"Père Céleste, La Créature Était Bilingue" ("Heavenly Father, the creature was bilingual"): Beckett De L'anglais Au Français

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-108
Author(s):  
Tom Bishop
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Bilingual Writing ◽  
Initial Change

Beckett represents a unique case of bilingual writing, not only because he self-translated (or self-adapted) his writing in the other language, but also because, as of the time he decided to write in French (and after having written only in French for some ten years) he uses both languages as language of first composition for the remainder of his life. In Beckett, there is not just a double creation but in fact a quadruple creation. We view the period of and the reasons for this initial change and then examine and illustrate the singularities of these four variables in Beckett's work.

scholarly journals A young man presenting with encephalopathy and seizures secondary to SARS-CoV-2

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. e240576
Author(s):  
Bilal Athar Jalil ◽  
Mohsin Ijaz ◽  
Amir Maqbul Khan ◽  
Thomas Glenn Ledbetter
Keyword(s):  
Respiratory Illness ◽  
Viral Meningitis ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Disease ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Multisystem Involvement ◽  
Disease Associations ◽  
Viral Illness ◽  
Structural Brain ◽  
New Onset

COVID-19 has now emerged from a respiratory illness to a systemic viral illness with multisystem involvement. There is still a lot to learn about this illness as new disease associations with COVID-19 emerge consistently. We present a unique case of a neurological manifestation of a patient with structural brain disease who was COVID-19 positive and developed mental status changes, new-onset seizures and findings suggestive of viral meningitis on lumbar puncture. We also review the literature and discuss our case in the context of the other cases reported. We highlight the value of considering seizures and encephalopathy as one of the presenting features of COVID-19 disease.

scholarly journals Spontaneous deformation of protocatechuic acid crystals

1949 ◽  
Vol 197 (1050) ◽  
pp. 283-294 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Protocatechuic Acid ◽  
Motion Pictures ◽  
Extensive Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Stable Configuration ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
The Past ◽  
Spontaneous Deformation ◽  
Lattice Planes

In this paper an extensive study is reported of the very remarkable, and thus far apparently unique, case of the deformation in three dimensions of protocatechuic acid, to which attention was drawn many years ago by Otto Lehmann. The deformations are spontaneous, and are probably due to progressive gliding of the lattice planes, which exist in two configurations, one stable and the other unstable, the latter being the condition of the long prismatic rods when they first form. Such a prism presently deforms into a zigzag crystal, with stable and unstable sections in alternation which, with continuation of the deformation, becomes again straight, but now in the stable configuration. The bending is progressive, like that of an umbrella case, pendant from the end of an oblique cane pointed down, when the latter is pushed into it. The movements are so rapid that motion pictures, made with a microscope, were necessary for the observation of certain stages of the deformation. The deformations have been shown to many chemists and physicists during the past decade or more, none of whom had ever seen or heard of this remarkable type of crystal movement. The deformations are usually observed as the warm saturated solution cools, but they also occur after the crystal has been dried for many hours.

scholarly journals "Since When Did We Have 100,000 Tamils?" Media Representations of Race Thinking, Spatiality,and the 2009 Tamil Diaspora Protests

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 557-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphne Jeyapal
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
National Values ◽  
Canadian Print Media ◽  
Moment Of Resistance ◽  
Tamil Diaspora

Abstract. Beginning in mid-2008, the Tamil diaspora around the world organized in extraordinary activism against the escalating violence in northern Sri Lanka. Responses to the 2009 Tamil diaspora protests in Canada provide a unique case study to examine a contemporary moment of resistance, when race thinking and spatiality intersected within and beyond national borders. Using critical theories of representation, I conceptualize Canadian print media coverage of the protests as representations of a “strange encounter” with the other. I explore the media’s production of the other and its conflation of the Tamil protester-terrorist through constructions of space. I also examine how scale operates through underlying national values to conceptualize a precarious structure of belonging. Through these discursive moves, I demonstrate how the resulting figure of the “other,” the “outlaw,” and the “outsider” came to represent and delegitimize the racialized/ spatialized Tamil protest(er).

scholarly journals Edward Said’s Memoir Out of Place: Postcolonial Tenets, Dissonant Voices, and Divided Loyalties

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Shadi S. Neimneh ◽  
Halla A. Shureteh
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Cultural Displacement ◽  
Imminent Death ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Proper Context

Edward Said’s Out of Place (1999), a memoir written after his diagnosis with leukemia in 1991, was begun in 1994 to document his sense of cultural displacement and imminent death. This article examines the divided loyalties and dissonant voices Said vents in this book through the lens of cultural theories. It argues that such a conflicting vision can provide a proper context for understanding Said’s contributions to cultural studies and literary theory via the construction of the other, the out of place, at the levels of language, religion, environment, and homeland. Said presents himself as a postcolonial subject par excellence with divided loyalties and “unhomely” feelings. He uses a confessional mode to convey a constant sense of exile and identity crisis. Said’s life negotiated the postcolonial parlance he preached in his academic life, which offers a unique case on the relationship between theory and practice. The memoir emerges not only as an autobiographical text but equally as a contribution to literary theory and overlapping postcolonial discourses. Thus, this autobiographical memoir is useful for the literature classroom due to its theoretical value as well as non-fictional import.

scholarly journals Concurrent elections lead to coattails and electoral spill-overs: Quasi-experimental evidence from German municipalities

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukas Rudolph ◽  
Arndt Leininger
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Party System ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
Executive Leadership ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Legislative Elections ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Concurrent Elections

Concurrency of elections is a widely used tool to increase turnout. However, this turnout increase is likely not outcome-neutral if some voters attribute more importance to one of the elections compared to the other. We theorize coattail effects and electoral system effects that should occur in this setting. Drawing on a unique case of quasi-random variation in the timing of local executive and legislative elections in Germany, we show that concurrent elections lead to an increase in turnout. Thereby, in line with our theoretical argument, concurrency of local executive elections increases council votes for the incumbent mayor's party and for centrist parties more generally. Additionally, concurrent elections consolidate party system and political power through more single-party majorities in councils, less fragmentation and greater alignment of executive leadership and legislative majority. Our theoretical argument and empirical results thus serve to explain divergent findings in the literature on turnout effects.

scholarly journals Citizens' Assemblies for Referendums and Constitutional Reforms: Is There an “Irish Model” for Deliberative Democracy?

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitri Courant
Keyword(s):  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Deliberative Process ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
International Context ◽  
Political Outcomes ◽  
Institutional Model ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Success

Among democratic innovations, deliberative mini-publics, that is panels of randomly selected citizens tasked to make recommendations about public policies, have been increasingly used. In this regard, Ireland stands out as a truly unique case because, on the one hand, it held four consecutive randomly selected citizens' assemblies, and on the other hand, some of those processes produced major political outcomes through three successful referendums; no other country shows such as record. This led many actors to claim that the “Irish model” was replicable in other countries and that it should lead to political “success.” But is this true? Relying on a qualitative empirical case-study, this article analyses different aspects to answer this question: First, the international context in which the Irish deliberative process took place; second, the differences between the various Irish citizens' assemblies; third, their limitations and issues linked to a contrasted institutionalization; and finally, what “institutional model” emerges from Ireland and whether it can be transferred elsewhere.

THE G AND Q BANDING PATTERN OF ELLOBIUS LUTESCENS. A UNIQUE CASE OF SEX DETERMINATION IN MAMMALS

1976 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis M. de la Maza ◽  
Jeffrey R. Sawyer
Keyword(s):  
Sex Determination ◽  
Banding Pattern ◽  
The Other ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Genetic Burden ◽  
Ellobius Lutescens

The karyotype of the microtine Ellobius lutescens Th., was analyzed using the G and Q banding techniques. One of the chromosomes of the first pair has the same bands in both sexes while the other member of the pair is unique to each sex. We propose that the sex determining mechanism of Ellobius lutescens is located in these chromosomes. The genetic burden imposed on this species due to this constitution is discussed.

More's History of King Richard III: Bilingual Writing and Renovation of Historiography

Moreana ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (Number 213) (1) ◽  
pp. 48-62
Author(s):  
Guillaume Navaud
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bilingual Writing ◽  
As If

Why did Thomas More write two versions of his History of King Richard III, one in English and the other in Latin? Critics tend to answer this question by arguing that the two versions were not destined for the same audience: the Latin for a continental elite, the vernacular for a larger British readership. Although perfectly convincing, this explanation may not be the only one: this paper tries to underline the existence of another motivation, one of a literary nature. The History of King Richard III indeed combines two historiographical models: the ancient and classical monograph as illustrated by Sallust, and the medieval tradition of the chronicle. The oscillation between English and Latin may reflect More's wish to renovate the genre of the medieval chronicle, accomplished by an hybridization with classical Latin models—as if More attempted to grasp the best of both traditions in order to initiate a new means of writing history.

Odysseus as Storyteller

Mnemosyne ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 721-739
Author(s):  
Christodoulos Zekas
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Precise Knowledge

AbstractThe scene in which Helius requires that Zeus avenge the slaughter of his sacred cattle is a unique case among the divine dialogues in Homeric epic. Its distinctiveness can be attributed to the fact that the demanding tone of the request, and the direct reply it receives, depart significantly from the communicative mode found in the other speech exchanges between the gods, principally in theOdyssey, but also in theIliad. I argue that this variation is intrinsically associated with the special narrative circumstances of the scene as reported by Odysseus, who as a human lacks the (precise) knowledge of divine discourse.

Unique Case of Brothers with Moderate Factor XI Deficiency and One with Severe Bleeding After Surgery

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-17
Author(s):  
Barbara L. Steel ◽  
Kathryn L. Hassell ◽  
Chitra Rajagopalan ◽  
Audrey A. Merritt ◽  
Thomas Parsons ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Severe Bleeding ◽  
Bleeding Diathesis ◽  
Invasive Procedures ◽  
Factor Xi ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Excessive Bleeding ◽  
Factor Xi Deficiency ◽  
Aptt Reagent

Factor XI is the only contact factor whose de ficiency may result in a bleeding diathesis. This case re port describes two brothers with similar moderate factor XI deficiency (41% and 45%), but one brother had severe bleeding during invasive procedures whereas the other brother undergoing the same surgical procedure had no excessive bleeding. The bleeding in the first brother con tinued despite adequate factor XI levels; however, it was stopped only after EACA therapy. Also discussed is the importance of a sensitive aPTT reagent to the various factors and the role of the aPTT in predicting potential bleeding, since a normal aPTT was obtained prior to the first surgery. This case demonstrates that major bleeding can occur in heterozygous factor XI deficiency and the patient must be considered 'at risk' for potential bleeding and should be treated accordingly.

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