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Assimilation/generation/resurrection

Contrapuntal Readings in the Poetry of José Lezama Lima

By: Ben A. Heller

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Assimilation/generation/resurrection

Contrapuntal Readings in the Poetry of José Lezama Lima

By: Ben A. Heller

Cuban author Jose Lezama Lima (1910-76) produced some of the most enigmatic and important poetry in the Spanish language. He did this during a turbulent moment in Cuban history - a period of social unrest, radical change in political systems, and attempts at cultural self-definition. While some have argued that his poetry evades these circumstances, Assimilation/Generation/Resurrection adopts a contextual approach and reveals the extent of Lezama's engagement with the defining political and cultural issues of his day. It also lays bare the underlying connection of this poetry to a weave of intertexts - Lezama's productive interaction with several traditions." "Intimidating in its philosophical scope and linguistic complexity, Lezama's poetry has received far less critical attention than his prose. The present study rectifies this critical imbalance, foregrounding the poetry while discussing three issues that link disparate areas of Lezama's literary production. These issues - cultural assimilation, generation, and resurrection - are central elements in Lezama's poetics, yet are also pertinent to wide-ranging debates on Latin American cultural identity. This study reads key poems from each of his published books of poetry, using an interpretive approach forged from diverse yet cohering sources, including Lezama's own theories on reading and writing." "After a brief methodological excursus and a first contextualization of Lezama's poetics vis-a-vis a number of other Cuban writers, this study considers Lezama's early assimilation of a number of initiatory texts as well as his indirect but crucial response to the social concerns of the 1930s." "Assimilation/Generation/Resurrection makes clear that Lezama's poetry owes its existence to an engagement with cultural artifacts and social circumstances more generally. Yet it is far more than a response. It constantly attempts to go beyond, generating the new at the intersection of the old and the as-yet uncreated. The result of this practice is a poetry that claims the power both to translate over distance and to resurrect by virtue of the image."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Bucknell University Press

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0838753477

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9780838753477

Human-Centered AI

By: Ben Shneiderman

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Human-Centered AI

By: Ben Shneiderman

The remarkable progress in algorithms for machine and deep learning have opened the doors to new opportunities, and some dark possibilities. However, a bright future awaits those who build on their working methods by including HCAI strategies of design and testing. As many technology companies and thought leaders have argued, the goal is not to replace people, but to empower them by making design choices that give humans control over technology. In Human-Centered AI, Professor Ben Shneiderman offers an optimistic realist's guide to how artificial intelligence can be used to augment and enhance humans' lives. This project bridges the gap between ethical considerations and practical realities to offer a road map for successful, reliable systems. Digital cameras, communications services, and navigation apps are just the beginning. Shneiderman shows how future applications will support health and wellness, improve education, accelerate business, and connect people in reliable, safe, and trustworthy ways that respect human values, rights, justice, and dignity.

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Oxford University Press

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0192845292

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9780192845290

Multiple Globalizations: Linguistic Landscapes in World-Cities

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Miriam Ben-Rafael

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Multiple Globalizations: Linguistic Landscapes in World-Cities

By: Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Miriam Ben-Rafael

This work studies aspects of the symbolic construction of public spaces by means of linguistic resources (i.e. linguistic landscapes or LLs) in a number of world-cities. The sociology of language leads us to this field and to study the intermingling impacts of globalization, the national principle and multiculturalism – each one conveying its own distinct linguistic markers: international codes, national languages and ethnic vernaculars. Eliezer and Miriam Ben-Rafael study the configurations of these influences, which they conceptualize as multiple globalization, in the LLs of downtowns, residential quarters, and marginal neighborhoods of a number of world-cities. They ask how far worldwide codes of communication gain preeminence, national languages are marginalized and ethnic vernaculars impactful. They conclude by suggesting a paradigm of multiple globalizations.

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BRILL

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9004385134

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9789004385139

Confidence Building Measures In The Middle East

By: Gabriel Ben-dor

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Confidence Building Measures In The Middle East

By: Gabriel Ben-dor

Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) were pioneered in Europe at the height of the Cold War. The immediate goal of such measures is to create enough trust between parties in international conflicts to avoid mutually unfavourable-sometimes dangerous-outcomes due to misunderstandings. The long-term goal of CBMs is to move the contending parties closer

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Routledge

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0429720556

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9780429720550

Eastern Europe 1945-1969

From Stalinism to Stagnation

By: Ben Fowkes

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Eastern Europe 1945-1969

From Stalinism to Stagnation

By: Ben Fowkes

Here is an essential short guide to the history of Eastern Europe under the early decades of communist rule. The study explores the communists attempt to transpose a uniform economic and social system across the region copied from the Soviet model. Dr Fowkes shows how this did not always succeed and he reveals the local variations which became more pronounced after the death of Stalin. The book includes detailed analysis of the dramatic events in Poland and Hungary and in the assessment section there is a useful summary of the strengths and weaknesses of the communist model in its heyday. It is an illuminating study, full of maps and photographs as well as over 30 documents (most previously unavailable in English) which brings this complex subject alive. and helps us to understand the special conditions the people of the region have faced in catching up with the West both in terms of material prosperity and more recently in the establishment of democratic political systems.

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Routledge

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1317881753

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9781317881759

Between Lausanne And Geneva

International Conferences And The Arab-israeli Conflict

By: Abraham Ben-Zvi

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International Conferences And The Arab-israeli Conflict

By: Abraham Ben-Zvi

This book analyzes the concept of an international conference as referred to by the major parties involved to resolve at least one facet of the Arab-Israel predicament. The restrictive type of conference has proved to be effective in resolving or stabilizing certain elements of the conflict.

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0429710240

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9780429710247

A Child of the Century

By: Ben Hecht

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A Child of the Century

By: Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht’s critically acclaimed autobiographical memoir, first published in 1954, offers incomparably pungent evocations of Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s, Hollywood in the 1930s, and New York during the Second World War and after. “His manners are not always nice, but then nice manners do not always make interesting autobiographies, and this autobiography has the merit of being intensely interesting.”—Saul Bellow, New York Times Named to Time’s list of All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books, which deems it “the un-put-downable testament of the era’s great multimedia entertainer.”

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Yale University Press

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0300253680

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9780300253689

Rise and Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe

By: Ben Fowkes

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Rise and Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe

By: Ben Fowkes

Communist parties came to power in a variety of ways, usually by force, often with the acquiescence of people who hoped for a better future. Then came the imposition of Stalinism. The book examines this, and subsequent crises in Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia.

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Springer

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1349242187

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Assimilation/generation/resurrection

Assimilation/generation/resurrection

Human-Centered AI

Human-Centered AI

Multiple Globalizations: Linguistic Landscapes in World-Cities

Multiple Globalizations: Linguistic Landscapes in World-Cities

Confidence Building Measures In The Middle East

Confidence Building Measures In The Middle East

Eastern Europe 1945-1969

Eastern Europe 1945-1969

Between Lausanne And Geneva

Between Lausanne And Geneva

A Child of the Century

A Child of the Century

Rise and Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe

Rise and Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe

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