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Exploited Edens: paradise discourse in colonial and postcolonial literature
No full textThis thesis examines the relation between figures of paradise and the ideologies and economies of colonialism, imperialism, and global capitalism, arguing that paradise myth is the product of a value-laden discourse related to profit, labour, and exploitation of resources, both human and environmental, which evolves in response to differing material conditions and discursive agendas. The literature of imperialism and conquest abounds with representations of colonies as potential gold-lands to be mined materially or discursively: from the EI Dorado of the New World and the 'infernal paradise' of Mexico, to the 'Golden Ophir' of Africa and the 'paradise of dharma' of Ceylon. Most postcolonial analyses of paradise discourse have focused exclusively on the Caribbean or the South Pacific, failing to acknowledge the appearance of fantasies of paradise in association with Africa and Asia. Therefore, my thesis not only performs a comparative reading of marginalized paradisal topoi and tropes related to Mexico, Zanzibar, and Ceylon, but also uncovers literature from these regions which has been overlooked in mainstream postcolonial .criticism, mapping the circulations, continuities, and reconfigurations of the paradise myth as it travels across colonie{and continents, empires and ideologies. My analysis of these three regions is divided into six chapters, the first of each section excavating colonial uses ofthe paradise myth and constructing its genealogy for that particular region, the second investigating revisionary uses of the motif by postcolonial writers including Malcolm Lowry, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera. I address imperialist discourse from outside the country in conjunction with discourse from within the independent nation in order to demonstrate how paradise begins as a literal topos motivating European exploration and colonization, develops into an ideological myth justifying imperial praxis and economic exploitation, and [mally becomes a literary motif used by contemporary postcolonial writers to challenge colonial representations and criticize neocolonial conditions
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
Paradise Version 0.1 Reference Manual
No full textThis document describes Paradise [DKLPY94], a database system designed for handling GIS (Geographical Information Systems) type applications which is under development at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Paradise uses SHORE [CDF + 94] as its underlying persistent object manager. The Paradise front-end is implemented using Tk [Ous91], a publicly available X11 toolkit based on a lightweight interpretive command language Tcl [Ous90]. The design for the Paradise front-end is based on GEO [Vij92], a C++-based graphical user interface for geographical database systems [vOV91]. The current version of Paradise uses a client-server architecture and provides a subset of SQL as its query language. More information about Paradise can be obtained from the Paradise Mosaic home page: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/paradise/. PARADISE -- Parallel Data Information System for GIS Copyright (c) 1994 Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin -- Madison. All Rights Reserved. Permission to use, ..
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
O Paradise Lost e o entendimento do pecado original
No full textThis paper presents a discussion of the representation of original sin in John Milton\u27s Paradise Lost. Following the contemporary thinkers of the English poet, one seeks to understand how Milton had created and had understood the human fall. Beginning with the concept of fallible perfection, one observes the continuous and uninterrupted walk of Adam and Eve that results in noncompliance of divine Law and subsequent expulsion from paradise.O presente artigo apresenta uma discussão da representação do pecado original no Paradise Lost, de John Milton. Seguindo os pensadores contemporâneos ao poeta inglês, busca-se uma compreensão de como Milton cria e compreende a queda humana. Partindo da noção de perfeição falível, observa-se o contínuo e ininterrupto caminhar de Adão e Eva que resulta no descumprimento da ordem divina e consequente expulsão do paraíso terrestre
Larry O. Spencer, Conference Author Presentation
No full textGen. Larry O. Spencer, USAF (Ret.), author of Dark Horse: A Journey from the Horseshoe to the Pentago
The biblical story of paradise
No full textUvodno ponavljanje kosmogonije; Priča o postanju čoveka; Priča o postanju Raja; Priča o rajskim otokama; Priča o čovekovom nastanjenju u Raju; Priča o postanju životinja; Priča o postanju žene.In the present paper an analysis of Genesis 2 is proposed, based on the main branches of the Biblical text tradition (Alexandrian Bible with its Slavic translation by Saints Cyril and Methodius and Jerusalem Bible with its French translation), which consists in distinguishing, within the Story of Paradise as a whole, a consistent series of narratives about the different paradisiacal conditions of the first people. According to the author, six short-stories are discernible, first of them dealing with the creation of the man. They have in common an anthropocentric focus, as reflected in the use of the introducing formula 'before' (Hebrew Derem, Greek pro toü) implying that the entire creation of the earthly word serves to the humanity, yet to be created. The second story tells us about the creation of the Paradise garden. It presupposes the sequence of the cosmogonic acts preceding the first one, which is earth - rain - fruit-trees - man. The creation story of Genesis 2 refers to that of Genesis 1 by reinterpreting its series of God's creative actions as follows: earth - seeds of plants animals and humans placed in it - shape-forming rain - developed shapes of plants, animals and humans on the earth's surface. The Tree of life and the Tree of knowledge of good and evil figure in the second and fourth narrative of Paradise and in the Genesis 3 as rooted in the mystery of life, that the God created for the man, but left it at his own disposal. The third narrative gives a geographical account, both realistically oriented and theologically interpretative, of four rivers branching off from a single one within the Eden. The fourth narrative depicts the God settling the first man in the holy garden of Paradise, appointing him to cultivate its holiness and promising him the eternal life in return for this priestly service. The next narrative is about the creation of the animals, which, in contrast to the story of the anthropogenesis, are created, by God's order, from the earth only, and consequently cannot approach their Creator, who is the Absolute Spirit, without a spiritual guidance of their human master. The sixt narrative ending the Biblical Story of Paradise is about God's creation of the woman, the sole creature consubstantial with the man and complementary to him, so that they may be self-actualised only through the love talk in the mutuality of their matrimonial relationship
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
A-0403: Paradise, Utah, Floyd O. Rawlins residence. Lots 6-7 Block 12 Plat A
No full textA-0403: Paradise, Utah, Floyd O. Rawlins residence. Lots 6-7 Block 12 Plat
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