This paper begins by suggesting that travel between China and the Americas occurred long before the arrival of Christopher Columbus from Europe in the Caribbean,and the conference on“Latin America and China in World ...
The term magic(al)realism originated some one hundred years ago.Since then,it has been used to cover sometimes widely divergent literary productions.My argument will be that the success of magic(al)realism results fro...
Whilst the theoretical study of magical realist literature is broad and wide-ranging,there is a remarkable lack of consensus among critics on how the mode should be defined,how its techniques should be described,and h...
In this essay I will investigate the minor yet significant presence of animals in magical realist texts.That presence follows two main threads:what we might call“memories of the future”and“world spirit.”They are d...
This paper explores the complexities of bringing the imaginative extremes of magical realism to the physical realm of the stage.Magical realism famously challenges the reader by demanding not just a suspension of beli...
In this essay I focus on a subject that has not been treated at any great length in the past,that is,the relationship between magical realism and the videogame.This is surprising because even a cursory glance at the t...
supported by Swiss Federal Office of Transport,the ETH foundation and via the grant RAILPOWER.
The reduction of energy consumption is an increasingly important topic of the railway system.Energy-efficient train control(EETC)is one solution,which refers to mathematically computing when to accelerate,which cruisi...
supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation(Human Brain Project SGA3,945539).
To cope with the immense complexity of the brain,neuroscientific research often focuses on isolated brain structures or circumscribed perceptual,cognitive or motor functions[1].This reductionist approach overlooks the...
International relations or politics are a dynamic discipline within politics. It concentrates upon the understanding or explanation of conflict and power between nations or countries. It is of course highly relevant t...
In response to the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century, Immanuel Kant put forward a transcendental philosophy which distinguished between the appearance and the thing-initself(das Ding an sich), in the belief th...