994 resultados para Castilian epic
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Die Dissertation erschließt einen bislang unberücksichtigten Teil der Filmgeschichte: die cinematische Adaption altorientalischer Sujets in Gestalt monumentalistischer Bild-Epen. Die Arbeit ist in drei Teile gegliedert: Die erste beleuchtet die Entwicklung des westlichen Orientalismus mit Augenmerk auf den Alten Orient anhand biblischer und antiker Quellen, orientalischer Märchen, Reiseberichte, Malerei, Operngeschichte und, schlaglichtartig, weiterer kulturhistorischer Gebiete. Hinzu kommen die neuen, Fachwelt wie Öffentlichkeit überwältigenden, Erkenntnisse durch die Archäologie im 19. und frühen 20. Jh. Teil II konzentriert sich auf die Analyse von Stummfilmen, die die altorientalische Antike oder alttestamentliche Quellen mit Bezug zum Alten Orient thematisieren. Diese stammen aus Frankreich, Italien, Österreich und den USA. Dabei konnte herausgearbeitet werden, dass bis zum Jahr 1914 die französischen Produktionen dem Selbstverständnis nach eher dem Genre Historienfilm unterstanden, die italienischen wiederum dem Genre des, zunehmend spektakulärer werdenden, Antikfilms. Der von beiden Filmstandorten seinerseits zwar beeinflusste frühe amerikanische Film basiert hingegen vor allem auf dem protestantischen Bibelverständnis der eigenen Landesgeschichte und Religiosität. Ein eigenes Kapitel widmet sich Griffiths Babylon(kon-)version in INTOLERANCE aus dem Jahr 1916, bei dessen Untersuchung nicht nur die archäologischen, sondern auch sämtliche historischen wie literarischen Bezüge erstmals auf ihre Quellen zurückverfolgt wurden und bis dahin vorhandene Widersprüche somit geklärt werden konnten. Griffiths Interpretation der Quellen trug dazu bei, dass Babylon bzw. sein Mythos zum ersten und letzten Mal eine positive Konnotation erfuhr. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt bis zum Jahr 1928 liegt auf der gender-Thematik, speziell auf der femme fatale in Gestalt von historischen, legendären und fiktiven altorientalischen Frauenfiguren wie der Königin von Saba, Delilah, Judith oder Semiramis. Darüber hinaus spiegeln die Filme der 1920er Jahren auch das Bild vom Neuen Babylon. Bis zum Ende der Stummfilmzeit kann abschließend von einer direkten Traditionslinie zu den Klischees des Orientalismus sowie zum Assyrian revival des 19. Jh. gesprochen werden. Dies ändert sich im dritten Teil der Arbeit, der sich mit der zweiten Blütezeit des Monumentalfilms während der 1950er und 1960er Jahre befasst. Teil III enthält daher sämtliche, heute noch verfügbaren Tonfilme, die den Alten Orient rezipieren. Diese entstammen den Produktionsstätten Hollywood und Cinecittà. Was die US-Filme betrifft, so konnte erneut ein Fokus auf dem amerikanischen Bibelverständnis herausgearbeitet werden, diesmal jedoch speziell auf dem Antagonismus zwischen Babylon und Zion. Denn dieser diente seitens der Regisseure auch der Legitimation der zeitgenössischen Nahostpolitik aus der Geschichte heraus. Darüber hinaus spiegeln die antiken Frauenfiguren die Rolle der Frau in der amerikanischen Gesellschaft während dieser Zeit. Die italienischen Produktionen dieser Jahre hingegen zeigen, so konnte dargelegt werden, dass diese Filme die altorientalische Antike vielmehr dergestalt inszenieren, wie sie bereits seit Jahrhunderten vor allem durch die griechisch-römische Geschichtsschreibung, Literatur und Operntradition Italiens Teil einer, nicht auf Moral basierenden, landestypischen Motivgeschichte gewesen war, derer sich auch der Film lustvoll bedient. Bei allen Produktionen wurden, als spezifische Aspekte, stets alle recherchierbaren Informationen zum Film, seiner Entstehung und seiner Handlung, zu seinen Kulissen und Kostümen, zu sämtlichen Inspirationsquellen sowie zeitgenössische Kritiken berücksichtigt. Die abschließenden Bewertungen innerhalb der einzelnen Filmkapitel fließen in einem Fazit zur jeweiligen Epoche ihrer Entstehung zusammen.
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Boris Pasternak’s poemy are acutely self-conscious of their place in the epic tradition. Lieutenant Schmidt (LS) represents one attempt at exploring the parameters of the poema itself as the poet makes a “difficult” transition from “lyric thinking” to “the epic.” In this article I examine this transition against a contemporaneous example in the genre, Tsvetaeva’s Poema of the End (PE). In LS, structural elements of the poema are counterposed to those of PE. While PE amplifies the individual voice, LS muffles what is personal for the sake of the public voice. While PE is atemporal, LS is historical. While PE unfolds on symbolic planes, with elements of plot kept to a bare minimum (a single moment of separation), LS is a plot-driven account based on concrete, documentary material. Finally, while PE is an “overgrown lyric”—representing the “lyric thinking” that Pasternak hopes to transcend— LS is an exploration of the possibilities that a more traditional model of the poema can offer. Although in the present analysis I draw on several theories of poetic genres, this is by no means an exhaustive study of epic versus lyric forms of poetry. Instead, my analysis focuses on those structural and thematic features of the poema that the poets themselves perceived as central to their texts. Pasternak, for his part, develops the structure and thematics of his poema in ways that are inspired by PE, but also, as we will see, in more significant ways, contrast with it.
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Taking as a starting point Antonio Sanchez Jimenez's recent work on the myth of Jason in Lope de Vega's El Vellocino de Oro, this article examines the myths of Jason and Leander in Juan de Miramontes Zuazola's epic, Armas antarticas (1608-1609). After exploring the explicit allusions to the myths in the epic, I analyse an implicit reference to Leander in the portrayal of Tome Hernandez, the only survivor of the failed sixteenth-century Spanish settlements in the Strait of Magellan. As it turns out, Hernandez was rescued by the English pirate, Thomas Cavendish. In evoking the myth of Leander on the southern coast of Chile, Armas antarticas recalls Alonso de Ercilla's self-description in La Araucana (1569, 78, 89) as analysed by Ricardo Padron. However, I contend that the representation of Hernandez is best understood in comparison to Juan Boscan's Leandro (1543), the fullest and most widely disseminated Spanish version of the tale in the sixteenth century. Appealing to the Leander myth allows Armas antarticas to turn away from a focus on the role of greed in colonization. Yet shadows of Jason still lurk behind the portrayal of Hernandez, which raise other serious ethical questions for the Spanish Empire concerning piracy and loyalty as these play out in the Strait of Magellan. This essay shows that the poetic portrayal of Hernandez and Cavendish ends up exhibiting the same ambiguities associated with piracy as analysed by Daniel Heller-Roazen.
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Zunic investigated the relationship between nationalism and Serbian literature. He first analysed and evaluated the justifications for a number of critical accusations against Serbian literature. These included mythological and epic foundations (traditionalism), an obsession with national history and with the motif of the Serbian people as an eternal victim, the domination of the collective over the individual (populism), an anachronistic romantic conception of the social function of literature. In order to gain an unbiased judgement of the nationalistic role of contemporary Serbian literature, Zunic prepared a list of those books with the greatest number of copies issued in the decade 1985-1995, and constructed an appropriate hermeneutic procedure of understanding the meaning of the content and form of these works. He concluded that contemporary Serbian literature is in fact occupied with national history, and also with the unmasking of communist totalitarianism. The most influential books express and document either nationally-oriented or civil-oriented world views. The former, although mostly not militant works (with their realistic "closed" form), might have had an ideological influence on the Serbian national consciousness, while the civil-oriented works (with their "open" modern or post-modern form) could not neutralise all these extra-literary effects of the nationally-oriented works, since the predominant way of reading is a communication with the literary content (realised as a testimony of historical facts), and not with the literary form (as a carrier of the artistic value and a "moderator" of any content).
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Tumult and Tragedy: Michigan’s 1913-14 Copper Strike chronicles one of the greatest upheavals in Michigan’s history. The determination, conflict, sorrow, and tragedy of this epic confrontation changed the Copper Country for decades and memories of conflict remain to this day. This traveling exhibit explores the story of this remarkable period in Michigan history.
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Tumult and Tragedy: Michigan’s 1913-14 Copper Strike chronicles one of the greatest upheavals in Michigan’s history. The determination, conflict, sorrow, and tragedy of this epic confrontation changed the Copper Country for decades and memories of conflict remain to this day. This traveling exhibit explores the story of this remarkable period in Michigan history.
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Tumult and Tragedy: Michigan’s 1913-14 Copper Strike chronicles one of the greatest upheavals in Michigan’s history. The determination, conflict, sorrow, and tragedy of this epic confrontation changed the Copper Country for decades and memories of conflict remain to this day. This traveling exhibit explores the story of this remarkable period in Michigan history.
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OBJECTIVE AND BACKGROUND Anemia and thyroid dysfunction are common and often co-occur. Current guidelines recommend the assessment of thyroid function in the work-up of anemia, although evidence on this association is scarce. PATIENTS AND METHODS In the "European Prospective Investigation of Cancer" (EPIC)-Norfolk population-based cohort, we aimed to examine the prevalence and type of anemia (defined as hemoglobin <13 g/dl for men and <12 g/dl for women) according to different thyroid function groups. RESULTS The mean age of the 8791 participants was 59.4 (SD 9.1) years and 55.2% were women. Thyroid dysfunction was present in 437 (5.0%) and anemia in 517 (5.9%) participants. After excluding 121 participants with three most common causes of anemia (chronic kidney disease, inflammation, iron deficiency), anemia was found in 4.7% of euthyroid participants. Compared with the euthyroid group, the prevalence of anemia was significantly higher in overt hyperthyroidism (14.6%, P < .01), higher with borderline significance in overt hypothyroidism (7.7%, P = .05) and not increased in subclinical thyroid dysfunction (5.0% in subclinical hypothyroidism, 3.3% in subclinical hyperthyroidism). Anemia associated with thyroid dysfunction was mainly normocytic (94.0%), and rarely macrocytic (6.0%). CONCLUSION The prevalence of anemia was higher in overt hyperthyroidism, but not increased in subclinical thyroid dysfunction. Systematic measurement of thyroid-stimulating hormone in anemic patients is likely to be useful only after excluding common causes of anemia.
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Alessandro Baricco is an Italian author, pianist, journalist and music critic, among a wide range of many other talents. His novels have won great critical acclaim in Italy and France and are popular around the world. While generally considered among the postmodern writers, some critics have accused him of being a forerunner in a 1990s movement dubbed letteratura giovanile, that is juvenile literature that is simplistic, targets a young audience and is created for the sole purpose of making money. This criticism is unwarranted. Baricco is a multitalented author who pays strict attention to the quality of his work and weaves plotlines replete with a diverse set of genres, literary devices and symbolism, often inspired by other great writers and thinkers. However, literary critics have yet to acknowledge one of Baricco's strongest and most important influences: Homer, the ancient Greek bard and author of the epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Taking Baricco's work in a Homeric context can aid in viewing it as valid and important work, worthy of scholarly discussion and interpretation, rather than, as some critics accuse, a one-dimensional story meant only for children. This paper will argue that Baricco's work is Homeric and, in fact, Baricco's implementation of many of Homer's devices, such as his understanding of his audience and use rhythmic language and stereotyped story patterns, has aided Baricco's great success and popularity.
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BACKGROUND: Weight has been implicated as a risk factor for symptomatic community-acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (CA-MRSA). Information from Texas Children's Hospital (TCH) in Houston, TX was used to implement a case-control study to assess weight-for-age percentile (WFA), race and seasonal exposure as risk factors. ^ METHODS: A retrospective chart review to collect data from TCH was conducted covering the time period January 1st, 2008 to May 31st, 2011. Cases were confirmed and identified by the infectious disease department and were matched on a 1:1 ratio to controls that were seen by the emergency department for non-infected fractures from June 1st, 2008 to May 31st, 2011. Data abstraction was performed using TCH's electronic medical records (EMR) system (EPIC ®). ^ RESULTS: Of 702 CA-MRSA identified cases, ages 9 to 16.99, 564 (80.3%) had the variable `weight' present in their EMR, were not duplicates and not determined to be outliers. Cases were randomly matched to a pool of available controls (n=1864) according to age and gender, yielding 539 1:1 matched pairs (95.5% case matching success) with a total study sample size, N=1078. Case median age was 13.38 years with the majority being White (66.05%) and male (59.4%). Adjusted conditional logistic regression analysis of the matched pairs identified the following risk factors to presenting with CA-MRSA infection among pediatric patients, ages 9 to 16.99 years: a) Individual weight in the highest (75th-99.9th) WFA quartile (OR=1.36; 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.06-1.74; P= 0.016), b) Infection during summer months (OR: 1.69; 95% CI=1.2-2.38; P= 0.003), c) patients of African American race/ethnicity (OR= 1.48; 95% CI=1.13-1.95; P= 0.004). ^ CONCLUSIONS: Pediatric patients, 9 to 16.99 years of age, in the highest WFA quartile (75th-99.9th), or of African-American race had an associated increased risk of presenting with CA-MRSA infection. Furthermore, children in this population were at a higher risk of contracting CA-MRSA infection during the summer season.^
