This study integrates Renaissance texts of classical and early modern geography, cartography, and travel writing with postmodern theory to challenge the long-standing tradition of Eastern European space as a distant land of elsewhere and to demonstrate how contemporary modes of geographic thinking influenced aspects of English dramatic form. By examining the ways in which habits of thought derived from these texts informed Renaissance ideas about Eastern European space, this book shows how the threshold dividing the symbolic and the real is traversed and imagined as traversable. The study gives useful background on how Eastern European locations would have signified as marginal to early modern English audiences. Re-reading early modern texts ranging from geographic and travel accounts to the early modern drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, this study argues for a questioning and perspectival dimension of early modern subjectivity as fashioned by these texts, which emerges as enabling and compelling.
This book, with a foreword by Arthur F. Kinney, covers the major issues of the stage history and translation in the negotiation between Romanian culture and Shakespeare, raising questions about what a Shakespeare play becomes when incorporated in a different and allegedly liminal culture. The study reflects the growing cross-fertilization of approaching Shakespeare in Romanian translations, productions, literary adaptations, and criticism, looking at the way in which Romania's collective cultural memory is constructed, re-examined, and embedded in the adoption of Shakespeare in certain periods. While it posits the problematics in the historical development of Shakespeare's presence in Romanian culture, the study gives a detailed history of the translations and productions of the plays, focusing on the most significant aspects of their literary, social, and political appropriation over the past two centuries. The author locates the arguments in a vista of cultural, social, and political issues that affected the local responses to Shakespeare. This monograph represents the cultural mediation of Romania in the context of "Shakespeare" understood as a construct shaping and created by various cultures. The description of Romanian cultural products and stage history examines how early translations from Shakespeare of production of plays grouped according to genre have contributed to the modeling of a theatrical selfhood that was linked to the European reception of the English poet. The survey of early versions of Shakespeare shows how Romanian translators interpreted the allusions in the text, while the cultural authority of the Shakespeare figure was perceived as a means of facilitating the country's exit from the status of a marginalized Balkan elsewhere. Romania, like other Eastern European stages, has exploited Shakespeare's canonical significance in the world civilization in order to leave its marginal status and assume the cultural, social, and political values of the other, mainly Western, European countries. The study posits that the plays have been located at the center of the Romanian consciousness. The communist authorities put Shakespeare to ideological uses, seeking to legitimize their control over Romania's past and present by reinscribing the bard's cultural influence in their political agenda. Concurrently, theaters and directors used Shakespeare with subversive purposes, producing dissident meanings in complicity with critics and audiences. In the 1990s and after, liberated from the straitjacket of doctrines, directors focused on Shakespeare's meaning for the Romanian theater, producing self-reflexive and highly sophisticated meta-theatrical versions for national and international audiences. This study reveals the crucial cultural functions the canonical Shakespeare figure of authority performs in modern Romania.
M nica Graciela Pradier naci en Presidencia Roque S enz Pe a, lugar donde transcurren la mayor parte de sus relatos. De profesi n docente, su pasi n por las letras se inici en la adolescencia, en un ambiente donde la lectura y los libros eran el pan de cada d a.En 2015 result seleccionada para formar parte de la antolog a Entre lunas y soles en la convocatoria ROI, organizada por editorial Dunken, para promover autores noveles. Este hecho la impuls a publicar su primera obra, Historias que no se olvidan, en 2016. Once relatos que tuvieron una excelente recepci n en el p blico y generaron, en la autora, la necesidad de continuar con la construcci n de este camino, que estaba en alg n lugar, dormido, en su memoria y en sus sue os.Nace, ahora, ENTRE MATES Y CAF , un conjunto de relatos de la vida cotidiana, de la charla entre amigos, que intentan reflejar las vivencias, emociones y sentimientos de personas tan reales como quien est leyendo este pu ado de historias que tienen mucho para contar.
Have you ever felt your world shatter from one day to the next?For Monica, that moment would happen when she'd least expect it. She was twenty-three living on coffee and cigarettes when she woke up with a lump protruding from her neck. Four years after her haunting battle with cancer, she travels to an Ashram. While trying to master yoga poses-Monica struggles to heal from her dark and tormenting past. At the Ashram, a nightmare of a red-filled syringe piercing her hand sends her into panic. She realizes she must unravel layers of hidden pain and face her darkest truth-cancer. In her quest for healing, she discovers that survival has nothing to do with going into remission. THE CANCER WARRIOR is a courageous, yet gut-wrenching memoir of a rebellious cancer survivor's journey from victim to warrior.
Käytännön käsikirjaksikin sopiva, runsaasti oikeustapauksia sisältävä teos on kattava ja ajantasaisin suomenkielinen yleisesitys Euroopan ihmisoikeussopimuksesta.Kirja käsittelee perusteellisesti ihmisoikeussopimuksen kansainvälistä valvontaa sekä sopimuksessa ja sen lisäpöytäkirjassa turvattuja oikeuksia: muun muassa kidutuksen kieltoa, syrjinnän kieltoa, oikeutta vapauteen ja turvallisuuteen, oikeutta oikeudenmukaiseen oikeudenkäyntiin, uskonnon- ja sananvapautta sekä omaisuudensuojaa. Teoksessa käsitellään kattavasti myös ihmisoikeussopimuksen asemaa Suomen oikeusjärjestyksessä, samoin kuin EU:n perusoikeusjärjestelmää ja sen suhdetta sopimukseen.
Käytännön käsikirjaksikin sopiva, runsaasti oikeustapauksia sisältävä teos on kattava ja ajantasaisin suomenkielinen yleisesitys Euroopan ihmisoikeussopimuksesta.Kirja käsittelee perusteellisesti ihmisoikeussopimuksen kansainvälistä valvontaa sekä sopimuksessa ja sen lisäpöytäkirjassa turvattuja oikeuksia: muun muassa kidutuksen kieltoa, syrjinnän kieltoa, oikeutta vapauteen ja turvallisuuteen, oikeutta oikeudenmukaiseen oikeudenkäyntiin, uskonnon- ja sananvapautta sekä omaisuudensuojaa. Teoksessa käsitellään kattavasti myös ihmisoikeussopimuksen asemaa Suomen oikeusjärjestyksessä, samoin kuin EU:n perusoikeusjärjestelmää ja sen suhdetta sopimukseen.
Aging is a heterogeneous process with a progressive and general decrease of the organism functions that leads to a lower ability to adaptively react to changes and preserve homeostasis. Consequently, with ageing there is an increase in vulnerability to age-associated pathologies or simply the impairment of functions that leads to death. There are different rates of age-related physiological changes and the "biological age" determines the level of ageing experienced by each individual and therefore his/her life expectancy. This book discusses research which suggests that the functional parameters studied in neutrophils may be useful markers of "biological age" and predictors of longevity.
Eric J. Lien; Arima Das; Partha Nandy; Shijun Ren; Horst Kleinkauf; Hans von Döhren; Iradj Hajimohamadreza; J. Mark Treherne; Esteban Domingo; Luis Menéndez-Arias; Miguel E. Quiñones-Mateu; Africa Holguín; Mónica Gutiérrez-Rivas; Miguel A. Martínez; Josep Quer; Isabel S. Novella; John J. Holland; Vijendra K. Singh; Deborah S. Hartman; Olivier Civelli; Vera M. Kolb
Der vorliegende 48. Band der Reihe "Fortschritte der Arzneimittelfor- schung" enthalt acht Beitrage, die wiederum von anerkannten Forschern verfasst wurden. Ausserdem sind auch in diesem Band ein Stichwortver- zeichnis des Bandes sowie ein Autoren-und Titelverzeichnis und ein Titel- verzeichnis aller 48 Bande enthalten. Der Leser hat dadurch die Mog- lichkeit, nicht nur den vorliegenden Band zu konsultieren, sondern auch alle bisher erschienenen Bande quasi als enzyklopadisches N achschla- gewerk zu benutzen. Da alle Beitrage umfangreiche Literaturnachweise enthalten, ist die Moglichkeit des Zugriffes auf Original-Publikationen gegeben, was dem aktiven Forscher besonders wichtig ist und seinen eige- nen Arbeiten Impulse geben kann. Die Artikel des 48. Bandes behandeln neue Entwicklungen der Genetik, der enzymatischen Herstellung von komplexen Peptiden und bringen die neuesten Erkenntnisse der Apoptose unserem Verstandnis naher. Immun- therapie bei Hirnerkrankungen und psychischen Storungen, der Einsatz vonNaturproduktenzur Vorbeugung von Krebserkrankungen, das beun- ruhigende Anwachsen der Arzneimittelresistenz, die Mannigfaltigkeit der Dopamin-Rezeptor-Wirkung und die faszinierende Darstellung einer grosseren Gruppe von neuartigen Nukleosiden als Arzneimittel runden den vorliegenden Band der "Fortschritte der Arzneimittelforschung" ab und bieten dem Leser viel Neuartiges und Interessantes.
Rarely did ancient authors write about the lives of women; even more rarely did they write about the lives of ordinary women: not queens or heroines who influenced war or politics, not sensational examples of virtue or vice, not Christian martyrs or ascetics, but women of moderate status, who experienced everyday joys and sorrows and had everyday merits and failings. Such a woman was Monica--now Saint Monica because of her relationship with her son Augustine, who wrote about her in the Confessions and elsewhere. Despite her rather unremarkable life, Saint Monica has inspired a robust controversy in academia, the Church, and the Augustine-reading public alike: some agree with Ambrose, bishop of Milan, who knew Monica, that Augustine was exceptionally blessed in having such a mother, while others think that Monica is a classic example of the manipulative mother who lives through her son, using religion to repress his sexual life and to control him even when he seems to escape. In Monica: An Ordinary Saint, Gillian Clark reconciles these competing images of Monica's life and legacy, arriving at a woman who was shrewd and enterprising, but also meek and gentle. Weighing Augustine's discussion of his mother against other evidence of women's lives in late antiquity, Clark achieves portraits both of Monica individually, and of the many women like her. Augustine did not claim that his mother was a saint, but he did think that the challenges of everyday life required courage and commitment to Christian principle. Monica's ordinary life, as both he and Clark tell it, showed both. Monica: An Ordinary Saint illuminates Monica, wife and mother, in the context of the societal expectations and burdens that shaped her and all ordinary women.
Rarely did ancient authors write about the lives of women; even more rarely did they write about the lives of ordinary women: not queens or heroines who influenced war or politics, not sensational examples of virtue or vice, not Christian martyrs or ascetics, but women of moderate status, who experienced everyday joys and sorrows and had everyday merits and failings. Such a woman was Monica--now Saint Monica because of her relationship with her son Augustine, who wrote about her in the Confessions and elsewhere. Despite her rather unremarkable life, Saint Monica has inspired a robust controversy in academia, the Church, and the Augustine-reading public alike: some agree with Ambrose, bishop of Milan, who knew Monica, that Augustine was exceptionally blessed in having such a mother, while others think that Monica is a classic example of the manipulative mother who lives through her son, using religion to repress his sexual life and to control him even when he seems to escape. In Monica: An Ordinary Saint, Gillian Clark reconciles these competing images of Monica's life and legacy, arriving at a woman who was shrewd and enterprising, but also meek and gentle. Weighing Augustine's discussion of his mother against other evidence of women's lives in late antiquity, Clark achieves portraits both of Monica individually, and of the many women like her. Augustine did not claim that his mother was a saint, but he did think that the challenges of everyday life required courage and commitment to Christian principle. Monica's ordinary life, as both he and Clark tell it, showed both. Monica: An Ordinary Saint illuminates Monica, wife and mother, in the context of the societal expectations and burdens that shaped her and all ordinary women.
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The book is about two 17 year olds doing what 17-year-olds do all over the world. They fall in love. It didn't take long for us to decide that we never wanted to part. Today we are approaching our 39th anniversary. My wife, Monica, is in a nursing home and we both know she will never leave there alive. She has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (the disease that the Jerry Lewis Telethon is all about.) About three to five days a week we enjoy a conjugal visit in her private room. I bring dinner, which I either buy or fix personally. We also share physical intimacies in celebration of our love. Philippians 4:11 says: "For I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content." I praise God for the time we do have together. Most of the book tells about the sorrow, joys, humor in raising two handicapped boys.
