The visual image in Epiphanic Short History

The visual image is a fundamental component of epiphany, stressing its immediacy and vividness, corresponding to the enargeia of the traditional ekphrasis and also playing with cultural and social meanings. Morris Beja in his seminal book Epiphany in the Modern Novel, draws our attention to the distinction made by Joyce between the epiphany originated in a common object, in a discourse or gesture and the one arising in “a memorable phase of the mind itself”. This type materializes in the “dream-epiphany” and in the epiphany based in memory. On the other hand, Robert Langbaum in his study of the epiphanic mode, suggests that the category of “visionary epiphany” could account for the modern effect of an internally glowing vision like Blake’s “The Tyger”, which projects the vitality of a real tyger. The short story, whose length renders it a fitting genre for the use of different types of epiphany, has dealt with the impact of the visual image in this technique, to convey different effects and different aesthetic aims. This paper will present some examples of this occurrence in short stories of authors in whose work epiphany is a fundamental concept and literary technique: Walter Pater, Joseph Conrad, K. Mansfield, Clarice Lispector. Pater’s “imaginary portraits” concentrate on “priviledged moments” of the lives of the characters depicting their impressions through pictorial language; Conrad tries to show “moments of awakening” that can be remembered by the eye; Mansfield suggests that epiphany, the “glimpse”, should replace plot as an internal ordering principle of her impressionist short-stories; in C. Lispector the visualization of some situations is so aggressive that it causes nausea and a radical revelation on the protagonist’s.

Do tempo absoluto ao tempo 5D eonico

A questão do tempo é tão antiga como a Filosofia. Ela surge já nos pre-socráticos intimamente associada à relação ontológica fundamental Ser/Devir, é retomada dentro da filosofia platônica principalmente no "Timeu" e posteriormente na "Física" de Aristóteles. Agostinho de Hipona e Tomás de Aquino não deixam também de reflectir sobre o tempo, sendo a contribuição do primeiro tão notável que ainda continua a influenciar o pensamento contemporâneo. O espírito da modernidade, sob a influência de Galileu, Descartes e Newton retoma a questão propondo um tempo abstracto, matemático e mecanicista que passou a designar-se por Tempo Absoluto e dominou o pensamento ocidental por cerca de duzentos anos. Porém, este tempo é um tempo reversível totalmente inadequado às ciências da vida que foram surgindo durante o Sec.XIX. A Teoria da Relatividade recusa o Tempo Absoluto e propõe um Tempo Relativo, mas este ainda é reversível. A Biologia e a Sistêmica contemporâneas, além da Mecânica Estatística, insistem numa Flecha do Tempo sem a qual os fenômenos essenciais da ciência de hoje seriam inexplicáveis. É neste quadro de reflexão que a proposta do super-tempo eónico feita pela ontóloga e fenomenôloga Hedwig Conrad-Martius, de Munique, tem o maior interesse.

The effectiveness of supply chain management on firm's performance: A comparative case study

The purpose of the paper is to investigate the effectiveness of supply chain management (SCM) practices to increase a company’s performance based on a cross-border and cross-sector analysis. The paper follows a comparative case study approach which was achieved by interviewing supply chain management experts of three companies operating in different industries and positions in a supply chain. Practices that were mutually applied by the firms and their contribution to achieve quality, economic, cost, and time advantages were analyzed. The paper revealed practices, which contribute the most to increase specific performance areas.