bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Effect of Pre-reading Activities on Male ESL Upper-Intermediate Students’ Comprehension in a Post Basic Education School in Oman?
Authors: Eddine Al Akremi Jamel
Published: October 2016

The study aimed at investigating the impact of pre-reading activities on male ESL upper-intermediate students’ comprehension in a post-basic education school in Oman. To this end, two reading comprehension tests and two questionnaires were administered to two groups of participants. One group served as control and the other served as experimental. Control group were assigned a reading comprehension test with follow up questions to answer. However, experimental participants were introduced to 10 minute-pre-reading activities prior to starting the test. The findings drawn from the comprehension tests revealed that experimental participants outperformed control participants. Data drawn from questionnaires showed that control group had a negative attitude to reading a text without pre-reading activities. However, experimental group had a positive attitude to reading a text after being introduced to the pre-reading activities. Although the study has shown empirically how effective the schema-based pre-reading activities were in maximizing ESL leaners’ comprehension ability, it had its limitations. It was restricted in setting and gender. It involved only two post-basic state schools. It was also restricted to male students. Second, it was limited to only two sample groups. Nevertheless, the findings of this study have confirmed preceding research on the effectiveness of the pre-reading activities and how they facilitate L2 learners’ comprehension ability of the target text. Therefore, it might be paramount for teachers and syllabus designers to incorporate pre-reading activities, which are in different forms and types, to the reading texts students read
Humanizing a Superhero: An Empirical Test in the Comic Books Industry
Authors: Addis Michela , Troilo Gabriele
Published: October 2016

One of the most firmly-established and widespread marketing policies in the comic book industry is the humanization of superheroes as a strategy to achieve success, especially for characters populating the Marvel Universe. However, there is no clear evidence of how exactly artists actually and operatively create human superheroes, and whether those variables truly affect sales of comic books. To address those two issues we run a quali-quantitative study by interviewing experts, and regressing sales on a broad range of variables of comic books gathered through content analysis and secondary data sources. Our findings show that humanization is not as powerful as expected in driving sales of comic books.
Convolution Based Unit Root Processes: a Simulation Approach
Authors: Gobbi Fabio
Published: October 2016

We propose a convolution based approach to the simulation of a modified version of a unit root process where the state variable $Y_{t-1}$ is dependent on the innovation $\varepsilon_t$. The dependence structure is given by a copula function $C$. We study by simulation the effect of a negative correlation on the properties of unit roots. We call this process C-UR(1).
Studying and Comparing Pictorial Drawings and Patterns of Chaharbagh School and Seyyed Mosque of Isfahan
Authors: Khazan Shahrbanoo , Ghazaryan Vigen
Published: October 2016

Background/Objectives:The construction of Chaharbagh School and Seyyed Mosque of Isfahan has one century difference. In these 2 places the botanical and geometrical drawings are shown significantly and separately by having spiritual simplicity available in ornaments of tiles; however, in the infrastructure of moscuqe-school there is integration of different drawings shown as pile of colors and drawings without having specific purpose that are drawn on wall with complete details.Methods/Statistical analysis :In this project, it is benefit from library and field studies by using observation and the drawings of tile of work of Chaharbagh School and Seyyed Mosque of Isfahan are evaluated and compared and the properties of drawings of each section is analyzed and finally a table is offered for their comparison.Findings:In continuation of research, it is specified that generally the ornaments and drawings available in places belonging to Safavid dynasty, are originating from beautiful nature that are differently revealed in layout of walls, cloths and other things. The space of painting is more free and in the background there is mixture of tableau and space. Moreover, these mixed drawings are inspired from nature and beauty that not only does not lead to fatigue of eye and soul, but also refresh the human soul. Most of the artists during Qajar dynasty by self-learned method and by means of picture attempted to be familiar with architecture of western culture.Application/Improvements: Therefore, maybe it is more logical that merging these 2 systems is mainly unwanted and as a result of influence of ancient tradition from one hand and lack of being familiar with scientific and academic principles of European art.
Production and Characterization of Energy Materials with Adsorbent Properties by Hydrothermal Processing of Corn Stover with Subcritical H2O
Authors: Machado N.T. , Castro D.A.R. de , Queiroz L.S. , Santos M.C. , Costa C.E.F. da
Published: October 2016

This work aims to investigate the effect of temperature on the process performance of hydrothermal processing (HTC) of corn Stover with subcritical H2O and on the morphology of solid products. The experiments were carried out at 200, 225 and 250 ºC, reaction time of 240 minutes, heating rate of 2.0 ºC/min, and biomass to water ratio of 1:10, using a pilot scale stirred tank reactor (STR) of 5 gallon, operating in batch mode. The process performance analyzed by computing the yields of solid and liquid reaction products (RLP). The aqueous phase (H2O + RLP) was physicochemical analyzed for pH and total carboxylic acids, expressed as total acetic acid content. The chemical compositions of carboxylic acids, furfural, and hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) in the aqueous phase determined by GC-MS and HPLC. The results showed solid yields ranging from 57.39 to 35.82% (wt.), and liquid reaction products (RLP) yields ranging from 39.53 to 54.59% (wt.). The solid phase products were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The chemically activated (2.0 M NaOH) solid phase energy material obtained by HTC at 250 °C, applied as adsorbent to investigate the capacity and/or efficiency to adsorb acetic acid from 1.0 to 4.0 g/L model solutions at 25 °C. The solid phase yield decreases along with the temperature, showing an inflection region between 200 and 225 °C, whereas a drastic change takes place, while that of liquid phase increases, showing also a drastic change between 200 and 225 °C. The total acetic acid content of aqueous phase varied from 4064 to 5387 mg/L, while the pH from 3.77 to 3.91. The GC analysis identified the presence of volatile carboxylic acids, particularly acetic acid, in concentrations between 4020 and 5040 mg/L. HPLC identified the presence of furfural and hydroxymethylfurfural, whose concentrations decrease exponentially and linearly along with the temperature between 686.7 and 0.0, and 443.9 and 0.0 mg/L, respectively, being both compounds not detectable at 250 °C. The elemental/ultimate analysis of solid products shows that carbon content increases, while the oxygen and hydrogen contents decrease, along with the temperature. The H/C and O/C ratios decrease linearly as process temperature increases, and the high heating value (HHV) of solid reaction products, an energy densified material, changes sharply between 200 and 225 °C, showing an increase with temperature. The SEM, EDX, and XDR indicates a change on the morphology and mineralogical phases present in solid reaction products with temperature, particularly at 250 °C. The activated solid phase has proven to be very selective to adsorb acetic acid, showing that recovery of acetic acid from hydrothermal carbonization/liquefaction aqueous solutions is feasible by using a multistage-stage adsorption process in series.
Effects of Phenol Addition on Oil Extraction from Moroccan Oil Shale by Supercritical Toluene
Authors: Abourriche A. , Oumam M. , Benhammou A. , Mouiya M. , El hafiane Y. , Abouliatim Y. , Nibou L. , Hannache H. , Birot M. , Pailler R. , Naslain R.
Published: October 2016

In the present work, the effect of phenol on the supercritical extraction of the organic matter from Tarfaya's oil shale with toluene was evaluated. The experimental results showed clearly that phenol had a significant effect on the yield and the composition of the oils obtained. Moreover, it was shown that phenol was a very efficient modifier for oil shale, giving a good yield of recovery and a suitable maturation of the organic matter. The pitches prepared by mixing phenol and toluene contain more aromatics and have a high char yield at 950 °C compared to those obtained by extraction with supercritical toluene alone.
Action moyennable d'un groupe localement compact sur une algèbre de von Neumann II.
Authors: Anantharaman-Delaroche Claire
Published: October 2016

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Some associative algebras related to $U(\mathfrak g)$ and twisted generalized Weyl algebras
Authors: Mazorchuk V. , Ponomarenko M. , Turowska L.
Published: October 2016

We prove that both Mickelsson step algebras and Orthogonal Gelfand-Zetlin algebras are twisted generalized Weyl algebras. Using an analogue of the Shapovalov form we construct all weight simple graded modules and some classes of simple weight modules over a twisted generalized Weyl algebra, improving the results from [6], where a particular class of algebras was considered and only special modules were classified.
Cartan subalgebras and bimodule decompositions of $ \mathrm{II}_1 $ factors
Authors: Popa Sorin , Shlyakhtenko Dimitri
Published: October 2016

Let $A\subset M$ be a MASA in a $\mathrm{II}_{1}$ factor $M$. We describe the von Neumann subalgebra of $M$ generated by $A$ and its normalizer $\mathcal N(A)$ as the set $N_q^w(A)$ consisting of those elements $m\in M$ for which the bimodule $\smash{\overline{AmA}}$ is discrete. We prove that two MASAs $A$ and $B$ are conjugate by a unitary $u\in N^{w}_{q}(A)$ iff $A$ is discrete over $B$ and $B$ is discrete over $A$ in the sense defined by Feldman and Moore [5]. As a consequence, we show that $A$ is a Cartan subalgebra of $M$ iff for any MASA $B\subset M$, $B=uAu^{*}$ for some $u\in M$ exactly when $A$ is discrete over $B$ and $B$ is discrete over $A$.
Indices, convexity and concavity of Calderón-Lozanovskii spaces
Authors: Kamińska A. , Maligranda L. , Persson L. E.
Published: October 2016

In this article we discuss lattice convexity and concavity of Calderón-Lozanovskii space $E_\varphi$, generated by a quasi-Banach space $E$ and an increasing Orlicz function $\varphi$. We give estimations of convexity and concavity indices of $E_\varphi$ in terms of Matuszewska-Orlicz indices of $\varphi$ as well as convexity and concavity indices of $E$. In the case when $E_\varphi$ is a rearrangement invariant space we also provide some estimations of its Boyd indices. As corollaries we obtain some necessary and sufficient conditions for normability of $E_\varphi$, and conditions on its nontrivial type and cotype in the case when $E_\varphi$ is a Banach space. We apply these results to Orlicz-Lorentz spaces receiving estimations, and in some cases the exact values of their convexity, concavity and Boyd indices.
Class of rational surfaces in $\mathsf P^4$
Authors: Voica Christian
Published: October 2016

In this paper, we obtain a complete classification of all rational surfaces embedded in ${\mathsf P}^4$ so that all their exceptional curves are lines. These surfaces are exactely the rational surfaces shown by I.Bauer to project isomorphicaly from ${\mathsf P}^5$ from one of their points, although no a priori reason is known why such a surface should be projectable in this way.
$FC^-$-elements in totally disconnected groups and automorphisms of infinite graphs
Authors: Möller Rögnvaldur G.
Published: October 2016

An element in a topological group is called an $\mathrm{FC}^-$-element if its conjugacy class has compact closure. The $\mathrm{FC}^-$-elements form a normal subgroup. In this note it is shown that in a compactly generated totally disconnected locally compact group this normal subgroup is closed. This result answers a question of Ghahramani, Runde and Willis. The proof uses a result of Trofimov about automorphism groups of graphs and a graph theoretical interpretation of the condition that the group is compactly generated.
A uniqueness criterion in the multivariate moment problem
Authors: Putinar Mihai , Vasilescu Florian-Horia
Published: October 2016

A determinacy criterion for the multivariate Hamburger moment problem is derived from a recent existence by extension result, [10].
On the topology of Sasakian manifolds
Authors: Pitiş Gheorghe
Published: October 2016

The notion of $q$-bisectional curvature of a Sasakian manifold $M$ is defined. It is proved that if $M$ has lower bounded $q$-bisectional curvature and contains a compact invariant submanifold tangent to the structure vector field then $M$ is compact. Myers and Frankel type theorems for Sasakian manifolds with lower bounded and positive $q$-bisectional curvature, respectively, are also given.
A Dixmier's theorem for finite type representations of amenable semigroups
Authors: Fack Thierry
Published: October 2016

Let $S$ be an amenable locally compact semigroup. We give ergodic and spectral characterizations of the finite type representations of $S$ that are unitarizable.
On chordal graphs and their chromatic polynomials
Authors: Agnarsson Geir
Published: October 2016

We derive a formula for the chromatic polynomial of a chordal or a triangulated graph in terms of its maximal cliques. As a corollary we obtain a way to write down an explicit formula for the chromatic polynomial for an arbitrary power of a graph which belongs to any given class of chordal graphs that are closed under taking powers.
Toeplitz operators in Segal-Bargmann spaces of vector-valued functions vector-valued functions
Authors: Cichoń Dariusz , Shapiro Harold S.
Published: October 2016

We discuss new results concerning unbounded Toeplitz operators defined in Segal-Bargmann spaces of (vector-valued) functions, i.e. the space of all entire functions which are square summable with respect to the Gaussian measure in $\mathrm{C}^n$. The problem of finding adjoints of analytic Toeplitz operators is solved in some cases. Closedness of the range of analytic Toeplitz operators is studied. We indicate an example of an entire function inducing a Toeplitz operator, for which the space of polynomials is not a core though it is contained in its domain.
The existence of Gorenstein flat covers
Authors: Enochs Edgar E. , Jenda Overtoun M. G. , Lopez-Ramos J. A.
Published: October 2016

We prove that all left modules over a right coherent ring have Gorenstein flat covers.
Residues and homology for pseudodifferential operators on foliations
Authors: Benameur M.-T. , Nistor V.
Published: October 2016

We study the Hochschild homology groups of the algebra of complete symbols on a foliated manifold $(M,F)$. The first step is to relate these groups to the Poisson homology of $(M,F)$ and of other related foliated manifolds. We then establish several general properties of the Poisson homology groups of foliated manifolds. As an example, we completely determine these Hochschild homology groups for the algebra of complete symbols on the irrational slope foliation of a torus (under some diophantine approximation assumptions). We also use our calculations to determine all residue traces on algebras of pseudodifferential operators along the leaves of a foliation.
Sprogets forvandling
Authors: Rasmussen Henrik
Published: October 2016

Henrik Rasmussen: Sprogets forvandling
At stige, at falde
Authors: Moestrup Mette
Published: October 2016

Mette Moestrup: At stige, at falde
Litteraturens spørgen
Authors: Madsen Carsten
Published: October 2016

Carsten Madsen: Litteraturens spørgen
Byens kommunikation
Authors: Larsen Svend Erik
Published: October 2016

Svend Erik Larsen: Byens kommunikation
Panoramisk urbanisering
Authors: Pold Søren
Published: October 2016

Søren Pold: Panoramisk urbanisering
Berlin. Flaneur de la nuit
Authors: Goldbæk Henning
Published: October 2016

Henning Goldbæk: Berlin. Flaneur de la nuit
Kalejdoskopisk kosmopol
Authors: Jørgensen Mette
Published: October 2016

Mette Jørgensen: Kalejdoskopisk kosmopol
Europa Non Stop Never End
Authors: Olsen Kasper Nefer
Published: October 2016

Kasper Nefer Olsen: Europa Non Stop Never End
Fluepapiret
Authors: Musil Robert
Published: October 2016

Robert Musil: Fluepapiret
Rue de Bucy
Authors: Petri Per
Published: October 2016

Per Petri: Rue de Bucy
(uden titel)
Authors: Søndergaard Morten
Published: October 2016

Morten Søndergaard: (uden titel)
Selvportrættet
Authors: Vad Poul
Published: October 2016

Poul Vad: Selvportrættet
Små småstykker, sneglehuse
Authors: Iversen Karsten Sand
Published: October 2016

Karsten Sand Iversen: Små småstykker, sneglehuse
To vantiasrutiner
Authors: Fioretos Aris
Published: October 2016

Aris Fioretos: To vantiasrutiner
1960ernes pulp-kedel
Authors: Slusser George
Published: October 2016

George Slusser: 1960ernes pulp-kedel
Philip Roth, Portnoy og sentresserne
Authors: Secher Claus
Published: October 2016

Claus Secher: Philip Roth, Portnoy og sentresserne
Bogen og tingene
Authors: Hauge Hans
Published: October 2016

Hans Hauge: Bogen og tingene
Hans og PASSAGE
Authors: Andersen Frits
Published: October 2016

Frits Andersen: Hans og PASSAGE
Forelæsning 9.2, 1996
Authors: Sørensen Hans Meinert
Published: October 2016

Hans Meinert Sørensen: Forelæsning 9.2, 1996
Benjamin og korrespondancerne
Authors: Prendergast Christopher
Published: October 2016

Christopher Prendergast: Benjamin og korrespondancerne
Litteraturteori i en post-Teoretisk tid
Authors: Simonsen Karen-Margrethe
Published: October 2016

Karen-Margrethe Simonsen: Litteraturteori i en post-Teoretisk tid
Essayets prøvelser
Authors: Huang Marianne Ping
Published: October 2016

Marianne Ping Huang: Essayets prøvelser
Øst for paradis
Authors: Hallberg Ulf Peter
Published: October 2016

Ulf Peter Hallberg: Øst for paradis
Pråblems åv da 'raitar to'dei
Authors: Esterházy Péter
Published: October 2016

Péter Esterházy: Pråblems åv da 'raitar to'dei
Et barn vokser ud af sine sko
Authors: Swartz Richard
Published: October 2016

Richard Swartz: Et barn vokser ud af sine sko
Hvor er vi lykkelige?
Authors: Sunde Ole Robert
Published: October 2016

Ole Robert Sunde: Hvor er vi lykkelige?
Stjålne kort
Authors: Jonsson Stefan
Published: October 2016

Stefan Jonsson: Stjålne kort
Noget om halmstrå
Authors: Fioretos Aris
Published: October 2016

Aris Fioretos: Noget om halmstrå
Where, man? - Whitman!
Authors: Larsen Svend Erik
Published: October 2016

Svend Erik Larsen: Where, man? - Whitman!
Brooklynfærge i fart
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: October 2016

Walt Whitman: Brooklynfærge i fart
Spæk og videnskab
Authors: Arke Pia
Published: October 2016

Pia Arke: Spæk og videnskab
Scanner
Authors: Bonde Niels
Published: October 2016

Niels Bonde: Scanner
Det grå glas
Authors: Bertelsen Lars Kiel
Published: October 2016

Lars Kiel Bertelsen: Det grå glas
Fortrængning og mellemrum
Authors: Bäcklund Jan
Published: October 2016

Jan Bäcklund: Fortrængning og mellemrum
Den sorte plet
Authors: Llambías Pablo Henrik
Published: October 2016

Pablo Henrik Llambías: Den sorte plet
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Authors: Røder Allan
Published: October 2016

Allan Røder: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Metrodigte
Authors: Jouet Jacques
Published: October 2016

Jacques Jouet: Metrodigte
Det ydmygende gangstativ
Authors: Tylén Kristian
Published: October 2016

Kristian Tylén: Det ydmygende gangstativ
Et ansigt som minder om norsk poesi
Authors: Serup Martin Glaz , Gulliksen Geir
Published: October 2016

Martin Glaz Serup & Geir Gulliksen: Et ansigt som minder om norsk poesi
Kosmopolitisme og postnationalisme i nyere norsk litteratur
Authors: Andersen Per Thomas
Published: October 2016

Per Thomas Andersen: Kosmopolitisme og postnationalisme i nyere norsk litteratur
Barn og bovaryst imellem
Authors: Mogensen Tine Engel
Published: October 2016

Tine Engel Mogensen: Barn og bovaryst imellem
Norske inspirationer i dansk kortprosa
Authors: Ipsen Max
Published: October 2016

Max Ipsen: Norske inspirationer i dansk kortprosa
Var Marquis de Sade sadist?
Authors: Boisen Jørn
Published: October 2016

Jørn Boisen: Var Marquis de Sade sadist?
Et skridt på vejen
Authors: Mai Anne-Marie
Published: October 2016

Anne-Marie Mai: Et skridt på vejen, Anmeldelse af: "Krysninger. Nye perspektiver på moderne nordisk lyrikk" redigeret af Ole Karlsen.
Hvad så vi?
Authors: Sandbye Mette
Published: October 2016

Mette Sandbye: Hvad så vi?
En vis umulig mulighed for at sige begivenheden
Authors: Derrida Jacques
Published: October 2016

Jacques Derrida: En vis umulig mulighed for at sige begivenheden
Ja, selvfølgelig, men ...
Authors: Bolt Mikkel
Published: October 2016

Mikkel Bolt: Ja, selvfølgelig, men ...
Dyret i dekonstruktionen
Authors: Gundersen Karin
Published: October 2016

Karin Gundersen: Dyret i dekonstruktionen
I Yacoubians hus
Authors: Rannes Peter Q.
Published: October 2016

Peter Q. Rannes: “In Yacoubian’s Building”In his article Peter Q. Rannes examines the unexpected international bestseller status the novel The Yacoubian Building by the Egyptian writer Alaa al-Aswany has achieved. Through a short review of the Arab literary history it is argued that the modern Arabic prose literature traditionally has been dominated by an “epic unwillingness” which explains its poor international distribution.Demonstrating how The Yacoubian Building structurally and technically manages to overcome the epic limitations of the Mahfouz’ian collective novel form which the novel employs, an understanding of Yacoubians Building not only as an international bestseller but also as a genuine Arabic prose breakthrough is revealed.
Historieskriveren Elias Khoury
Authors: Eksell Kerstin
Published: October 2016

Kerstin Eksell: “Elias Khoury the Storywriter”The novel, Ka´annahā nāʾima, As If She Was Sleeping from 2007, is set in Beirut and Nazareth between 1923 and 1948. The Lebanese Milia marries the Palestinian Mansour, and they settle down to daily life in Nazareth, where Milia finally gives birth to a son. Much of the story is told in the form of Milia’s dreams and recapitulates the family history in early 20th century Beirut.The novel is multilayered, mixing high and low registers, and rich in intertextual references. The Christian myth of death and sacrifice functions as a historical allegory of the political tragedy of the modern Arab world, in particular that of Palestine. However, the vitality and strength of Milia – Mary offers an alternative reading of human survival and resurrection, deeply rooted in the oriental potential of mysticism and poetry.
Diglossi i moderne arabisk skønlitteratur
Authors: Moestrup Elisabeth A.
Published: October 2016

Elisabeth A. Moestrup: “Diglossia in Modern Arabic Fiction”This article discusses the phenomenon of diglossia as it is encountered in two recent works by the contemporary authors, Yusef Fadel from Morocco and Rashid al-Daif from Lebanon, Fadel and al-Daif each applies their own experimental way of negotiating the reality of diglossia and all that it entails. The article also looks into Dan Diner’s Lost in the Sacred in which he ascribes the ailments of the Arab world to among other things the failure to modernise the state of the language; as it looks into Sidney Pollock’s article about linguistic homogenization globally and Arabic’s place in this.
Arabisk fængselslitteratur og den syriske digter Muhammad al-Maghut
Authors: Holmberg Bo
Published: October 2016

Bo Holmberg: “Arabic Prison Literature and the Syrian Poet Muhammad al-Maghut”This article deals with some aspects of prison literature from the Middle East and mainly in Arabic. Prison literature may be literature written by prisoners either during imprisonment, or after imprisonment. It may also include literature by nonprisoners who are writing in a society where imprisonment is a constant threat for political, religious and moral reasons. Special attention is given to the situation in modern Syria, and the poetry of Muhammad al-Maghut (1934-2006) is high-lighted.
Anmeldelse af A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature af David Tresilian
Authors: Eksell Kerstin
Published: October 2016

Review of: A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature by David TresilianWritten by Kerstin Eksell
00’ernes danske prosa
Authors: Handesten Lars
Published: October 2016

Lars Handesten: “Danish Prose in the 00s”This article offers some guidelines through the last ten years of Danish literature. It is obvious that detective stories, autobiographies of every kind and realistic family novels dominate by sheer numbers. This mainstream literature is challenged by another great number of attempts to develop and explore the traditional forms and the strategies of the avant-gardes.
Bag de astmahvide gardiner: Upåagtede opblomstringer. 10 (+40) oversete fra 00’erne
Authors: Bukdahl Lars
Published: October 2016

Lars Bukdahl: “Behind the Asthma-White Curtains: Unrecognized Blossomings”For each year between 2000 and 2009, the essay makes the case for an overlooked work of literature, while examining the views of others critics that thought less favourably of the selected works. A series of runners-up are also mentioned and the idea of ‘the overlooked’ is discussed and seen as a relative category that functions on many levels in the literary field.
Litteraturen og revolutionen
Authors: Trotskij Lev
Published: October 2016

Lev Trotskij: "Litteraturen og revolutionen"AbstractLev Trotskij: “Literature and Revolution: Introduction”Leo Trotsky’s introduction to his Literature and Revolution from 1923 outlines the argument of the book: The revolution necessitates a unification of poetical experiments and political commitment. In opposition to the futurist idea of a complete break with the past, this necessity does not for Trotsky imply severing the ties to the so-called bourgeois literature of the nineteenth century, but a living, historically conscious dialogue with the past.
I maj
Authors: Blanchot Maurice
Published: October 2016

Maurice Blanchot: "I maj"AbstractMaurice Blanchot: “In May”Four short texts by Maurice Blanchot written for the first and only edition of the journal Comité in October 1968. Despite his recluse life Blanchot was involved ‘body and soul’ in the events gripping Paris in May 1968, as it has been described by his friend Jacques Derrida. In these texts, published anonymously, Blanchot outlines the relationship between the written word and the revolutionary events, underscoring the fragmentary and ephemeral nature of both.
Bidragydere
Authors: Passage Redaktionen
Published: October 2016

List of contributors
“Fuldtud korrekt og værdig Optræden”. Politik, social kontrol og offentlighed under besættelsen af Danmark 1940-45“
Authors: Olesen Niels Wium
Published: October 2016

Niels Wium Olesen: “‘Completely Correct and Dignified Behaviour’: Politics, Social Control and the Public Sphere During the Occupation of Denmark 1940-45”In order to secure the survival of the Danish state and society during the Second World War, extensive social control was exercised by the Danish government, the political parties and the civil society. The social control supported national unity and set the limits of what was acceptable and unacceptable behaviour in the public sphere.
Alsangen 1940
Authors: Nielsen Puk Elmstrøm
Published: October 2016

Puk Elmstrøm Nielsen: “Community Singing”In 1940, during the first summer of the German occupation, Denmark experienced a surge of nationalism. This manifested itself in several well attended meetings, alsang, where the Danes expressed their national feelings through singing. This article analyses the songs and describes how alsang became a manifestation of the idea of a national community in which the people was not divided by social, cultural or economic interests. Furthermore it is discussed to what extent alsang was anti-German.
Krigens lyd, krigens musik. Nye dimensioner til krigens kulturanalyse
Authors: Koldau Linda Maria
Published: October 2016

Linda Maria Koldau: “The Sound of War, the Music of War”The article shows how the aural dimension of warfare shapes the experience and memory of war. In Danish reflections on the day of the German invasion (exemplified by passages from literature and film), this is primarily represented by the drone of the German airforce, which has become an aural symbol for the occupation and thus for war coming to Denmark.
Redaktionelt forord
Authors: Redaktionen Redaktionen
Published: October 2016

Hvor er Kafka lige nu? I Passage 66 sætter vi fokus på Kafka. Den store modernistiske forfatter er alle vegne og ingen steder. Han er fast pensum i gymnasierne og på universiteterne. Hans værker kaldes for klassikere og kanon. Han er blevet læst og tolket igen, fordi hans liv og værk synes at indbyde til det. Noget af det mest bemærkelsesværdige ved Kafkas værker er netop deres tilsyneladende uudtømmelige åbenhed over for nye fortolkninger. De er blevet læst biografisk, eksistentielt, religiøst og formelt og i de seneste år også i sociale og politiske optikker. Men hvor er Kafka, og ikke mindst Kafka-kritikken i dag? Hvad er det Kafka kan, og kan han det stadig? Det forsøger en række litteraturkritikere at svare på. Nummeret indledes med en oversættelse af Judith Butlers essay "Hvem ejer Kafka?". Ud fra en retssag om, hvem der ejer Kafkas værker, diskuterer Butler Kafkas forhold til jødedommen og zionismen. Herefter følger Isak Winkel Holms artikel "Arendt og Kafka", der læser Kafkas Forvandlingen over for Hannah Arendts begreb om retten til at have rettigheder. Mourits Schramm leverer en ligeledes politisk og socialt orienteret læsning af Kafkas tidlige kortprosa-tekst Udflugten til bjergene (1910).
Slottet i Transsylvanien
Authors: Ladegaard Jakob
Published: October 2016

Jakob Ladegaard: “The Castle in Transylvania. Gothic Spaces between East and West in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Franz Kafka’s The Castle”The article investigates the hitherto largely ignored traces of the Gothic literary tradition in Franz Kafka’s novel The Castle (1926) by reading it in continuation of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897). It is argued that the interpretation of the ghostlike presence of the Gothic vampire in Kafka can yield new insights into the relation between body, space and power in The Castle and his work in general. Inspired by Michel Foucault’s analysis of panoptic spaces and biopower, it is further claimed that Stoker and Kafka, shaped by their respective geopolitical contexts, both use the generic features of the Gothic to reflect – the one mainly affirmatively, the other critically – on larger historical and ideological issues of gender, the modern state apparatus and the relation between Western and Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.
Den barokke lov i Kafkas Processen
Authors: Simonsen Karen-Margrethe
Published: October 2016

Karen-Margrethe Simonsen: “The Baroque Law in Kafka’s The Trial. Power and Labyrinth”This article argues that a baroque perspective on Kafka’s works and especially The Trial can help elucidate the relation between the power of law and its labyrinthine character. Most modern and postmodern studies of the neobaroque in the 20th Century focus only on the labyrinthine playfulness of the baroque and disregard the baroque’s interest in absolutistic power. In the article, it is shown how Kafka unites the two sides of the baroque. The article argues that there is absolute distance, yet concrete simultaneity between the worldly and the transcendent aspects of law in Kafka, and elaborates this by drawing in some aspects of Gilles Deleuze’sand Jacques Derrida’s readings of Kafka regarding this relation. Finally it discusses the modernity of Kafka through a very short detour around Tzvetan Todorov’s study of the fantastic.
Kafka er din ven er din Kafka
Authors: Iversen Stefan
Published: October 2016

Anmeldelse af Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhetoric and Reading. Columbus: Ohio University Press, 2011, 251 sider.
Anmeldelse: Romantiske lyksalighedsøer
Authors: Møller Lis
Published: October 2016

Anmeldelse afGunilla Hermansson: Lyksalighedens øer. Møder mellem poesi, religion og erotik i dansk og svensk romantik, Göteborg: Makadam Förlag, 2010. 397 sider, illustreret.
Mod en ny fransk litteratur - Problemer og tendenser
Authors: Baggesgaard Mads Anders
Published: October 2016

Mads Anders Baggesgaard: “Towards a New French Literature. Problems and Tendencies”The landscape of new French literature is not easily described. The very task entails a number of historical problems, ranging from the very idea of newness itself to the notion of a national, French literature in an increasingly globalized world. This article tackles the problem by delineating three different tendencies in contemporary French literature: A strand of mediarealism, exemplified by Fréderic Beigbeder, a realistic trend, exemplified by François Bon, and an autofictional trend exemplified by Serge Doubrovsky. However, these are not simply taken as examples; the article also aims to show that these different tendencies can in fact be read as different reflections on the historiographical problems facing French literature today.
Soucis de la littérature - Opmærksom læsning, med og uden teori
Authors: Jørgensen Steen Bille
Published: October 2016

Steen Bille Jørgensen: “Soucis de la littérature. Attentive Reading, With and Without Theory”This article examines in what ways contemporary French theory is characterized by a valorization of the literary as such. Though certain critics (like Antoine Compagnon) tend to regret the ambitious theoretical constructions of the sixties and seventies, the current emphasis on stylistics reveals a renewed concern for the literary work. This souci deliberately neglects abstract speculation in favor of more individual, less ideological, approaches to literature. Thus, one of the main contributions of French theory from the last 25 years is a focus on the existential – or anthropological – aspect of literature. Through readings of a series of critics, the article argues that the (phenomenological) notion of événementialité is central in literature’s capacity to involve the actual reader. The proposed reading of the Danish writer Kaalø is meant to show how this particular reader responds to its combined formal and existential concerns. This is ultimately a question of rhythm; formal rhythm and existential rhythm.
Overgearet toning - Et essay fra Salut les anciens, salut les modernes (2000)
Authors: Prigent Christian
Published: October 2016

Christian Prigent: “Unbridled Fading”In his essay on contemporary poetry, Christian Prigent outlines one of his main ideas about literature. Literature’s role isn’t to talk mimetically about the world but rather to suggest the potential of different forms of language. Following this logic, Prigent considers poetry mainly as rhythm; not just any fixed pattern or regularity, but rather the individual’s desire as a corporeal experience. Thus he attaches great importance to difficult transgressive writers and illustrates the importance of transgression that is one way of approaching human experience in language. His text partly shape as a dialogue with other writers such as Jean-Marie Gleize and Philippe Beck.
Anmeldelse: Veloplagt og fornyende dansk litteraturhistorie
Authors: Larsen Svend Erik
Published: October 2016

"Veloplagt og fornyende dansk litteraturhistorie"Anmeldelse af: Anne-Marie Mai: Hvor litteraturen finder sted 1-3, København: Gyldendal, 2010-2011. Bind 1: Fra Guds tid til menneskets tid 1100-1800, 473 sider, pris: 399 kr; Bind 2: Længslens tidsaldre 1800-1900, 293 sider, pris: 399 kr; Bind 3: Moderne tider 1900-2010, 492 sider, pris: 399 kr.Anmeldt af Svend Erik Larsen
The Wire og kriminalitetens afkroge
Authors: Andersson Robert , Bruhn Jørgen , Gjelsvik Anne
Published: October 2016

Robert Andersson, Jørgen Bruhn og Anne Gjelsvik: "The Wire og kriminalitetens afkroge"AbstractRobert Andersson, Jørgen Bruhn & Anne Gjelsvik: “The Wire and the Corners of Crime”This article argues that the American TV-series The Wire poses complicated political and ideological questions rather than attempting to deliver clear-cut answers or solutions to the problems represented. The Wire is analysed both as an aesthetic phenomenon (narratological and thematic analysis) and as a representation of societal elements (which demands analysis based on sociological, historical and criminological perspectives). After a brief overview of the series, the authors aim to generalise the results of the analysis of a particular part of the five-season series, namely the “Hamsterdam-episode”.
Udspring og fald
Authors: Gammelgaard Lasse
Published: October 2016

Lasse Gammelgaard: "Udspring og fald i Alison Bechdels grafiske erindringsværk: Fun Home. A Family Tragicomic"AbstractLasse Gammelgaard: “Coming Out and Falling Down: Alison Bechdel’s Graphic Memoir Fun Home. A Family Tragicomic”Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home. A Family Tragicomic is a graphic memoir about the author’s own coming-out story and her father’s homosexuality and (probable) suicide. It endeavors to give an accurate account of the past, but the telling is simultaneouslyreplete with fictionalising elements. This article probes that oscillation and describes some of the salient verbal-visual-contingent stylistic features and potentialities, which emerge as a consequence of the work’s multimodality.
Tegneserien er en ufattelig undervurderet udtryksform
Authors: Thorhauge Thomas
Published: October 2016

Thomas Thorhauge: "Tegneserien er en ufattelig undervurderet udtryksform"
Digital poesi og materialitet
Authors: Rustad Hans Kristian
Published: October 2016

Hans Kristian Rustad fokuserer i “Digital poesi og materialitet. Materiel forgængelighed i Johannes Heldéns Entropi” på et bestemt eksempel på den multimodale poesi, nemlig poesien på internettet. Rustad rejser som Conte spørgsmålet om, hvordan digital poesi kan bidrage til forståelsen af intermedialitet og materialitet og herunder til forholdet mellem trykte og digitale tekster.Hans Kristian Rustad: “Digital Poetry and Materiality. Material Transitoriness in Johannes Heldén’s Entropi”How can digital poetry contribute to an understanding of intermediality and materiality, and, more to the point, the relation between print and the digital? N. Katherine Hayles defines intermediality in relation to digital literature as a “dynamicheterachy”, that is, an interplay where print and the digital continually inform and define each other. In its simplest form the relation between print literature and digital literature can be approached, according to Hayles, through two complementarystrategies: imitation and intensifying. She acknowledges the need for a further exploration of how these two strategies might work in digital literature, and how digital literature in general discovers and re-discovers relations between print and the digital. This article picks up where Hayles’s left off and discusses how materialityand intermediality are presented in Johannes Heldén’s work Entropi (2010).
ESKE, NATURLIGVIS! Om økopoesi og naturerotik i Eske K. Mathiesens økoerotiske lyrik
Authors: Gregersen Martin , Skiveren Tobias
Published: October 2016

Martin Gregersen & Tobias Skiveren: “ESKE, NATURALLY! On Ecopoetry and Eroticism of Nature in the Ecoerotic Poetry of Eske K. Mathiesen”Within Danish literary history, the works of Eske K. Mathiesen have long been flying under the radar. This neglect is possibly due to the fact that the close attention to nature and immediate environment displayed in these writings is generally conceived as anachronistic when contextualized within a hypermodern, technological, and globalized age, such as the one we are currently part of. However, the current climate crisis changes this. Looking through the optics of ecocritisicm, this article examines the view on nature in the lyrical work of Eske K. Mathiesen in relation to existing categories of literary history. By various readings of representative poems, this article argues that his work distinguishes itself by viewing nature through the eyes of both ecology and erotics. In other words, the lyrical work of Eske K. Mathiesen can be categorized as both eco- and erotic poetry, however, as this article suggests, it is more accurate to fuse the two and employ a concept of ecoerotic poetry.
Offervilje. Om ret og rimelighed blandt venner og fjender og om at komme og dømme levende og døde i Max Kestners film "I am Fiction"
Authors: Jacobsen Louise Brix , Nielsen Henrik Skov , Kraglund Rikke Andersen
Published: October 2016

Louise Brix Jacobsen, Rikke Andersen Kraglund & Henrik Skov Nielsen: “Selfsacrifice. On Right and Reasonableness among Foes and Friends, and on Judging the Living and the Dead in Max Kestner’s film I am Fiction”In 2011, the performance artist Thomas Skade-Rasmussen Strøbech lost a lawsuit against his former friend and collaborator Helge Bille Nielsen and the publishing house of Gyldendal. This led to a debate about copyright, freedom of expression, identity, and the line between fiction and reality. In 2008, Nielsen or Das Beckwerk published the novel The Sovereign where Strøbech – seemingly without his knowledge and apparently against his will – is the main character. About a year after losing the lawsuit Strøbech and film director Max Kestner gives his version of the events before, during, and after the trial in the film I am Fiction (Identitetstyveriet). This article analyzes I am fiction in order to show how the film on the one hand outlines Strøbech’s version of the events as a story about a victim but on the other hand undermines this version with humor and irony and points towards an artistic collaboration between alleged victim and villain.
En appel til erindringen. Kollektiv erindring og det infra-ordinære i Georges Perecs "Je me souviens"
Authors: Løkkegaard Tue
Published: October 2016

Tue Løkkegaard: “An Appeal to Memory. Collective Memory and the Infra- Ordinary in Georges Perec’s Je me souviens”This article analyzes the book Je me souviens by French author Georges Perec. The book’s composition of 480 recollections associated with the everyday and the banal is investigated through Perec’s notion of the infra-ordinary and collective memory. Perec’s book and the everydayness are situated as a field of experience that consists of both an individual and a collective presence, thus enabling Je me souviens to act as a reminder and a visualization of both the potential and the processes of subjectivation situated in the unnoticed fabric of the everyday.
Kierkegaard, antifilosofi og global migration i "Gør Danmark dansk"
Authors: Nørgaard Julie , Reestorff Camilla Møhring
Published: October 2016

Julie Nørgaard & Camilla Møhring Reestorff: “Kierkegaard, Antiphilosophy and Global Migration in Make Denmark Danish”Through a reading of Søren Kierkegaard this article studies negotiations of global migration and national identity as it unfolds in DR1’s TV-program Gør Danmark Dansk/Make Denmark Danish (2012). In the program three ethnic and three Muslim Danes have to live together and discuss “Danishness”. Kierkegaard’s depictions of the modern, dispassionate society (1846) are used to examine the program’s articulation of a new inclusive national community. A comparative reading of Kierkegaard’s (1843), Butler’s (2000) and Honig’s (2010) readings of Antigone suggests that the program’s Muslim participants are staged as figures of transformation that bring forth a new national identity. Yet by reading the program through antiphilosophical (Lacan 1980; Badiou 2011; Groys 2012) lenses it becomes evident that the participants are “working the intervals” between imitating the program’s prescribed ethical choice and claiming a postmetaphysical ethics.
Meget fjern læsning. Litteraturen, de store data og Google Ngrams
Authors: Thomsen Mads Rosendahl
Published: October 2016

Mads Rosendahl Thomsen: “Very Distant Reading. Literature, the Big Data, and Google Ngrams”The article discusses the uses of Google Ngram Viewer in light of the current larger interest in digital humanities. Through a series of examples, the article seeks to demonstrate how Ngrams are useful for providing a better context for otherwise more intuitive notions of cultural importance of works and how the tool can help generate new research questions, both with regards to the position of literary works in culture and with regards to the differences between the literary world and culture at large.
60 gange i minuttet. Et essay om finanskrisen, kreditboblen og helvedes facadearkitektur: penge
Authors: Bolt Mikkel
Published: October 2016

Mikkel Bolt: “60 times a minute. An Essay on the Financial Crisis, the Credit Bubble and the Façade Architecture of Hell: Money”Taking its point of departure in the American poet John Ashbery’s 2009 poetry collection Planisphere that contains mediations on the strange ending of finance capitalism the article analyses the financial crisis in 2008 as an expression of deeper structural problems in the capitalist world economy. The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers sat in motion a wave of busts that seriously threaten the capitalist mode of production which has been unable to create a sufficient rate of profit since the early 1970’s. The article argues that the imbalance is a structural feature in capitalism, the system is a system of crisis, that can only be overcome by the abolition of its basic features: labour, value and money.
Troværdighedsbobler. Penge, fantasi og virkelighed i Jonathan Swifts "Gullivers rejser"
Authors: Thorup Mikkel
Published: October 2016

Mikkel Thorup: “Credibility Bubbles. Money, Fantasy and Reality in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels”This article explores the interrelations between credit and credibility in Jonathan Swift’s well-known satire Gulliver’s Travels. Starting from a sketch of the monetary and financial innovations and developments of the period, most notably the emerging credit market and the collapse of the South Sea Bubble, the article reads Swift as a commentary on the ways in which economic value is increasingly disconnected from material or use references in favor of opinions, fantasies and imaginaries. To be creditworthy, in both the markets of Swift’s time and in his book, is tightly connected to speech, to reassurances of credibility. Credit and credibility are interlocked and the article explores how that interlocking plays out satirically.
Emma, Nastasja og luksusfælden. Om penge og bovarisme
Authors: Andersen Jørn Erslev
Published: October 2016

Jørn Erslev Andersen: “Emma, Natasja and The Luxury Trap. On Money and Bovarism”The essay deals with the connections between bovarism, money and debt in literary and real life. The main literary examples are Emma from G. Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Nastasja from F. Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot. The examples are actualized by drawing lines to the Danish TV programme Luksusfælden (The Luxury Trap). The main perspectives derive from Jules de Gaultier’s Le Bovarysme from 1902 and Marx’ chapter on “the trinitary formula” in Capital III, 48.
Spekulationsfeber. Finansielle fiktioner i Émile Zolas "Penge"
Authors: Andersen Michael Høxbro
Published: October 2016

Michael Høxbro Andersen: “Speculation Fever. Financial Fiction in Émile Zola’s Money”One of the many French novels from the latter half of the 19th century that describes the stock exchange is Émile Zola’s Money from 1899. This article focuses on the two stylistic devises that Zola uses to describe stock market speculation: long, elaborated descriptions and metaphors. The article suggests that these devices cannot simply be read as Zola’s inability to grasp the abstract reality of financial capitalism. Against such a classical Marxist reading, expressed in different ways by György Lukács and Theodor W. Adorno, the article argues that Zola’s metaphors express an insight into the cyclic and entropic history of financial capitalism.