Bulgarian Intellectuals and Students and Their Notion of the Age of Socialism

In the years of the Bulgarian transition from Soviet-style state socialism to parliamentary democracy and market economy,the notions of the recent past experience profound changes.This process is predetermined by the new political imperative—the need to reorient the country from the Eastern bloc to the Western world.Changing the attitude of the Bulgarian society towards the socialist past is accomplished first through the change of curricula and textbooks,but also with the help of the media,which give floor to critics of socialism.Over time,however,especially since the neo-liberal economic transformations that took place under the so-called Washington Consensus led to deindustrialisation and high unemployment,a change in social attitude towards socialism began.In the 21st century,the attitude towards socialism changed.The total denial that prevailed in the 1990s gave way to a more nuanced picture—alongside the shortcomings and crimes,there are also talks about positive features of socialism such as social security and stability.This is evident both in the positions of the Bulgarian intellectuals and in the views of Bulgarian students about the socialist past.

Lucia Bedarida Servadio： A Life Beyond Limits. A Female Italian Jewish Scientist in Tangier

Italian Jewish women in the early 20th century, and, their struggle with their Italian national identity, culture, and, Jewish heritage is a topic that has not been yet sufficiently studied, in particular the one regarding Italian Jewish women in sciences and their contribution to the Italian culture. With the exception of a few memoirs, as well a book recently published in Italian, who depicted shortly the life of some of these women, to this day, there is a paucity of publications about it, with the result that, there is little knowledge about them and their ＂pioneering spirit＂ and ＂modernism＂. Thus, this article aims to spread light on one of these extraordinary women： the tubiba （Arabic name for doctor） Lucia Bedarida Servadio. In analyzing Lucia＇s life through her memoirs, writings, and, unpublished documents, such as private letters that she wrote to her friends and family, I will show the impact that this ＂avant-garde＂, and, still quite unknown women had in the Italian society. Above all, the legacy that she left as a ＂messenger＂ of peace, in dedicating her whole life, to help the ＂others＂, despite their colors, race and religion, like she did in Morocco from 1940 until 1981.

Innocence or Inexperience:An Analysis of Evelina

The first work of Fanny Burney, Evelina, written in the style of memoirs, depicts an ideal women of innocence, purity, and beauty, who represents the epitome of all the women in her age. However, the details in the memoirs indicate wisdom in some occasions even though Evelina is ignorant of the forms and manners of the world. Therefore, inexperience, instead of innocence, may be the most appropriate word to describe Evelina.

Images and Words： Aristotle＇s Mimesis Revisited in the Unique Visual Work of Antonis Panagopoulos

My subject is the notion of mimesis as conceived and formulated by Aristotle, since his philosophical theory diverged from the metaphysical domain of platonic ideas. It is known that for Plato the sensible world is one of deception and lies; therefore, the artist does nothing but to imitate the imitation of sensible objects. He is a cheater who intends to delude humans by his ability to re-present reality mimetically. On the contrary, Aristotle approaches positively the mimesis of the sensible world because he considers it as a creative and productive action of the human soul. Sensible beings, according to Aristotle, including works of art, encompass in themselves their intelligible essence, so they don＇t have to imitate any ideas outside themselves. Consequently, mimetic art in Aristotle＇s universe of thought is an inherent inclination to poetics founded in truth and reason; it always elaborates consciously its objects; and it furthermore signifies a learning process demanding systematic knowledge and meticulous method, though its roots are found in human instincts. Taken all the above as granted, this paper is also an attempt to evaluate in aesthetic level the visual works of art by Antonis Panagopoulos, a Greek artist very much influenced by Ancient Greek Philosophy, mostly by Aristotle. Since the 1990＇s, he has started an art project named ＂Espace de Memoire,＂ in which he examines and articulates various ways of perceiving and cognitively constructing a work of art on the fiat surface of the canvas.

The Eastward Migration Festival:Construct the“Les Lieux de Memoire”of Yugur Society

The“Eastward Migration Festival”is an emerging festival initiated by Yugur scholars,with the collective participation of the masses,and held in some areas of the Yugur,now held four times.As it carries the collective heritage of the Yugur people,the“Eastward Migration Festival”draws on Pierre Nora’s theory of“Les Lieux de Memoire”,and explains why the“Eastward Migration Festival”activity has become the“Les Lieux de Memoire”of Yugur society from three aspects:history,symbol and narrative.

Modern Memoir and Esoteric Aesthetics: The Inauthentic Context of Zora Neale Hurston's"Ring of Thieves"

Cecily Swanson argues that“modernism's Gurdjieff craze in fact played a surprising role in the development of an overlooked canon of popular autobiographies:Muriel Draper's memoir,Music at Midnight;Margaret Anderson's memoir,My Thirty Years'War;and Kathryn Hulme's autobiographical novel,We Lived As Children.”Swanson reads Draper,Anderson,and Hulme because they wrote as esotericists,while she divorces the memoirs from any overt esoteric influences,contents,or aesthetics.There is no need to search further for the source of the mode of the popular autobiographies by Anderson and Draper than what of Loos's novel comes through the Peggy Hopkins Joyce/Zora Neale Hurston memoir.Marriage,Men,and Me appears near the commencement of a line of esoteric memoirs that becomes visible in the best-selling works by Draper and Anderson but then continues expansively.

Samuel Madden and His Prophecy of the Large Companies in Modern Britain

In 1733,Samuel Madden(1686-1765)anonymously published a book named Memoirs of the Twentieth Century.Some scholars have paid attention to the book,but there are few scholars who focused on Madden's prophecy about the large companies in twentieth-century Britain.And there are many disagreements among scholars about the nature of the book,which was composed of 17 letters pretended to be written in the late twentieth century.Some letters might be classified as a kind of science fiction or satire,but as a whole the book should be regarded as a new kind of utopian writing,even further as the early form of future history.Especially the last reply dated“London,Chelsea,Feb.24,1999”should be regarded as an independent text,and it gave us a vision of the corporate utopia or the utopia of company with its description of two large companies.

译书名忌浮躁

本文指出书名翻译之不易 ,翻译史上多有误译。告诫译者在翻译书名时忌浮澡 ,多查考。首先要做到正确 ,其次要求简明 ,如果原名含蓄 ,译名最好也给读者留出想象的空间。本文对 Dutch:RonaldReagcn's Memoir及 Timeline两则书名的中译作了具体讨论。

Agonistic Memory,Compound Temporality and Expansion of Literary Space in Lu Xun

The paper examines the ways in which memory is constructed in Lu Xun's writings, above all his essay (zawen) by means of an artistic staging of its antagonism with forgetting. The author emphasizes the primacy of forgetting, as opposed to recollection conventi on ally understood, as the centrality of Lu Xun's stressful, tragic principle of memory. The author argues that, by turning to forgetting as a register of and formal-spatial space for historical and political content, Lu Xun puts his signature stylistic maneuvers and mannerisms in full display. Hence,"memory for the sake of forgetting" must be understood literally, that is, as forgetting functioning as a heightened and intensified form of social protest, albeit in modernistic rather than realistic terms;and through this pressurized and agonistic inner space of convoluted temporality. Furthermore, the author seeks to show that forgetting also serves a representational function that goes hand-in-hand with Lu Xun's zawen as poetics and chronicle all at once.In Lu Xun's writing of reminiscence, that which fails to be repressed into silenee, despair and oblivion roars back from the depth of an existential void, and reorganizes historical experiences of chaos and danger into a more powerful and intimate encasement and mimesis of reality. Thus, in Lu Xun, a modernist intervention into nothingness makes palpable history's own structure of conflict, oppression and impasse which simultaneously stands for a metaphysics of defiance and hope.

MEMOIR: A Novel System for Neural Lineage Tracing

Memory by Engineered Mutagenesis with Optical In situ Readout（MEMOIR）is a novel strategy for lineage tracing that combines Cas9/g RNA and sequential multiplexed single-molecule RNA fluorescence hybridization（seqFISH）[1],which was created by Cai Long et al.at the California Institute of Technology[2].In MEMOIR,dynamic cellular event histories are recorded,then read out in single cells using seq FISH.Here,we introduce the

A PERSONAL MEMOIR OF WEIMIN ZHENG-“A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS”

In 1951 Professor Weimin Zheng returned to the People＇s Republic of China from the United Kingdom to assist in building his country into a modern nation. Rather than pursue a doctoral degree at the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech as it is popularly called, Professor Zheng, unselfishly and patriotically, decided that he would devote his many talents to providing a first-class education to Chinese students within a strong university system. In particular,

Aide Memoire Signed between NSFC and PPARC

On April 8, 2002, Prof. Chen Jia’er, President of NSFC, signed the Aide Memoire between NSFC and PPARC (the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council) with Prof. Ian Halliday, President of PPARC.