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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Cannibal"”.
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From cannibal to consumer: The shifting poetic metaphor of the vampire
The Vampire is a parasitic demon who has ·haunted humanity for thousands of years. Feeding off the living, this bloodsucking, animated corpse could generally be said to embody human fears surrounding death and sexuality. Appearing in a variety of mythologies around the world, the vampire has been …
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Queer, Cannibal, Brazilian: The Temporal Politics of Sexuality in Brazilian Cultural Production
… founding text for Brazilian cultural practices, *Cannibalist Manifesto* (1928). It argued for the Brazilian writer’s critical “cannibalization” of dominant cultures to reevaluate the country’s place in the modern world beyond the colonizer’s temporal markers. Yet, theories on how Oswald challenged …
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Performance and Mechanisms of Excess Sludge Reduction in the Cannibal™ Process
… in the activated sludge that incorporates the Cannibal™ Process, laboratory activated sludge systems incorporating an anaerobic bioreactor into the sludge recycle stream were operated. In this study, the solids production in the Cannibal system was about 35-40% of the conventional system under …
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Developing a Mechanistic Understanding and Optimization of the Cannibal Process: Phase II
The Cannibal system, comprised of an activated sludge process integrated with a side stream anaerobic bioreactor, is capable of reducing excess sludge up to 60% compared to the conventional activated sludge process. The hydraulic retention time (HRT) in the Cannibal bioreactor and the interchange …
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‘They all looked such good meat’: Cannibal Metaphors in Early Twentieth Century English Fiction
This project examines cannibal metaphors in early twentieth-century English fiction, exploring how one of the most powerfully enduring colonial tropes about the savage Other seeped into the literary imagination of English-language authors and informed much of their imagery. I read cannibalism as a …
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The Biological Sludge Reduction by anaerobic/aerobic cycling
… a sidestream anaerobic bioreactor, called the Cannibal process, was the focus of this study. A prior study of this process (Novak et al., 2007) found that this system generated about 60% less solids than conventional activated sludge without any negative effects on the effluent quality. …
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A comparative study of cannibalism in six populations of the calanoid copepod, Diaptomus leptopus (Forbes)
Cannibalism is common in species which have overlapping and discrete life stages. Copepods are a typical example of the type of species which exhibit adult cannibalism of juvenile life stages. The scale of observation typically used in cannibalism studies may allow misinterpretation of the results. …
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States of savagery : cannibalism and the political in postwar fiction
… than just the consumption of individual bodies, cannibalism figures the political struggle to define the boundaries between self and other, as well as the dangers inherent in this struggle--the possible eradication of the personal and social body. Cannibalism thus registers the interrelationship …
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An Investigation into the Mechanisms of Sludge Reduction Technologies
… developed to analyze the effectiveness of the Cannibal solids reduction process on wastewater streams that have never been exposed to it. Batch digestion of sludges pretreated with ozone, mechanical shear and sonication provided insight into the effectiveness of each technology. Extensive …
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Neo-Victorian Cannibalism: A Reading of Contemporary Neo-Victorian Fiction
… be theorised in terms of aggressive eating, even cannibalism. Cannibalism operates on different levels throughout many works, and there is a sense of surreptitious insistence about it in the genre as a whole. Not only is the imagery of eating repeatedly used by critics to comprehend neo-Victorian …
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Trickster and Weetigo : Tomson Highway's Fur Queen
… the success of her Aboriginal charges, while the cannibal Weetigo aspects of the Fur Queen represent the negative impacts and dangers faced by her charges within and from the colonizing Euro-Canadian culture.
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"Too Big to Swallow All at Once": Consumption and Posthuman Healing in Ceremony and House Made of Dawn
… symbolic and metaphorical depictions of cannibalistic identity violence. Through the use of posthuman and postcolonial methodologies and ideas, I contend that the pairing of these two distinct types of imagery that both Momaday and Silko intentionally align the animal figures with …
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Technologies of Encounter: Exhibition-Making and the 18th Century South Pacific
… of encounter, from surrealist collage (Cannibal Dog Museum) and critical reflexivity (The Hidden Hand), to a conversational mode (Modernity’s Candle and the Ways of the Pathless Deep).
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The Way of All Flesh: A History and Historiography of Violence and Death in Italian Cinema (1943-1980)
… political terrorism. PROFONDO ROSSO (1975) and CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (1980) in particular warn against resigning to lines of flight of pure violent expenditure. The former film's politically dense relationship with OSSESSIONE brings full circle this study's historical narrative
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Pluton emplacement, aureole deformation and metamorphism, and regional deformation within the central White-Inyo Range, Eastern California
… on the Ardara pluton, Ireland, and the Cannibal Creek pluton, Australia, support this two stage emplacement model for concordant plutons.