Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw (1898) is a fascinating thriller that bewilders readers and critics alike for more than 100 years since its publication. Based upon the analytic frame of Bakhtin’s critical vision...Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw (1898) is a fascinating thriller that bewilders readers and critics alike for more than 100 years since its publication. Based upon the analytic frame of Bakhtin’s critical vision on conceptual horizons, and the double-voiced active discourse, this paper seeks to locate the recurrence of aporia through a tracing of the varied speakers and listeners in the text, and the varied discourses viewed from the stance of an implied author, for which all contribute to the cloudy effect of the novel. The author argues that conceptual horizons and double-voiced active discourse both possess the power of bringing about ambiguity in textual understanding. This study intends to broaden critics’ horizon and diversify the appreciation of this work.展开更多
Academic biology-medicine refers to a couple of philosophies, Organicism and Mechanism, which translates into an association of Cybernetic diagrams and molecular Reductionism. This association presents logical difficu...Academic biology-medicine refers to a couple of philosophies, Organicism and Mechanism, which translates into an association of Cybernetic diagrams and molecular Reductionism. This association presents logical difficulties which make it unsuitable to describe correctly biological effects of electromagnetic fields, EMF. But these logical difficulties may be overcome when renewing the organic cell idea by means of a Philosophy of Nature which juxtaposes causality order and sense order in the cell. The signalsome, the set of descriptive components resulting from the genome, is constantly reorganized. This remodeling may become epigenetic when the phenotype becomes transformed by experience of perceptions in a given medium, because the perception of overall information coming from the extracellular medium becomes functional within the system. In that cellular perception, it is stated that the significance base which contributes to the sense order results from the qualitative topological structure of the extracellular medium. Therefore the EMF interactions target is not only the membrane and its molecules;it is also the structure of the extracellular medium which bathes the membrane. Knowing that the sense order modulation constitutes the global soil of the (localized) causality order, it is possible to obtain a same EMF bioeffect on a membrane molecule by treating a culture of cells in its bath or by treating only the extracellular aqueous medium. Consequently, the double bioeffect resulting from EMF exposure is described simply, because the sense order, such as it results from the qualitative structuring of the medium, forms the significance base which directs the causal mechanics of the cellular answer.展开更多
文摘Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw (1898) is a fascinating thriller that bewilders readers and critics alike for more than 100 years since its publication. Based upon the analytic frame of Bakhtin’s critical vision on conceptual horizons, and the double-voiced active discourse, this paper seeks to locate the recurrence of aporia through a tracing of the varied speakers and listeners in the text, and the varied discourses viewed from the stance of an implied author, for which all contribute to the cloudy effect of the novel. The author argues that conceptual horizons and double-voiced active discourse both possess the power of bringing about ambiguity in textual understanding. This study intends to broaden critics’ horizon and diversify the appreciation of this work.
文摘Academic biology-medicine refers to a couple of philosophies, Organicism and Mechanism, which translates into an association of Cybernetic diagrams and molecular Reductionism. This association presents logical difficulties which make it unsuitable to describe correctly biological effects of electromagnetic fields, EMF. But these logical difficulties may be overcome when renewing the organic cell idea by means of a Philosophy of Nature which juxtaposes causality order and sense order in the cell. The signalsome, the set of descriptive components resulting from the genome, is constantly reorganized. This remodeling may become epigenetic when the phenotype becomes transformed by experience of perceptions in a given medium, because the perception of overall information coming from the extracellular medium becomes functional within the system. In that cellular perception, it is stated that the significance base which contributes to the sense order results from the qualitative topological structure of the extracellular medium. Therefore the EMF interactions target is not only the membrane and its molecules;it is also the structure of the extracellular medium which bathes the membrane. Knowing that the sense order modulation constitutes the global soil of the (localized) causality order, it is possible to obtain a same EMF bioeffect on a membrane molecule by treating a culture of cells in its bath or by treating only the extracellular aqueous medium. Consequently, the double bioeffect resulting from EMF exposure is described simply, because the sense order, such as it results from the qualitative structuring of the medium, forms the significance base which directs the causal mechanics of the cellular answer.
