A treatise on the Diatomaceae, containing introductory remarks on the structure, life history, collection, cultivation and preparation of diatoms, and a description and figure typical of every known genus, as well as a description and figure of every species found in the North Sea and countries bordering it, including Great Britain, Belgium, &c.

Reprint of the 1896 ed.

An essay on the credibility of Swedenborg; in which his claims as the announcer of the dispensation mentioned in prophecy under the figure of the New Jerusalem, are briefly considered and defended.

Mode of access: Internet.

An account of experiments to determine the figure of the earth : by means of the pendulum vibrating seconds in different latitudes, as well as on various other subjects of philosophical inquiry /

"Printed at the expense of the Board of Longitude."

Mathematical tracts on the lunar and planetary theories, the figure of the earth, precession and nutation, the calculus of variations, and the undulatory theory of optics. Designed for the use of students in the university.

Mode of access: Internet.

The law of the offerings in Leviticus I-VII, considered as the appointed figure of the various aspects of the offering of the body of Jesus Christ.

Mode of access: Internet.

A history of the determination of the figure of the earth from arc measurements.

Bibliography: p. 162-168.

Key figure of mobility : The pedestrian

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Heaven's Sense: a novel / At hand-grips with ruin: the psychology of writer's block

There is a significant attitude of scepticism when it comes to belief in the existence of writer's block as a valid psychological phenomenon, alongside what might be described as the "Tortured Artist Personality". It is contended here that both writer's block and the "Tortured Artist Personality" do exist in a minority of professional and aspiring fiction writers, and furthermore that these phenomena are forms of personality behaviour that have already been well-catalogued by the academic fields of psychiatry, psychology and psychotherapy: specifically, writer's block is a form of unconscious maladaptive procrastination - expressed through avoidance coping or escape coping behaviour - which in turn arises from the fully-accepted personality trait of perfectionism. Aspects of perfectionism, together with various sub-scale traits and mediators, are also the key components in at least one form of "Tortured Artist Personality". This paper lays out the extensive evidence for these assertions, using existing research in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and neuroscience.

The representation of the northeastern migrant: interstices and culture in the figure of Francisco da Silva in "Liberdade", by Ruth Laus

It serves as the object of analysis of this article the representation of the northeastern migrant in the figure of the male character Francisco da Silva, protagonist of the short story "Liberdade", by Ruth Laus, as a fictional character who lives "in an interrogatory, interstitial space between the act of representation [...] and the presence of community itself" (Bhabha, 1998, p. 22) where he comes to enter and to settle. Chico, as he is known, embarks on a crowded truck, and his fate, like that of many other migrants, is the Southeast region of Brazil, where, between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, he chooses the sea. To the same extent, beyond the concept(s) of culture(s), and the need to (re)think the concept of [cultural] human community - here adding the cultural term to the proposal of Bhabha (1998), as a way of thinking about the role of the individual - are taken and analyzed, also, the cultural identity concepts based on the difference itself. It is thought in what way, then, and through what imposing character, the wealth and the values ​​of the Northeast, although managed to be spread on national home soil, yet not are conspicuous by their guarantee of permanence of its inhabitants in their homeland.  

Ele está presente: a obra de Silviano Santiago e as performances do artista perigoso

A presente dissertação tem como objetivo refletir sobre a imagem do artista na obra de Silviano Santiago, mais precisamente sobre a figura do narrador-escritor da novela Uma história de família (1992), em abordagem comparativa com outros artistas, cuja produção e aparecimento na mídia problematizaram as primeiras décadas do HIV/AIDS, tais como Cazuza e o artista visual Leonilson, que posavam midiaticamente como perigosos. Pretende-se apontar, na obra de Silviano Santiago, uma performance do artista (soropositivamente) perigoso, na qual a relação entre enfermidade, dor, prazer e labor literário é verificável. Outros artistas são estudados, tais como o escritor Jean-Claude Bernardet, a artista visual Teresa Margolles e o performer Ron Athey, assim como os já citados Cazuza e Leonilson. Partindo da tese de Doutorado e da dissertação de Mestrado de Marcelo Secron Bessa, este trabalho procura avançar com algumas questões que, para tanto, recorrem ao conceito de performatividade, em Judith Butler, à noção do corpo como um Outro radical, de Henri-Pierre Jeudy, e à análise da relação entre AIDS e a discursividade empreendida por Susan Sontag. Os textos críticos de Silviano Santiago também fundamentam o presente estudo, mais precisamente na análise daqueles da relação entre dor e prazer na criação literária e da noção de uma homossexualidade astuciosa em resposta às discursividades heteronormativas

Estudio crítico sobre Roberto Bolaño : Literatura, identificaciones imaginarias y registros modélicos

El artículo analiza la figura de escritor de Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003), a partir de su surgimiento en los medios literarios, en función de lo que el discurso de la crítica cataloga y aborda en diferentes momentos en cuanto a la evolución del autor y de su obra. Lo que planteamos averiguar es lo que sucede con el caso "Bolaño", cuya contemplación supone atender la situación particular de una figura paradigmática que construye una subjetividad notable evocada en su obra como una articulación esencial para la afirmación del individuo que escribe, quien se sustrae de los tradicionales ideales estético-literarios que funcionan para otros autores latinoamericanos contemporáneos.