Periodization, Comparative Literature, and Italian Modernism

Category Reinterpretation and Defection: Modernism and Tradition in Italian Winemaking

When two groups of market actors differ in how to interpret a common label, each can make claims over the label. One categorical interpretation and the group that supports it risk disappearance if the rival interpretation gains ground. We argue that when members of the endangered category become partial defectors that span categories, their history presents challenges to the identity of nondefe...

Periodization

BACKGROUND Clinicians are constantly faced with the challenge of designing training programs for injured and noninjured athletes that maximize healing and optimize performance. Periodization is a concept of systematic progression-that is, resistance training programs that follow predictable patterns of change in training variables. The strength training literature is abundant with studies compa...

Women and Psychiatric Modernism

he therapies of Rivers and Yealland represented the two modes of English psychiatric modernism which would affect women both inside and outside the asylum from the 1920s to the 1960s: psychoanalysis, which offered the twentieth century's most influential theory of femininity and female sexuality; and traditional medical psychiatry, which made rapid advances in scientific knowledge and technolog...

Modernism and Nation Building

Periodization Strategies

Many strength and conditioning practitioners have embraced periodization theory over the last two decades. Different interpretations are now commonly applied in practice and discussed in professional publications or meetings. Yet despite its popularity, some people still seem to struggle with the concept. Periodization originated in Eastern Europe, and therefore is perceived by many in the West...