Abstract This essay discusses a group of anglophone artists the pre-First World War period who not only assimilated Parisian avant-garde practices but took plunge attempting to make their careers in Paris itself decade before 1915. The constellation questions, both historical and theoretical, that this initiative raises provides framework for an analysis offers detailed materialist history emer...

Previous critical readings of Toni Morrison’s novels, especially Paradise, largely emphasise the universal themes explored in her novels, namely, feminism, culture, psychology, and of course, her remarkable presentation of African-Americans in racial and cultural conflicts. Yet, there are major areas that remain unexplored in her works. One of the most conspicuous absences is Morrison’s dominan...

An event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study of prefrontal cortex was conducted during which subjects performed a visual "oddball" target detection task. Exemplars of three stimulus categories were presented at a rate of one per 1.5 sec for 10 runs, each consisting of 132 trials. Standards were color squares of varying sizes that were presented on approximately 92% of trials. Ta...

Over the past century, the term picaresque has been fully incorporated into the metalanguage of Western national literatures: picaresque novel in English, novela picaresca in Spanish, roman picaresque in French, Schelmenroman or pikarescher Roman in German, Плутовско́й рома́н in Russian, romanzo picaresco in Italian, pikaresk-roman in Danish and Norwegian, and pikareskroman in Swedish. Novels fro...

ONE UNIVERSALLY acknowledged truth about the Victorians is that they loved their things.1 Deborah Cohen has recently argued that in nineteenthcentury England moral uplift came for the first time to be associated with the accumulation and harmonious arrangement of possessions; homedecoration turned into a saintly affair.2 The objects that pack Victorian parlors—aquaria, terraria, globes, books, ...

This essay explores aspirations and expectations of women’s rights, the sympathy for and reasons for women’s destinies by analyzing the forms of expression and tracing the ideas of feminist awareness in Fang Fang's novels in terms of feminist wishes in survival predicaments, struggles in literature fields, and feminists’ pursuits in daily life, with highlighting the standout points of a number ...

The Japanese art films of the mid-1960s, also known as the so-called Japanese New Wave, are often praised by film scholars, but its formal elements and common characteristics are not often discussed. Thus, through the use of directors representative of the period, such as Hani Susumu, Matsumoto Toshio, Oshima Nagisa, and Teshigahara Hiroshi, this talk analyzes the features of outstanding exampl...

Citation: Garde E, Ramírez L, Corvo L, Solana JC, Martín ME, González VM, Gómez-Nieto C, Barral A, Barral-Netto M, Requena JM, Iborra S and Soto M (2018) Analysis of the Antigenic and Prophylactic Properties of the Leishmania Translation Initiation Factors eIF2 and eIF2B in Natural and Experimental Leishmaniasis. Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 8:112. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2018.00112 Analysis of t...

During the late 1960s, music educators introduced the idioms of post-war modernism (otherwise known as the avant-garde) into British classrooms. As a result, creative music making, composing and improvisation, became an established part of the curriculum. However the actual idioms of musical modernism have largely vanished from schools. The writer explores the reasons for this decline, while ac...