Grey House Research Articles

Allegorical Images in The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan

This article discusses the strategies of visual representation and the status of visual images in Mariam Petrosyan's novel The Gray House, originally published in Russian as The House in Which... The novel is an excellent example of magical realism in contemporary literature. Dispersed throughout the text, visual images have an important role in understanding the fictional world. The characters of the novel sketch animals or fantastic creatures, which become their signatures. The pattern is similar to that of a magical ritual. These drawings and graffiti help the characters to communicate with the mystical House, where they all live. The drawings represent someone or something, while being themselves the subject of representation, which complicates the structure of the novel and requires readers’ reflection. The allegorical nature of the drawings creates the semantic continuity of the House because the characters share the same way of self-expression. The images created by Smoker are special because this character belongs to the House only partially. Smoker’s drawings clearly demonstrate his alienness in the world of the House, but they provide a metaphorical understanding of the House and offer its artistic interpretation. They serve as an alternative key to deciphering the mystical nature of the space. Smoker’s drawings reveal the concept of time distorted by the House

‘‘The Gray House’’ novel by M. Petrosyan in modern criticism and literary studies

‘‘The Gray House’’ novel by M. Petrosyan in modern criticism and literary studies

Cribellate thread production as model for spider\u2019s spinneret kinematics

Spider silk attracts researchers from the most diverse fields, such as material science or medicine. However, still little is known about silk aside from its molecular structure and material strength. Spiders produce many different silks and even join several silk types to one functional unit. In cribellate spiders, a complex multi-fibre system with up to six different silks affects the adherence to the prey. The assembly of these cribellate capture threads influences the mechanical properties as each fibre type absorbs forces specifically. For the interplay of fibres, spinnerets have to move spatially and come into contact with each other at specific points in time. However, spinneret kinematics are not well described though highly sophisticated movements are performed which are in no way inferior to the movements of other flexible appendages. We describe here the kinematics for the spinnerets involved in the cribellate spinning process of the grey house spider, Badumna longinqua, as an example of spinneret kinematics in general. With this information, we set a basis for understanding spinneret kinematics in other spinning processes of spiders and additionally provide inspiration for biomimetic multiple fibre spinning.

Музыкальные коды в романе М. Петросян «Дом, в котором...»

The article aims to trace functioning of musical codes in M. Petrosyan’s novel “The Gray House”. Musical codes in M. Petrosyan’s novel have not been studied before, which accounts for scientific novelty of the article. An intermedial analysis allows the researcher to explain sociocultural genesis of the novel’s artistic world. Special attention is paid to instances of perceiving songs in foreign languages and to the process of acculturation. As a result, a way of introducing intermedial codes into the novel is described, providing insight into the author’s mindset of “codifying” musical references and quotes. It is found how foreign musical culture is adopted by the novel’s characters and how it begins to determine their consciousness. By analysing references to musical compositions and show business events, the researcher managed to determine timeframe for the events taking place in the novel.

Are you what you eat? A highly transient and prey-influenced gut microbiome in the grey house spider Badumna longinqua.

Stable core microbial communities have been described in numerous animal species and are commonly associated with fitness benefits for their hosts. Recent research, however, highlights examples of species whose microbiota are transient and environmentally derived. Here, we test the effect of diet on gut microbial community assembly in the spider Badumna longinqua. Using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing combined with quantitative PCR, we analyzed diversity and abundance of the spider's gut microbes, and simultaneously characterized its prey communities using nuclear rRNA markers. We found a clear correlation between community similarity of the spider's insect prey and gut microbial DNA, suggesting that microbiome assembly is primarily diet-driven. This assumption is supported by a feeding experiment, in which two types of prey-crickets and fruit flies-both substantially altered microbial diversity and community similarity between spiders, but did so in different ways. After cricket consumption, numerous cricket-derived microbes appeared in the spider's gut, resulting in a rapid homogenization of microbial communities among spiders. In contrast, few prey-associated bacteria were detected after consumption of fruit flies; instead, the microbial community was remodelled by environmentally sourced microbes, or abundance shifts of rare taxa in the spider's gut. The reshaping of the microbiota by both prey taxa mimicked a stable core microbiome in the spiders for several weeks post feeding. Our results suggest that the spider's gut microbiome undergoes pronounced temporal fluctuations, that its assembly is dictated by the consumed prey, and that different prey taxa may remodel the microbiota in drastically different ways.

“The Gray House” by Mariam Petrosyan in the context of the literary tradition of magical realism

The paper deals with a comprehensive analysis of the formal and substantive components of Mariam Petrosyan’s novel “The Gray House” (“The House in Which ...”). The publication of the novel in 2009 provoked extremely diverse criticism. The authors pay much attention to the artistic originality of the novel and substantiate that it can be classified among works written using the method of magical realism. At the beginning of the paper, the authors provide a review of the works devoted to the theoretical aspects of the method of magical realism. The article is based on the correlation between the “strange” (in the researchers’ opinion) poetry of M. Petrosyan and the specifi of the above-mentioned method, the peculiarities of the “magical language”, taking into account critical publications about the novel. The analysis of the specifics of the plot, composition, the conflict and represented characters makes it possible to consider M. Petrosyan’s work in the context of the above-mentioned literary tradition.

An ardent anti-slavery tale: Narrating resistance through Chicago's Underground Railroad, 1856-present

ABSTRACTOriginally situated in a suburb, today the 1856 Gray House is a private residence and part of Chicago's Old Irving Park neighbourhood. Known for his vocal stand against slavery, John Gray was the first Republican Sheriff of Cook County (1858–1860). In the years after his death, popular narratives arose designating his home a station on the Underground Railroad. By interrogating the documentary record, results from archaeological survey and excavation, and reports from known Underground Railroad sites, this paper focuses on the way that stories of the Underground Railroad are a preferred narrative of uplift and resistance even with absent site-specific evidence for these antislavery activities.

Boats Against the Current: The Honeymoon Summer of Scott and Zelda: Westport, Connecticut, 1920

Boats Against the Current: The Honeymoon Summer of Scott and Zelda: Westport, Connecticut, 1920

Die Geschichte des Grauen Hauses und der Strafgerichtsbarkeit in Wien

The ‘Graues Haus‘ (literally, the ‘grey house‘) was erected in the Alservorstadt right outside the city boundaries of Vienna between 1831 and 1839. Its original function was to house the Magistrates’ court for criminal matters, replacing the previous court house (known locally as the ‘Schranne’) that had been situated at Hoher Markt. With effect of 1st July 1850 the municipal and manorial courts were abolished and the organisation of courts with which we are familiar today was introduced. At the same time the inquisitorial system was replaced with the adversarial one and public and oral court proceedings became the norm. The ‘Graues Haus’ now accommodated the criminal division of the Vienna Regional Court and the Vienna Prosecutor’s Office. In 1873 construction work began for the ‘Groser Schwurgerichtssaal’, a new court room specifically for jury trials. The court’s jail house was demolished between 1980 and 1996 and replaced with a new facility for the Josefstadt jail; the court itself was provided with modern court rooms. The focus on the achievements of the ‘Rechtsstaat’, a state based on the rule of law, and of modern criminal law is meant to underline the great value of a system of courts which is devoid of any political influence.

The Grey House performing arts directory: dance, instrumental music, vocal music, theatre, series & festivals, facilities, information resources, indexes

The Grey House performing arts directory: dance, instrumental music, vocal music, theatre, series & festivals, facilities, information resources, indexes

Dumbing Down Teachers: Rethinking the Crisis of Public Education and the Demise of the Social State

In the United States and Europe, thousands of demonstrators have organized to protest government cutbacks and austerity measures being enacted upon the most vulnerable members of society. In the Un...

Old Rugged Cross, and: Saxophone on Yvonne Dupree's Backyard Fence

225 I have to be honest with you, when I first came back and saw the devastation to my church, all that mud, all that foulness, I fell to my knees and wept. I am one of the chosen , my grief piled up like the gut from the houses. I’ve been a minister for forty years, but I lost my faith. I got angry, told God you want it fixed, you fix it. How am I supposed to live? Am I not one of His apostles? My home in ruin and my sanctuary destroyed. Eighty years old and I am offered a job with the city, riding a truck and picking up trash. What had I done to be beaten so? My God had brought me through a lot of hard times, had enabled me to prosper, just to snatch it all away? I was on a crew of Haitians removing flood debris, and they never allowed me to get out of that truck to pick up anything. All day I rode the truck through the wards, seeing the swamp of furniture, swollen Bibles, rusted pistols, color TVs, the big picture; the righteous and the sinners, all get hit with the same blessed hand. Old Rugged Cross Two poems by gary copeland lilley 226 Didn’t I drink a hurricane in a French Quarter bar that didn’t have more than a half foot of water out front? And didn’t I wade through the tourists buying novelty charms in the voodoo shops as I searched for High John the Conqueror Root? Didn’t I watch the Indians march through the dancing exile crowd and the motorcycles parked all down Jackson Street? I cleaned up a vacant lot and gave the police the rusted gun frames and the mudcovered ammo box that was under the only remaining doorstep. Didn’t I see Survivor’s Village outside the projects where they won’t let the folk return? Every soul in a tent waiting word from a personal Moses, black mold spreads like a rash as they pray for their living rooms while politicians pray for condos and casinos and sip the FEMA water. I saw the Mississippi River, and I pulled an old gray house toward the curb after placing the crystal, the wedding silver, the china dinner plates, and a coffee can full of money and insurance documents on a white tablecloth beneath the tarnished saxophone caught in Miss Yvonne’s backyard fence. Saxophone on Yvonne Dupree’s Backyard Fence ...

Encyclopedia of emerging industries

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The Grey House rare disorders directory: 698 rare disorders with complete list of synonyms and resources arranged by body system: disorder descriptions, body system descriptions, organizations & federal agencies, publications, Web sites, comprehensive index

The Grey House rare disorders directory: 698 rare disorders with complete list of synonyms and resources arranged by body system: disorder descriptions, body system descriptions, organizations & federal agencies, publications, Web sites, comprehensive index

The Grey House biometric information directory: your guide to the companies and people providing and using biometric technology for identification, fraud prevention, security, convenience, customer service and other applications

The Grey House biometric information directory: your guide to the companies and people providing and using biometric technology for identification, fraud prevention, security, convenience, customer service and other applications

The Grey House transportation security directory & handbook: airports, mass transit, pipelines, railroads, seaports and trucking

The Grey House transportation security directory & handbook: airports, mass transit, pipelines, railroads, seaports and trucking

The Grey House performing arts directory: dance, instrumental music, vocal music, theatre, series & events, facilities, artist management, information resources

The Grey House performing arts directory: dance, instrumental music, vocal music, theatre, series & events, facilities, artist management, information resources

The Grey House homeland security directory, 2004: federal agencies, state agencies, products & services and information resources

The Grey House homeland security directory, 2004: federal agencies, state agencies, products & services and information resources

The Grey House safety & security directory

The Grey House safety & security directory

Grey House directory of special issues: a guide to business magazines

Grey House directory of special issues: a guide to business magazines