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Entertainer: Pieter-Dirk Uys
No full textThis booklet celebrates the life and work of Pieter-Dirk Uys, internationally acclaimed playwright, author, role-model and one of South Africa's living treasures
Entertainer: Pieter-Dirk Uys
No full textThis booklet celebrates the life and work of Pieter-Dirk Uys, internationally acclaimed playwright, author, role-model and one of South Africa's living treasures
Entertainer: Pieter-Dirk Uys
No full textThis booklet celebrates the life and work of Pieter-Dirk Uys, internationally acclaimed playwright, author, role-model and one of South Africa's living treasures
Formal Techniques and Self/Other Relations in the Novels of Dirk Bogarde
No full textThe thesis foregrounds the distinctive contribution Dirk Bogarde made to
contemporary writing in a second career that developed in parallel to his screen
commitments. It dispels the notion that Bogarde followed a familiar path as an actor
who wrote books. Instead it establishes his reputation as an innovative writer whose
formal technique was substantially influenced by the textual systems of cinema and
the cross-fertilisation from acting to writing.
In examining the formative factors that steered Bogarde towards authorship, the
thesis addresses the role of performance as a generative factor in the evolution of the
novels, establishing a discursive link with Bakhtinian dialogism, and specifically,
transgredience as a formal imperative. Secondly, it affords a critical insight into why
the major concerns with staging and performativity preoccupy his writing career.
The thesis claims that Bogarde was an empirically dialogical writer whose use
of camera-eye narration fostered the proliferation of competing discourses across the
fiction. This formal dynamic is centred on the relationship between stages and
dialogism, which incorporates the work of Erving Goffinan as a complementary
critique to Bakhtinian theory with its emphasis on self-presentation. The concern
with socially-constructed behaviour leads the thesis to address the associated issues of
stereotyping and 'otherness', which in terms of body politics is articulated by the
mono logic drive to confine the sexual 'other' to a fixed representation.
Bogarde's ability to draw on cinematic and performance techniques identifies
an area of expertise unavailable to most other writers. This is an unusual repository
of skills to bring to writing which is why the thesis makes the claim for his singular
achievement as a contemporary author. There are fruitful points of intersection to be
explored in this respect with the work of Christopher Isherwood, whom Bogarde read
and admired, as a basis for further research. It is hoped that the thesis will play its
part in opening up new possibilities for Bogarde's writing to be re-visited by future
critics
"The end of national models? Integration courses and citizenship trajectories in Europe"
No full textSeveral European countries have recently introduced or are planning to introduce citizenship trajectories (voluntary or obligatory inclusion programs for recent immigrants) or citizen integration tests (tests one should pass to be able and acquire permanent residence or state citizenship). Authors like Joppke claim this is an articulation of a more general shift towards the logic of assimilation (and away from a multicultural agenda) in integration policy paradigms of European States. Integration policies would even be converging in such a fashion that it would no longer make sense to think in terms of national models for immigrant integration. One cannot deny the empirical fact of diffusion of civic integration policies throughout Europe. This paper claims there is, however, still sufficient distinctiveness between immigrant integration policies in order to continue and use an analytical framework which distinguishes national models
Social Stress Induced Pressure Breathing and Consequent Blood Pressure Oscillation
No full textA large amplitude blood pressure oscillation occurs during social defeat in a territorial fight between male rats, and during the application of a psychosocial stimulus associated with this defeat. Synchronous recording of blood pressure, intrathoracic pressure and diaphragm activity shows that the blood pressure oscillation coincides with a typical respiratory pattern called 'pressure breathing', during which a strongly positive intrathoracic pressure with expiration can be observed. The expiration was relatively prolonged and accompanied by a rise in blood pressure and a decrease in heart frequency. These alterations outlast the applied social respectively psychosocial stimulations. The results of this study suggest that behaviorally induced pressure breathing is of importance to attentional processes during social stimulation. The contribution to the development of hypertension is discussed.
Radiationless electronic relaxation of the F center in NaI
No full textThe temperature dependence of the ground-state recovery of the F-center in NaI after optical excitations is studied with a pump-probe laser technique. At 10 K the lifetime of the relaxed excited state (tens of ns) is identified together with a much smaller 10 ps contribution possibly related to the Dexter-Klick-Russell cross-over process. © 1994
Evidence for the crossover process after optical excitation of the F center in NaI
No full textGround-state recovery measurements on the F center in NaI were performed with time resolutions of both 7 ps and 200 fs. The measurements confirm the expectation of an electronic relaxation with a decay time of the order of tens of nanoseconds, which can be associated with a nonradiative transition from the relaxed excited state (RES) at low temperatures. Different from the case of NaBr, the decay channel related to the recapture of conduction electrons cannot clearly be distinguished. This is possibly related to the fact that the available time delay is considerably shorter than the ground-state recovery in the temperature range in which the dominant contribution changes from the component related to the RES lifetime to the retrapping component. Measurements of the ground-state recovery with a 200-fs time resolution show that a very fast relaxation component is present for the F center in NaI. It possesses a time constant of 9 ps at low temperature and its relative contribution with respect to the total induced transparency signal is roughly 33%. The temperature dependence of its time constant follows closely the vibrational lifetime derived from linewidth measurements of the resonant Raman spectrum. This feature is expected for the contribution to the induced transparency arising from an electronic transition during vibrational relaxation, the so-called crossover process. © 1994 The American Physical Society
Relaxation and transfer processes of perturbed and unperturbed F centers studied with picosecond optical pulses.
No full textNonradiative relaxation and ionization of the F center in NaBr studied with picosecond optical pulses
No full textWith a picosecond pump-probe laser technique the recovery of the ground-state population after optical excitation of the F center in NaBr is studied. Two decay components are observed, the fastest one dominating at low temperatures. Its time constant is interpreted as the lifetime of the relaxed excited state and is established to be 61 ns at 10 K. This value is perfectly consistent with the experimental emission efficiency and the expected radiative lifetime, provided that the nonradiative transition to the ground state is assumed to occur after the relaxed excited state is reached. Within the same assumptions a nonradiative lifetime of 27 ns at zero temperature is predicted for the F center in NaI. A theoretical expression for vibronic tunneling to the ground state from a thermalized excited state is applied to the F center in alkali halides and is shown to agree equally well with the experimental emission efficiencies as the Dexter-Klick-Russell criterion. The same expression also accounts for the strong temperature dependence of the nonradiative relaxation process observed in NaBr below 100 K. At higher temperatures an accurate analysis of the radiationless transition rate is encumbered by the influence of ionization on the lifetime of the excited state. The relative contribution of the second, much slower decay component increases rapidly above 70 K and is related to retrapping of electrons released by ionization of F and F centers. © 1992 The American Physical Society
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