214 research outputs found

    Rescate y conservación del Acervo Histórico del Palacio de Minería: Informe de las labores de conservación preventiva e intervenciones menores en material Bibliohemerográfico y actividades en apoyo al Acervo Histórico : octubre 2011 - febrero 2012

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    El presente informe tiene como finalidad dar constancia de los trabajos realizados en el Acervo Histórico del Palacio de Minería, por los restauradores Roderick Palacios, Isabel Ritter y Eleonora Cruz, pasantes de la Licenciatura en Restauración de Bienes Culturales como prestación de su servicio social.</p

    Polyphony and the anxiety of influence in the fiction of Henry James

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    James'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

    The ethical ambivalence of holism: An exploration through the thought of Carl Jung and Gilles Deleuze

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    This chapter examines the disputed ethical status of holism through comparing aspects of the work of Carl Jung and Gilles Deleuze as two twentieth-century thinkers who reflected deeply on the concept of wholeness. Using Jung’s psychology as a sophisticated and influential example of holistic thought, the chapter first highlights relevant holistic features of this model, especially the concepts of the self and unus mundus (one world), and traces the cultural and social benefits that are claimed to flow from such a version of holism. It then confronts Jung’s model with Deleuze’s more constructivist way of thinking about wholes and totality in terms of difference, multiplicity, and pure immanence, which aims to ensure that his concept of the whole remains open. The Deleuzian perspective arguably exposes a number of questionable philosophical assumptions and less salubrious ethical implications in Jung’s holism. In order to assess whether this Deleuzian critique is answerable, the chapter focuses attention on the understanding of transcendence and immanence within each thinker’s model. Distinguishing between theism, pantheism, and panentheism, the author proposes that the metaphysical logic of panentheism can provide a framework that is capable of reconciling the two thinkers’ concepts of the whole

    Supplementary code, raw data and figure plots from "Organization and dynamics of the cortical complexes controlling insulin secretion in β-cells"

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    Supplementary code, raw data and figure plots from the paper:"Organization and dynamics of the cortical complexes controlling insulin secretion in β-cells"Ivar Noordstra, Cyntha M. van den Berg, Fransje W. J. Boot, Eugene A. Katrukha, Ka Lou Yu, Roderick P. Tas, Sybren Portegies, Bastiaan J. Viergever, Esther de Graaff, Casper C. Hoogenraad, Eelco J. P. de Koning, Françoise Carlotti, Lukas C. Kapitein, Anna Akhmanova </p

    Commonwealth caprice [music] : pour piano /

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    Caption title.; Date approximated from p. 2, Traralgon Record, Tuesday 23 December 1902: "We have received from the composer, Miss Daisy R. Hughes, daughter of Mr E.F. Hughes, pro prietor of the 'Casterton News,' a copy of a special piece of pianoforte music, entitled the 'Commonwealth Caprice' published by Messrs Allan and Co., Melbourne, from whom it can be procured wholesale at a very moderate price."--http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64264107; NLA's N copy: Cover inscribed by composer. ANL; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn5350188; NLA's N copy from the collection of Keith Watson. ANL

    Recensiones [Revista de Historia Económica Año X Otoño 1992 n. 3 pp. 519-548]

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    Editada en la Universidad Carlos IIIFranco Amatori y Bruno Bezza. Montecatini 1888-1966. Capitoli di storia di una grande impresa. (Por Núria Puig).-- Dudley Baines. Emigration from Europe, 1815-1930. (Por Blanca Sánchez Alonso).-- Roderick Floud, Kenneth Wachter y Annabel Gregory. Height, Health and History. Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980. (Por José Miguel Martínez Carrión).-- G. Goertz. The World Chemical Industry around 1910: a Comparative Analysis by Branch and Country. (Por Núria Puig).-- José Luis García Delgado, ed.. Las ciudades en la modernización de España. Los decenios interseculares. VIII Coloquio de Historia Contemporánea de España dirigido por Manuel Tuñón de Lara. (Por Luis Garrido González).-- Charles P. Kindleberger. Manias, Panics and Crashes. A History of Financial Crisis. (Por J. Ignacio Peña).-- Carlos Alberto Mayo. Los Betlemitas en Buenos Aires: Convento, Economía y Sociedad (1748-1822). (Por Carlos Newland).-- Hilda Sábato. Agrarian Capitalism and the World Market: Buenos Aires in the Pastoral Age, 1840-1890. (Por Julio E. Revilla).-- Gabriel Tortella, ed.. Educación y Desarrollo Económico desde la Revolución Industrial. (Por Cecilia Albert)Publicad

    Modelling desiccation cracking in a homogenous soil clay layer: comparison between different hypotheses on constitutive behaviour

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    Desiccation cracks are usually thought to start from the surface of an evaporating soil layer, and the available simplified models for crack initiation and propagation are based on this hypothesis. On the contrary, experimental results on a Dutch river clay showed that cracks in an evaporating soil layer may start and propagate below the surface, confirming earlier findings by other researchers. A simple one-dimensional model was set up to analyse the consequences of different hypotheses about the material behaviour on the crack onset in a homogenous soil layer undergoing surface drying. The results of the model show that dependence of the material behaviour on the rate of water content change is a necessary requirement for cracks to initiate below the surface. The conclusion suggests that, to properly understand cracking in an evaporating soil layer, an intrinsic time scale for the mechanical response must be accounted for, among all the other factors which were previously highlighted by other researchers. The key factor to predict crack onset below the surface is the dependence of the drying branch of the water retention curve of the compressible soil on the rate of drying, which would be justified by a rate dependent fabric evolution

    Strictures on Lt. Col. Tarleton's History "of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the southern provinces of North America". Wherein military characters and corps are vindicated from injurious aspersions, and several important transactions placed in their proper point of view. In a series of letters to a friend, by Roderick Mackenzie, late lieutenant in the 71st regiment. To which is added, a detail of the siege of ninety six, and the re-capture of the island of new-providence [electronic resource].

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    With a half-title.In this edition there are errata half way down p. vi, and there are blank leaves after p. vi and p. 164.Variant 1 bears the imprint: printed for the author; and sold by R. Faulder; T. and J. Egerton, R. Jameson; and T. Sewell.Variant 2 has errata printed on the leaf following p. vi.Sabin,Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library

    Writing and the rights of reality: usurpation and potentiality in Derrida, Plato, Nietzsche, and Beckett

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    The thesis critically evaluates Jacques Derrida's conferral of the rights of reality on writing, focussing on his theory of an arche-text in light of the speculative nature of this theory. The theory is initially considered in the context of Derrida's elucidation of the usurpatory status of writing within the Platonic and Nietzschean texts. This consideration reveals an admission of writing's usurpatory status by both writers while at the same time demonstrating their awareness of the intrinsically speculative nature of this view, the significance of writing lying in its ability to exteriorise the radically indeterminate status of consciousness m relation to reality rather than its ability to displace consciousness or reality The analyses, therefore, not only bring the Derridean hypothesis of a repressive or phonocentric metaphysical episteme into question but also exhibit the historical and philosophical role of potentiality in relation to writing, writing's ultimate significance lying in its capacity to exteriorise our existence as a mode of potentiality. Accordingly, in the second half of the thesis the Derridean theory of writing is countered with a specifically Aristotelian theory of the text as it is exhibited in the prose of Samuel Beckett, an author whose significance lies in his close alignment with Derridean theory within contemporary criticism. It is demonstrated that this identification has obviated an awareness of the significance of potentiality within the Beckettian text, his work consequently being appraised in the previously neglected context of Aristotelian metaphysics

    Tobias Smollett\u27s Reputation as a Novelist: 1940-1965

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    In this paper I will attempt to review the criticism published between the years 1940 and 1965 which concerns Smollett\u27s reputation as the author of The Adventures of Roderick Random, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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