The immanent life of things : embodiment, materiality, and agency in Virginia Woolf’s “A sketch of the past,” and To the lighthouse

This report explores the agency of material entities in Virginia Woolf's autobiographically-influenced works, "A Sketch of the Past," and To the Lighthouse. It argues that Woolf's stream-of-consciousness aesthetics underscores the agency that material objects hold in, and via, human actions, encounters, and relationships. This agency comes about, or is manifested, through the ways in which these human actions, encounters, and relationships communicate emotion and affect. The material entities participate in such human phenomena as active agents, sorting and regulating them -- either in/via the human memory, or through the ways in which human emotions are channelled. In order to demonstrate the affective and embodied intimations by which material entities are attributed agency in Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness writing, the analysis draws on Bruno Latour’s theory of “protoactants,” Jane Bennett’s distinction between thingness and object-ness, as well as Stacy Alaimo’s theory, “trans-corporeality.”Comparative Literatur

KLASIK TÜRK EDEBIYATINDA HZ. MERYEM

İslam dininde Hz. Meryem’in, kadınlar arasında önemli bir yeri bulunmaktadır. Kur’ân-ı Kerîm’de Meryem adıyla müstakil bir sûre de bulunmakta, Kur’ân’da Meryem’in güzel bir şekilde yetiştirildiği, ahlakı özellikle vurgulanmaktadır. Allah tarafından seçildiği, tertemiz olduğu ve dünya kadınlarının arasında da seçkin bir yere sahip bulunduğu ifade edilmektedir.Klasik Türk şiirinde de Hz. Meryem; ifeti, temizliği, ibadeti, Hz. Îsâ’nın annesi olması yönleriyle çokça bahsedilen ideal bir kadın tipidir. Şairler, şiir söyleme güçleri, kaabiliyetleri ile Hz. Meryem’in Hz. Îsâ’yı mucizevî şekilde dünyaya getirişi arasında ilgi kurmuşlardır.Bu makalemizde Hz. Meryem’in, belli başlı divan şairleri tarafından şiirlerinde kullanılış şekli ele alınmıştır. Ayrıca Hz. Meryem’in, şairlerin hayal dünyasında edindiği yer, şiirlerinde Hz. Meryem’in öne çıkarıldığı vasılar incelenmiştir. Hz. Meryem’le ilgili kullanılan terkipler, mazmunlar, söz öbekleri-grupları ayrı başlıklar halinde, beyitlerin anlamları verilerek ele alınmıştır

Regional cerebral blood flow and cognitive function in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder

Objective: To explore the relationship between regional cerebral blood flow (CBF) and cognitive function in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Method: Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) was performed for 139 OCD patients and 139 controls, and the radioactivity rate (RAR) was calculated. Cognitive function was assessed by the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST). Results: The RARs of the prefrontal, anterior temporal, and right occipital lobes were higher in patients than controls. For the WCST, correct and classification numbers were significantly lower, and errors and persistent errors were significantly higher in OCD patients. Right prefrontal lobe RAR was negatively correlated with correct numbers, right anterior temporal lobe RAR was positively correlated with errors, and the RARs of the right prefrontal lobe and left thalamus were positively correlated with persistent errors. Conclusion: OCD patients showed higher CBF in the prefrontal and anterior temporal lobes, suggesting that these areas may be related with cognitive impairment

IMAGE OF MOTHER MARY IN CLASSICAL TURKISH LITERATURE

Image of Mother Mary has a special meaning in Islam. There is even a sura with such title in the Quran that demonstrates the high morality of the woman and her authority. According to the Quran, Mary was chosen by God. Despite the fact that she was poor, still among all women of the world she became the most respected one. Image of Mother Mary as the ideal woman in classical Turkish poetry appears in diferent guises with signiicant emphases on her greatest virtues such as chastity, modesty and sacriice to prayer. Besides, Mary appears as the mother of Jesus. The writers have often emphasized on how miraculously Mary gave birth to Jesus. their ability to create, “give birth to poetry”, is the miracle of the similar sort. The present article deals with the peculiarities of Mother Mary image interpretation by individual poets. Furthermore, the author is trying to deine its place in imagional ield of poetry in general, and also trying to ind out the speciics of the features that poets give to this image. Besides, artistic qualities and importance of metaphors, tropes and stylistic igures used in poetization of Mother Mary have been analyzed

Effects of bilingual and monolingual presentations and time on concept- and language-matching tasks

Balanced Turkish-English bilingual participants viewed word pairs, presented both monolingually (English-English or Turkish-Turkish) or bilingually (English-Turkish or Turkish-English) and both for short and long durations, They made decisions on whether the simultaneously presented words in a pair were in the same language or not, or whether they denoted the same concept or not In the short presentation condition, we found no evidence for subliminal processing In cases in which both words were consciously identified, participants were more accurate, although not faster in the long than in the short presentation condition for both language and concept decisions. In the long presentation condition, language decisions were more accurate than concept decisions, although not faster. In addition, language decisions were not affected by whether the words were synonyms (concept identity), and concept decisions were not affected by whether the presentation was monolingual or bilingual (language identity), although in the monolingual conditions, "same" decisions were faster but not more accurate, and in the bilingual conditions a speed-accuracy trade-off was observed in that "same" decisions were faster but "different" decisions were more accurate

Efficacy of an Alternative Smoking Cessation Treatment

The authors tested the effectiveness of a smoking cessation treatment called auricular therapy that involves the delivery of electrical pulses to specific points on the outer ear. They explored the following question: Do patients undergoing auricular therapy demonstrate greater quit rates in comparison to patients assigned to a control group (i.e., undergoing sham auricular therapy)? Analysis revealed that genuine auricular therapy and placebo group differences on all measures of smoking behavior and nicotine withdrawal symptoms did not approach significance. Abstinence rates among patients in both groups were low and groups did not obtain significantly different scores on the Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence at all assessment points