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Thomas Keirstead: The Geography of Power in Medieval Japan
No full textMoerman David Max. Thomas Keirstead: The Geography of Power in Medieval Japan. In: Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 7, 1993. Numéro spécial sur le Chan/Zen : Special Issue on Chan/Zen. En l'honneur de Yanagida Seizan. pp. 452-456
Thomas Keirstead: The Geography of Power in Medieval Japan
No full textMoerman David Max. Thomas Keirstead: The Geography of Power in Medieval Japan. In: Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 7, 1993. Numéro spécial sur le Chan/Zen : Special Issue on Chan/Zen. En l'honneur de Yanagida Seizan. pp. 452-456
Introduction
No full textSekimori Gaynor, Moerman David Max. Introduction. In: Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 18, 2009. Shugendō. The History and Culture of a Japanese Religion / L'histoire et la culture d'une religion japonaise pp. 1-15
Introduction
No full textSekimori Gaynor, Moerman David Max. Introduction. In: Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 18, 2009. Shugendō. The History and Culture of a Japanese Religion / L'histoire et la culture d'une religion japonaise pp. 1-15
Professor David Audretsch: my Doktorvater
No full textWhen JP Tamvada wrote an email to David in the summer of 2004, he never expected a quick reply and invitation to come and meet him at the Max Planck Institute. In the 5 years following that first meeting, David taught the author invaluable lessons of life, exemplified ideal leadership, and shaped their scholarship
D. T. Max, 36th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textD. T. Max is a graduate of Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. His new book, Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, was released in August 2012 and was a New York Times best-seller. He is also the author of The Family That Couldn\u27t Sleep: A Medical Mystery
Cult: A Composite Novel
No full textCult (redacted)
The first component of the thesis is a composite novel called Cult which falls into two parts with seven narratives in each. Part 1 tracks the protagonist, Ellen, from her first involvement with the cult through to her eventually leaving it. Although fiction, the first half of the book answers the kinds of questions the author is asked when people discover that she was once a sannyasin (a follower of the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). While the experiences of meditation, group therapy and communal living are all faithfully rendered within the stories, the need for strong characters, narrative drive and a lightness of touch takes precedence.
Part 2 picks up Ellen’s story some twenty or so years later and explores what becomes of her in middle age. It also looks at other groups in society, such as academia, the law and the internet dating community which each have their own jargon, hierarchies, rituals and rules but are not considered to be cults.
The book examines the question raised in the Epigraph, ‘how do we be together when we feel so alone’ with a focus on relationships other than the familial and the romantic.
Collisions, Chasms and Connections: a Performative Exploration of the Composite Novel Form
The second part of the thesis is both a critical and creative response to three contemporary American books: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; and Legend of a Suicide by David Vann. The critical element comprises a close reading of the three books; a chronological reconstruction of their overarching storylines; and a consideration of what their authors have said about writing the books. It concludes that, in the composite novel, the simultaneous presentation of multiple views and storylines operate much like a 3D image to give the impression of depth to the characters and situations rendered. The creative element of the essay is a playful and personal response to the texts
Global Max-Min Fairness Guarantee for ABR Flow Control
No full textThis paper addresses Available Bit Rate (ABR) service fairness in wide area ATM networks. In traffic management, fairness is generally understood as equally sharing the available bandwidth of a link among all its contending users. The most widely used specific fairness measure is Max-Min fairness [14]. Fairness is a very important performance measurement for ABR flow control, but no mathematical fairness guarantee has been proposed. In this paper, we define a specific category of ABR flow control algorithms as "Equal Share Schemes". For Equal Share Schemes, mathematical analysis proves that global Max-Min fairness can be achieved without exception. Key words: Max-Min fairness, ABR service, Equal Share Scheme, FairShare, EqualShare Dr. David W. Petr is the corresponding author. This research is partially supported by Sprint Corporation. Multiplexer Queue Server Controllable Users Users Uncontrollable High Priority Low Priority Figure 1: Single Node Network Architecture 1 Introducti..
"Arbeiterverräter", "Sozialchauvinisten", "Lakaien der Bourgeoisie" Der sozialdemokratische Reformismus in Kaiserreich und Weimarerer Republik als Desiderat einer postideologischen Forschung
No full textThe author traces the legacy of the reformist network of the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) from World War I to the Weimar Republic. It focuese on the communication structures and the political interests of its members. Wolfgang Heine, Max Quarck, Otto Landsberg, Eduard David, Albert Südekum, Georg Gradnauer and others are portrayed as representatives of a generation of middle-class social democrats that suffered from being either ignored in labour movement research or from being associated with "opportunism" and "workers\u27 treachery" by the \u27official\u27 social democratic history
Localizing paradise : Kumano pilgrimage and the religious landscape of premodern Japan /
No full text"Although located far from the populated centers of traditional Japan, the three Kumano shrines occupied a central position in the Japanese religious landscape. For centuries Kumano was the most visited pilgrimage site in Japan and attracted devotees from across the boundaries of sect (Buddhist, Daoist, Shinto), class, and gender. It was also a major institutional center, commanding networks of affiliated shrines, extensive landholdings, and its own army, and a site of production, generating agricultural products and symbolic capital in the form of spiritual values. Kumano was thus both a real place and a utopia: a non-place of paradise or enlightenment. It was a location in which cultural ideals--about death, salvation, gender, and authority--were represented, contested, and even at times inverted. This book encompasses both the real and the ideal, both the historical and the ideological, Kumano. It studies Kumano not only as a site of practice, a stage for the performance of asceticism and pilgrimage, but also as a place of the imagination, a topic of literary and artistic representation. Kumano was not unique in combining Buddhism with native traditions, for redefining death and its conquest, for expressing the relationship between religious and political authority, and for articulating the religious position of women. By studying Kumano's particular religious landscape, we can better understand the larger, common religious landscape of premodern Japan."--Publisher's website.Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-268) and index.Situating Kumano -- The place and path of Kumano pilgrimage -- Institutional and economic structures -- Picturing Kumano -- Structure and agenda -- Emplacements -- The land of origins -- Sites of asceticism -- Translocated genealogies -- Multiple paradises -- Esoteric cartographies -- Institutional portraits -- Mortuary practices -- Suicide and salvation -- Funereal pilgrimage -- Return passage -- Memorial rites -- The theater of state -- The political landscape -- Imperial progress and Institutional growth -- Religious politics and Buddhist Kingship paradises future and past -- A woman's place -- Gender and the ambiguities of enlightenment -- Female trouble -- Exclusion and transgression -- Buddhist matriarchies -- A second genesis -- A hell of one's own."Although located far from the populated centers of traditional Japan, the three Kumano shrines occupied a central position in the Japanese religious landscape. For centuries Kumano was the most visited pilgrimage site in Japan and attracted devotees from across the boundaries of sect (Buddhist, Daoist, Shinto), class, and gender. It was also a major institutional center, commanding networks of affiliated shrines, extensive landholdings, and its own army, and a site of production, generating agricultural products and symbolic capital in the form of spiritual values. Kumano was thus both a real place and a utopia: a non-place of paradise or enlightenment. It was a location in which cultural ideals--about death, salvation, gender, and authority--were represented, contested, and even at times inverted. This book encompasses both the real and the ideal, both the historical and the ideological, Kumano. It studies Kumano not only as a site of practice, a stage for the performance of asceticism and pilgrimage, but also as a place of the imagination, a topic of literary and artistic representation. Kumano was not unique in combining Buddhism with native traditions, for redefining death and its conquest, for expressing the relationship between religious and political authority, and for articulating the religious position of women. By studying Kumano's particular religious landscape, we can better understand the larger, common religious landscape of premodern Japan."--Publisher's website
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