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Retelling Orpheus: Orpheus in the Renaissance
This paper examines the importance of the Orpheus myth during the English Renaissance. The
Orpheus myth was one of the most common mythic intertexts of the period due to the fact
that we could see the very story of Orpheus as being imbedded within the idea of the
Renaissance itself. The main ambition of the Renaissance humanist was to bring the literature
of the ancients back to life via the means of education. In other words, they attempted to bring
the dead back to life and Orpheus serves as an embodiment of this ambition due to his ability
to bring inanimate objects to life and in his journey to the underworld to rescue Eurydice. We
find many different aspects of the Orpheus myth dealt with in Renaissance writing, for
example Orpheus as poet, Orpheus as lover and the death of Orpheus being some of the key
focal points. This paper, however, will focus specifically on the role of Orpheus as Poet as, due
to the Renaissance love for art, rhetoric and eloquence, this seems to be the most popular
dimension of the Orpheus myth at that time. We will see how Renaissance writers reinterpret
the story of Orpheus, as originally told by Ovid and Virgil, in the Metamorphoses and the
Georgics respectively, to show Orpheus as not only as being an archetypal poet but in fact the
very first poet whose art is not only responsible for the civilisation of man, but also for the
creation of a “Golden Age” in Renaissance England
On the continuity of separately continuous bihomomorphisms
Separately continuous bihomomorphisms on a product of convergence or
topological groups occur with great frequency. Of course, in general, these
need not be jointly continuous. In this paper, we exhibit some results of
Banach-Steinhaus type and use these to derive joint continuity from separate
continuity. The setting of convergence groups offers two advantages. First, the
continuous convergence structure is a powerful tool in many duality arguments.
Second, local compactness and first countability, the usual requirements for
joint continuity, are available in much greater abundance for convergence
groups
Preliminary study, analysis and design for a power switch for digital engine actuators
Innovative control configurations using high temperature switches to operate actuator driving solenoids were studied. The impact on engine control system life cycle costs and reliability of electronic control and (ECU) heat dissipation due to power conditioning and interface drivers were addressed. Various power supply and actuation schemes were investigated, including optical signal transmission and electronics on the actuator, engine driven alternator, and inside the ECU. The use of a switching shunt power conditioner results in the most significant decrease in heat dissipation within the ECU. No overall control system reliability improvement is projected by the use of remote high temperature switches for solenoid drivers
Constrictive pericarditis and rheumatoid nodules with severe aortic incompetence.
The case of a female patient presenting with constrictive rheumatoid pericarditis and aortic incompetence secondary to valvular rheumatoid nodules is described along with a review of the literature with the aim to highlight this rare cause of aortic insufficiency
Experimental procedures for molecular weight determination by light scattering
Molecular weight determination of polymers from angular dependence of light scatterin
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