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Electrical Distribution Industry - Long Term Load Forecast on Ilesha Road 11kV Feeder, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria
Authors: Ogunboyo Patrick Taiwo , Melodi Adegoke Oladipo
Published: August 2018

This paper presents an investigative study on a selected 11 kV distribution feeder network in Akure township, Nigeria, aimed at evaluating power distribution problems and solution proposals for effective application of existing 11 kV feeders for power supply within Nigeria. Based on peak loads recorded on the feeder for 8 years a long term load forecast up to 2021 was carried out using “Trend’ and “Growth’ functions in Excel worksheet. These functions use Method of Least Squares. The peak network load is 8 MW and the expected load in 2021 is 14.5 MW (18.5 MVA at 0.8 power factor) after an exponential growth rate of 0.6 MW per annum. There is need to increase the rating of the power transformer feeding the feeder in order to enhance the security power supply to the network. Furthermore, the Power Company must provide standard input voltage (1.05x11 kV) to the network in order to normalize end-users voltage quality.
Swarm Intelligence Optimization Techniques in Mobile Path Planning - A Review
Authors: Yinka-Banjo Chika O. , Agwogie Ukamaka Hope
Published: August 2018

In the present world, mobile robot has been widely used for many functions across different areas of life. These mobile robots can be engaged in a static or dynamic environment where they are expected to accomplish a task optimally against all odds. Path planning for mobile robot is a very crucial problem in robotics that has been greatly researched upon; it is aimed at finding an optimal path in a given environment from a start point to the goal point. Several techniques have been employed in solving this crucial problem. These techniques are broadly classified as classical and heuristics. The Swarm Intelligence Techniques form a sub-class of the heuristics approach. The aim of this research is to review the swarm intelligence techniques in solving the mobile robot path planning problem. The drawbacks and merits of each of the techniques were discussed and a comparative analysis was given.
Performance Evaluation of Optical Networks Using Advanced Modulation Format
Authors: Magidi Simbarashe
Published: August 2018

In this paper, we have evaluated the performance of DPSK advanced modulation format in a bidirectional passive optical network for a triple play scenario at a constant symmetrical data rate of 10 Gbps. Data, voice and video signal has been successfully transmitted to a maximum of 128 users for a maximum distance of 100 km. Network performance was measured in terms of the Q factor, BER and eye opening, as a function of the number of users and distance of reach.
Subsets of CD4+, CD8+, and CD25hi Lymphocytes Are in General Not Influenced by Isolation and Long-Term Cryopreservation
Authors: Tompa Andrea , Nilsson-Bowers Anette , Faresjö Maria
Published: August 2018

Several key factors can affect the outcome of immunological studies; isolation/cryopreservation can possibly alter T, B, NK, and T-regulatory (Treg) cell marker expression patterns. Blood samples from 50 blood donors supplemented with Na-heparin or K2EDTA were handled within 4 and 24 h after blood sampling. PBMC were isolated with different density gradients. Flow cytometric analysis of intracellular and extracellular CD markers was performed on blood samples freshly isolated PBMC, and PBMC was thawed 6 and 12 mo post-cryopreservation for the purpose of identifying B, NK, Th, T-cytotoxic, and Treg cells. No differences were observed in the percentages for CD3+, CD3+CD4+, CD3+CD8+, CD19+, or CD56+CD16+ cells within 24 h of sampling regardless of which supplement or isolation techniques were used. Differentiated (diff) CD4+ cells were in general less affected by isolation and cryopreservation than diff CD8+ cells. Terminally diff effector CD4+ and CD8+ cells were not affected by either isolation of lymphocytes or cryopreservation. In contrast, naive and early-diff effector memory CD4+ and CD8+ cells were affected by isolation and cryopreservation. The percentages of Treg cells defined as CD4+CD25hi expressing CD101 or CD129, CD4+CD25hiCD127−, and CD4+CD25hiCD127−FOXP3+, respectively, remained stable after isolation and cryopreservation. Subsets expressing CD127, with or without FOXP3, were not affected by isolation/cryopreservation. Subsets expressing CD39, contrary to CD45RA, on CD4+CD25+CD127− cells with or without FOXP3 were not affected by either isolation or cryopreservation. In conclusion, subsets of CD4+, CD8+, and CD25hi lymphocytes are in general not influenced by isolation and long-term cryopreservation.
Disrupting the Code: Epigenetic Dysregulation of Lymphocyte Function during Infectious Disease and Lymphoma Development
Authors: Di Pietro Andrea , Good-Jacobson Kim L.
Published: August 2018

Lymphocyte differentiation and identity are controlled by signals in the microenvironment that ultimately mediate gene expression in the nucleus. Although much focus has centered on the strategic and often unique roles transcription factors play within lymphocyte subsets, it is increasingly clear that another level of molecular regulation is crucial for regulating gene expression programs. In particular, epigenetic regulation is critical for appropriately regulated temporal and cell-type–specific gene expression during immune responses. As such, mutations in epigenetic modifiers are linked with lymphomagenesis. Furthermore, certain infections can remodel the epigenome in host cells, either through the microenvironment or by directly co-opting host epigenetic mechanisms, leading to inappropriate gene expression and/or ineffective cellular behavior. This review will focus on how histone modifications and DNA methylation, and the enzymes that regulate the epigenome, underpin lymphocyte differentiation and function in health and disease.
Cutting Edge: Dysregulated CARD9 Signaling in Neutrophils Drives Inflammation in a Mouse Model of Neutrophilic Dermatoses
Authors: Tartey Sarang , Gurung Prajwal , Samir Parimal , Burton Amanda , Kanneganti Thirumala-Devi
Published: August 2018

Mice homozygous for the Y208N amino acid substitution in the carboxy terminus of SHP-1 (referred to as Ptpn6spin mice) spontaneously develop a severe inflammatory disease resembling neutrophilic dermatosis in humans. Disease in Ptpn6spin mice is characterized by persistent footpad swelling and suppurative inflammation. Recently, in addition to IL-1α and IL-1R signaling, we demonstrated a pivotal role for RIPK1, TAK1, and ASK1 in promoting inflammatory disease in Ptpn6spin mice. In the current study we have identified a previously unknown role for CARD9 signaling as a critical regulator for Ptpn6spin-mediated footpad inflammation. Genetic deletion of CARD9 significantly rescued the Ptpn6spin-mediated footpad inflammation. Mechanistically, enhanced IL-1α–mediated signaling in Ptpn6spin mice neutrophils was dampened in Ptpn6spinCard9−/− mice. Collectively, this study identifies SHP-1 and CARD9 cross-talk as a novel regulator of IL-1α–driven inflammation and opens future avenues for finding novel drug targets to treat neutrophilic dermatosis in humans.
Colin P. Groves (1942-2017) and his legacy
Authors: Gippoliti Spartaco
Published: August 2018

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Changing family patterns from rural to urban and living in the in-between: A public practical theological responsive ministerial approach in Africa
Authors: Magezi Vhumani
Published: August 2018

African people and their families find themselves in a situation of tension because of their transition from rural to urban life. This tension has created a third family type, namely emerging families. The emerging families are characterised by a sense of life being under a constant strain to meet individual needs and at the same time the expected needs of the extended family. In such a situation, an individual gets sandwiched in a space of confusion, trapped in an in-between space where one is unsure whether to stick to traditional rural values and norms amidst the challenges of the reality of inadequate financial resources to support extended family members. Thus, one’s life space in Africa should be considered as being in a state of shifting fluidity. The outcome is an emerging and negotiated family where new arrangements are developing. In response, pastoral care should take a public dimension. Pastoral care should develop an analytic framework as well as a public practical theological ministerial approach that responds to these changing family patterns. It is proposed that a responsive public pastoral care approach could perform three tasks: preventive, mitigatory and maintenance pastoral care.
Previsão probabilística de enchentes para uma pequena bacia hidrográfica do Pantanal
Authors: Cristaldo Marcia Ferreira , Souza Celso Correia de , Jesus Leandro de , Oliveira Paulo Tarso Sanches de , Padovani Carlos Roberto , Viganó Hevelyne Henn da Gama
Published: August 2018

O monitoramento para a previsão de cheias de pequenas bacias hidrográficas é de grande importância tendo em vista a relação dos recursos hídricos com a sociedade, pois pode garantir o uso sustentável às comunidades urbanas de cidades lindeiras à bacia. O rio Aquidauana está inserido na planície Pantaneira sendo considerado vulnerável à inundações, no entanto, falta de um sistema eficiente para previsões de cheias e inundações. Assim, este estudo propõe um sistema de previsão probalística de enchentes para a bacia do Rio Aquidauana. Para tanto foram utilizadas as redes neurais artificiais (RNAs) do tipo MultiLayer Perceptron (treinamento back-propagation) com parâmetros otimizados pelos Algoritmos Genéticos. A RNA foi treinada e avaliada com base em dados de chuva acumulada (mm) e nível de rio (cm) à montante entre os anos de 1995 a 2014. A previsão realizada foi de 1 a 5 dias, tendo como melhor desempenho o modelo para 1 dia de previsão, com resultado de coeficiente de determinação e erro quadrático médio de 0,93 e 30 (cm), respectivamente.
Estudios sobre el teatro de Gil Vicente: obras de crítica social y religiosa (continuacíon)
Authors: Zimic Stanislav
Published: August 2018

Los criticos admiran Quem Tem Farelos? por su »gaiety and concentration« que la hacen »perhaps the best of the farses [de Gil Vicente]« por su »freschezza che il pensiero spontaneamente ricorre alla zampillante gioiositá di un Mozart e di un Rossini«; por su »comiciadade austera«, etc. Por otra parte, esta magnífica farsa se censura a menudo por su »enredo muito tenue«, por »a quase inexistência de intriga; por el »ingénue arranjo dos seus quadros« y porque les falta ordenação aos agrupamentos e naturalidade ao desfile episódico«.
Denys Wyatt Harding on entertainment and on reading
Authors: Grosman Meta
Published: August 2018

Entertainment and the process of reading are two spheres of human activity which have kept Professor Harding's interest for more than forty years. Time and again he would focus his attention on them: studying the nature of these activities, their relation to other human activities, their impact upon the individual and their role in society as a whole, and examining individual features of the reading process, analysing various misconceived notions about the nature and position of these activities in human life and investigating the possibilities of improving the capacity to respond to art at a more practiced level. In this way - approaching the problems of entertainment and reader response from different points of view and elaborating various details and aspects over several decades - his sustained efforts to penetrate into these activities have resul.ted in an important body of knowledge encompassing a far-reaching concept of entertainment and of reading built upon a well-balanced account of them as integral human activities, and of their wider social relevance.
La situazione politica e culturale nella Slovenia napoleonica e Charles Nodier
Authors: Pirjevec Marija
Published: August 2018

Nel 1813 in qualità di direttore del Télégraphe Officiel, il foglio ufficiale dell'amministrazione delle Provincie Illiriche, stampato a Lubiana, Charles Nodier cominciò a pubblicare una serie di articoli dedicati ai diversi aspetti dell'Illiria. In essi egli esprime un grande entusiasmo per la scoperta della regione slovena concludendo le sue osservazioni, secondo la moda neoclassica del tempo, con immagini tratte dalla mitologia greca.
Hemingway in the Soča vally
Authors: Mclver Bruce
Published: August 2018

Hemingway is a very popular writer in Slovenia. One of my students in Ljubljana pointed out a very well known passage lin A Farewell to Arms about two refugee girls Frederic Henry and his driver, Aymo, pick up in Gorizia (Gorica) during the retreat from Caporetto (Kobarid). What interested many of my students about the episode was that the two girls seem to speak a dialect that neither Aymo, who is Italian, nor Frederic, who is fluent in Italian,' understands. My students belived that these girls are speaking Slovenian. The only Italian they seem to understand are the words in Italian for sexual intercourse, which makes them very upset, and virgin and sister, which calm them down. It is very likely that two Slovenian girls would know a little Italian, particularly if they came from Gorizia, which at the time of the first world war was predominantly Slovene.
An interview with Stephen Spender
Authors: Jurak Mirko
Published: August 2018

The interview took place on Wednesday, June 24, 1964 at the offices of the London Magazine. The conversation was recorded and the original tape is in the Library of the Department of English, Edvard  Kardelj University of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. The interview is printed without essential changes, only some redundances and sentence fragments have been omitted, and I tried to preserve the atmosphere of the conversation as much as possible. The text in brackets [] has been added for this article in order to clear some points or to provide the additional bibliographical information.
La reception du Nouveau Roman français ens Slorvenie
Authors: Zupančič Metka
Published: August 2018

Nous nous proposons, dans le présent article, de réfléchir sur la réception d'un prénomène de la littérature contemporaine, à savoir du Nouveau Roman français, dans le monde romanesque slovène. Ce qui nous a intéressée plus particulièrerment dans nos recherches, c'était de voir comment cette diffusion pouvait être accueillie et même assimilée dans un contexte qui est d'ailleurs peu connu des Français. Le passage d'informations semble d'ailleurs n'avoir été assuré que dans une direction, évidemment de la France vers la Slovénie. Comme il arrive souvent, la réception des informations' était fortement conditionnée par tous les obsrtacles qui peuvent intervenir dans les échanges entre deux cultures: les barrages de la langue, les différences d'esprit, les possibilités de reception réduites par l'idéologie (culturelle) dominante, ou encore, les informations parvenant au recepteur par le biais des intermédiaires, et en dernier lieu, les retards possibles et la subjectivité des porteurs d'informations.
The Om mani padme hum, the Platonic Soul, the Tao, and the Greek Cross are an Architectural Tool
Authors: Kurent Tine
Published: August 2018

The plan of Borobuclur conforms with two concentric octagrams. The lines of the scheme, their lengths, and their intersections, determine the articulation of the Borobudur composition, i. e. the sizes of every part and of the whole as well. The sizes of Borobudur are modular. Their modular multiples are Pell numbers, the ratios of which rationally approximate the irrational proportions in octagram  If Borobudur numbers are located in the Peli number-pattern and connected with a line, the syllable OM, written in Sanskrit, appears. The word octagram is only the modern European name of the symbol of OM. The prayer OM MANI PADME HUM, translated as 'the JEWEL and the LOTOS', is a good description of octagram.
Michael Ondaatje's reinvention of social and cultural Myths: In the Skin of a Lion
Authors: Gorjup Branko
Published: August 2018

From the beginning of his writing career in the early sixties until the recent publication of In the Skin of a Lian (1987), the Canada of Michael Ondaatje had represented one thing: a geographical locale which he has selected as his home but which, fundamentally, had failed to engage his imagination. The fictional worlds he created in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Coming Through Slaughter and Running in the Family, has been located outside of Canada, each corresponding to an actual place complete with historical and geographical references. For this very reason it has been impossible - as Sam Solecki noted in his introduction to Spider Blues, »a collection of reviews and essays on Ondaatje - to place this anomalous literary presence in Canada within »specifically Canadian tradition of writing ...«,  a tradition that would»include and see relationships among figures as different as Roberts, Pratt, F. R. Scott, Purdy and Atwood ...« Ondaatje's »characters, landscapes, stories and themes resist any taxonomies based on overtly Canadian thematics.« In fact, Solecki further suggested that Ondaatje, like »V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott and Salmon Rushdie ..., compels a rethinking of the notion of a national tradition«. Similarly, another critic from the same collection described Ondaatje's position in the context of Canadian writing as unique - a position according to which »language or audience or the identity and the role of the poet are indeterminate. «
"Aissi co'l peis": the delicate erotic of Bernart de Ventadorn
Authors: Thomas Patrick A.
Published: August 2018

No one would ever dream of accusing Bernart de Ventadorn of the indelicacy typical of Guillaume IX. Nonetheless, although this Fra Angelico of medieval lyricism never trespasses the limits of a most delicate reserve, it is evident that the quality of his desire had yet to attain the more non-carnal passion of a Dante. Bernart does not seek to meet his domna in Paradiso; her private chamber is heaven enough for him.
Zum Prosawerk Ingrid Puganiggs
Authors: Miladinović Mira
Published: August 2018

Die osterreichische Autorin Ingrid Puganigg wurde 1947 als Ingrid Kapeller in einem Ort (Gassen in Kärnten) geboren, wo, zugegebenermaßen, fast alle Kapeller heißen. Seit 1962 lebt sie als Wahlvorarlbergerin in Höchst. Sie war in verschiedenen Berufen tätig, urm schließlich zur Literatur zu finden. Bis jetzt hat sie sich schreibend mit Lyrik, Prosa und Dramatik (Hörspiele) auseinandergesetzt und für ihre literarische Produktion auch einige Preise erhalten. In diesem Essay möchten wir den Versuch wagen, anhand von drei in Buchform erschienenen Prosatexten Ingrid Puganiggs, und mehr an Prosaarbeiten hat sie unseres Wissens bis jetzt in Buchform nicht veröffentlicht, ihre Entwicklung als Prosa-Autorin nachzuzeichnen.
The syntax of the Old English preverbal ge- in the light of the theory of language changes as strengthenings or weakenings
Authors: Trobevšek-Drobnak Frančiška
Published: August 2018

The followmg paper reports on the results of 'the investigation into some aspects of the usage of the Old English preverbal ge- from the point of view of the theory of language changes as strengthenings or weakenings. The investigation served as 'the basis for the author's Ph. D. dissertation (1990).
L'Antigone dans la littérature slovéne: situation ou héroine?
Authors: Koren Evald
Published: August 2018

Après Ajax (en 1863) et Oedipe àColone (en 1892), Antigone est .la troi­ sìeme tragédie de Sophocle traduite en slovène. En 1912, elle fut mise en scène par le Théâtre national slovène de Ljubljana dans une traduction de Cvetko Golar, cette dernière n'étant publiée que plus tard, en 1924, dans une version assez changée. Le thème d'Antigone, ce mythe littéraire créé par Sophocle, n'émergea pouvtant dans la littérature slovène qu'en 1939 ·lorsque Miran Jarc (1900-1942) publia un texte dramatique plutôt court Antigone de village. Fragment de tragedie. Jarc n'a jamais écrit la tragédie intégrale et, probablement, il n'ava:it même pas l'intention de le faire, ce ˝fragment˝ à la dénomination assez vague, restant done la seule pavtie existante de cette  tragédie.
Peter Handkes Parzival
Authors: Janko Anton
Published: August 2018

Es wird in der germanistischen Forschung noch immer danach gefragt, warum Wolframs Parzival seine berühmte Frage an den leidenden Gralskönig Amfortas nicht stellt, als er zum ersten Mal auf die Gralsburg kommt. Dieser Frage, die im Text des mittelhochdeutschen Romans zweirnai formuliert wird, begegnet man zuersßt in der Trevrizentepisode. Dort lautet sie: hêrre wie stêt iuwer nôt? (484, 27). Das zweite Mal erscheint sie - etwas geandert - im letzten Buch des Romans, als sie tatsächlich an den König gerichtet wird: oeheim, waz wirret dir? (795, 29).
Gothic iup, welsh uch, old irish uabar
Authors: Hamp Eric P.
Published: August 2018

I wrote about Gothic iup ἄvω in relation to uf, ufar, German auf, Old English up, upp, etc., Latin sub, super, Umbrian sub, Oscan sup, Greek ὺπό and clearly related forms attested throughout Indo-European, in Modern Language Notes, January 1954, 39-41, without being able to reach a positive conclusion. All I could then establish was that the consonant was not the desired kind (apparently the nearly non-occurring IE *b), or else there was a strange unmotivated laryngeal suffix; that the initial required a laryngeal different from that which Albanian hyp ,mount, climb' leads us to assign to this base; and that iup could not be connected with uf.
Chaucer - a medieval writer?
Authors: Ožbolt Martina
Published: August 2018

For literary historians with only few exceptions (e.g . J.W. Mackail, W.P. Ker, A.C. Spearing) Geoffrey Chaucer is unquestionably and exclusively a medieval poet. The belief that his literaryproduction undoubtedly makes part of medieval English literature seems firmly established and any doubt about it futile. In spite ofthis aprioristic attitude towards the problem of the relationship between Chaucer and the Middle Ages there are at least two major elements which may make one doubt how correct it is to take Chaucer's medievalism for grante.
Frederick M. Rener
Authors: Stanonik Janez
Published: August 2018

The editors of Acta Neophilologica announce deeply grieved the demise of one of their major coworkers, Professor Frederick M. Rener. He was one of those intellectuals who after the Second World War emigrated from  Slovenia to America where they made distinguished scholarly careers at the universities of Canada and United States.
Mirko und Franca: ein Märchen : zu einer Erzählung von Hilde Spiel
Authors: Janko Anton
Published: August 2018

Anläßich der Ueberreichung des Peter-Rosegger-Preises im März 1986 beteuert Hilde Spiel in ihrer Dankrede, daß sie nicht mit allen Gedanken, Ansichten und Ausführungen dieses "größten Schrifstellers" übereinstimmen könne. Doch gebe es auch Uebereinstimmungen zwischen den beiden: " ... ich darf die Themen nennen, mit denen er, ein eminent engagierter, politischer Schriftsteller, sich zu jener Zeit herumgeschlagen hat. ... Themen, die auch mir zu denken gegeben haben,wie Krieg, Nationalismus, Rassenhaß".Diese Problematik bahandelt sie immerwieder in verschiedenen literarischen Verkleidungen, sei es in ihren Tagebuchaufzeichnungen Rückkehr nach Wien (194 7), sei es in ihren kritischen, essayistischen und feuilletonistischen Aufsätzen oder aber in längeren belletristischen Werken, wie etwa in den Romanen Lisas Zimmer (1965) und Früchte des Wohlstandes (1981 ). Auch in ihrer kleinen Erzählung Mirko undFranca greift sie auf diese Thematik zurück.
Peter Handke im slowenischen Raum : eine Bibliographie
Authors: Šlibar Neva
Published: August 2018

Die vorliegende Bibliographie, die die Rezeption Handkes im slowenischen Raum sowie die Beziehung Handke-Slowenien innerhalb der in Slowenien und/oder von slowenischen Autoren veröffentlichten Publizistik umfaßt (und nur in Ausnahmefällen Aufsätze bzw. Artikel mit Slowenien-Bezug im deutschsprachigen Raum berücksichtigt), reagiert auf den mancherorts beklagten Mangel übersichtlicher Darstellungen und fundierterer Auseinandersetzungen mit diesem literarischen, fachlichen und öffentlichen Teilbereich. Wohl ist daraus auf den ersten Blick ersichtlich, daß Handke bereits sehr früh im slowenischen Kulturraum gelesen wurde. Im Laufe der Jahre hat sich eine beachtliche Anzahl von verschiedenartigen Artikeln zu ihm und seinem Werk angesammelt, worunter sich jedoch nur vereinzelte fachlich relevante und unter die oberflächliche Präsentation gehende Studien befinden. Eine eingehende Rezeptionsanalyse dieses Teilbereichs der Handke-Forschung ist seit langem geplant und wird in Kürze an der Germanistik der Philosophischen Fakultät in Ljubljana verfaßt werden.
The vowel mosaic in the Cansos of Bernart de Ventadorn
Authors: Thomas Patrick Michael
Published: August 2018

A true poet, Bernart de Ventadorn claims to derive inspiration from the Muse of Love in order to explain the excellence of his verse. If we study the vowels in "Non es meravelha s'eu chan", certain definite patterns emerge, patterns that strongly suggest the hand of a self-conscious, albeit inspired, artist. Insofar as our study of the intraversicular stressed vowels has shown that the vowels naturally fall into groups of 2,2 we have utilized the same division here and found that such a grouping turns out to be equally revelatory.
American 'committed' drama in Slovene theatres
Authors: Maver Igor
Published: August 2018

The purpose of this study is essentially to demonstrate that the delayed stagings of American 'committed' plays, written in the thirties and produced in Slovene theatres immediately after World War Two in the late forties and fifties, were often miscontextualized and partly misinterpreted by the literary critics of the period. This was only in the early post-war years largely due to the need to serve the then ruling ideology and to comply with the criteria of Marxist aesthetisc, especially that of a radical social criticism. However, the later stagings particularly of Arthur Miller's and also Tennessee Williams's plays, did not see the same phenomenon, for it was they that assured the popularity of the American post-war drama on Slovene stages and, even more importantly, helped Slovene theatre to come off age in the sixties.
Don Quijote, doña Rodríguez y los duques
Authors: Zimic Stanislav
Published: August 2018

Al llegar Don Quijote al palacio de los duques y "viéndose tratar del mesmo modo que él había leído se trataban Ios tales caballeros en Ios pasados siglos ... , aquél fue el primer día que de todo en todo conoció y creyó ser caballero andante verdadero y no fantastíco" (1378). Comprensiblemente, esta afirmacion ha causado gran perplejidad entre los lectores de todas las épocas: "Luego, antes ¿no lo había creído?" . La cuestión se complica mucho más, poco después de estos eufóricos momentos, al confesar Don Quijote a la duquesa: "Dios sabe si hay Dulcinea o no en el mundo, o si es fantástica ono es fantástica ...
In memoriam Henry A. Christian
Authors: Stanonik Janez
Published: August 2018

Ruefully the editors of the review Acta Neophilologica announce the loss of our co-worker Henry A. Christian, Professor of American Literature at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. He died on 4. April 1997 on his estate at Millburn in New Jersey. For many years he paid in his scholarly researches special attention to the problems of cultural contacts between Slovenia and the United  States in which also Slovenes living in America play an important role: he has approached these problems as an Americanist, interested in the history of American civilization. This is why we wish to remember him on our pages.
Unravelling the mystery of reality : typical Canadian elements in the short stories of Alice Munro
Authors: Kustec Aleksander
Published: August 2018

The contemporary Canadian short story has a specific place among literary genres in Canadian literature. It culminated in the sixties of this century, when the Canadians looked to their literature with greater interest. Canadian short story writers started to write in a different tone, and showed special interest for new themes. After 1960 authors, such as Henry Kreisel, Norman Levine, Anne Hebert, Mavis Gallant, Ethel Wilson, Joyce Marshall, Hugh Hood, Hugh Garner, Margaret Laurence, Audrey Callahan Thomas, Mordecai Richler, and Alice Munro, refused to use the traditional plot, and showed more interest for characterisation. By using a typical Canadian setting, their stories began to reflect social events of their time. A new awareness of identity stepped forward, and above all their stories became a reflection of the diversity of life in all Canadian provinces. The contemporary Canadian short story writers began to overstep the boundaries of their imagination.
Uncle Tom's cabin in the Slovene language
Authors: Mazi-Leskovar Darja
Published: August 2018

Harriet Beecher-Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin or Negro Life in the Slave States of America (1852) is one of the American books that have been most often translated, issued and reprinted in Slovene. The article will present a few facts about the numerous translations, from the first ones to those sold in today's bookshops.
Geistesgeschichtliche und literarhistorische Aspekte eines spätmittelalterlichen Privatgebetbuches der National- und Universitätsbibliothek von Ljubljana
Authors: Javor Briški Marija
Published: August 2018

Gebete als Ausdruck der Zuwendung des Menschen zu Gott sind in einer nahezu unüberschaubaren Fülle mittelalterlicher Gebetbüchern auf uns gekommen, die zum Großteil als handschriftliche Zeugnisse ihr Dasein fristen und von der Forschung bislang wenig Beachtung fanden. Zu unterscheiden sind zwei Arten von Gebetbüchern: 1) die liturgischen, für den Gottesdienst bestimmten, die in der eher starren kirchlichen, lateinisch-römischen Tradition verankert sind und über einen mehr oder minder festen Kanon verfügen, und 2) die privaten, die aufgrund ihres individuellen Charakters in der Geschichte ihres Bestehens einen größeren Wandel erfahren und die vielfachen, sich verändernden Strömungen ausgesetzten Frömmigkeitsformen ihrer Besitzer widerspiegeln; allerdings sind sie nicht auf den außerliturgischen Gebrauch beschränkt, sie finden auch während des Gottesdienstes Verwendung.
Le temps et la perte d'identité dans la poésie de Joachim du Bellay
Authors: Pintarič Miha
Published: August 2018

L'échec des idées de gloire posthume, qui devrait assurer au poète de la Renaissance une survie dans la Mémoire de la postérité, et d’éternel retour stoicien, bref, l'échec des "chimerès" héritées de l’ Antiquité ("les songes antiques" ) qui ne peuvent garantir le moi contre l'invasion destructrice de la réalité dans son for interieurS, entralne dans la póesie de Du Bellay un sentiment de fragmentation et de perte d'identé.
El escrutinio de la biblioteca de Don Quijote y la crítica conservadora : (Quijote, I, 6)
Authors: Osterc Ludovik
Published: August 2018

Ningún trabajo crítico-literario se halla en la hermosa y rica literature española del Siglo de oro. Cuantós hayan hecho un estudio detenido de la época a que me refiero, me darán la razón. Trabajos ascéticos, algún que otro tratado sobre gramática, defensas y apologías de escritores destacados, semblanzas, crónicas, vidas de santos y viajes de príncipes, habían completado hasta entonces las exigencias de la generalidad de los hombres. La crítica, la verdadera crítica, estaba en aquellos tiempos olvidada y hasta completamente desatendida.
Anton Füster - a Slovene forty-eighter
Authors: Stanonik Janez
Published: August 2018

Anton Füster, originally by profession a Catholic priest and a leading figure in the Vienna Revolution of 1848/49, lived the early part of his life- from 1808 till 1847 - in his native Slovenia. A few months before the outbreak of the revolution he was nominated Professor at Vienna University. After the suppression of the revolution in spring 1849 he emigrated by way of Germany and London to the United States. After the first three years in Boston he lived in New York until his return to Austria in 1876. He died in Vienna in 1881.
Maxo Vanka's collage "World War II" is a brilliant gematrical composition
Authors: Kurent Tine T.
Published: August 2018

The American-Croatian painter Maksimilian Vanka, 1 1889-1963, or Maxo for his friends, composed together with his American wife Margaret, her father dr. Stetten DeWitt and his friends Louis and Stella Adamic, his most enigmatic work, the "WORLD WAR II" collage. The collage originated at the reunion of Maxo Vanka, his wife Margaret, his friends Louis and Stella Adamic, with Margaret's father Dr. Stetten DeWitt, after his return from Europe at war. The party was exhilarated with Dr. Stetten's safe escape from Korcula (Dalmatia) to Paris, Le Havre and on board of the French liner lie de France to New York, and preoccupied with the imminent World War.
Petrarca e il petrarchismo: aspetti della traduzione del sonetto in croato
Authors: Avirović Ljiljana
Published: August 2018

II Canzoniere di Petrarca (1304-1374) ha ricevuto quasi sempre in croato il titolo con cui quest' opera e passata alia storia (e non gia quello originario di Rerum vulgarium fragmenta), seppure nella trascrizione ortografica della lingua di arrivo (Kanconijer). Non che ai traduttori croati mancasse l'opportunita di renderlo con il suo equivalente Pjesmarica (canzoniere)- che del resto e il titolo con cui spesso Ia storiografia letteraria croata designa il capolavoro di Petrarca -, ma nella loro scelta si ravvisa l'intento di indirizzare in qualche modo illettore, che sin dal titolo del testo viene informato circa l'opportunita della traduzione di alcuni termini dalla forte connotazione semantica. Cio vale anche per la traduzione di una delle forme metriche piti frequenti nel Canzoniere, qual e appunto il sonetto. La trasposizione del sonetto italiano racchiude Ia summa dei problemi della traduzione metrica, richiedendo nella lingua di arrivo il massimo della versatilita traduttiva. La trasposizione dell'endecasillabo giambico del sonetto costituisce da secoli un problema particolarmente sentito presso i traduttori croati.
Tel arbre, tel fruit: the Tristan as 'tragodía'
Authors: Thomas Patrick Michael
Published: August 2018

It would seem that at the very core of tragedy one finds the fatal twins of death and resurrection. We suggest that any definition of tragedy that does not take this 'sine qua non' into account is missing the mark. And that includes Aristotle's definition which, like others after him, tends to describe the outer trappings of tragedy, although the purgation of pity and fear implies a type of metaphorical death out of which the spectator arises anew.The concerns, albeit legitimate, with 'peripetia', 'anagnorisis', and 'hamartia' really do not go to the heart of the matter, it seems to us.
Mary Jugg Molek and her first writings
Authors: Milanič Irena
Published: August 2018

In this paper I present the life and work of Mary Jugg Molek (1909-1982) an American writer of Slovene roots . So far she was mainly known as the wife and translator of her much more famous husband Ivan Molek, a prolific writer and a very influential Slovene-American editor. Whilst Mary Molek's publications of the seventies have already been reviewed, most of her earlier writings, in particular those of the thirties and forties have been overlooked.
Slovene poetry in the U.S.A.: the case of Ivan Zorman
Authors: Maver Igor
Published: August 2018

Ivan Zorman was both a musician and a poet, born in 1889 in Šmarje near Grosuplje and died in 1957 in Cleveland (Ohio). In 1893 his family emigrated to the United States of America, first to Ely, Calumet, Cleveland and then to some other American towns. After a brief return to Slovenia in 1898/9, where Zorman attended elementary school in Velesovo near Kranj, they finally settled down in 1904 in Cleveland. In 1907 Zorman took up the study of modern languages (English, French and Italian), history and music at Western Reserve University and graduated only in music in 1912. For a number of years, during 1908 and 1956, he was chief organist and choir leader (like his father) at the parish church of Sv. Lovrenc in Newburgh near Cleveland. During 1920 and 1925 he was professional director of the "Zorman Philharmonic". Not only was he known as a musician, he was very much present in the public life of the Slovene community living in Cleveland, as the enthusiastic teacher of Slovene literature in the Slovene school of the "Slovenski narodni dom", as a poet, translator and public speaker.
A communicative view of English teaching
Authors: Zuchen Yu
Published: August 2018

What does it mean to take a communicative view of language and teaching? This leads to an examination of language from different views.The structural view of language concentrates on the grammatical system, describing ways in which linguistic items can be combined. It explains the operations for producing different sentences and descibes the word-order rules. Linguistic knowledge, linguistic facts and operations make up a student's linguistic competence and enable him to produce new sentences to match the meanings that he wishes to express.
Thirty-two years of Acta Neophilologica - with gratitude to its founder and editor Professor Janez Stanonik
Authors: Jurak Mirko
Published: August 2018

In spring this year Professor Janez Stanonik decided to retire as the Editor of the scholarly journal Acta Neophilologica, which he founded in 1968 and edited for thirty-two years. I endeavoured to help him with the material side of the journal from the very beginning until1995; since then this task has been performed by the present Associate Editor.At the time when Janez Stanonik began publishing this journal, his main aim was to make our research work in Western European and American literature better known to scholars all over the world. However, in a few years' time the journal also became open to scholars from other countries and other fields, particularly in areas connected with Slovene literature and culture, Slovene immigrant literature, and linguistics. I believe that this approach gave the journal a new openness and that it enriched its quality, therefore I intend to follow this policy in the future too.
Cyberpunk literature and Slovenes : too mainstream, too marginal, or simply too soon?
Authors: Krevel Mojca
Published: August 2018

One of the most popular coinages of 'eighties America seems to be the notorious term "cyberpunk". The term covered everything from popular movies such as Robocop and Terminator, comics, video production and increasingly popular Japanese manga cartoons, to music from such diverse authors as Laurie Anderson and Billy Idol. But the phenomenon did not stop there: cyberpunk became a specific way of life, demanding certain behaviour, a dress code and so on.
Robert Dean Frisbie - an American writer in the South Pacific
Authors: Potočnik Nataša
Published: August 2018

The vision of Pacific literature in this article is based on my research on the Cook Islands and the U.S.A. about the American writer Robert Dean Frisbie who lived and wrote in the South Pacific in the first half of the 20th century.
"Nothing will come of nothing": an interview with Sir Richard Eyre
Authors: Maver Igor
Published: August 2018

The article features an interview with Sir Richard Eyre, a long-time Director of the Royal National Theatre in London and the director of the production of William Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear in the very same  theatre in 1997, which also saw a successful film  version. Sir Richard openly spoke about  his dilemmas as a director in the process of staging  the play, finding  the right east, about rehearsals and the first night performance, as well as about some key scenes interpreted by him somewhat  differently, although he essentially firmly relied on the text and the more traditional staging  of this famous Shakespeare's tragedy.
Communication with the Other in Jean-Paul Sartre's "L'âge de raison" : a discourse analysis
Authors: Silvester Rosalind
Published: August 2018

The article analyses conversation between the main characters, Mathieu and Marcelle, in Jean-Paul Sartre's L'Age de raison (1945). Interpretation of the material involves recent methods of discourse analysis and takes into consideration cognitive schemata and the pragmatic intentions of speech acts. A constant objective is to establish whether the interlocutors manage to attain either a metaphysical or moral liberty when they communicate and whether they are able to maintain this for any length of time. In Sartre's terms, this achievement would mean that each participant keeps his/her reflective quality without becoming an unreflective object for the Other. Communication, in this case, would be considered successful.
Instances of simplified style in ten English translations of Dane Zajc
Authors: Grošelj Nada
Published: August 2018

The article compares five poems by the Slovenian poet Dane Zajc and two translations of these poems into English. Focusing on the structures which are stylistically marked in Slovenian but neutralised in translation, the article categorises the translation solutions into groups according to how closely they correspond to the original and each other in syntactic form and in organisation of information (the functional sentence perspective), exarnining the instances from each group in detail and deterrnining their relative frequency. It concludes by isolating the three types of marked Slovenian structures which tend to be neutralised in translation: marked word order, structural am­ biguity, and non-basic constructions, including rhetorical devices.
Slovene critical responses to the works of Pearl S. Buck
Authors: Blake Alenka
Published: August 2018

At the beginning of her writing career, in the 1930's and 40's, Pearl S. Buck achieved great success that reached its pinnacle with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. Her works were ad­ mired among readers around the world, including Slovene readers. It seems that the Slovenes did not lag behind the world's literary trends of the time. The first translation of The Good Earth, probably the writer's most prominent novel, in 1934- only three years after the original was writ­ ten. The subject matter that the writer introduced in her works, China in interaction with the West, attracted many readers and soon resulted in a number of works being translated into Slovene. Con­ sequently the amount of critical material in Slovene newspapers and magazines also began to rise. This article provides an overview of and assesses the Slovene critical material on Pearl S. Buck, while evaluating the literary quality of that material.
New Zealand and Slovenia : cultural contacts, 1923-2000
Authors: Podbrežnik Andrej
Published: August 2018

Situated many thousands of miles apart, possessing very different historical experiences and occupying different positions in the world, Slovenia and New Zealand nonetheless share a number of common features as a result of the political, economic and cultural contacts that have been estab­ lished between the two countries. The author of this paper attempts to gauge the intensity of the contacts, mostly cultural, that have been forged between the two countries, with an emphasis on descriptions of New Zealand and portrayals of its people in the work of some of Slovenia's most outstanding travel writers. Alma Karlin (Samotno potovanje), Miran Ogrin (Na jugu sveta) and Tomo Križnar (Samotne sledi) have all succeeded in acquainting the Slovene reading public with New Zealand and its people and culture. So that readers might understand more fully the observa­ tions offered by these writers, the author of this paper provides background information in the{orm of a short account of the history of New Zealand and of New Zealand literature, going on to focus on those New Zealand writers whose work has been translated into Slovene, most notably Katherine Mansfield. Other writers whose work has been translated include Janet Frame, Dorothy Eden, Ngaio Marsh, Stephanie Johnson and Samuel Butler.
Responses to Toni Morrison's oeuvre in Slovenia
Authors: Midžić Simona
Published: August 2018

Toni Morrison, the first African American female winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is certainly one of the modern artists whose novels have entered the world's modern literary canon. She is one of the most read novelists in the United States, where all of her novels have been bestsellers. However, only Song of Solomon and Beloved have so far been translated into Slovene. There have been several articles or essays written on Toni Morrison but most of them are simply translations of English articles; the only exception is a study by Jerneja Petrič. This paper presents the Slovene translation of Song ofSolomon by Jože Stabej and the articles written on Toni Morrison by Slovene critics. Jože Stabej is so far the only Slovene translator who has translated Toni Morrison. The author of this article uses some Slovene translations from the novel in comparison to the original to show the main differences appearing because of different grammatical structures of both languages and differences in the two cultures. The articles by Slovene critics are primarily resumes or translations of English originals and have been mainly published in magazines specializing in literature.
La perfezione cavalleresca e cortigiana in "Gyrone il Cortese" di Luigi Alamanni
Authors: Prosenc Šegula Irena
Published: August 2018

Il poema Gyrone il Cortese  di Luigi Alamanni risente tanto dell'influsso delle discussioni teoriche letterarie tardorinascimentali quanto del modello castiglionesco del perfetto cortigiano. L'autore si prefigge di serivere un poema ˝regolare˝ ponendo al centra del suo poema Girone, un eroe perfetto che e un modelio morale, cristiano, cavalleresco, e nel contempo un abile conoscitore di norme sociali. Pertanto, l'eroe di Alamanni oscilla tra l'essere un perfetto cavaliere e l'essere un perfetto cortigiano. Nel poema, l'amore ha una funzione duplice - nobilitante  e al contempo degradante- tipica dei poemi cavallereschi rinascimentali italiani. In mancaiiza di una sintesi delle due tendenze contrastanti, la concezione dell'amore risulta incoerente, riflettendo una profonda incoerenza del concetto alamanniano dell'eroe, che esita tra i valori del cavaliere medievale, quelli del cortigiano rinascimentale e quelli dell'etica cristiana.
Selected American and Slovene critical responses to the work of Emily Dickinson
Authors: Godina Polona
Published: August 2018

Emily Dickinson, deemed one of the greatest and most prolific American woman poets, published only a handful of poems during her lifetime. Since its posthumous discovery, however, her opus has aroused innumerable critical debates, which mainly fall into the following three cat­ egories: psycho-biographical, strictly analytical and feminist. On the contrary, Slovenes have still not yet fully discovered all Dickinson has to offer. In addition to providing a short overview of American criticism on Emily Dickinson, the author of this  largely by drawing a comparison  with the Slovene woman poet Svetlana Makarovič, who bears a striking resemblance to Dickinson.
Slovene reactions to Truman Capote's writing
Authors: Intihar Klančar Nataša
Published: August 2018

The article focuses on Slovene reactions to Truman Capote's writing. It takes into consideration both his early and his later work. The former (as e. g. Other Voices, Other Rooms and A Tree of Night and Other Stories) earned him recognition as a talented young author whose fame rested on stylistically accomplished short stories, while the latter (as e. g. In Cold Blood) praised him mainly as the father of the so-called "non-fiction" novel. It is somehow hard to believe that his openly acknowledged homosexuality still represents an intriguing enough theme for Slovene literary crities to comment on,and thus a very recent article on the subject is dealt with as well.