bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Thermohaline Mixing in Extremely Metal-poor Stars
Authors: Henkel Kate , Karakas Amanda I. , Casey Andrew R. , Church Ross P. , Lattanzio John C.
Published: August 2018

Extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars are an integral piece in the puzzle that is the early universe, and although anomolous subclasses of EMP stars such as carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars are well studied, they make up less than half of all EMP stars with [Fe/H] ∼ −3.0. The amount of carbon depletion occurring on the red giant branch (carbon offset) is used to determine the evolutionary status of EMP stars, and this offset will differ between CEMP and normal EMP stars. The depletion mechanism employed in stellar models (from which carbon offsets are derived) is very important; however, the only widely available carbon offsets in the literature are derived from stellar models using a thermohaline mixing mechanism that cannot simultaneously match carbon and lithium abundances to observations for a single diffusion coefficient. Our stellar evolution models utilize a modified thermohaline mixing model that can match carbon and lithium in the metal-poor globular cluster NGC 6397. We compare our models to the bulk of the EMP star sample at [Fe/H] = −3 and show that our modified models follow the trend of the observations and deplete less carbon compared to the standard thermohaline mixing theory. We conclude that stellar models that employ the standard thermohaline mixing formalism overestimate carbon offsets and hence CEMP star frequencies, particularly at metallicities where carbon-normal stars dominate the EMP star population.
The Impact of Neutral Intergalactic Gas on Lyα Intensity Mapping during Reionization
Authors: Visbal Eli , McQuinn Matthew
Published: August 2018

We present the first simulations of the high-redshift Lyα intensity field that account for scattering in the intergalactic medium (IGM). Using a 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer code, we find that Lyα scattering smooths spatial fluctuations in the Lyα intensity on small scales, and that the spatial dependence of this smoothing depends on the mean neutral fraction of the IGM. Our simulations find a strong effect of reionization on k = 0.1–1 Mpc−1, with

for

and

for

, in contrast to

after reionization. At wavenumbers of k > 1 Mpc−1, we find that the signal is sensitive to the emergent Lyα line profiles from galaxies. We also demonstrate that the cross-correlation between a Lyα intensity map and a future galaxy redshift survey could be detected on large scales by an instrument similar to SPHEREx, and over a wide range of scales by a hypothetical intensity mapping instrument in the vein of the Cosmic Dawn Intensity Mapper (CDIM).
First report of the invasive alien species Caenoplana coerulea Moseley, 1877 (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Geoplanidae) in the subterranean environment of the Canary Islands
Authors: Suárez Daniel , Martín Sonia , Naranjo Manuel
Published: August 2018

The blue land planarianCaenoplanacoeruleaMoseley, 1877 is reported for the first time in the hypogean environment. Seven individuals ofC.coeruleawere collected in the most humid branch of an abandoned water mine in Gran Canaria (Canary Islands). Due to its character of generalist predator, it should be considered a threat for the endemic subterranean fauna.
Monitoring data of marine turtles on the Togolese coast during 2012–2013
Authors: Assou Délagnon , Segniagbeto Gabriel H. , Radji Raoufou , Akiti Jacques , Pando Francisco
Published: August 2018

This dataset contains information on the presence and distribution of sea turtles in Togo. Observations were carried out through a network of ten ecoguards (local guides), facilitated by five fishermen, and coordinated by a field technician, all under the supervision of a scientific coordinator. Data on the occurrence or direct observation of sea turtles on the Togolese coast from September 2012 to August 2013 is presented based on 740 occurrences.
La fonction RH à temps partagé : une question de santé pour le dirigeant de PME ?
Authors: Joyeau Anne , Le Gall Sébastien , Poilpot-Rocaboy Gwénaëlle
Published: August 2018

Certains travaux, encore peu nombreux, sur la santé des dirigeants, amènent au constat d’un certain mal-être des dirigeants de PME (Torrès, 2015a). Mobilisant la théorie de la conservation des ressources (COR) (Hobfoll, 1989), nous proposons que la capacité du dirigeant à acquérir, retenir et activer des ressources clés contribue à son mieux-être et limite ses risques d’absence de santé. Par l’exemple de la fonction Ressources Humaines, notre objectif est d’explorer si l’intégration de nouvelles ressources via le recrutement d’un RRH à temps partagé est perçue, par le dirigeant de PME, comme un facteur d’influence de sa santé.
A SEIZURE DETECTION METHOD BASED ON WELL-SOLVED NONLINEAR AND NON-STATIONARY PROBLEMS WITH ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC SIGNALS
Authors: Zhang Xia , Chen Haijun
Published: August 2018

The main focus of this paper is to solve the nonlinear and non-stationary problems in electroencephalographic (EEG) signals, which has been solved by the proposed method by using convolutional neural networks (CNN) as the classifiers and assembling Local Mean Decomposition (LMD) and cepstral coefficients as the feature extraction methods to achieve epileptic seizure detection with signal analysis and processing. In this proposed method, LMD and cepstral coefficients have been employed to solve the nonlinear and non-stationary problems in feature extraction and infusion, and then, the feature can be employed to feed to the recognition engine named CNN, and finally, the epileptic seizure detection can be achieved by this step. Publicly available EEG database from the University of Bonn (UoB), Germany had been used to verify the effectiveness and robustness of this proposed method on feature extraction. The complete dataset of total 7960 EEG segments, three recognition problems marked as AB versus CD versus E, the average classification accuracy of these segments can be generally obtained as highly as 99.84%, the maximal classification accuracy is 99.87%, and the lowest recognition accuracy is 98.74%. To the best of our knowledge, the excellent performance of the proposed method has shown that this method can be employed to track the patient’s healthy state and monitor the moment of epilepsy seizure.
Predicting Buildings Collapse due to Seismic Action in Lagos State
Authors: Akpabot Akpabot I. , Ede Anthony N. , Olofinnade Oluwarotimi Michael , Bamigboye Gideon
Published: August 2018

Buildings worldwide are one of the most essential assets of humans, and they serve as a major contributor to the sustainable development of any nation. The consequences of building collapse are colossal ranging from loss of lives, damage to properties and its attendant socio-economic implications, etc. This menace appears to be worst-off in developing countries like Nigeria where capacity to manage disaster is lacking. Recent incidence of seismic actions in hitherto geographically aseismic zone, has led to prediction of earthquake occurrence in the nearest future. This research attempts to compute the seismic hazard of buildings in Lagos State, a densely populated area of Southern Nigeria. Based on known seismic ground motion for South-Western Nigeria, a model is created that estimates the casualty and built area that would be affected by earthquakes with different seismic intensities. MATLAB software using Monte Carlo simulation to draw random data samples of built area, construction quality, probability of failure and occupancy level is used for the computational analysis. The result showed that existing construction quality is poor portending a high degree of damage during moderate intensity earthquake. A significant risk reduction is achievable for both the impending collapse and severe damage performance levels if the existing construction quality is improved.
Basic problems of biogeography
Authors: Zullini Aldo
Published: August 2018

Darwin interpreted most of biogeographic distributions as a consequence of dispersal events. The dispersionist approach lasted till the half of the XX century, but then an alternative paradigm arose: vicariantist biogeography. Madagascan carnivores and lemurs, e.g., were considered as heirs of old Gondwanian ancestors. But new phylogeographic research, based on molecular biology, discovered that they evolved, in different times, after the parting of Madagascar from continental Africa, supporting the dispersionist approach. Nowadays, the two paradigms are welcome in all the different cases, thus avoiding the old disputes typical of the last century.
Terrace springs: habitat haven for macrobenthic fauna in the lower plain of the River Ticino (Lombardy, Northern Italy)
Authors: Sconfietti Renato , Pesci India , Paganelli Daniele
Published: August 2018

Springs are important environments between hypogean and epigean habitats; the interaction between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems is an important factor for their biotic communities. We investigated the ecology of the macrobenthic community of two lowland springs in the River Ticino valley, focusing on the autoecology of some relevant species and on the role of springs as hotspots of biodiversity in an area threatened by anthropogenic pressure. We collected 26 taxa in total: diptera (8), trichoptera (6), gastropods (5), coleoptera (2), crustacea (2), lumbricidae (1), odonata (1), plathelminthes (1). Some of them are stenothermal and oligotrophic species thus quite unusual for a flood plain area characterized by intensive agricultural activities. In conclusion, our study highlights the importance of lowland springs in conserving some habitat-selective macrobenthic species.
Report of brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Pliocene of Borgomanero, Novara (Piedmont, NW Italy)
Authors: Pasini Giovanni , Garassino Alessandro , Damarco Piero
Published: August 2018

Some brachyuran crabs from the Pliocene of a new outcrop nearby Borgomanero (Novara, Piedmont, NW Italy) are reported. This study allows us to recognize a peculiar brachyuran crabs assemblage including: Macropipus cf. M. tuberculatus Prestandrea, 1833 (Polybiidae Ortmann, 1893), first report for this species from the Pliocene fossil record, and an indeterminate representative of Mursia Leach in Desmarest, 1822 (Calappidae De Haan, 1833), genus never recorded previously in the Mediterranean basin. Finally, a single chela is referred to Calappa sp. (Calappidae De Haan, 1833).
Decapod crustaceans from the late Pliocene (Piacenzian) nearby Faenza (Emilia-Romagna, N Italy)
Authors: Pasini Giovanni , Garassino Alessandro , Sami Marco
Published: August 2018

Several specimens of anomuran and brachyuran decapods are reported from the late Pliocene clays (Argille Azzurre Fm.) at localities nearby Faenza (Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna), located in the foothills of Romagna Apennines (NE Italy). The specimens were assigned to species already reported from the Pliocene of Italy, but never previously recorded in this area. This new report enlarges our knowledge on the composition and distribution of the brachyuran decapods along the Pliocene coastline of the Adriatic Gulf of the paleo- Mediterranean Sea.
Fiktionalisierung der eigenen Biographie durch Sprachexperimente
Authors: Kondrič Horvat Vesna
Published: August 2018

Das positivistische Haschen nach den Lebensdaten des Autors/der Autorin spielt bei der Interpretation eines Kunstwerks schon lange keine Rolle mehr und die Frage nach der Übereinstimmung des im Werk Dargestellten und den biographischen Fakten erübrigt sich. Trotzdem ist die Biographie eines Autors/einer Autorin bei der Entstehung eines Werkes insofern wichtig, als der Autor/die Autorin als soziahistorische Instanz beobachtet werden muss, da er/sie nicht im Vakuum schreibt, sondern durch die sozialen, politischen und kulturellen Bedingungen seines/ihres Landes geprägt ist, und vor allem auch in einer literarischen Traditionsreihe steht. Der Erzähltext als eine sprachliche Äußerung in schriftlich fixierter Form verweist neben der sprachlichen Fixierung auch auf den Kommunikationsakt, das heißt, dass der Sprecher (Autor), der Hörer (Leser) und der Text in eine Kommunikationssituation und diese wiederum in eine Kommunikationsgesellschaft eingebettet sind.Die Erfahrung, die Biographie eines Autors/einer Autorin, kann entweder als Stoff oder als Impuls für das literarische Schaffen dienen. Für Erica Pedretti ist die eigene Biographie zugleich Stoff und Impuls für ihre schriftstellerische Tätigkeit.
El humorismo como sátira sociopolítica en el Quijote
Authors: Osterc Lúdovik
Published: August 2018

El humorismo es uno de los poderosos recursos literarios puestos a servicio del complejo mecanismo de la genial novela cervantina. Divertir a los lectores no fue el fin principal de Cervantes, como se ha pretendido tanto tiempo. Valióse de tal medio, en primer lugar, como de cebo para atraer la curiosidad del lector al fondo de su creación, y para mitigar el filo de su dardo satírico.
The second generation of Slovene Americans and the youth magazine Mladinski list - Juvenile
Authors: Milanič Irena
Published: August 2018

From the start the Slovene benefit societies in the United States had a dual purpose: to provide their members with sickness and death benefits and to unite the immigrants by promoting cultural activities. With the growth of the second generation the Slovene benefit societies were faced with a new challenge: how to preserve their role not only as insurance companies, but also as cultural centers. New ways of involving the immigrants' daughters and sons- the second generation of Slovene-Americans - became a central issue for the future existence of these societies.
La concezione dell'uomo in Hermann Hesse
Authors: Gendre Renato
Published: August 2018

La pubblicazione di Peter Camenzind segna per Hermann Hesse l' inizio di una nuova vita. II successo, il primo grande successo editoriale di un libro, infatti, consente al suo Autore di abbandonare la professione di Iibraio, iniziata a Tubinga e continuata a Basilea dove intanto si era trasferito, per dedicarsi a tempo pieno a quella di scrittore.
Slovene immigrants in Australia in Richard Flanagan's novel The sound of one hand clapping
Authors: Jurak Mirko
Published: August 2018

The core of this article presents a structural and thematic analysis of a novel The Sound  of One Hand Clapping (1979) written by a contemporary Australian novelist Richard Flanagan (1961-). The novel deals mainly with the life of a Slovene family, which immigrated to Australia in 1954. The story centres on the life of the heroine, Sonja Bulah, who finds herself at the end of the 1980ies in a severe mental crisis. Besides, the author of this article uses information about immigrants' life in Australia obtained from reports and sketches of a Slovene psychiatrist who treated immigrants in Melbourne. The author of this paper also calls the reader's attention to various literary allusions, which appear in the novel (e.g. Eugene O'Neill, John Keats, W. B. Yeats). It also appears that Flanagan was under a strong spiritual influence of the Indian philosopher Osho(= Bhagwan Shree Rajneshi) and his meditations upon life as published in Osho's book bearing the same title as Flanagan's novel and which first appeared in 1981. The novel is particularly interesting for Slovene readers, because it uncovers the emotional and spiritual life of Slovene immigrants in Australia.
Professor Dušan Ludvik (1914-2001) : in memoriam
Authors: Janko Anton
Published: August 2018

Der Artikel ist dem Gedenken an den Professor, Übersetzer und Dichter Dr. Dušan Ludvik gewidmet, der in den Jahren 1954-1983 am Institut für Germanistik (Abteilung ftir germanische Sprachen und Literaturen) tätig war. Das Hauptgebiet seiner wissenschafrtlichen Tätigkeit war die alte deutsche Sprache und Literatur. Darüber hinaus hatte er großes Interesse für die Geschichte und Entwicklung des deutschsprachigen Theaters in Ljubljana sowie die Besuche von ausländischen Theaterwendertruppen im slowenischen Raum. Er hat zwei wichtige Abhandlungen zur deutschen Verslehre (Stabreim, Nibelungestrophe u.a.) veröffentlicht. Als selbstandiger Dichter hat er vier Gedichtsammlungen herausgegeben. Dušan Ludvik hat si eh auch als Übersetzer der Gedichte von Goethe und der ritterlichen Liebeslyrik einen Namen gemacht. Er hat zur Ausbildung vieler Germanistengenerationen Slowenien maßgebend beigetragen.
On Philip Larkin's poetry
Authors: Blake Jason
Published: August 2018

Using his seemingly crass and apparently pessimistic "This Be the Verse" as a point of departure, this paper examines Philip Larkin's poetry with regard to the poet's own attitude towards the reader. His highly accessible poems, penned in common language, resulted in a reputation as both a 'poet of the people' and a 'philistine'. But for all its crudeness, Larkin's mode of writing always showed a keen awareness of the distancing aspects of modernism. In other words, he was not ignorant of the current political trends of his time, rather he was consciously writing against what he deemed elitist art. In conclusion, the paper returns to "This Be the Verse" and considers the moral import of Larkin's ironically acerbic "Get out early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself˝.
Enjambment and its realisation(s) in speech
Authors: Grošelj Nada
Published: August 2018

With regard to the question how enjambment should be rendered in the recitation of poetry, three conflicting approaches may be identified: continuing into the next line without marking the line-ending at all; making a break in the intonation and rhythm at the line-ending; and finally, acknowledging the -line-ending by merely introducing a short pause without any intomition changes. Each of these renditions has different consequences for the listener's perception of the text. This paper reviews the three approaches and their implications, concluding that the most important criterion for the preference of one approach over another is the type of verse (free vs. metrical) in a given text.
Second person pronouns used by Slovene and American Slovene speakers as linguistic markers of personal and social (in)equality
Authors: Šabec Nada
Published: August 2018

This paper discusses the use of second person pronouns in Slovene as linguistic markers of personal and social (in)equality in face-to-face interaction. In addition to the fundamental social dimensions of power/status and solidarity that are usually associated with the choice of a particular pronoun in such interactions, I explore some other dimensions such as formality and casualness that may also contribute to the choice. The focus is on the comparison of the use of Slovene second person pronouns in their native and diaspora contexts. While the rules for their use in Slovenia are relatively well established and observed in a fairly consistent manner, especially by older speakers, their use in the North American context is quite different. The questionnaire responses by Slovenes and their descendants living in the United States and Canada show that these pronouns are often used almost as if at random and that, especially with younger speakers, the predorninant form has become "ti". It is possible that this is due to the dirninishing knowledge of Slovene and the speakers' uncertainty as to which form to use, but also to the very strong influence of English with its exclusive use of you. The growing tendency of younger speakers in Slovenia toward ti is also addressed as a possible indication of a language change under way.
Discursive role of past tenses : a text analysis
Authors: Ilc Gašper
Published: August 2018

The article discusses the meaning and usage of the principal past tense forms in English from a discursive perspective. Analysing short excerpts from a fictional narrative, the author argues that English past tenses in narratives have, besides their primary temporal-aspectual function, an impor­ tant role in marking the type and the prominence of the past event or situation within a textual complex.
William Butler Yeats in the Slovene cultural space
Authors: Gorenc Janez
Published: August 2018

William Butler Yeats, Irish poet, dramatist and essayist, winner of the Nobel prize in 1923, was also widely known for the active  part he played in Irish politics. Even though he was mostly involved culturally - he wro.te about Irish politics in his works, established several literary clubs, founded theatres - he also activated  himself  as a politician when he was a senator during the years 1923-1928. This article focuses on the mention of his political activities in different English and Slovene texts. It makes a presentation of the vast majority of the texts on Yeats that have appeared in Slovene. It also points out that while the majority of English encyclopaedias and literary histories openly write about Yeats's politics, Slovene texts about Yeats focus mostly on his literary opus and less on his involvement in politics. When they do mention it, however, they usually avoid the details. This article tries to determine some reasons for this fact.
The use of possessive constructions in English and Slovene and the reference-point function of prenominal possessors
Authors: Lipovšek Frančiška
Published: August 2018

The paper presents the findings of the study concerning the use of prenominal and postnominal constructions in English and Slovene. The study has been based on the cognitive approach according to which the possesor functions as a reference point facilitating identification of the possessee. The term "identification value" has been used in the study to refer to the cluster of properties that render a nominal compatible with the reference-point function. The main factors contributing to the identification value of the possessor nominal are its "topicality" (i.e. mental accessibility) and its "informativity" (i.e. ability to be an effective cue fot the identification of the relation between the possessor and the possessee). The findings of the study confirm that in both languages (i) the pronominal possessor has the reference-point function by default, and that (ii) the identification value of the possessor is the main factor determining the choice between the prenominal and the postnominal constructions.
The plays of Lillian Hellman, Clifford Odets and William Inge on Slovene stages
Authors: Slunjski Mateja
Published: August 2018

After the Second World War, Slovene theatres started to include in their repertoires more and more American authors and their plays. Their choice were varied, from serious dramas by Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, to comedies by Norman Krasna and John Van Druten dependant mostly on the availability of the texts. In the immediate postwar years the theatres liked to present playwrights with progressive ideas in their plays, such as Lillian Hellman and her "The Little Foxes", which was successfully produced at three Slovene theatres, while her "The Children's Hour" received negative reviews. In the fifties, three theatres chose two plays by Clifford Odets, "Golden Boy" and "Country Girl", mainly because of his socially critical ideas and his admiration of humanity. His plays were rather well received; however, the critics doubted his literary genius. William Inge and his plays, "Come Back, Little Sheba", "Picnic" and "Bus Stop", chosen mainly because of the warmth with which the author depicted the tragedy and the beauty of life, were produced at three Slovene theatres. The author received rather wide-ranging opinions from the critics. Some thought him to be an unoriginal depicter of dull American life, while others praised his lyricism and new dramatic techniques.
Slovene migrant literature in Australia
Authors: Maver Igor
Published: August 2018

This article on the literary creativity of Slovene rnigrants in Australia after the Second World War, including the most recent publications, discusses only the most artistically accomplished auth­ ors and addresses those works that have received the most enthusiastic reception by the critics and readers alike. Of course, those who are not mentioned are also important to the preservation of Slovene culture and identity among the Slovene migrants in Australia from a documentary, histori­ cal,or ethnological points of view. However, the genresfeatured here include the explicitly literary, the semi-literary fictionalized biography, the memoir and documentary fiction, and the literary journalistic text - all those fields and genres that nowadays straddle the division line between 'high' literature and so-called 'creative fiction'.
Les visages ambigues d'André Breton
Authors: Podkrižnik Mimi
Published: August 2018

L'article porte sur une machinerie d'images du célebre pilier du mouvement surréaliste français André Breton. Cette figure extraordinaire, mais aussi contradictoire, a d'un côté changé la vie et la vision de tous ceux qui l'ont connue, et n'a en meme temps cessé de changer aussi sa propre façon d'etre. Une personnalité hors du commun, qui écrit des livres et des lettres, qui parle a haute voix, qui s'engage politiquement, qui s'exile, qui est cible de ses adversaires, reste souvent dogmatique en public, mais parle beaucoup plus librement en privé. Pere fouettard qui a ses interdits, ses tabous, qui crie familles je vous hais et ne peut supporter la métamorphose de ses disciples, se métamorphose en un pere et (plus tard) fils aimable. Celui qui veut appartenir a la famille des grands indésirables, trouve sa place parmi les plus grands désirables du 20e siecle.
Traversing and contesting the textuality of gender in mainstream children's fiction
Authors: Burcar Lilijana
Published: August 2018

The article first outlines the way in which mainstream children's fiction has traditionally sought to address and underrnine the artificiality of oppositional and hierarchical gender paradigms. Pro-ferninist texts that abound in mainstream children's literature have never really extricated themselves from the bonds of gender-related binarisations and hierarchizations because their approach in delineating girl protagonists hasbeen premised primarily upon a mere reverslil of masculine and ferninine defined attributes. By insisting only on the exarnination and reversal of attributes, mainstream children's fiction has fallen short of investigating narrative mechanisms which are essential to the understanding of how subjectivities, regardless of their feminine or masculine inflections,  are constituted in the first place. To address this issue, it is argued that children's mainstream literature should embrace such literary devices as metafiction and genre mixing. The article goes on to demonstrate the kind of impact these devices have in challenging and underrnining the socially constructed notions of oppositional and hierarchical gender paradigms on those children who have been subject to traditionalliterary socialization.
Name etymology and its symbolic value in Francis Scott Fitzgerald's "The great Gatsby"
Authors: Avsenak Vanja
Published: August 2018

The aim of my paper is to scrutinize the manifold interpretations of proper names and their possible symbolical value that the reading of F. S. Fitzgerald's classic leaves in the reader. On the whole, the novel's internal structure is rather comprised, which consequently makes the story exact, its plot condensed, but behind this seemingly concise and more or less simple language the author nevertheless manages to embody powerful symbolism that speaks for itself. It is disputable whether Fitzgerald truly aimed to produce such a strong metaphorical emphasis that would most minutely delineate America's social character in the turbulent twenties as projected in the personal stories of the novel's leading protagonists. Within this figurative scope, large as it is, 1 therefore focus only on the significance of proper names and their obvious contribution to the holistic social portrayal. It may be only a minor, but nevertheless one of the most reliable and crucial means of outlining the consequences of the postwar spiritual apathy that overwhelmed the American nation and was in­ duced by the societal downfall due to the disillusion of the American Dream. How this Dream influenced each individual's and society's destiny remains to be my goal in this article. For the purpose of analysis 1 rely on the 1994 Penguin edition. All direct quotes from now on are to be taken from this source.
Sam Shepard's plays according to Slovenian theatre directors
Authors: Oblak Anina
Published: August 2018

The article focuses on the productions of Sam Shepard's plays in Slovenia during 1985-2000 and the author of the paper primarily pays attention to the Slovenian directors' approach to Shepard's works and the problems that have arisen in the process. Five of Shepard's plays have been staged to date in Slovenia, two early works and three works of new realism. In interviews with the directors (Vinko Möderndorfer, Primož Bebler, Boris Kobal, Dušan Jovanovic and Boris Cavazza) as well as three actresses and a choreographer (Alenka Vidrih, Barbara Babič, Vesna Jevnikar, Tanja Zgonc) it has emerged that the transplantation of typically American issues to Slovenia and their treatment necessitated a different approach from the one normally taken by the Slovenian directors and actors. Shepard's plays being idiosyncratic, the theatre artists had to either accommodate his material or treat it with different methods that were adapted to suit the Slovenian environment.
Vita sul fronte : convergenze e divergenze letterarie di due diari di guerra : Carlo Salsa e Andrej Čebokli
Authors: Bandelli David
Published: August 2018

Il presente contributo tratta due testi della letteratura italiana e slovena, nati durante la prima guerra mondiale, entrambi direttamente provenienti daile linee del fronte, ma da parti belliche opposte. Paragona le loro convergenze e divergenze e cerca di mostrare la loro comune provenienza dal Zeitgeist europeo del tempo. Cerca inoltre di dimostrare come entrambi i lavori, pur di diversa forma, possano entrambi far parte della cosiddetta letteratura memoaristica o diaristica.
Literary journalism : the intersection of literature and journalism
Authors: Merljak Zdovc Sonja
Published: August 2018

Literary journalism is a style of newspaper and magazine writing that developed as a reaction against facto graphic and objective journalism. Rather than answering the informational who, what, when, or where, it depicts moments in time. It has also managed to eschew the formula of newspaper feature writing, with its predictability and cliches. Instead, it appointed the techniques of realistic  fiction to portray daily life. The author of this paper attempts to present the genre that belongs at the same time to literature and journalism; it combines the best of both practices in order to give the reader the most vivid and accurate picture of society. The author of this paper also attempts to present literary journalism as it exists in Slovenia.
Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, and United States book clubs
Authors: Madigan Mark
Published: August 2018

This essay focuses on the influence of commercial book clubs in the United States. It will examine the country's oldest commercial book club, the Book-of-the-Month Club (BOMC), Oprah's Book Club (OBC), which bears the name of its founder, television personality Oprah Winfrey, and their roles in the careers of two African-American authors, Richard Wright and Toni Morrison.
The Romantic subject as an absolutely autonomous individual
Authors: Cunta Miljana
Published: August 2018

This essay deals with the Romantic subject as a philosophical and literary category. Recog­ nizing the diversity and complexity of literary production in the Romantic period, this study does not attempt to treat all the many aspects of this subject, but it instead focuses upan a few: the role of nature, the status of imagination, and the subject's relation to the transcendental reality. In its rela­ tion to these issues, the Romantic subject appears as an absolutely autonomous individual, one who finds no satisfaction in claims to transcendental certainty made by any source outside the self, but relies on his immanent powers to achieve the self-awareness that is the only sure access to truth. Special attention is given to the Romantic mystical experience, whereby the subject eames into relation with the transcendental reality. Here what are termed mystical feelings are contrasted with religious feelings proper so as to stress the peculiarities of the Romantic religious experience. In providing a theoretical framewok for the religious experience, we have recourse to Rudolf Otto's definition of the "numinous," which denotes the feeling response of the subject to the divine aspect of reality. In comparison with the true religious experience, the Romantic type is seen as pseudo­- religious, thus confirming the proposed definition of the Romantic subject as a truly autonomous individual. The essay's second part contains an interpretation of selected poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge with a view of extrapolating from them some aspects of the Romantic subject.
Louis Adamic and The Book-of-the-Month Club
Authors: Petrič Jerneja
Published: August 2018

To Slovene readers the honoring of Louis Adamic's book The Native's Return as the Book­ of-the-Month Club selection for February 1934 came as a surprise. This article, however, provides an overview of events and actions that culminated in the decision of the Club's judges in order to show that the whole success story had been carefully planned by Louis Adamic who bad put an enormous amount of effort into making his book a bestseller, and succeeded.
Reconfiguring the West in Neil Jordan's short story "Love"
Authors: Grgas Stipe
Published: August 2018

In introducing his article,  the author draws attention to the enormous importance space, especially the west of Ireland, has in the Irish culture and in the legitimization of Irish identity. The central part of the article is devoted to an analysis of Neil Jordan's  "A Love" in which the author describes the way Jordan uses the West as the privileged place of Irish self-representation. A close reading of the text shows the writer's strategies which subvert the conventional image of the West of Ireland  and the author voices the opinion that Jordan's text refers to the end of one conceptualization of Irish identity. Offering the concept of heterotopia (Foucault) in his conclusion the author opens up the possibility of reading the representation of space in Jordan's story as his inscription of those places which were elided from the utopian Irish national saga.
Future professional dictionary users and their use of dictionaries
Authors: Vrbinc Marjeta , Vrbinc Alenka
Published: August 2018

The article presents the results of a study on dictionary use by students of English who are to become professional dictionary users. The first part of the article gives information on test subjects, their knowledge of English and their dictionary habits. The second part discusses the results of individual tasks with an emphasis on dictionary use and the relationship between the correctness of the students' answers and their dictionary consultation. In the last part of the article information is presented concerning the types of dictionaries students own; additionally, there is a discussion of the reasons why students do not consult their dictionaries as often as they should.
Some additional notes on Shakespeare : his great tragedies from a Slovene perspective
Authors: Jurak Mirko
Published: August 2018

In the first chapter of this study the author stresses the importance of literature and Shakespeare's plays for our age. Although the enigma of Shakespeare's life still concerns many scholars it is relevant only as far as the solutions of some biographical details from Shakespeare's life influence the interpretation of his plays. In the section on feminism the focus of the author's attention is the changed role of women in the present day society as compared to previous centuries. In the final part of the article the role of the main female characters in Shakespeare's great tragedies is discussed. The author suggests that so far their importance has been underestimated and that Shakespeare left some of them open to different interpretations. Hamlet is definitely one of the most popular Shakespeare's plays in Slovenia and in addition to "classical" interpretations of this drama we have seen during the past two decades a number of experimental productions, done by both Slovene and foreign theatrical companies. In Appendix (1) the title of this paper is briefly discussed and the author' a work on Shakespeare is sketched; Appendix (2) presents a rap song on Hamlet written in English by a Slovene author. The song was used in the Glej Eperimental Theatre production (Hamlett/Packard, Ljubljana, 1992).
Existential concerns and narrative techniques in the novels of Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Wools and Aldous Huxley
Authors: Verčko Radojka
Published: August 2018

The article addresses the issue of the close relationship between the nexistential concem and the narrative techniques used by English writers Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Woolf and Aldous Huxley to present the general human condition. The selected authors had introduced narrative techniques that influenced the entire development of the modern  novel and that are stili highly  relevant and widely used in the contemporary novel, including the Slovene modern novel.
Joseph Conrad in Slovene translations
Authors: Šavle Majda
Published: August 2018

Joseph Conrad gained public admiration for the romantic glamour and atmosphere of his tales of the sea, of distant coasts and exotic locales, while his fellow artists and literary critics praised his superb use oflanguage, his writing style, and his narrative techniques. The following chronological account oftranslations and critical responses to them and of the discussions about the life and work of Joseph Conrad show, that in Slovenia, too, Conrad is considered to be one of the greatest  novelists in the English language.
Sexing The waste land : Gender, desire, and sexuality in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
Authors: Zavrl Andrej
Published: August 2018

The article  analyses T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922) to show how Modernist men often plunge into the wild waters of gender  and sexuality,  revealing a remarkable degree  of anxiety, only rarely accounted for by more traditional critical approaches. The Waste Land can be perceived as an expression of male hysteria and, the author argues, hysteria is never far from aberrant sexualities and unruly desires.
Washington Irving in Slovene
Authors: Petrič Jerneja
Published: August 2018

Washington Irving played a crucial role in the development of the American short story. His tales featuring American characters and American settings represented a giant step forward in the development of an independent American literature. His tales have so far been translated into Slovene a few times. The objectives of my paper were to establish the number of Slovene translations of Irving's work, record pertinent information regarding the translations, evaluate the translators' achievement in terms of their ability to present the period and the characters relative to the original texts as well as their ability to transplant Irving's unique humor and finally research Slovene critical response on Irving.
Sylvia Plath - a woman between Eros and Thanatos
Authors: Galle Barbara
Published: August 2018

The opposition between the Hughes family  and the radical feminists led to the emergence of two diametrically opposite Plath  myths: a mentally disturbed, manipulative woman, unstoppably driven towards suicide, or an innocent victim of a treacherous husband? Both sides interpret Plath's life and works in view of her untimely  death, neglecting the underlying life force that pervades her poetry and prose. Relying on the psychoanalytical theory of instincts, the author shows how Eros complements and even makes use of Thanatos on different levels of Plath's writing:  on the level of language asa meaningful structure, on the level of meaning, and in the function of language as therapy. The duality of instics is particulary evident in Sloveirian criticism; where the physicar  and temporal distance from political scandal enabled the development oftwo distinct critical currents: one following Hughes's morbid determinism, the other concentrating on Plath's intelligence and joyful observation of nature.
Völker und Religionen im Roman Die verlorene Erde von Alfred Brust
Authors: Barniškiene Sigita
Published: August 2018

Der erste Roman Alfred Brusts Die verlorene Erde erschien 1926 und für diesen Roman erhielt der Autor 1929 den Kleist- Preis. Der ostpreußische Schriftsteller Brust  (1891 - 1934) wählt den Handlungsraum zwischen Königsberg, Grodno und Wilna, zu beiden Seiten der deutsch-litauischen Grenze. Die handelnden Personen  sind Nachkommen der Altpruzzen. Auch der jüdische Glaube und die mystisierten Gestalten von Juden  spielen im Roman  eine entscheidende Rolle.  Brust  will dem Leser den Gedanken näherbringen, dass die moralische Erneuerung mit dem Streben des Menschen zu Gott mit Hilfe einer oder einiger Religionen zusammenhägt.
H. P. Lovecraft et l'œuvre de Michel Houellebecq : hypothèses pour une étude génétique
Authors: Gacoin-Marks Florence
Published: August 2018

Le présent article expose les résultats d'une lecture attentive de la monographie que Michel Houellebecq, écrivain français contemporain, a consacrée à H. P. Lovecraft. La présentation que Houellebecq propose de l'écrivain américain est un précieux document permettant de formuler des hypothèses concernant le rôle joué par Lovecraft dans la genèse des oeuvres de l'écrivain français.
The pragmatic function of intonation in English and Slovene
Authors: Komar Smiljana
Published: August 2018

The article examines the pragmatic role of intonation whose prime function is to enable the hearer to make inferences from the utterance's context in order to enrich the interpretation. Intonation does not alter the sense of lexical items. Instead it provides the hearer with an opportunity to choose between different interpretations at the lexico-syntactic level. The intonation systems of different European languages exhibit quite a large number of similarities regarding the pragmatic role of intonation. The analysis of the communicative functions of tone, key and termination in English and Slovene was an attempt to prove the hypothesis of natural, iconic-meanings of intonation.
Contemporary American poetry in Slovenian criticism and translation : 1945 - 2005
Authors: Divjak Igor
Published: August 2018

The article presents the Slovenian reception of five major groups in American post-war poetry -the Formalists, the Confessionals, the Beats, the Black Mountain poets, and the New York School poets - as well as the reception of those prominent authors who cannot be classified in any of these groups. The analysis reveals which groups have attracted  most interest of the Slovenian critics and translators, when was the peak of their reception, which methods of interpretation have been used by the Slovenian critics, and to what extent has their judgement about certain contemporary American authors gradually changed.
Remediating the remediated : printed prose in the age of hypertext
Authors: Krevel Mojca
Published: August 2018

The article argues that with the spreading of computer hypertext into the social sphere, hypertext is no longer merely a writing technique or an organising principle; it becomes the logic implicit in the functioning of postmodern  societies.lts actualisation can be performed via any medium-TV, internet, radio or print. Based on instances from 1990s and early 2000s printed American fiction, the paper examines the ways in which print already is hypertextual, and attempts to provide an insight into the future of printed literature in an era no longer governed by the Modem Age principles and paradigms.
Female genital mutilation in African and African American women's literature
Authors: Marinšek Darja
Published: August 2018

The article builds on the existing dispute between African and African American women writers on the competence of writing about female genital mutilation (FGM), and tries to determine the existence and nature of the differences between the writings of these two groups. The author uses comparative analysis of two popular African and African American novels, comparing their ways of describing FGM, its causes and consequences, the level ob objectivity and the style of the narrations.This is followed by a discussion on the reasons for such differences, incorporating a larger circle of both African and African American women authors, at the same time analysing the deviance within the two groups. While the differences between African American writers are not that great, as they mostly fail to present the issue from different points of view, which is often the result of their lack of direct knowledge of the topic, African authors' writing is in itself discovered to be ambivalent and not at all invariable. The reasons for such ambivalence are then discussed in greater context, focusing on the effect of the authors' personal contact with circumcision as well as their knowledge and acceptance of Western values. The author concludes by establishing the African ambivalent attitude towards FGM, which includes different aspects of the issue, as the most significant difference between their and African American writers' description of this practice.
Time as the fifth element in Margaret Laurence's Manawaka cycle
Authors: Pavšič Brigita
Published: August 2018

Margaret Laurence's Manawaka cycle has several unifying features, one of them is the four elements theory. This pattern may not be deliberate, however, it is very well developed through all four novels: The Stone Angel represents earth, A Jest of God air, The Fire-Dwellers fire, and The Diviners represents water. Additionally,The Diviners reconciles all four elements. The main metaphor of water running both ways in this novel also offers a new interpretation of the occurrence of the water element in the other three novels as a metaphor for the progress of time and maturing.
The role of violence in the romances of Chrétien de Troyes
Authors: Pintarič Miha
Published: August 2018

Chretien de Troyes, the most famous of the French 12th-century authors of chivalric romaces, comes to a very personal view of violence towards the end of his writing career, in his Perceval or the grail story. While in his previous works, the first of which was Erec and Enid, the object of the present article, he abided by the commonly accepted norms concerning the description of »violence«: there's no »abstract violence«, and it should never befall and idea or a tradition while the violence against the individual is a common occurrence considered "creative" and legitimate, if not indispensable, for the making of social hierarchy and order, violence ceases to be a topic of interest in his last, unfinished text.