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Book Synopsis Intangible Materialism by : Ronald Schleifer
Download or read book Intangible Materialism written by Ronald Schleifer and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as his point of departure Norbert Weiner's statement that information is basic to understanding materialism in our era, Ronald Schleifer shows how discoveries of modern physics have altered conceptions of matter and energy and the ways in which both information theory and the study of literature can enrich these conceptions. Expanding the reductive notion of "the material" as simply matter and energy, he formulates a new, more inclusive idea of materialism.
Book Synopsis Modernism and Popular Music by : Ronald Schleifer
Download or read book Modernism and Popular Music written by Ronald Schleifer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, ideas about twentieth-century 'modernism' - whether focused on literature, music or the visual arts - have made a distinction between 'high' art and the 'popular' arts of best-selling fiction, jazz and other forms of popular music, and commercial art of one form or another. In Modernism and Popular Music, Ronald Schleifer instead shows how the music of George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Thomas 'Fats' Waller and Billie Holiday can be considered as artistic expressions equal to those of the traditional high art practices in music and literature. Combining detailed attention to the language and aesthetics of popular music with an examination of its early twentieth-century performance and dissemination through the new technologies of the radio and phonograph, Schleifer explores the 'popularity' of popular music in order to reconsider received and seeming self-evident truths about the differences between high art and popular art and, indeed, about twentieth-century modernism altogether.
Book Synopsis Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery by :
Download or read book Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Intellectual Property and Access to Im/material Goods by : Jessica C. Lai
Download or read book Intellectual Property and Access to Im/material Goods written by Jessica C. Lai and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, in order to be protected intellectual property goods have almost always needed to be embodied or materialised (and – to a certain extent – to be used and enjoyed), regardless of whether they were copyrighted works, patented inventions or trademarks. This book examines the relationship between intellectual property and its physical embodiments and materialisations, with a focus on the issue of access and the challenges of new technologies. Expert contributors explore how these problems can re-shape our theoretical notion of the intangible and the tangible and how this can have serious consequences for access to intellectual property goods.
Book Synopsis Scientific Materialism Calmly Considered: Being a Reply to the Address Delivered Before the British Association, at Belfast ... 1874, by Professor Tyndall ... A Discourse, Etc by : George Sexton
Download or read book Scientific Materialism Calmly Considered: Being a Reply to the Address Delivered Before the British Association, at Belfast ... 1874, by Professor Tyndall ... A Discourse, Etc written by George Sexton and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Materialism and Dialectics in a Post-classical World by : Anil Rajimwale
Download or read book Materialism and Dialectics in a Post-classical World written by Anil Rajimwale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolution of the concepts of atom and atomism, and the impact of electromagnetism on our worldview, is the object of our study in this book. Electromagnetism is the key link in the transition from classical to post-classical worldview. This transition is caused by the one from our thought based upon the tangibles to that based upon the intangibles. Electromagnetism inaugrated an era of light speeds and near it, and of the world constituted by such speeds. Philosophy and the worldview need to catch up and undergo a basic change. Atom as a concept and reality is under severe stress as explanation of reality. Reality has come out of atomic limits and unveiled a new world, which is constituted of quantum, relativity, wave/particle duality, etc. It is a challenge to philosophy, which re-fashioning to interpret the post-classical world based on rapid motions. We need to develop new concepts and bring about a realignment in various thought constituents. Rather thatn 'overthrow' matter, we are delving deeper into it. Philosophy and human thought itself stands on the brink of redefinition. In the present book the author shows how electromagnetism connects classical with post-classical thought, creating new structures, and impacting materialism and dialectics. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Book Synopsis Air's Appearance by : Jayne Elizabeth Lewis
Download or read book Air's Appearance written by Jayne Elizabeth Lewis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Air’s Appearance, Jayne Elizabeth Lewis enlists her readers in pursuit of the elusive concept of atmosphere in literary works. She shows how diverse conceptions of air in the eighteenth century converged in British fiction, producing the modern literary sense of atmosphere and moving novelists to explore the threshold between material and immaterial worlds. Air’s Appearance links the emergence of literary atmosphere to changing ideas about air and the earth’s atmosphere in natural philosophy, as well as to the era’s theories of the supernatural and fascination with social manners—or, as they are now known, “airs.” Lewis thus offers a striking new interpretation of several standard features of the Enlightenment—the scientific revolution, the decline of magic, character-based sociability, and the rise of the novel—that considers them in terms of the romance of air that permeates and connects them. As it explores key episodes in the history of natural philosophy and in major literary works like Paradise Lost, “The Rape of the Lock,” Robinson Crusoe, and The Mysteries of Udolpho, this book promises to change the atmosphere of eighteenth-century studies and the history of the novel.
Book Synopsis Collected Works of V. I. Lenin: Materialism and empirio-criticism [2d ed by : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
Download or read book Collected Works of V. I. Lenin: Materialism and empirio-criticism [2d ed written by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Imagination and Science in Romanticism by : Richard C. Sha
Download or read book Imagination and Science in Romanticism written by Richard C. Sha and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the idea of the imagination impact Romantic literature and science? 2018 Winner, Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize, The International Conference on Romanticism Richard C. Sha argues that scientific understandings of the imagination indelibly shaped literary Romanticism. Challenging the idea that the imagination found a home only on the side of the literary, as a mental vehicle for transcending the worldly materials of the sciences, Sha shows how imagination helped to operationalize both scientific and literary discovery. Essentially, the imagination forced writers to consider the difference between what was possible and impossible while thinking about how that difference could be known. Sha examines how the imagination functioned within physics and chemistry in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, neurology in Blake's Vala, or The Four Zoas, physiology in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria, and obstetrics and embryology in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. He also demonstrates how the imagination was called upon to do aesthetic and scientific work using primary examples taken from the work of scientists and philosophers Davy, Dalton, Faraday, Priestley, Kant, Mary Somerville, Oersted, Marcet, Smellie, Swedenborg, Blumenbach, Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, and Von Baer, among others. Sha concludes that both fields benefited from thinking about how imagination could cooperate with reason—but that this partnership was impossible unless imagination's penchant for fantasy could be contained.
Book Synopsis The Preaching Fox by : Warren E. Edminster
Download or read book The Preaching Fox written by Warren E. Edminster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-01-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. Volumes in the Medieval History and Culture series include studies on individual works and authors of Latin and vernacular literatures, historical personalities and events, theological and philosophical issues, and new critical approaches to medieval literature and culture. Momentous changes have occurred in Medieval Studies in the past thirty years, in teaching as well as in scholarship. The Medieval History and Culture series enhances research in the held by providing an outlet for monographs by scholars in the early stages of their careers on all topics related to the broad scope of Medieval Studies, while at the same time pointing to and highlighting new directions that will shape and define scholarly discourse in the future. This volume is a collection of Wakefield Master’s festive plays. Characters threaten the audience with comic bravado, engage in mocking tomfoolery, and parody any number of sacred forms; it is behavior unexpected by modern students of the drama, especially from what we assume was a serious and religious medieval past, and it is unlike what we find in the other mystery cycles.
Book Synopsis The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel by : Cecilia Bjorken-Nyberg
Download or read book The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel written by Cecilia Bjorken-Nyberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg argues that the invention and development of the player piano had a significant effect on the perception, performance and appreciation of music during the period. In contrast to existing devices for producing music mechanically such as the phonograph and gramophone, the player piano granted its operator freedom of individual expression by permitting the performer to modify the tempo. Because the traditional piano was the undisputed altar of domestic and highly gendered music-making, Björkén-Nyberg suggests, the potential for intervention by the mechanical piano's operator had a subversive effect on traditional notions about the status of the musical work itself and about the people who were variously defined by their relationship to it. She examines works by Dorothy Richardson, E.M. Forster, Henry Handel Richardson, Max Beerbohm and Compton Mackenzie, among others, contending that Edwardian fiction with music as a subject undermined the prevalent antithesis, expressed in contemporary music literature, between a nineteenth-century conception of music as a means of transcendence and the increasing mechanisation of music as represented by the player piano. Her timely survey of the player piano in the context of Edwardian commercial and technical discourse draws on a rich array of archival materials to shed new light on the historically conditioned activity of music-making in early twentieth-century fiction.
Book Synopsis Metaphysical Astrology by : John Hazelrigg
Download or read book Metaphysical Astrology written by John Hazelrigg and published by Health Research Books. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1900 Contents: the Rational of Astrology; Inductive Astrology; Astrological Symbolism; Eclipses; Nature's Analogies.
Book Synopsis The Lying Brain by : Melissa M. Littlefield
Download or read book The Lying Brain written by Melissa M. Littlefield and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of deception detection from science to science fiction
Download or read book The New Cycle written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Metaphysical Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intelligence written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Material City written by Alan Blum and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redirecting examinations of the culture of the city away from its customs, art, and amenities to focus on the mental life of modern society, Alan Blum explores the methods cities and their subjects use to find meaning in the context of urban life, in particular the city’s relationships to social change and what has traditionally been identified as justice. The Material City pictures the city as a landscape of diverse clashes over beliefs, a site that exhibits interpretive collisions over globalization, gentrification, innovation, preservation, market value, popular culture, crowds, consumption, urban governance, and different strategies for healing the democratic city’s ever-present conflicts over these concerns. Each chapter uses a problem of urban life to observe and analyze assumptions and values that are typically taken for granted and unspoken, using elements of the philosophy of Plato as well as the work of modern thinkers such as Georg Simmel, Gertrude Stein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Virginia Woolf, Hannah Arendt, and Jacques Lacan. The Material City translates contested views of everyday life and its management into a deeper reflection on urbanity as a system of desire. The historical and the contemporary metropolis alike are shown to be sites where the enigma of mortality – and its relation to pleasure, comedy, and fate – plays out.
