivel de comprensión universal pre-cultural o pre-expresivo que puede sentirse como “presencia” o esencia que no se pierde, no importa cuán diversas sean las diferentes culturas entre sí.Palabras clave: Comprensión; Emily Dickinson; traducción intercultural; transcultural.Understanding Emily Dickinson in the intercultural translation by Hernán VargascarreñoAbstractOne of the ways of approaching the study of a culture and getting to know it better is by means of its literature. Through reading one gets to know an author and his or her culture. When direct reading is not possible, due to language barriers, then translation comes to play a vital role. Emily Dickinson´s life quest as a poet could be interpreted as “transcultural” since she sought to express the depths of universal human experience. Is this universality of experience “lost” in intercultural translation? The basic hypothesis is that there is a universal pre-cultural or pre-expressive level of understanding that may be felt as “presence” or essence that is not lost, no matter how diverse the different cultures are.Key words: Understanding; Emily Dickinson; intercultural translation; transcultural
The Truth Behind Wuthering Heights : the Social, Historical and Landscaping Causes that led Emily Brontë to Write the Novel
No full textThis dissertation analyses the novel so as to find instances of rivalry between the author and her siblings, and samples of Emily Brontë's private life, as well as important landscape and historical moments which may have influenced her work. The formulated hypothesis was that as Emily Brontë's life was filled with tragic moments even since her childhood, the process of writing a novel may have helped her find a healing and escaping scene away from her gruesome world. This study illustrates this conflict through the characters, and, also, through one of the dearest aspects in Emily's life, the moors.Aquest treball analitza la novel·la per trobar casos de rivalitat entre l'autora i els seus germans, i mostres de la vida privada d'Emily Brontë, així com moments històrics i paisatgístics importants que poden haver influït en la seva obra. La hipòtesi formulada era que, ja que la vida d'Emily Brontë havia estat plena de moments tràgics des de la seva infantesa, el procés d'escriure la novel·la podria haver-la ajudat a trobar una via d'escapament allunyada del seu dolorós món. Aquest estudi il·lustra aquest conflicte a través dels personatges i, també, a través d'un dels aspectes més estimats de la vida d'Emily, els erms.Este trabajo analiza la novela para encontrar casos de rivalidad entre la autora y sus hermanos, y muestras de la vida privada de Emily Brontë, así como momentos históricos y paisajísticos importantes que pueden haber influido en su obra. La hipótesis formulada era que, ya que la vida de Emily Brontë había estado llena de momentos trágicos desde su infancia, el proceso de escritura de la novela podría haberla ayudado a encontrar una vía de escape alejada de su doloroso mundo. Este estudio ilustra este conflicto a través de los personajes y, también, a través de uno de los aspectos más queridos de la vida de Emily, los páramos
A First- and Second-Order Motion Energy Analysis of Peripheral Motion Illusions Leads to Further Evidence of “Feature Blur” in Peripheral Vision
No full textAnatomical and physiological differences between the central and peripheral visual systems are well documented. Recent findings have suggested that vision in the periphery is not just a scaled version of foveal vision, but rather is relatively poor at representing spatial and temporal phase and other visual features. Shapiro, Lu, Huang, Knight, and Ennis (2010) have recently examined a motion stimulus (the “curveball illusion”) in which the shift from foveal to peripheral viewing results in a dramatic spatial/temporal discontinuity. Here, we apply a similar analysis to a range of other spatial/temporal configurations that create perceptual conflict between foveal and peripheral vision.To elucidate how the differences between foveal and peripheral vision affect super-threshold vision, we created a series of complex visual displays that contain opposing sources of motion information. The displays (referred to as the peripheral escalator illusion, peripheral acceleration and deceleration illusions, rotating reversals illusion, and disappearing squares illusion) create dramatically different perceptions when viewed foveally versus peripherally. We compute the first-order and second-order directional motion energy available in the displays using a three-dimensional Fourier analysis in the (x, y, t) space. The peripheral escalator, acceleration and deceleration illusions and rotating reversals illusion all show a similar trend: in the fovea, the first-order motion energy and second-order motion energy can be perceptually separated from each other; in the periphery, the perception seems to correspond to a combination of the multiple sources of motion information. The disappearing squares illusion shows that the ability to assemble the features of Kanisza squares becomes slower in the periphery.The results lead us to hypothesize “feature blur” in the periphery (i.e., the peripheral visual system combines features that the foveal visual system can separate). Feature blur is of general importance because humans are frequently bringing the information in the periphery to the fovea and vice versa
Religious intellectuals : the poetic gravity of Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti
No full textThis thesis examines the writing of Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti in terms of its
expression of religious culture and belief. It is my argument that Brontë and Rossetti
experienced religion as intellectuals, questioning and exploring doctrine and dogma neither
as sentimental lady Christians nor dismissive, secular critics. I contend that by close
reading their poetry, the genre both women privileged as most appropriate for the
consideration of religious matters, the reader may trace the sermons and theological works
they read. Moreover, their writing, I suggest, evinces their intellectual response to
theological, ecclesiological and ecclesiastical developments that took place in the
nineteenth century. I thus label Brontë and Rossetti 'religious intellectuals,' a phrase
suggestive of their intense understanding of, rather than their mild acquaintance with,
religious debate. Many women writing within the nineteenth century found that religion
granted them a field within which to freely read and research, but were denied the
professional title of 'theologian.' Brontë and Rossetti are thus examples of a wider
phenomenon wherein women encountered religion like scholars, one disregarded by current
criticism unable as it is to categorize a female activity simultaneously religious and
intellectual. I use Brontë and Rossetti as examples of what I call the 'religious intellectual'
because they represent different sides of this classification. Where Brontë struggled away
from her Methodist background, serving as a cultural commentator on its enthusiastic
belief-system, Rossetti forged a scholarly identity as a late member of the High Church
Oxford Movement. Both poets, I contend, wrote about religion in order to signal their
intellectual ability. I conclude that Brontë's interest in Methodism and Rossetti's
fascination with Tractarianism reveals the poets to be both independent of family pressures
and false consciousness, and fully engaged with a subject central to their age
La influencia del folclore en los cuentos de la ilustradora Emily Carroll
No full textThe Canadian illustrator Emily Carroll offers in her works a beautiful and, at the same time, terrifying display of female characters and monsters (visible or hidden) that attract the reader both by the form shown and by the background they hide. Many of its stories are related to folklore, whether by the inclusion of traditional elements, the re-elaboration of characters, the appearance of certain monsters or the use of structural elements that we also find in the stories of oral tradition. This article aims to follow this influence of folklore in Carroll’s work, taking into account especially the book Through the Woods as well as the webcomics that have a more direct relationship with traditional tales. The aim is to see what elements from tradition can be found in her work and what treatment and use the author makes of them.La ilustradora canadiense Emily Carroll ofrece en sus trabajos un muestrario bello y, a la vez, aterrador, de personajes femeninos y de monstruos (visibles u ocultos) que atraen al lector tanto por la forma mostrada como por el trasfondo que esconden. Muchas de sus historias tienen relación con el folclore, ya sea con la inclusión de elementos tradicionales, la reelaboración de personajes, la aparición de determinados monstruos o el uso de elementos estructurales que también encontramos en los relatos de tradición oral. Este artículo pretende seguir esta influencia del folclore en la obra de Carroll teniendo en cuenta de manera especial el libro Through the Woods así como los webcómics que guardan una relación más directa con los relatos tradicionales. El objetivo es ver qué elementos procedentes de la tradición se pueden encontrar en su obra y qué tratamiento y uso hace la autora
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