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A self-conscious Kurt Vonnegut: an analysis of Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions
No full textThe works of Kurt Vonnegut stand as seminal in the American literary canon. Looking at three of his most influential novels, namely Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions, this study aims to better understand the mechanisms which inform his fiction. Working chronologically through the novels, the study examines historical context, narrative technique, theoretical underpinnings and the social critique of each novel. Guided by an idea of the postmodern novel the study examines how these elements interact, concluding that by way of what may be considered "simple" yet self-conscious metafiction and prose as well as variations in narrative technique, Vonnegut is able to more accurately convey his opinions on the American situation as well as demonstrate his stance on the role of fiction and the writer in contemporary society. The study also considers closely the role of the reader and the author/reader/text relationship
Studio portrait of Kurt Adler.
No full textThe music conductor, author and pianist Kurt Adler was born on 1st of March in 1907 in Jindřichův Hradec in Bohemia (now in Czech Republic). Kurt Adler immigrated to the United States in October 1938 and was naturalized in 1944.Digital Imag
Kurt Vonnegut at NYU, November 6, 1969
No full textKurt Vonnegut at NYU, is a recorded address directed to students at New York University presented by author Kurt Vonnegut about societal criticism, politics, and the identity of authors, November 6, 1969
Kurt Vonnegut: A Lyceum Lecture
No full textOn October 19, 1992, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was a speaker for the Winona State University (WSU) Lyceum Speaker Series. Kurt Vonnegut spoke in Somsen Auditorium (now known as Harriet Johnson Auditorium).
Kurt Vonnegut, the renowned American author, was known for his satire and dark humor. He wrote novels, short stories, plays, and both fiction and non-fiction.https://openriver.winona.edu/lyceumseries/1001/thumbnail.jp
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Early Human Settlement of the High-Altitude Pucuncho Basin, Southern Peruvian Andes
No full textUnder the direction of Dr. Daniel Sandweiss, Mr. Kurt Rademaker will collect data for his doctoral dissertation research. His project focuses on determining the timing of early human occupation in the Andes Mountains. Human settlement of Earth\u27s high-altitude mountains and plateaus is among the most recent of our species\u27 bio-geographic expansions. Current anthropological models emphasize the physiographic and biological challenges inherent to these extreme environments to explain a lack of pre-11,000 year-old archaeological evidence above 3500 m elevation in the Andes and on the high Tibetan Plateau. However few archaeological studies targeting hunter-gatherer sites have been conducted in these areas.This interdisciplinary project\u27s primary objectives are to better understand the timing, environmental setting, and adaptations involved in human settlement of the high Andes of southern Peru. Rademaker\u27s investigations so far have led to the discovery of early archaeological sites in the Pucuncho Basin, a wetland oasis ringed by glaciated volcanoes and situated at ~4500 m (~14,760 ft) elevation. One of these sites, Cuncaicha rockshelter, has yielded preliminary radiocarbon dates that indicate an initial settlement of this high-altitude area between 12,400 and 11,800 years ago. These dates establish Cuncaicha as one of the oldest known directly-dated archaeological sites in the Andes Mountains and the highest ice-age site yet discovered anywhere in the world.The final laboratory phase of this dissertation project, to be funded by NSF, will significantly strengthen the preliminary chronological data from Cuncaicha shelter and provide information on the development of local habitats important to Andean animals and people for successful colonization of high-altitude zones. Rademaker will obtain additional radiocarbon dates for the Cuncaicha rockshelter site and the nearby Rio Blanco geologic section. These archaeological and paleoecologic data will be directly comparable with local glacial geologic records, and these comparisons will shed light on links between late ice-age climatic change, the formation of Andean habitats, and early human settlement of extreme high-altitude environments. This project will have several broad impacts. By conducting pretreatment of samples at the University of Arizona accelerator mass spectrometry lab, Rademaker will receive valuable training in archaeological scientific methodology. Completion of this dissertation project will yield numerous peer-reviewed journal publications and ultimately lead to publication of an edited volume for a more general audience. The project team has given, and will continue to give, guest lectures at Peruvian and North American universities, in addition to presenting scientific results at professional meetings at home and abroad. Since 2005 this project has provided limited temporary economic benefits to some local inhabitants of the Pucuncho Basin who have assisted in surveys and excavation and provided related support for the project team. The team has brought medicine, vitamins, and educational materials for the school children in Pucuncho\u27s three villages and worked to instill a conservation ethic about archaeological remains in the region. Continued scientific work in the Pucuncho area, which will build upon this Ph.D. dissertation project, will undoubtedly reinforce this ethic and yield additional valuable information on climatic change, ecology, and human prehistory
Archaeolinguistics of the languages of the Andes
No full textThis chapter discusses aspects of the prehistoric language dynamics of the Andes of South America. Featuring more than one hundred languages that belong to more than thirty distinct lineages, including a high number of isolates, the linguistic landscape of the Andes is fractal and complex, and diversity was likely even higher in pre-Columbian times. Our approach departs from observations on the language geography of the Andes on the regional level. We believe that patterns at this scale reflect qualitatively similar linguistic and demographic processes which also had occurred earlier in prehistory, often repeatedly. The language geography and language dynamics of the Andes articulate with research in archaeology and molecular anthropology that in many cases attest to similar processes, allowing us to conceive of the interface between linguistics, archaeology, and molecular anthropology in new ways beyond language expansion and its non-linguistic correlates
Kurt Landsberger Collection 1895-2009 1909-1918
No full textThis collection contains materials relating to Kurt Landsberger and his mother, Helene née Hoffmann. It consists primarily of Helene's incoming correspondence during the 1910s, in the form of postcards, while she was growing up in German-speaking Prague. It also contains clippings and printed material about Kurt Landsberger. Also included are printed materials and collection lists for the Holocaust collections funded by the Landsbergers at the Verona and Pequannock libraries in New Jersey.Kurt Landsberger was born in Prague in 1920. His mother, Hella née Hoffmann divorced Kurt's biological father Arnost Steinitz when he was two years old. Hella then married Ernst Landsberger, and Kurt lived with them in Vienna until 1938. He was active in Betar, a Revisionist Zionist youth movement. After immigrating to the United States in 1939, Landsberger served in the US Army during World War Two. He and his wife Anny (née Terkel, 1923-2010) settled in New Jersey after the war, and in 1946 started a successful business manufacturing laboratory supplies and equipment for the elderly. The Landsbergers funded the Landsberger Holocaust Collections at the Verona and Pequannock Public Libraries in New Jersey. Kurt Landsberger is also the author of several books, including two about his ancestor William Steinitz, a 19th-century chess champion, and an autobiography entitled "The Root Box."Finding aid available onlineAustrian Heritage CollectionProcesseddigitize
[Letter to Kurt Auerbach from Ministry of the Interior] 1935
No full textSigned letter to Kurt Auerbach regarding his admittance to the pharmacists' certification examination (pharmazeutische Prüfung).Kurt AuerbachPhysician, author 1882-1971Processed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize
Retrodeformation techniques and 3D morphometric analysis of an early holocene South American skull (Cuncaicha, Peru)
No full textAs a consequence of the taphonomic history, many fossils and relevant specimens present missing parts and post-depositional alterations. For that reason, in spite of the great effort invested in their recovery and preservation during the archaeological excavations, they are left out from the morphometric analysis. Therefore, they cannot be used for discussing human variability and evolutionary processes. This is especially the case for South America, where the early Holocene specimens are scarce, and some of them are incomplete and/or present some changes as a result of post-depositional alterations. We present here the first virtual reconstruction of an early Holocene South American skull that was recovered from the excavations at Cuncaicha rock shelter in the south of Peru (9240-8770 calibrated years BP) [1]. The skull is composed of 20 fragments that were scanned in the Paleoanthropology Department at the University of Tübingen. A virtual anatomical reconstruction was conducted by using Avizo and including skull
reference models from the Andes. As the cranial vault presents a strong alteration resulting in a lateral distortion that affects the whole vault shape, retrodeformation techniques were applied for modeling post-depositional changes [2]. In spite of the large degree of completeness of the skull (approx. 80%), there are some missing parts that were estimated by mirroring them from the opposite preserved side of the skull. This allowed conducting 3D morphometric analysis from the whole skull by comparing it with other early and late Holocene specimens from South America (N=500), by taking into account the symmetric component only. Shape changes were studied by running between-groups Principal Component Analysis. The results are discussed together with a previous 2D morphometric study of the facial variation that allowed establishing associations with specimens from Lagoa Santa in Brazil, supporting previous claims of morphological similarities among the early settlers of the continent [3]. Such craniofacial patterns were interpreted as the retention of some ancestral features among some of the early South American populations
Kurt Kersten Collection 1939-1994
No full textPart I contains personal documents.Part II contains correspondence with newspapers, journals, publishers, and individuals, including Jakob Altmaier, Julius Bab, C.F.W. Behl, Eduard Benes, Joseph Bornstein, Elisabeth Castonier, Julius Deutsch, Alfred Doeblin, John Dos Passos, Lion Feuchtwanger, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Leonhard Frank, Claire Goll, Oscar Maria Graf, Babette L. Gross, Georg Grosz, Emil J. Gumbel, Willy Haas, Theodor Heuss, Kurt Hiller, Heinrich Eduard Jacob, Erich Kaestner, Alfred Kerr, Hermann Kesten, Gustav Kiepenheuer, Emil Ludwig, Erika Mann, Monika Mann, Thomas Mann, Ludwig Marcuse, Walter Mehring, H. L. Mencken, Martin Niemoeller, Franz Pfemfert, Jacob Picard, Kurt Pinthus, Erwin Piscator, Ernst Reuter, Ernst Rowohlt, Anna Seghers, Upton Sinclair, Dorothy Thompson, Fritz von Unruh, Veit Valentin, Bruno Weil, Thornton Wilder, and Duke Odo of Wuerttemberg. About half of the senders are Jewish and nearly all the senders are writers or politicians, refugees from Hitler persecution. The correspondence contains many reports about the years of persecution.Part III contains published and unpublished manuscripts. Manuscripts in this collection contain the following titles: Die Alte Deutsche ; Beloved Josephine ; Die Berghexe ; Black Antisemitism ; Encounter with Benjamin Franklin ; Das Ende von Willi Mienzenberger ; Die Ermordung Leo Trotskys ; Flucht aus Frankreich ; Jean Gallatin ; George Mandel ; Die Geschichte von Clothilde ; Die Geschwister ; Goethe und amerikanische Schriftsteller ; Der gute Priester von St.Pierre ; Helpers in Hell ; Höhepunkte der amerikanischen Literatur ; Der Kampf mit dem Tisch ; Lessing und die Freimaurer ; The Negropress in the U.S. ; Oskar Wildes Hotelwirt ; Der Tod auf der Insel, ein westindisches Tagebuch, 139p. There is also a manuscript with notes and supplementary correspondence concerning the last years of Rudolf Breitscheid and Rudolf Hilferding in Vichy France: Das Ende Rudolf Breitscheid und Rudolf Hilferdings (1957)Part IV contains material concerning the eighteenth-century naturalist and revolutionary Johann Georg Forster and on the author Robert Breuer, a close friend of Kersten who died in Martinique.Part V is a large collection of newspaper essays by Kurt Kersten from 1937 to 1961.Born in Weldheiden bei Kassel on April 19, 1891, Kurt Kersten studied in Munich and Berlin and served in World War I. From 1919 to 1933 he worked as a freelance journalist in close association with left-wing expressionists. He made several trips to the USSR and contributed to the German Communist press. He emigrated to Switzerland in 1934, Czechoslovakia the same year, France in 1937, and the United States via Morocco and Martinique, 1940-1945. He was active in exile affairs and continued to work as an author and publicist. Kersten occasionally used the pseudonym Georg Forster. He died in New York City on May 18, 1962.digitize
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