melville and the cosmopolitan ideal

... lay there in the darkness, listening to the sounds from below of the landlord and his wife clearing up for the night” (149) The darkness of the scene and the sounds made by the landlord and his ... Freud’s depiction of the human mind Each aspect plays and comes up against another to suggest the tensions between the formulation of a cosmopolitan ideal, on the one hand, and the seemingly baser ... the difficulties and power-inequalities that manifest when negotiating between an affiliation to the homeland, on the one hand, and the need to conform to a foreign cultural context on the other...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:48

... notion of cosmopolitanism Melville' s humor also takes us to the heart of the condition of the artist and reader in America The problem in studying the comic is the tendency to wear the subject ... beautiful and the sublime, comedy and tragedy, inland and sea And that middle ground is best articulated in terms not of the sublime but of the picturesque Melville' s Picturesque: Toning Down the Green ... and sentiment of geniality These instinctive "humours" the will to see and know, the will to laugh and create—are both signs of grace and yet inborn tragic flaws They preserve and humanize; they...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 09:54

... When the seasons changed and the soil began to crack and the wadis ran dry, Ahmed’s father and his wives would dismantle their aqals, pack up their few belongings, and with their livestock and ... children dying before their fth birthday The mothers carry their children ten kilometers, and they’re dead in their arms before they get to the clinic—they’re dead in their arms, or they’re in a coma.” ... not saying the only way for the rich and the poor to live together is if the rich cut their living standards by half, give up their cars, understand modern life is a false contrivance and a false...

Ngày tải lên: 20/07/2014, 21:23

... follows After introducing the notations in §2, we study the asymptotic behavior in §3, then we define and study the map ϕ in §4 In §5 and §6 we give the upper bound and the lower bound of dim Md1 ... Repeat the movement until the y-coordinates of the (n − t + 1)-th and (n − t + 2)-th points become and 0, respectively Then apply the inductive assumption for the first n − t points, we can draw the ... 45 Theorem 43 and Theorem 44 are proved using the same idea In the proofs, we give explicit constructions for Dν (in Theorem 43) and fν (in Theorem 44) Example 46 We give an example of Dν in Theorem...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:23

... class diagram shows the existence of classes and their relationships in the logical view of a system UML modeling elements in class diagrams - Classes and their structure and behavior - Association, ... provide to the actor when the use cases is executed Typical contents - How the use case starts and ends Normal flow of events Alternate flow of events Exceptional flow of events 10 Uses and Extends ... and its subclasses There are two ways to find inheritance: - Generalization - Specialization Common attributes, operations, and/ or relationships are shown at the highest applicable level in the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/08/2012, 10:37

... to the toiling and dying types who made it over to America And once in America, people divided once again: you could say they became the poor and the rich The losers and winners The artists and ... organic growth of the plant (the great British oak) to the countryside, the country house and the georgic ideal of retirement, the estate, the aristocratic family and its generations, the inviolability ... take up and extend Said’s insight, in Culture and Imperialism, that the ‘‘convergence between the patterns of narrative authority constitutive of the novel on the one hand, and, on the other, a...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:39

... on these estates The other contingent lacked the unity of the Richmond tenants These were Bretons from the north-east of the duchy who received grants of land in the midlands, the south-west and ... ± The barons of Leon and Penthievre could construct forti®cations without the permission of the duke;  Á ± The barons of Leon and Penthievre had the right of wreck on the shores of their lands; ... Blain and the à forest of Le Gavre.24 South of the Loire, ducal domains included the castellany of Le Pallet,25 estates on the south bank of the Loire and another in the extreme south-west of the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:46

... Night and the following day, they were ‘‘everyone’’ and ‘‘London’’ and even ‘‘England.’’ They were created as a group by the newspapers, and this chapter examines the mechanism of their creation and ... the food stocks, and the mood of the garrison The tactics of the Daily Mail captured the attention of the nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation of the town by emphasizing the danger that ... don’t know they know the public’’ (quoted in Koss Rise and Fall ) The Victorian cult of personality had moved into the press by the turn of the century, and the military version of the focus...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54

... the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, north-east Spain and northern and papal Italy – are clearly within the Western and European purview.7 Ancient Greek philosophy, Jewish spirituality and ... on the mountain There is the hint in the Rembrandt that the seventeenth-century interpretation of Moses had him invested with more personal agency in the carriage of the laws; neither God nor the ... the social order Social order and social change are, above all, testaments to meaning and humans’ understandings of their relationships to their environment and ultimate reality and meaning The...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54

... Sinbad the Sailor Poe and the printed word and Jack and the Beanstalk; new London editions of these two works appeared the year the Allan family came to England.3 So did new editions of The History ... the Rotunda: ``They have nearly ®nished the Rotunda ± The pillars of the Portico are completed and it greatly improves the appearance of the whole ± The books are removed into the library ± and ... from the form of their original publication, and these removals affect interpretation The appearance of the printed page, however, shapes the reader's understanding of the text it contains ``The...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:58

... variety of approaches They examine the structure of the press; the methods used to control it by political authorities and their effectiveness; the journalistic texts themselves; and the political role ... texts, their presentation and format, the topics they covered, the way issues were presented and the messages, overt and implicit, that they contained Such a comprehensive approach to the comparative ... political press was the product of the struggles for independence from Britain and to forge a new nation, and in the Netherlands, the outcome of the Patriot Revolution of the s In France...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:58

... conservative propaganda, and with the break up of the radical associations and the consequent erosion of the links between these organisations and other intellectual currents and circles, the conditions ... But these shifts cannot erase the important continuities that existed between the lyrical ideals of the poets and the more secular ambitions of other authors It is impossible to understand the ... of the age The complex intersection of these two histories – the political turmoil of the 1790s and the broader hegemonic shift towards the meritocratic bias of the professional classes – demands...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00

... (namely, the start and end points) Other than this, the real veers from the ideal If the real sometimes coincides with the ideal, sometimes veers to the east, but never veers to the west, then it ... the center of the sphere, I call the figure internally contained by the surface of the cone, and by the surface of the sphere inside the cone, a “solid sector.” /6/ And when two cones having the ... direction and either one of them is wholly contained by the other and by the straight having the same limits as itself, or some is contained, and some it has common; and the contained...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00

... individual, hand-to-hand combat Grand strategy, on the other hand, remained the preserve of Tiw.11 In India, too, much the same phenomenon was apparent in the role of Indra, the chief of the Vedic ... negative, then the process was repeated, and a second mission sent This time, the Aztec ambassadors anointed the right arm and head of the other ruler, set a tuft of feathers on his head and gave ... formal demands to the other side and then to inform the other side straight away that Rome was making war against it in the event of their rejection.58 The obsolescence of the fetial procedure...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:02

... grow quickly and others not That is, the variation in the dependent variables comes from both the time series and the cross-sections, and some pooling of data is necessary to address the questions ... and liberalization, on the one hand, and growth and growth volatility, on the other, were tradeoffs in democracies We explore briefly both lines of inquiry as a guide to further research 13 The ... IMF’s, is linked to the date of the liberalization Eichengreen forthcoming reviews the data and methodological differences among most of these and other studies (For discussions of the different data...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 08:50

... widening of the exchange rate band and then abandonment of the band altogether.31 Indeed, the dating of 29 The methodology and use is described in Fraga, Goldfajn and Minella (2003) See also Central ... measured by the standard deviation of the variable 21 Are the findings being driven by the way the sample is partitioned and by the choice of comparator countries? The robustness of the results ... the upper panel and the locus of points showing the variability in the exchange rate and inflation is plotted in the lower panel Points to the south and west in Figure are welfare superior, and...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:27

... along the circuit, the financial system governs the supply and demand of funds and, at the end of the process, it determines the condition for the closure of the circuit As discussed, the conditions ... to the endtargets and the timeframe They should explain to the public the reasons for agreeing on lower requirements and that they hold institutions to the announced standards This would put the ... of the circuit round and under what conditions They therefore stand to benefit significantly from factoring the long-term market potential of borrowing firms in their risk analysis The higher their...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:33

... zero even at the 95% level in Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US Moreover, while in some countries, (including Finland, the UK and the US) residential ... Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US The sample starts in 1986 in order to avoid the more turbulent, ... the whole sample period are available for Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the US For, Belgium we link an older series for small and...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:40

... the transaction standards and the quality of business activities for enhancing the efficiency of export and import activities, expanding the external economic relations and co-operate with other ... in the Mekong Delta linking to Cambodia The total length of the inland waterway (IW) system is about 40,998 km, mainly in the Red River Delta and the Mekong Delta In the past few years, inland ... forwarding industry to open the door of development now and in the future How they use those keys properly to open the door? It depends on other factors, which include troubles and their own capability...

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2012, 16:42

... and measurement of anthropometrics and other lifestyle factors Protocols for the SWHS were approved by the Institutional Review Boards of all institutes involved in the study Dietary intake and ... cardiovascular disease between the baseline and follow-up FFQs, only dietary data from the baseline FFQ were included in this analysis For other participants the average of the baseline and follow-up FFQ ... at the time of the interview, 74,942 women remained for the SWHS The major reasons for non-participation were refusal (3.0%), absence during the enrolment period (2.6%), and other miscellaneous...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 16:49