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The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 1999
No full textTOP i Volume 9, Number 4 MUIR Fall 1999 VULUMJ, J, HUMbEK 1 i; TALL 1333 newsXhtter John Muir\u27s Struggle in the North: Travels in Alaska and The Cruise of the Corwin by Hal Crimmel, Ph.D. raditionally, Muir\u27s reputation has been that of America\u27s foremost wilderness lover, sage, and advocate, unrelenting in his quest for a pure wilderness experience. For Muir, wilderness was not a confrontation, Harold Simonson tells us, but a confirmation. 1 This is the Muir that captured the public\u27s imagination, j|e Muir who could write, The whole wilderness seems to be alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones jtem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly. 2 Perhaps with ||ese moments in mind, Edwin Way Teale wrote of Muir, (Always, in truth, he found more than he expected in Sjature. Never did he get enough of wildness. 3 Clearly, the Muir we know best was the man who laid there was perfect freedom and relaxation in the Hoods. The Muir we do not know is the man who sometimes could not stand being out in the wild, who did not feel his psychic seams bursting with joy, but who rather pit oppressed and irritated. Just like the rest of us, Muir, |pe sure-footed, tireless lover of wilderness, encountered wild places that threatened and disoriented him. On his ffiousand-mile walk, Muir felt apprehensive about venturing into the vast swamps and marshes of south Georgia Kid north Florida, with their mosquitoes and malaria. Even in the West, where he believed rebirth possible, 4 ffluir did not always like what he saw. The Arizona desert didn\u27t please him 5 and Muir carefully masks his dislike of Yellowstone\u27s roaring geysers, steaming paint pots, and hills of cinder and ashes in his Our National Parks. Muir\u27s journals and letters on the region articulate |js struggle with the park\u27s uniqueness and his effort to |fnd a Yosemite-like order in the landscape. 6 Particularly in Alaska, Muir struggled to recreate the feelings he had for the Sierra, but ultimately failed as he Ibcame overwhelmed by a wilderness unlike anything he jpd ever encountered. Though he repeatedly tries to frame his thoughts using the language and metaphors he had em ployed with such great success in his California writings, his transposition of them especially into the strange key of the Arctic met with little success. What accounts for this failure, resulting in his brooding, fragmented symphonies on ice and water? What significance do Muir\u27s accounts hold for his reputation, and for the coherence of his wilderness philosophy? What do these accounts tell us about wilderness itself? John Muir traveled to Alaska a total of nine times during the years 1879, 1880, 1881, 1890, and 1899. Chronicling these trips were Travels in Alaska, based on his explorations of southeastern Alaska in 1879, 1880, and 1890, The Cruise of the Corwin, a collection of letters, journals, and newspaper articles detailing his trip to northern Alaska in 1881, Letters from Alaska, a collection of previously unpublished letters and dispatches from these trips, and John of the Mountains, a collection of Muir\u27s unpublished journals. Together these writings reflect the limits of Muir\u27s philosophy that exalted wild nature over human culture and civilization and maintained that all life was sacred. 7 Travels in Alaska and The Cruise of the Corwin depict a more terrifying wildness in nature than described in his California writings, writes Harold Simonson8 and in this sense they do mark a significant divergence from the traditional Muir genre. In Alaska the weather, land, and natives test Muir\u27s convictions about himself and his view of the wild. Early in the trip of 1879 it is evident that Alaska is not easily going to meet his expectations of an unspoiled Ur- California. For a man whose customary enthusiasm for wilderness permitted him to exult over snow-flowers and blessed immortals of light 9 even as his body became frozen and blistered when a blizzard forced him to spend the night lying in the scalding mud of Mt. Shasta\u27s fumaroles, Muir\u27s descriptions of the Alaskan coast, with (continued on page 3) UNIVERSITY OR page 1 F» A C I R I C
News & Notes Edinburgh John Muir Exhibition Just Concluded The City of Edinburgh sponsored an exhibit: An Infinite Storm of Beauty: The Life and Achievements of John Muir which ran from July 30 to October 2, 1999. The exhibit included important pieces of Muir memorabilia such as his field glasses, herbarium and plant specimens, his suitcase, commemorative stamps and medallions, family photographs, and portraits. In addition, some major paintings by William Keith from the Hearst Art Gallery in Moraga, California, were included in this exhibit, as well as almost a dozen photographs of the High Sierra by Galen Rowell. At the opening ceremonies on July 30, participants included the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the American Consul who represented President Clinton, the Minister for the Scottish Environment, Elizabeth Hanna, a great-great granddaughter of John Muir, Harold Wood, representing the Sierra Club, Phyllis Shaw and David Blackburn from the John Muir Historical Site at Martinez, California, and Nigel Hawkins, Director of the John Muir Trust. . . . In the meantime, as further evidence of John Muir\u27s historical importance, his likeness is increasingly being borrowed by the media and imitators, and perhaps to his dismay, were he alive, by advertisers. Next year, for example, there is to be a musical based on Muir\u27s life at the Concord Pavilion near the John Muir National Historical Site. This past September, a weekend fund raiser was held in Martinez, and Russ Hanna, Muir\u27s grandson, was featured with his jazz band. .. . Further to the north, remote Rocky Point in southern Oregon, where Muir summered in 1907, is the site of a fierce battle between environmentalists and developers. Ninety-two years ago, Muir stayed at the Upper Klamath Lake lodge owned by E. H. Harriman, and he wrote the following lyrical description of the area: The shining lake enlivened with leaping trout and flocks of waterfowl; the stream from the great springs like a river with broad brown and yellow meadows on either hand; and the dark, forested mountains, changing to blue in the background, rising higher and higher. A tiny recreational area now of 300 residents, it faces the prospect of the development of a major ski resort on an 8,000 foot volcano north of the town of Klamath Falls in the Winema National Forest where large areas are old- growth reserves for northern spotted owls. Surely, Muir would interest himself in this issue. . . . Winnipeg Conference Coming Up Washington State University and the University of Winnipeg have announced a conference to be held in Vancouver, Washington, May 24-28, 2000. It will focus on the area of Hudson\u27s Bay and surrounding territory, and will feature sessions on the fur trade, Native history and culture and on the Pacific Northwest. For information, contact Theresa Schenck (e-mail: tschenck@wsu. edu), Department of Comparative American Cultures, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164. Announcements The fourth installment of Reconstructing John Muir\u27s First Public Lecture, by Steve Pauly will appear in a later issue. The John Muir Center announces with great pleasure the publication of its newest book on Muir: John Muir in Historical Perspective, edited by Sally M. Miller. It will be available in time for Christmas gift-giving. It features 13 essays on Muir that were first presented to the California History Institute in 1996. The book is beautifully illustrated and is priced at $29.95. Any lover of John Muir and what he represented will want to own this book. Please contact Pearl Piper of the John Muir Center to arrange to purchase a copy. W NEWSLETTER Volume 9, Number 4 Fall 1999 Published quarterly by The John Muir Center for Regional Studies University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA 95211 o Staff o Editor Sally M. Miller Production Assistants . . . Marilyn Norton, Pearl Piper All photographic reproductions are courtesy of the John Muir Papers, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Libraries. Copyright 1984 Muir-Harma Trust. This Newsletter is printed on recycled paper. page 2
John Muir\u27s Struggle In The North, by Hal Crimmel (continued...) its dismal blurring rain, and the shelterless and inhospitable region around Wrangell, where something like a forest loomed dimly through the draggled clouds 10 are downright listless. The subdued tone evident here is a regular feature of Muir\u27s Alaskan writings. Disoriented by weather in an enigmatic land easy neither to appreciate tip: understand, Muir\u27s writing suggests restraint rather I it.m passion. Conditions in the Arctic were not much better. There Muir would say that he had never seen weather so strong !; bewildering and depressing. As Herbert F. Smith has •i .ed, Muir\u27s status as a lover of storms is forced to bow fttthe greater power of the climate of the North Polar Regions. 12 The unmatched seventy of the storms in the in ,n region threatened his pride and called into question I\u27d;: identity as a man who loved storms. In the past, Muir i.. • satirized tourists who came to Yosemite seeking mod- He conditions, and the tender, pulpy people 13 whose Ire for comfort brought railroads into wilderness. He night himself superior to the average tenderfoot who sought affirmation in the gentler side of nature. Yet alter a long months in the Arctic, the inclement weather he H oiimei\u27cd forced him to reevaluate his identity as a lover - i torms for there he could only endure thorn rather than enjoy them. The electrical storms in which he customarily .need were altogether different there. Between the try- M/ conditions of daily life in the Arctic, and the bruising II i er of the wind and tides, Muir never managed to celebrate storms there as he did in the Sierra. Confronted with the conditions in Alaska, Muir was I Bed to admit that he shared the limitations of the urban iitosses he scorned. Accordingly, Muir\u27s claim, Just bread water and delightful toil is all I need, not unreasonable \u3c ti ;h, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any par - iN-nlar kind of spiritual nourishment, 14 arising as it did out • 111 n i ner experiences in the Sierra, began to look paro- il.tl. Applied to the Arctic, Muir\u27s declaration looked like ii \u3e sentimental fumbling of an urban romantic, accustom- ;; o a tender diet of succulent weekend trips in carefully ,\u27 uiaged national parks. The weather conditions made -•\u27• ii to him that he could not, in fact, live anywhere with • i y n ci nsi. of bread tied to his belt. As well, the land\u27s unfamiliar scale frequently spoke toltim in an unintelligible dialect that tested his powers of mprehension. In one instance, as Muir and his party it iitoached the shoreline and glaciers on the rain-soaked inlets near the Baird Glacier, their destinations seemed to fi t fie before their very eyes, causing them to doubt •v:i -ther they could ever land. Once they arrived, the very jnouiid itself repulsed their exploratory probes. On what magines to be familiar terrain, a glacial moraine, Muir *. .it* his party step ashore, but find themselves wallowing .\u27 gray, mineral mud, a paste made from fine mountain ■ Id, [which] kept unstable by the tides, at once took us in, swallowing our feet foremost with becoming glacial ; deliberation. 15 The party hastily retreats to their canoe. Humbled by weather in the Arctic and in Southeastern \u27 t ska, and repulsed by the land itself, Muir also learned that closeness with nature required unusual commitment and sacrifice in the North. In Unalaska the foul smell of Aleutian huts added a new dimension to the idea of being close to nature. The raw spectacle of hunting in the Arctic brought the specter of death too prominently into the wilderness equation for him to pretend it did not exist. These and other encounters with the natives brought challenging experiences and threatening confrontations. Hostile Indians frightened him. He was shocked by birth defects, mental illness, and widespread starvation and disease. In particular, his reactions to the piles of corpses and skeletons in the chapter The Villages of the Dead in The Cruise of the Corwin have significant implications for his conception of wilderness. The ramifications of his discoveries and his reactions to them show that Muir was not as accepting of wilderness as we might otherwise think. It also shows that the union with nature he so eagerly sought and celebrated in his California writings could be unpleasant, even disastrous. Nowhere was this driven home more dramatically than in The Villages of the Dead, settlements on St. Lawrence Island where starvation, and possibly disease, had killed two-thirds of the population during the winter of 1878- 1879. In one village, Muir and the party found twelve desolate huts close to the beach with about two hundred skeletons in them or strewn about on the rocks and rubbish heaps within a few yards of the doors. The scene was indescribably ghastly and desolate. 16 Muir describes shrunken bodies, with rotting furs on them and white, bleaching skeletons, picked bare by the crows. . .lying mixed with kitchen-midden rubbish where they had been cast out by surviving relatives while they yet had strength to carry them. 17 Even for Muir, this was disturbing scenery indeed. These still and desolate villages were indeed full of humanity though not of the sort Muir hoped to find and they shook his faith in the talkative, sympathetic, brotherly aspect of wilderness he was so enthusiastic about in My First Summer in the Sierra. Muir and the members of the expedition were astonished by the nonplused reactions of the natives. Asking one villager the whereabouts of the others elicits a happy, heedless smile from him and a reply in an almost a merry tone of voice, \u27Dead, yes, all dead, all mucky, all gone!\u27 18 suggesting that the natives accept starvation and death as part and parcel of life there. The natives have not temporarily surrendered themselves to the rhythms of the wild, as Muir was wont to do; they are committed to it in a way Muir never had been. For them, there can be no quick escape from hunger or scarcity, or severe weather, no surrender that could be terminated should conditions prove too unfavorable. Muir, however, with his California- grown expectations of wilderness, cannot accept this. It shakes him to think that surrendering oneself to nature means just that - not a temporary submission that can be conveniently rescinded. Dismayed and disoriented at having this element of his expectations of wilderness dashed, he blamed civilization for the piles of skeletons on St. Lawrence Island, and called for government assistance. Oddly, Muir did not realize that in a subsistence way page 3
John Muir\u27s Struggle In The North, by Hal Crimmel (continued...) of life, starvation and death are part of the wilderness experience. Wanting to have his cake and eat it too, Muir could not accept a complete surrender to the rhythms of the wilderness. He hoped to find a wilderness inhabited by happy, healthy natives, who would meet his expectations of primitive peoples. In Alaska, Muir was forced to take a closer look at his vision of the potential for humans and nature to live in harmony, and it behooves us to take note of Muir\u27s reformulation. Endnotes 1. Harold P. Simonson, Beyond the Frontier: Writers, Western Regionalism and a Sense of Place. Fort Worth, Texas: Texas Christian University Press, 1989, p. 32. 2. John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911, p. 319. 3. Edwin Way Teale, The Wilderness World of John Muir. Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin, 1954, p. xi. 4. Simonson, p. 45. 5. Edward Hoagland, Steep Trails. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1994, p. vii. 6. Bruce A. Richardson, \u27 Fear Nothing\u27: An Interpretation of John Muir\u27s Writings on Yellowstone. in Sally M. Miller, ed., John Muir: Life and Work. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993, pp. 267-285. 7. Thurman Wilkins, John Muir: Apostle of Nature. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995, p. 265. 8. Simonson, p. 37. 9. John Muir, Steep Trails. Ed. William Frederic Bade. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1994 (1918), pp. 53-54. 10. John Muir, Travels in Alaska (introduction by Richard Nelson). New York: Penguin, 1993. p. 15. 11. John Muir, The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in Search ofDe Long and the Jeannette. Ed. William Frederic Bade. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917, p. 79. 12. Herbert F. Smith, John Muir. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1965, p. 102. 13. Muir, Steep Trails, p. 248. 14. Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra, p. 103. 15. John Muir, Letters From Alaska. Eds. Robert Engberg and Bruce Merrell. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, p. 31. 16. Muir, The Cruise of the Corwin, p. 108. 17. Ibid., p 108. 18. Ibid., p. 111. On John Muir\u27s My First Summer in the Sierra By Stan Hutchinson In a letter to Henry Fairfield Osborn penned from the Los Angeles home of friend J. D. Hooker June 1, 1910, John Muir wrote that he had been hidden down here... working hard on books. In mid-May, he had sent his publisher the manuscript for a small book.. .entitled \u27My First Summer in the Sierra,\u27 written from notes made forty- one years ago. The title for this book was taken from a sentence in Muir\u27s Our National Parks, 1901, when he described a young shepherd met north of Kings River who was fresh from the East, and. . .this was his first summer in the Sierra. . . Biographers of John Muir have had varying opinions on the degree of consistency between Muir\u27s My First Summer in the Sierra (hereafter MFS ), published in 1911, and his journal chronicling that event. While some differences are to be expected between journal and finished book, their actual extent is difficult to establish. Over the course of several decades Muir reworked his original 1869 Sierra journal out of existence, saving only the drawings. The earliest surviving version of the journal may be found in three worn and heavily marked-up volumes dated from ca. 1887. A further-revised draft of ca. 1910 is also extant. In her biography of Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe flatly stated that while preparing his 1869 journal for publication Muir [wjisely.. .made few changes, allowing his text to retain all the fresh spontaneity of his early impressions. Michael P. Cohen and Frederick Turner in their respective biographies of Muir utilized the ca. 1887 and 1910 journal drafts to compare with MFS as published. Cohen stated that Muir reworked earlier journal material with later knowledge into an honest and truthful book. . .narrated with all the skill that a novelist might muster. Turner felt that, despite some inconsistencies with the ca. 1887 draft, Muir made few substantive changes, and MFS was for the most part. . .a faithful depiction of his experiences. Both of the surviving drafts differ with each other and MFS, and We cannot help but wonder how the book compares with the 1869 journal itself. Fortunately something of an end run can be made around that missing manuscript. Two letters written by Muir shortly after his return from that significant first Sierra summer provide tantalizing glimpses of the 1869 journal in its original form. According to Muir himself, and we take him at his word, passages in these letters were quoted directly from his journal and as such are among the few available for comparison with their counterparts in MFS. The first of these letters was penned to his younger brother Daniel, then a medical student in Michigan, and is dated September 22, [1869], the day after his return from the Sierra to the foothill ranch of his employer, Patrick Delaney. To Dear Doctor Dan Muir wrote that once while in the mountains he and the shepherd Billy had got out of flour and had nothing to eat but mutton and molasses candy. Then, wanting to be more specific to a medical man, Muir wrote that he would quote direct from my diary. His entry for July 2nd begins, Tea and mutton!... ourstaff of life. He also related that their strong tea made them dizzy like whiskey and, reacting violently with the mutton, caused a series of loud premonitory rumblings like those that preceded the great earthquake last year in San Francisco. In contrast, the longer July 2nd entry in MFS merely notes, We have been out of bread a few days.. . while dizzy like whiskey and earthquake rumblings of the journal become, under July 7th in MFS, Drank tea until half intoxicated. . . and digestive distress amid rumbling, grumbling sounds. . .might well pass for\u27baas\u27. The journal\u27s July 5th entry begins, Tea and mutton becoming more and more combative and so they change their diet to Mutton and molasses candy. . . In marked contrast the July 5th entry in MFS is thoroughly optimistic: Here every day is a holiday... and Everything rejoicing. The tea and mutton combativeness of the journal\u27s page 4
On John Muir\u27s My First Summer in the Sierra (continued...) 5th, in quite different content and length, moves to July 6th in MFS; the failed molasses experiment, also of the 5th, moves to the 7th where the sugar-cooking process and its several ramifications are explained with subtle humor. Muir quotes only the opening of the journal\u27s July 6th entry: Feel weak, sickish, and sour. .. In MFS the July I entry begins, Rather weak and sickish this morn- lo, ., . ., continues with a 7 72
Comentário acerca da tradução do poema “The Labyrinth” de Edwin Muir
No full textTradução de: André Setti.Sua poética caracteriza-se pelo léxico simples e por imagensfortes, por vezes até visionárias. O poema traduzido, “The Labyrinth”, publicado em “Selected Poems of Edwin Muir”, prefaciado e editado por T. S. Eliot, evoca, com grande beleza, a angústia e o encantamento de um homem face ao labirinto.
Letter from John Muir to [J. H.] Mellichamp, [1901].
No full text[First draft of letter, in note-book #1] (3)[Martinez, 1901]My dear Dr. Mellichamp:Many thanks for the fine specimens of P. Cubensis nicely and carefully prepared and packed. They arrived in fine condition, and brought vividly to mind an amusing picture at a railroad station in Florida. While waiting for a train one Sunday morning I offered a bare legged negro boy a dime to climb a tall Cubensis for a flowering branchlet. Instantly fifteen or 20 of them splashed across into the wet hollow where the tree grew and began to climb, boosting each other or pulling each other down, greatly to the wonderment of the well dressed mammies, who declared, Dam boys done gone crazy, or had de double in ‘em.”How happy you must be in your old haunts, with thronging memories of the times befo’ de wan.With kindest regards,Ever yours,[John Muir]02890https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/41787/thumbnail.jp
O foco narrativo na ficção contemporânea : uma leitura de Author, Author, de David Lodge
No full textOrientador : Prof. Dr. Caetano Waldrigues GalindoAutor não autorizou a divulgação do arquivo digitalDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras. Defesa: Curitiba, 26/06/2013Bibliografia: fls. 158-161Área de concentração: Estudos LiteráriosResumo: O propósito deste trabalho é refletir sobre a construção do foco narrativo em Author, Author (2004), de David Lodge, romance biográfico sobre o escritor Henry James (1843-1916). O narrador não se limita a situar o leitor na narrativa: o seu posicionamento em relação aos aspectos factuais da vida e do percurso literário do romancista norte-americano desempenha papel fundamental na discussão das estratégias narrativas da prosa de ficção de James. Na construção ficcional do malogro na noite de estreia de Guy Domville, em Londres, em 1895, por exemplo, é possível perceber a bipartição desse narrador, capaz de contar e mostrar dois episódios que se passam em dois lugares diferentes, simultaneamente. Em outros momentos do romance, a voz autoral embaralha-se com a voz do sujeito da enunciação a tal ponto, que o leitor menos atento encontra certa dificuldade para colocar ordem nos discursos. O abandono gradual da prosa de ficção em busca de uma identidade como dramaturgo, a falta de êxito na dramaturgia, a lenta recuperação psicológica, a retomada da prosa de ficção e o resultado insatisfatório da revisão e escrita de prefácios para as suas obras, para compor The novels and tales of Henry James:The New York Edition (1905), são alguns dos desdobramentos da trajetória de James, discutidos em Author, Author.Abstract: The purpose of this dissertation is to think over the construction process of narrative focus in Author, Author (2004), by David Lodge, a biographical novel about the writer Henry James (1843-1916). The narrator does not limit himself to guiding the reader through the narrative; rather, his attitude towards factual aspects of the life and literary course of the North-American novelist seems to play a fundamental role in the novel. In the fictional construction of the débâcle of "Guy Domville", in London, 1895 for instance it is possible to distinguish the narrator's bipartition, in order to tell and show two different episodes which happen in two different places, simultaneously. In other moments, the authorial voice blends with that of the subject of the enunciation to such a degree that the less attentive reader may not be capable of organizing the discourse, in a first moment. James' gradual movement away from prose fiction so as to find his playwright identity; the lack of success as a playwright; his subsequent slow psychological recovery; the return to prose fiction; and, finally, the weak result of writing and revising prefaces to his literary works in order to put together The Novels and Tales of Henry James: The New York Edition (1905), are some of the most conspicuous events in James' trajectory discussed in Author, Author
Síndrome de Muir-Torre : um estudo retrospetivo
No full textTrabalho Final do Curso de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 2015A síndrome de Muir-Torre é uma variante da síndrome de Lynch em que os pacientes, para além de tumores colo-retais e ginecológicos, apresentam também neoplasia sebácea. Este trabalho consiste de um estudo retrospetivo que inclui dados de pacientes do Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa. Os pacientes foram selecionados informaticamente conforme apresentassem registo de adenomas sebáceos e/ou carcinoma sebáceo entre os anos de 2000 e 2013. Este estudo debruça-se portanto sobre a patologia sebácea e como um melhor entendimento desta poderá servir de indicador preditivo de futuras neoplasias sebáceas ou viscerais relacionadas com a síndrome de Muir-Torre e, consequentemente, melhorar o acompanhamento e tratamento destes pacientes. Confirmou-se a associação entre adenomas sebáceos e carcinoma sebáceo com a síndrome de Muir-Torre. No entanto, a utilidade de uma lesão sebácea isolada para definir o risco de síndrome de Muir-Torre não é clara, apesar de, por ser uma patologia rara e fortemente associada à síndrome de Muir-Torre, a sua presença deve levantar suspeita da síndrome de Muir-Torre quando pelo menos um dos critérios seguintes é cumprido: história pessoal de neoplasia visceral maligna; surge em idade jovem; lesões múltiplas; lesões localizadas em partes do corpo que não a cabeça e pescoço; ou história familiar de síndrome de Muir-Torre, Lynch ou de neoplasias malignas colo-rectais ou geniturinárias. O diagnóstico de síndrome de Muir-Torre é clínico, no entanto, técnicas de imuno-histoquímica, de análise de instabilidade de Microssatélites e provas genéticas poderão ser úteis para confirmação de diagnóstico. O acompanhamento médico dos pacientes com diagnóstico de síndrome de Muir-Torre e dos seus familiares em primeiro grau deve ser dirigido e adequado, passando por exames, anuais ou bianuais, dermatológicos, gastroenterológicos e geniturinários.The Muir-Torre syndrome is a Lynch Syndrome’s variant where patients also have, in addition to colorectal and genitourinary neoplasms, sebaceous neoplasms. This retrospective study includes patient’s data from the Portuguese Institute of Oncology of Lisbon. The patients were selected through the Institute’s informatics system according to registration of sebaceous adenoma or sebaceous carcinoma between the years 2000 and 2013 (both included). The study is focused on the sebaceous pathology and how a better understanding of it can improve prediction of future visceral and cutaneous tumours and thus enhance treatment and follow-up of these patients Although the study’s conclusions cannot safely ensure the predictive value of sebaceous adenomas and sebaceous carcinomas in the Muir-Torre Syndrome, there is a clear association between them. Also, since sebaceous neoplasms are rare conditions and strongly associated with the Muir-Torre Syndrome, this syndrome should be suspected in the presence of a sebaceous adenoma and/or adenocarcinoma when at least one of the following criteria is presented: personal history of malignant visceral tumours; young age; multiple neoplasms; neoplasms in parts of the body other than head and neck; or family history of Muir-Torre Syndrome, Lynch-Syndrome, or malignant tumours, especially in colorectal or genitourinary areas. The Muir-Torre’s syndrome diagnosis is essentially clinic but immunohistochemistry techniques, microsatellites instability analyses, and genetic analyses can be useful for the diagnosis confirmation. The follow-up of these patients and their first degree related family members must be directed and adequate, annually or biannually, with corresponding dermatologic, gastroenterological, and genitourinary exams
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Síndrome de Muir-Torre : um estudo retrospetivo
No full textTrabalho Final do Curso de Mestrado Integrado em Medicina, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, 2015A síndrome de Muir-Torre é uma variante da síndrome de Lynch em que os pacientes, para além de tumores colo-retais e ginecológicos, apresentam também neoplasia sebácea. Este trabalho consiste de um estudo retrospetivo que inclui dados de pacientes do Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa. Os pacientes foram selecionados informaticamente conforme apresentassem registo de adenomas sebáceos e/ou carcinoma sebáceo entre os anos de 2000 e 2013. Este estudo debruça-se portanto sobre a patologia sebácea e como um melhor entendimento desta poderá servir de indicador preditivo de futuras neoplasias sebáceas ou viscerais relacionadas com a síndrome de Muir-Torre e, consequentemente, melhorar o acompanhamento e tratamento destes pacientes. Confirmou-se a associação entre adenomas sebáceos e carcinoma sebáceo com a síndrome de Muir-Torre. No entanto, a utilidade de uma lesão sebácea isolada para definir o risco de síndrome de Muir-Torre não é clara, apesar de, por ser uma patologia rara e fortemente associada à síndrome de Muir-Torre, a sua presença deve levantar suspeita da síndrome de Muir-Torre quando pelo menos um dos critérios seguintes é cumprido: história pessoal de neoplasia visceral maligna; surge em idade jovem; lesões múltiplas; lesões localizadas em partes do corpo que não a cabeça e pescoço; ou história familiar de síndrome de Muir-Torre, Lynch ou de neoplasias malignas colo-rectais ou geniturinárias. O diagnóstico de síndrome de Muir-Torre é clínico, no entanto, técnicas de imuno-histoquímica, de análise de instabilidade de Microssatélites e provas genéticas poderão ser úteis para confirmação de diagnóstico. O acompanhamento médico dos pacientes com diagnóstico de síndrome de Muir-Torre e dos seus familiares em primeiro grau deve ser dirigido e adequado, passando por exames, anuais ou bianuais, dermatológicos, gastroenterológicos e geniturinários.The Muir-Torre syndrome is a Lynch Syndrome’s variant where patients also have, in addition to colorectal and genitourinary neoplasms, sebaceous neoplasms. This retrospective study includes patient’s data from the Portuguese Institute of Oncology of Lisbon. The patients were selected through the Institute’s informatics system according to registration of sebaceous adenoma or sebaceous carcinoma between the years 2000 and 2013 (both included). The study is focused on the sebaceous pathology and how a better understanding of it can improve prediction of future visceral and cutaneous tumours and thus enhance treatment and follow-up of these patients Although the study’s conclusions cannot safely ensure the predictive value of sebaceous adenomas and sebaceous carcinomas in the Muir-Torre Syndrome, there is a clear association between them. Also, since sebaceous neoplasms are rare conditions and strongly associated with the Muir-Torre Syndrome, this syndrome should be suspected in the presence of a sebaceous adenoma and/or adenocarcinoma when at least one of the following criteria is presented: personal history of malignant visceral tumours; young age; multiple neoplasms; neoplasms in parts of the body other than head and neck; or family history of Muir-Torre Syndrome, Lynch-Syndrome, or malignant tumours, especially in colorectal or genitourinary areas. The Muir-Torre’s syndrome diagnosis is essentially clinic but immunohistochemistry techniques, microsatellites instability analyses, and genetic analyses can be useful for the diagnosis confirmation. The follow-up of these patients and their first degree related family members must be directed and adequate, annually or biannually, with corresponding dermatologic, gastroenterological, and genitourinary exams
Teoria do Direito Sem Fronteiras: Direito Internacional Privado como Pluralismo Jurídico Global
No full textTEORIA DO DIREITO SEM FRONTEIRAS: DIREITO INTERNACIONAL PRIVADO COMO PLURALISMO JURÍDICO GLOBAL* JURISPRUDENCE WITHOUT CONFINES: PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW AS GLOBAL LEGAL PLURALISM Horatia Muir Watt** RESUMO: Este artigo surge do discurso de abertura proferido pela Professora Muir Watt na conferência anual do CJICL em 8 de abril de 2016. Em seu artigo, ela considera se o direito internacional privado pode oferecer conhecimentos específicos sobre importantes questões que desafiem a teoria jurídica contemporânea. Especificamente, ela analisa se o pluralismo jurídico pode abranger o direito internacional privado para criar uma teoria do direito além-fronteiras. Ela argumenta que a teoria do direito internacional privado pode contribuir com princípios, infundir interações normativas híbridas e garantir a responsabilidade no relacionamento entre a direito global e a justiça global. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Direito Internacional Privado. Teoria jurídica. Pluralismo jurídico Teoria do Direito. Conflito de leis. ABSTRACT: This article arises from Professor Muir Watt’s keynote address to the CJICL annual conference on 8th April 2016. In her article, she considers whether private international law can offer specific insights into important issues that challenge contemporary legal theory. Specifically, she analyses whether legal pluralism can encompass private international law to craft a jurisprudence beyond borders. She argues that conflict of laws theory can contribute principles, infuse hybrid normative interactions and ensure accountability in the relationship between global law and global justice. KEYWORDS: Private international law. Legal theory. Legal pluralism. Jurisprudence. Conflict of laws.SUMÁRIO: 1 Introdução. 2 Entra o pluralismo; saem os conflitos. 3 Voltam os conflitos... bem, mais ou menos. 4 O que pluralismo significa nesse contexto. 5 Pós-escrito: direito internacional privado no modo pluralista, na prática. Referências. * Artigo originalmente publicado na língua inglesa no Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law, v. 5, i. 3, Cheltenham, 2016, p. 308-403. Traduzido para o português pela doutoranda Nicole Rinaldi de Barcellos (PPGDir./UFRGS).** Professora de Direito Internacional Privado e Direito Comparado na Sciences Po, e Co-Diretora do programa dos Estudos em Governança Globalno Master’s Degree in Economic Law, em Paris. Doutora em Direito Internacional Privado pela University of Panthéon-Assas Paris Contato: [email protected]
Letter from [John Muir] to [William F.] Herrin, [19]05 Feb 26.
No full text71[First draft of letter,in note-book][William Franklin Herrin]Feb. 26. \u2705.(fo Mr. Herrin):Now, thank Heaven, under your able guidance, 1 em victoriously out of it. I am an accomplished lobbyist, and my politioal education is finished triumphantly, firmly rounded out and manifested to the world like the Capitol dome, leaving me glad and free to return to my mountains and glaciers.But never, I fear, shall 1 be able to forget the phenomenal oratory of the opposition. Desert sand-storms and dust whirlwinds must surely bring it to mind.Now for your dinner! The top of the S[outh] Dome would be an appropriate place, or Mt. Whitney or Shasta. A fine white cloth is already spread there. But I am afraid Willie [Keith] will not be able to climb to any such tables. fate your pick. Let it be when and where you will.Faithfully yours,[John Muir][See other draft of letter, evidently of same date]03098https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/27744/thumbnail.jp
Método e teoria em Ludwig Von Mises
No full textOrientador: José Guilherme Silva VieiraMonografia(Graduação) - Universidade Federal do Paraná,Setor de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Curso de Ciências EconômicasResumo: Analisam-se os escritos metodológicos e econômicos de Ludwig von Mises, autor por quem tem crescido o interesse no Brasil. Boa parte da obra do economista austríaco é dedicada a justificar o método, fundado em sua teoria da ação humana, a Praxeologia. No presente trabalho, procura-se saber se o autor efetivamente fez uso de tal método. Para entender o que a Praxeologia representava para Mises, faz-se uma pequena revisão histórica das discussões metodológicas em voga no tempo de Mises, além de uma comparação entre o Historicismo, o Positivismo e a Praxeologia. A análise segue com o levantamento de algumas das críticas sofridas pela Praxeologia e das defesas apresentadas por Mises. É argumentado que alguns dos seguidores, na tentativa de validar o método praxeológico, perverteram a intenção original que Mises tinha ao criar um método apriorístico. Alguns dos limites desse método se refletem na teoria monetária e por isso são estudados mais a fundoAbstract: Ludwig von Mises’, an author for whom the interest has rised in Brazil, methodological and economic works are analysed. A great share of the Austrian economist’s work was dedicated to justify his method, based on his theory of human action, Praxeology. The present work investigates if the author actually used his that method. A small historical review of the methodological debate in Mises’s time and a comparison between Historicism, Positivism and Praxeology are made in order to properly understand what Praxeology meant for Mises. The analysis follows with some of the critiques made against Praxeology and the answers Mises had for them. It’s shown that some of the attempts of Mises’ heirs to defend Praxeology perverted his original intention with the a priori method. Some of the limits of this method are analysed more carefully for they have implications on monetary theor
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