939 resultados para Figure of the writer
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In this paper I will reflect on the emergence of the distinct figure of the child asylum seeker which has entered public and political debates in Switzerland within the last 2 years. It is a figure that is identified through certain attributes such as youth, trauma, lostness or need for protection, and it is a figure that is imbued with certain rights (namely children’s rights). While this has helped young people to receive special treatment, the question arises what the repercussions are for those who do not fit within these categories. What, for example, happens, when different notions of youth, childhood and adolescence clash and disrupt ideals of innocence and childhood? And given that negative public discourses are largely focussed on the apparent danger and uncontrollability of male, single asylum seekers, what happens when categories mix and mingle? In this paper I will shed light on the interplay of institutional expectations of what constitutes a 'proper' child refugee and the ways young people themselves play with, test and contest these norms.
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"Selections from this diary were first published under the title of ʻA British officer in Boston in 1775̓, in the Atlantic monthly for April and May, 1877. The identity of the writer was undetermined."--Pref.
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An important aspect of globalisation/Americanisation is, prima facia, the global export of televisual products such as Sesame Street, Barney, etc. that are explicitly concerned with cultivating elementary forms of organisational life. Thus, it is surprising that organization studies has been virtually silent on childhood and pedagogy. This lacuna needs filling especially because the development of a post-national, cosmopolitan society problematises existing pedagogical models. In this paper we argue that cosmopolitanism requires a pedagogy that is centred on the Lack and the mythic figure of the Trickster. We explore this through an analysis of children’s stories, including Benjamin’s radio broadcasts for children, Sesame Street and Dr Seuss.
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A petition from the Company of Stationers to Parliament to introduce some form of legislative regulation of the press. The petition is significant in revealing the extent to which the Stationers depended upon the state to support the regulation of the book trade, as well as the nature of the various public and private interest arguments upon which they sought to base their claim. The commentary articulates the various arguments presented by the Stationers within their petition. The benefits of the legal regulation they suggested concerned not only the censorship and suppression of seditious and heretical texts, but also facilitated the advancement of learning and knowledge and the flourishing of the printing industry itself. In addition, the petition presents the figure of the ‘author' as reliant upon the benefit of his work, and that the ‘production of the Brain' was to be regarded as equivalent to any other commodity or chattel.
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O presente trabalho propõe apresentar o tipo de sociabilidade maçônica idealizada por Hipólito José da Costa, redator do Correio Braziliense (1808-1822), pioneiro da imprensa brasileira, apesar de não ser um reconhecimento unânime. Dessa forma será enfatizado à trajetória de vida de Hipólito e as muitas memórias construídas por seus biógrafos, que trazem à luz as dubiedades que cercam a figura do redator luso-brasileiro. Algumas interpretações que abordam as inúmeras facetas de Hipólito estarão presentes neste estudo, sobretudo, a sua faceta maçônica. Assim, com o objetivo de analisar a sociabilidade maçônica defendida e propagada por Hipólito da Costa, tomarei como base o discurso do redator registrado não só no Correio, mas também no Diário da minha viagem para Filadélfia, na Narrativa da Perseguição e nas Cartas sobre a Framaçonaria, obras que revelam a concepção de Maçonaria adotada por Hipólito: uma sociedade de homens virtuosos, cujo fim é fazer bem às famílias consternadas.
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Tradicionalmente, la figura de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695) ocupa un lugar central en la literatura y la crítica latinoamericanas y -de manera muy especial- mexicanas. Mujer y monja desiguales, poeta e 'inteligencia americana' inigualables, esa figura no ha tardado en construir cierto mito en torno de su obra, como cierta 'clave' que vela o desvela los caminos que conducen al corazón no sólo de su singular literatura sino de su borrascosa historia. Curiosa pero no casualmente, más de una vez la mexicana -en sus poemas así como en sus cartas- ha desalentado esas imágenes e ideas que son, también o principalmente, las de cierta concepción de la escritura y la lectura. En este sentido, el siguiente artículo se propone trazar las coordenadas de dicho problema (el mito sorjuanino y la desmitificación de sor Juana) a fin de deslindar dos aspectos (inseparables) de dicho fenómeno: el que hace a la lectura crítica e incluso a la edición y fijación de sus textos; y el que refiere a la concepción y práctica de la literatura en América Latina en uno de sus momentos inaugurales: el siglo XVII, y a través de una de sus figuras más elusivas: la sorjuanina
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Tradicionalmente, la figura de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695) ocupa un lugar central en la literatura y la crítica latinoamericanas y -de manera muy especial- mexicanas. Mujer y monja desiguales, poeta e 'inteligencia americana' inigualables, esa figura no ha tardado en construir cierto mito en torno de su obra, como cierta 'clave' que vela o desvela los caminos que conducen al corazón no sólo de su singular literatura sino de su borrascosa historia. Curiosa pero no casualmente, más de una vez la mexicana -en sus poemas así como en sus cartas- ha desalentado esas imágenes e ideas que son, también o principalmente, las de cierta concepción de la escritura y la lectura. En este sentido, el siguiente artículo se propone trazar las coordenadas de dicho problema (el mito sorjuanino y la desmitificación de sor Juana) a fin de deslindar dos aspectos (inseparables) de dicho fenómeno: el que hace a la lectura crítica e incluso a la edición y fijación de sus textos; y el que refiere a la concepción y práctica de la literatura en América Latina en uno de sus momentos inaugurales: el siglo XVII, y a través de una de sus figuras más elusivas: la sorjuanina
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Tradicionalmente, la figura de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695) ocupa un lugar central en la literatura y la crítica latinoamericanas y -de manera muy especial- mexicanas. Mujer y monja desiguales, poeta e 'inteligencia americana' inigualables, esa figura no ha tardado en construir cierto mito en torno de su obra, como cierta 'clave' que vela o desvela los caminos que conducen al corazón no sólo de su singular literatura sino de su borrascosa historia. Curiosa pero no casualmente, más de una vez la mexicana -en sus poemas así como en sus cartas- ha desalentado esas imágenes e ideas que son, también o principalmente, las de cierta concepción de la escritura y la lectura. En este sentido, el siguiente artículo se propone trazar las coordenadas de dicho problema (el mito sorjuanino y la desmitificación de sor Juana) a fin de deslindar dos aspectos (inseparables) de dicho fenómeno: el que hace a la lectura crítica e incluso a la edición y fijación de sus textos; y el que refiere a la concepción y práctica de la literatura en América Latina en uno de sus momentos inaugurales: el siglo XVII, y a través de una de sus figuras más elusivas: la sorjuanina
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This work proposes to improve spoken term detection (STD) accuracy by optimising the Figure of Merit (FOM). In this article, the index takes the form of phonetic posterior-feature matrix. Accuracy is improved by formulating STD as a discriminative training problem and directly optimising the FOM, through its use as an objective function to train a transformation of the index. The outcome of indexing is then a matrix of enhanced posterior-features that are directly tailored for the STD task. The technique is shown to improve the FOM by up to 13% on held-out data. Additional analysis explores the effect of the technique on phone recognition accuracy, examines the actual values of the learned transform, and demonstrates that using an extended training data set results in further improvement in the FOM.
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Includes handwritten correspondence from Bruno Italiener dated 17 September 1953
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The dynamics of the fecundity of roach, with emphasis on Rutilus rutilus (L.), were studied in waters in the European parts of the USSR. This translation provides conclusions, and figures and table captions only.
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Esta dissertação visa estudar como autoras pós-modernas se apropriam e reescrevem textos canônicos em uma tentativa de trazer à tona e desconstruir as metanarrativas patriarcais, que informam tais textos. Tal objetivo pretende ser alcançado através de um estudo sobre a formação do cânone literário, dos conceitos de mito e principalmente das estratégias narrativas utilizadas por essas autoras em seu processo criativo. Para tal, um estudo sobre intertextualidade, a paródia e a intertextualidade paródica é levado a cabo nesta dissertação. Dois romances figuram como objeto de investigação neste trabalho. O romance Nights at the Circus, da escritora inglesa Angela Carter, é o primeiro a ser analisado. Nesse romance, as estratégias de apagamento das fronteiras entre os gêneros e a intertextualidade paródica entre textos e mitos clássicos como formas de apropriação e subversão do cânone, são privilegiadas. O outro romance que se faz presente nesta dissertação é a obra da autora canadense Margaret Atwood intitulada The Penelopiad. Nesse romance, personagens que antes eram marginalizados ou não tinham voz figuram como personagens principais, como é o caso de Penélope e de suas doze criadas. Esta dissertação visa, assim, mostrar como essas apropriações de textos canônicos exercem um papel fundamental no questionamento da artificialidade de discursos que são naturalizados e dos valores propagados pelos mesmos
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A neural network model of 3-D visual perception and figure-ground separation by visual cortex is introduced. The theory provides a unified explanation of how a 2-D image may generate a 3-D percept; how figures pop-out from cluttered backgrounds; how spatially sparse disparity cues can generate continuous surface representations at different perceived depths; how representations of occluded regions can be completed and recognized without usually being seen; how occluded regions can sometimes be seen during percepts of transparency; how high spatial frequency parts of an image may appear closer than low spatial frequency parts; how sharp targets are detected better against a figure and blurred targets are detector better against a background; how low spatial frequency parts of an image may be fused while high spatial frequency parts are rivalrous; how sparse blue cones can generate vivid blue surface percepts; how 3-D neon color spreading, visual phantoms, and tissue contrast percepts are generated; how conjunctions of color-and-depth may rapidly pop-out during visual search. These explanations arise derived from an ecological analysis of how monocularly viewed parts of an image inherit the appropriate depth from contiguous binocularly viewed parts, as during DaVinci stereopsis. The model predicts the functional role and ordering of multiple interactions within and between the two parvocellular processing streams that join LGN to prestriate area V4. Interactions from cells representing larger scales and disparities to cells representing smaller scales and disparities are of particular importance.
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This thesis is a study of Konrad Bayer's dramatic texts. It has evolved out of various attempts to read those texts, some filed and some more successful. It does not claim to be authoritative or complete, since the nature of Bayer's texts, as will become clear in the course of the ensuing chapters, means that they resist such an interpretation. To accept this was an important prerequisite for the writing of this thesis, but a difficult one to fulfill because for the Bayer commentator it constitutes a certain acceptance of defeat even before one begins. Chapter 1 will begin by providing some introductory information about Konrad Bayer, including details of his life and his membership of the Wiener Gruppe, a formative phase in his development as a writer. It will also consider the historical and cultural climate of 1950s Austria that provided the backdrop for Bayer's literary work. The phenomenon of the Wiener Gruppe will then be examined against the background of preceding experimental movements, for the purpose of situating Bayer's work historically and artistically. The aim of this historical and artistic survey is to prepare for the confrontation with Bayer's texts that makes up the other chapters of the thesis. Chapter 2 will constitute a close textual study of one of Bayer's dramatic texts using criteria from the field of text linguistics. Such a study will offer an entry point into Bayer's texts and will supply material which will form the basis for the interpretative investigations of the chapters that follow it. Chapter 3 will consider the influence of language and the individual. In chapter 4 the figure of the Lion of Belfort, a recurring figure in Bayer's dramatic texts, is discussed. The final chapter of this thesis will examine the recurring motifs of violence and cannibalism and will consider them in terms of the findings of preceding chapters.