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2. THE LONG SCHOOLROOM: PHILOSOPHICAL READINGS IN W. B. YEATS'S POEM 'AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN'.
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Nutbrown, Graham
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LITERARY criticism , *POETRY (Literary form) , *IDEALISM - Abstract
In the mid-1920s the poet W. B. Yeats was pleased to discover contemporary philosophers, Giovanni Gentile and A. N. Whitehead, whose metaphysical and educational philosophies seemed to coincide with his own commitments. Whitehead shares with Gentile a sense of reality as activity and an understanding of knowledge as constructed from abstractions that are open to evaluation and imaginative reconfiguration. Yeats was a Senator of the Irish Free State and took an interest in schooling. Soon after visiting a Montessori-inspired girls' school in Waterford, he began his poem 'Among School Children". (The text of the poem is printed at the end of this paper.) I argue that an awareness of the philosophical ideas Yeats had recently encountered should encourage restless rather than fixed interpretations of the poem and that this sense of restlessness and imaginative reconfiguration reflects the approach to education the three writers, at that time, shared: that at best our modes of apprehension provide only glimpses of reality and therefore each child's understanding and learning must be kept moving. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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3. Finding Patria and Pietas in Leeds: Tony Harrison and Virgil’s Aeneid.
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Marshall, Hallie
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INFLUENCE (Literary, artistic, etc.) - Abstract
Since his translation of Aeschylus's Oresteia, produced at the National Theatre in 1981, Tony Harrison has been closely associated with ancient Greek literature, especially that of the dramatic poets. And while his work since the 1980s has often drawn on fifth-century BC Athenian drama, his training as a Classicist is steeped in Latin poetry, particularly that of Virgil. Little has been written, however, about the place of Virgil or Latin poetry more broadly, in Harrison's poetic imagination. This is largely because of the relative paucity of works by Harrison which explicitly engage with Latin poetry. This paper will argue, however, that there is as much to learn from the absence of explicit engagement as there is to learn from the works that do engage with the Latin poetic tradition, particularly when it comes to the influence of Virgil's Aeneid. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2018
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4. Native Foreigners: Migrating Seabirds and the Pelagic Soul in The Seafarer.
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Warren, Michael J.
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OLD English poetry , *ORNITHOLOGY , *BIRDS in literature , *ECOLOGY & literature , *OLD English manuscripts , *POETRY (Literary form) , *LITERARY criticism - Abstract
In this paper I apply current ecologically centred methodologies in the humanities to explore the familiar image of the bird-soul in The Seafarer in close relation to the real seabirds that are one of the most striking aspects of the maritime environment of the poem. Far from appearing as mere background incidentals, the poet's treatment of the seabirds we first encounter resonates with contemporary ornithological knowledge, and suggests that they feature specifically as species that best convey the ascetic trials and endeavours of the sea-going speaker who observes, listens to and names seabirds. The curious essence of seabirds as creatures that are always at home on the seas, and yet journeying to a home elsewhere, establishes them as what I term "native foreigners", a paradox that highlights the seafarer's conflicting yearnings and reflects the difficult earthly/celestial dynamic in the poem's perceptions of the soul's journey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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5. Drawing out a new image of thought: Anne Carson's radical ekphrasis.
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Tschofen, Monique
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ART & literature , *QUESTIONING , *TORTURE , *TRUTH , *EKPHRASIS - Abstract
This paper examines a poem written by Anne Carson in 1999 in response to a drawing by artist Betty Goodwin titled Seated Figure with Red Angle (1988). The critical issue both artist and poet explore is interrogation. For Goodwin, interrogation relates to the history of torture, forced disappearances and other state-perpetuated atrocities. Torture is not an overt theme in Carson's poem but it remains central to the poem's broader exploration of the meanings of interrogation as a mode by which Western culture has sought knowledge, truth, and certainty, which have as their stakes the objectification of others. Arguing that the poem retrieves a connection between the notion of truth (alethêia) and the ancient Greek practice of basanos — or truth by torture — the paper explores the formal strategies the poem uses to challenge the legacy of rationalist epistemology. Like Goodwin, Carson evokes and then refuses the grid-like structures of containment of syntax and sense. She also refuses to subject her words' visual other to an interrogation by refusing to picture the picture; she will not frame, name, or make the image speak. Referring to the writings of Antonin Artaud, Gilles Deleuze praises the capacity of art to offer "a new image of thought."1 This paper shows how, in refusing representation as its central operational mode, the poem reaches "to the edge of the thinkable" to demonstrate art's capacity to offer its own uncertain form of thinking that, in its dynamism, provisionality, and conditionality, brings into being "that which does not yet exist."2 In so doing, Carson's poem draws on and draws out interrelationships that heal the subject–object split Goodwin's art evokes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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6. Idle Lustas.
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Stanley, EricG.
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SERMON (Literary form) , *LITERARY criticism , *PRIDE & vanity in literature , *DESIRE in literature , *OLD English poetry , *ORIGINAL sin in literature - Abstract
The Exeter Book poem, “The Wonder of Creation”, named in the standard edition “The Order of the World”, is at the centre of the paper. It is a much-neglected Old English poem, yet interesting intellectually, and often difficult. Vanity is important in it, idle lustas “vain desires”, are central to it. There is more in it than the negative teaching that all life is vanity, for there is hope of a better realm. The temptation of Vainglory, the seventh Capital Sin, worthless glory, is a theme in Old English homiletic literature: the wish for false joys is a vanity. That is a theme in Cynewulf's poetry and in the prose of the Blickling Homilies. That a life of prayer and fasting enables man to fight the devil is a serious homiletic message. Our First Parents experienced unprofitable desires. Original Sin is mentioned in this paper, but not every healthy, hearty meal shares in that fundamental theological concept. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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7. 'I lov'de thee best': London as Male Beloved in Isabella Whitney's 'The Manner of her Wyll'.
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Gleed, Paul
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POETRY (Literary form) , *LITERARY criticism , *LONDON (England) in literature , *IRONY in literature , *MASCULINITY in literature - Abstract
This paper reflects on the role of London as male Beloved in Whitney's 'Last Wyll and Testament'. Such a characterization of the city, the paper argues, has two consequences. First, it complicates and provides an important challenge to the ubiquitous personification of London as female in early modern England. Second, this dynamic between female speaker and male Beloved encourages a reconsideration of Whitney's agency in the poem - often celebrated as forceful - as more consciously ironic (although, ultimately, all the more compelling and effective because of it). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] - Published
- 2012
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8. 'Ozymandias,' or De Casibus Lord Byron: Literary Celebrity on the Rocks.
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Mozer, HadleyJ.
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LITERARY criticism , *POETRY (Literary form) , *ENGLISH sonnets , *POETS in literature , *ROMANTICISM in literature , *19TH century English poetry - Abstract
Though rarely discussed in such terms, 'Ozymandias' represents a monumental moment in the so-called Shelley-Byron 'debate' or 'conversation.' Noting the failure of source studies to account convincingly for the origins of the facial features of Ozymandias, this paper argues that the pharaoh's 'frown, / And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command' are suspiciously Byronic, evoking the physiognomy of the Byronic hero and of Byron himself as portrayed in the widely circulated portrait of 1814-15 by George Henry Harlow. In other words, this paper argues that Ozymandias is a portrait - or rather a word-bust - of that early-nineteenth-century literary colossus known as 'Byron.' By depicting that colossus decapitated and in ruins, Shelley, who felt dwarfed by the genius and celebrity of Byron, prophesies the day when the sun would finally set on the literary empire of the poet whom he despaired of rivaling. Long a routine stop on the grand tour of British Romantic literature, 'Ozymandias' now asks to be revisited as a de casibus poem - i.e. a poem 'on the falls' of the mighty - that does not merely warn despots about the vanity of their pride and ambition but that also lectures Lord Byron on the vanity of his literary celebrity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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9. An ecological design philosophy: Randolph T. Hester's Design for ecological democracy.
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White, James T.
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BOOKS , *DEMOCRACY , *NONFICTION ,REVIEWS - Abstract
This paper provides an extended review of Randolph T. Hester's Design for ecological democracy (2006). Initially, a brief introduction to the book, its author and the works position in the literature is given, before a broad summary of the book's central argument is provided. The paper then considers the three key themes Hester explores: enabling form, resilient form and impelling form. Through this discussion, linkages are made to wider concepts of ecology in planning practice as well as political and planning theory. The paper concludes that Design for ecological democracy provides not only an engaging philosophy for the future, but also a series of case study-supported interlinked practical methods for change for the way the built environment is shaped. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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10. Gadè deceptions and lies told by the ill: the Caribbean sociocultural construction of truth in patient-healer encounters.
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Massé, Raymond
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MEDICAL anthropology , *TRUTHFULNESS & falsehood - Abstract
A constructivist approach in medical anthropology suggests that the boundary between lies and truth in sickness narratives is thin. Based on fieldwork in the French (Martinique) and English (Saint-Lucia) Carribbean with gadé and quimboiseurs (local folk healers), this paper addresses the gap between naïve romanticism and radical cynicism in the anthropological analysis of patient-healer encounters. Is the sick person lying when she accuses evil spirits for her behaviour or sickness? Is the quimboiseur who is building a meaningful explanation or diagnosis simply a liar taking advantage of his client's credulity? The challenge for anthropology is not to determine whether or not a person is lying when attributing their ill fortune to witchcraft. Instead, in this paper, the author approaches lying as a language-game played by both patients and folk healers. Concepts of lying as games, tactical lies, pragmatic creativity, and constructive lies are introduced here as a perspective for a reconsideration of lying as a pertinent research object. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2002
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11. Coping with Research Evidence: a multimedia approach for further training of professional workers in the field of drugs and addiction.
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Westera, Wim and Niesink, Raymond J. M.
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EMPLOYEE training , *PROFESSIONAL employees , *DRUG abuse - Abstract
This paper outlines and discusses the use of a self-contained multimedia training program that allows professionals to improve their scientific thinking and reasoning skills. In many domains, scientific research produces new knowledge and insights that are of practical importance. Practitioners in the domains should constantly keep up with new research developments to anticipate practical implications or to participate in public debates. However, this often presumes a basic understanding of the applied research methods and the associated scientific reasoning. To support this understanding amongst professionals the Open University of the Netherlands developed a multimedia computer simulation program. The program design is strongly based on the principles of experiential learning, problem-based learning and contructivism. While using domain-specific cases, the computer program focuses on the cognitive aspects of scientific research, emphasizing the strategic decisions, domain-specific choices and discussions on validity that go with the process of designing and interpreting scientific research. So far, the program has been incorporated in a self-instructive course on neurobehavioural toxicology and addiction. In the present article, the design of the simulation is discussed and evaluated. This includes a description of the educational context and design philosophy. The paper provides examples of the Ecstasy case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2001
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12. Three reports on Japan and the global environment.
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Miller, Alan S.
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ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *ENVIRONMENTALISM , *GOVERNMENT policy , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection - Abstract
Reviews three reports on Japan and the global environment: `White Paper on the Environment in Japan 1988: Japan's Contribution Toward the Conservation of the Global Environment'; `Japan's Activities to Cope with Global Environmental Problems: Japan's Contribution Toward a Better Global Environment'; `Interim Report on Global Warming.' INSET: 1989 White Paper on the Environment, by J. A..
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- 1989
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13. De los filósofos antiguos al romano Apuleyo en el Burguillos de Lope de Vega: notas de tradición clásica.
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Ortega Garrido, Andrés
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ANCIENT philosophy , *SONNET , *ANECDOTES - Abstract
Lope de Vega introduces into two sonnets of Rimas humanas y divinas del licenciado Tomé de Burguillos, references to elements of the classical world that have not been well explained in annotated editions of the poems. This paper discusses, on the one hand, a sonnet containing anecdotes about ancient Greek philosophers, notably, Diogenes, Democritus and Pythagoras; and on the other, a sonnet alluding to The Golden Ass of Apuleius, in which is observable Lope's interest in continuing the tradition of the fictitious author. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2014
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14. Poems after Poussin: MacNeice, Yeats and Durcan in the National Gallery of Ireland.
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Brown, Karen Elizabeth
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EKPHRASIS - Abstract
When writing from Portstewart in September 1926 to his friend, art historian Anthony Blunt, Louis MacNeice expressed interest in a number of paintings he had recently viewed in Dublin's National Gallery, which included six works by Nicolas Poussin. One of them, he wrote, depicted the marriage of Peleus and Thetis and he described it as being 'like golden tea without milk.' This paper considers the poetic responses of MacNeice, W. B. Yeats and Paul Durcan to this painting, and draws conclusions about each poet's debt to or relative independence from the visual source.Comparative analysis of the three poems proves an interesting case for a discussion of ekphrasis, because when the painting was donated to the National Gallery in 1916 as part of the Lane bequest it was mistakenly entitled Peleus and Thetis. Both MacNeice's 'Poussin' (1925-9) and Yeats' 'News for the Delphic Oracle' (1939) are imaginative responses to this subject, while the corrected identification Acis and Galatea (ca. 1629-31) provides the title of Durcan's poem (1991). Focusing at first on the formal aspects of Poussin's painting including his use of rhythm, balance and tone, I then move my discussion to the shifting re-enactments of visual experience in each poem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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15. A poetic journey: the transfer and transformation of German strategies for moral education in late eighteenth-century Dutch poetry for children.
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Parlevliet, Sanne and Dekker, Jeroen J.H.
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CHILDREN'S poetry , *MORAL education , *EIGHTEENTH century , *HISTORY - Abstract
One of the most popular Dutch educational enlightenment authors was Hieronymus van Alphen. His three volumes of Little Poems for Children published in 1778 and 1782 were extremely successful, both in the Netherlands and abroad. Inspired by the German poets Christian Felix Weisse and Gottlob Wilhelm Burmann, Van Alphen brought about an expansion of educational space based on the integration of moral education in the spirit of the educational ideas of Locke, Rousseau and the Philanthropinists with poetical ideas and the nature of the child in both the content and the form of his poems. His poems were translated almost immediately into English, French and, surprisingly, as many of his poems were more or less adaptations of poems by Weisse and Burmann, into German too. Van Alphen’s trump card was a reversal of former strategies of education: instead of pressing moral ideas upon the children from an adult point of view, he aimed at identification by (1) writing from the perspective of children, (2) situating the poems in the world of experience of children, (3) using a childlike style with a frolicking metre, rhyme scheme and prosody, and (4) combining text and images, so putting the moral message across visually and textually at the same time. In this paper, we follow the journey of poems for children as media for the cultural transmission of moral educational ideas from Germany to the Netherlands from the perspective of cultural transmission, moral literacy and educational space. We conclude that Van Alphen, with the combined power of text and image, successfully adopted and adapted former educational strategies, such as the moral poetics developed by his German predecessors Christian Felix Weisse and Gottlob Wilhelm Burmann. Taking their strategies on a poetic journey from Germany to the Netherlands, he not only transferred them, but transformed them as well. Van Alphen did so in a specific Dutch utilitarian way. His poems could be read for fun but were intended for learning. They were useful and entertaining at the same time, because he took the life and living environment of children into account, and particularly accounted for the concept of development as a distinguishing characteristic of the specific nature of the child with which child readers could identify. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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16. Marvell as libertin: Upon Appleton House and the Legacy of Théophile de Viau.
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Pertile, Giulio
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LIBERTINISM in literature - Abstract
This paper argues for a 'libertine Marvell' as heir to a line of intellectual and poetic influence stretching from the atheist philosopher Lucilio Vanini, through the poets Théophile de Viau and Marc-Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, via their English translators Charles Cotton, Thomas Stanley, and Thomas Fairfax, to Marvell's poem Upon Appleton House. It argues that Upon Appleton House captures the libertine spirit of Théophile more faithfully than Stanley and Cotton's largely sanitised versions. Conversely, French libertine poetry and thought of the 1610s and 1620s are seen to provide the best context for understanding the 'vitalism' of Marvell's garden poems, as well as their unusually divagating observational style. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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17. Prospects of Contemplation: Wordsworth's Winter Garden at Coleorton, 1806–1811.
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Fay, Jessica
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GARDENS , *GARDENS in literature , *MONASTICISM & religious orders - Abstract
The winter of 1806/1807, which Wordsworth and his family spent at Coleorton, often marks the termination of his “Great Decade.” But during this winter, Wordsworth began a study of the history of monasticism and hagiography, which formed the basis of the poetry he produced over the next five years. The origins of his concentrated interest in religious life are co-extensive with his design for Lady Beaumont's Winter Garden at Coleorton. This paper explores how, between 1806 and 1811, Wordsworth looked back on his gardening project as he composedThe White Doe of Rylstone(1807),The Tuft of Primroses(1808) and the Coleorton Inscriptions (1811). I argue that aspects of the garden propelled his study of religious life and that this study gave the rocks and trees of the garden new significance. He created prospects, in the garden and with his poetry, that were “unconscious of decay.” Such prospects resembled the endurance and stability of contemplation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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18. “Like a pillar of fire above the Alps”: William Blake and the Prospect of Revolution.
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Baulch, DavidM.
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ALPS in literature , *REVOLUTIONS , *REPETITION (Philosophy) , *DIFFERENCE (Philosophy) - Abstract
The Alps are not part of a sublime prospect in William Blake's poetry simply because they provoke Burkean terror or occasion a Kantian sensation of the unrepresentable. Rather, in bothThe Song of Los(1795) andJerusalem(1804–c. 1820), the Alps are sublime in so far as they present the prospect of revolution. The earlier poem flirts simultaneously with a vision of revolution as eschatological finality and as the political realization of the ideas of “Rousseau and Voltaire.” By contrast,Jerusalemconveys revolution as an experience that potentiates the emergence of a radical ontological condition that frees the subject from both political and religious subjectivation. This paper traces the waysJerusalemharnesses the Kantian sublime to Deleuzian concepts of difference and repetition.Jerusalemembraces the contra-finality of the sublime that Kant disparages and exploits the aesthetic as a Deleuzian site for the emergence of ontological difference. When Los sings his “watch song,” “the Alps and the Appenines / Listen.” This becoming-human of geography that Los's lyric occasions also gives “Time & Revolution to the Space of Six Thousand Years.” Rather than figuring revolution as an eschatological finality,Jerusalem's revolution involves a radical reconception of the body and the geo-political situation that frame its subjectivation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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19. Transplantations.
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Bergam, Marija
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LITERARY criticism , *POETRY (Literary form) , *PLANTS in literature , *PLACE (Philosophy) in literature , *CARIBBEAN poetry - Abstract
The aim of this paper is to disclose the nexus of dislocation and ecology in the work of two Caribbean poets, Derek Walcott and Lorna Goodison. It shows how they deal with the founding experiences of the wider Caribbean community, such as diaspora and the process of creolisation, by drawing on the vegetation imagery. The concept of transplantation is central to this reading, as it refers to the history of forced removal, while also celebrating the biological and cultural hybridity of the region. Arguably, the shared preoccupation with island vegetation can be associated with the importance of naming for the Caribbean writers – hence the constant references to language in their representations of local plants. If geographic dislocation caused linguistic dislocation, it is only through the repossession of language that the poet is able to enact a return to her/his homeland. In Walcott and Goodison, however, this aim is pursued through further dislocation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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20. Lydgate's Affective Turn: Masculinity and Melancholy in Bycorne and Chychevache.
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Johnson, TravisW.
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MASCULINITY in literature , *EMOTIONS in literature , *MISOGYNY , *MELANCHOLY in literature , *MERCHANTS , *HISTORY - Abstract
This paper argues that John Lydgate's Bycorne and Chychevache marks an important shift in the literary uses of emotion by revising the discourse of melancholic suffering in order to help a merchant-class patron confront socio-economic anxieties. In his misogynist poem, Lydgate imagines a world where wives dominate their husbands and force them to fall victim to a man-eating monster. The poem thus focuses on a melancholic masculinity that is captive to grief and trapped in a feminized subject position. Bycorne and Chychevache 's masculine melancholy addresses the fifteenth-century merchant's concerns about household governance, business success, and the building of a lasting legacy. But, in a striking reversal, Lydgate reimagines melancholy as a sign of power and privilege, and departs radically from the traditional narrative of melancholy as he converts feelings of disempowerment into signs of masculine exceptionality. In so doing, Lydgate anticipates early modern writers' understanding of melancholic suffering as not only a mark of spiritual and intellectual greatness in men, but also an affect that a man might adopt by choice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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21. A prominent participant? The role of the state in police partnerships.
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Skinns, Layla
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BOOKS , *NONFICTION ,REVIEWS - Abstract
In this paper I review three books on the notion of partnership working. In Problem-oriented policing and partnerships and Crime reduction partnerships the authors explore partnership working in an informative way for practitioners, whereas in the edited collection. Fighting crime together, the authors combine empirical, theoretical and methodological understandings of the notion of security networks. The books provide a useful starting point for exploring wider issues. I examine the involvement of the police, as a dominant partnership participant; the existence of co-operation and contest in police partnerships, as a manifestation of contradictions in the wider socio-political climate; the role of the state, empirically and normatively, in policing through partnerships. My argument is that the state does and should have a vital role in police partnerships, although not without it being regulated through an independent and socially representative body, such as a community safety or policing commission. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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22. Crossing Species Boundaries.
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Robert, Jason Scott and Baylis, Françoise
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SPECIES hybridization , *GENOMICS , *CHIMERAS (Botany) , *SPECIES , *STEM cells , *ETHICS - Abstract
This paper critically examines the biology of species identity and the morality of crossing species boundaries in the context of emerging research that involves combining human and nonhuman animals at the genetic or cellular level. We begin with the notion of species identity, particularly focusing on the ostensible fixity of species boundaries, and we explore the general biological and philosophical problem of defining species. Against this backdrop, we survey and criticize earlier attempts to forbid crossing species boundaries in the creation of novel beings. We do not attempt to establish the immorality of crossing species boundaries, but we conclude with some thoughts about such crossings, alluding to the notion of moral confusion regarding social and ethical obligations to novel interspecies beings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
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23. Encouraging Learning or Measuring Failure?
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Wootton, Sally
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COLLEGE students , *HIGHER education - Abstract
This paper calls for a debate on effects that the current education system is having on our learners. Many students entering Higher Education struggle to rise to its rigorous academic demands. The need for support services is on the increase with greater focus on key skills, study skills and self-management. Students undertaking higher study can face financial hardship and emotional turmoil in striving to achieve, but the problems do not start here. Much of the trepidation felt by students comes as a result of earlier educational experiences, and is merely exacerbated as their learning experience progresses. It is time to re-assess the whole educational process and to question whether the system exists to encourage learning or to measure failure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2002
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24. Kant's Noumenon and Sunyata.
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Weed, Laura E.
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SPACETIME , *PHILOSOPHERS - Abstract
This paper compares Kant's positions on space, time, the relational character of noumena, and the relational character of the self, with the somewhat similar accounts of those things in two philosophers of the Kyoto school: Keiji Nishitani and Nishida Kitaro. I will argue that the philosophers of the Kyoto school had a more coherent and better integrated account of those ideas, that was open to Kant. I think that the comparison both clarifies Kant's position on these topics, and elucidates the topics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2002
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25. Armand Trousseau – Some of His Contributions to Neurology.
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Pearce, J.M.S.
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NEUROLOGY , *VENOUS thrombosis , *CANCER - Abstract
Trousseau made a remarkably large number of original clinical contributions to medicine and neurology. Best known are Trousseau's syndrome, the combination of venous thrombosis with visceral carcinoma; tache cérébrale, the red streak seen on scratching the skin in acute meningitis; and Trousseau's sign, the cardinal physical sign in tetany. His pioneering work in tracheostomy in diphtheria, haemochromatosis, Parkinson's disease, aphasia and chorea are but a few of his outstanding clinical studies. Based on his famously comprehensive text, Clinique Médicale de l'Hôtel Dieu, this paper highlights a few of his discoveries. The name of Armand Trousseau must stand alongside those of Charcot, Oppenheim, Jackson and Gowers in the annals of neurology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2002
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26. Generalized sequential preventive maintenance policy of a system subject to shocks.
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Sheu, Shey-Huei and Chang, Tien-Hsiang
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MAINTENANCE , *MECHANICAL shock , *RELIABILITY in engineering - Abstract
The paper proposes and analyses a generalized sequential preventive maintenance policy of a system subject to shocks. The shocks arrive according to a non-homogeneous Poisson process {N[sub i] (t); t ≥ 0}, whose intensity function r[sub i ](t) varies with the number of maintenance actions (i - 1) that have already been carried out, and the time (t) that has elapsed since the last maintenance action. Upon the arrival of the kth shock, the system is maintained or repaired minimally with probability θ [sub i , k] and q[sub i , k] respectively depending on the number of maintenance actions (i - 1) that have already occurred and the ordinal number of the arriving shock (the kth) since the last maintenance. In addition, a planned maintenance is carried out as soon as T[sub i] time units have elapsed since the (i - 1)th maintenance action. If i = N, the system is replaced rather than maintained. The objective is to determine the optimal plan (in terms of N and T[sub i]) that minimizes the expected cost per unit of time. It is shown that under certain reasonable assumptions, a sequential preventive maintenance policy has unique solutions. Various special cases are considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2002
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27. Drug Education with Special Needs Populations: identifying and understanding the challenges.
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Snow, Pamela C., Wallace, Stephen D., and Munro, Geoffrey D.
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DRUG abuse education , *EXCEPTIONAL children - Abstract
Students with special developmental needs (e.g. learning disabilities, attentional disorders, intellectual disability, conduct disorders, sensory deficits, acquired brain injury) face particular challenges with respect to academic achievement and psychosocial development, whether they are educated in mainstream settings, special settings, or a combination of these. These groups are typically poorly researched with respect to drug and alcohol use and education, however there is some evidence to indicate that they face an elevated risk of experiencing drug-related harms. The aim of the present paper is to highlight the particular challenges facing this heterogeneous population with respect to access to school-based drug education. Special learning challenges facing such students are described, and some suggestions are provided for researchers and practitioners in the drug education field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2001
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28. Tomlinson's A Rose for Janet.
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Weisman, Karen A.
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POETRY (Literary form) - Abstract
Claims `A Rose for Janet' by Charles Tomlinson is one of his most felicitous acknowledgments in verse of the poet's anxiety over mimetic representation. The comparison of the rose of nature with the poem describing it; The `ink-and-paper rose' tantamount to the rows of ink on the paper; Tomlinson's reminder of death of mutable objects in nature also a reminder of human mortality.
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- 1992
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29. Survival and song: Women poets of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Honey, Maureen
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AFRICAN American women poets , *HARLEM Renaissance , *AFRICAN American poetry , *TWENTIETH century , *INTELLECTUAL life - Abstract
This paper concerns Black women poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Considered by modern critics to have adopted anachronistic subject matter and to be out of step with the militant race-consciousness of the period, these poets have been largely neglected in discussions of the 1920's, despite the fact that this was the most significant flowering of Black women's writing until the 1960's. I provide an interpretive model that reveals the rebellious messages in this verse, one that helps explain the poets' imaginative choices by placing them in their historical context and liking them to a female poetic tradition. This approach makes clear the affirming nature of Renaissance poetry by women and makes it accessible to us today, anticipating as it does contemporary issues and forging a modern sensibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1989
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30. Review symposium.
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McDonald, Geraldine and Macintosh, Henry G.
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EDUCATIONAL standards - Abstract
Reviews the symposium report `Monitoring the Standards of Education: Papers in honor of John P. Keeves,' edited by Albert C. Tuijnman and T. Neville Postlewaite.
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- 1995
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31. Time, Place and Competence: society and history in the writings of Robert Edgerton (Book).
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Luckin, Bill
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PEOPLE with intellectual disabilities , *PEOPLE with developmental disabilities , *PEOPLE with disabilities , *SOCIAL skills , *SOCIAL scientists - Abstract
This is an article by an historian about the work of an American anthropologist and social scientist who has for many years observed, recorded and participated in the lives of the mentally handicapped. It had its origins in a dissatisfaction with existing histories of retardation and a desire to seek out twentieth century sociological perspectives with relevance to and resonances for earlier periods. The paper falls into three sections. The first describes and analyses the polarity-social competence and incompetence within given cultures-which is central to Edgerton's conception of what he terms 'socio-cultural retardation'. This is followed by an evaluation of The Cloak of Competence [1], which concentrates on the interactions between deinstitutionalisation, stigma and passing for normal. A concluding section returns, by means of an examination of the validity of the notion of a 'retarded community', to a final interrogation of the causes as well as the meanings and contradictions implicit in 'socio-cultural retardation'. Attention is also briefly given to the ways in which historians, and explicitly historical methodologies, can contribute to further research within the general paradigm which Edgerton has pioneered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1986
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32. Yeats's THE CAPS AND BELLS.
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Hamlin, Margaret
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COURTSHIP in literature , *PLAYS on words - Abstract
The article discusses the poem "The Cap and Bells" by the Irish poet W. B. Yeats, and argues that it should be read as symbolic of the poet's attempts to woo his contemporary Maud Gonne. Wordplay in the poem relating to foolscap paper and the literal fool's cap described in the text is also commented on.
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- 1990
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33. The Lovers of Venice: Musset's Works and Life in Kuzmin's A New Rolla.
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McDonald, Erik
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LOVE in literature , *20TH century Russian literature , *LITERARY criticism , *RUSSIAN literature - Abstract
The title of Mikhail Kuzmin's Novyi Rolla [A New Rolla] has been considered cryptic despite its evident allusion to Alfred de Musset's "Rolla," a poem with which it shares little. In this article I argue that the link to Musset is clear if we read A New Rolla as responding not just to "Rolla," but also to Musset's novel La Confession d'un enfant du siècle [The Confession of a Child of the Age] and his biography. From this composite source Kuzmin takes up the themes of a debauchee finding love, love as serial yet serious, and a love triangle in Venice, as well as an apostrophe to the kiss. Kuzmin endorses most of Musset's idea of love, but rejects the egalitarian ideal implicit in the sympathetic treatment of the prostitute Marion in "Rolla." A secondary allusion to Nikolai Nekrasov's "Kogda iz mraka zabluzhden'ia" [When, out of the darkness of error] reinforces Kuzmin's rejection of the egalitarian ideal of sexual love. The allusions to Musset and Nekrasov amount to anachronisms that partially undermine the precise temporal setting of A New Rolla. Kuzmin's work thereby occupies an intermediate position among his period pieces, as it is neither openly playful like Venetsianskie bezumtsy [Venetian Madcaps] nor constructed with its seams hidden like the Aleksandriiskie pesni [Alexandrian Songs]. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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34. Announcements.
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AWARD presentations , *RESEARCH - Abstract
Focuses on the awarding of annual prize for authors of the papers in the journal 'Annals Science.' Publication of high-quality papers; Recipient of the award; Assessment of the prize.
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- 1993
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35. Radiation Effects (Book).
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PERIODICALS , *RADIATION , *PHYSICS , *METALLURGY , *BIOPHYSICS , *RESEARCH - Abstract
The article focuses on the journal "Radiation Effects," which publishes experimental and theoretical papers of both a fundamental and applied nature. Topics included range from the physics of the effects of radiation on crystalline materials, through radiation chemistry, metallurgy, biology and biochemistry, to biophysical effects in the life molecules and in vivo physiological studies. Although the journal primarily publishes original research papers, appropriate review articles appear from time to time.
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- 1977
36. PROGRESS F CYBERNETICS (Book).
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Rose, J.
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CYBERNETICS , *AUTOMATIC control systems , *COMMUNICATION , *ELECTRONICS , *SYSTEMS theory - Abstract
The article focuses on the book "Proceedings of the First International Congress of Cybernetics," edited by J. Rose. Eight areas of work are covered in this three-volume work. The division of main papers, contributed by renowned experts from five countries, deals with various aspects of cybernetics. This is followed by seven sections, each containing many papers and covering different disciplines. This book marks the coming-of-age of cybernetics and an advance into maturity of this new science which will have a tremendous effect upon society.
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- 1975
37. Collective Phenomena (Book).
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PERIODICALS , *PUBLISHING , *PHYSICS , *COMMUNICATION , *PUBLICATIONS , *PHYSICAL sciences - Abstract
The article focuses on the journal "Collective Phenomena," which provides a means of publication, discussion and speculation on all aspects of collective phenomena, both in physics and in other disciplines where considerations in physical terms may be relevant. The journal will publish full-length, experimental and theoretical specialist papers, and will allow and encourage the exchange of views and comments on published studies and ideas. It also invites more speculative communications from those who wish their ideas to reach a wide international audience.
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- 1977
38. METHODOLOGY OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT (Book).
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Cetron, Marvin J. and Bartocha, Bodo
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TECHNOLOGY assessment , *TECHNOLOGICAL forecasting , *TECHNOLOGICAL innovations - Abstract
The article focuses on the book "Methodology of Technology Assessment," edited by Marvin J. Cetron and Bodo Bartocha. This book contains papers and articles which emphasize the basic methodology of technological assessment, extracted from the book "Technology Assessment in a Dynamic Environment." The topics discussed in the book are: A Method for Planning and Assessing Technology Against Relevant National Goals in Developing Countries," The Environment: A Systems Approach With Emphasis on Monitoring," "Introducing Societal Indicators Into Technology Assessment," and "The Role of Law and Lawyers in Technology Assessment."
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- 1975
39. DEVELOPMENTS IN EDUCATIONAL TESTING (Book).
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Ingenkamp, Karlheinz
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EDUCATIONAL tests & measurements , *PSYCHOLOGICAL tests for children , *PSYCHOMETRICS , *RATING of students - Abstract
The article focuses on the book "Developments in Educational Testing," edited by Karlheinz Ingenkamp. The book reproduces in English 79 papers on educational testing given at an international conference held in Berlin from 16-24 May, 1967. The authors are experts in measurement from all over the world, and they have made important contributions in the field of testing. The contents include testing throughout the world, educational objectives of testing and varying types of tests for the assessment of scholastic achievement.
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- 1974
40. Reviews in brief.
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BOOKS - Abstract
Reviews the paper `Education and the Crisis in Values: Should We Be Philosophical About It?,' by Graham Haydon.
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- 1994
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