scholarly journals Poetics of Magical Realism in Sarah Ruhl’s сomedy “The Clean House”

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 243-257
Author(s):  
A. I. Matvienko ◽  
G. A. Solopina
Keyword(s):  
Magical Realism ◽  
Temporal Organization ◽  
Closed Space ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
American Drama ◽  
Existential Meaning ◽  
Theatrical Performances ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Characteristic Features

The article examines the features of magical realism as a direction of literature, as well as some of the characteristic features of American drama. The history of performances of the play “The Clean House” by the American playwright Sarah Ruhl is presented in the paper, and also a brief overview of critical articles about these theatrical performances is offered. The study proves that the play "The Clean House" can be viewed in the context of magical realism, based on a number of characteristic features, such as metaphysics, conventionality, rejection of psychological explanations of the characters’ actions, the presence of two realities, distortion of space and time, existential problems. It is noted that these features are manifested at the level of compositional construction, speech organization of the play, chronotope, content. It is shown that a metaphysically closed space is materially open, and time in the play is leveled, stopped and determined by the subjective experiences of the characters. Laughter is nominated as the key concept of the play, linking the spatio-temporal organization of the text with its ontological content since through laughter the idea of the immortality of the heroes’ love, which acquires a sacred meaning is affirmed in the play. It is emphasized that the poetics of the “magical” makes it possible to realize the ontological or existential meaning of the play, to show the coexistence of the miraculous and the ordinary.

Battery as a mediating technology of organization

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
Jan Müggenburg
Keyword(s):  
Rechargeable Batteries ◽  
Temporal Organization ◽  
Electrical Networks ◽  
Ecological Consequences ◽  
Special Regard ◽  
Range Anxiety ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Digital Cultures

This chapter is dedicated to batteries as media of spatio-temporal organization. In a first step, the history of (rechargeable) batteries is summarized with special regard to their influence on the emergence of digital cultures. This is followed by a systematic discussion of their ambivalent role between expansion and destabilization of electrical networks, which in digital cultures manifests itself in the phenomenon of duration or range anxiety. Finally, it is argued that this ambivalent organizational mediality of batteries (including their ecological consequences) is inseparably linked to their perception as humanistic technology.

scholarly journals DOCUMENTARY AND ARTISTIC CHRONOTOPE IN THE NOVEL BY I. S. NIKITIN «THE DIARY OF THE SEMINARIAN»

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-15
Author(s):  
Nataliya V. Volodina ◽  
◽  
Nikolai A. Degtyarev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Organization ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Value System ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Event Series ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The One

The story «Diary of a seminarian», by I. S. Nikitin, as the name implies, is written in the form of a diary: Nikitin imitates the real diary of a young seminarian. The article makes an assumption about the interaction of two discourses, artistic and documentary, in the text of the story. This interaction manifests itself in relation to the spatio-temporal organization of the world of the work. The narrator's time is subordinated to the documentary discourse, which basically does not coincide with the physical time, but is built in accordance with the psychological characteristics of the main character, the author of the diary. On the other hand, the completeness of the temporary whole of the story, the distribution of time in accordance with the aesthetic tasks solved in the work, signals the influence of artistic discourse. The deployment of an event series is also subordinated to the task of interaction between two types of chronotope. On the one hand, the «mosaic» of this series, the set of events included in the text as if not mandatory, create the illusion of authenticity of what is happening; on the other, all these various inclusions are somehow artistically justified and perform certain aesthetic functions. The unfolding of events «here and now», the abundance of dialogues, direct speech of the characters are characteristic features of the artistic chronotope of Nikitin's story. The optics of perception and the language of describing space in the story are constructed in accordance with the value system of the narrator, manifesting itself in the documentary style of the narrative. On the other hand, the detailed description of the spaces familiar to the narrator serves an artistic function: it creates an image of the Seminary. As a result of the analysis, the author comes to the conclusion that the features of the documentary diary chronotope are associated with the image of the narrator, and the artistic diary chronotope – with the image of the author.

scholarly journals Untimely Resnais: Muriel's Disarticulations of Justice

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 219-234
Author(s):  
Laura McMahon
Keyword(s):  
Political Engagement ◽  
Temporal Organization ◽  
Algerian War ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Political Critique ◽  
Susan Sontag ◽  
Traumatic History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spatio Temporal

Alain Resnais's 1963 film Muriel ou le temps d'un retour (Muriel, or the Time of Return) has been read in terms of a failure to engage with the historical and political issues surrounding the Algerian War – a failure viewed by Susan Sontag as a consequence of Resnais's favouring of aesthetics over politics. This essay reconsiders Muriel beyond the terms of this perceived privileging of aesthetic abstraction over political engagement, and looks at ways in which the spatio-temporal organization of the film is bound to forms of political critique. Drawing on Jacques Derrida's thinking of justice and Gilles Deleuze's emphasis on the topological dimensions of Resnais's cinema, I argue that Muriel's differential, interruptive configurations of history and place carve out a time and space for justice that refuses ontologization, reanimating encrypted traces of Algeria's traumatic history of decolonization and resisting the mournful memory-work of the French nationalist account.

scholarly journals What is a Psychological Task? The Operational Pliability of “Task” in Psychological Laboratory Experimentation

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Hazel Morrison ◽  
Shannon McBriar ◽  
Hilary Powell ◽  
Jesse Proudfoot ◽  
Steven Stanley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Mind Wandering ◽  
Temporal Organization ◽  
Laboratory Experimentation ◽  
Internal States ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Objects ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Metaphorical Structures

There has been no sustained sociological analysis of a near ubiquitous feature of psychological laboratory experimentation: the task. Yet the task is central in arranging the means by which phenomena are isolated and brought into the experimental scientist’s purview. As scientific objects, states such as mind wandering and daydreaming have been made visible in experiments that draw on a (sometimes) sharp distinction between what it means to be either “on task” or “off task”––which entails a long history of what it means to have a subject attend to her task, a central aspect of the psychology experiment since its foundation. Through an analysis of qualitative interviews with research participants in studies of so-called “mind wandering,” it becomes clear that task is deployed and understood in multiple ways: it is often hard to distinguish when a person is on task and when they are not; when participants reflect on their own internal states the boundedness that the concept relies upon is drawn sharply into question; and the complex spatio-temporal organization of experiences of both mind wandering and task disrupts the metaphorical structures that the scientific literature has baked into these terms. The term “operational pliability” allows us to understand how the pliability of the practice and concept of task is central to how task functions. Operational pliability offers a way of understanding how particular elements in scientific investigation are easily adaptable and at the same time are able to hold some kind of shape or form.

NURTURING OF CHILDREN THROUGH DRAMA AND THEATRE: THE CASE OF INTWASA KOBULAWAYO PERFORMANCES

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-99
Author(s):  
Vimbai Moreblessing Matiza
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Theatrical Performances ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

Dramatic and theatrical performances have a long history of being used as tools to enhance development in children and youth. In pre-colonial times there were some forms of drama and theatre used by different communities in the socialisation of children. It is in the same vein that this article, through the Intwasa koBulawayo performances, seeks to evaluate how drama and theatre are used to nurture children and youth into different developmental facets of their lives. The only difference which this article will take into cognisance is that the performances are done in a different environment, which is not the one used in the pre-colonial times. Although these performances were like this, the most important factor is the idea that children and youth are socialised through these performances. It is also against this backdrop that children and youth are growing up in a globalised environment, hence the performances should accommodate people from all walks of life and teach them relevant issues pertaining to life as they live it now. Thus the main task of the article is to spell out the role of drama and theatre in the nurturing of children and youth through socio economic and political development in Intwasa koBulawayo festivals.

Mesyatseslovs memory of the Russian Orthodox Church

2020 ◽  
pp. 160-198
Author(s):  
Макарий Веретенников
Keyword(s):  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Liturgical Texts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Complete Form ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Heaven And Earth ◽  
The Church

Статья посвящена содержанию, общим принципам построения и характерным особенностям календаря, или месяцеслова, Русской Православной Церкви. Автор использует методы анализа и синтеза. В итоге делаются нижеследующие обобщения. Месяцеслов был принесён на Русь из Византии в достаточно завершённом виде, однако в процессе исторического развития он дополнился особенными русскими праздниками. Календарь-месяцеслов - это грандиозный собор святых, подвизавшихся в разных местах на протяжении веков, единение Церкви Небесной и земной, история святости и история нашей Церкви. Месяцесловным памятям посвящены составленные гимнографами богослужебные тексты, которые поются и читаются в храмах. Традиционно почитается день кончины угодников Божиих, память открытия мощей святых, перенесения их святых мощей или же день канонизации угодников Божиих, реже - день их рождения. Фенологические наблюдения русского народа связаны с повседневной деятельностью и увязаны с месяцесловом, что свидетельствует о его проникновении в повседневную жизнь русского человека. The article is devoted to the content, General principles of construction and characteristic features of the calendar, or mesyatseslov, of the Russian Orthodox Church. The author uses methods of analysis and synthesis. As a result, the following generalizations are made. The mesyatseslov was brought to Russia from Byzantium in a fairly complete form, but in the course of historical development it was supplemented with special Russian holidays. The calendar-mesyatseslov is a grandiose council of saints who have labored in different places over the centuries, the unity of the Church of Heaven and earth, the history of holiness and the history of our Church. Liturgical texts composed by hymnographers, which are sung and read in churches, are dedicated to the mesyatseslovs memory. Traditionally, the day of the death of saints, the memory of the discovery of the relics of saints, the transfer of their Holy relics, or the day of the canonization of saints, less often - the day of their birth are honored. Russian people’s phenological observations are related to their daily activities and are linked to mesyatseslov, which indicates its penetration into the daily life of the Russian people.

scholarly journals Identification of a Novel Missense KRT12 Mutation in a Vietnamese Family with Meesmann Corneal Dystrophy

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-126
Author(s):  
Pham Ngoc Dong ◽  
Le Xuan Cung ◽  
Tran Khanh Sam ◽  
Do Thi Thuy Hang ◽  
Doug D. Chung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sanger Sequencing ◽  
Novel Mutation ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Corneal Dystrophy ◽  
Slit Lamp ◽  
Slit Lamp Examination ◽  
Corneal Epithelial ◽  
Epithelial Phenotype ◽  
History Of ◽  
Characteristic Features

Meesmann epithelial corneal dystrophy (MECD) is a rare dominantly inherited disorder that is characterized by corneal epithelial microcysts and is associated with mutations in the keratin 3 (KRT3) and keratin 12 (KRT12) genes. In this study, we report a novel mutation in the KRT12 gene in a Vietnamese pedigree with MECD. Slit-lamp examination was performed on each of the 7 recruited members of a Vietnamese family to identify characteristic features of MECD. After informed consent was obtained from each individual, genomic DNA was isolated from saliva samples and screening of KRT3and KRT12 genes was performed by Sanger sequencing. The proband, a 31-year-old man, complained of a 1-year history of eye irritation and photophobia. Slit-lamp examination revealed intraepithelial microcysts involving only the corneal periphery in each eye with clear central corneas and no stromal or endothelial involvement. Three family members demonstrated similar intraepithelial microcysts, but with diffuse involvement, extended from limbus to limbus. Sanger sequencing of KRT3 (exon 7) and KRT12 (exons 1 and 6) in the proband revealed a novel heterozygous KRT12 variant (c.1273G>A [p.Glu425Lys]) that was present in the three affected family members but was absent in the three family members with clear corneas. This study is the first report of a Vietnamese family affected with MECD, associated with an atypical peripheral corneal epithelial phenotype in the proband and a novel mutation in KRT12.

scholarly journals The spatio-temporal organization of mitochondrial F1FO ATP synthase in cristae depends on its activity mode

2020 ◽  
Vol 1861 (1) ◽  
pp. 148091 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirill Salewskij ◽  
Bettina Rieger ◽  
Frances Hager ◽  
Tasnim Arroum ◽  
Patrick Duwe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Atp Synthase ◽  
Temporal Organization ◽  
F1fo Atp Synthase ◽  
Activity Mode ◽  
Spatio Temporal

scholarly journals Spatio-temporal integration in plant tropisms

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (154) ◽  
pp. 20190038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmine Meroz ◽  
Renaud Bastien ◽  
L. Mahadevan
Keyword(s):  
Response Function ◽  
Shoot Growth ◽  
Analytic Solution ◽  
Temporal Integration ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Local Response ◽  
History Of ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Plant Shoots

Tropisms, growth-driven responses to environmental stimuli, cause plant organs to respond in space and time and reorient themselves. Classical experiments from nearly a century ago reveal that plant shoots respond to the integrated history of light and gravity stimuli rather than just responding instantaneously. We introduce a temporally non-local response function for the dynamics of shoot growth formulated as an integro-differential equation whose solution allows us to qualitatively reproduce experimental observations associated with intermittent and unsteady stimuli. Furthermore, an analytic solution for the case of a pulse stimulus expresses the response function as a function of experimentally tractable variables, which we calculate for the case of the phototropic response of Arabidopsis hypocotyls. All together, our model enables us to predict tropic responses to time-varying stimuli, manifested in temporal integration phenomena, and sets the stage for the incorporation of additional effects such as multiple stimuli, gravitational sagging, etc.

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