scholarly journals Trends in James Baldwin Criticism, 2015–16

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-159
Author(s):  
Jenny M. James
Keyword(s):  
James Baldwin ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Literary Imagination ◽  
New Wave ◽  
General Direction ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Multidisciplinary Studies ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This review article charts the general direction of scholarship in James Baldwin studies between the years 2015 and 2016, reflecting on important scholarly events and publications of the period and identifying notable trends in criticism. While these years witnessed a continuing interest in the relationship of Baldwin’s work to other authors and art forms as well as his transnational literary imagination, noted in previous scholarly reviews, three newly emergent trends are notable: an increased attention to Baldwin in journals primarily devoted to the study of literatures in English, a new wave of multidisciplinary studies of Baldwin, and a burgeoning archival turn in Baldwin criticism.

scholarly journals Relationship of matrix metalloproteinase-3 -11715A/6A polymorphism (rs35068180) and dilated cardiomyopathy

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (10) ◽  
pp. 3960
Author(s):  
S. Yu. Nikulina ◽  
O. O. Kuznecova ◽  
A. A. Chernova ◽  
V. N. Maksimov
Keyword(s):  
Matrix Metalloproteinase ◽  
Unknown Etiology ◽  
Control Group ◽  
General Direction ◽  
Matrix Metalloproteinase 3 ◽  
Arterial Walls ◽  
Idiopathic Cardiomyopathy ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Aim. To study the relationship of matrix metalloproteinase-3 (MMP3) genetic polymorphism and dilated ischemic cardiomyopathy (DCM), as well as idiopathic cardiomyopathy (ICM) of unknown etiology.Material and methods. A total of 221 patients with DCM and ICM were examined (mean age, 55,30±9,69 years). The group of ischemic DCM consisted of 111 people (99 men (89,2%) and 12 women (10,8%)). The mean age of DCM subjects was 51,73±9,74 years (male subgroup, 51,00±8,96 years; female subgroup, 57,75±3,71 years). The ICM group consisted of 110 people (100 men (91,5%) and 10 women (8.5%)). The mean age of ICM subjects was 58,68±8.38 years (male subgroup, 58,29±8.,6 years; female subgroup, 62,90±6,29 years). The control group of subjects (n=121) consisted of healthy people without cardiovascular diseases (mean age, 53,6±4,8 years). All patients of the experimental group underwent routine diagnostic tests, as well as coronary angiography. In case of suspected myocarditis, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging was performed. All patients underwent polymerase chain reaction to determine the MMP3-11715A/6A polymorphism (rs35068180).Results. In patients with cardiomyopathy, regardless of the disease origin, significant differences were verified in comparison with the control group. Allele 6A (65,8% vs 59,3%, p=0,044) and genotype 6A/6A (42,1% vs 32,6%, p=0,099) were found significantly more frequently in patients with cardiomyopathy than in the control group. In addition, despite various etiological factors, the pathogenetic involvement of MMP3 is likely to have a general direction.Conclusion. In all patients with cardiomyopathy, the prevalence of MMP3 gene A allele was shown. Due to decrease in the transcription activity in homozygous 6A allele, the stromelysin level in arterial walls also decreases. This promotes the activation of procollagenase-1, the deposition of extracellular matrix and cardiac remodeling

scholarly journals “I’m Trying to be as Honest as I Can:” An Interview with James Baldwin (1969)

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-129
Author(s):  
Rich Blint ◽  
Nazar Büyüm
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Richard Wright ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
Langston Hughes ◽  
Nation Of Islam ◽  
Poor Whites ◽  
English Language Publication ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
American Blacks

This is the first English language publication of an interview with James Baldwin (1924–87) conducted by Nazar Büyüm in 1969, Istanbul, Turkey. Deemed too long for conventional publication at the time, the interview re-emerged last year and reveals Baldwin’s attitudes about his literary antecedents and influences such as Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen; his views concerning the “roles” and “duties” of a writer; his assessment of his critics; his analysis of the power and message of the Nation of Islam; his lament about the corpses that are much of the history and fact of American life; an honest examination of the relationship of poor whites to American blacks; an interrogation of the “sickness” that characterizes Americans’ commitment to the fiction and mythology of “race,” as well as the perils and seductive nature of American power.

Let's Go to the Movies! Using Film to Illustrate Basic Concepts in Public Administration

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Clark Chandler ◽  
Barbara A.K. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Teaching Tools ◽  
Popular Art ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Although both the practical and philosophical roots of modem public administration rise from the Egyptian and Chinese dynasties, as from the Greek polis and Roman imperium, the academic discipline of public administration has to a large extent developed directly pursuant to Wilson's Study of Administration. The use of films as teaching tools enriches teaching by framing pedagogic content in ways that enable students to discover the relationship of academic concepts to their own life experience. To use movies and other popular art forms as tools for teaching, and to invite students to explore them as tools for learning, is a risky venture. It requires that academicians move away from the forms of communication at which we tend to excel to those in which we also become students. But isn't this what real teaching is about?

scholarly journals Trends in Baldwin Criticism, 2016–17

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-170
Author(s):  
Joseph Vogel
Keyword(s):  
James Baldwin ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Political ◽  
General Direction ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Turn

This review article charts the general direction of scholarship in James Baldwin studies between the years 2016 and 2017, reflecting on important scholarly events and publications of the period and identifying notable trends in criticism. Surveying the field as a whole, the most notable features are the “political turn” that seeks to connect Baldwin’s social insights from the past to the present, and the ongoing access to and interest in the Baldwin archive. In addition to these larger trends, there is continued interest in situating Baldwin in national, regional, and geographical contexts as well as interest with how he grapples with and illuminates issues of gender and sexuality.

Todor's Saturday in Mali Krčimir: Tradition and Revival

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-119
Author(s):  
Смиляна Джорджевич Белич ◽  
Даниела Попович Николич
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
New Wave ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Right ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Southeastern Serbia

В статье представлены результаты исследования празднования Тодоровой субботы (Тодорова дня) в Малом Крчимире (область Заплане, Юго-Восточная Сербия). Вслед за обзором существующих исследований обрядов на Тодорову неделю в балканском контексте и реконструкции ритуалов, осуществленной на базе имеющихся исследований и этнографических материалов, авторы рассматривают эти ритуальные практики в контексте «новой волны фольклоризма» и других процессов в культуре Сербии. This paper examines the celebration of Todor’s Saturday (Todorova subbota) in Mali Krčimir (Zaplanje, southeastern Serbia). After reviewing previous studies of relevant rituals in the Balkan context and reconstruction of the ritual based on available studies and ethnographic material, the authors provide a picture of this ritual practice within the traditional culture of Zaplanje. At the current moment the celebration of St. Theodore’s Day is positioned at the crossroads of the traditional and the institutionalized type of ritual. The article analyzes transcripts of field conversations that illustrate emic polyphony. Their emic polylogue, which sometimes has a polemical character, centers on several themes: the interpretation of continuity and revival, the question of the right to tradition, nostalgic memories of the past and the relationship of past and present as a new problem. The article discusses ritual and customary practice related to the celebration of St. Theodore’s Day in the context of “negotiating authenticity” and the “new wave” of folklore, with attention to the specifics of Zaplanje. Finally, the article raises the question of the sustainability of St. Theodore’s Day practice, and the possibility and consequences of its eventual inclusion in the system of protecting the intangible cultural heritage.

scholarly journals Sponsoring the Arts: Melic Perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-29
Author(s):  
Lucia Athanassaki
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Keen Interest ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Monumental Sculpture ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This paper explores the melic poets’ take on art and its sponsors. Since much has been written on the relationship of epinician poets with their patrons, this paper broadens the focus of enquiry to include other melic genres and, in addition to the verbal, to look at the visual arts as well, i.e. melic representations of communities that sponsor songs and of communities or individuals that sponsor other art-forms such as sculpture, architecture, and precious objects. Taking as starting point Xenophon’s depiction of Simonides in Hiero, I discuss epigrams XXVII and XXVIII Page and relevant testimonia that show Simonides’ keen interest in Athenian dithyrambic contests; Bacchylides’ Ode 19, probably composed for the Great Dionysia; Pindar’s Pythian 7, Paean 8, and fragment 3 in conjunction with Homeric Hymn to Apollo 281-99, Herodotus 1.31, Cicero, De oratore 2. 86. 352-353, [Plutarch] Consolatio ad Apollonium, and Pausanias – all of which offer precious insights into Pindar’s views on sponsoring monumental sculpture and architecture; and Bacchylides’ description of the golden tripods that Hieron offered to Apollo in Ode 3. On the basis of this evidence I argue that whatever the nature and the range of remuneration of poets and artists may have been, melic rhetoric shows that it was the relationship of poets, artists and their sponsors with the gods that was ultimately at stake. This is why both the poetry and the traditions about Simonides, Pindar and Bacchylides privilege the divine favour that poets, artists and patrons alike either obtained or were hoping to obtain by offering masterpieces to the gods.

Responding 30 Years Later

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Robottom
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Doctoral Degree ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Nature Study ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Professional Contexts ◽  
The Relationship

This article was written very early in my career. I was part way through my doctoral degree study on environmental education (EE) theory and practice, and had just completed an evaluation of a national EE curriculum development project. In both of these projects, I found that despite the presence of an emerging discourse about what a distinctive EE is or ought to be, classroom practice represented as EE was essentially either informational or nature study in character — somewhat different from the ‘education for the environment’ being advanced by researchers and curriculum developers internationally at the time. It seemed to me that this situation was less one of teachers’ failure to implement government policy than one of EE curriculum developers failing to recognise teachers’ existing, robust personal constructions of EE (of the environment, education, teaching and learning . . .). An entailment of this position is that EE research has the opportunity and responsibility of exploring the relationship of teachers’ theories and practices and the professional contexts within which these are intelligible. Consequently, a new wave emerged of participatory research involving teachers-as-researchers directly investigating the meaning and significance of their professional work. Some of this work is represented in the following publications.

Biochemical Alterations in Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia and Bilirubin Encephalopathy: A Review

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-368
Author(s):  
Warren B. Karp
Keyword(s):  
Brain Metabolism ◽  
Newborn Infants ◽  
Blood Parameters ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Biochemical Mechanism ◽  
Biochemical Alterations ◽  
Bilirubin Encephalopathy ◽  
Molecular Events ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This review article discusses some current questions concerning the measurement of bilirubin in the blood of newborn infants and the relationship of these blood parameters to the biochemical defects responsible for bilirubin encephalopathy. A discussion of numerous theories, which have been put forth to explain the specific biochemical mechanism by which bilirubin acts on brain metabolism, demonstrates that presently there is no un- equivocal explanation for the molecular events leading to bilirubin encephalopathy.

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