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Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their Own Words
What makes science fiction genres better than others at challenging social conventions, especially gender? Are speculative works structured differently when addressed to traditionally under-portrayed individuals or communities?This collection of interviews elicits truly honest and thought-provoking responses that focus on the biographical dimension in speculative fiction, questions of intersectionality, genre (re)definitions and the politicization of fiction. It gives voice to women of different races, nations, classes and sexual orientations who write and edit speculative fiction – such as Ellen Datlow, Kathe Koja, Angela Mi Young Hur, Eugen Bacon, and Cat Rambo. The interviews clarify how the junction of genre and gender is a key element to understanding this literary field, while simultaneously contextualizing and theorizing the interview itself, as a literary genre and a research tool.
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Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their Own Words
What makes science fiction genres better than others at challenging social conventions, especially gender? Are speculative works structured differently when addressed to traditionally under-portrayed individuals or communities?This collection of interviews elicits truly honest and thought-provoking responses that focus on the biographical dimension in speculative fiction, questions of intersectionality, genre (re)definitions and the politicization of fiction. It gives voice to women of different races, nations, classes and sexual orientations who write and edit speculative fiction – such as Ellen Datlow, Kathe Koja, Angela Mi Young Hur, Eugen Bacon, and Cat Rambo. The interviews clarify how the junction of genre and gender is a key element to understanding this literary field, while simultaneously contextualizing and theorizing the interview itself, as a literary genre and a research tool.
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Evolution of Theodosius Dobzhansky
This volume not only offers an intellectual biography of one of the most important biologists and social thinkers of the twentieth century but also illuminates the development of evolutionary studies in Russia and in the West. Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975), a creator of the "evolutionary synthesis" and the author of its first modern statement, Genetics and the Origin of Species (1937), founded modern Western population genetics and wrote many popular books on such topics as human evolution, race and racism, equality, and human destiny. In this, the first book devoted to an analysis of the historical, scientific, and cultural dimensions of Dobzhansky's life and thought, an international group of historians, biologists, and philosophers addresses the full span of his career in Russia and the United States. Beginning with the reminiscences of his daughter, Sophia Dobzhansky Coe, these essays cover Dobzhansky's Russian roots (Nikolai L. Krementsov, Daniel A. Alexandrov, Mikhail B. Konashev), the Morgan Lab (Garland E. Allen, William B. Provine, Robert E. Kohler, Richard M. Burian), his scientific legacy (Scott F. Gilbert, Bruce Wallace, Charles E.Taylor), and his social, political, philosophical, and religious thought (Costas B. Krimbas, John Beatty, Diane B. Paul, Michael Ruse). Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Internationales Alfred-Döblin-Kolloquium Emmendingen 2007; 'Tatsachenphantasie'. Alfred Döblins Poetik des Wissens im Kontext der Moderne
Dieser Band vereint die Vorträge des XVI. Internationalen Alfred-Döblin-Kolloquiums, das vom 27. bis 30. Juni 2007 in Emmendingen stattfand. Die Beiträge untersuchen Alfred Döblins Poetik des Wissens im Kontext der Moderne. Dabei werden zum einen die vielfältigen Wissensbereiche und -formen berücksichtigt, auf die Döblin rekurriert; zum anderen interessiert die spezifische interdisziplinäre und intertextuelle Arbeitsweise des Autors. Das schriftstellerische OEuvre wird mit dem wissenschaftlichen Werk Döblins in Beziehung gesetzt und unter der Leitfrage diskutiert, inwiefern sich vor dem literarhistorischen Hintergrund eine Poetik des Wissens abzeichnet, die als wesentlicher Beitrag dieses Autors zur Kultur und Literatur der Moderne gelten darf. Mittels unterschiedlicher Interpretationsansätze perspektivieren die hier versammelten Beiträge einerseits Texte Döblins, die - wie seine medizinische Dissertationsschrift oder sein Epos Manas - bisher wenig Beachtung fanden; andererseits werden kanonische Werke (Die Ermordung einer Butterblume, Berlin Alexanderplatz) einer Relektüre unterzogen und dabei Referenzen auf verschiedenste Wissensfelder nachgewiesen. Die Untersuchungen betreffen die medizinischen und psychiatrischen Einflüsse auf Döblins Schreiben, den historischen und politischen Wissenshorizont der Romane und theoretischen Schriften und nicht zuletzt das anthropologische und kulturgeschichtliche Wissen in seinem Werk.
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Doub Drakona
Funny, really enjoyable, surrealistic and sometimes strange stories, based on absurd things of our life, are collected in the book. They are about Russian immigrant in the USA,about fantastic meeting of a designer with Salvador Dali in the Crimean health resort, about some speleologists, who were blocked in the cave, 'nigerian letters' and the magic role of numbers in our life...Modern Russian writer Alexander Granovsky can keep readers' attention.
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From Kafka to Sebald
This volume is a response to a renewed interest in narrative form in contemporary literary studies, taking up the question of literary narratives and their encounters with modernism and postmodernism within the German-language milieu. Original essays written by scholars of German and Comparative Literature approach the issue of narrative form anew, analyzing the ways in which modernist and postmodernist German-language narratives frame and/or deconstruct historical narratives. Beginning with the German-language modernist author par excellence, Franz Kafka, the volume's essays explore the unique perspective on historical change offered by literature. The authors (Kafka, Kappacher, Goll, Schnitzler, Menasse, and Wolf, among others) and works interpreted in the essays included here span the period from before World War I to the post-Holocaust, post-Wall present. Individual essays focus on modernism, postmodernism, narrative theory, and autobiography.
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W.G. Sebald's Artistic Legacies
When the mind turns more than one would wish towards questions of – as W.G. Sebald puts it – the “natural history of destruction”, comparative consideration by artists and interdisciplinary scholars is directed to the interstices between images, novel, essay, (auto)biography, memorial and travelogue. Artists have been among Sebald’s most prolific interpreters – as they are among the more fearless and holistic researchers on questions concerning what it means never to be able to fix an identity, to tell a migrant’s story, or to know where a historical trauma ends. Sebald has – as this book attests – also given artists and scholars a means to write with images, to embrace ambiguity, and to turn to today’s migrants with empathy and responsibility; as well as to let academic research, creation and institutional engagement blend into or substantially inform one another in order to account for and enable such necessary work in the most diverse contexts.
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Bo Belinsky
This work proves the adage of all that glitters is not gold. David Krell has written the first full-length biography of one of baseball's most notorious figures, using archival newspaper articles to reconstruct the colorful career of Bo Belinsky. Belinsky began in the Minor Leagues in the mid-1950s, gained a spotlight with a no-hitter for the Angels during his rookie season, and endured severe ups and downs. Along the way, he dated the most famous actresses in America, including Mamie Van Doren, Connie Stevens, and Tina Louise. What the fans didn't know about was the disastrous effect of Belinsky's alcoholism and drug abuse. Three marriages resulted in divorces. He couldn't get traction in rehab or AA. But in the 1990s, he moved to Las Vegas where he embraced sobriety and worked with one of the city's most successful car dealerships. Included interviews with Belinsky's friends and colleagues show a different side to this controversial player balances rumor with reality and shows that fame has its benefits but also terrific costs.
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Anton Rubinstein
Anton Rubinstein, a seminal figure in Russian music, was not only a great pianist but also a monumental influence in Russian music education. Rubinstein is responsible for laying the groundwork for Russia's tertiary educational system for the training of musicians and for establishing the use of Western structural forms in Russian music. He later became the foundation director of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Detailing Rubinstein's pianistic and conducting repertoire, this work provides insight into Russian nineteenth-century performance practice, and the biography presents a sober assessment of Rubinstein's place in history. The author has researched valuable Russian sources to make this assessment of Rubinstein available in English and has provided informative guidelines for further research.In attempting to reinstate Rubinstein as an important figure in the history of Russian and international music, this study makes available to conductors and musicologists updated information on an important nineteenth-century music figure and an aspect of Russian music that has either been forgotten or ignored. Researchers and scholars will appreciate the annotated thematic catalog that includes all of Rubinstein's many works for piano, the extensive repertoire lists, and the extensive bibliography.
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Essays in Evolution and Genetics in Honor of Theodosius Dobzhansky
It is not often that one has the opportunity to send a public birthday greet ing to a friend and colleague of many years, and to congratulate him on having reached the age of reason. In fact it happens only once, and comes then as a surprise. Surely it was only a few years ago that we sat together at an International Genetics Congress in Ithaca, and only yesterday that we became members of the same department. The eighth floor of Schermerhorn Hall had a north end where the flies were and a south end furnished with mice, and in between, a seminar room and laboratory. There the distances were short and the doors open and the coffee pot busy. But it now appears that yesterday has fallen thirty years behind and that we have grown up. I find it interesting and appropriate that Dobzhansky's lifetime spans the period of maturation of the fields to which this volume is devoted. This is true in a chronological sense for his birth occurred in the same year, 1900, in which modern genetics began. The rediscovery of Mendel's princi ples and the interpretation of the nature of heredity and variation to which this event led were necessary prerequisites to the development of evolution ary biology as presented in this collection of essays.
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Double Burden, a Double Cross
If a history of Russian-Jewish literature in the twentieth century (or, at least, a history of its authors and texts) were ever to be written, it would reveal a number of puzzling lacunae. One such lacuna is Andrei Sobol, a truly significant writer who, paradoxically, has not received due scholarly attention. This can easily be demonstrated by the fact that Sobol’s name goes virtually unmentioned in some of the most representative and authoritative studies dealing with the Russian-Jewish literary discourse. It is this scholarly gap that has prompted Vladimir Khazan to write this volume, a comprehensive and exhaustive account of Sobol’s public, literary, and artistic activities as a purely Russian-Jewish phenomenon. Khazan analyzes his biographical subject within the framework of cultural studies.
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Sobolev Spaces on Domains
The book is based on the lecture course "Function spaces", which the author gave for more than 10 years in the People's Friendship University of Russia (Moscow). The idea to write this book was proposed by Professors H. Triebel and H.-J. SchmeiBer in May-June 1993, when the author gave a short lecture course for post-graduate students in the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena. The initial plan to write a short book for post-graduate students was trans- formed to wider aims after the work on the book had started. Finally, the book is intended both for graduate and post-graduate students and for researchers, who are interested in applying the theory of Sobolev spaces. Moreover, the methods used in the book allow us to include, in a natural way, some recent results, which have been published only in journals. Nowadays there exist numerous variants and generalizations of Sobolev spaces and it is clear that this variety is inevitable since different problems in real analysis and partial differential equations give rise to different spaces of Sobolev type. However, it is more or less clear that an attempt to develop a theory, which includes all these spaces, would not be effective. On the other hand, the basic ideas of the investigation of such spaces have very much in common.
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