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Autobiography : a very short introduction
\"Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. From Casanova to Benjamin Franklin to the Kardashians, individuals throughout history have recorded their own lives and experiences. These personal writings are central to the work of literary critics, philosophers, historians, and psychologists, who have found in autobiographies from across the centuries not only an understanding of the ways in which lives have been lived, but the most fundamental accounts of what it means to be a self in the world. In this Very Short Introduction Laura Marcus defines what we mean by autobiography, and considers its relationship with similar literary forms such as memoirs, journals, letters, diaries, and essays. Analyzing the core themes in autobiographical writing, such as confession, conversion and testimony, romanticism and the journeying self; Marcus discusses the autobiographical consciousness (and the roles played by time, memory and identity), and considers the relationship between psychoanalysis and autobiography.\"--Publisher's description.
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‘From autumn to spring, aesthetics change’: Modernity's Visual Displays
Early theorizations of how cinema trained the eye to new space and movement are at the centre of this article’s interest. It uses them to explore the new pictorial languages of modernity, investigating how, and with what effect, they connected text, film, and advertising.
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A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture
This concise companion explores the history of psychoanalytic theory and its impact on contemporary literary criticism by tracing its movement across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. * Contains original essays by leading scholars, using a wide range of cultural and historical approaches * Discusses key concepts in psychoanalysis, such as the role of dreaming, psychosexuality, the unconscious, and the figure of the double, while considering questions of gender, race, asylum and international law, queer theory, time, and memory * Spans the fields of psychoanalysis, literature, cultural theory, feminist and gender studies, translation studies, and film. * Provides a timely and pertinent assessment of current psychoanalytic methods while also sketching out future directions for theory and interpretation
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The Cambridge history of twentieth-century English literature
Covering a full range of English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish literature, this title traces the development of writing during the 20th century. It also looks at how the advent of new technologies - such as radio and television - has shaped literary patterns over the years.
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Sex and character : an investigation of fundamental principles
Otto Weininger's controversial book Sex and Character, first published in
Vienna in 1903, is a prime example of the conflicting discourses central to its
time: antisemitism, scientific racism and biologism, misogyny, the cult and crisis
of masculinity, psychological introspection versus empiricism, German idealism, the
women's movement and the idea of human emancipation, the quest for sexual
liberation, and the debates about homosexuality. Combining rational reasoning with
irrational outbursts, in the context of today's scholarship, Sex and Character
speaks to issues of gender, race, cultural identity, the roots of Nazism, and the
intellectual history of modernism and modern European culture. This new translation
presents, for the first time, the entire text, including Weininger's extensive
appendix with amplifications of the text and bibliographical references, in a
reliable English translation, together with a substantial introduction that places
the book in its cultural and historical context.
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Warfarin Use in Hemodialysis Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: A Systematic Review of Stroke and Bleeding Outcomes
Background:
Given the lack of clear indications for the use of warfarin in the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients on hemodialysis and the potential risks that accompany warfarin use in these patients, we systematically reviewed stroke and bleeding outcomes in hemodialysis patients treated with warfarin for AF.
Objective:
To systematically review the stroke and bleeding outcomes associated with warfarin use in the hemodialysis population to treat AF.
Design:
Systematic review.
Setting:
All adult hemodialysis patients.
Patients:
Patients on hemodialysis receiving warfarin for the management of AF.
Measurements:
Any type of stroke and/or bleeding outcomes.
Methods:
MEDLINE(R) In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations and MEDLINE(R) via OVID (1946 to January 11, 2017), and EMBASE via OVID (1974 to January 11, 2017) were searched for relevant literature. Inclusion criteria were randomized controlled trials, observational studies, and case series in English that examined stroke and bleeding outcomes in adult population of patients (over 18 years old) who are on hemodialysis and taking warfarin for AF. Studies with less than 10 subjects, case reports, review articles, and editorials were excluded. Quality of selected articles was assessed using Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS).
Results:
Of the 2340 titles and abstracts screened, 7 met the inclusion criteria. Two studies showed an association between warfarin use and an increased risk of stroke (Hazard Ratio: 1.93-3.36) but no association with an increased risk of bleed (HR: 0.85-1.04), while 4 studies showed no association between warfarin and stroke outcomes (HR: 0.12-1.17) but identified an association between warfarin and increased bleeding outcome (HR: 1.41-3.96). And 1 study reported neither beneficial nor harmful effects associated with warfarin use.
Limitations:
The major limitation to this review is that the 7 included studies were observational cohort studies, and thus the outcome measures were not specified and predetermined in a research protocol.
Conclusion:
Our systematic review demonstrated that for patients with AF who are on hemodialysis, warfarin was not associated with reduced outcomes of stroke but was rather associated with increased bleeding events.
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