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The Doctor Faustus dossier : Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, and their contemporaries, 1930-1951
\"This complete edition of letters and documents between Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann brings together two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both of whom found refuge in Los Angeles during the Nazi era. Culminating in the famous dispute over Mann's novel Doctor Faustus, the correspondence, diary entries, and related articles provide a glimpse inside the private and public lives of these two great artists, the outstanding figures of the German-exile community in California. In the thicket of the controversy was Theodor Adorno, then a budding philosopher, whose contribution to the Faustus affair would make enemies of both families. Gathered here for the first time in English, the letters in this essential volume are complemented by rich primary source materials and an introduction by Germanic scholar Adrian Daub that contextualizes the impact the artists had on twentieth-century thought and culture\"--Provided by publisher.
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Combination of modified Mann‐Kendall method and Şen innovative trend analysis
Mann‐Kendall (MK) trend test is frequently employed as the most familiar trend detection method. Its application requires serial independence of available hydrometeorological time series records. As suggested in the literature, the serial correlation effect can be removed from the given time series by using prewhitening, variance correction or overwhitening processes such as in the modified Mann‐Kendall (MMK) procedure. The PW process may cause some of the current trends to be removed along with the serial correlation. In this study, the MMK method is supported by Şen innovative trend analysis instead of Sen slope estimator (SSE). The MMK method is applied to monthly maximum temperatures of Oxford station in England, for which the data length is large and the moving trend slope values are calculated starting from 1854 for all durations between 1873 and 2017. The MMK_SSE and MMK_ITA methods yield significant increasing trends between 0.0037 and 0.0125°C/year annual slopes for January, March, May, July, August, September, October, November, December, but for February, there is not any significant trend. While MMK_SSE does not give any significant trend for April that has maximum positive kurtosis and skew, but MMK_ITA reflects an increasing trend of 0.0059°C per year. The main purpose of this article is to support the classical MK trend identification test by means of the Sen_ITA approach leading to more reliable results. The Sen_ITA method is not affected by serial correlation and this strong feature is tried to be added to MK. In the literature, the SSE method is added to reinforce MK, but the SSE method calculates the trend according to the median value. This reduces the contribution of extreme values to the trend, also the Sen_ITA method is easier to implement than the SSE method. With the combination of the Sen_ITA method, it is expected that the MK method, which is widely used in literature, gives more successful results.
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Trend analysis of climatic variables in an arid and semi-arid region of the Ajmer District, Rajasthan, India
In the present study, trends and variations in climatic variables (i.e. rainfall, wet day frequency, surface temperature, diurnal temperature, cloud cover, and reference and potential evapotranspiration) were analyzed on seasonal (monsoon and non-monsoon) and annual time scales for the Ajmer District of Rajasthan, India. This was done using non-parametric statistical techniques, i.e. the Mann–Kendall (MK) and Modified Mann–Kendall (MMK) tests, over a period of 100 years. The MK test with prewhitening (MK–PW) of climatic series was also applied to climatic variables and the results were compared to those obtained through the MK and MMK tests in order to assess the performance of trend detection methods. The Pettitt–Mann–Whitney (PMW) test was applied to detect the temporal shift in climatic series. The trend analysis revealed that annual and seasonal rainfall did not show any statistically significant trend at a 10% significant level. A noticeable trend increase was found in wet day frequency, surface temperature and reference evapotranspiration (
) during the non-monsoon season from the three non-parametric statistical tests at a 10% significance level. A statistically significant decrease in maximum temperature was found during the non-monsoon season by the MK–PW test alone. This analysis of several climatic variables at the district scale is helpful for the planning and management of water resources and the development of adaptation strategies in adverse climatic conditions.
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Rainfall trends analysis of Iran in the last half of the twentieth century
The present study performs the spatial and temporal trend analysis of the annual and 24‐hr maximum rainfall of a set of 145 precipitation gauging stations of Iran. The study shows that the annual rainfall is decreasing at 67% of the stations while the 24‐hr maximum rainfall is increasing at 50% of the stations. The negative trends of annual rainfall are mostly observed in northern and northwestern regions, whereas positive trends of 24‐hr maximum rainfall are mostly located in arid and semiarid regions of Iran. However, the Kolmogorov‐Smirnov test for Mann‐Kendall (MK) statistics show that the regional trend of annual rainfall is significant, but it is not significant for 24‐hr maximum rainfall. On the other hand, the sequential MK test reveals that the trends of annual rainfall and 24‐hr maximum rainfall began since 1970s for most of the stations. The negative trend of the rainfall for most of the country may show the initial stages of climate change in Iran, but further information and analysis is required for future studies.
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The Cambridge introduction to Thomas Mann
\"Nobel Prize-winner Thomas Mann (1875-1955) is not only one of the leading German novelists of the twentieth century, but also one of the few to transcend national and language boundaries to achieve major stature in the English-speaking world. Famous from the time that he published his first novel in 1901, Mann became an iconic figure, seen as the living embodiment of German national culture. Leading scholar Todd Kontje provides a succinct introduction to Mann's life and work, discussing key moments in Mann's personal life and his career as a public intellectual, and giving readers a sense of why he is considered such an important - and controversial - writer. At the heart of the book is an informed appreciation of Mann's great literary achievements, including the novel The Magic Mountain and the haunting short story Death in Venice\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Overturning 'Dr. Faustus'
Thomas Mann's last major novel, 'Doktor Faustus', revolves around the transformation of traditional German culture into Hitler's fascist Germany, a process that intrigues and confounds thinking people still today. Mann has always been considered an exemplary and authoritative portrayer of German culture, and his opinion on the rise of fascism carries considerable weight. Unfortunately, the novel has always been interpreted as saying the opposite of what it does in fact say. Frances Lee provides a radically new interpretation by relating in a detailed manner to the text of Doktor Faustus the arguments expressed by Mann in his 'Observations of a Non-Political Man' -- a book of political essays published in 1918. This approach resolves many of the features that have been seen by critics as flaws or contradictions in the novel. Lee establishes what is actually happening in the novel in its historical setting, showing Mann's view of how the acceptance of fascism occurred and the determining role he attributed to the academic community in bringing about the disaster. Her book will be of interest to both amateur and professional students of Mann, particularly because it points to rich new directions for study. Frances Ann Ray Lee received the Ph.D. in German literature from the University of Toronto in 2005.
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