'This is our Armageddon’: Berlin in Postwar American Fiction

Este artículo explora las respuestas dadas desde la literatura estadounidense a losbombardeos aliados de la que era entonces la cuarta ciudad más grande del mundo: Berlín. En la historia reciente, ninguna ciudad europea había sufrido semejante devastación, ni había sido tan fotografiada. En este artículo se abordan técnicas como los cambios del punto de vista, la complejidad gramatical y las metáforas empleadas para describir la cualidad mítica de la destrucción de Berlín, así como los intentos casi mitificadores de levantar con los textos monumentos de la destrucción misma, desde los años inmediatamente posteriores a la guerra hasta el siglo XXI.AbstractThis article surveys American literary responses to the U.S. bombing of the world’s then-fourth largest metropolis, Berlin. Such total devastation of a European city had never been seen before in recent history, and had never been so extensively recorded by photography. Discussed in the article are techniques of shifting viewpoints, of grammatical complexity and metaphors used to describe the mythic quality of Berlin’s destruction, and the almost mythicizing attempts to make textual monuments of destruction itself, from the immediate postwar years into the twenty-first century.

Darryl Pinckney, Black Deutschland: A Novel

Darryl Pinckney, Black Deutschland: A Novel New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. 294pp (hardback). ISBN: 9780374113810. Joshua Parker University of Salzburg “A lot of people were in the city to get lost,” writes the twenty-something African-American narrator of Darryl Pinckney’s Black Deutschland, set in 1980s West Berlin (230). The same might be said of generations of U.S. expatriates in Europe, particularly in eras when there was much in the United States they were eager to leave beh..

Peter J. Spiro, At Home in Two Countries: The Past and Future of Dual Citizenship

Peter J. Spiro, At Home in Two Countries: The Past and Future of Dual Citizenship New York: New York University Press, 2016. Pp. 191 (from the series “Citizenship and Migration in the Americas,” ed. Ediberto Román) ISBN: 978081485829. Joshua Parker University of Salzburg U.S. law has never prohibited dual citizenship. Still, even as “a sense of hard, exclusive loyalty to the state began to dissipate” at the Cold War’s close, legal scholar Peter Spiro writes, the “intense historical opprobriu..

Transition Orbits of Walking Droplets

It was recently discovered that millimeter-sized droplets bouncing on the surface of an oscillating bath of the same fluid can couple with the surface waves it produces and begin walking across the fluid bath. These walkers have been shown to behave similarly to quantum particles; a few examples include single-particle diffraction, tunneling, and quantized orbits. Such behavior occurs because the drop and surface waves depend on each other to exist, making this the first and only known macroscopic pilot-wave system. In this paper, the quantized orbits between two identical drops are explored. By sending a perturbation to a pair of orbiting walkers, the orbit can be disrupted and transition to a new orbit. The numerical results of such transitions are analyzed and discussed

Emerging Vectors of Narratology: Toward Consolidation or Diversification? (A Response)

This is a response to the questions asked by Franco Passalacqua and Federico Pianzola as a follow-up of the 2013 ENN conference. The discussions that originated at the conference were rich and thought-provoking and so the editors of this special section of «Enthymema» decided to continue the dialogue about the state of the art and the future of narratology

CONSTRUCT VALIDITY OF A LABORATORY AGGRESSION PARADIGM: A MULTITRAIT-MULTIMETHOD APPROACH

There continues to be doubt regarding the validity of laboratory aggression paradigms. This paper provides an investigation of the construct validity of one prominent aggression task, the Taylor Aggression Paradigm (TAP), within a Multitrait Multimethod Matrix (MTMM) methodology. Participants consisted of 151 male undergraduate psychology students with a median age of 19 years old (M=19.45, SD = 2.03). Participants completed self-report and behavioral measures of aggression, impulsivity, and pro-social behavior which were analyzed using a Correlated Trait – Correlated Method Confirmatory Factor Analysis model. Results supported the construct validity of the MTMM model and the TAP. This study provides one of the only a priori tests of construct validity for the TAP and provides a basis for additional validation studies using this methodology

TESTING THE ROLE OF ANXIETY AS AN UNDERLYING MECHANISM OF THE ALCOHOL-AGGRESSION RELATION

The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that acute alcohol consumption facilitates aggression through the reduction of adaptive anxiety/fear responses to danger/threat. Participants were 80 healthy male social drinkers between 21 and 33 years of age. They were randomly assigned to one of four groups: 1) Alcohol/anxiety induction (n=20), 2) Placebo/anxiety induction (n=20), 3) Alcohol only (n=20), and 4) Placebo only (n=20). Anxiety was induced by informing participants that they had to deliver a speech about what they liked and disliked about their body in front of a video camera. A modified version of the Taylor Aggression Paradigm (Taylor, 1967) was used to measure aggressive behavior in a situation where electric shocks were administered to, and received from, a fictitious opponent during a supposed competitive reaction-time task. Results indicated that the anxiety induction was successful in reducing aggression for participants who received alcohol. Results are discussed within the context of a number of theories specifying anxiety as a possible mediator of the alcohol aggression relation

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA VARIATION IN THE PITCHER PLANT FLY SARCOPHAGA SARRACENIAE: EXPLORING POSSIBLE INFLUENCES OF HOST SPECIFICITY AND GEOGRAPHIC STRUCTURING

North American pitcher plants (Sarracenia) are a recently evolved (~3 my) assemblage of 11 carnivorous species. Sarracenia pitchers also provide resources (food, shelter) for certain arthropods, including two genera of flesh flies (family Sarcophagidae) whose larvae develop within pitchers: Fletcherimyia, and a second, single species in the genus Sarcophaga (S. sarraceniae). Sarcophaga sarraceniae inhabits the entire geographic range of Sarracenia and appears to deposit larvae indiscriminately among various pitcher plant species whereas Fletcherimyia occupies smaller species ranges and shows pitcher host specificity. Is S. sarraceniae truly a pitcher generalist? To address this question, I examined mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation in S. sarraceniae to test two hypotheses: 1) co-evolution—where observed mtDNA variation should be attributable to plant host fidelity, and 2) geography—where mtDNA variation should exhibit phylogeographic structure. I secured sequence data for the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase 1 gene for 29 specimens representing 19 populations across the species range. Genetic variation was quite limited; it provided no support for the coevolution hypothesis but did show some phylogeographic structuring. These findings suggest that the symbiotic relationship between S. sarraceniae and Sarracenia may have been established fairly recently