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A Metabolically Integrated Lossen Rearrangement in Escherichia coli
Authors: Wallace Stephen , Johnson Nick , Thorpe Thomas , Valenzuela Ortega Marcos , Era Yuta , Kjeldsen Annemette , Mulholland Keith
Published: December 2024

Biocompatible chemistry enables abiotic reactions to be interfaced with metabolic pathways in living microorganisms. This includes both native and de novo biosynthetic processes to access abiotic feedstocks, intermediates and products in vivo. Herein we report a biocompatible Lossen rearrangement that is catalysed by phosphate in the bacterium Escherichia coli for the chemical transformation of activated acyl hydroxamates to primary amines in living cells. Using a para-carboxylated substrate, the biocompatible reaction can be used to generate the metabolite para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA) to rescue ∆pabA/B and ∆aroC auxotrophy and enable cell growth. The Lossen substrate can also be synthesised from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and applied to whole-cell biocatalytic reactions and fermentations generating industrial small molecule products – including the analgesic and antipyretic drug paracetamol – paving the way for a general strategy to addict E. coli and other industrial chassis strains to PET plastic waste as a bioremediation strategy and for the upcycling of plastic waste using engineered biology. Together, this work showcases how non-enzymatic biocompatible reactions can be interfaced and cooperate with microbial metabolism to expand the available toolbox of metabolic chemistry for small molecule synthesis in native and engineered cellular systems.
NIR emissive fluorescence turn-on probe for selective detection of serum albumin proteins in biofluids and living cells
Authors: Nandi Chayan Kanti , Sapkal Goraksha T. , Salam Abdul , Bala Purabi , Sharma Shagun , Kaushik Kush , Garg Richa
Published: December 2024

The quantitative detection of serum albumin in body fluids and living cells is crucial for the diagnosis of various diseases. Here, we report a near-infrared (NIR) emissive fluorescent probe with an emission at around 800 nm for the selective and sensitive detection of both bovine serum albumin (BSA) and human serum albumin (HSA) in biofluids and in living cells. The probe showed turn-on fluorescence upon interaction with both proteins. The docking simulation studies confirmed the strong binding of the probes to the proteins. Electrostatic, hydrophobic, and hydrogen bonding interactions with the neighboring amino acid residues played a major role in the binding of the probe. The fluorescence intensity of the probe was found to be stable within the physiological pH of the mammalian cells. The probe was highly efficient in detecting BSA in fetal bovine serum (FBS) with a limit of detection (LOD) of 12 nM, while it detected the HSA from urine with LOD of 18.2 nM. The probe showed its efficient potential for in-vitro sensing of both the proteins in HeLa and HEK 293T cells.
Построение решений задачи Коши для квазигидродинамической системы с помощью подстановки Линя
Authors: Григорьева Вера Владимировна , Шеретов Юрий Владимирович
Published: December 2024

Построено новое решение задачи Коши для нестационарной квазигидродинамической системы. Оно не удовлетворяют ни уравнениям Навье-Стокса, ни уравнениям Эйлера. С помощью подстановки Линя указанная квазигидродинамическая система свелась к трем дифференциальным уравнениям в частных производных. Были поставлены и решены три задачи Коши для указанных уравнений. Эти три решения порождают новое решение задачи Коши для квазигидродинамической системы. При $c_s\to +\infty$, где $c_s$ - скорость звука в жидкости, оно переходит в решение задачи Коши для соответствующей системы Навье-Стокса.

A new solution to the Cauchy problem for a nonstationary quasi-hydrodynamic system is constructed. It does not satisfy either the Navier-Stokes equations or the Euler equations. Using Lin's substitution, the quasi-hydrodynamic system was reduced to three partial differential equations. Three Cauchy problems were posed and solved for the indicated equations. These three solutions generate a new solution to the Cauchy problem for a quasi-hydrodynamic system. At $c_s\to +\infty$, where $c_s$ is the sound velocity in the fluid, it turns into the solution of the Cauchy problem for the corresponding Navier-Stokes system.
Обобщение теоремы Нгуена на случай возможностных величин с неограниченным носителем
Authors: Солдатенко Илья Сергеевич
Published: December 2024

В статье приведено обобщение теоремы Нгуена для идентификации $\alpha$-уровневого множества функции от нечётких аргументов через функцию от их $\alpha$-уровней на случай нечётких величин с неограниченными носителями. Результаты специфицированы для простейших арифметических операций, а также для взвешенных сумм нечётких величин. Для слабейшей треугольной нормы выписаны формулы для вычисления границ указанных уровневых множеств.

The article provides a generalization of Nguyen's theorem for identification of $\alpha$-level set of a function from fuzzy arguments through a function from their $\alpha$-levels in the case when fuzzy quantities have unbounded support. The results are specified for the simplest arithmetic operations, as well as for weighted sums of fuzzy quantities. For the weakest triangular norm, formulas are written for calculating the boundaries of these level sets.
О разрешимых и неразрешимых теориях языков
Authors: Карлов Борис Николаевич
Published: December 2024

В работе исследованы некоторые теории языков с различными операциями. Доказана разрешимость теорий языков с операциями дополнения, обращения, циклического сдвига, а также некоторых фрагментов теории конкатенации, когда один из языков фиксирован. Установлена неразрешимость теории ортогональной конкатенации.

In this paper we study some theories of languages with different operations. We prove the decidability of such theories with the operations of complement, reversal, and cyclic shift, and also the decidability of some fragments of concatenation theory when one of the languages is fixed. We establish the undecidability of the theory of orthogonal concatenation.
Система освітньої підготовки фахівців з фізичної культури та спорту в Україні: історія розвитку
Authors: Чиж Віктор Васильович
Published: December 2024

У статті розглянуто теоретко-методологічні положення розвитку вищої освіти в сфері фізичної культури та спорту в частині історії розвитку системи підготовки фахівців з фізичної культури та спорту в Україні. Основними факторами формування системи освіти і науки та підготовки фахівців з фізичного виховання та спорту стали політичні та оборонні чинники, соціально-економічний розвиток, науково-технічний поступ та суспільне життя, що визначалося наступними характеристиками: бідність населення, післяреволюційна та повоєнна розруха, погіршення стану здоров’я громадян, поширення хвороб та низький рівень розвитку медицини, збільшення кількості дітей-сиріт тощо. В розрізі цього розвиток освіти в сфері фізичної культури та спорту набував все більшої актуальності.
Упродовж 20–70-х років ХХ століття створено чотири профільні заклади вищої освіти, які здійснювали підготовку фахівців із фізичної культури і спорту на території України: Київський державний інститут фізичної культури, Львівський інститут фізичної культури; Харківський державний інститут фізичної культури та Дніпропетровський державний інститут фізичної культури і спорту. Дані заклади освіти створені на базі технікумів фізичної культури або окремих факультетів. В сучасній незалежній Україні розвинена розгалужена мережа закладів освіти педагогічного спрямування, які успішно функціонують та залишаються осередками підготовки висококваліфікованих педагогічних кадрів із фізичної культури та спорту. Також підготовка фахівців з фізичного виховання та спорту здійснюється на сучасному етапі розвитку цього освітнього напряму на базі інших закладів вищої освіти. В дослідженні проаналізовано траєкторію розвитку таких освітніх закладів та зроблено висновок, що становлення освітньої підготовки фахівців з фізичної культури та спорту в Україні має важливе значення для забезпечення якості вищої освіти та освітньої діяльності в даній сфері.
Вимоги до інфраструктури та управління закладами охорони здоров’я в умовах воєнного стану та повоєнного періоду
Authors: Юнгер Віталій Іванович
Published: December 2024

Визначено необхідність удосконалення вимог до інфраструктури та управління закладами охорони здоров’я в умовах воєнного стану та повоєнного періоду.
Виявлено ключові напрями забезпечення безпечності закладу охорони здоров’я є фізична (силова), інформаційна, продовольча та енергетична безпека.
Визначено заходи для забезпечення реалізації медичної допомоги в умовах надзвичайних ситуацій, зокрема: встановлення вимог до кадрового потенціалу закладів охорони здоров’я щодо наявності фахівців з тактичної медицини та роботи закладів охорони здоров’я в умовах надзвичайних ситуацій; затвердження інструкції щодо діяльності закладу охорони здоров’я в умовах надзвичайних ситуацій. Ідентифіковано інструменти для евакуації закладів охорони здоров’я через надзвичайну ситуацію, серед яких: затвердження комунікаційної карти взаємодії закладів охорони здоров’я на випадок надзвичайних ситуацій, яка переглядатиметься щорічно МОЗ України; затвердження процедури евакуації закладу охорони здоров’я через надзвичайну ситуацію; створення та впровадження єдиної інформаційної системи потенціалу закладів охорони здоров’я. Визначено варіанти релокації закладу охорони здоров’я: діяльність евакуйованих закладів охорони здоров’я на базі інших закладів охорони здоров’я; самостійне відновлення діяльності закладу охорони здоров’я; діяльність евакуйованих закладів охорони здоров’я із використанням інфраструктури інших закладів; діяльність евакуйованих закладів охорони здоров’я на базі різних закладів або з використанням їх інфраструктури. Запропоновано здійснювати відновлення діяльності закладу охорони через: часткове відновлення діяльності закладів охорони здоров’я, які були евакуйовані (діяльність закладу на релокованій території та території місця реєстрації; часткова діяльність лише на місці реєстрації) або Повне відновлення діяльності закладів охорони здоров’я, які були евакуйовані.
DESAFIOS DA FORMAÇÃO CONTINUADA DOCENTE NA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL BRASILEIRA
Authors: Delfini Ana Cláudia , Alexandria Tânia Maria Cordeiro de
Published: December 2024

Objetivo: O objetivo deste estudo é analisar o estado do conhecimento sobre formação continuada docente na Educação Infantil no Brasil nos últimos 10 anos (2014 a 2024), com o intuito de discutir os desafios e tendências mais recentes.
 
Referencial Teórico: Destacam-se os documentos norteadores: Referencial Curricular Nacional para a Educação Infantil (Brasil, 1998), Constituição Federal (Brasil, 1988), Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional (Brasil, 1996), Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais para a Educação Infantil (Brasil, 2010), Plano Nacional de Educação (Brasil, 2014) e Base Nacional Comum Curricular (Brasil, 2018). Nas discussões teóricas, destacam-se: Faria e Teixeira (2023), Freire (2004,2011), Campos (2017).
 
Método: A metodologia é de abordagem qualitativa, com procedimentos metodológicos do tipo estado do conhecimento, a coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de um levantamento de teses e dissertações acessados nas bases de dados CAPES e BDTD.
 
Resultados e Discussão: As pesquisas analisadas alertam para necessidade de políticas públicas voltadas à Educação Infantil, bem como um maior alinhamento com os marcos legais brasileiros. Demonstram que a efetividade das políticas de formação continuada depende de sua conexão com as necessidades práticas dos professores, do reconhecimento de seus contextos socioculturais e da criação de espaços que promovam o diálogo e o protagonismo dos educadores.
 
Implicações da Pesquisa: As implicações práticas e teóricas descortinam a necessidade de formação docente com enfoque na reflexividade das ações pedagógicas.
 
Originalidade/Valor: Este estudo contribui para estudos de revisão de literatura
Error Space Search for Combinatorial Optimization
Authors:   , Dang Binh
Published: December 2024

Combinatorial optimization problems are important both theoretically and for solving real-world problems. Many resolutions to combinatorial optimization problems have been proposed in the literature. An approach attracting recent attention from researchers is combining global search with greedy algorithms, resulting in hybrid algorithms. These hybrid algorithms take advantage of the global optimization capabilities of global search algorithms while using the greedy algorithm's strength to repair invalid solutions and to explore local regions that promise good solutions. Proposals using this approach often conduct their search in solution space -- the space of possible solutions to the problem. However, surveying and evaluating recent studies using the above approach has shown that designing new algorithms that obtain impressive results when solving more challenging combinatorial optimization problems has become more and more difficult. Building on a recognition of the strengths of greedy local search, this thesis presents a new approach to the global search in hybrid algorithms, changing the search from solution space to error space. The error space is the set of errors that the greedy algorithm can make. The global search algorithm finds and passes potential error sets to the greedy algorithm, helping it avoid the mistakes it would otherwise make, and generate better solutions than it could by itself. This new approach is presented as an optimization framework. The framework is used to design two hybrid optimization algorithms to solve two different combinatorial optimization problems: the Discounted Knapsack Problem and the Set Covering Problem. Experimental results show that the resulting algorithms perform impressively, surpassing the state-of-the-art algorithms using the standard approach in many cases. This demonstrates that the proposed error space-based optimization framework is a general one that can be used effectively for a variety of combinatorial optimization problems. The thesis presents a new strategy for researchers to design algorithms for other combinatorial optimization problems and sets a new direction for research on hybrid search algorithms that can combine global search and greedy algorithms in more effective ways.
Interaction, Foreign Language Production and Development
Authors: Eva Alcón Soler
Published: December 2024

This study investigates the influence of interaction on foreign language production and development. In the last decade research has focused on the way in which nonnative speakers interact with native speakers and other nonnative speakers, but little is known about the effect of conversational interaction on the development of a foreign language. The present study was undertaken to determine whether native speakers’ signals of incomprehension—clarification questions, comprehension and confirmation checks—influence nonnative learners' output and their effect on language development. Fourteen Spanish women were audiotaped perforing two communication tasks in three different periods of time. Outcomes of the study shed light on the role that different tasks play in regulating the amount of learner interaction. Interactional modifications also correlate with learner awareness of linguistic difficulties. However, the relationship between interaction and language development is not linear.
The Role of Intersentential Connectives in Complex Narrative Discourse: Katherine Mansfield's "The Garden Party"
Authors: Pilar Alonso Rodríguez
Published: December 2024

This paper explores the role of intersentential connectives in complex narrative discourse so as to investigate the applicability of recent findings in the literature to more complex data than that usually found in theoretical studies of the phenomenon. For this purpose the function of connectives in Katherine Mansfield’s short story “The Garden Party” will be analysed, concentrating mainly on the intersentential connectives AND and BUT which are unusually salient and recurrent throughout the text. The analysis shows that both connectives provide a means of attaining local and global cohesion, and, most important, they efficiently serve as explicit signals for the development and construction of all participants’ mental representations of the story.
Shortcircuiting Death: The Ending of "Changing Places" and the Death of the Novel
Authors: Bárbara María Arizti Martín
Published: December 2024

According to Peter Brooks we read moved by our desire for the end, for the recognition which is the moment of the death of the reader in the text, and a substitue for our desire for death and dissolution. The experimental “non-ending” of David Lodge’s Changing Places frustrates our expectations by putting an end to the reading activity, but not to our desire for the end. The present paper focuses on the implications of Lodge’s decision to end his novel unexpectedly in the light of the ambiguous relationship between realism and postmodernism.
The Denotative-Referential Dimension of Lexical Items
Authors: Benilde Graña López
Published: December 2024

This paper defends the hypothesis that, along with the notion of Argument Structure, which encodes the lexical-conceptual properties of lexical predicates (i.e. the idea that the verb eat, for instance, takes two arguments, an Agent—the eater—and a Theme—the thing that is eaten—as shown in Peter ate the pizza), there is a second dimension to the meaning of lexical items. This level, which we call Denotative-Referential Structure, is concerned with the way words are embedded in the larger syntactic context (i.e. the phrase) that contains them, and are referentially constrained within that context. It is argued that this dimension must be kept separate from Argument Structure both technically and conceptually. The general theoretical framework is that of Generative Grammar and more specifically the set of assumptions that constitute Government and Binding Theory.
The Making and Unmaking of a Colonial Subject: Othello
Authors: Ana María Manzanas Calvo
Published: December 2024

Taking as a starting point the fact that Othello’s colour is politically and ideologically relevant in the development of the play, this article offers a reading of Othello as a tragedy of race. The article reviews key texts where the stereotype of the black man as a “pagan conjurer” of beastly living and monstrous sexuality crystallized, and traces the presence of the stereotype throughout the play. Othello’s condition as a black man—whatever shade of blackness he was—is further complicated by his condition as a colonial subject who wishes to adopt western culture. The play dramatizes the apparently unlimited possibilities of self-fashioning available to man in the Renaissance, only to deconstruct this optimistic self-fashioning or self-creation when race issues come into play. It is Iago’s exploitation of the politics of colour and of Othello’s double nature (proper to a colonial subject) that brings about Othello’s downfall.
Bacon, Essex, and Discipline
Authors: José María Rodríguez García
Published: December 2024

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was the first English philosopher to envision and theorize a thorough reform of the institutions of learning according to a utilitarian design. During the years 1592-1601, Bacon served as secretary to the second Lord of Essex, Robert Devereux, to whom he also acted as ghost writer and mentor. In this paper I compare the disciplinary strategies that Bacon devises for, respectively, the statesman and the scientist. This comparison was prompted by Bacon's use of the phrases "blessed physician" and "waking censor" to characterize his relationship to Essex, and of "the human medicine of the Mind" to characterize the preliminary preparation of the scientist's psyche.
Politeness Phenomena in British English and Uruguayan Spanish: The Case of Requests
Authors: Márquez Reiter Rosina
Published: December 2024

This paper presents an analysis of the realisation patterns of requests in British English and Uruguayan Spanish, establishing the similarities and differences between the conceptualisation of politeness by native speakers of both languages. The results obtained, based on the analysis of a discourse completion test administered to 30 native speakers of British English and 30 native speakers of Uruguayan Spanish, show that the major difference between British and Uruguayan requests is a matter of orientation. The British appear to be more inclined towards "negative" politeness, thus attaching more significance to negative aspects of "face" such as non~imposition and detachment. On the other hand, Uruguayans appear to be more inclined towards "positive" politeness thus attaching more importance to the positive aspects of "face" such as approval and involvement.
Aberrations and Excesses: Sri Lanka Substantiated by the Funny Boy
Authors: Wijesinha Rajiva
Published: December 2024

Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy, published in 1994 in Canada, was a remarkably innovatory work that built up a sutriking picture of a nation tom apart by ethnic conflict. In Sri Lanka itself, however, it was the subject of homosexuality that had the greater impact on readers. This article will explore the maimer in which Selvadurai subtly blends the different areas he deals with to produce a work of illuminating political criticism. It will also consider the elements in Sri Lankan society that contributed to selective assessments of the book. My argument will be that, by dwelling on what seem obvious aberrations, Sri Lankans manage to trivialize excesses that spring from familiar patterns of behaviour.
The Functional Motivations of Complement That-Clauses
Authors: Juan Carlos Acuña Fariña
Published: December 2024

The aim of this paper is to reveal a few basic principles which constitute the essential logic of the English system of complementation. That-clauses will be the main focus of attention, although frequent reference will be made to the non-finite forms of complementation, especially to complementation by infinitives. I will draw on well-established research by Bresnan (1972), Riddle (1975), Rudanko (1984), Noonan (1985), Beukema and Verspoor (1990), and Givón (1993), in an attempt to integrate them all into a coherent whole. Such an integration will show up “the profoundly non-arbitrary nature of the coding relation between grammar and meaning” (Givón 1993: 2.24), or; in other words, the functional or even logical motivations of the form of clausal complements in English.
Anaphora in the Interlanguage of Spanish Learners of English
Authors: Elisa Vázquez Iglesias
Published: December 2024

Much work has been done lately on the acquisition of English reflexives by L2 learners (cf. Matsumura [1994], Bennet [1996] or Wakabayashi [1996], among others). The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to examine an experiment that has been carried out with Spanish learners of English and, second, to show how imprecise the conclusions that we may reach from this type of experiments are. Thus, while previous work on Japanese and Serbo-Croatian seems to indicate that Second Language Acquisition is systematic and, further, that Universal Grammar is available in acquisition, I suggest that the results obtained in the experiment reported in this paper lead to the opposite claims.
Lineages of "Modernism", or, how they Brought the Good News from Nashville to Oxford
Authors: Smith Stan
Published: December 2024

The history of literary modernism reflects the twentieth century's diasporas and displacements, the construction and reconstruction of national cultures and alliances. This essay examines the retrospective construction of the idea of "modernism" in the late 1950s and 1960s, in tandem with the Americanisation of English culture and the academic institutionalisation of the modernist impulse. Robert Graves and Laura Riding, in A Survey of Modernist Poetry (1927), first introduced the term to British culture, under the influence of the Nashville journal The Fugitive, edited by Ransom, Davidson and Tate between 1922 and 1925. The concept for a while took root in the Oxford coteries around W. H. Auden in the later 1920s, but thereafter went underground until the late 1930s, when it was again invoked to characterise the Auden generation and the configuration it made with that of Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Lawrence and Yeats. Auden's departure for the United States in 1939 heralds the end of an essentially mid-Atlantic Anglophone "modernism". Not until the 1960s, however, with the simultaneous privileging of the concept of "postmodernism", does the name become generally applied, in retrospect, to a movement already in process of being superseded. Both Graves and Auden by this time have become exemplary instances of the client relationship of British and Irish modernism to a specifically American discourse.
Puppets, Actors and Directors: Edward Gordon Craig and the Euopean Avant-garde
Authors: Taxidou Olga
Published: December 2024

This essay reads the work of Edward Gordon Craig within the tradition of the European theatrical avant-garde. Though he is hailed as one of the "prophets" of twentieth-century theatre, Craig and his overall project are almost never read within their historical and ideological context. Rather than viewing his work as an exception within the mainly literary experiments in Anglophone modernist theatre, this essay proposes a reading that finds parallels between Craig and his European contemporaries. Craig's view of the "art of the theatre" as a distinct discursive practice and not as an extension of literature, places him alongside figures like Reinhardt, Stanislavsky, Meyerhold and Artaud. In particular, this essay reads the work of Meyerhold against that of Craig. It attempts to treat the two directors/ visionaries as "test-cases", as they express similar aesthetic preoccupations on opposite extremes of the political spectrum (Meyerhold was a "utopian" Marxist and Craig flirted with fascism). Both men admired each other's work. Craig's aphoristic writings on the role of the actor are read in conjuction with Kleist' s romantic essay on marionettes. This essay was first published in English by Craig in his journal The Mask (1909-1929), which also partakes in the avant-garde tradition of the manifesto. Rather than being a unique and solitary figure on an otherwise literary landscape, Craig is seen as forming part of the diverse and revolutionary spirit that was the European avant-garde in the early decades of this century.
Edwin Muir: One Foot in Europe
Authors: Macrae Alasdair D.F.
Published: December 2024

A central element of modernism was its cosmopolitanism and this relied on facilitators of cultural interchange and, in the case of literature, translators. Edwin Muir was a significant figure in alerting the Anglophone intellectual world to developments in continental Europe, particularly in literature in German. His own background in remote, rural Scotland was non-academic and his career is fascinating in that he read what he chose or what came his way, not what he was obliged to read to satisfy the demands of an institution. An early engagement with the works of Nietzsche, Hölderlin, Heine prepared him to read contemporary German literature including Rilke, Hofmannsthal, Kafka and Broch. With his wife Willa, Muir translated several works by Kafka and Brock which fed new ideas images and notions of form into the modernist consciousness. Muir's essays and reviews promoted this larger consciousness. Although, in comparison with the wildly modernist work of his compatriot Hugh MacDiannid, Muir's own poetry is only mildly modernist, he contributed in a unique way to making continental writing available to British and American authors and readers.
Dante in America: Eliot and the Politics of Modernism
Authors: Tambling Jeremy
Published: December 2024

This essay looks at the politics of modernism and the politics of reading. Considering the elective affinity that seems to have existed between America and Dante, it focuses on T. S. Eliot's relationship to America and to nineteenth-century readings of Dante, and his desire to create a new, more authoritative Dante, derived in part from Maurras. This reading has become hegemonic in subsequent American criticism of Dante, particularly in relation to "allegory", as opposed to Auerbach's "figural" readings. The essay looks at both the positive and negative features of Eliot's reading, but asks how it may be possible now to go beyond it, and find a reading of Dante that is less bound up with an authoritarian politics.
The Odyssey of D.H. Lawrence: Modernism, Europe and the New World
Authors: Marks Peter
Published: December 2024

Literary modernism often exhibits the opposing impulses of cross-cultural pollination on the one hand, and exile and dislocation on the other. Writers wrestled with the problem of representing these complex cultural and political forces, especially as manifested in such European metropolises as Paris, Vienna, and London. D. H. Lawrence, in some ways an archetypal modem writer, differed from many modernist contemporaries in rejecting their Eurocentric viewpoint. Both his life and his writing display a search for fresh meanings, forms, and lifestyles in the so-called New World. This essay concentrates on two neglected, often heavily criticised novels of the 1920s, Aaron's Rod and Kangaroo, examining how each maps the distinct journeys of protagonists through and beyond a Europe terminally blighted by war. Lawrence recasts Europe as spiritually and culturally empty, but fundamentally unaware of its critical state. Aaron's Rod tracks the picaresque adventures of its eponymous hero from an English mining town, through the dulled world of western Europe to his apparent spiritual rebirth in Florence. Kangaroo records the more planned flight of Richard and Harriet Somers from a Europe they both detest to the supposed sanctuary of Australia. In neither novel is the search resolved: Aaron is pointed beyond Europe by his mentor, Lilly, while the Somers reject what they see as the unreflective ease of Australian democracy, journeying on to the untamed places of America. Both works overtly criticise the dead hand of post-war Europe from the margins of that culture, and beyond. At the same time, each is a literary experiment, an attempt by Lawrence to perform radical surgery on the novel form. As such they are worthy of consideration in discussion both of the eseentially European focus of much modernist literature and the diversity of literary essentially newness which marked it.
D.H. Lawrence, German Expressionism, and Weberian Formal Rationality
Authors: Seeber H.U.
Published: December 2024

Literary historians still find it difficult to "place" David Herbert Lawrence. Does he actually belong to that revolutionary movement in literature which is given the name "literary modernism" or "high modernism"? In Germany, the accusation of "fascism" ', usually based on a reading of The Plumed Serpent, is still a stock response to the challenge of Lawrence. Not happy with such a reductionist approach, I propose to place Lawrence in the context of German expressionism to explain crucial thematic and, to a lesser degree, formal innovations in his work. The Rainbow and Women in Love are shaped by the typically expressionist tension between form and life. Their chief protagonists, Ursula and Birkin, voicing the author's radical critique of modern civilization, attempt to break through the forms of civilization, an attempt which implies a characteristic apocalyptic dialectic between destruction and renovation. In both expressionism and Lawrence, sexual love is the chief agent of "Aufbruch" ("new departure"). In describing the nature of modernity, Lawrence is evidently influenced by Max Weber's concept of "formal rationality" ("formale Rationalität"), which he learned from Edgar Jaffe.
Hemingway and Malraux: The Unmanned Virile Fraternity
Authors: Harris Geoffrey
Published: December 2024

This essay initially draws on the feminist criticism of Gilbert and Gubar,Ppykett, Bonnie Kime Scott and Elaine Showalter to underline the theme of male inadequacy in the early work of Hemingway and Malraux, two of the most "masculine" of modernist novelists. In the aftermath of the First World War a certain concept of masculinity becomes irrelevant and the fictional virile hero finds himself involved in shifting gender boundaries. Harris takes issue, however, with the same feminist theorists when they maintain that this process resulted in the empowerment of women. Close textual and thematic analysis of a number of works shows that while the dislocation caused by the war may have unmanned the virile hero, it does not lead to the enabling of the figure of the heroine. If female characters move into the vacuum left by the beleaguered virile fraternity, they also inherit man's newfound vulnerability. The focus on the umanned hero does not contribute to any concept of the New Woman and the demise of the male hero is not a t consequence of the emergence of an authoritarian heroine. The virile fraternity is solely responsible for its own dislocation.
Análisis crítico de la isocronía acentual en inglés
Authors: María Heliodora Cuenca Villarín
Published: December 2024

En este artículo se lleva a cabo una revisión de la isocronía acentual en inglés por medio del análisis de muestras orales de prosa leída y habla espontánea. Con el objeto de determinar qué factores pueden ejercer una influencia en la duración del pie, se han aplicado correlaciones entre ésta y otras variables (posición prepausal/ no prepausal, número de segmentos en el pie y número de sílabas en el pie). El número de segmentos en el pie demostró ser el factor más significativo para la duración del pie en inglés en ambas muestras. A pesar de que la duración del pie mostró un incremento lineal con el número de sílabas en habla espontánea, llegó a apreciarse cierto efecto rítmico de isocronía acentual en prosa leída. Este comportamiento ambiguo quedó igualmente de manifiesto en las líneas de regresión trazadas. Nuestros resultados señalan la necesidad de adoptar otros criterios fonéticos y fonológicos, así como la importancia del estilo de habla o registro en la clasificación rítmica del inglés y demás lenguas en general.
The Use of Pragmatic Politeness Theory in the Interpretation of Hemingway's "Hills like White Elephants"
Authors: Enrique Lafuente Millán
Published: December 2024

In the interpretation of a literary text, specially if the information granted by the author is insufficient, reinterpretation by means of inferences is necessary. The reader's previous background knowledge will often position him/ her in his/ her interpretation and so the text is open to subjective rendering. I we accept that literary dialogue is another form of social communication, Pragmatic Theory can be of help when it comes to studying texts like “Hills like White Elephants”, where the words uttered by the characters hold the key to the meaning of the story. In this article, I will mainly use Brown and Levinson's politeness theory to analyze the strategies used by the two interactants in an attempt to-sketch a profile of the motivations underlying their linguistic behaviour and to provide a less arbitrary interpretation of the text.
That / Zero Variation in Private Letters and Drama (1420-1710): A Corpus-Based Approach
Authors: Cristina Suárez Gómez
Published: December 2024

This paper offers a description of the distribution of the complementisers that and zero in two informal registers of the language, namely, private letters and drama. The analysed texts date from the last period of Middle English and the whole of Early Middle English as represented in the computerised Helsinki Corpus of English Texts. In the first section the complement clauses and the complementisers found in the selected texts are analysed to discover their particular contexts of distribution. The second section, in turn, examines possible factors, both linguistic and extralinguistic, which may influence, and even condition, the choice of the complementiser.
The End of History. Or, is it? Circularity versus Progress in Caryl Phillips' The Nature of Blood
Authors: De la Concha Ángeles
Published: December 2024

In the wake of the revisionist thinking of the Enlightenment and its selflegitimising narratives, history is no longer accepted as linear time projected into a future ever open to gradual progress and freedom. This breakdown of linearity together with the acknowledgement of the discipline's textual fabric and discursive nature are accountable for a new, apocalyptic version of the ultimate stage of historical development termed the end of history, in which circularity and bleak repetition are now rampant.In this essay I explore one of the ways in which the central grand story of Western civilisation has been questioned through the narratives of novelists belonging to alternative races and, therefore, hitherto excluded from canonical historical versions. For this purpose, I have chosen The Nature of Blood (1997) by Caryl Phillips, as a dramatisation of the endless recurrence of subjugations which, according to Foucault, need to replace history's selfcomplacent narrative of ideal significations and indefinite teleologies.
Post-Baroque Sublime? The Case of Peter Ackroyd
Authors: Ganteau Jean-Michel
Published: December 2024

This paper focuses on Peter Ackroyd's English Music as a landmark in contemporary manifestations of the baroque tradition in British literature. It is based on contemporary approaches to the baroque as an aesthetic constant or strain -more than on a periodization-theory of the baroque. The demonstration is tripartite in structure. I first concentrate on the ingredients of what may be called a ''baroque diction" (flux, hyperbole, overflowing of the frame, etc.). I then move on to the representation of artifice and the artifice of representa_tio~, by concentrating on the baroque topos of the world as a stage, the exammauon of metaleptic ploys and their implications in terms of ontological or transcendent potentialities. The last part addresses the question of the baroque as a way to probe at the boundaries of traditional, phenomenal reahsm, as a force meant to extend the province of traditional mimesis by replacing representation with presentation. I conclude with some reflections on the expressionist functions of the baroque as an avatar of romanticism.
Caribbean Women Poets - Disarming Tradition
Authors: Harris Christine
Published: December 2024

This article sets out to explore the way in which women writers of Caribbean origin express various concerns relating to their heritage through poetry which encompasses not only their position as women seen from a feminist perspective but also from historical and contemporary positions in contrasting societies. It argues that an overall need to find an identity linked to the past is paramount for establishing a position for women in the future, and that the poetry achieves this through breaking with the traditional notions of women and poets. The article focuses particularly on the work by Grace Nichols and Loma Goodison.
The African Past in America as a Bakhtinian and Levinasian Other. "Rememory" as Solution in Toni Morrison's Beloved
Authors: Otero Blanco Ángel
Published: December 2024

A relational linguistic explanation of alterity and otherness in terms of reciprocity or interchangeability of subject and object positions constitutes the starting-point for an application of Levinas and Bakhtin's approaches to the theme of Time as other, to Toni Monison's Beloved. The writer's neologism rememory implies physical and material designations which turn out to be con-fused with close-to-metaphysical claims about identity and coincidence. Consequently, the need, thirst or hunger, for a contingent and provisional sense of subjective and objective reality is reinforced by another re(a)lative distinction, to wit, the apparent opposition in the binomial presence/ absence, eventually amounting to the same. I also examine Levinas's metaphysical and common desire applied to beloved the character, storytelling as a way to enrich the characters' selves and the blues as a musical form that has evolved out of the African's terrible experience in America.
The African Past in America as a Bakhtinian and Levinasian Other. "Rememory" as Solution in Toni Morrison's Beloved
Authors: Otero Blanco ´Ángel
Published: December 2024

A relational linguistic explanation of alterity and otherness in terms of reciprocity or interchangeability of subject and object positions constitutes the starting-point for an application of Levinas and Bakhtin's approaches to the theme of Time as other, to Toni Morrison's Beloved. The writer's neologism rememory implies physical and material designations which turn out to be con-fused with close-to-metaphysical claims about identity and coincidence. Consequently, the need, thirst or hunger, for a contingent and provisional sense of subjective and objective reality is reinforced by another re(a)lative distinction, to wit, the apparent opposition in the binomial presence/ absence, eventually amounting to the same. I also examine Levinas's metaphysical and common desire applied to beloved the character, storytelling as a way to enrich the characters' selves and the blues as a musical form that has evolved out of the African's terrible experience in America.
Fashioning the Self from the Chasm: De Profundis and the Chronotope of Post-Prison Time
Authors: Walton David
Published: December 2024

This paper focuses on Wilde's letter, De Profundis, with relation to various forms of debt (economic and moral-metaphorical, which, it is argued, function within an economy of symbolic exchange and desire. The Bakhtinian concept of the chronotope is merged with semiotics, Lac(k)anian psychoanalysis, and Greenblatt's notion of self-fashioning to explore how Wilde negotiates time and space as a means to narrate the self and the other. Counter to claims that De Profundis is a confesión, it is suggested here that it may be seen as a pedagogical tract in epistolary form: one which constructs the letter's addressee as a negative "other" in order to preserve the integrity of the writing itself.
Static and Kinetic Utopianism in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower
Authors: Ramírez García Lucía
Published: December 2024

Dystopian worlds are filled with inequalities, oppression and authoritarian regimes. They are cautionary tales that warn about potential dangers. And yet, it is also possible to find positive attitudes and insubordinate characters who fight back through the utopian wish, such as the case of Lauren Olamina. This utopianism yearns for better worlds, free of injustices. This paper focuses on Octavia Butler’sParable of the Sower (1993) and the confrontation of two utopianisms, static and kinetic, through religion. Kinetic utopianism, represented by Lauren and Earthseed, advocates for change and adaptability. In contrast, static utopianism, represented by Lauren’s father and the Baptist religion, focuses on traditional values, and shows reticence towards change. This novel does not intend to condemn any belief system, but to explore the impact that these two utopianisms have on a particular society. The article concludes that the kinetic utopianism of Lauren and Earthseed makes possible the change that she wants in the world through adaptability and progress. On the other hand, the refusal of change and adaptation that characterises static utopianism ultimately leads to its owndisappearance.
‘Feedback Means the World to Me’: Constructing Proximity in Canon Compliant Fanfiction
Authors: Matlas Katarzyna
Published: December 2024

This paper examines the linguistic strategies used to create proximity within the online fandom community. The study applies close reading techniques to analyse three works of fanfiction belonging to a canon-compliant subgenre. It explores how authors from diverse socio-cultural backgrounds establish a relationship with their readers by demonstrating their affiliation with fandom (proximity of membership) and dedication to the source material (proximity of commitment). To investigate these techniques, the study employs the model of proximity defined by Hyland (2010), extended by the findings of Suau-Jiménez (2019, 2020). The analysis includes both the main text and the metatext, revealing similarities in the techniques used by the authors to establish proximity through organisation, argument, credibility, stance and engagement.
Metempsychosis and Individual Identity in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"
Authors: Sabatini Anna Michelle
Published: December 2024

Pythagoras and Empedocles are not generally believed to have left an indelible imprint on Edgar Allan Poe’s oeuvre, despite the direct allusion to each of these Presocratic thinkers in the poet’s writings. It is also quite remarkable that “The Black Cat” (1843) has not typically been considered a tale of metempsychosis, even though this motif is clearly present in the story. Moreover, the fact that Poe allows transference to occur from one cat to another hints at his acceptance of the contentious Pythagorean premise that the transmigration of souls is not restricted to the human body. In addition, while a number of scholars have acknowledged the ambivalent nature of the daemon in other works by Poe, most studies of “The Black Cat” portray it as an unequivocally dark and malevolent entity. In contrast, this article conceives of the daemon as an ambiguous being that reemerges in feline form to inflict punishment on the protagonist for his vile acts. In this disturbing narrative, Poe once again explores a question that haunted him throughout his life —namely, whether individual identity can survive bodily death.
A Corpus Study of Brexit Political Discourse: Exploring Modality through Lexical Modals
Authors: Almazán Ruiz Encarnación , Orrequia-Barea Aroa
Published: December 2024

This paper aims to analyse the lexical modals used in the political speeches given by Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn during the final months of the Brexit process. This study explores whether lexical choice shows the politicians’ commitment to their constituents, particularly to determine which lexical modals each politician uses and which semantic implication(s) these modals convey. The study is descriptive-interpretative and uses the corpus-assisted discourse studies approach. It contributes to research on modality in the English language by examining parts of speech other than (semi)auxiliary modal verbs. As the corpus analysis shows, lexical modals are a prominent resource employed by politicians to present facts to their audience.
Leveraging Expert Perspectives to Explore Key Elements in Integrating Sustainability and Statistics Education
Authors: Othman Oziah , Yasin Ruhizan Mohammad , Rasul Mohamad Sattar
Published: December 2024

The integration of sustainability education across subjects is an effort to instill concern in students for preserving global well-being. However, experts are required to be involved in organizing effective strategies to ensure that the targeted goals are achieved through the integration of sustainability education across subjects. Our research explored expert views on the elements that need to be emphasized in integrating sustainability education and statistics education. This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews to collect data from 13 experts, including lecturers, curriculum developers, and teachers. The continuous comparative analysis of the collected data produced four themes, discovering elements that must be present in integrating sustainability education and statistics education, namely (i) statistics education, (ii) sustainability education, (iii) statistical data, and (iv) learning strategies. The findings of this study significantly contribute to contemporary curriculum development by identifying key components necessary for merging sustainability education with statistics education. Hence, the difficulty of school teachers to integrate sustainability education into statistics education should be recognized, so as to input teachers and curriculum developers in providing relevant learning experiences in the objectives of statistics education and sustainability education.