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 A...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.展开更多
Charles Ball's 1836 slave narrative is not only an example of an autobiographical narrative of escape from enslavement,it includes narratives of Africans who have been captured and brought to North America.Ball...Charles Ball's 1836 slave narrative is not only an example of an autobiographical narrative of escape from enslavement,it includes narratives of Africans who have been captured and brought to North America.Ball's narrative records the heterogeneity of Africans arriving-from Muslim West Africans to those from the Congo,a ubiquitous term given more specificity in his narrative.Defining a distinction between an arrivant and someone,like himself,who may be a second generation enslaved person is Ball's purpose,suggesting he belongs to a new culture.Ball’s descriptions parallel Zora Neale Hurston’s description of Kossola,a record of the last African brought to North America as an enslaved person.Ball's role recording his encounters parallels that of Hurston as ethnographer and W.E.B.DuBois as a social historian.展开更多
To evaluate prognostic factors which have an influence on overall survival and to assess the rational application of retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer Methods The data of 13...To evaluate prognostic factors which have an influence on overall survival and to assess the rational application of retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer Methods The data of 131 patients treated between January 1990 and December 1998 in Union Hospital and Tongji Hospital were analyzed retrospectively Survival was calculated using the Kaplan-Meier method and comparisons were performed using Log-rank test Independent prognostic factors were identified by the Cox proportional hazards regression model Results Univariate analysis showed that age, general conditions, menopausal status, stage, pathological types, location of the tumor, residual tumor and retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy were prognostic factors Multivariate analysis showed that age, stage, residual tumor, retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy and the number of courses of chemotherapy were the most important prognostic factors The survival rate could not be improved through retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy in the patients in early stage, advanced stage with residual tumor >2 cm or those with mucinous adenocarcinoma (P>0 05) Among patients in advanced stage cancer with a residual tumor ≤2 cm, 5-year survival was 65% and 30% for patients who did and did not undergo lymphadenectomy, respectively (P<0 01) Among patients with serous adenocarcinoma, 5-year survival was 61% and 31% for patients who did and did not undergo lymphadenectomy, respectively (P<0 01) Conclusions The prognosis of the patients with epithelial ovarian cancer may be influenced by age, stage, residual tumor, retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy and the number of courses of chemotherapy Although retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy could improve the survival rate, it should be carried out selectively展开更多
文摘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.
文摘Charles Ball's 1836 slave narrative is not only an example of an autobiographical narrative of escape from enslavement,it includes narratives of Africans who have been captured and brought to North America.Ball's narrative records the heterogeneity of Africans arriving-from Muslim West Africans to those from the Congo,a ubiquitous term given more specificity in his narrative.Defining a distinction between an arrivant and someone,like himself,who may be a second generation enslaved person is Ball's purpose,suggesting he belongs to a new culture.Ball’s descriptions parallel Zora Neale Hurston’s description of Kossola,a record of the last African brought to North America as an enslaved person.Ball's role recording his encounters parallels that of Hurston as ethnographer and W.E.B.DuBois as a social historian.
文摘To evaluate prognostic factors which have an influence on overall survival and to assess the rational application of retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer Methods The data of 131 patients treated between January 1990 and December 1998 in Union Hospital and Tongji Hospital were analyzed retrospectively Survival was calculated using the Kaplan-Meier method and comparisons were performed using Log-rank test Independent prognostic factors were identified by the Cox proportional hazards regression model Results Univariate analysis showed that age, general conditions, menopausal status, stage, pathological types, location of the tumor, residual tumor and retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy were prognostic factors Multivariate analysis showed that age, stage, residual tumor, retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy and the number of courses of chemotherapy were the most important prognostic factors The survival rate could not be improved through retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy in the patients in early stage, advanced stage with residual tumor >2 cm or those with mucinous adenocarcinoma (P>0 05) Among patients in advanced stage cancer with a residual tumor ≤2 cm, 5-year survival was 65% and 30% for patients who did and did not undergo lymphadenectomy, respectively (P<0 01) Among patients with serous adenocarcinoma, 5-year survival was 61% and 31% for patients who did and did not undergo lymphadenectomy, respectively (P<0 01) Conclusions The prognosis of the patients with epithelial ovarian cancer may be influenced by age, stage, residual tumor, retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy and the number of courses of chemotherapy Although retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy could improve the survival rate, it should be carried out selectively
