1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452270103321

Autore

Prendergast Christopher

Titolo

Mirages and mad beliefs [[electronic resource] ] : Proust the skeptic / / Christopher Prendergast

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2013

ISBN

1-4008-4631-5

1-299-19587-3

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

843/.912

Soggetti

Skepticism in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- References and Abbreviations -- Chapter One. Mad Belief -- Chapter Two. Proustian Jokes -- Chapter Three. Magic -- Chapter Four. Éblouissement -- Chapter Five. What's in a Comma? -- Chapter Six. Walking on Stilts -- Chapter Seven. Bodies and Ghosts -- Chapter Eight. The Citizen of the Unknown Homeland -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of lime-blossom tea. We now live in less confident times, in ways that place great strain on the assumptions and beliefs that made those earlier readings possible. This has led to a new manner of reading Proust, against the grain. In Mirages and Mad Beliefs, Christopher Prendergast argues the case differently, with the grain, on the basis that Proust himself was prey to self-doubt and found numerous, if indirect, ways of letting us know. Prendergast traces in detail the locations and forms of a quietly nondogmatic yet insistently skeptical voice that questions the redemptive aesthetic the novel is so often taken to celebrate, bringing the reader to wonder whether that aesthetic is but another instance of the mirage or the mad belief that, in other guises, figures prominently in In Search of Lost Time. In tracing the modalities of this self-pressuring voice, Prendergast ranges far and wide, across a multiplicity



of ideas, themes, sources, and stylistic registers in Proust's literary thought and writing practice, attentive at every point to inflections of detail, in a sustained account of Proust the skeptic for the contemporary reader.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996457953603316

Titolo

Aging : oxidative stress and dietary antioxidants / / edited by Victor R. Preedy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Elsevier, 2014

ISBN

978-0-12-405933-7

Descrizione fisica

Testo elettronico (PDF) (317 p.)

Disciplina

613.20846

Soggetti

Antiossidanti - Terapia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Risorsa elettronica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Aging: Oxidative Stress and Dietary Antioxidants colma il divario transdisciplinare e copre in un unico volume la scienza dello stress ossidativo nell'invecchiamento e l'uso potenzialmente terapeutico degli antiossidanti naturali nella dieta o nella matrice alimentare. I processi all'interno della scienza dello stress ossidativo sono descritti insieme ad altri processi, come l'apoptosi, la segnalazione cellulare e le risposte mediate dai recettori. Questo approccio riconosce che le malattie sono spesso multifattoriali e lo stress ossidativo ne è un singolo componente.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910588779403321

Autore

Kessler Katrin

Titolo

Jewish Life and Culture in Germany after 1945 : Sacred Spaces, Objects and Musical Traditions / / ed. by Katrin Keßler, Sarah M. Ross, Barbara Staudinger, Lea Weik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin/Boston, : De Gruyter, 2022

München ; ; Wien : , : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9783110750812

3110750813

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 232 p.)

Disciplina

305.892404309045

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Germany - Influence

Jews

Jews - Germany - History - 1945-1990

Jews - Germany - Social life and customs - 20th century

Judaism - Liturgy

Spiritual life - Judaism

HISTORY / Europe / Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introductory Remark -- Part 1: Synagogues and Spaces -- Introduction to Part 1: Synagogues and Spaces in Post-War Germany -- Wall Paintings in Synagogues of Displaced Persons in Germany (1945–1950) -- “Next Year in Jerusalem …” – References to the Holy Land in Synagogue Architecture -- Impressive and Invisible. Reflections on the Urban Disposition of Synagogue Buildings in Germany Since 1990 -- The Dynamics of Jewish Space(s): Jewish Agency, Individual, Collective and the Creating, Maintenance or Discarding of Jewish Dominated Jewish Spaces -- Part 2: Ritual Objects -- Introduction to Part 2: Objects of Religious Practice in the Jewish Communities of Germany after 1945 -- Locating and Relocating: Mordechai W. Bernstein, Jewish Successor Organizations and the



Musealization of Jewish Cultural Heritage Objects -- “In the religious field great strides have been made” – Jewish Relief Organizations and the Supply of Religious Objects to Jewish Communities in the British Zone (1945–1950) -- Between Rite and Musealization. Judaica in the Jewish Communities of Southern Germany after the Shoah, Using the Example of Augsburg and the Person of Julius Spokojny -- Part 3: Liturgy and Music -- Introduction to Part 3: Community, Religious Practice and Synagogue Music in Post-War Germany -- A Relic of the Past? The Organ and the Jewish Communities in Post-War Germany -- Jewish Musical Heritage in Post-War Germany: Negotiating Jewish Self-Understanding through Synagogue Chant -- Kaddish in Flossenbürg. On the Genesis of the Memorials to Jewish Victims of the Concentration Camp -- Index: Persons and Places

Sommario/riassunto

How was the re-emerging Jewish religious practice after 1945 shaped by traditions before the Shoah? To what extent was it influenced by new inspirations through migration and new cultural contacts? By analysing objects like prayer books, musical instruments, Torah scrolls, audio documents and prayer rooms, this volume shows how the post-war communities created new Jewish musical, architectural and artistic forms while abiding by the tradition. This peer-reviewed volume presents contributions to the conference „Jewish communities in Germany in Transition", held in July 2021, as well as the results of a related research project carried out by two university institutions and two museums: the Bet Tfila – Research Unit for Jewish Architecture (Technische Universität Braunschweig), the European Center for Jewish Music (Hanover University for Music, Drama and Media), the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, and the Jewish Museum Augsburg Swabia. For the first time, post war synagogues in Germany and their objects were researched on a broad and interdisciplinary basis – regarding history of architecture, art history of their furniture and ritual objects as well as liturgy and musicology. The project was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) during the years 2018 to 2021 in its funding line „The Language of Objects".