The Ramayana: A Stage Play and A Screen Play

This is a book review of Bashabi Fraser's book The Ramayana: A Stage Play and a Screen Pla

Mathematical models of malaria - a review

Mathematical models have been used to provide an explicit framework for understanding malaria transmission dynamics in human population for over 100 years. With the disease still thriving and threatening to be a major source of death and disability due to changed environmental and socio-economic conditions, it is necessary to make a critical assessment of the existing models, and study their evolution and efficacy in describing the host-parasite biology. In this article, starting from the basic Ross model, the key mathematical models and their underlying features, based on their specific contributions in the understanding of spread and transmission of malaria have been discussed. The first aim of this article is to develop, starting from the basic models, a hierarchical structure of a range of deterministic models of different levels of complexity. The second objective is to elaborate, using some of the representative mathematical models, the evolution of modelling strategies to describe malaria incidence by including the critical features of host-vector-parasite interactions. Emphasis is more on the evolution of the deterministic differential equation based epidemiological compartment models with a brief discussion on data based statistical models. In this comprehensive survey, the approach has been to summarize the modelling activity in this area so that it helps reach a wider range of researchers working on epidemiology, transmission, and other aspects of malaria. This may facilitate the mathematicians to further develop suitable models in this direction relevant to the present scenario, and help the biologists and public health personnel to adopt better understanding of the modelling strategies to control the diseas

Ernest Hemingway’s The Spanish Earth : A Case for a Documentary Film

Tells of Hemingway’s direct involvement with the Spanish Loyalist propaganda film, rejecting criticism that the film was overtly biased. Claims that Hemingway interweaves propaganda with ethical issues to create a successful documentary

The Indian Critical Reception of Ernest Hemingway: A Bibliographical Overview

Mandal identifies a correlation between Hemingway’s worldview and Indian oriental philosophy as reason for the author’s popularity in India. Includes a bibliography of Indian scholarship

The Itinerant American Traveller (sic): Settings and Locales in Ernest Hemingway’s Fiction

Focuses on the relationships between geography, experience, and identity in Hemingway’s texts and personal life. Argues that setting plays an integral role in reflecting Hemingway’s commitment to both total sensual engagement and creation of a larger world picture. Discusses Michigan, Paris, Spain, Africa, and Cuba, with brief references to the major novels and short stories set in those locales

Reflections, Refractions and Rejections: Three American Writers and the Celluloid World

Thematic and stylistic study of the relationship between film and literature, exploring the film industry’s influence on the writing of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner. Sums up Hemingway’s distaste for Hollywood as a setting in his fiction. Discusses the impact of western and gangster films on the Hemingway code, Hemingway’s use of camera-eye techniques in visual descriptions, and manipulation of point of view. Includes an analysis of Hemingway’s practice of omission, use of flashback, and dialogue compression in cinematic terms. Closes with a discussion of his active involvement in the production of the documentary film The Spanish Earth. Includes commentary on “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” The Torrents of Spring, In Our Time, For Whom the Bell Tolls, To Have and Have Not, and True at First Light

Hemingway: Fiction and Western Films

Considers the influence of contemporary film genres such as the western on Hemingway’s development of the code hero like Robert Jordan of For Whom the Bell Tolls. Also notes similarities between popular gangster films of the era and “The Killers.

The Ernest Hemingway Companion

Collection of new and previously published essays on Hemingway’s life and writings by such well-known Hemingway scholars as Miriam B. Mandel, Peter L. Hays, and Scott Donaldson. See annotations for original essays below

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Brief biographical survey of Hemingway’s two hunting expeditions in Africa and the writings inspired by them. Focusing on the posthumous publication of his African memoir, Mandal discusses the narrative’s composition, publication history, and critical reception

Mount Kilimanjaro Revisited: Africa, the Lion’s Roar and Ernest Hemingway

Commentary on Hemingway’s African safaris and the works inspired by them, including Green Hills of Africa, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.” Focuses primarily on the publication and critical reception of the posthumous True at First Light