101 research outputs found
Boundless Venus: the Crossover of the Conscious and Unconscious in the Works of Haruki Murakami
No full textThe objective of this thesis, Boundless Venus, is to examine consciousness in the
works of the contemporary Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. Principally the
discussion concerns itself with the unconscious, its conduits, its benefits upon the
conscious; which lead to the transformation of the self and structure of the literature.
Although the subject has been touched upon before, the conscious and unconscious
have previously been examined as exclusive concepts in Murakami. This research
will be looking at the recent change in the ‘crossover’ between these concepts,
which makes the concepts no longer two mutually exclusive concepts but ‘inclusive
concepts’. This is vital to understanding Murakami’s more recent works and the
nature of his influence on literature.
Boundless Venus explores the entire works of Haruki Murakami, principally his
most recent novel 1Q84 (2011) and his novels Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the
End of the World (1991) and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1997). It approaches the
work from a psychoanalytic and critical point of view and focuses on significant
narrative techniques, character development, and themes such as sex, music, and
dreams, used by Murakami to explore the relationship between the conscious and
unconscious and to narrate the crossover between the two
Freya organisation
No full textTITLE: Freya organisation AUTHOR: Rosolová Tereza DEPARTMENT: Department of Special Pedagogy SUPERVISOR: PhDr. Monika Mužáková, PhD. ABSTRACT: This these sis discussing the topic of sexuality of disadvantaged individuals and relevant sexual assistance. Primarily It focuses on examining of the Freya organisation, which provides education, consultations and other supporting services in the field of sexuality of disadvantaged and older individuals. The first part of the theoretical part focuses on sexuality, sexuality of disabled individuals and the terminology and the origin of sexual asistance in the Czech republic and other countries. Also compares sexual assistance systems in selected European countries. The second chapter is examining the Freya organisation. In particular characteristics, history, goals, principles and specific services. In particular Its characteristics, in depth history, which is supproted by comparisons of sexual asistance systems in other selected Europe countries, their goals, principals and services. The practical part will be delivered by structed interview with the use of qualitative research. The goal of practical part was to examine differences or alikeness in the sexual assitance services in Freya organisation from the first beginnings and today from the point of view of..
Coaching-Praxis an deutschen Hochschulen: Strukturmerkmale, Klassifikation und Implementierung von hochschuldidaktischem Coaching
No full textHochschuldidaktisches Coaching kann Lehrende dabei unterstützen, sich in der Rolle als Lehrperson zu entwickeln und die Qualität der Lehre zu verbessern. Doch durch welche Merkmale zeichnet sich dieses spezielle Coaching-Format aus? Und was ist bei seiner Implementierung und Durchführung an Hochschulen zu beachten? In drei aufeinander aufbauenden Studien nimmt diese Dissertation das bislang wenig erforschte hochschuldidaktische Coaching in den Blick. Hochschuldidaktiker:innen, Coaches an Hochschulen und Hochschulleitungen finden in diesem Buch wissenschaftlich basierte Anregungen und Empfehlungen
Coaching-Praxis an deutschen Hochschulen : Strukturmerkmale, Klassifikation und Implementierung von hochschuldidaktischem Coaching
No full textCrystallisation of metamorphic garnet: mechanisms and rates from the inverted Barrovian sequence in the Sikkim Himalaya
No full textThe compositional zonation, three-dimensional spatial distribution, and morphologies of a metamorphic garnet population represent an integrated record of the population's nucleation and growth history over changing metamorphic conditions. While previous inferences drawn from such datasets have proven diverse, their continued collection is key to better understanding the mechanisms and processes that control porphyroblast crystallisation, rates of intergranular element transfer, and the extent to which chemical equilibrium persists across a rock volume during metamorphism. This thesis utilises such datasets from the inverted Barrovian metamorphic sequence in the Sikkim Himalaya, India, where the record of recent orogenesis provides an ideal natural laboratory in which fundamental rock-forming processes can be investigated.Compositional analyses of a representative population of garnet porphyroblasts from a garnet-grade metapelite indicate a strong correlation between garnet crystal size and composition with respect to both major end-member and trace element components. Numerical simulation of progressive nucleation and growth using an equilibrium approach and multicomponent diffusion reproduces the sizes and major element zoning of the entire garnet population along a rapid heating trajectory (>100 C/Myr). Given the correspondingly rapid rates of garnet growth (~1.4 mm/My) and negligible departure from equilibrium, major element transport is inferred to have been non-limiting, with growth rates controlled by interfacial processes.In contrast, trace element zoning in the same population is indicative of persistent disequilibrium with respect to rare-earth elements, yttrium and chromium. Oscillatory zoning may reflect incorporation of chemical heterogeneities and minor fluctuations in the garnet growth rate not resolvable in major element zoning, and annuli are not demonstrably relatable to some rock-wide event. Elements that do not equilibrate across garnet surfaces document continuous spiral zoning, which permits estimation of syn-crystallisation strain-rates, on the order of 10^-11-10^-12 /s.Microstructural data from across the Barrovian sequence reveal garnet populations that are partially characterised by their grade, with changing crystal size and abundance interpreted to reflect the combined effects of bulk chemical variations and ripening with increasing pressures and temperatures. Deviations from this trend reflect populations in which garnet crystallisation was controlled by a highly heterogeneous spatial distribution of nucleation sites and transport-limited growth
Photographie et récit de voyage : regards pluriels sur les voyages de Freya Stark en Orient
No full textThis work analyses one of Freya Stark‘s first travel book, The Valleys of the Assassins, and studies at the same time a few of the photographs she took during her travels in Orient. This paper studies the influence of western culture and in particular of orientalism and colonialism over the way the author adresses the Orient and travel in general. It considers the text in details in order to draw conclusions from it about th way Freya Stark communicates her experiences in both the text and the photographs. This study aims to problematize the idea of « gaze » or gazes which are those we have on travel in general and those conveyed by the text and the photographs.Ce mémoire traite d‘un des premiers récits de voyage de Freya Stark, The Valleys of the Assassins, et étudie aussi un certain nombre de photographies prisent par l‘auteur durant ses voyages. Il étudie l‘influence de la culture occidentale et en particulier de l‘orientalisme et du colonialisme sur la façon dont l‘auteure aborde l‘Orient et plus largement le voyage. Ce mémoire étudie de manière détaillé le texte afin d‘en tirer des conclusions sur la façon dont la voyageuse aborde l‘Autre et l‘Ailleurs dans ses voyages et la façon dont elle transmet son expérience à travers le texte, puis la photographie. Cette étude a pour problématique centrale la question du regard, ou plutôt des regards, qui sont ceux que nous posons sur le voyage, et ceux que l‘auteure nous transmet par le récit et la photographie
Photographie et récit de voyage : regards pluriels sur les voyages de Freya Stark en Orient
No full textThis work analyses one of Freya Stark‘s first travel book, The Valleys of the Assassins, and studies at the same time a few of the photographs she took during her travels in Orient. This paper studies the influence of western culture and in particular of orientalism and colonialism over the way the author adresses the Orient and travel in general. It considers the text in details in order to draw conclusions from it about th way Freya Stark communicates her experiences in both the text and the photographs. This study aims to problematize the idea of « gaze » or gazes which are those we have on travel in general and those conveyed by the text and the photographs.Ce mémoire traite d‘un des premiers récits de voyage de Freya Stark, The Valleys of the Assassins, et étudie aussi un certain nombre de photographies prisent par l‘auteur durant ses voyages. Il étudie l‘influence de la culture occidentale et en particulier de l‘orientalisme et du colonialisme sur la façon dont l‘auteure aborde l‘Orient et plus largement le voyage. Ce mémoire étudie de manière détaillé le texte afin d‘en tirer des conclusions sur la façon dont la voyageuse aborde l‘Autre et l‘Ailleurs dans ses voyages et la façon dont elle transmet son expérience à travers le texte, puis la photographie. Cette étude a pour problématique centrale la question du regard, ou plutôt des regards, qui sont ceux que nous posons sur le voyage, et ceux que l‘auteure nous transmet par le récit et la photographie
Samuel Johnson and the vocation of the author
No full textMuch has been written about Samuel Johnson as a Christian, and much about him as an author; this study is about where the two meet, in the idea of the literary vocation. Though Johnson only uses the word âvocationâ a handful of times, it holds both the quotidian sense of a job and the more exalted notion of a divine call, a tension which informs Johnsonâs thinking.
I begin with Johnsonâs development as a religious writer, influenced by William Lawâs contention that any form of life can be devout and holy, and by Bernard Mandevilleâs unsentimental candour. Johnsonâs writing bears the marks of both. He revised Irene, for instance, to make it less overtly Christian: a reminder that Johnsonâs religious convictions bring an invisible pressure to bear on apparently secular works. In his early years on the Gentlemanâs Magazine Johnson develops the principle that authorship, being a public act, carries great responsibilities.
It is, in fact, a vocation, and unpacking this concept takes up Chapter 2. Johnson sees writing as a potential form of public service, adding that a solitary writer ânaturally sinks from omission to forgetfulness of social dutiesâ. Too few commentators have grasped that Johnson sees morality in social terms â as a matter of answering the needs of others, according to oneâs place in an order overseen by divine providence. But again and again he refers to the human need âto seek from one another assistance and supportâ (Rambler 104). Instances of mutual help âby frequent reciprocations of beneficence unite mankind in society and friendshipâ. Johnsonâs well-known emphasis on friendship is only one expression of this deeper sense that society is held together by trust; and therefore, by the truth. Writersâ communication of truth defines their own social duties.
While Johnson can sound close to Shaftesbury when he writes of mankindâs sociability, there is really a significant gap between them, because Johnsonâs view of human nature is more jaded. He expects people to hurt each other for the same reasons they help each other; and he recognises a strong tendency towards pride and superiority â especially among writers, who are tempted to cut themselves off from society.
Chapter 3 deals in more depth with a writerâs social role, which is simply expressed as the ability to put the truth memorably. Borrowing from a tradition which stretches back to Seneca at least, Johnson believes that a writer becomes a âbenefactor of mankindâ by putting the useful, but readily forgotten, principles of the good life into memorable forms. Drawing on Lockeâs account of the memory, and deviating from Lockeâs account of moral action, he suggests that literature has a power to move the reason and the passions at once â hence his demand that poetry be both true and pleasurable. While this resembles the Horatian formula of dulce et utile, Johnson added to it a sense of writersâ and readersâ experience of the text: how âimpressionsâ are transferred from the world, via the writer, to the text, and so to the reader. Learning how to persuade the audience, however, necessitates first-hand acquaintance with the world.
Hence the subjects of Chapters 4 and 5, which are pride and humility respectively. Pride separates the author from the social world, making them ineffectual and unable to communicate truth. The âLivesâ of Swift and Milton establish this partly through their ridicule of the two subjects: though Johnson did not think ridicule established truth, it did restore a balance upset by an authorâs singularity.
âSingularityâ is the word Johnson uses to encapsulate Swiftâs faults: he was âfond of singularity, and desirous to make a mode of happiness for himself, different from the general course of things and order of Providenceâ. Milton, too, is condemned for his arrogance â but even more in order to correct the idolatry of his admirers. Johnson believes that Milton is being written about with absurd reverence, and so puts him back in his place â as just another member of society, with a role to fulfil.
Accepting that place involves a measure of humility. The question of the âdignity of literatureâ, a contested point during the nineteenth century, was alive in Johnsonâs time, and through his associations with what he himself called âGrub Streetâ, he lived and worked among many writers who might be thought undignified. Yet in the obscurity of the hacks Johnson found something to praise â an industrious, humble service opposed to the âletterâd arroganceâ of self-satisfied authors. â[T]he humble author of journals and gazettes must be considered as a liberal dispenser of beneficial knowledgeâ (Rambler 145). By stooping to be merely useful, journalists become great. Particularly in the Journey to the Western Islands, Johnson divests himself of authorial dignity, drawing attention to his own mistakes and omissions.
Such a humdrum view of the writerâs role, which placed the emphasis on the reader, put Johnson at odds with most of the prominent Romantics â and the scale of their revulsion from Johnson needs two chapters to be dealt with. Chapter 6 argues that their critique, especially that of Hazlitt and Coleridge, was above all about the question of the writerâs vocation: and for that reason, Shakespeare was the most contested ground â for Coleridge, Johnsonâs Shakespeare criticism was impertinent âfilthâ aimed at âthe greatest man that ever put on and put off mortalityâ. But that was exactly the kind of idolatrous view of authorship â what Hazlitt called approvingly âoverstrained enthusiasmâ â which Johnson wanted to challenge.
However, many of the Romanticsâ criticisms misrepresented Johnson; he was a more flexible thinker than they realised. In a final chapter, I look at the aftermath of the Romantics: how their accusation that Johnson was too narrow and bigoted to understand Shakespeare is echoed in Macaulay, and even in sympathetic readers like Matthew Arnold, and has dogged Johnson all the way to the present day. And I point out that the Romantic exaltation of the author has faced its own backlash, in ways that suggest Johnson might have seen more clearly than the Romantics thought.</p
Board 97 : Sustainable Development Goals Meet “Third Mission”: The Engineers Without Borders Challenge in Germany
No full textDialogical Skirmishes
No full textTan was guest editor for 'And Now China?', a special print edition of the Ctrl+P journal, which critically responded to the celebratory rhetoric’s of ‘China Now’ and other celebratory markers of China's global ascent in 2008. As well as the introductory article 'Dialogical Skirmishes', Tan also interviewed Hans Ulrich Obrist
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