This article provides a detailed assessment of the life of an influential scholar of modern Spanish literature and culture. James Whiston's entire career is documented, first as a student, then as ...lecturer and professor in Spanish Studies at Trinity College, Dublin. Also recorded is his role as a General Editor of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies at a key period in its development. Whiston's publications on Galdós and the nineteenth-century novel and on Machado and the Spanish Civil War--his two principal fields of research-are discussed in turn, taking into account other scholars' opinions of his work. Whiston's most enduring output is judged to be his monograph on Fortunata y Jacinta, together with his definitive edition of the same monumental work. Academics concerned to understand Galdós and prose-fiction in nineteenth-century Spain and beyond will consult Whiston's publications with benefit for years to come. His other books include the first full-length study of Antonio Machado's Writings and the Spanish Civil War (1996), in which all the important topics in Machado's Civil War writings are addressed and explained. In Spain's Civil War Whiston found a source of valuable insight into the relationship between the creative author and the imperatives of the time. His publications on Machado do much to enhance our knowledge of events as they were being experienced and commented upon in Spain and, more broadly, in Europe during a prolonged period of military conflict and civil upheaval which, nevertheless, became intensely productive of literary achievement.
IntroductionSports-related concussion (SRC) can be challenging to diagnose, assess and manage. Much of the SRC research is conducted on adults. The assessment of SRC should aim to identify deficits ...using a detailed multimodal assessment; however, most studies investigating the effects of SRC use diagnostic tools in isolation. It is likely that a combination of diagnostic tests will improve diagnostic accuracy. In this study, we aim to investigate how concussion affects adolescent rugby players and how a variety of diagnostic tools interact with each other as participants recover from their injury. The study will also determine the logistics of recording an individual’s concussion history on a virtual ‘Concussion Passport’ that would remain with the individual throughout their sporting career to allow monitoring of long-term health.Methods and analysisAll rugby players (n=211) from the Senior Cup Teams of five schools in Dublin, Ireland will be invited to participate in the study. Baseline testing will be performed at the Sports Surgery Clinic, Dublin (SSC) before the rugby season commences. Participants will be followed up over the course of the rugby season. At baseline and at each postconcussion visit, participants will complete the following: Questionnaire, Sports Concussion Assessment Tool 3, Balance Error Scoring System, Computerised Neurocognitive Testing, Vestibulo-ocular assessment, King Devick test, Graded exercise test, Blood tests, Neck strength, FitBit.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval was obtained from the Sports Surgery Clinic Research Ethics Committee (Approval number: SSC 0020). On completion of the study, further papers will be written and published to present the results of the various tests.Trial registration number NCT03624634.
It is argued that Juan Rulfo's "Pedro Paramo" is a novel that is immediately centrifugal, unmaking itself at every turn by its flight from the concrete and its gesturing towards absence and ...abstraction.
'Rayuela' by Julio Cortazar is constructed in three sections in the principle of aesthetic excellence. Manuel Puig's El beas de la myer arana tells the tale of a relationship which develops between ...two prison cell mates. Both these novels manifest a narrativity which is heterogeneous.
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