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Author Paul Clemens reads from his book "Made in Detroit" at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textAuthor Paul Clemens reads from his book "Made in Detroit" and answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by Peter Berg, head of the Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library
Sts. Peter & Paul Church, Lewiston, Maine Photograph
No full textPhotographic print of postcard showing Sts. Peter & Paul Church, Lewiston, Maine. Undated. Author: A.A. Woodworthhttps://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/franco-ss-peter-and-paul/1001/thumbnail.jp
Paul Erdman on the invasion of foreign capital
No full textIn this installment of American Interests, host Peter Krogh sits down with banker and author Paul Erdman to discuss the benefits and perils posed by the massive amounts of foreign capital flowing into the United States. Born in Canada to American parents, Erdman graduated from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and went on to receive his Ph.D. from the University of Basle in Switzerland. In 1965 Erdman became the first American to open and lead a Swiss bank. In 1970, however, the bank collapsed amid allegations of unauthorized currency speculation, for which Erdman spent eight months in prison. During this time he wrote the first of many books, The Billion Dollar Sure Thing, which marked the birth of the financial fiction genre. Many of his novels would become bestsellers, and Erdman was renowned for his ability to write about complex matters of international finance in terms simple enough for the layperson to understand. In this episode, Erdman discusses the possible effects of foreign capital on the American banking industry and prospects for the American economy.Banker and financial author Paul Erdman discusses the American banking industry and the massive amount of foreign capital flowing into the United States
Frenzied Philology - Paul Celan, Peter Szondi and Hermeneutic Practice during the Goll Plagiarism Affair
No full text264 pagesMy dissertation, 'Frenzied Philology: Paul Celan, Peter Szondi, and Hermeneutic Practice during the Goll Plagiarism Affair' investigates the philological efforts that Paul Celan, with prominent literary scholars first and foresmost Peter Szondi, mounted in response to plagiarism allegations against Celan between 1959 and 1972. Based on readings of published and archival documents, including in the archives of Paul Celan and Peter Szondi at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, the Walter Jens Archive at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, and the institutional archives at the Freie Universität Berlin, my project maps the debate that ensued in major language feuilletons after Claire Goll had published a letter in 1959 accusing Celan of having plagiarized from her late husband, the French-German surrealist poet Yvan Goll. My analysis reveals that the plagiarism debate became the platform for a literary criticism that contested Paul Celan’s place within German language poetry tradition. Against this tendency, Celan formed alliances with a number of German and French philologists and scholars, most prominently with the Jewish literary scholar Peter Szondi, whose combined effort markedly intervened into the reception of his poetry, even beyond the plagiarism debate. The need to validate the authenticity of Celan’s poetry through the use of philological, empirically cogent tools posed a particular challenge to his critic-allies who also wanted to remain faithful to Celan’s own poetics, which developed a form of speaking of history without recourse to representational models. I argue that these critical interventions develop a non-historicist critical form of reading that becomes aligned with the poem’s temporality. In an exemplary reading of Celan’s poetry, Peter Szondi’s Celan-Studien, this alignment compels Szondi the author to reevaluate and experiment with the rhetorical registers of interpretative writing and begin to harness its own textuality
Peter Paul Ekka
Get PDFThis article discusses some short stories by Peter Paul Ekka, an Adivasi author from Jharkhand. Initially, it aims to demonstrate how – through the use of romantic and stereotypical descriptions – the Adivasi characters emerge as ‘others’ in relation to non-Adivasis as well as to the author himself. This urges us to further discuss and problematise the Adivasi/non-Adivasi binary. Thus, the article challenges the notion of cultural ‘otherness’ based solely on cultural terms and, specifically, on membership in certain groups that arises in contemporary forms of identity politics and in relation to marginal/subaltern literatures. Finally, the article expands its critique by referring to some foundational texts of postcolonial theory that, despite their authors’ intentions, have been absorbed into the call for subjectivity and rigid readings of culture that underpin the kind of identity politics that is mentioned and criticised here
Zechariah 9-14 as the substructure of 1 Peter’s eschatological program
No full textThe principal aim of this study is to discern what has shaped the author of 1 Peter to regard Christian suffering as a necessary (1.6) and to-be-expected (4.12) component of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ. Most research regarding suffering in 1 Peter has limited the scope of inquiry to two particular aspects—its cause and nature, and the strategies that the author of 1 Peter employs in order to enable his addressees to respond in faithfulness. There remains, however, the need for a comprehensive explanation for the source that has generated 1 Peter’s theology of Christian suffering. If Jesus truly is the Christ, God’s chosen redemptive agent who has come to restore God’s people, then how can it be that Christian suffering is a necessary part of discipleship after his coming, death and resurrection? What led the author of 1 Peter to such a startling conclusion, which seems to runs against the grain of the eschatological hopes and expectations of Jewish restoration ideology?
This thesis analyzes the appropriation of shepherd and fiery trials imagery,
and argues that the author of 1 Peter is dependent upon Zechariah 9-14 for his
theology of Christian suffering. Said in another way, the eschatological program of
Zechariah 9-14, read through the lens of the Gospel, functions as the substructure
for 1 Peter’s eschatology and thus its theology of Christian suffering.
In support of this hypothesis, this study highlights the fact that Zechariah 9-
14 was available and appropriated in early Christianity, in particular in the Passion
Narrative tradition; that the shepherd imagery of 1 Pet 2.25 is best understood
within the milieu of the Passion Narrative tradition, and that it alludes to the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that the fiery trials imagery found in 1
Peter 1.6-7 and 1 Pet 4.12 is distinct from that which we find in Greco-Roman and OT
wisdom sources, and that it shares exclusive parallels with some unique features of
the eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that Zechariah 9-14 offers a more
satisfying explanation for the modification of Isa 11.2 in 1 Pet 4.14, the transition
from 4.12-19 to 5.1-4, why Peter has oriented his letter with the term διασπορά,
and why he has described his addresses as οἶκος τοῦ θεοῦ; and finally that 1 Peter
contains an implicit foundational narrative that shares distinct parallels with the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14.
We can conclude that 1 Peter offers a unique vista into the way in which at
least one early Christian witness came to understand and to communicate the fact
that Christian suffering was a necessary feature of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ
Peter and Paul: Images of Pair Personages by Linguistic Data (on Material of English, French and Russian Languages)
Get PDFThe phraseological material of the English and French languages that includes appellative derivatives from personal names Peter ( Pierre ) and Paul is considered. Based on the analysis of paremiological, folklore and lexical material, the author draws conclusions about the nature of the microsystem of anthroponymic derivatives of these names. Some features inherent in the image of saints bearing these names in folk culture are revealed. It is shown that the images of Peter and Paul in texts and linguistic units embodied the motive of exchange (the meaning ‘one and /or another’ is realized), the motive of nearness to God, the motive of keeper of the gates of heaven, etc. The author also puts forward hypotheses concerning the motivation of some expressions. In addition, the image of Peter and Paul and the manifestation of this image at the linguistic level are also analyzed on the material of the Russian linguistic culture, in particular, the proverbs and charm text are given. A brief review of domestic research of pairness as a sacred concept is made, in which the author puts the material under consideration. The conclusions of the article are a comparison of the images of Peter and Paul reconstructed on the basis of linguistic data in the English, French and Russian linguistic cultures
Churches of St. Peter and Paul and St. Florian in Kaplice - urbanism, building development and decoration
No full textThe bachelor thesis is dedicated to the churches of St. Peter and Paul and St. Florian in Kaplice. The author will deal with the urbanism of the churches in her thesis, as the church district lies at the very end of the historical centre. She will present the history of the town of Kaplice. She will map the building history of both churches; for the Church of St. Peter and Paul from its possible form in the 13th century to the major reconstructions in the 19th and 20th centuries that gave St. Peter and Paul's its present form; for the Church of St. Florian, she will map the building history from its construction at end of the 15th century to the modifications during the 20th century. For both churches, the author will place the churches in a typological context, describe the decoration and furnishings of both churches and attempt an iconographic analysis of selected objects. Next, she will try to suggest a possible function of the smaller church of St. Florian and finally she will briefly describe the grounds of the churches. The aim of the present bachelor's thesis is to present both of these churches and to produce a coherent work that charts the development of these churches
Peter H. Amann Collection 1909-2009
No full textThis collection contains the personal and professional papers of Peter Amann, mostly correspondence but also including family papers, personal and professional writings, publicity materials relating to Peter Amann’s wife, and other personal documents. These materials reflect his role as a professor, author and prominent American historian as well as providing information about the rest of his family, including his father Paul Amann.Although most of these files date from his adult life, when he worked as a professor of history at various American universities, many files, including all of Series I, appear to have been inherited from his mother Dora Amann (née Iranyi) during the 1980s. These files include Dora Amann’s family papers and document the lives of the Iranyi/Israel family at the period before the Anschluss, during wartime, when Dora and Paul Amann lived in Paris, and conditions of Jewish individuals and families in Vienna under the Nazi regime.Other materials inherited from Dora Amann consist of some of Paul Amann’s correspondence, which contains a limited amount of post-war correspondence with prominent literary figures like Christopher Isherwood, Albert Camus, and the estate of Romain Rolland, and correspondence between Ernst Amann and his parents Dora and Paul. Included with the Paul Amann materials is an unpublished memoir, written in English, pertaining to his time as an Austrian soldier during World War I.The earlier family correspondence is almost entirely comprised of letters exchanged between Peter Amann and his parents. Starting in the mid 1950s, other figures begin to appear in the family correspondence, including Peter’s half-brother Wilhelm (Willi), who settled in Scotland, and Peter’s sister Eva. After the death of Paul Amann in 1959, the family correspondence contains an increasing amount of letters to and from Dora Amann.The professional correspondence starts during Peter Amann’s graduate studies at the University of Chicago in the 1950s. This series consists of correspondence and application materials for scholarships and fellowships, such as the Fulbright Peter Amann received in 1963, letters exchanged with colleagues and with collaborators on various research and book projects, letters seeking job placement, and letters with scholarly and academic publishers, relating both to proposed and to actual book and research projects. A substantial amount of official correspondence with the administrations of the various universities for which Amann worked, especially the University of Michigan, is also present. Additional materials in this series include diplomas and awards dating from Amann’s high school years in the 1940s through the 1970s, and various writings both academic and fictional, publications, and translations. Many of these writings included in the collection have never been published. A final subseries of professional correspondence pertains to his wife Enne Amann’s career as a folk singer, for which Peter Amann acted as manager during the mid 1960s through the early 1970s.The final series, personal correspondence, comprises letters and cards exchanged with friends and neighbors, as well as many materials pertaining to personal accommodations, such as lodging and transportation, while abroad for research purposes. The line between personal and professional correspondence is often blurry in the case of letters exchanged with professional colleagues, and therefore many correspondents appear in both the personal and professional series. The original order of the files with regards to dividing personal and professional correspondence was largely kept intact to avoid any destruction of contextual evidence. A variety of other types of correspondence, including letters to newspaper Op-Ed pages and letters to Congressional representatives expressing personal political views, were also included in this series, even if they refer to Peter Amann’s professional credentials.Peter Amann was born in 1927 in the Penzig district of Vienna, Austria. In 1939 Peter Amann fled with his family to France, and eventually reached New York via Portugal in 1941. After a few itinerant years following their arrival in the United States, Peter Amann graduated high school in Ohio and then continued his education at Oberlin College. In 1947 he completed his studies at Oberlin College and married Enne Niemi in Kentucky.For the next half decade Amann worked various jobs and wrote fiction in New York City and Milwaukee, before settling in Chicago in 1952 to work on a Ph.D. in History at the University of Chicago. Soon afterwards his first child Paula was born, and two other children, Sandra and David, were born within the following 7 years. Aside from an initial stint at Bowdoin College in Maine (1956-1959) and a few years on the faculty of the State University of New York Binghamton (1965-1968), Amann spent his entire professional career at various campuses of the University of Michigan. From 1971-2004 he was a Professor Emeritus of History at the Ann Arbor campus.Peter Amann is arguably most noted for his major work Revolution and Mass Democracy: The Paris Club Movement in 1848, but he also authored several other well-regarded scholarly books and articles on a variety of topics covering both European and American history. He has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship (1963-1964), a Guggenheim fellowship (1963-1964), and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship (1982); for all of these awards he traveled to France for research.Dora Amann, née Israel, was born in 1894 in Vienna. Along with her immediate family, she converted to Protestantism and changed her name to Iranyi; her extended family kept the name Israel. She received a musical education in Vienna, Uppsala (Sweden), and Norway, and sang professionally. She married Paul Amann, a translator, with whom she had two children, Peter and Eva (later Eva Irrera). In 1939 she emigrated to France and then in 1941 to the United States. After Paul Amann’s death, she spent much of her life in New Paltz, New York, and died in 1993 near Washington, D.C.For a detailed biography of Peter Amann’s father, Paul Amann, please see the Peter Amann Collection, AR 3305.digitize
Music for classical guitar by South African composers : a historical survey, notes on selected works and a general catalogue
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 296-309).This is the first comprehensive investigation of music for, or including, the classical guitar by South African composers. The focus of this research has been, firstly, to uncover as much of the repertoire as possible, and, secondly, to collate, study, catalogue and report on the information. A brief historical survey of the guitar in South Africa provides the context within which this study was conducted. The primary sources of quantitative data collection were through the archival catalogues of the South African Music Rights Organisation and through personal contact with guitarists, composers and guitar teachers. Other sources consulted were publishers, broadcasting corporations, recording companies, libraries and the internet. The body of the dissertation comprises biographical sketches, background notes, analyses and technical notes on 17 selected solo and chamber works dating from 1947 to 2007 by some of South Africa's most prominent composers and guitaristcomposers. The repertoire ranges in style from the traditional and ethnically inspired to the experimental and abstract. As this is an empirical survey, each selected entry includes details on instrumentation, duration, level of difficulty, number of pages, scordatura, commissions or requests, sources or publishers, premières and recordings. A biography of each composer is provided as well as background notes which offer an overview of the selected work. The notes discuss historical, cultural, musical and extra-musical influences, and frequently include references to interview material. The commentaries on the selected works, with musical examples, include an analytical component describing structure, form, stylistic and compositional elements, while the technical observations include performance suggestions and a grading for each work
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