Suchergebnisse

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to review and provide information on the small but growing body of literature that demonstrates that some people with Parkinson's disease (PD) are unaware of the memory impairment, and this has clinical implications for how family members care for their loved one, and how clinical staff and others may interact with them on a day-to-day perspective.


Design/methodology/approach
– The approach takes the form of a general review.


Findings
– People with PD experience a variety of cognitive impairment including deficits in memory and higher level executive processes. Impairment in these areas can occur early in the disease course and result in adverse consequences including distractibility, trouble recalling information, and problems remembering to execute planned actions like adhering to medication regimes. The literature also suggests heterogeneity in both the memory performance of people with PD and in the definition of awareness used to investigate this phenomenon.


Practical implications
– Strategies for remembering may be of practical importance for people with PD, and/or caregivers should be introduced and educated to the nature of memory impairment in PD, as well as its likely course and natural progression in a non-threatening way before they are later instructed on "tips" for maximising daily functioning as more severe cognitive deficits begin to appear.


Originality/value
– This paper adds to the small body of literature that investigates patients' awareness of memory impairment in PD and advocates for ongoing research within the area.

This report will analyze postwar Italian literature from 1945 to 1990. It will look at how Italian society dealt with the events of the war and how the idea of national unity and the nation were compromised during and after the Second World War and the internal Civil War (1943-1945). I will analyze various Italian authors who contributed to different perspectives on postwar Italy, such as Cesare Pavese, Italo Calvino, Alberta Moravia, Elsa Morante, Ada Gobetti, Natalia Ginzburg, and Maria Occhipinti. An analysis of nationalism, gender, and memory will form the backbone of this report. Literature holds the key to understanding Italian society in the postwar world because of the freedom and vastness that writing provided Italians who had previously sought refuge from the persecution of their faith, gender, or political standing. Various questions emerge when studying this period; questions that are worthy of analysis. How did partisans attempt to understand their role in a larger struggle for their nation? Could women push through the paternalistic hierarchies established by fascism and emerge stronger? To what extent do these authors challenge the landscape of Italian memory studies? The answers to these questions lie in the words of postwar Italian literature.

In seven dramatic texts written by six Bosnian-Herzegovinian authors – Borivoje Jevtić, Štefa Jurkić, Nikola Šop, Nasko Frndić, Nada Đurevska and Dževad Karahasan – from the perspective of the art of memory we follow the construction of literary imaginaria on the examples of three Bosnian-Herzegovinian Franciscans (Anđeo Zvizdović, Matija Divković and Ivan Frano Jukić).
The paper examines the relationship between historic reality and fiction, where in history was an inspirational incentive for dramatic texts, with individual members of the Franciscan order transformed into a collective place of traumatic memory. For this conscious work on cultural memory we are to thank both the history of remembrance and memory (mnemohistory) and the motivational associative images that have been cultivated in literature and the historiography of literature for more than a century.

V. Rajesh, Manuscripts, Memory and History: Classical Tamil Literature in Colonial India, New Delhi: Foundation Books, Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 294.

In cosmopolitanism as a unity of global differences, women are still considered second-class citizens, as exposed by contemporary African women writers. Such details on different female characters as reconstructed by Malika Mokkedem, Nina Bouraoui, and Paulina Chiziane, are fictional but essentially born from a collective truth of a much-culturally diversified African population, corroborating traditions with western influences. A deep identity crisis continues to haunt African women at home or as refugees. Particularly, nationalism and sexism pose a critical issue in performing identities in a post-colonial and post-national era. Exploring the socio-political context of these migrant experiences through literature has the potential to reveal a deep understanding of real-life conditions of women in postcolonial Africa. This is often related to political issues, namely the rising of extremist parties as in Mokkedem's rural Algeria, nationalistic views in France and Algeria as in Bouraoui's Garçon Manqué, and resuscitation of ancient practices as in the revival of polygamy in Chizanes's The First Wife. Although fictional, these stories prompt the identity as a functional parameter for the validity of the story that an author builds about her. The narrative identity thesis has been criticized for its incapacity to fully comprehend one's personality on multiple times settings. However it may serve as a practical guide to depict identity markers that immigrant francophone writers have in common: their resonance with traditions, their adaptability to a presupposed advanced occidental society, or their power to inspire immigrants' rights in the '50 and '60.

The article analyses recent forms of artistic representations of the Holocaust in Poland in the novels: Fabryka muchołapek by Andrzej Bart (2008) and Pensjonat by Piotr Paziński ( 2009 ). Debates in Poland in the 1990s and 2000s on the Polish role in the Holocaust have readdressed many unresolved issues in the Polish memory of the Shoah, sparking renewed interest and the need for complex and multi-perspective forms of artistic representations. Writers of the second and third generation confront the challenge with different degrees of emotional engagement and diverse forms of tension between the author's creative investment and the historical truth. The article examines the ways in which Bart and Paziński actualize the memory of the Shoah by engaging in a literary dialogue between past and present.