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The Reflection of the Ethnic Ethos in the Shaping of Mizrahi Female Characters, in the Light of the Literary Criticism of Yaakov Churgin’s Books – Sipurim (1928), Alumot (1957), and Yalkut Sipurim (1981)
No full textThis article suggests taking a close look at the stories of Eretz-Israel author Yaakov Churgin (1899 – 1990) as a hybrid system of identities, that is ambivalent and unclassified, that can also fit stories about Jews of Ashkenazic origin as they were portrayed in the stories of the Jewish shtetls by authors such as Shalom Aleichem, Dvora Baron, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Shay Agnon, while identifying the similarity between secular or enlightened Orientalism’s attitude to traditional or religious society, and Ashkenazic Orientalism’s attitude to the Mizrahi Jews in Eretz-Israel. The article will also suggest a new diachronic examination of the literary criticism regarding Churgin’s writing in its ethnic context, that will review the primary criticism over the years and address the characteristics of this criticism in light of the changes over the years
Representations of translators in popular culture
No full textThe “fictional turn” in translation studies has acknowledged the fact that translators/interpreters have been moved from behind the curtain to center stage. Whether this is a result of poststructuralist or postcolonial scholarship, the fact remains that translators/interpreters now figure as protagonists in film, theater, and especially popular literature. Does this “promotion” reflect a change of status? How are translators portrayed? How is their habitus portrayed? What function do they serve? Has there been a change in their portrayal/function in the last thirty years? Does the change reflect the different approach/es to the “hybrid” in this period? Has the “death of the author” theory and the promotion of translators/interpreters to the status of “authorship” changed their self-image? This essay is an attempt at answering these questions, diachronically and synchronically, with the help of various literary texts from the 1970s on.</jats:p
(G. Theotokas, H. Venizis, M. Karagatsis, I. Kondylakis)
No full textΗ λογοτεχνία και τα έργα της, με το πέρασμα των χρόνων, έχει αποτελέσει
αντικείμενο ερευνών ποικίλων επιστημών και διαφόρων μεθόδων προσέγγισης, όπως
είναι η ιστορική, η κοινωνιολογική ή η παιδαγωγική προσέγγιση. Μια από τις
επιστήμες που ασχολήθηκε εντατικά με τη Λογοτεχνία, είναι η Ψυχανάλυση. Από τις
απαρχές της εμφάνισης των ψυχαναλυτικών θεωριών, υπήρξε έντονη η προσπάθεια
των ερευνητών να προσεγγίσουν τον εσωτερικό κόσμο του ανθρώπου μέσα από τα
έργα τέχνης, όπως αυτά θεωρήθηκαν αποτύπωμα της ψυχής του δημιουργού.
Η παρούσα εργασία εξετάζει τον πρώτο παιδικό έρωτα σε τέσσερα κείμενα της
νεοελληνικής λογοτεχνίας, με εργαλείο τη θεωρία της ψυχοσεξουαλικής ανάπτυξης,
όπως αυτή διατυπώθηκε από τον Freud.
Η εργασία χωρίζεται σε δύο μέρη. Το πρώτο μέρος περικλείει το θεωρητικό
πλαίσιο. Συγκεκριμένα τη σχέση της ψυχανάλυσης με τη λογοτεχνία και την υποδοχή
της επιστήμης αυτής στον ελλαδικό χώρο. Η ολοκλήρωση του πρώτου μέρους γίνεται
με την παρουσίαση της ψυχοσεξουαλικής θεωρίας του Freud.
Το δεύτερο μέρος περιλαμβάνει τα λογοτεχνικά κείμενα που έχουν επιλεγεί:
Λεωνής του Γιώργου Θεοτοκά, Αιολική Γη του Ηλία Βενέζη, Η κυρία- Νίτσα του Μ.
Καραγάτση και Η πρώτη Αγάπη του Ιωάννη Κονδυλάκη. Το κάθε έργο παρουσιάζεται
ξεχωριστά. Αρχικά γίνεται μια σύντομη αναφορά στον δημιουργό, παρουσιάζεται
έπειτα το κείμενο και ακολουθεί η εξέταση και ανάλυση του παιδικού έρωτα, όπως
αυτός περιγράφεται στο κείμενο.
Στο τέλος της παρούσας εργασίας συνοψίζονται τα συμπεράσματα.Literature and literary texts have been, through years, the subject of study for
various sciences and have been approached by different methods, such as historical,
sociological or pedagogical methods. One of the sciences that has been intensively
involved with literature is Psychoanalysis. From the beginnings of the psychoanalytic
theories appearance, there has been an intense effort from the researchers to approach
the inner world of human being, through works of art, as they have been considered to
be imprints of the artist’s soul.
The present thesis examines the child’s first love in four literary texts, with the
contribution of the psychosexual development theory by Sigmund Freud.
It consist of two major parts. The first part contains the theoretical framework.
At first it examines the relation between literature and psychoanalysis and how
psychoanalysis was accepted, at first, in Greece. The first part is completed with the
presentation and analysis of the Psychosexual Statement by Freud.
The second and main part, the four novels and short stories are presented. The
novels are: Leonis by Giorgos Theotokas, Aeolian Land by Ilias Venezis, The first love
by Ioannis Kondilakis and the short story Miss- Nitsa by M. Karagatsis. Every text is
presented separately. First, there is a brier reference to the author of the novel about his
work and life. Afterwards, there is the presentation of the novel, the plot of the text.
The last part of each novel is the analysis of the child’s first love, as it showed in the
text.
Finally, the conclusions of the study are stated in last chapter.85 σ
Expression quantitative trait locus fine mapping of the 17q12–21 asthma locus in African American children: a genetic association and gene expression study
No full textBackground: African ancestry is associated with a higher prevalence and greater severity of asthma than European ancestries, yet genetic studies of the most common locus associated with childhood-onset asthma, 17q12–21, in African Americans have been inconclusive. The aim of this study was to leverage both the phenotyping of the Children's Respiratory and Environmental Workgroup (CREW) birth cohort consortium, and the reduced linkage disequilibrium in African Americans, to fine map the 17q12–21 locus. Methods: We first did a genetic association study and meta-analysis using 17q12–21 tag single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for childhood-onset asthma in 1613 European American and 870 African American children from the CREW consortium. Nine tag SNPs were selected based on linkage disequilibrium patterns at 17q12–21 and their association with asthma, considering the effect allele under an additive model (0, 1, or 2 effect alleles). Results were meta-analysed with publicly available summary data from the EVE consortium (on 4303 European American and 3034 African American individuals) for seven of the nine SNPs of interest. Subsequently, we tested for expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) among the SNPs associated with childhood-onset asthma and the expression of 17q12–21 genes in resting peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from 85 African American CREW children and in upper airway epithelial cells from 246 African American CREW children; and in lower airway epithelial cells from 44 European American and 72 African American adults from a case-control study of asthma genetic risk in Chicago (IL, USA). Findings: 17q12–21 SNPs were broadly associated with asthma in European Americans. Only two SNPs (rs2305480 in gasdermin-B [GSDMB] and rs8076131 in ORMDL sphingolipid biosynthesis regulator 3 [ORMDL3]) were associated with asthma in African Americans, at a Bonferroni-corrected threshold of p<0·0055 (for rs2305480_G, odds ratio [OR] 1·36 [95% CI 1·12–1·65], p=0·0014; and for rs8076131_A, OR 1·37 [1·13–1·67], p=0·0010). In upper airway epithelial cells from African American children, genotype at rs2305480 was the most significant eQTL for GSDMB (eQTL effect size [β] 1·35 [95% CI 1·25–1·46], p<0·0001), and to a lesser extent showed an eQTL effect for post-GPI attachment to proteins phospholipase 3 (β 1·15 [1·08–1·22], p<0·0001). No SNPs were eQTLs for ORMDL3. By contrast, in PBMCs, the five core SNPs were associated only with expression of GSDMB and ORMDL3. Genotype at rs12936231 (in zona pellucida binding protein 2) showed the strongest associations across both genes (for GSDMB, eQTLβ 1·24 [1·15–1·32], p<0·0001; and for ORMDL3 (β 1·19 [1·12–1·24], p<0·0001). The eQTL effects of rs2305480 on GSDMB expression were replicated in lower airway cells from African American adults (β 1·29 [1·15–1·44], p<0·0001). Interpretation: Our study suggests that SNPs regulating GSDMB expression in airway epithelial cells have a major role in childhood-onset asthma, whereas SNPs regulating the expression levels of 17q12–21 genes in resting blood cells are not central to asthma risk. Our genetic and gene expression data in African Americans and European Americans indicated GSDMB to be the leading candidate gene at this important asthma locus.6 month embargo; published: 01 May 2020This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at [email protected]
