Chistes par(r)a reordenar el canon: Roberto Bolaño, Nicanor Parra y la poesía chilena

“Todo se lo debo a Parra” – con estas y semejantes palabras de elogio Roberto Bolaño le asignó un lugar central al antipoeta chileno dentro de su amplio canon personal. No obstante, la amplia crítica bolañiana hasta el momento no pareciera haber estudiado a fondo las múltiples dimensiones de esta relación entre los dos autores chilenos. El presente estudio pretende analizar, por lo tanto, de qué manera los postulados ético-estéticos de Parra y de su antipoesía le sirven a Bolaño como punto de referencia clave para reordenar el canon de la literatura chilena contemporánea. Además, se discutirá el papel clave que desempeña Bolaño en el renovado interés de la crítica en la obra de Nicanor Parra durante los últimos años

Ordnungsrufe: Formen und Funktionen „reaktionärer“ Diskurse im französischen Essay der Gegenwart

Vor dem Hintergrund einer von den Umbrüchen der Globalisierung und Spätmoderne geprägten Weltwahrnehmung lässt sich in Frankreich ab den 1990er Jahren eine verstärkte Präsenz von Essays und Romanen beobachten, die sich aus einer konservativen bis reaktionären Position kritisch bzw. polemisch mit dieser auseinandersetzen. Angesichts der Problematik einer gegenwärtig zunehmenden rhetorischen Aufrüstung politisch wie ästhetisch konträr zueinander stehender Lager versucht der vorliegende Beitrag, anhand der essayistischen Werke zweier Autoren aus dem Umfeld jener „nouveaux réactionnaires“ – Philippe Muray und Richard Millet – eine diskurshistorisch informierte Analyse ihrer inhaltlichen wie rhetorischen Strategien zu unternehmen. Diese soll nicht zuletzt einen Beitrag zur Differenzierung bestimmter politischer und ästhetischer Positionen des „rechten“ Spektrums leisten, welche häufig unzulässig (bzw. diffamierend) unter dem Label der „Reaktion“ subsumiert werden, womit einer weiteren Polarisierung und Spaltung der intellektuellen Landschaft in „diskursive Parallelgesellschaften“ Vorschub geleistet wird. </p

Das Leben der Anderen: historische, soziologische und narrative Dimensionen paralleler Sozialität

Einleitung der Herausgeber zum Beiheft Parallelgesellschafte

Many Labs 5:Registered Replication Report of Crosby, Monin &amp; Richardson (2008)

Crosby, Monin and Richardson (2008) found that hearing an offensive remark caused participants (n=25) to look at a potentially offended person, but only if that person could themselves hear the remark. They thus argued that the computation of offense involves the coordinated processing of high level linguistic and interpersonal cues. Their key effect, however, was not replicated by Jonas and Skorinko (2015) as part of the Reproducibility Project: Psychology (Open Science Collaboration, 2015). Three labs from Europe and America (n=283) tested whether the size of that effect might be increased when the stimuli were modified to be more appropriate for a diverse range of participants, using a peer-reviewed and pre-registered protocol. We found that this manipulation of protocol did not affect the size of the social referencing effect but, interestingly, we did replicate the original effect reported by Crosby and colleagues, albeit with a much smaller effect size. We discuss these results in the context of ongoing debates about how replication attempts should treat statistical power and contextual sensitivity

Recent Emergence of Bovine Coronavirus Variants with Mutations in the Hemagglutinin-Esterase Receptor Binding Domain in U.S. Cattle

Bovine coronavirus (BCoV) has spilled over to many species, including humans, where the host range variant coronavirus OC43 is endemic. The balance of the opposing activities of the surface spike (S) and hemagglutinin-esterase (HE) glycoproteins controls BCoV avidity, which is critical for interspecies transmission and host adaptation. Here, 78 genomes were sequenced directly from clinical samples collected between 2013 and 2022 from cattle in 12 states, primarily in the Midwestern U.S. Relatively little genetic diversity was observed, with genomes having \u3e98% nucleotide identity. Eleven isolates collected between 2020 and 2022 from four states (Nebraska, Colorado, California, and Wisconsin) contained a 12 nucleotide insertion in the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the HE gene similar to one recently reported in China, and a single genome from Nebraska collected in 2020 contained a novel 12 nucleotide deletion in the HE gene RBD. Isogenic HE proteins containing either the insertion or deletion in the HE RBD maintained esterase activity and could bind bovine submaxillary mucin, a substrate enriched in the receptor 9-O-acetylated-sialic acid, despite modeling that predicted structural changes in the HE R3 loop critical for receptor binding. The emergence of BCoV with structural variants in the RBD raises the possibility of further interspecies transmission

The contribution of daytime sleepiness to impaired quality of life in NAFLD in an ethnically diverse population

Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is lower in people with NAFLD compared to the general population. Sleep disturbance resulting in daytime sleepiness is common in patients with NAFLD, but the effect of daytime sleepiness on HRQoL in NAFLD is unclear. The prevalence and natural history of NAFLD vary in different ethnic groups, but there has been limited ethnic diversity in HrQoL studies to date. We aimed to assess whether daytime sleepiness is independently associated with reduced HRQoL in an ethnically diverse UK population. We conducted HRQoL assessments using SF-36 version 2 and Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) questionnaires in 192 people with NAFLD. Multivariate linear regression was used to identify factors independently affecting HRQoL scales. People with NAFLD reported significantly reduced physical health-related SF-36 scores compared to the general UK population. South Asian NAFLD patients reported impairment in physical health, but not mental health, approximately a decade before White NAFLD patients. In multivariate linear regression, daytime sleepiness (ESS score > 10), was the most significant independent predictor of reduced physical health. Age, BMI and liver stiffness score were also significantly associated. HRQoL is impaired earlier in patients of South Asian ethnicity. ESS score > 10, indicative of excessive daytime sleepiness, is an independent predictor of reduced HRQoL in people with NAFLD regardless of ethnicity. Daytime sleepiness should be considered as a contributing factor to reduced HRQoL in clinical practice and when evaluating patient-related outcomes in clinical trials.Grant from the Diabetes Wellness and Research Foundation (WA, WKS). WA was supported by a New Investigator Research Grant from the Medical Research Council

Americanismo y latinoamericanismo : Dos momentos en la constitución de un espacio editorial para nuestro continente

En julio de 2013 se realizó en Buenos Aires el XVIII Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas. En esa oportunidad, invitado a pronunciar la conferencia de apertura, procuré trazar un panorama sobre los principales proyectos editoriales en América Latina, a partir de un doble recorte: me referí solo al siglo XX, y al libro de literatura. Aquella conferencia se publicó con el título “Editores y políticas editoriales en América latina” (2015: 19-47). El objetivo que allí perseguía era bien evidente: postular la necesidad de superar las barreras nacionales en nuestros estudios sobre historia de la edición. Esa necesidad partía de mi propia experiencia: de 2006 es la primera edición de nuestro libro Editores y políticas editoriales en Argentina, publicado por el Fondo de Cultura Económica. Una y otra vez, durante la escritura de aquel libro, me enfrenté con un clásico problema metodológico: ¿cómo aislar a ese objeto, el libro y la edición en Argentina, cada vez más integrado a un mercado mundial?Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educació

Introduction to Arabic: Egyptian Arabic for first-year students

422 page pdf and alternative eBook version.This textbook was written to accompany ARB 101 at University of Oregon.This book presents materials for mastering the Arabic alphabet and the student's first steps in Egyptian Arabic. This book contains interactive activities that can only be accessed through the web version of this book which can be found at: https://opentext.uoregon.edu/introarabic/ (clickable link above).Open Oregon Educational Resource