Symbolism in Coleridge

After The Tempest, The Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan are now the happiest hunting-ground for the symbolist. Mr. Wilson Knight's interpretation of both poems, but particularly of the latter, in The Starlit Dome (1941), is, to say the least, extraordinary; still more so than the similar one of Mr. Robert Graves in The Meaning of Dreams (1924), though not so entangled with inaccurate biography and irrelevant psychoanalysis. “We may imagine a sexual union,” says Mr. Knight, between life, the masculine, and death, the feminine. Then our “romantic chasm” and “cedarn cover,” the savage and enchanted yet holy place with its “half intermitted burst” may be, in spite of our former reading, vaguely related to the functioning of man's creative organs and their physical setting and, too, to all principles of manly and adventurous action; while the caverns that engulf the sacred river will be correspondingly feminine with a dark passivity and infinite peace. The pleasure-dome we may fancy as the pleasure of a sexual union in which birth and death are the great contesting partners, with human existence as the life-stream, the blood-stream, of a mighty coition [p. 95].

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Lermontov’s ‘The Dream’, Chekhov’s ‘Dreams’: at the Brink of Life and Death

Southern Semiotic Review ◽

10.33234/ssr.14.1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 i (14) ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Fatima Festic

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Short Story ◽

Human Experience ◽

Human Existence ◽

Life And Death ◽

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov ◽

The Tempest ◽

Political Reality ◽

And Function ◽

Meaning And Function

This text offers a comparative analysis of a lyric poem, The Dream (1841) by Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov and a short story, Dreams (1886) by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, two major Russian authors embedded in the rigid Russian imperial structures. I examine their dream concepts and figurations, and their representations of various structures that permeate the human existence and human experience of the empire, as well as their poetic irony that comes as their brink. Further, I elucidate the meaning and function of the poetics and aesthetics of the written dream in the societal and political reality of life. The texts is outlined with the paradigmatic Shakespeare’s words from “The Tempest:” “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep”.

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Processing of human melanoma cells for correlative TEM, LVSEM, and LM

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100084831 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 49 ◽

pp. 106-107

Author(s):

Marek Malecki ◽

J. Victor Small ◽

James Pawley

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Low Voltage ◽

Fluorescent Microscopy ◽

Blood Stream ◽

Surface Topology ◽

Integrin Receptors ◽

Transmission Electron ◽

Develop Technology ◽

Voltage Scanning ◽

Mechanisms Of Adhesion

The relative roles of adhesion and locomotion in malignancy have yet to be clearly established. In a tumor, subpopulations of cells may be recognized according to their capacity to invade neighbouring tissue,or to enter the blood stream and metastasize. The mechanisms of adhesion and locomotion are themselves tightly linked to the cytoskeletal apparatus and cell surface topology, including expression of integrin receptors. In our studies on melanomas with Fluorescent Microscopy (FM) and Cell Sorter(FACS), we noticed that cells in cultures derived from metastases had more numerous actin bundles, then cells from primary foci. Following this track, we attempted to develop technology allowing to compare ultrastructure of these cells using correlative Transmission Electron Microscopy(TEM) and Low Voltage Scanning Electron Microscopy(LVSEM).

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Ultrastructural studies on the interaction of haemophilus influenzae with human endothelial cells in vitro

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s042482010016073x ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (3) ◽

pp. 636-637

Author(s):

D.J.P. Ferguson ◽

M. Virji ◽

H. Kayhty ◽

E.R. Moxon

Keyword(s):

Endothelial Cells ◽

Haemophilus Influenzae ◽

Intercellular Junctions ◽

Blood Stream ◽

Ultrastructural Studies ◽

Endothelial Barriers ◽

Serotype B ◽

Meningitis In Children ◽

Respiratory Epithelial

Haemophilus influenzae is a human pathogen which causes meningitis in children. Systemic H. influenzae infection is largely confined to encapsulated serotype b organisms and is a major cause of meningitis in the U.K. and elsewhere. However, the pathogenesis of the disease is still poorly understood. Studies in the infant rat model, in which intranasal challenge results in bacteraemia, have shown that H. influenzae enters submucosal tissues and disseminates to the blood stream within minutes. The rapidity of these events suggests that H. influenzae penetrates both respiratory epithelial and endothelial barriers with great efficiency. It is not known whether the bacteria penetrate via the intercellular junctions, are translocated within the cells or carried across the cellular barrier in 'trojan horse' fashion within phagocytes. In the present studies, we have challenged cultured human umbilical cord_vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) with both capsulated (b+) and capsule-deficient (b-) isogenic variants of one strain of H. influenzae in order to investigate the interaction between the bacteria and HUVEC and the effect of the capsule.

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Personification and the Feminine in Roman Philosophy

10.1017/cbo9781316226704 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Alex Dressler

Keyword(s):

The Feminine

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The Gender Typicality of Faces and Its Impact on Visual Processing and on Hiring Decisions

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027/1618-3169/a000217 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 60 (6) ◽

pp. 444-452 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Lisa von Stockhausen ◽

Sara Koeser ◽

Sabine Sczesny

Keyword(s):

Visual Processing ◽

Past Research ◽

Visual Exploration ◽

Facial Appearance ◽

Leadership Roles ◽

Hiring Decisions ◽

Leadership Selection ◽

Gender Typicality ◽

Second Stage ◽

The Feminine

Past research has shown that the gender typicality of applicants’ faces affects leadership selection irrespective of a candidate’s gender: A masculine facial appearance is congruent with masculine-typed leadership roles, thus masculine-looking applicants are hired more certainly than feminine-looking ones. In the present study, we extended this line of research by investigating hiring decisions for both masculine- and feminine-typed professional roles. Furthermore, we used eye tracking to examine the visual exploration of applicants’ portraits. Our results indicate that masculine-looking applicants were favored for the masculine-typed role (leader) and feminine-looking applicants for the feminine-typed role (team member). Eye movement patterns showed that information about gender category and facial appearance was integrated during first fixations of the portraits. Hiring decisions, however, were not based on this initial analysis, but occurred at a second stage, when the portrait was viewed in the context of considering the applicant for a specific job.

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