Modernizing Solitude

Author : Yoshiaki Furui
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817320065

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Modernizing Solitude by Yoshiaki Furui Pdf

An innovative and timely examination of the concept of solitude in nineteenth-century American literature During the nineteenth century, the United States saw radical developments in media and communication that reshaped concepts of spatiality and temporality. As the telegraph, the postal system, and public transportation became commonplace, the country achieved a level of connectedness that was never possible before. At this level, physical isolation no longer equaled psychological separation from the exterior world, and as communication networks proliferated, being disconnected took on negative cultural connotations. Though solitude, and the lack thereof, is a pressing concern in today’s culture of omnipresent digital connectivity, Yoshiaki Furui shows that solitude has been a significant preoccupation since the nineteenth-century. The obsession over solitude is evidenced by many writers of the period, with consequences for many basic notions of creativity, art, and personal and spiritual fulfillment. In Modernizing Solitude: The Networked Individual in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Furui examines, among other works, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Emily Dickinson’s poetry and letters, and telegraphic literature in the 1870s to identify the virtues and values these writers bestowed upon solitude in a time and place where it was being consistently threatened or devalued. Although each writer has a unique way of addressing the theme, they all aim to reclaim solitude as a positive, productive state of being that is essential to the writing process and personal identity. Employing a cross-disciplinary approach to understand modern solitude and the resulting literature, Furui seeks to historicize solitude by anchoring literary works in this revolutionary yet interim period of American communication history, while also applying theoretical insights into the literary analysis.

Author : Corey Evan Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476642710

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Herman Melville by Corey Evan Thompson Pdf

This reference work covers both Herman Melville's life and writings. It includes a biography and detailed information on his works, on the important themes contained therein, and on the significant people and places in his life. The appendices include suggestions for further reading of both literary and cultural criticism, an essay on Melville's lasting cultural influence, and information on both the fictional ships in his works and the real-life ones on which he sailed.

Author : Jonathan A. Cook
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501770975

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Neither Believer nor Infidel by Jonathan A. Cook Pdf

Shedding new light on both classic and lesser-known works in the Melville canon with particular attention to the author's literary use of the Bible, Neither Believer Nor Infidel examines the debate between religious skepticism and Christian faith that infused Herman Melville's writings following Moby-Dick. Jonathan A. Cook's study is the first to focus on the decisive role of faith and doubt in Melville's writings following his mid-career turn to shorter fiction, and still later to poetry, as a result of the commercial failures of Moby-Dick and Pierre. Nathaniel Hawthorne claimed that Melville "can neither believe nor be comfortable in his unbelief," a remark that encapsulates an essential truth about Melville's attitude to Christianity. Like many of his Victorian contemporaries, Melville spent his literary career poised between an intellectual rejection of Christian dogma and an emotional attachment to the consolations of non-dogmatic Christian faith. Accompanying this ambivalence was a lifelong devotion to the text of the King James Bible as both moral sourcebook and literary template. Following a biographical overview of skeptical influences and manifestations in Melville's early life and career, Cook examines the evidence of religious doubt and belief in "Bartleby, the Scrivener," "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!," "The Encantadas," Israel Potter, Battle-Pieces, Timoleon, and Billy Budd. Accessible for both the general reader and the scholar, Neither Believer Nor Infidel clarifies the ambiguities of Melville's pervasive use of religion in his fiction and poetry. In analyzing Melville's persistent oscillation between metaphysical rebellion and attenuated belief, Cook elucidates both well-known and under-appreciated works.

Author : Victoria N. Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350380103

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The Poetry of Emily Dickinson by Victoria N. Morgan Pdf

Taking readers through the various stages of criticism of Emily Dickinson's poetry, this guide identifies both the essential critical texts and the key debates within them. The texts chosen for discussion represent the canonical readings which have typically shaped the area of Dickinson studies throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first century and provide a lens through which to view current critical trends. Chapters focus on style and meaning, gender and sexuality, history and race, religion and hymn culture, and performance and popular culture. In all, this guide serves as a user-friendly reference tool to the vast body of criticism on Dickinson to date by suggesting formative starting points and underlining essential critical highlights. It provides students and scholars of Dickinson with a sense of where these critical texts can be placed in relation to one another, as well as an understanding of pivotal moments within the history of reception of Dickinson from late nineteenth-century reviews up to some of the definitive critical interventions of the twenty-first century.

Author : Regina Schober
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783111060842

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Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk by Regina Schober Pdf

Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk explores the shifting functions of the network as a metaphor, model, and as an epistemological framework in US American literature and culture from the 19th century until today. The book critically inquires into the literary, cultural, philosophical, and scientific rhetoric, values, and ideological underpinnings that have given rise to the network concept. Literature and culture play a major role in the ways in which networks have been imagined and how they have evolved as conceptual models. This study regards networks as historically emergent and culturally constructed formations closely tied with the development of knowledge technologies in the process of modernization as well as with an increasingly critical awareness of network technologies and infrastructures. While the rise of the network in scientific, philosophical, political and sociological discourses has received wide attention, this book contributes an important cultural and historical perspective to network theory by demonstrating how US American literature and culture have been key sites for thinking in and about networks in the past two centuries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556033427295

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Wasatch-Cache National Forest (N.F.), Solitude Mountain Resort, Master Development Plant Update, Salt Lake County by Anonim Pdf

Author : Katie Barclay,Elaine Chalus,Deborah Simonton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000839203

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The Routledge History of Loneliness by Katie Barclay,Elaine Chalus,Deborah Simonton Pdf

The Routledge History of Loneliness takes a multidisciplinary approach to the history of a modern emotion, exploring its form and development across cultures from the seventeenth century to the present. Bringing together thirty scholars from various disciplines, including history, anthropology, philosophy, literature and art history, the volume considers how loneliness was represented in art and literature, conceptualised by philosophers and writers and described by people in their personal narratives. It considers loneliness as a feeling so often defined in contrast to sociability and affective connections, particularly attending to loneliness in relation to the family, household and community. Acknowledging that loneliness is a relatively novel term in English, the book explores its precedents in ideas about solitude, melancholy and nostalgia, as well as how it might be considered in cross-cultural perspectives. With wide appeal to students and researchers in a variety of subjects, including the history of emotions, social sciences and literature, this volume brings a critical historical perspective to an emotion with contemporary significance.

Author : Richard Maxwell Brown,Don E. Fehrenbacher
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781483216775

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Tradition, Conflict, and Modernization by Richard Maxwell Brown,Don E. Fehrenbacher Pdf

Tradition, Conflict, and Modernization: Perspectives on the American Revolution aims to expand knowledge on the intellectual character of the Revolution, its relation to the trend of modernization, and its standing as a manifestation of social conflict. The book discusses the American revolution in national tradition; the collective action in England and America in 1765-1775, and back country rebellions and the homestead ethic in America in 1740-1799. The text also describes the perspective of modernization related to the American revolution, modernization, and human. Historians will find the book invaluable.

Author : AA.VV.
Publisher : Accademia University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788831978767

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A Lonely Road by AA.VV. Pdf

Nowadays solitude is everywhere. Increasingly similar to monads, we are losing the ability to build solid connections between us, and to convert our private experience into public matter. What is becoming lost is an «art of translation», the capacity to build bridges between private problems and troubles and common causes, something that may connect people and make them act in accord: that is, politics as an art to «bring us together».The goal of this book is to question, in many different ways, the link between solitude and politics. It is the result of a collective work of young researchers, trying to understand, and to fight, their own solitude and loneliness within the academia. It offers a preliminary interdisciplinary discussion aiming to forge the tools to grasp this strange oxymoron, to better comprehend this simultaneously individual and collective condition.

Author : Bruce Charlton,Peter Andras
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781845406745

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The Modernization Imperative by Bruce Charlton,Peter Andras Pdf

This book argues that contemporary society in Western democracies is generally misunderstood to be a pyramidal hierarchy dominated either by government or the economy. Neither view is correct. We live in a fundamentally pluralistic society divided into numerous ‘modular’ social systems each performing different functions; these include politics, public administration, the armed forces, law, economics, religion, education, health and the mass media. Because each is specialized, none of these systems are dominant and there is no overall hierarchy of power. Modernizing societies are therefore structured more like a mosaic than a pyramid. Modernization is the tendency for growth in the adaptive complexity and efficiency of the social systems. Growth in complexity is shaped by selection processes which maintain the functionality of social systems. The best examples are the market economy, science and democratic politics. The process of modernization is both inevitable and, on the whole, desirable: this constitutes the modernization imperative. Therefore, the proper question should not be whether society should modernize, but how.

Author : Miaoyang Wang,Xuanmeng Yu,George F. McLean
Publisher : CRVP
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 1565180895

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Beyond Modernization by Miaoyang Wang,Xuanmeng Yu,George F. McLean Pdf

Author : Giordano Sivini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351493239

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Resistance to Modernization in Africa by Giordano Sivini Pdf

Giordano Sivini has been an international aid consultant for over twenty-five years. Here he channels a 1960s and 1970s idealistic political commitment into fieldwork and the sphere of development from the 1980s to the present. Sivini writes with both passion and cynicism about his experiences with the numerous African aid projects he has been involved with over the years.While the fathers of independence of British and French decolonization wanted to change the colonial conditions of exploitation, Sivini finds that their good intentions have been shipwrecked. Ironically, the longer Sivini served as an aid consultant, the more he found himself dismayed at the various projects that were under way or slated to begin. He perceived some of the projects as grotesque, and, almost all ineffective. The money was wasted on such ventures not because of a particular government's interest in the social effects they would have on the local populace, but because of the direct and indirect benefits the government would receive.Sivini sees international development aid as its own market: development is a commodity that takes the form of large and small projects, and is traded for loans and gifts to generate political and economic advantages for the institutional participants in the exchange. Ultimately, governmental and aid projects often stimulate resistance from the local populace as agencies upset their usual system of production by regimenting peasants to produce for the market, then appropriate the cattle of nomadic pastoralists, villagizing and resettling peasants in areas of high productivity, and exploiting laborers in large farms. This creates social disintegration, mass migration in urban informal economy, and poverty.This is a dynamic and moving analysis of foreign aid that will be of interest to students of African studies, governmental programs, rural development, and political economy.

Author : Sultan Masoud Nawabi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781483622040

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Future and Modernization of Afghanistan by Sultan Masoud Nawabi Pdf

Imagination is everything if you can imagine it you can do it, what we need today is intellect plus Intrigue this two will get a definite result. We must embrace ourselves for tomorrow, what is the expectation of next generation would be from us, What we will leave behind for them we have a long tragic history to learn from, and do the opposite that We must. From here to eternity anything is in its own rules and laws, but only my crazy heart refuses and says we must make happen that magic that we need...

Author : J. Thompson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137491152

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Jane Austen and Modernization by J. Thompson Pdf

Jane Austen wrote when sociology was being established as the new discipline to understand social issues such as urbanization and industrialization. Drawing on landmark sociologists such as Durkheim and Bourdieu, this study argues that the novels of Austen were heavily influenced by these early developments in sociology.

Author : Kim Kyong-Dong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811034671

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Alternative Discourses on Modernization and Development by Kim Kyong-Dong Pdf

This cutting edge work offers an alternative perspective on existing paradigms of modernization and development that originated in the West from the vantage point of non-western, late-modernizing societies. It considers how East Asian philosophical ideas enrich the reformulation of the concept of development or societal development, and how influential principles of traditional culture such as yin-yang dialectic interact with modern ideas and technology. It addresses the significance of alternative discourses as culturally independent scholarship, and the problems of pervasive mechanisms of social, political, economic, and cultural dependence in the global academic world.