scholarly journals Mertens. Beiträge zur normalen und pathalogischen Anatomie der menschlichen Placenta. (Zeitsch. F. Geb. und Gyn., XXX Bd., Hft. 1 and XXXI Bd., Hft. 1). About normal and pathological anatomy of the human placenta

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-285
Author(s):  
S. Y. Khazan
Keyword(s):  
Human Placenta ◽  
Comparative Anatomy ◽  
Uterine Epithelium ◽  
The Other ◽  
Controversial Issue ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Pathological Anatomy ◽  
Tissue Layer ◽  
Constituent Elements ◽  
Cellular Layer

After detailed literary studies on comparative anatomy and based on the preparation of a very young human egg, the author resolves the controversial issue of the nature and origin of the cover of chiral villi in the following way. In humans, as in other animals, the cover of chorial villi of the dancer consists of two layers, one cellular layer originating from the embryo (ectoderm) and the other protoplasmic, which is a modified uterine epithelium (syncytium). Already at the beginning of the insertion of the egg, both of these layers are so tightly interconnected that they form, as it were, one tissue layer, on which it is not difficult, however, to distinguish its initial constituent elements.

The problem of woman’s emansipation in the feuilleton “Amazonia: a very inept story” by Mykola Chirsky

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-76
Author(s):  
Iryna Rusnak
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Understanding ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Ethical Guidelines ◽  
Compositional Structure ◽  
Urgent Task ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Artistic Heritage

The author of the article analyses the problem of the female emancipation in the little-known feuilleton “Amazonia: A Very Inept Story” (1924) by Mykola Chirsky. The author determines the genre affiliation of the work and examines its compositional structure. Three parts are distinguished in the architectonics of associative feuilleton: associative conception; deployment of a “small” topic; conclusion. The author of the article clarifies the role of intertextual elements and the method of constantly switching the tone from serious to comic to reveal the thematic direction of the work. Mykola Chirsky’s interest in the problem of female emancipation is corresponded to the general mood of the era. The subject of ridicule in provocative feuilleton is the woman’s radical metamorphoses, since repulsive manifestations of emancipation becomes commonplace. At the same time, the writer shows respect for the woman, appreciates her femininity, internal and external beauty, personality. He associates the positive in women with the functions of a faithful wife, a caring mother, and a skilled housewife. In feuilleton, the writer does not bypass the problem of the modern man role in a family, but analyses the value and moral and ethical guidelines of his character. The husband’s bad habits receive a caricatured interpretation in the strange behaviour of relatives. On the one hand, the writer does not perceive the extremes brought by female emancipation, and on the other, he mercilessly criticises the male “virtues” of contemporaries far from the standard. The artistic heritage of Mykola Chirsky remains little studied. The urgent task of modern literary studies is the introduction of Mykola Chirsky’s unknown works into the scientific circulation and their thorough scientific understanding.

‘Behoed ons arme volk voor de vulkaan-poëten’

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 382-422
Author(s):  
Judith Bosnak ◽  
Rick Honings
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Content Type ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Dutch East Indies ◽  
Literary Reception

Abstract ‘Save our poor people from the vulcano poets’. The literary reception of the Krakatoa disaster of 1883 in the Netherlands and Indonesi On August 27, 1883, the volcano Krakatau in the Dutch East Indies erupted and collapsed, causing the deaths of tens of thousands, mainly as a result of devastating tsunamis. The Krakatau eruption was one of the first disasters to take place beyond the Dutch boundaries that received so much attention in the Netherlands. Because the Indies were a Dutch colony, a response of the motherland was rather logical. In many places, charity activities were organized to raise money for the victims. This article focuses on the Dutch and Indonesian literary reactions on the Krakatau disaster. For this purpose, two scholars work together: one specialized in Dutch Literary Studies and the other one in Indonesian Languages and Cultures. In the first part of the article several Dutch charity publications are analysed; the second part focuses on Indonesian sources (in Javanese and Malay). How and to what extend did the reactions in the Netherlands and Indonesia differ?

scholarly journals On the comparative anatomy of the thyroid gland

1851 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 514-515
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Gland ◽  
Comparative Anatomy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Uniform Law ◽  
The One

The author, considering that the careful dissections of Meckel and Cuvier have fully established the universal existence of a thyroid gland in the whole of the class Mammalia, proceeds to consider the comparative anatomy of this organ in the remaining classes of vertebrated animals. His dissections of birds have included all the orders, and, in most instances, several families from each: he has never failed to find in them a thyroid gland, and, with the aid of the microscope, to recognise its peculiar structure; he presumes, therefore, that it is universally present in that class of animals. He has also detected the presence of this organ in reptiles of every order; although generally either wholly overlooked by anatomists, or mistaken for the thymus. Descriptions are here given of its appearance, position and structure in different families of Chelonia, Sauria, Ophidia and Batrachia. In the class of Fishes, it is by no means universally or even generally present. The author has found it in the carp, anableps, pike, exocetus, cod, haddock, whiting, eel, sturgeon, callorhynchus, shark and skate, and perhaps in the lamprey. On the other hand, it appears to be absent in the perch, mullet, gurnard, mackerel, tench, salmon, trout, herring, plaice, halibut, turbot, sole, cyclopterus, gymnotus and balistes. The general conclusion which the author deduces from his researches is, that the distribution of the thyroid gland is regulated by a simple and uniform law; being dependent on the existence or nonexistence of another organ with which its presence alternates, and which, in many fishes, assumes the form of a minute supplementary gill, the vessels of which communicate, on the one hand, with the systemic veins about the base of the cranium, and on the other, by a single long trunk with the first branchial vein.

scholarly journals "Stay on Your Path, Young Man"

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-68
Author(s):  
Paul Grimstad
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Stanley Cavell

Almost ten years ago I participated in the conference whose proceedings would become the volume Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies: Consequences of Skepticism. Stanley sat directly in front of me and listened attentively to my talk, thrilling and scary, not to say awkward, reading out “Cavell writes...” and “Cavell says...” with the man right there. After the Q and A, someone, I don't remember who, brought me over and introduced us. Stanley shook my hand and with the other patted my shoulder and said, with a broad smile, “Stay on your path, young man.”

scholarly journals ¿Un cronista provinciano? Dos textos desconocidos de Rubén Darío en El Orden de Tucumán

(an)ecdótica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Javier Caresani ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
Ruben Dario ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
American Modernism ◽  
Local Newspaper ◽  
Other Hand

Hand in hand with recent theoretical and empirical developments related to the notion of archive, the field of Spanish American Modernism Studies is currently undergoing a stage of profound transformation. The validity in Literary Studies of a “new” philology not only highlights problems in the editions of classical texts from the fin de siècle period, but also invites researchers to review the clichés associated with this movement. In this sense, the case of Rubén Darío (1867-1916), whose texts remain in a state of notable precariousness, is exemplary. This article comments and recovers two unknown chronicles published in El Orden, a local newspaper in the Argentine province of Tucumán, that were written by this author. Besides their evident documental value, these texts, which were conceived at the farewell to his residence in Buenos Aires in 1898, acquire relevance if they are connected to the concerns that Darío will cultivate on his imminent trip to Europe. On one hand, they can be read as yet another episode of Buenosairean “calibanism”; on the other hand, they can be understood as an anticipation of a critical perspective towards the mythification of the concept of progress in the Parisian Universal Exhibition of 1900.

Jews and Muslims in Dante’s Vision

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-114
Author(s):  
Jesper Hede
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Specific Problem ◽  
Divine Comedy ◽  
Controversial Issue ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
World Government

Dante’s attitude towards Jews and Muslims in the Divine Comedy has been a controversial issue in literary studies of the medieval period. This article outlines the most central questions in this regard and argues that the treatment of the issue has often been misleading due to exaggeration and overstatement. Dante has been seen, respectively, as a summarizer of medieval culture and mentalities, as a medieval intellectual who was more open for non-Christian influences than his fellow Christians, and as a highly prejudiced conservative. In considering the constituents of Dante’s worldview, the article that follows argues that Dante should rather be seen as a medieval Christian whose cultural horizon was limited, whose political theory of world government was narrowly focused on a specific problem within European Christendom, and whose vision of redemption, although complex and original in various respects, could not but embrace all human beings as either righteous or corrupted Christians.

Entgrenzte Figuren – bewegte Erinnerungen. Migration im Spannungsfeld von Literatur und Begriff

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 109-139
Author(s):  
Hamid Tafazoli
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Aesthetic Perception ◽  
Migration Literature ◽  
External Space ◽  
The One

Abstract My paper discusses the controversial relationship between literature and literary studies by using the example of the term ›migration literature‹. It demonstrates in the first part that ›migration literature‹ as a term in literary studies does not expose explications of rational reconstructions of a conceptual content in Harald Fricke’s and Klaus Weimar’s understanding. In its history (Adelson 1991; 2004), ›migration literature‹ goes back to a chain of different terms and definitions as Gastarbeiter- or Ausländerliteratur and reflects strategies of homogenization and exclusion. From the 1980s forward, those terms produce in cultural contexts a semantic field that propagates culture based on a definition of ex negativo (Tafazoli 2019). The first part of my paper describes an outline of influences of homogenization and reductionism on the discourses of migration in literary studies and explains in the second part an asymmetrical relationship between motive on the one hand and terminology on the other. The term ›migration literature‹ seems to dominate this relationship by determination of a source of ›accepted truths‹ related to the life and background – specifically to the place of birth and the origin – of the author (Bay 2017). By prioritization of criteria beyond narrative reality, literary studies led in the 1980s and 1990s discourses on migration on the sidelines of canon of German speaking literature (Weigel 1991; Wilpert 2001). With regard to terminological determination in order to produce interpretative sovereignty (Foucault 1994), my paper exemplifies in the second part that the term ›migration literature‹ collects selected and limited fields of social, historical and political knowledge in perspective adjustment and in order to classify literature beyond aesthetic criteria. By this means, inductive standards (Müller 2010a; 2010b) classify the literary object ›migration‹ ontologically and regardless of factuality of the author’s life on the one hand and fictionality of narrative text on the other. The ontological classification has been used, for example, in contexts that replace the figure of stranger (Fremder) by the figure of migrant and determines the latter as figuration of external space of culture. The replacement suggests a perspective rigidity in the cultural production of knowledge that flows into a terminological classification and claims with the term ›migration literature‹ sovereignty over culture. From this point of view, the author and his work should be located in the external space of canonized literature. The second part of my paper comes to the conclusion that the term ›migration literature‹ has been developed in politicized frames of external-textual ›accepted truths‹ and bases its stability on cultural essentialism and exclusion regardless of heterogenetic appearance (Bhatti 2015). With regard to theories of »literature on the move« (Ette 2001), my paper understands that migration has always formed a considerable part of literary production. Therefore, migration could be understood as a literary motive. This meaning would undermine an ontological understanding of culture. Narrative texts develop poetics of migration and create by figurations of migration a poly-perspectivity in which migration advances to a polysemantic motive. My paper discusses these thoughts in the context of cultural memory in the third part and understands varied and multifaceted constructions of cultural memory on all sides of cultural borders. This part confronts the asymmetrical relationship between motive and terminology with discussions on migration as narrative of cultural memory that belongs to cultural majority and minority equally, at the same time and in the same space. Based on this understanding, my paper argues that migration as a motive construct shapes and leads discourses of culture under the conditions of global re-formation. The shift of the perspective from conceptual classification to close-readings of literary constructions should lead us to considerations about the openness of the narrative in distinction to terminological unity and should also initiate a paradigm shift in locating migration in discourses of literary studies. The theoretical considerations will be exemplified in the fourth section by Mohammad Hossein Allafis Frankfurter Trilogie that is a collection of the novels Die Nächte am Main (1998), Die letzte Nacht mit Gabriela (2000) and Gabriela findet einen Stapel Papier (2012). The fourth part of my paper examines in Frankfurter Trilogie a reading that integrates migration as a motive into the discourse of cultural memory of global challenges. Using the example of the Trilogie, this part of my paper demonstrates that discussions on migration in the context of cultural memory could initiate a shift in the perspective of reception from conceptual homogenization to narrative openness. The shift of perspective shows that literature translates the questions of community into the aesthetic perception of the form of culture and civilization in which the community actually articulates and appears itself and shows also that reading of migration as a statement about one nation has lost its explanatory power. The last part of my paper resumes my thoughts and takes position in the current fields of research in literary studies.

Wings for Hummingbirds to Fly With

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Eberl
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
Symbolic Model ◽  
Knowledge Domains ◽  
Dialectical Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Capacity ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Constituent Elements

This chapter employs the famous rabbit-duck illusion to develop a dialectical approach to change. While individuals perceive only rabbit or duck at a given moment, most, if not all, can also see the other. Switching back and forth between the rabbit and the duck creates consciousness about knowledge. This dialectical approach is applied to a symbolic model of creativity. The latter refers to the human capacity to question interpretations of the world and to find new relationships among constituent elements. Metonyms and metaphors are fundamental to human discourse and link knowledge domains in newbutincomplete ways. By hovering between domains, they build meta-awareness. The ancient Maya creator, the god Itzamnaaj, helps to illustrate key aspects of this model of creativity.

Perspectives on the United Kingdom's Withdrawal from the European Union

2015 ◽  
pp. 36-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armağan Gözkaman
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
Controversial Issue ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Brighter Future

The European Community/Union has always been a controversial issue in the UK. At present, the probability of an in-or-out referendum makes it all the more divisive. Eurosceptics see a brighter future for their country outside the union both in political and economic terms. Pro-Europeans, on the other hand, maintain that British membership brings up benefits that outweigh the costs. Both sides have their arguments. The former seek success through social mobilizations and debates. The latter believe that the anti-EU stance may be costly in economic and political terms. Hence, the public must be convinced before the referendum – if it ever takes place.

scholarly journals 2. On the comparative anatomy of the thyroid gland

1851 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 515-515
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Gland ◽  
Comparative Anatomy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Uniform Law ◽  
The One

The author, considering that the careful dissections of Meckel . and Cuvier have fully established the universal existence of a thyroid gland in the whole of the class Mammalia, proceeds to consider the comparative anatomy of this organ in the remaining classes of vertebrated animals. His dissections of birds have included all the orders, and, in most instances, several families from each : he has never failed to find in them a thyroid gland, and, with the aid of the microscope, to recognise its peculiar structure; he presumes, there­fore, that it is universally present in that class of animals. He has also detected the presence of this organ in reptiles of every order; although generally either wholly overlooked by anatomists, or mis­taken for the thymus. Descriptions are here given of its appearance, position and structure in different families of Chelonia, Sauria, Ophidia and Batrachia. In the class of Fishes, it is by no means universally or even generally present. The author has found it in the carp, anableps, pike, exocetus, cod, haddock, whiting, eel, stur­geon, callorhynchus, shark and skate, and perhaps in the lamprey. On the other hand, it appears to be absent in the perch, mullet, gurnard, mackerel, tench, salmon, trout, herring, plaice, halibut, turbot, sole, cyclopterus, gymnotus and balistes. The general conclusion which the author deduces from his re­searches is, that the distribution of the thyroid gland is regulated by a simple and uniform law ; being dependent on the existence or non­existence of another organ with which its presence alternates, and which, in many fishes, assumes the form of a minute supplementary gill, the vessels of which communicate, on the one hand, with the systemic veins about the base of the cranium, and on the other, by a single long trunk with the first branchial vein.

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