Karnevalizirani podzemni svijet Malcolma Lowryja i Miroslava Krleže

The article brings into correlation Malcom Lowry\u27s novel Under the Volcano and Miroslav Krleža\u27s The Retum of Philip Latinovicz. Both of these novels belong to late Modernism and share a number of characteristics, thematically and structurally. The central part of the article demonstrates how Mikhail Bakhtin\u27s category of the "carnivalization" of literature applies to both novels

The dream universe of Conrad\u27s "Heart of darkness"

The dream universe of Conrad\u27s "Heart of darkness

The mirror of despair: a reading of Conrad\u27s "The shadow line"

The mirror of despair: a reading of Conrad\u27s "The shadow line

Intertekstualnost u pričama Joyce Carol Oates

The article deals with three of Joyce Carol Oates\u27s short stories that are imaginative reworkings of great classic texts: Thomas Mann\u27s Death in Venice, Kafka\u27s Metamorphopsis and Joyce\u27s The Dead. In their different ways each of these stories profoundly modifies the prototypal structure, being both faithful and unfaithful to it. Together they prove that, as Laurent Jenny says, intertextuality "is a definitive rejection of the full stop which would close the meaning and freeze the form"

"Pod vulkanom" i tradicija romantizma

The article deals with the relation of Lowry\u27s "Under the Volcano" to Romanticism. In the complex webvof literary allusions ot\u27 this novel the specific analogics with the themes and the structural devices of Romanticism are established. Special attention is paid to Lowry\u27s use of landscape which owes a debt to Romantic nature poetry. Thc parodic inve rsion of some Rontantic themes and motives is analysed as an important part of Lowry\u27s narrative strategy. The article concludes that the many echoes of the Romantic tradition immcnscly en rich the polysemantics of this late modemist novel

Fifty years of the School of medicine of the University of Rijeka

U nadahnutom izlaganju autor podsjeća na razloge, preduvjete i kronologiju priprema za otvaranje Medicinskog fakulteta u Rijeci te opisuje prvih pet godina njegova djelova-nja. Kronologija započinje inicijativom V. Finderlea, koja će uz podršku A. Štampara i A. Šercera te gradskih vlasti, 21. studenoga 1955. biti okrunjena svečanim otvaranjem pete godine studija medicine u Rijeci. Slijedi prisjećanje na najznačajnije događaje prvog dekana S. Novaka i sve većeg broja nastavnika i asistenata zahvaljujući kojima se Fakultet ubrzano razvija te će nakon pet godina, tj. školske godine 1959./60., biti kompletiran studij opće medicine s ukupno 413 studenata.This inspired lecture looks back on the background and the course of preparations for the opening of the School of Medicine in Rijeka, including the first five years of teaching. The initiative came from V. Finderle’s, and was supported by A. Štampar, A. Šercer, and the City of Rijeka administration. On 21 November 1955, these efforts were crowned by the inauguration of the fifth-year medical study programme here in Rijeka. The lecture moves on to the early recollections of major events, of the first dean S. Novak and the growing number of students and assistants at such a rate that by the school year 1959/60 there were enough students – 413 - to fill up the entire five-year general medicine curriculum

Mechanisms of Toxicity of 3-Alkylpyridinium Polymers from Marine Sponge Reniera sarai

Polymeric 3-alkylpyridinium salts (poly-APS) present in the marine sponge Reniera sarai show a broad spectrum of biological activities. They are lytic to erythrocytes and various other mammalian cells, enabling the transfection of the latter with alien DNA. Furthermore, they show inhibitory effects to marine bacteria and can inhibit fouling of micro- and macroorganisms to submerged surfaces. Finally, poly-APS act as potent cholinesterase inhibitors. The kinetics of acetylcholinesterase inhibition by poly-APS in vitro is complex and comprises several successive phases ending in irreversible inhibition of the enzyme. The latter is accounted for by aggregation and precipitation of the enzyme-inhibitor complexes. Poly-APS are lethal to rats in concentrations above 2.7 mg/kg. Monitoring of the basic vital functions and histopathological analysis showed that the effects directly ascribable to acetylcholinesterase inhibition are only observed after application of lower concentrations of poly-APS. At higher concentrations, such effects were masked by other, more pronounced and faster developing lethal effects of the toxin, such as haemolysis and platelet aggregation