The Late Lord Byron: Posthumous Dramas

George Gordon, Lord Byron 1788-1824.

The assertion of Lucifer, that the pre-Adamite world was also peopled by rational beings much more intelligent than man, and proportionably powerful to the mammoth, etc., etc., is, of course, a poetical fiction to help him to make out his case. Lord Byron señala a unas lagunas bíblicas y las utiliza para cuestionar los principios de nuestra fe y debatir la naturaleza de la maldad. También, las ...

Pathos and Pathology in the Life of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron died of blackwater fever in his 37th year in the mosquito infested marshes of Missolonghi, having written with great premonition three weeks previously his last poem. Byron had believed all his life that he would die in his 37th year and was very conscious of the family background he had inherited. His great-grandfather had been a bad tempered gentleman dubbed "the wicked Lo...

Lord Byron ' s Don Juan : The Eastern Context

This paper sheds light on “The eastern context in Lord Byron’s Don Juan. Despite some weakness in structure and form, and despite much mockery, seduction traits, Don Juan is a vast creation in its theme. Always self-conscious of his literary standing, Byron did not neglect to include literary and cultural criticism in this comedic epic. That is to say, it is a satirical work in a comic style; i...

Posthumous reproduction.

Two Kinase Family Dramas

In this issue, Lietha and colleagues (2007) report the structure of focal adhesion kinase (FAK) and reveal how FAK maintains an autoinhibited state. Together with the structure of another tyrosine kinase, ZAP-70 (Deindl et al., 2007), this work highlights the diversity of mechanisms that nature has evolved within the kinase superfamily to regulate their activity through autoinhibition.