The vast diversity of the proposed definitions of parody, both before and after the twentieth century, can be an emblem of the lack of a thorough agreement amongst the literary critics about the definition of this literary technique (genre?!). While there is not a comprehensive all-accepted definition of parody, modern and postmodern literatures both exhibit a wide application of it. After look...

With special reference to the schizophrenic psychoses. By C. Macfie Campbell, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University. London: Chapman & Hall. 1935. pp. 207. 10/6 net. This is the first volume of publications on Psychiatric subjects which will be issued as * nomas W. Salmon Memorial Lectures in tribute 0, that mental physician who was a distinguished pioneer in modern American psychia...

physical state, arrangement and access to the records. Some of the historical sketches are tantalizingly incomplete, since so little is known ofthe firms. Descriptions vary from single items to quantities of material-often completely unsorted. Archives of many firms are scattered in several locations: those of British Xylorite Co. Ltd. (for example) are at Hackney Archives Dept., Suffolk Record...

Your birthplace fate or fortune What a privilege it is to have been born in Australia. My parents are third generation farmers and they and their ancestors lived in a small rural and farming community, Kyogle, on the Queensland and New South Wales border. The town has a fluctuating population. According to the census data from 2006, Kyogle’s population is approximately 4110.1 Kyogle Memorial Ho...

A number of nuclear power plant postulated accident scenarios show the overwhelming presence of radioiodines in the mix of a radioactive release. The effectual manifestations of radioiodines on an unprotected thyroid gland can be medically devastating. The importance of the thyroid gland in maintaining the harmonious functioning of the body is enormous, and the role of potassium iodide in prote...

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