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European Comparative Literature As Humanism, Bernard Franco

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "European Comparative Literature as Humanism" Bernard Franco presents an epistemological reflection on comparative literature in the context of the evolution of the relationships between different forms of knowledge. Franco argues that in the late nineteenth century the notion of the "humanities" replaced that of the "human sciences," but that we have recently returned to a humanist concept of knowledge linked to ethics. Franco focuses on the origins of this critical reflection about the nature of knowledge and on the debate in the Romantic period between rational and non-rational forms of knowledge. The idéologues (Cabanis, Destutt de Tracy, …

Challenges And Possibilities For World Literature, Global Literature, And Translation, Kathleen Shields

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Challenges and Possibilities for World Literature, Global Literature, and Translation" Kathleen Shields argues that Goethe's concept of Weltliteratur was grounded in translation practice: in creating a canon representing the best of each nation, translation occupied centre stage. Nation-building in Europe in the nineteenth century was combined with the idea of transnational literature where translation was an important tool of transmission and exchange, as well as a way of decentering from a strong monolingual base. There are four challenges for comparative literature now. Firstly, the nation state is weakening. Secondly, despite the growing interest in world literature since …

Translation And Self-Translation In Today's (Im)Migration Literature, Anastasija Gjurčinova

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Translation and Self-Translation in Today's (Im)migration Literature" Anastasija Gjurčinova discusses contemporary (im)migration literature in Europe as a phenomenon that offers new opportunities for comparative literary research especially as related to the issue of the translation and reception of literary works. Gjurčinova considers (im)migrant authors who write in their native tongue and then translate their works — or have them translated — into the adopted language and others who prefer writing their literary works directly in the latter language. Through references to the work of relevant scholars of comparative and world literature Gjurčinova elaborates on these issues by …

Geomancing Dib's Transcultural Expression In Translation, Madeleine Campbell

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Geomancing Dib's Transcultural Expression in Translation" Madeleine Campbell analyses Mohammed Dib's treatment of symbols and mythologies from Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions. Campbell contextualizes lexical, syntactic, and intertextual elements in Dib's texts with reference to Oriental schemas including the pre-Islamic Mu'allaqāt, The Conference of the Birds by Farīd ud-Dīn Attār and elements of Sufi symbolism. Further, Campbell examines how these elements serve to develop a liminal yet multilingual "reference system" within the framework of the French language. Dib's poetic aesthetic goes beyond surrealism in the intensity of its ontological enquiry and appears to go beyond Sufism in …

Monomedial Hybridization In Contemporary Poetry, Jan Baetens

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Monomedial Hybridization in Contemporary Poetry" Jan Baetens argues that the debate on hybridization tends to overemphasize the blurring of boundaries between signs and sign types in all possible forms: combination of types within a given work (multimodal "image-texts," comics and photo-novels, sound poetry, etc.), adaptation and remediation of one sign type by another one (filmic adaptations of novels or novelizations of films, for instance), and, more generally, the simultaneous elaboration of works in various media (the phenomenon that Jenkins called "convergence" or trans-media storytelling). While all these hybridizations have become mainstream today, if we take into account …

Intermedial Serial Metarepresentation In Dickens's The Pickwick Papers, Asunción López-Varela, Camila Khaski Gaglia

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Abstract: In their article "Intermedial Serial Metarepresentation in Dickens's The Pickwick Papers" Asunción López-Varela and Camila Khaski Gaglia employ a semiotic perspective in order to establish the intermedial features of the genre of the serial novel. Drawing on Marina Grishakova's distinction between "metaverbal" (an attribute of verbal texts which evoke images) and "metavisual" (an attribute of images which reflect on the incomplete nature of visual representation) the authors explore self-reflexive references as threads to storylines which capture the entire series in one emblematic recurrent image.

Literary Aspects In New Media Art Works, Narvika Bovcon

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Literary Aspects in New Media Art Works" Narvika Bovcon discusses examples of new media literature in the works of new media artists Jaka Železnikar and Srečo Dragan. While Železnikar is primarily a net artist who authors new media poetry and online linguistic interventions, the literary segments in Dragan's work are based in conceptual art and video art and he uses them to initiate a happening. Bovcon argues that studies of new media literature — of those works which require a readerly perception — should take time and attempt to capture the general flavor of such works which …

Artaud, Barney, And The Total Work Of Art From Avant-Garde To The Posthuman, Matteo Colombi, Massimo Fusillo

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their article "Artaud, Barney, and the Total Work of Art from Avant-Garde to the Posthuman" Matteo Colombi and Massimo Fusillo discuss the aesthetics of Matthew Barney's video-performance art and the theater of Antonin Artaud. Colombi and Fusillo highlight the characteristics of the posthuman: the rejection of Western anthropocentrism and its subversion through hybridization with human, animal, and mechanical elements, the incorporation of Dionysian imagery of the body, and a commitment to the idea of the total work of art in its blending of different artistic mediums, and indeed, of art and life. Using examples from Artaud's writings on theater, …

Cervantes And The World's Literatures: A Book Review Article On Hagedorn's Don Quixote Volumes, José Manuel Lucía Megías

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

European Romantic Prose: A Book Review Article Of Comparative History Of Literatures In European Languages, Arno Gimber

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

Multilingual Bibliography Of New Work In Comparative Literature In Europe 2007-2014, Marina Grishakova, Lucia Boldrini, Matthew Reynolds

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

Dementia In Maine: Characteristics, Care, And Cost Across Settings [Chartbook], Julie T. Fralich Mba, Stuart Bratesman Mpp, Louise Olsen, Catherine Mcguire Bs, Tina Gressani, Karen Mauney, Catherine Gunn, Romaine Turyn

Disability & Aging

This report provides a baseline picture of the current use of services by people with and without dementia in Maine.

Racism And Anxiety In A Black American Sample: The Role Of Mediators And A Brief Mindfulness Manipulation, Jessica Rose Graham

Graduate Doctoral Dissertations

It is important to determine factors that may exacerbate the negative effects of experiences of racism on anxiety, as well as factors that might buffer racism's negative impact on anxiety in Black American samples. To examine these factors, we conducted two related studies. In study 1, 119 Black American individuals completed the Schedule of Racist Events, the five factor mindfulness questionnaire, the anxiety control questionnaire (assessing perceptions of control), the self-hatred subscale of the cross racial identity scale, and the depression anxiety and stress Scale. As hypothesized, frequency of racist experiences over the past week was significantly positively associated with …

Studying Soil Moisture And Land-To-Water Carbon Export In Urbanized Coastal Areas Using Remotely Sensed Data And A Regional Hydro-Ecological Model, Yun Yang

Graduate Doctoral Dissertations

The main objective of this research was to study the flux of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) from a terrestrial urbanized watershed to an estuarine system using a process-based regional hydro-ecological model and remotely sensed data.

While DOC is an important component of the global carbon cycle, the link of the variations in terrestrial carbon storage is still poorly understood. Soil moisture is a key factor that influences the amount of available water for vegetation growth and the decomposition rate of organic matter in the soil and thus contributes to the amount of DOC in the soil at the land-water boundary. …

Reconceptualizing Cultural Competence: White Placeling De-/Reterritorialization Within Teacher Education, Melissa Winchell

Graduate Doctoral Dissertations

This ethnography reconceptualizes the paradigm of cultural competence used within the literature on teacher education to describe the multicultural learning of White teacher candidates. Within the cultural competence framework, White learning is problematic, dichotomously defined, and fixed. The binary of competence/incompetence established by this paradigm has recently been questioned within the literature as deficit-based and in conflict with postmodern, critical theories of learning and teaching espoused by multicultural education espouses. This study of the researcher's multicultural education class at a private, religious, four-year undergraduate college on the East Coast of the United States used co-constructed pedagogical practices--including a co-constructed community …

Craig M. Klugman And Pamela M. Dalinis, Ethical Issues In Rural Health Care, Brandi Jean Felderhoff

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Review of Ethical Issues in Rural Health Care, by Craig M. Klugman and Pamela M. Dalinis (eds.)

Changes In Residents’ Views Of Natural Gas Drilling In The Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale, 2009-2012, Fern K. Willits, A. E. Luloff, Gene L. Theodori

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Data from comparable surveys of residents in the Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania conducted in 2009 and 2012 are analyzed to ascertain changes in public views over time. The proportions of residents indicating they knew very little or nothing about the economic, social, and environmental impacts of gas drilling declined sharply. Further, residents increasingly formed opinions about the possible costs and benefits of developing the industry and whether they opposed or supported developing the gas industry. The proportions of respondents expressing various concerns about possible negative environmental impacts of drilling increased. However, most residents supported developing the industry and there …

An Unexpected Legacy: Women, Early Rural Sociological Research, And The Limits Of Linearity, Julie N. Zimmerman

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

We often think of history in linear terms: past as prologue, one event following another, one year leading into the next. In a Rostowian-styled model of development, this kind of linear progression prefigures not only conceptualizations about the past, but also assumptions about the present. This paper reexamines the unexpected appearance of women and women’s lives embedded in early rural sociological research to consider how implicit assumptions about the past prefigure what we expect to “see” and influence the way we make sense of it.

Perceptions Of Disaster Risk And Vulnerability In Rural Texas, Andrew J. Prelog, Lee M. Miller

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Rural areas are uniquely vulnerable to a variety of hazards given their social and economic composition. Economic reliance on agriculture and natural resource extraction increases vulnerability to certain types of natural hazards such as drought, wildfires, and floods. Moreover, rural communities often lack adequate resources to prepare for and respond to disasters. Using data from the Texas Rural Survey, the U.S. Census, and the Spatial Hazards Events and Losses Database for the United States; this research explores questions related to risk perception, vulnerability to disaster, and perceptions of community efficacy in a rural context. Results indicate that rural Texans show …

Rural Residents For Responsible Agriculture: Hog Cafos And Democratic Action In Illinois, Barbara M. Ashwood

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Rural Residents for Responsible Agriculture (RRRA) is a local nonprofit group formed in West Central Illinois that successfully prevented the construction of an 18,220 head Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO). Here I document my participation in this group and our ability to overcome largely undemocratic channels used by the industrial swine industry to site CAFOs. I situate our struggle within the well-documented literature on CAFOs’ negative effects on the environment, economy, and health of the people living near them. I then consider the lobbying power behind industrialized agriculture and relate this information to RRRA’s fight. I provide a detailed account …

Crowdfunding For Biotechs: How The Sec’S Proposed Rule May Undermine Capital Formation For Startups, Brian J. Farnkoff

Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy (1985-2015)

No abstract provided.

Crater Detection Via Genetic Search Methods To Reduce Image Features, Joseph Paul Cohen

Graduate Masters Theses

Recent approaches to crater detection have been inspired by face detection's use of gray-scale texture features. Using gray-scale texture features for supervised machine learning crater detection algorithms provides better classification of craters in planetary images than previous methods. When using Haar features it is typical to generate thousands of numerical values from each candidate crater image. This magnitude of image features to extract and consider can spell disaster when the application is an entire planetary surface. One solution is to reduce the number of features extracted and considered in order to increase accuracy as well as speed. Feature subset selection …

Massachusetts Community Mediation Center Grant Program: Fiscal Year 2013 Year-End Report & Evaluation, Susan J. Jeghelian, Madhawa Palihapitiya, Kaila O. Eisenkraft

Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration Publications

During Fiscal Year 2013, the first year of the Massachusetts Community Mediation Center (CMC) Grant Program, 15 community mediation centers across the state were awarded state operating grants. This report documents and evaluates the progress of the CMC Grant Program towards its goal of expanding the use of community mediation as an affordable public service for Massachusetts citizenry. The status of program implementation is analyzed, and the program’s success is assessed through its impact on the stabilization and effectiveness of the funded community mediation centers as measured by, among other things, their delivery of high quality mediation services, efforts to …

Perilaku Supporter Sepakbola Psim Yogyakarta, Vita Fradiantika, Sukadiyanto Sukadiyanto

Jurnal Keolahragaan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui perilaku supporter sepakbola PSIM Yogyakarta. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan studi kasus. Informan dalam penelitian ini menggunakan tiga orang pengurus Brajamusti, tiga orang pengurus The Maident, dan untuk tria-ngulasi menggunakan subjek Presiden Brajamusti, Ketua Umum The Maident, dan dua anggota kepo-lisian. Teknik pengumpulan data dalam penelitian ini menggunakan wawancara mendalam dengan pedoman wawancara dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kedua kelompok supporter Brajamusti dan The Maident berperilaku fanatik dalam memberikan dukungan terhadap PSIM, sehingga sering menimbulkan perkelahian antarsupporter. Faktor yang menjadi penyebab pecahnya Brajamusti adalah faktor politik yang dilakukan oleh pihak …

Keterampilan Bermain Sepaktakraw Atlet Pelajar Diy, Hubertus Purno Hananto, Hari Amirullah Rachman

Jurnal Keolahragaan

Penelitian ini secara umum bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh kemampuan koordinasi dan metode latihan terhadap keterampilan sepaksila atlet sepaktakraw pelajar DIY. Secara spesifik untuk mengetahui: (1) perbedaan keterampilan sepaksila ditinjau kemampuan koordinasi; (2) perbedaan keterampilan sepaksila ditinjau metode latihan; (3) ada tidaknya interaksi antara kemampuan koordinasi dan metode latihan terhadap keterampilan sepaksila pada atlet sepaktakraw pelajar DIY. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode eksperimen, dengan pendekatan faktorial 2x2 desain blok. Populasi penelitian ini adalah seluruh atlet sepaktakraw pelajar DIY, dan sampel diambil sejumlah 28 orang dengan teknik purposive sampling. Hasil penelitian: (1) ada perbedaan yang signifikan keterampilan sepaksila ditinjau kemampuan koordinasi (2) …

Model Latihan Keterampilan Gerak Pencak Silat Anak Usia 9-12 Tahun, Bayu Iswana, Siswantoyo Siswantoyo

Jurnal Keolahragaan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menghasilkan model latihan keterampilan gerak pencak silat anak usia 9-12 tahun. Penelitian pengembangan mengadaptasi langkah-langkah penelitian pengembangan dari Borg & Gall (1983, p.775), (1) pengumpulan informasi, (2) analisis hasil informasi, (3) pengembangan produk awal, (4) validasi ahli dan revisi tahap 1, (5) ujicoba skala kecil dan revisi, (6) ujicoba skala besar dan revisi tahap 2, (7) produk final. Uji coba skala kecil dilakukan terhadap anak Tapak Suci SD N 1 Padokan dan Tapak Suci SD Muhamadiyah Demangan. Uji coba skala besar dilakukan terhadap anak Pagar Nusa Sleman, Pagar Nusa Kota Yogyakarta yang berlatih di SD N …

Pengaruh Sirkuit Training Awal Akhir Latihan Teknik Terhadap Kardiorespirasi, Power, Smash, Passing Bawah Atlet Bola Voli, Hendri Permana, Suharjana Suharjana

Jurnal Keolahragaan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh latihan sirkuit training di awal latihan dan di akhir latihan teknik terhadap kemampuan kardiorespirasi, power, keterampilan smash dan passing bawah pada atlet bola voli klub Yuso Sleman. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian eksperimen dengan desain penelitian Prettest-Posttest Group Design. Populasi penelitian adalah atlet bola voli putra klub Yuso Sleman. Sampel penelitian ini terdiri dari 20 atlet ditentukan secara ordinal pairing, sehingga diperoleh 2 kelompok, masing-masing untuk mengukur kemampuan kardiorespirasi (VO2maks) menggunakan multistage. Tes power menggunakan vertical jump test, keterampilan smash menggunakan tes dari Stanley, sedangkan passing bawah menggunakan Brumbach …

Pengaruh Metode Latihan Dan Koordinasi Terhadap Power Tungkai Atlet Bola Voli Junior Putri, Anung Probo Ismoko, Pamuji Sukoco

Jurnal Keolahragaan

Penelitian bertujuan mengetahui: (1) Peningkatan power melalui metode latihan agility hurdle drills dan agility ring drills, (2) Perbedaan pengaruh metode latihan terhadap power tungkai, (3) Perbedaan pengaruh power tungkai antara yang memiliki koordinasi tinggi dan rendah, dan (4) Pengaruh interaksi antara metode latihan dan koordinasi terhadap power tungkai. Penelitian ini merupakan eksperimen. Populasi penelitian adalah atlet klub Bola Voli Spirit dan Pervas berjumlah 44 atlet. Sampel penelitian 24 atlet ditentukan dengan teknik sampling. Pengumpulan data menggunakan tes yang dilakukan sebelum dan sesudah perlakuan. Instrumen penelitian adalah Sargen Jump Test dan Hexagonal Obstacle Test. Teknik analisis data …

Modifikasi Permainan Sepakbola Bagi Siswa Sma Penderita Asma, Antonius Tri Wibowo, B.M. Wara Kushartanti

Jurnal Keolahragaan

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menghasilkan modifikasi permainan sepakbola bagi siswa SMA penderita asma. Modifikasi permainan sepakbola diharapkan dapat digunakan oleh guru olahraga dalam pembelajaran di sekolah-sekolah yang memiliki siswa berpenyakit asma dan menjadi alternatif bagi siswa SMA yang menderita penyakit asma yang tertarik untuk bermain sepakbola. Penelitian pengembangan ini dilakukan dengan mengadaptasi langkah-langkah penelitian pengembangan menurut Borg & Gall (1983, p.775) sebagai berikut: (1) pengumpulan informasi di lapangan, (2) melakukan analisis terhadap informasi yang telah dikumpulkan, (3) mengembangkan produk awal (draf awal), (4) validasi ahli dan revisi, (5) uji coba lapangan skala kecil dan revisi, (6) uji coba lapangan skala …

Concepts Of Illness Among The Swahili Of Lamu, Kenya, Rebecca Gearhart, Munib Abdulrehman

Rebecca Gearhart