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Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body

By: Jelena Novak

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Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body

By: Jelena Novak

Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is often taken for granted. In Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body, Jelena Novak reintroduces an awareness of the physicality of the singing body to opera studies. Arguing that the voice-body relationship itself is a producer of meaning, she furthermore posits this relationship as one of the major driving forces in recent opera. She takes as her focus six contemporary operas - La Belle et la Bête (Philip Glass), Writing to Vermeer (Louis Andriessen, Peter Greenaway), Three Tales (Steve Reich, Beryl Korot), One (Michel van der Aa), Homeland (Laurie Anderson), and La Commedia (Louis Andriessen, Hal Hartley) - which she terms 'postoperas'. These pieces are sites for creative exploration, where the boundaries of the opera world are stretched. Central to this is the impact of new media, a de-synchronization between image and sound, or a redefinition of body-voice-gender relationships. Novak dissects the singing body as a set of rules, protocols, effects, and strategies. That dissection shows how the singing body acts within the world of opera, what interventions it makes, and how it constitutes opera’s meanings.

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Routledge

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1317077199

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9781317077190

From Shadow to Presence

Representations of Ethnicity in Contemporary American Literature

By: Jelena Šesnić

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Representations of Ethnicity in Contemporary American Literature

By: Jelena Šesnić

This volume departs from a more static concept of identity politics to engage the varied and entangled processes of ethnic/racial, national, and gender identifications in a range of contemporary US ethnic texts (from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s). Recognizing the growing salience of variously named ethnic, multicultural, and minority literatures as they are produced and circulated in the USA and worldwide nowadays, this work charts four broadly defined models of approaching such texts: cultural nationalism, ethnic feminism, borderlands and contact zones, and finally, the diasporic model. Drawing extensively on psychoanalytic theory, feminist/gender studies, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, and its revision of ethnography, the book offers a fresh, engaged, theoretically, and analytically well-rehearsed overview of the distinctive and determining features of a rapidly expanding domain of contemporary US literary production, namely, ethnic literatures. Of potential interest to scholars of American/US literature, but also minority and postcolonial literatures, and to students of American literature, the book attempts an interethnic comparative approach to well- and lesser-known texts. Among the authors represented are Shawn Wong, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sherman Alexie, Denise Chávez, Rolando Hinojosa, Roberto Fernández and Edwidge Danticat.

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Rodopi

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9042022175

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9789042022171

Ethnic Conflict and War Crimes in the Balkans

The Narratives of Denial in Post-Conflict Serbia

By: Jelena Obradovic

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Ethnic Conflict and War Crimes in the Balkans

The Narratives of Denial in Post-Conflict Serbia

By: Jelena Obradovic

In the years following the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, Serbian social, cultural and political responses to the wars of the 1990s have fallen under intense scrutiny. In Ethnic Conflict and War Crimes in the Balkans, Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik explores some of those responses - taking into consideration notions such as silence, denial and conspiracy theory, the book sheds some light on the complicated narratives about the 1990s. The book considers the experience of knowing, witnessing and speaking about atrocities, and thus contributes to the debates on confronting the past in Serbia. Specifically, it considers how individuals of the "ordinary" public in Serbia reflect upon, understand and keep secrets about the 1991-1999 conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, and the atrocities, human rights abuses and war crimes which were committed there. Close attention is paid to the stories of individuals whose voices and experiences are generally excluded from the broader debate about the past. Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik explores how these narratives diverge from, resist and are invisible to the formal and civil society initiatives aimed at confronting the past in Serbia.In doing so, the book also explores silence about and denial of the violent past, and considers how and where these dynamics manifest and what they might mean. In addition, it covers themes such as narratives of self-victimhood, conspiracy theory and the perception of war-time leaders and combatants. This is a detailed and considered investigation into how groups cope with knowledge and the witnessing of violent pasts. It is based on ethnographic research and interviews with a group of 'ordinary' individuals, in post-Milosevic Serbia. As such, it provides a unique perspective on the lived experience of the conflicts, and the ways in which stories of the 1990s emerge in everyday contexts.

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268

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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085772259X

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9780857722591

Tunnel Syndromes

By: Marko M. Pecina,Andrew D. Markiewitz,Jelena Krmpotic-Nemanic

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Tunnel Syndromes

By: Marko M. Pecina,Andrew D. Markiewitz,Jelena Krmpotic-Nemanic

The need for a comprehensive resource with easy-to-find information has increased with the addition of nine new syndromes. Tunnel Syndromes: Peripheral Nerve Compression Syndromes provides a quick overview of tunnel syndromes including the definition, anatomy, etiology, clinical signs and symptoms, and treatment. It presents a total of 50 tunnel syndromes. Following the tradition of the first two editions, this resource continues to probe the origins of tunnel syndromes and to propose probable causes that lead to them. All existing chapters have been updated and new chapters have been added including: Spinal accessory nerve syndrome Intercostobrachial nerve syndrome Notalgia paresthetica Medial antebrachial cutaneous nerve syndrome Distal posterior interosseous nerve syndrome Medial superior cluneal nerve syndrome Pudendus nerve syndrome Lateral plantar nerve syndrome Medial plantar nerve syndrome New in this Edition: New syndromes of clinical importance Improved illustrations, including new magnetic resonance images Twenty-seven new drawings (graphic designs) and twenty new photos Updated references with a total of more than 1,650 citations

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CRC Press

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0849309522

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9780849309526

Computer-aided applications in pharmaceutical technology

6. Computer-aided biopharmaceutical characterization: gastrointestinal absorption simulation

By: Sandra Grbic,Jelena Parojcic,Zorica Djuric

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Computer-aided applications in pharmaceutical technology

6. Computer-aided biopharmaceutical characterization: gastrointestinal absorption simulation

By: Sandra Grbic,Jelena Parojcic,Zorica Djuric

This chapter introduces the concept of gastrointestinal absorption simulation using in silico methodology. Parameters used for model construction and the sensitivity predicted pharmacokinetic responses to various input parameters are described. Virtual trials for in silico modeling of drug absorption are presented. The influence of food on drug absorption, as well as correlation between the in vitro and in vivo results, are also addressed, followed by biowaiver considerations. Numerous examples are provided throughout the chapter.

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Elsevier Inc. Chapters

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0128091924

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9780128091920

Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body

By: Jelena Novak

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Hispanic Literature Criticism: Allende to Jiménez

By: Jelena O. Krstovic

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Hispanic Literature Criticism: Allende to Jiménez

By: Jelena O. Krstovic

Hispanic literature criticism presents a selection of the best criticism of works by major Hispanic writers of the past one hundred years.

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Gale Research International, Limited

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0810393751

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9780810393752

Metal Plasticity and Fatigue at High Temperature

By: Denis Benasciutti,Luciano Moro,Jelena Srnec Novak

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Metal Plasticity and Fatigue at High Temperature

By: Denis Benasciutti,Luciano Moro,Jelena Srnec Novak

In several industrial fields (such as automotive, steelmaking, aerospace, and fire protection systems) metals need to withstand a combination of cyclic loadings and high temperatures. In this condition, they usually exhibit an amount--more or less pronounced--of plastic deformation, often accompanied by creep or stress-relaxation phenomena. Plastic deformation under the action of cyclic loadings may cause fatigue cracks to appear, eventually leading to failures after a few cycles. In estimating the material strength under such loading conditions, the high-temperature material behavior needs to be considered against cyclic loading and creep, the experimental strength to isothermal/non-isothermal cyclic loadings and, not least of all, the choice and experimental calibration of numerical material models and the selection of the most comprehensive design approach. This book is a series of recent scientific contributions addressing several topics in the field of experimental characterization and physical-based modeling of material behavior and design methods against high-temperature loadings, with emphasis on the correlation between microstructure and strength. Several material types are considered, from stainless steel, aluminum alloys, Ni-based superalloys, spheroidal graphite iron, and copper alloys. The quality of scientific contributions in this book can assist scholars and scientists with their research in the field of metal plasticity, creep, and low-cycle fatigue.

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3039287710

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9783039287710

Book's by Jelena Novak

Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body

Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body

From Shadow to Presence

From Shadow to Presence

Ethnic Conflict and War Crimes in the Balkans

Ethnic Conflict and War Crimes in the Balkans

Tunnel Syndromes

Tunnel Syndromes

Computer-aided applications in pharmaceutical technology

Computer-aided applications in pharmaceutical technology

Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body

Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body

Hispanic Literature Criticism: Allende to Jiménez

Hispanic Literature Criticism: Allende to Jiménez

Metal Plasticity and Fatigue at High Temperature

Metal Plasticity and Fatigue at High Temperature

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