Crossing frontiers : cultural exchange and conflict : papers in honour of Malcolm Pender / / edited by Barbara Burns and Joy Charnley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911104438303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, : Editions Rodopi, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-66272-4; 9786612662720; 90-420-2998-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Collana: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; ; 134
• Altri autori (Persone): BurnsBarbara; CharnleyJoy
• Disciplina: 830.99494
• Soggetti: Cultural relations in literature; Swiss literature (German) - History and criticism
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Barbara Burns and Joy Charnley -- Malcolm Pender: an Appreciation / Brian Murdoch -- Malcolm Pender’s Peaceful Conquest of Switzerland / Charles Linsmayer -- Rütli: National Foundation Myth from an Individual Perspective. Hermann Burger’s Novel Die künstliche Mutter / Dariusz Komorowski -- The Tash her Father Wore: World Literature, Joyce, Kafka and the Invisible in Kemal Kurt’s Ja, sagt Molly / Moray McGowan -- The Poet and the Princes: Eichendorff and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha / Judith Purver -- The Ways of Cities: Alice Rivaz’s Urban Landscapes / Thérèse Moreau -- All the Shores of the World: Max Frisch’s Push to the Sea / Beatrice von Matt -- Wolfgang Borchert in Switzerland / Gordon Burgess -- Negotiating the Foreign: The Nineteenth-Century Swiss Experience of the Americas in Two Novels by Eveline Hasler / Barbara Burns -- Laurence Deonna: Journalist, Traveller, Feminist / Joy Charnley -- Travelling Strategies, Travelling Woman: Iris von Roten’s Swiss Book / Regina Wecker -- Der Lottoschein/The Lottery / Pedro Lenz -- An ‘American’ German Novel? Ingo Schulze’s Simple Storys / Donal McLaughlin -- New Directions in ‘Mundart’ Literature: Hansjörg Schneider’s Adaptation of Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell / Rémy ; Charbon -- Un-Swiss’ Words in German Swiss Literature / Felicity Rash -- On Crossing National and Linguistic Borders: Zsuzsanna Gahse’s ‘Swiss-European’ Volume Instabile Texte / Dorota Sośnicka -- Editors and Contributors.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume brings together two very popular and active research fields: Swiss Studies and Intercultural Studies. It includes contributions on the movement of ideas, literatures, and individuals from one culture to another or one language to another, and the ways in which they have been either assimilated or questioned. All of the writers explore this general theme; some come from a literary angle, some look at linguistic inventiveness and translation, whilst others study the problems faced when crossing geographical and cultural borders or presenting ideas which do not ‘travel’ well. By emphasising the connections, borrowings and mutual influences between Switzerland and other countries such as Germany, Hungary, France, the UK, and the Americas, the articles reaffirm the importance for Switzerland of intellectual openness and cultural exchange.

Autoimmune disorders : symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment / / Maria E. Petrov, editor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911131790203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2011
• ISBN: 1-61761-698-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Collana: Immunology and immune system disorders
• Altri autori (Persone): PetrovMaria E
• Disciplina: 616.97/8
• Soggetti: Autoimmune diseases; Autoimmunity
• 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: ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1 Autoimmune Liver Diseases ""; ""Chapter 2 Immunopathological Events in an Experimental Autoimmune Kidney Disease and How Those Events Can be Terminated to Regain Tolerance to Self ""; ""Chapter 3 Hematopoietic Stem Cell ; Transplantation for Severe Autoimmune Diseases: Time for a Reappraisal ""; ""Chapter 4 Thyroid Arterial Embolization for the Treatment of Gravesâ€? Hyperthyroidism ""; ""Chapter 5 New Targets and Approaches to Autoimmune-Induced Salivary Hypofunction""; ""Chapter 6 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Definition, Pathogenesis and Treatment Mariana Postal""""Chapter 7 Diagnosis and Pathogenesis of Neuropsychiatric Syndromes of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (NPSLE) ""; ""Chapter 8 Cytomegalovirus-Induced Autoimmunity""; ""Chapter 9 BehÃet's Disease: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment ""; ""Chapter 10 Immunomodulators as Therapeutic Strategies for Managing Multiple Sclerosis E. W. Brenu""; ""Chapter 11 Premenstrual Syndrome: A Disease with an Autoimmune Component? Miranda A. Farage""; ""Chapter 12 The Primary Target Antigenic Site in Heymann Nephritis is the Renal Proximal Convoluted Tubulesâ€? Brush Border Associated Zone of Cells """"Chapter 13 Dysregulation of Autoimmunity Caused by Silica Exposure: Fas-Mediated Apoptosis in T Lymphocytes Derived from Silicosis Patients ""; ""Chapter 14 Unusual Renal Localization of Vasculitis in Sjögrenâ€?s Syndrome: A Clinical Case Report""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: Autoimmune diseases arise from an overactive immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body. In other words, the body actually attacks its own cells. The immune system mistakes some part of the body as a pathogen and attacks it. The treatment of autoimmune diseases is typically with immunosuppression--medication which decreases the immune response. This book presents current research in the study of autoimmune disorders with a focus on autoimmune liver diseases; Graves hyperthyroidism; system lupus erythematosus; Behcet's disease; and Sjogren's syndrome.