6 research outputs found
An Ecocritical Reading of Cynan Jones's the Long Dry
No full text© 2021 Karadeniz Technical University. All rights reserved.Ecocriticism emerged in the 1900s as an interdisciplinary academic discipline that combines ecology and literature by addressing the causes and consequences of environmental problems. Ecocriticism, which uses literature to shape ecological consciousness, offers a biocentric perspective by considering the concept of humans in a variety of ways. As a result, the formative role that ecocriticism establishes between nature and humans becomes more important. Deep ecology contributes to the development of ecocriticism by examining the relationship between human and non-human nature. Ecofeminism, on the other hand, adds a new perspective to ecocriticism by making investigations related to the relationship between women and nature. In his works dominated by Welsh nature, contemporary Welsh author Cynan Jones deals with the relationships between nature and humans, and nature is presented as a character rather than a background. In doing so, he allows the reader to see the relationship with nature in a broader light. The aim of this study is to examine nature and human relationships in Jones's, a rural-based author, short novel The Long Dry from an ecocritical perspective, as well as to practically address the place of ecocriticism in fiction
A tradução de Cove (2018) de Cynan Jones (1975-) para o português brasileiro : idiossincrasias da narrativa
No full textTrabalho de Conclusão de Curso (graduação)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, Departamento de Línguas Estrangeiras e Tradução, 2020.O objetivo deste Projeto Final do curso de graduação em Letras - Tradução Inglês/Português é
apresentar a tradução das primeiras quarenta laudas da novela Cove (2018) [2016] do escritor
galês Cynan Jones, do inglês para o português brasileiro. Essa obra, que foi publicada
originalmente no Reino Unido pela editora Granta Books, em 2016, ainda não tem tradução no
Brasil. Nesta tradução, discutem-se as minhas escolhas adotadas no processo tradutório ao lidar
com os aspectos relacionados à unidade de medida, oralidade e coloquialidade, itens lexicais
criativos e à estrutura sintática particular de Jones com o objetivo de investigar as implicações
e os impactos dessas escolhas para o leitor e o autor no sistema literário brasileiro. Para tanto,
utiliza-se os conceitos de domesticação e estrangeirização da tradução de Lawrence Venuti
(1995) e da tradução híbrida de Paulo Henriques Britto (2012) e as modalidades de tradução
proposta por Francis Aubert (1998). Considera-se, ainda, os pressupostos teóricos apresentados
por Itamar Even-Zohar (1990) sobre a teoria dos polissistemas e Gideon Toury (2012) sobre as
normas e a tradução adequada e aceitável para descrever como a obra de Jones se insere na
cultura de partida e de chegada. Como resultado, a tradução apresentou uma tendência de se
alinhar ao texto de partida produzindo um texto estrangeirizado.The purpose of this Final Project for the Letras - Tradução - Inglês/Português undergraduate
course is to present a translation from English into Brazilian Portuguese of the first forty
standard pages of the novella Cove by the Welsh author Cynan Jones. This work was originally
published in the UK by Granta Books in 2016, no translation has been published so far in Brazil.
This translation discusses my choices made during the translation process when dealing with
aspects related to units of measurements, oral and colloquial language, creative lexical items,
and the particular syntax structure chosen by Jones in order to investigate the implications and
impacts of these choices on the reader and author in the Brazilian literary system. To this end,
the concepts used are those of domestication and foreignization translation proposed by
Lawrence Venuti (1995) and the hybrid translation by Paulo Henriques Britto (2012), also the
translation modalities proposed by Francis Aubert. Additionally, it is considered the concepts
of norms and adequate and acceptable translation by Gideon Toury (2012) and the polysystem
theory by Itamar Even-Zohar (1990) in order to describe how Jones's work is perceived in the
source and target cultures. As a result, the translation tended to align with the source text
producing a foreignized version
Head-Dependent Asymmetries in Central Salish Prosody
No full textThis research presents an Optimality Theory (OT) analysis of three prosodic systems found in a number of Central Salish languages. The mapping of moraic structure to foot structure shows a parallel pattern whereby the head syllable licenses more complex moraic structures than the dependent syllables. The difference between head and dependent syllables can be enforced by moraic coercion, where a post-schwa intervocalic resonant is incorporated into the head syllable in Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (see Dyck, 2004). It also accounts for compensatory lengthening in ʔayʔaǰuθəm (see Blake, 2000) and foot-form in SENĆOŦEN (see Leonard, 2019). There is variation in how the head syllable expresses complexity, but interestingly, the dependent is banned from any (complex) moraic structure. These patterns are formalized in OT by a constraint which penalizes dependents that have a moraic content equal to, or greater than, their heads.Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards (JCURA)UndergraduateReviewe
From local to global: engaging in the world’s food challenges through a mushroom cultivation case study.
No full textThe interdisciplinary approach to explore the potential for designing an energy efficient mushroom growing environment that can be linked to living spaces, is invaluable for innovative future indoor agricultural technologies to address food security issues in a way that fits with sustainable food production within Circular and Foundational economies. The author has developed a concept for high-quality, high-volume edible mushroom cultivation (mainly Shiitake and Oyster mushrooms) within a built space that can be established at relatively low cost in urban settings. The concept has been developed by the author from the growing system of The Mushroom Garden, Snowdonia which was originally designed as a diversification and new income generating model for farmers. The conceptualised model works as a functional full-scale prototype in Snowdonia that has been replicated in other situations and this dissertation focuses on three diverse Case Studies that show the flexibility of the concept: firstly the commercial business of The Mushroom Garden, Snowdonia, Wales, secondly the Carbon Zero Battlesfield Hotel in Northumberland, England and thirdly Awen Cymru, a social enterprise in Bridgend, Wales. The dissertation discusses themes which are central to the development of integration in both urban built areas and rural areas and each theme is discussed individually with main points noted below:
• Sustainable production of clean, healthy, and nutritional food - Following initial set up costs (in the region of £6,000), the running costs are minimal. Recent research work by the author has discovered ways of making the system more energy efficient. All aspects of the growing process ensure that the food is healthy and nutritious.
• Food security - the system allows control over the production of the mushrooms from substrate production to harvesting, all within a relatively small built area and can be applied to situations of extreme weather or conflict as well as long term food production for isolated rural communities or post-industrial urban areas.
• The Circular economy - substrate for growing the mushrooms is produced locally e.g. park or roadside wood chip in cities for Shiitake mushrooms and any organic waste for Oyster mushrooms e.g. straw, grass cuttings, used coffee or used hops and barley from breweries. In fact, any organic waste can be used to produce Oyster mushrooms. When the mushrooms have been harvested the growing substrate can be mulched or composted by gardeners and growers.
• The Foundational economy - The foundational economy is built from the activities which provide the essential goods and services for everyday life, regardless of the social status of consumers. These include, for example, infrastructures; utilities; food processing; retailing and distribution; and health, education, and welfare. In essence, it is an economic model based on a community’s needs and assets (human and built) rather than the traditional model of wants fuelled by mass consumption.
The matter of food security is increasingly becoming the focus of attention by many national and international governments and organisations as well as national and global NGO’s. The challenges that food security presents to many poorer and rural communities have implications further than for the communities themselves. The dissertation reviews the case study of the health and nutritional benefits of Shiitake and Oyster mushrooms and looks at the yields and nutritional values of the mushrooms (including Vit D) under various light regimes (fluorescent and LED) and the costs incurred. The energy inputs into the growing system are analysed and recommendations for increased energy efficiency of the growing system are discussed. The dissertation concludes that the concept and the circular techno-environmental and social system can produce high quality nutritious food with minimal investment in a variety of Post-Anthropocene environments and demonstrates a transition to a bio-digital edible landscape.
The system may also yield valuable nutrients and other compounds from the runoff water and spent substrate which can contribute to a circular growing system when incorporated into other communal growing projects. There is also a potential to investigate the co-design of living and food growing areas i.e., edible households using The Mushroom Garden growing system and other techniques e.g., hydroponics, permaculture, and mini herbs gardens
Edible cities of post-anthropocene: a bio-tech household
No full textThe paper discusses a concept for edible mushroom indoor cultivation through combining biology and technology. The research by design is based in a full scale prototyping which has been replicated in a number of situations Illustrated in three case studies, the paper will unfold concepts that might be critical to the future of our cities and regions: • Food security - the system allows high production of the mushrooms from substrate production to harvesting on a small area and it is purely dependent on territorial resources. • The Circular economy - the farming uses local material and energy as well as its production and waste are locally consumed and circulated. This has positive impact on local community sustainability, culture, and economy. • The Foundational economy- The foundational economy is built from the activities which provide the essential goods and services for everyday life, regardless of the social status of consumers. In essence, it is an economic model based on a community’s needs and assets (human and built) rather than the traditional model of wants fuelled by mass consumption. The system supports sufficient production of nutrients for all in the territory. • Sustainable production of clean, healthy, and nutritional food - Following initial set up costs (in the region of £6000), the running costs are minimal. Recent research work by the first author has discovered ways of making the system more energy efficient. All aspects of the growing process ensure that the food is healthy and nutritious. The work is a practice led research where the main investigator is the farmer himself, a ‘first person practitioner’ . Addressing the today most burning questions of food security, social-natural and economical sustainability, inequality and scarcity, the authors believe that the research has a strong potential both, globally, as well as locally with a local specific agro-architectural application for Post-Anthropocene cities
Anglo-Saxon England and the Irish Sea region AD 800-1100 : an archaeological study of the Lower Dee and Mersey as a border area.
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