Theology and English Literature: Defining the Relationship

2008 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-78
Author(s):  
Alison Jack
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
The Relationship

Cure of Interstitial Cystitis and Non-Ulcerating Hunner’s Ulcer by Cardinal/Uterosacral Ligament Repair

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Kay Scheffler ◽  
Oliver W. Hakenberg ◽  
Peter Petros
Keyword(s):  
Interstitial Cystitis ◽  
Uterine Prolapse ◽  
English Literature ◽  
German Literature ◽  
Uterosacral Ligament ◽  
Original Intention ◽  
Uterosacral Ligaments ◽  
Bladder Symptoms ◽  
Posterior Fornix ◽  
The Relationship

A serendipitous cure in a 73-year-old woman of Hunner’s ulcer, urge, nocturia, apical prolapse by a tissue fixation system tensioned minisling (TFS) which reinforced the cardinal, and uterosacral ligaments (USLs) led us to analyse the relationship between Hunner’s ulcer and known pain conditions associated with USL laxity. The original intention was to cure the “posterior fornix syndrome” (PFS), uterine prolapse, and associated pain and bladder symptoms by USL repair. A speculum inserted preoperatively into the posterior fornix alleviated pain and urge symptoms, by mechanically supporting USLs. Hunner’s ulcer, along with pain and other PFS symptoms were cured by USL repair. The concept of USL laxity causing chronic pelvic pain and bladder problems is not new. It was published in the German literature by Heinrich Martius in 1938 and by Petros in the English literature in 1993. These findings raise important questions. As PFS symptoms are identical with those of interstitial cystitis (IC), are PFS and IC similar conditions? If so, then patients with IC who have a positive speculum test are at least theoretically, potentially curable by USL repair. These questions need to be explored.

What Kind of Studies Is Comics Studies?

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Benjamin Woo
Keyword(s):  
Film Studies ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Page Layout ◽  
Recent Growth ◽  
Comics Studies ◽  
Communications Theory ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Literature And Film

Dramatic recent growth in comics research suggests that comics studies has matured as a field, perhaps even constituting an emergent discipline. Yet important questions about the nature of this field and how it relates to established academic disciplines remain unresolved. This introductory chapter examines the genealogy of comics studies and explores the relationship between theory and method as a proxy for the field’s “paradigmatic” status. Four theories of page layout are analyzed as examples of theorization in comics studies. Drawing on Robert T. Craig’s “constitutive metamodel” of communications theory, the chapter ultimately rejects both attempts to retread the path of established humanities disciplines such as English literature and film studies and arguments against disciplinarity as such, calling instead for a dialogic conception of academic disciplines that continually reflects on the differences through which they are constituted.

Muhammad Mustafa Badawi in Conversation

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul-Nabi Isstaif
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
World Literature ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Literature And Politics ◽  
The Family ◽  
Essential Questions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This chapter presents a 1997 interview with Mustafa Badawi and includes sections relating to his early life and education until 1947 when he was sent to England to pursue further studies in English. Badawi first talks about the years of his early formation in the family, the neighbourhood and his various schools in Alexandria before discussing his cultural formation in the city. He reveals that he decided to specialise in English language in order to deepen his study of English literature so that he could see Arabic literature in the wider context of world literature. Badawi also describes his attitudes towards literature and criticism, which he says involved three essential questions: the relationship between literature and politics; the relationship between literature and morality; and the nature of language and its function in poetry, and consequently the relationship between poetry and science, or between poetry and thought or knowledge in general.

Chaucer - a medieval writer?

1993 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Martina Ožbolt
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Geoffrey Chaucer ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Major Elements ◽  
Medieval English Literature ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Middle Ages

For literary historians with only few exceptions (e.g . J.W. Mackail, W.P. Ker, A.C. Spearing) Geoffrey Chaucer is unquestionably and exclusively a medieval poet. The belief that his literaryproduction undoubtedly makes part of medieval English literature seems firmly established and any doubt about it futile. In spite ofthis aprioristic attitude towards the problem of the relationship between Chaucer and the Middle Ages there are at least two major elements which may make one doubt how correct it is to take Chaucer's medievalism for grante.

Bunyan and the Historians

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamsin Spargo
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
English Literature ◽  
First Century ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
John Bunyan ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Research Analysis

This chapter offers a chronological account of varying historical and historicist approaches to the life and writings of John Bunyan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. The theoretical assumptions of major scholars in the field are highlighted, from a Whig such as Macaulay in the nineteenth century to a Marxist such as Christopher Hill in the twentieth, to more recent work by contemporary historians such as Richard L. Greaves and N. H. Keeble. It explores changing conceptions of the relationship between text and context, and past, present, and future, as they have informed research, analysis, historiography, and interpretation within the developing disciplines of History and of English Literature. This exploration is coupled with a consideration of the often unacknowledged relationship between teleological conceptions of history and the practice of historical research and historiography.

scholarly journals Case Report: Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Arising From the Ulcer of the Lesions of Dupuytren’s Disease on the Palm

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingmiao Sun ◽  
Bin Fu ◽  
Sheng Li ◽  
Hong Fang ◽  
Jianjun Qiao
Keyword(s):  
Squamous Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Squamous Cell ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Dupuytren’S Disease ◽  
Dupuytren's Disease ◽  
The Relationship

Dupuytren’s disease is a benign fibromatosis that mainly involves the fascia of the palm and digits. The relationship between Dupuytren’s disease and the evolution of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma is still unclear. Here we report the case of a 52-year-old female with squamous cell carcinoma arising from the ulcer of the lesions of Dupuytren’s disease on the left palm. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case in the English literature of squamous cell carcinoma on the palm of someone with Dupuytren’s disease.

scholarly journals Exploring the Relationship between Learners Gender Differences and Communication Apprehension Considering the Class Participation in Iranian EFL Context

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 91-99
Author(s):  
Ali Faridizad ◽  
Shahla Simin
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Communication Apprehension ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Class Participation ◽  
The Relationship

The ability to communicate effectively is the optimum goal of learning English. Class participation plays a pivotal role in improving oral communication. Some obstacles prevent students from reaching class participation which may halt student' potent communication. Oral communication apprehension has been found to be the most important factor affecting the class participation. With all the differences separating males and females, it is no surprise that communication apprehension would be affected by gender differences. The goal of this study is to investigate the relationship between learners' gender differences and oral communication apprehension with respect to class participation. To achieve this goal, 140 undergraduate students including 70 males and 70 females majoring in English literature, translation and teaching from Sheik-Bahai University were selected. This sample was chosen by means of simple random sampling procedure. A questionnaire was utilized as the instrument to examine the relationships between learners' gender differences and oral communication apprehension. The data accumulated by means of the questionnaire were analyzed to ascertain the answers to the research question. In general, the findings showed that female students tend to be more apprehensive than men regarding the class participation.

The Accommodated Jew

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Lavezzo
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
John Milton ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Merchant Of Venice ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
The Merchant Of Venice ◽  
Blood Libel ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
English Culture

England during the Middle Ages was at the forefront of European antisemitism. It was in medieval Norwich that the notorious “blood libel” was first introduced when a resident accused the city's Jewish leaders of abducting and ritually murdering a local boy. This book rethinks the complex and contradictory relation between England's rejection of “the Jew” and the centrality of Jews to classic English literature. Drawing on literary, historical, and cartographic texts, the book charts an entangled Jewish imaginative presence in English culture. It tracks how English writers from Bede to John Milton imagine Jews via buildings—tombs, latrines and especially houses—that support fantasies of exile. Epitomizing this trope is the blood libel and its implication that Jews cannot be accommodated in England because of the anti-Christian violence they allegedly perform in their homes. In the Croxton Play of the Sacrament, Marlowe's The Jew of Malta, and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, the Jewish house not only serves as a lethal trap but also as the site of an emerging bourgeoisie incompatible with Christian pieties. In the book's epilogue, the chapters advance the inquiry into Victorian England and the relationship between Charles Dickens (whose Fagin is the second most infamous Jew in English literature after Shylock) and the Jewish couple that purchased his London home, Tavistock House, showing how far relations between gentiles and Jews in England had (and had not) evolved.

scholarly journals Literary studies in Romania before and after 1989

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-79
Author(s):  
Ana-Karina Schneider
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Literature And Politics ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Relationship

In comparative terms, after the strict cultural policies and censorship of the communist regime, the literature and literary studies of post-communist Romania would seem to be almost completely free of the political. This article investigates the complex ways in which various aspects of the study and reception of English literature - from the practice of teaching English, through textbooks, to literary translation - reflect the evolution of the relationship between literature and politics in pre- and post-1989 Romania. In the asymmetrical cultural exchange resulting from the inevitable hierarchy in which Anglo-American culture is dominant, whereas Romanian culture is perpetually subordinate, the latter embraces its marginality and places itself strategically at the receiving end. I therefore argue that while Anglo-American scholars' concern with the pernicious outcomes of Anglocentricity in ES is in itself a laudable ethical move, in target cultures such as the Romanian, Anglocentricity may function as a catalyst of resistance and change.

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