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An open reply to "What is going on at the Library of Congress?" by Thomas Mann
No full textThis is an open response to a report by Thomas Mann at the Library of Congress concerning changes in cataloging. The author contends that, although the current changes at the Library of Congress are suspect, changes are imminent and experienced catalogers must offer positive suggestions for change, otherwise they will be ignored by management
Thomas Mann in English A Study in Literary Translation
No full textThomas Mann owes his place in world literature to the dissemination of his works through translation. Indeed, it was the monumental success of the original English translations that earned him the title of 'the greatest living man of letters' during his years in American exile (1938-52). This book provides the first systematic exploration of the English versions, illustrating the vicissitudes of literary translation through a principled discussion of a major author. The study illuminates the contexts in which the translations were produced before exploring the transformations Mann's work has undergone in the process of transfer. An exemplary analysis of selected textual dimensions demonstrates the multiplicity of factors which impinge upon literary translation, leading far beyond the traditional preoccupation with issues of equivalence. Thomas Mann in English thus fills a gap both in translation studies, where Thomas Mann serves as a constant but ill-defined point of reference, and in literary studies, which has focused increasingly on the author's wider reception.FC -- New Directions in German Studies -- Volumes in the series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Thomas Mann in English -- 2 Translation and retranslation: The history of Thomas Mann's works in English -- 3 Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, Thomas Mann and the practice of translation -- 4 An exercise in translation comparison: Der Zauberberg -- 5 Transferring the paratextual: The translation of Thomas Mann's titles -- 6 The translation of discourse forms: Speech and thought presentation in Buddenbrooks -- 7 Translating modes of address as an index of interpersonal dynamics -- 8 Syntactic form and literary meaning in translation -- 9 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- IndexThomas Mann owes his place in world literature to the dissemination of his works through translation. Indeed, it was the monumental success of the original English translations that earned him the title of 'the greatest living man of letters' during his years in American exile (1938-52). This book provides the first systematic exploration of the English versions, illustrating the vicissitudes of literary translation through a principled discussion of a major author. The study illuminates the contexts in which the translations were produced before exploring the transformations Mann's work has undergone in the process of transfer. An exemplary analysis of selected textual dimensions demonstrates the multiplicity of factors which impinge upon literary translation, leading far beyond the traditional preoccupation with issues of equivalence. Thomas Mann in English thus fills a gap both in translation studies, where Thomas Mann serves as a constant but ill-defined point of reference, and in literary studies, which has focused increasingly on the author's wider reception.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Charles Mann: 1493 -- Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
No full textAward-winning author Charles C. Mann covers the intersection of science, technology and commerce for a slate of popular publications that include The New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, Wired and the Atlantic Monthly, among others.
Mann is the author of The New York Times Best Seller 1493 and 1491, an earlier book that won the U.S. National Academy of Sciences\u27 Keck Award.
Mann is co-author of The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics ; The Aspirin Wars: Money, Medicine, and 100 Years of Rampant Competition ; Noah\u27s Choice: The Future of Endangered Species ; and @ Large: The Strange Case of the Internet\u27s Biggest Invasion. He has also written for HBO and the television show Law and Order, and was the text editorial coordinator for the internationally bestselling photographic project Hungry Planet
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
No full textThe Interfaces of Global Change Program at Virginia Tech is proud to host Dr. Michael Mann for a science communication workshop and public lecture on Friday, March 20, 2015. Dr. Mann is an award-winning climate scientist and central figure in the political debate over climate change. His lecture at the Lyric Theatre will be followed by a brief Q&A session and book signing. Dr. Michael E. Mann is a Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Penn State University, with joint appointments in the Department of Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI). He is also director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC). Dr. Mann received his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Applied Math from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.S. degree in Physics from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University. His research involves the use of theoretical models and observational data to better understand Earth’s climate system. Dr. Mann was a Lead Author on the Observed Climate Variability and Change chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Scientific Assessment Report in 2001 and was organizing committee chair for the National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science in 2003. He has received a number of honors and awards including NOAA’s outstanding publication award in 2002 and selection by Scientific American as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002. He contributed, with other IPCC authors, to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union in 2012 and was awarded the National Conservation Achievement Award for science by the National Wildlife Federation in 2013. He made Bloomberg News’ list of fifty most influential people in 2013. In 2014, he was named Highly Cited Researcher by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and received the Friend of the Planet Award from the National Center for Science Education. He is a Fellow of both the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. Dr. Mann is author of more than 170 peer-reviewed and edited publications, and has published two books including Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming in 2008 and The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines in 2012. He is also a co-founder and avid contributor to the award-winning science website RealClimate.org.Virginia Tech. Interfaces of Global Change Progra
Charles Mann, 36th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textCharles Mann is the author of 1493, a New York Times bestseller, and 1491, which won the U.S. National Academy of Sciences\u27 Keck Award for the best book of the year. A correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, Science, and Wired, he has covered the intersection of science, technology, and commerce for many newspapers and magazines, including National Geographic, The New York Times, Vanity Fair and the Washington Post. He is the co-author of five other books, one of which is a young person’s version of 1491 called Before Columbus
Musikstädte as real and imaginary soundscapes: urban musical images as literary motifs in twentieth-century German modernism
No full textPhDThis study examines German literary images of musical life as part of the wider sound identity of the modern German city at the turn of the twentieth century. Focussing on a forty-year period from 1890 to 1930, synonymous with the emergence of the modern German metropolis as an aesthetic object, the project assesses, compares and contrasts how musical life in the Musikstädte was perceived and portrayed by writers in an increasingly noisy urban environment. How does urban musical life influence and condition city writings? What are the differences and similarities between the writings on various musical cities? Can an urban textual sound identity be derived from these differences and similarities? The approach employed to answer these questions is a new, cross-disciplinary one to urban sound in literature, moving beyond reading the key sounds of the urban soundscape using urban musicology, sensorial anthropology and cultural poetics towards a literary contextualisation of the urban aural experience.
The literary motifs of the symphony, the gramophone and urban noise are put under the spotlight through the analysis of a wide range of modernist works by authors who have a special relationship with music. At the centre of this analysis are the Kaffeehausliteratur authors Hermann Bahr, Alfred Polgar and Peter Altenberg, the then Munich-based author Thomas Mann and the lesser known René Schickele. The analysis of these particular works is framed in the music-geographical context of the Musikstadt and literary underpinnings of this topos, ranging from Ingeborg Bachmann to Hans Mayer and, once again, Thomas Mann. In analysing these texts, the methodological approach devised by Strohm, who identifies the blending of a range of urban sounds as a definition of urban space and identity, is applied. His ideas combine historical literary
analysis, musical history and urban sociology. They are rarely used in the analysis of the auditory environment.Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Narrative Argumentation : Textverfahren zwischen Literatur und Philosophie in Robert Musils Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften /
No full textDie Frage nach dem Verhältnis von Literatur und Philosophie ist bis heute Gegenstand intensiver Debatten. Anhand von Musils Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften macht Gnüchtel die in Frage stehende »Philosophizität« literarischer Texte als Textverfahren narrativer Argumentation explizierbar. In Auseinandersetzung mit der literaturtheoretischen und sprachanalytischen Fiktionalitätsforschung sowie der Musilforschung entwickelt Gnüchtel einen Analyseapparat, der Musils Text in ein neues Licht rückt. Er zeigt, wie literarische Erzähltexte philosophische Thesen aufstellen und argumentativ begründen. Musils Werk erweist sich als prototypischer Text, der die Grenzen zwischen Literatur und Philosophie durch Verfahren narrativer Argumentation unterläuft. Die Studie leistet einen systematischen Beitrag zur theoretischen Debatte um Literatur und Philosophie und bereichert die Philologie um wichtige Erkenntnisse zu Musils epochalem Mammutfragment.Originally presented as the author's doctoral thesis (Universität, Osnabrück).Includes bibliographical references.Die Frage nach dem Verhältnis von Literatur und Philosophie ist bis heute Gegenstand intensiver Debatten. Anhand von Musils Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften macht Gnüchtel die in Frage stehende »Philosophizität« literarischer Texte als Textverfahren narrativer Argumentation explizierbar. In Auseinandersetzung mit der literaturtheoretischen und sprachanalytischen Fiktionalitätsforschung sowie der Musilforschung entwickelt Gnüchtel einen Analyseapparat, der Musils Text in ein neues Licht rückt. Er zeigt, wie literarische Erzähltexte philosophische Thesen aufstellen und argumentativ begründen. Musils Werk erweist sich als prototypischer Text, der die Grenzen zwischen Literatur und Philosophie durch Verfahren narrativer Argumentation unterläuft. Die Studie leistet einen systematischen Beitrag zur theoretischen Debatte um Literatur und Philosophie und bereichert die Philologie um wichtige Erkenntnisse zu Musils epochalem Mammutfragment
Tar sandstone investigation in southwestern Uinta Basin
No full textreportDuring the month of July 1972, the author assisted by Jonathan Mann studied the oil impregnated sandstone (hereafter OISS) deposits in the Lower Unit of the Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation on the southwestern edge of the Uinta Basin, along the Roan Cliffs and within the Roan Plateau. Careful mapping was conducted to determine the extent of the Sunnyside OISS deposit and to relate it to other deposits in the general vicinity. In addition to this mapping, which was restricted to the Flat Canyon and Sunnyside 15 min. quadrangles, (correlation investigations? ) were carried out in Nine Mile Canyon, Argyle Canyon, Indian Canyon, and at the headwaters of Avintaquin Canyon near Reservation Ridge (see USGS 7 1/2 min. quadrangles Gray Head Peak, 1969, and Flat Ridge, Utah, 1969). These areas, in this report, are further subdivided into smaller regions (often ridges or canyons) for further expansion of the results of the investigation. A number of the canyons could only be studied by hiking them through, others because of the size of the area studied and time requirements were studied by numerous stops from a four-wheel-drive truck. A field method to categorize the estimated richness of the OISS was used in the mapping: A numeral from I-V was assigned to a deposit, I being void of tar and progressing with each number until very rich OISS would be classed as V
fengguoFUAS/4D-Mann-Turbulence-Generator: Initial release of the 4DMann Turbulence Generator
No full textA 4D turbulence simulation tool based on Mann model and the eddy lifetime solution (Ropelewski,Tennekes and Panofsk) Developed within the LIKE (Lidar Knowledge Europe) project, funded by the European Union's Horizon, 2020 research innovation programme under the Marie-Curie grant agreement No. 858358 Author: Feng Guo from Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, Jakob Mann from Technical University of Denmar
Ep. #137 - Michael E. Mann & The Trouble
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.We start this week’s double episode on climate science and climate policy with ruminations on Trumpian arguments against fuel efficiency, Europe breaking its heat record, and what in retrospect were the breakthrough technological achievements of the 1970s—the Ronco inside the egg shell egg scrambler and the Popeil pocket fisherman. Then (14:04) we chat with star climate scientist Michael E. Mann. Mike brings us up to speed on the implications of the latest climate science and explains why the current attribution models connecting climate change to extreme weather events and sea level rise may be too conservative. We talk about the 20thanniversary of his famous “hockey stick” chart and how far we’ve come on climate adaptation since then. We turn from there to some of his recent projects branching out into new media ranging from his blog (http://michaelmann.net) to his much anticipated children’s book (The Tantrum that Saved the World)—a collaboration with author/illustrator Meg Herbert—and Mike tells us why he thinks scientists need to engage the public directly in an era of fragmented and often manipulated news media. We close by discussing why it’s so important to engage youth around climate issues and why We. All. Need. To. Vote. This. November. In our second segment (48:32) we check in with Soren Dudley and Johnathan Guy, two editors of an impressive brand new online magazine, The Trouble, which offers a forum for bringing together left political thinking and climate policy. Johnny and Soren explain why they think this intervention is so timely and necessary today, bringing together direct action spirit and wonky policy discussion. Please check out their excellent work at https://www.the-trouble.com, follow them @thetroublemag and, above all, send them love
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