183 research outputs found
A necessary fiction: The ritualisation of stakeholder practices in New Zealand cinema
No full textThis thesis argues that stability of the concept ‘national cinema’ is located in the discursive positioning of individual films in such a way that they are connected to a national ‘common ground’, one which is ritually accessed via engagement with media such as cinema. This positioning, however, is not quantifiable and may not be identified as arising from any particular production practice, dimension of popularity, theme, style, characteristic of production personnel, and so on. By synthesising the work of several theorists and applying this synthesis to a selection of films, a framework of ideas (around the ritualised ‘flagging’ of the national via the expression of stakeholder interests) is applied to cinema in New Zealand. In particular, an ideoscape is ultimately mapped as a result of applying this framework of ideas. The normative assumptions of national cinema are examined in this way and found to be lacking despite the weight that the term ‘national cinema’ continues to have
Tradução comentada do texto dramático roabastiano La tierra sin mal
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, Florianópolis, 2012Este trabalho tem como objeto principal a tradução, do castelhano para o português brasileiro, do texto dramático La tierra sin mal (1998) do autor paraguaio Augusto Roa Bastos. A partir de leituras críticas e considerações sobre o processo tradutório, este estudo vem reafirmar a importância do acesso aos textos do autor em língua portuguesa. O drama La tierra sin mal, apresenta aos leitores brasileiros, com esta tradução, um texto inédito em português. A tradução desta obra do gênero dramático também abre horizontes para uma integração entre as áreas das letras e das artes cênicas, ao criar uma oportunidade de encenação deste texto a um público brasileiro. Este trabalho traz ainda uma análise diretamente relacionada à cultura e aos temas que fundamentam a história da obra, pois em La tierra sin mal é possível observar aspectos relativos à realidade e cultura paraguaia, através de uma mescla entre história e mitologia guarani. Somada a esta análise, está um estudo sobre o processo de tradução desta obra dramática ao português e dos aspectos da poética do autor Augusto Roa Bastos. Compõem o trabalho observações de alguns fundamentos teóricos sobre cultura e tradução, especificamente na área da tradução teatral, a peça La tierra sin mal traduzida para o português seguida de uma análise do processo tradutório e por fim uma análise da poética do autor.Abstract : This paper has as main object translation, from Spanish to Brazilian Portuguese, the dramatic text La tierra sin mal (1998) of Paraguayan author Augusto Roa Bastos. From readings and critical considerations about the translation process, this study reaffirms the importance of access to the texts of the author in Portuguese. The drama La tierra sin mal, introduces for the readers to Brazil with this translation, an unpublished text in Portuguese. The translation of this work of dramatic genre also opens horizons for integration between the area of literature and arts, to create an opportunity of staging this text to a Brazilian public. This paper also carries an analysis directly related to culture and themes that underlie the history of the text, because in La tierra sin mal is possible to observe aspects of reality and Paraguayan culture through a blend of history and mythology Guarani. Added to this analysis is a study on the process of translating this dramatic text into Portuguese and poetic aspects of the author Augusto Roa Bastos. Compose the work of some theoretical observations on culture and translation, specifically in the area of theatrical translation, the piece theater La tierra sin mal translated into Portuguese followed by an analysis of the translation process and finally an analysis of the poetics of the author
Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults
No full textBackground
Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories.
Methods
We used data from 3663 population-based studies with 222 million participants that measured height and weight in representative samples of the general population. We used a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate trends in the prevalence of different BMI categories, separately for adults (age ≥20 years) and school-aged children and adolescents (age 5–19 years), from 1990 to 2022 for 200 countries and territories. For adults, we report the individual and combined prevalence of underweight (BMI 2 SD above the median).
Findings
From 1990 to 2022, the combined prevalence of underweight and obesity in adults decreased in 11 countries (6%) for women and 17 (9%) for men with a posterior probability of at least 0·80 that the observed changes were true decreases. The combined prevalence increased in 162 countries (81%) for women and 140 countries (70%) for men with a posterior probability of at least 0·80. In 2022, the combined prevalence of underweight and obesity was highest in island nations in the Caribbean and Polynesia and Micronesia, and countries in the Middle East and north Africa. Obesity prevalence was higher than underweight with posterior probability of at least 0·80 in 177 countries (89%) for women and 145 (73%) for men in 2022, whereas the converse was true in 16 countries (8%) for women, and 39 (20%) for men. From 1990 to 2022, the combined prevalence of thinness and obesity decreased among girls in five countries (3%) and among boys in 15 countries (8%) with a posterior probability of at least 0·80, and increased among girls in 140 countries (70%) and boys in 137 countries (69%) with a posterior probability of at least 0·80. The countries with highest combined prevalence of thinness and obesity in school-aged children and adolescents in 2022 were in Polynesia and Micronesia and the Caribbean for both sexes, and Chile and Qatar for boys. Combined prevalence was also high in some countries in south Asia, such as India and Pakistan, where thinness remained prevalent despite having declined. In 2022, obesity in school-aged children and adolescents was more prevalent than thinness with a posterior probability of at least 0·80 among girls in 133 countries (67%) and boys in 125 countries (63%), whereas the converse was true in 35 countries (18%) and 42 countries (21%), respectively. In almost all countries for both adults and school-aged children and adolescents, the increases in double burden were driven by increases in obesity, and decreases in double burden by declining underweight or thinness.
Interpretation
The combined burden of underweight and obesity has increased in most countries, driven by an increase in obesity, while underweight and thinness remain prevalent in south Asia and parts of Africa. A healthy nutrition transition that enhances access to nutritious foods is needed to address the remaining burden of underweight while curbing and reversing the increase in obesity
R.D Blackmore Index: Royal Society Collection
No full textLetter from R. D. Blackmore [Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900)
English novelist, author of Lorna Doone] to Mannington Caffyn, on
the origin of the title Cradock Nowell. 18 Feb. 1890
Letter from E. A.Nowell to Mr Morton secretary of Royal Society
of Tasmania enclosing Blackmore's letter.
RS.14
Polyphony and the anxiety of influence in the fiction of Henry James
No full textJames's fiction, especially in the Middle Phase, centres
on the figure of the artist and is characterized by, the two
interrelated aspects which previous criticism has largely
overlooked: the Bakhtinian 'polyphonic' -creation of
'author-thinkers'; and the conflict between ephebes and
precursors, for which Harold-Bloom's concept of 'the-anxiety of
influence' is the most illuminating model. Polyphony is the
narrative mode, and influence is the intra-artistic, theme.
These, as the Introduction to the thesis makes clear, are
rehearsed in James's inaugural novel, Roderick Hudson. Rowland
Mallet is an author-thinker, and his failure is caused by
authorial limitations. His monologism -is impaired by his
mistaking empathy for the authorial sympathy. Likewise,
Hudson's failure does not arise from a mercurial temperament,
but from a polyphonic shortcoming: not possessing the power of
fiction to contain the fiction of power in, his mentor. And the
relationships among the three artists - Gloriani, Hudson and
Singleton - perfectly exemplify the Bloomian-theme. It is these
two concepts, polyphony and influence, which are the major
preoccupation in the Middle Phase; as, the works chosen
demonstrate. These are a novella, a novel, and a number of
short stories all of which have been unjustifiably neglected.
Chapter One, on The Aspern Papers, argues that Tina Bordereau,
far from being, the artless victim seen by many critics,
actually challenges and defeats the narrator by the very form
of her narrative. Her 'realist' discourse undermines his
language of 'romance', and shows up its internal unstability.
Chapter Two is an extensive study of the critical reception of
The Tragic Muse. The most common areas of critical attention
have been its contemporary topicality, its relation to previous
novels on similar themes, and the possible genealogy of Gabriel
Nash. Those have all missed the core of the work. - Chapter Three
demonstrates how polyphony and the anxiety of influence make
the novel what it really is. Influence arises from the
juxtaposition of, and the wrestling between, artistic ephebes
and their precursors (Nick and Nash,, Miriam and Madame Carre).
The dialogic quality defined by Bakhtin is crucial to the
proper, and even-handed, characterization of all, the conflicts
in the novel. And since most of James's tales in the eighties
and nineties -are about 'masters - and acolytes, the anxiety of
influence remains central. Chapter Four is a study of 'The
Author of Beltraffiol' and 'The Lesson of the Master'. Again the
characters' manipulations are a crucial focus in a way that
G6rard Genette's terminology helps to illuminate. The fact that
the ephebe is the author-thinker emphasizes the inextricability
of the Bakhtinian and the Bloomian in James. Just as
polyphony offers a different focus for explicating the poetics
of James's fiction; so the ephebal conflict provides the basis
for a fresh perception of James's own artistic struggle
An answer to a pamphlet, [electronic resource] : entitled Pietas oxoniensis, in a letter to the author. Wherein the grounds of the expulsion of six members from St. Edmund-Hall are set forth; and the Doctrines of the Church of England, and its first Reformers, fully considered, and vindicated. By Thomas Nowell, D. D. Principal of St. Mary Hall, and Public Orator of the University of Oxford. occasioned by the Reply of the same Author.
No full text'Pietas oxoniensis' is by Sir Richard Hill.MRu [R72352.2 & MAW G/A 394] report final 3,[1]p. with appendix; NcD reports err. at foot of p.206.Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
is given to the source. The Effect of Grade Retention on High School Completion
No full textWe would like to thank the Chicago Public Schools for providing the data used in this study. We are particularly grateful to Dan Bugler, Amy Nowell and Andrea Ross for their help in securing the necessary data and to Wei Ha and JD LaRock for excellent research assistance. All remaining errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view
Fragments on/of Voice
No full textLiterature operates with voice, and voices the voices of the author/poet, of the characters (and the poem’s ‘speaker’), and of the reciter and reader. But literature also operates an extensive imaginary of voice. Voice is the ‘stuff’ of literature in two senses: its material support and an abiding theme. And criticism itself involves so many ‘voicings’ of literary texts, as we test out the texts’ possibilities, their reverberations, their potential afterlives. This chapter explores both the physiology and imaginary of voice across millennia, shaped by phenomena as various as the social function of poetry in predominantly, or exclusively, oral cultures, the class and race politics of accent, the technologies of sound recording, reproduction, transmission and processing. It approaches this history through a series of interconnecting fragments: Voice as origin to, and excess over, speech; the voices of the muses and of song, voices that come from within and without, voices that ‘possess’ us; prosthetics of voice, written or machinic; mnemonics of voice, in which voice is not just memorable but creates memory. In both its physiology and its imaginary, voice comes across as extravagant – as extravagance, even
Un-Orthodox: Re-Teaching, Re-Thinking and Re-Learning While Taking Another Look at The Texts Around Homosexuality
No full textThis dissertation presents the community-based ministry project, Un-Orthodox as an alternative placement of spiritual uplifting for the African American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer/Questioning (AA GLBTQ) community in Houston, TX at the Montrose Community Center. The problem explored in this dissertation is that the traditional black church has not been a place where persons from the AA GLBTQ community, the community, has found support and acceptance because of its critical use of particular biblical text as instructive of the church on homosexuality. This dissertation presents Un-Orthodox as the researcher's planned resolution to this problem. Un-Orthodox was conceived as a ministry for the community that is not constrained by instructional doctrines and beliefs of the church about homosexuality. Its objective is to deconstruct certain biblical texts and their used in the traditional black church to oppress and dehumanize its AA GLBTQ parishioners and their larger community. The research and intervention utilized the research of biblical criticism, social psychologist and liberation theology to construct a new model for ministry to the AA GBTQ community within the black church and community. The participants in their study are freed to exercise self-acceptance relative to innately identified senses of sexuality along with spiritual expressions the love of God. Reformed literary contextual reflection was the method to integrate scriptural discussion with data input and analyze the input of letters of impact, focus group interviews, questionnaires and surveys as evaluative tools
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