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Don Quixote
This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world's greatest literary hero takes place in film, theater, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject.
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Living Quixote
The 400th anniversaries of Don Quixote in 2005 and 2015
sparked worldwide celebrations that brought to the fore its ongoing
cultural and ideological relevance. Living Quixote
examines contemporary appropriations of Miguel de Cervantes's
masterpiece in political and social justice movements in the
Americas, particularly in Brazil.
In this book, Cervantes scholar Rogelio Miñana examines
long-term, Quixote-inspired activist efforts at the ground level.
Through what the author terms performative activism,
Quixote-inspired theater companies and nongovernmental
organizations deploy a model for rewriting and enacting new social
roles for underprivileged youth. Unique in its transatlantic,
cross-historical, and community-based approach, Living
Quixote offers both a new reading of Don Quixote and
an applied model for cultural activism-a model based, in ways
reminiscent of Paulo Freire, on the transformative potential of
performance, literature, and art.
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Quixotic Memories
The work of Miguel de Cervantes – one of the most influential writers in early modern Europe – is a reflection of the rich culture of memory in which it was created. More than a theme, memory is a system of understanding in Cervantes’s world, resulting from the major social, religious, and economic changes that epitomized Renaissance humanist culture and that informed the transition to modernity.
Quixotic Memories offers insight into the plurality and complexity of memory and demonstrates how it plays an exceptionally critical role in Cervantes’s Don Quixote . It acknowledges Cervantes’s transition into modernity as he engaged with theories of memory that were developed in classical antiquity and adapted to the specific circumstances of his own time. Julia Domínguez explores the many spaces that memory created for itself in early modern Spain, particularly in the fields of philosophy, medicine, rhetoric, mnemotechnics, the visual arts, and pedagogy.
Engaging with primary and archival sources, Quixotic Memories provides a new reading of Cervantes’s famous novel by tracing the socio-historical and cultural prominence of memory throughout the author’s lifetime.
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Don Kenyon : his own man
Examines the life and career of the cricket player who \"holds the record as the youngest player to score a century in the Birmingham League first division. For 19 seasons he scored over 1,000 runs and captained Worcestershire's first championship winning side in 1964 (retaining the tile in its centenary year of 1965)\"--Amazon.com.
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Four PQQ-Dependent Alcohol Dehydrogenases Responsible for the Oxidative Detoxification of Deoxynivalenol in a Novel Bacterium Ketogulonicigenium vulgare D3₃ Originated from the Feces of Tenebrio molitor Larvae
Deoxynivalenol (DON) is frequently detected in cereals and cereal-based products and has a negative impact on human and animal health. In this study, an unprecedented DON-degrading bacterial isolate D3₃ was isolated from a sample of Tenebrio molitor larva feces. A 16S rRNA-based phylogenetic analysis and genome-based average nucleotide identity comparison clearly revealed that strain D3₃ belonged to the species Ketogulonicigenium vulgare. This isolate D3₃ could efficiently degrade 50 mg/L of DON under a broad range of conditions, such as pHs of 7.0–9.0 and temperatures of 18–30 °C, as well as during aerobic or anaerobic cultivation. 3-keto-DON was identified as the sole and finished DON metabolite using mass spectrometry. In vitro toxicity tests revealed that 3-keto-DON had lower cytotoxicity to human gastric epithelial cells and higher phytotoxicity to Lemna minor than its parent mycotoxin DON. Additionally, four genes encoding pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ)-dependent alcohol dehydrogenases in the genome of isolate D3₃ were identified as being responsible for the DON oxidation reaction. Overall, as a highly potent DON-degrading microbe, a member of the genus Ketogulonicigenium is reported for the first time in this study. The discovery of this DON-degrading isolate D3₃ and its four dehydrogenases will allow microbial strains and enzyme resources to become available for the future development of DON-detoxifying agents for food and animal feed.
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