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UNINA9910462569103321 |
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Darwīsh Maḥmūd |
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Memory for forgetfulness [[electronic resource] ] : August, Beirut, 1982 / / Mahmoud Darwish ; translated, with an introduction by Ibrahim Muhawi |
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Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2013 |
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1 online resource (xi, 182 pages) |
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Literature of the Middle East |
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Lebanon History Israeli intervention, 1982-1985 Personal narratives, Palestinian |
Beirut (Lebanon) History |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Memory for Forgetfulness -- Chapter I |
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One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the war-ravaged streets of Beirut on August 6th (Hiroshima Day).Memory for Forgetfulness is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)? In raising these questions, Darwish implicitly connects writing, homeland, meaning, and resistance in an ironic, condensed work that combines wit with rage. Ibrahim Muhawi's translation beautifully renders Darwish's testament to the heroism of a people under siege, and to Palestinian creativity and continuity. Sinan Antoon's foreword, written expressly for this edition, sets Darwish's work in the context of changes in the Middle East in the past thirty years. |
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UNINA9910346738103321 |
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Mike Wendt |
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Multitasking: Executive Functioning in Dual-Task and Task Switching Situations |
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1 online resource (196 p.) |
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Frontiers Research Topics |
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Multitasking refers to performance of multiple tasks. The most prominent types of multitasking are situations including either temporal overlap of the execution of multiple tasks (i.e., dual tasking) or executing multiple tasks in varying sequences (i.e., task switching). In the literature, numerous attempts have aimed at theorizing about the specific characteristics of executive functions that control interference between simultaneously and/or sequentially active component of task-sets in these situations. However, these approaches have been rather vague regarding explanatory concepts (e.g., task-set inhibition, preparation, shielding, capacity limitation), widely lacking theories on detailed mechanisms and/ or empirical evidence for specific subcomponents. The present research topic aims at providing a selection of contributions on the details of executive functioning in dual-task and task switching situations. The contributions specify these executive functions by focusing on (1) fractionating assumed mechanisms into constituent subcomponents, (2) their variations by age or in clinical subpopulations, and/ or (3) their plasticity as a response to practice and training. |
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