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This groundbreaking collection examines the regional dynamics of state societies, looking at how people use the concepts of urban and rural, traditional and modern, and industrial and agricultural to define their existence and the experience of living in contemporary Japanese society. The book focuses on the Tohoku (Northeast) region, which many Japanese consider rural, agrarian, undeveloped economically, and the epitome of the traditional way of life. While this stereotype overstates the case—the region is home to one of Japan's largest cities—most Japanese contrast Tohoku (everything traditional) with Tokyo (everything modern). However, the contributors show how various regional phenomena—internationalization, lacquerware production, farming, enka (modern Japanese ballads), women's roles, and professional dance —combine the traditional, the modern, and the global. Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan demonstrates that while people use the dichotomies of urban/rural and traditional/modern in order to define their experiences, these categories are no longer useful in analyzing contemporary Japan.
Culture and globalization --- Social change --- Globalization and culture --- Globalization --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Japan --- Civilization --- Social conditions
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To date, diet programs and medical therapies for the treatment of obesity have had limited success. Bariatric surgery, however, provides a means of effective weight loss for many of those with morbid obesity. Most of these weight loss procedures are performed with a variety of techniques that continue to evolve. Each technique is associated with unique challenges and complications and it is important for the clinician to be knowledgeable about the endoscopic management of these patients. Additionally, as endoscopic technology evolves it may offer more than just the diagnosis and treatment of complications. Endoscopic therapy may soon allow less invasive bariatric revision procedures as well as a variety of primary obesity therapies for various patient populations. Bariatric Endoscopy reviews the management of obesity, normal post-surgical anatomy, endoscopic and medical management of post-surgical complications, and future endoscopic therapies for obesity management. Organized into five sections, the volume covers an obesity overview, traditional therapy, endoscopy and the bariatric patient, medical management of post-surgical complications, and the future role of endoscopy in obesity management. Detailed illustrations are also provided for surgical procedures, complications and obesity management chapters. Authored by authorities in the field, Bariatric Endoscopy is an indispensable tool for the gastroenterologist or surgical endoscopist as they care for patients with complicated bariatric issues.
Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal. --- Gastroscopy -- Study and teaching. --- Medicine. --- Obesity --- Pathologic Processes --- Investigative Techniques --- Endoscopy, Digestive System --- Bariatrics --- Overnutrition --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms --- Diagnostic Techniques, Digestive System --- Therapeutics --- Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures --- Diseases --- Nutrition Disorders --- Diagnosis --- Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases --- Bariatric Surgery --- Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal --- Postoperative Complications --- Obesity, Morbid --- Methods --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Gastroenterology --- Surgery --- Gastrointestinal system --- Treatment. --- Endoscopic surgery. --- Gastro-intestinal system --- Gastrointestinal tract --- GI tract --- Tract, Gastrointestinal --- Tract, GI --- Internal medicine. --- Gastroenterology. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Internal Medicine. --- Internal medicine --- Digestive organs --- Medicine, Internal --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Alimentary canal --- Gastroenterology .
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En 1829, les Promenades dans Rome, après l'Histoire de la peinture en Italie, la Vie de Rossini et les deux versions de Rome, Naples et Florence, confirment Stendhal en spécialiste ès choses ultramontaines, tout à la fois décrypteur et constructeur d'une italianité qui vire au mythe. Guide, c'est-à-dire forme ouverte, dont Stendhal exploite à fond la souplesse au point de mettre parfois en péril la lisibilité de son texte, les Promenades promeuvent de multiples et contradictoires « façons de voir » la Ville éternelle. Le regard s'attache à la Rome antique, fondatrice de valeurs en lesquelles le beyliste se reconnaît, à la Rome papale, que Stendhal dénonce tout en s'en amusant, à la patrie des arts qui fait de Rome un musée idéal et le lieu par excellence de la réflexion esthétique. Tout cela simultanément. Expérience singulière de l'espace et du temps, mêlant indissociablement politique, esthétique et érotique, la Rome que balisent les Promenades est tout aussi instable que le texte qui la met en scène. Les treize études ici réunies sont à leur tour autant de « façons de voir » les Promenades dans Rome. Elles interrogent tout spécialement le dispositif énonciatif de ce guide singulier, examinent la manière dont l'œil stendhalien organise l'expérience sensible et conçoit la réflexion esthétique, et rendent le texte à sa brûlante actualité de 1829 en un tableau des mœurs romaines où politique et religion sont proprement consubstantielles.
Stendhal, --- French travel literature --- 19th century --- Romanticism --- Stendhal --- Criticism --- Stendhal, - 1783-1842 - Promenades dans Rome --- History --- Literature (General) --- esthétique --- politique --- Rome --- romantisme --- histoire --- journal --- récit de voyage --- Italie --- littérature XIXe siècle
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Stendhal « romantique » ? La question, complexe, toujours controversée, doit être contextualisée dans le cadre des « romantismes » européens auxquels Stendhal est confronté en parcourant l'Europe, « de Naples à Moscou », selon ses dires. « Romanticisme », d'abord, par influence italienne à Milan et lecture de la presse anglaise, mais aussi échos de l'Opéra à Vienne, contributions de la bibliothèque cosmopolite de Wolffenbüttel et glaces de la retraite de Russie qui sonnent le glas de l'esthétique classique. Passeur d'idées, familier des « voies de transmissions » comme le cabinet Vieusseux à Florence et des postures transculturelles, Stendhal, qui a affirmé que la « Révolution entre en littérature » adopte une attitude critique qui sert de révélateur à la mosaïque de l'« Europe romantique », aux débats fondateurs entre « nation » et « Europe ». Des regards venus de toute l'Europe contribuent ici au débat, qui se trouve étoffé par des documents inédits.
Romanticism --- Stendhal, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Stendhal --- スタンダール --- M. B. A. A. --- Beyle, Marie-Henri --- Europe --- littérature --- romantisme
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