15 research outputs found
The Plays of Samuel Beckett
No full textThe Plays of Samuel Beckett provides a stimulating analysis of Beckett's entire dramatic oeuvre, encompassing his stage, radio and television plays. Ideal for students, this major study combines analysis of each play by Katherine Weiss with interveiws and essays from practitioners and scholars.Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Stage Plays -- Waiting for Godot -- Endgame -- Krapp's Last Tape -- Happy Days -- Play -- Come and Go -- Footfalls -- Conclusion -- 2 The Radio Plays -- All That Fall -- Embers -- The Old Tune -- Words and Music, Cascando, Rough for Radio I, Rough for Radio II -- Conclusion -- 3 The Teleplays -- Eh Joe -- Ghost Trio -- … but the clouds… -- Nacht und Träume -- Quad -- What Where -- Conclusion -- 4 Critical Perspectives -- Xerxes Mehta Ghosts: Chaos and Freedom in Beckett's Spectral Theatre -- Nicholas Johnson A Spectrum of Fidelity, an Ethic of Impossibility: Directing Beckett -- Graley Herren Beckett on Television, Beckett on Love: A Response to Badiou -- Dustin Anderson Krapp's Last Tape and Mapping Modern Memory -- 5 Interviews -- Wendy Salkind on Not I -- Bill Largess on Ohio Impromptu -- Wendy Salkind, Peggy Yates and Bill Largess on Play -- Sam McCready on That Time and Ohio Impromptu -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology of selected events, performances and publications -- Further reading -- About the Author -- Credits -- eCopyrightThe Plays of Samuel Beckett provides a stimulating analysis of Beckett's entire dramatic oeuvre, encompassing his stage, radio and television plays. Ideal for students, this major study combines analysis of each play by Katherine Weiss with interveiws and essays from practitioners and scholars.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Penguatan Definisi Arsitektur Hijau di Indonesia
Full text linkA liran arsitektur yang dapat mempertahankan keutuhan ekologi adalah arsitektur
hijau. F okus pada ramah lingkungan menjadikan arsitektur hijau banyak diadopsi pada
perencanaan dan perancangan arsitektur di Indonesia. Di sisi lain, pembangunan di Indonesia
cenderung kurang memperhatikan lingkungan dan dampak ke depan. Akibatnya, masalah
timbul dalam kehidupan yang bersumber dari lingkungan, seperti bencana alam, pemborosan
energi, dan ketidaknyamanan pada hunian akibat ergonomi ruang yang rendah. Tujuan dari
penelitian ini untuk menguatkan definisi arsitektur hijau di Indonesia dari berbagai proyek
lingkungan binaan yang telah dibangun di negeri ini. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode
analisis isi kualitatif dengan pende katan induktif (inductive qualitative content Data
sekunder yang diambil dalam penelitian ini sebanyak 3 5 kasus mengenai arsitektur hijau di
semua wilayah Indonesia sebagai unit amatan yang dilakukan dengan metode studi literatur.
Penelitian ini mengungkap bahwa arsitektur hijau di Indonesia merupakan terobosan dalam
menjaga keseimbangan ekosistem lingkungan hidup dengan lingkungan binaan melalui
pertobatan ekologis demi mengurangi resiko kerusakan alam melalui mitigasi bencana yang
dapat merubah perilaku manusia melalui komunikasi yang sehat dan mengembalikan jiwa suatu
area kawasan yang rusak melalui program revitalisasi.
Kata kunci: Arsitektur, hijau, ekologi, berkelanjutan, energ
Strengthening the Definition of Green Architecture in Indonesia
Full text linkOne school of architecture that can maintain ecological integrity is green architecture. Placing a focus on environmental friendliness has made green architecture widely adopted in planning and designing the built environment in Indonesia. However, on the other hand, development that occurs in Indonesia tends to pay less attention to the environmental situation and future impacts. As a result, many problems that arise in life originate from the environment, such as natural disasters, waste of energy, and discomfort in housing due to low levels of spatial ergonomics. The aim of this research is to strengthen the definition of green architecture in Indonesia from various built environment projects that have been built in this country. This research uses a qualitative content analysis method with an inductive approach (inductive qualitative content analysis). Secondary data taken in this research was 38 (thirty eight) cases of green architecture throughout Indonesia to be used as an observation unit. The collection of secondary data was carried out using the literature study method. This research reveals that green architecture in Indonesia is a development concept to increase the value and function of land and buildings through sustainable actions to reduce the risk of natural disasters which can change human behavior in reducing the production of emissions and waste which is centered on the principles of saving energy, utilizing climate conditions. , the reaction responds to the building footprint, taking into account the user, pressing the use of new resources that are planned and designed holistically
Trading with Asia’s Giants
Full text linkThe United States large and sustained trade deficit with Asia raises concerns in the United States about its competitiveness in the region. The purpose of this paper is to examine the patterns of U.S. trade relationships with China and India, and the factors that are influencing their evolution. In contrast to the current public policy debate, the discussion largely addresses how these two economies compare as markets for U.S. exporters. This paper begins by noting that U.S. exports to both countries do appear low relative to the performance of Japan and the EU-15. We examine potential explanations for the weak exports from three different perspectives. First, we analyze the composition of U.S. exports to these economies, and consider how this mix of products compares to those which it appears to be competitive in exporting to the rest of the world. Second, we examine the role of multinational corporations in facilitating the trade flows between the U.S and these two economies. Finally, we employ the use of gravity equations to examine the bilateral trade patterns while controlling for a variety of country specific characteristics, such as distance. In this context, we are also able to analyze the pattern of trade in services as well as the more traditional focus on goods trade.China, India, United States, trade, and exports
Patterns of genome size variation in snapping shrimp
Full text linkAlthough crustaceans vary extensively in genome size, little is known about how genome size may affect the ecology and evolution of species in this diverse group, in part due to the lack of large genome size datasets. Here we investigate interspecific, intraspecific, and intra-colony variation in genome size in 39 species of Synalpheus shrimps, representing one of the largest genome size datasets for a single genus within crustaceans. We find that genome size ranges approximately 4-fold across Synalpheus with little phylogenetic signal, and is not related to body size. In a subset of these species, genome size is related to chromosome size, but not to chromosome number, suggesting that despite large genomes, these species are not polyploid. Interestingly, there appears to be 35% intraspecific genome size variation in Synalpheus idios among geographic regions, and up to 30% variation in S. duffyi genome size within the same colony.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author
Red, white and blue highways: British travel writing and the American road trip in the late twentieth century
Full text linkThis study locates late-twentieth-century roadlogues (nonfiction, prose accounts of American road trips) by British writers within the tradition of the postwar American highway narrative in travel writing, novels, and film. It exposes the discursive structures and textual constraints underlying seven case studies published in the 1990s by comparing them to texts from various genres in diachronic and synchronic contexts. It contributes to scholarship on the American highway narrative, which largely overlooks British texts. It complements research on British travel writing, which tends to be biased towards pre-twentieth-century texts by travellers whose culture is in a dominant relation to that of travellees. It adds to postcolonial studies through analysis of representations of the other where otherness is reduced and complicated by a history of cultural exchange.
The methodology combines several approaches including discourse theory, discourse analysis, narrative theory, feminist criticism, and theories of tourism. Three main areas are considered: identity, in relation to nationality and gender; the road writer's gaze, with regard to vehicles and roads; and intertextuality, on the margins (in maps) and inside roadlogues (in direct and indirect allusions).
The study concludes that contemporary British roadlogues are in what is almost a subordinate relation to American highway narratives, evidenced by extensive influence of American texts. However, this subordination is qualified by joint ownership of western and New World myths, vestiges of imperial superiority, and selective deference by British writers. The latter is demonstrated through a consumer approach to American culture afforded by the episodic structure of the road trip and encouraged by the niche-oriented nature of the current market for travel writing. While American writers regard roadscapes with imperial eyes and experience the road trip as a rite of passage, contemporary Britons generally engage in superficial role play and remain untransformed by American highways
Grace Aguilar’s historical romances
No full textPhDMy dissertation looks critically at Grace Aguilar’s historical romance novels and short
stories, and investigates English writers’ uses of history in early- to mid-nineteenth century
fiction. Shifting the current critical emphasis on Aguilar’s Jewish texts, I
have analyzed the ways in which Aguilar revises the genres of the national tale, the
gothic romance, and the medieval romance in order to demonstrate her participation
in the construction of nineteenth-century domestic values.
In Chapter One, I introduce to critical debate Aguilar’s juvenilia, relying on
unpublished manuscripts and novels published only in the twentieth century to
establish the origins of Aguilar’s interest in history and historical writing. Locating
Aguilar’s narrative style in the early nineteenth-century national tale, I show that as a
child Aguilar envisioned the English and Scottish nations as a family, making
domesticity both a private and a public—a female and a male—value.
Chapter Two focuses on Aguilar’s use of history to express nineteenth-century
domestic ideals in her version of the gothic romance. Deploying the setting of the
Catholic Inquisition in Spain and Portugal, Aguilar writes gothic tales that unite
Jewish and Protestant gender values. She makes heroic the Jewish female martyr to
suggest not only that nineteenth-century Protestants and Jews share similar domestic
principles, but also that Jewish women could be seen as ideal models for Protestant
women.
Finally, in Chapter Three I explore Aguilar’s participation in the nineteenth-century
medievalist tradition by reflecting on her revision of nineteenth-century literary
idealizations of the Middle Ages. In these short stories, Aguilar fictionalizes the
sixteenth-century European chivalric ethos, looking critically at the role of women in
court society at the end of the Middle Ages. Deploying the tropes prevalent in
popular nineteenth-century anti-medievalist fiction, Aguilar debunks celebrations of
the Middle Ages by showing how chivalry is antagonistic to nineteenth-century
domesticity
To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply?
No full text© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. Abstract: Over the past 10 years, Oosterhof and Todorov’s valence–dominance model has emerged as the most prominent account of how people evaluate faces on social dimensions. In this model, two dimensions (valence and dominance) underpin social judgements of faces. Because this model has primarily been developed and tested in Western regions, it is unclear whether these findings apply to other regions. We addressed this question by replicating Oosterhof and Todorov’s methodology across 11 world regions, 41 countries and 11,570 participants. When we used Oosterhof and Todorov’s original analysis strategy, the valence–dominance model generalized across regions. When we used an alternative methodology to allow for correlated dimensions, we observed much less generalization. Collectively, these results suggest that, while the valence–dominance model generalizes very well across regions when dimensions are forced to be orthogonal, regional differences are revealed when we use different extraction methods and correlate and rotate the dimension reduction solution. Protocol registration: The stage 1 protocol for this Registered Report was accepted in principle on 5 November 2018. The protocol, as accepted by the journal, can be found at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7611443.v1
First discoveries of z > 6 quasars with the DECam Legacy Survey and UKIRT hemisphere survey
Full text linkWe present the first discoveries from a survey of z 6 quasars using imaging data from the DECam Legacy Survey (DECaLS) in the optical, the UKIRT Deep Infrared Sky Survey (UKIDSS) and a preliminary version of the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey (UHS) in the near-IR, and ALLWISE in the mid-IR. DECaLS will image 9000 deg2 of sky down to z AB ~ 23.0, and UKIDSS and UHS will map the northern sky at 0 6.5 to J VEGA < 19.5
Author Correction: Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics
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