islets of Langerhans
islets of Langerhans (pancreatic islets) Small groups of cells in the pancreas that function as an endocrine gland. The
α (or A)
cells secrete the hormone
glucagon, the
β (or B)
cells secrete
insulin, and the δ (or D) cells secrete
somatostatin. The islets are named after their discoverer, the German anatomist and microscopist Paul Langerhans (1847–88).
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Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement. By SIMON MORRISON...not conceive his opera as a Symbolist work, but Morrison again...captured the imagination of the Symbolists, despite Rimsky-Korsakov...Rimsky-Korsakov's anti-Symbolist conception of the opera was...
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Becoming political: Symbolist literature and the Third Republic.
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...important group of Symbolists supported General Boulanger...a split between the Symbolist movement's esthetics...confusion surrounding the Symbolists' relationship to politics...readily be found both in Symbolist as well as revolutionary...1889 elections--the Symbolists, as was true for ...
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Theatrical terror: attentats and symbolist spectacle.
Magazine article from: The Comparatist; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...terror but because of them. Symbolists and decadents were equated...rebelliousness, but because symbolist and decadent litterateurs...In such a climate, the Symbolist theater house the Theatre...OEuvre reveals a shift in Symbolist theater from an emphasis on...
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The elusive Symbolist movement
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 3/17/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...were forged by Symbolists in different countries...outfit. The Belgian Symbolist Fernand Khnopff...had become more-Symbolist-than-thou...works of other Symbolists of various nations.)The Symbolist movement was a...
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Acquisto, Joseph. French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Acquisto, Joseph. French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea...that characterize the symbolists. If there is any finite...considerable help, the symbolists eventually outgrew...symposium from four symbolist figures, the first...al niente. As the symbolists outgrow music, so...
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British symbolists. (traveling exhibition)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 11/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...reaction to impressionism and realism. The symbolist manifesto, written by Jean Moreas...a work of art must be "idealistic, symbolist, synthetic, subjective and decorative...British artists can also be said to be symbolist. Sponsored by Prudential, it is entitled...
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Joseph Acquisto. French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Symposium; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...idea of music in defining the symbolist movement, both in its aesthetic...supported by close attention to symbolist texts that clarify Charles...stance is the opposite of the symbolist belief that writing is "a...introduction, namely that "the symbolists' discussion of poetic language...
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The Symbolist Prints of Edvard Munch
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Review; 1/1/1998; ; 369 words
; The Symbolist Prints of Edvard Munch by Elizabeth Prelinger...technically experimental nature of Munch's Symbolist prints and demonstrates the great themes...shed new light on the artist and the Symbolist movement, written by a scholar, a curator...
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Signs of Anarchy: aesthetics, politics, and the Symbolist critic at the Mercure de France, 1890--95.
Magazine article from: French Forum; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...in the wake of Jean Moreas' "Symbolist Manifesto" in 1886 and under the...decadence was more apt, whether the symbolists were only "pseudo-decadents...a philosophical explanation for Symbolist aesthetics across diverse media...
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French symbolist poetry and the idea of music.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2006; 461 words
; 0754656411 French symbolist poetry and the idea of music. Acquisto...theoretical use of music was a way these symbolist poets questioned "dualistic oppositions...composer Richard Wagner from French symbolist writing, the understanding of music...
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symbolists
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the other arts. The early symbolists experimented with form, revolting...Debussy. Among the later symbolists were Claudel, Valé...The influence of the French symbolists not only gave rise to similar...W. K. Cornell, The Symbolist Movement (1970); A. Balakian...
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Symbolists
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Symbolists: see SYMBOLS .
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Symbolism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...the same kind of imagery as Symbolist writers (the femme fatale...subjects. Stylistically, Symbolist artists varied greatly, from...movement in its broadest sense. Symbolist sculptors include the Belgian...comments that ‘the Symbolists, by freeing painting from...
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Bely, Andrei
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...became central to Symbolist thought. Vladimir...Alexander Blok and other Symbolists, Bely saw himself...1918). Like other Symbolists, Bely welcomed the...Andrei Bely: The Major Symbolist Fiction. Cambridge...Biely and the Russian Symbolists. Berkeley: University...
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Minne, Georg
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...painting and sculpture. In 1886 he met the Symbolist poet Maurice Maeterlink and began to illustrate Symbolist books, including Maeterlink's Serres...most successful artists in expressing Symbolist ideas in bronze and marble. His favourite...
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