Joseph V. Femia
- Published in print:
- 1987
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198275435
- eISBN:
- 9780191684128
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198275435.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
The unifying idea of Antonio Gramsci's famous Prison Notebooks is the concept of hegemony. In this study of these fragmentary writings this book elucidates the precise character of this concept, ...
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The unifying idea of Antonio Gramsci's famous Prison Notebooks is the concept of hegemony. In this study of these fragmentary writings this book elucidates the precise character of this concept, explores its basic philosophical assumptions, and sets out its implications for Gramsci's explanation of social stability and his vision of the revolutionary process. A number of prevalent and often contradictory myths are demolished, and, moreover, certain neglected aspects of his thought are stressed, including the predominant role he attributed to economic factors, the importance he gave to ‘contradictory consciousness’, and the close connection between his political thinking and his fundamental philosophical premises. The book concludes by critically examining Gramsci's novel solutions to three long-standing problems for Marxist theory: the reasons why the Western working class has not carried out its revolutionary mission; determining the appropriate strategy for a Marxist party working within an advanced capitalist framework; and what are the reasons behind the failure of existing socialist states in their task of liberation?Less
The unifying idea of Antonio Gramsci's famous Prison Notebooks is the concept of hegemony. In this study of these fragmentary writings this book elucidates the precise character of this concept, explores its basic philosophical assumptions, and sets out its implications for Gramsci's explanation of social stability and his vision of the revolutionary process. A number of prevalent and often contradictory myths are demolished, and, moreover, certain neglected aspects of his thought are stressed, including the predominant role he attributed to economic factors, the importance he gave to ‘contradictory consciousness’, and the close connection between his political thinking and his fundamental philosophical premises. The book concludes by critically examining Gramsci's novel solutions to three long-standing problems for Marxist theory: the reasons why the Western working class has not carried out its revolutionary mission; determining the appropriate strategy for a Marxist party working within an advanced capitalist framework; and what are the reasons behind the failure of existing socialist states in their task of liberation?
Hrileena Ghosh
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781789620610
- eISBN:
- 9781789629798
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620610.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
The poet John Keats trained as a surgeon at Guy’s Hospital, London while simultaneously making his way as a poet. This book focuses attention on an important but hitherto neglected manuscript: the ...
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The poet John Keats trained as a surgeon at Guy’s Hospital, London while simultaneously making his way as a poet. This book focuses attention on an important but hitherto neglected manuscript: the notebook Keats maintained during this time, with the premise that in Keats’ medical Notebook exists a manuscript revealing both the true depth of the poet’s medical knowledge and the significant influence this exercised on his poetry. Reconstructing the lively medical world that played a formative role in Keats’ intellectual and imaginative development, this book explores the intriguing connections between Keats’ medical knowledge and his greatest poetry. It reveals that Keats’ two careers proved mutually enabling and enriching, with their co-existence contributing greatly to his success in both. Opening with a fully annotated edition of Keats’ medical Notebook newly transcribed from the manuscript, the book offers chapters on the provenance of Keats’ medical Notebook; the ‘hospital poems’ he wrote at Guy’s; the medical milieu of Keats’ daily life; his methods of working as revealed by his medical Notebook and other archival sources; and the medical contexts that informed his composition of Endymion and his 1820 volume, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems. It shows how the visceral knowledge of human life that Keats gained at Guy’s Hospital transformed him into the ‘mighty poet of the human heart’, with new research recovering the many ways in which Keats’ creativity found expression in both his careers.Less
The poet John Keats trained as a surgeon at Guy’s Hospital, London while simultaneously making his way as a poet. This book focuses attention on an important but hitherto neglected manuscript: the notebook Keats maintained during this time, with the premise that in Keats’ medical Notebook exists a manuscript revealing both the true depth of the poet’s medical knowledge and the significant influence this exercised on his poetry. Reconstructing the lively medical world that played a formative role in Keats’ intellectual and imaginative development, this book explores the intriguing connections between Keats’ medical knowledge and his greatest poetry. It reveals that Keats’ two careers proved mutually enabling and enriching, with their co-existence contributing greatly to his success in both. Opening with a fully annotated edition of Keats’ medical Notebook newly transcribed from the manuscript, the book offers chapters on the provenance of Keats’ medical Notebook; the ‘hospital poems’ he wrote at Guy’s; the medical milieu of Keats’ daily life; his methods of working as revealed by his medical Notebook and other archival sources; and the medical contexts that informed his composition of Endymion and his 1820 volume, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems. It shows how the visceral knowledge of human life that Keats gained at Guy’s Hospital transformed him into the ‘mighty poet of the human heart’, with new research recovering the many ways in which Keats’ creativity found expression in both his careers.
Emily Van Buskirk
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691166797
- eISBN:
- 9781400873777
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691166797.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature
This chapter discusses the heterogeneity and flexibility of Ginzburg's notebooks, examining what happens when a “note” (zapis') migrates from one composition to another and acquires new neighbors. It ...
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This chapter discusses the heterogeneity and flexibility of Ginzburg's notebooks, examining what happens when a “note” (zapis') migrates from one composition to another and acquires new neighbors. It explores her “theory of the note” in her early scholarship on Pyotr Vyazemsky (1925–26, 1929) and in her article “On Writers' Notebooks”—her first scholarly reflections on in-between prose, later to become the area of her most significant contributions to literary scholarship. Ginzburg's early scholarship, and the inception of her notebook project in 1925, coincided with a perceived crisis in the novel and a rising interest in documentary literature. A focus on the late 1920s will allow us to trace how Ginzburg's notebooks were shaped by this crisis and sought to emerge from it.Less
This chapter discusses the heterogeneity and flexibility of Ginzburg's notebooks, examining what happens when a “note” (zapis') migrates from one composition to another and acquires new neighbors. It explores her “theory of the note” in her early scholarship on Pyotr Vyazemsky (1925–26, 1929) and in her article “On Writers' Notebooks”—her first scholarly reflections on in-between prose, later to become the area of her most significant contributions to literary scholarship. Ginzburg's early scholarship, and the inception of her notebook project in 1925, coincided with a perceived crisis in the novel and a rising interest in documentary literature. A focus on the late 1920s will allow us to trace how Ginzburg's notebooks were shaped by this crisis and sought to emerge from it.
Max Saunders
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199579761
- eISBN:
- 9780191722882
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199579761.003.0013
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This shorter chapter is a coda considering the afterlife of modernism's engagements with life‐writings covered in Part II. It begins by sketching how the ideas traced in this study of imaginary ...
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This shorter chapter is a coda considering the afterlife of modernism's engagements with life‐writings covered in Part II. It begins by sketching how the ideas traced in this study of imaginary portraiture, imaginary self‐portraiture, and aesthetic autobiography figure in experiments in life‐writing by two authors coming after modernism: Jean‐Paul Sartre in Les Mots, and Vladimir Nabokov in Speak, Memory. The second section sketches ways in which postmodernism has drawn upon and extended the tradition of experimentations with life‐writing. Here the emphasis is on metafictional strategies, especially those of auto/biografiction and imaginary authorship. Auto/biografiction can be understood as a strand of what Linda Hutcheon defines as ‘historiographic metafiction’, focusing on the representations of individual life stories rather than on representations of historical crises or trauma. Modernist works explicitly thematizing their own processes of representation (such as Orlando or The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas) are reconsidered as pioneers of the postmodern development that might be termed ‘auto/biographic metafiction’. Key examples discussed are A. S. Byatt's Possession (as biographic metafiction); Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook (as autobiographic metafiction) and Nabokov's Pale Fire (as auto/biographic metafiction). Where historiographic metafiction represents a postmodernizing of the historical novel, auto/biographic metafiction represents a postmodernizing of auto/biography.Less
This shorter chapter is a coda considering the afterlife of modernism's engagements with life‐writings covered in Part II. It begins by sketching how the ideas traced in this study of imaginary portraiture, imaginary self‐portraiture, and aesthetic autobiography figure in experiments in life‐writing by two authors coming after modernism: Jean‐Paul Sartre in Les Mots, and Vladimir Nabokov in Speak, Memory. The second section sketches ways in which postmodernism has drawn upon and extended the tradition of experimentations with life‐writing. Here the emphasis is on metafictional strategies, especially those of auto/biografiction and imaginary authorship. Auto/biografiction can be understood as a strand of what Linda Hutcheon defines as ‘historiographic metafiction’, focusing on the representations of individual life stories rather than on representations of historical crises or trauma. Modernist works explicitly thematizing their own processes of representation (such as Orlando or The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas) are reconsidered as pioneers of the postmodern development that might be termed ‘auto/biographic metafiction’. Key examples discussed are A. S. Byatt's Possession (as biographic metafiction); Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook (as autobiographic metafiction) and Nabokov's Pale Fire (as auto/biographic metafiction). Where historiographic metafiction represents a postmodernizing of the historical novel, auto/biographic metafiction represents a postmodernizing of auto/biography.
John Wigger
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195387803
- eISBN:
- 9780199866410
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195387803.003.0023
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
In 1811 Asbury looked much as he had forty years earlier when he arrived in America, the inevitable effects of age notwithstanding. He suffered an increasing range of illnesses but still managed to ...
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In 1811 Asbury looked much as he had forty years earlier when he arrived in America, the inevitable effects of age notwithstanding. He suffered an increasing range of illnesses but still managed to attend all eight annual conferences in 1811 and all nine in 1812 and 1813. He made notes on individual preachers to help him organize their appointments, some of which survive in a notebook for 1810–1813. The church had some brilliant preachers and many capable ones, but shortages obliged Asbury to employ many marginal candidates. Gradually Asbury relinquished the responsibility of appointing preachers to their circuits to William McKendree. Asbury even considered returning to England, but could not because of the war. At the 1812 General Conference Asbury stayed mostly in the background. In 1813 Asbury wrote a valedictory address to McKendree stressing two themes: the necessity of an itinerant ministry and the apostolic authority of the episcopacy.Less
In 1811 Asbury looked much as he had forty years earlier when he arrived in America, the inevitable effects of age notwithstanding. He suffered an increasing range of illnesses but still managed to attend all eight annual conferences in 1811 and all nine in 1812 and 1813. He made notes on individual preachers to help him organize their appointments, some of which survive in a notebook for 1810–1813. The church had some brilliant preachers and many capable ones, but shortages obliged Asbury to employ many marginal candidates. Gradually Asbury relinquished the responsibility of appointing preachers to their circuits to William McKendree. Asbury even considered returning to England, but could not because of the war. At the 1812 General Conference Asbury stayed mostly in the background. In 1813 Asbury wrote a valedictory address to McKendree stressing two themes: the necessity of an itinerant ministry and the apostolic authority of the episcopacy.
Max Saunders
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199579761
- eISBN:
- 9780191722882
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199579761.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter examines the converse displacement to that considered in Chapters 3 and Chapter 4, looking instead at cases where fiction‐writers colonize the forms of life‐writing, producing a variety ...
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This chapter examines the converse displacement to that considered in Chapters 3 and Chapter 4, looking instead at cases where fiction‐writers colonize the forms of life‐writing, producing a variety of fake diaries, journals, biographies, and autobiographies. It takes a different approach to most of the other chapters, consisting of brief accounts of many works rather than sustained readings of a few. A taxonomy of modern engagements with life‐writing is proposed. The chapter moves on to discuss Galton's notion of ‘composite portraiture’ as a way of thinking about the surprisingly pervasive form of the portrait‐collection. The main examples are from Ford, Stefan Zweig, George Eliot, Hesketh Pearson, Gertrude Stein, Max Beerbohm and Arthur Symons; Isherwood and Joyce's Dubliners also figure. Where Chapters 3 and Chapter 4 focused on books with a single central subjectivity, this chapter looks at texts of multiple subjectivities. It concludes with a discussion of the argument that multiple works — an entire oeuvre — should be read as autobiography.Less
This chapter examines the converse displacement to that considered in Chapters 3 and Chapter 4, looking instead at cases where fiction‐writers colonize the forms of life‐writing, producing a variety of fake diaries, journals, biographies, and autobiographies. It takes a different approach to most of the other chapters, consisting of brief accounts of many works rather than sustained readings of a few. A taxonomy of modern engagements with life‐writing is proposed. The chapter moves on to discuss Galton's notion of ‘composite portraiture’ as a way of thinking about the surprisingly pervasive form of the portrait‐collection. The main examples are from Ford, Stefan Zweig, George Eliot, Hesketh Pearson, Gertrude Stein, Max Beerbohm and Arthur Symons; Isherwood and Joyce's Dubliners also figure. Where Chapters 3 and Chapter 4 focused on books with a single central subjectivity, this chapter looks at texts of multiple subjectivities. It concludes with a discussion of the argument that multiple works — an entire oeuvre — should be read as autobiography.
Max Saunders
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199579761
- eISBN:
- 9780191722882
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199579761.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter discusses the taxonomy of imaginary literary works (supplementing the taxonomy of fictionalized life‐writings proposed in Chapter 5), and their scarcity during the nineteenth century. It ...
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This chapter discusses the taxonomy of imaginary literary works (supplementing the taxonomy of fictionalized life‐writings proposed in Chapter 5), and their scarcity during the nineteenth century. It concludes the discussion of Joyce, and ends with an account of Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas as an indisputable example of a fictionally authored auto/biography.Less
This chapter discusses the taxonomy of imaginary literary works (supplementing the taxonomy of fictionalized life‐writings proposed in Chapter 5), and their scarcity during the nineteenth century. It concludes the discussion of Joyce, and ends with an account of Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas as an indisputable example of a fictionally authored auto/biography.
Morton D. Paley
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198186854
- eISBN:
- 9780191674570
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198186854.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
Love was always an important theme in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetry, manifested in ‘Recollections of Love’ and ‘Love's whisper’. More frequently, however, in Coleridge's later poetry love is a ...
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Love was always an important theme in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetry, manifested in ‘Recollections of Love’ and ‘Love's whisper’. More frequently, however, in Coleridge's later poetry love is a threatening force or an aching void. Recognising this, in the editions of his Poetical Works published in his lifetime, the poet introduced the section containing most of his later poems' with a four-line motto bearing the Greek title ‘Love, always a talkative companion’. In some of what have come to be known as the ‘Asra’ poems, Coleridge's expression of unfulfilled feeling is bitterly direct. This is true of ‘Separation’, for which Coleridge wrote a memorable new beginning some time after the draft in one of his Notebooks. Another attempt to deal with the destructive power of love was through the mediated discourse of narrative along with his most ambitious attempt in this mode in his later years, the ‘Alice Du Clos’ completed in 1829.Less
Love was always an important theme in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetry, manifested in ‘Recollections of Love’ and ‘Love's whisper’. More frequently, however, in Coleridge's later poetry love is a threatening force or an aching void. Recognising this, in the editions of his Poetical Works published in his lifetime, the poet introduced the section containing most of his later poems' with a four-line motto bearing the Greek title ‘Love, always a talkative companion’. In some of what have come to be known as the ‘Asra’ poems, Coleridge's expression of unfulfilled feeling is bitterly direct. This is true of ‘Separation’, for which Coleridge wrote a memorable new beginning some time after the draft in one of his Notebooks. Another attempt to deal with the destructive power of love was through the mediated discourse of narrative along with his most ambitious attempt in this mode in his later years, the ‘Alice Du Clos’ completed in 1829.
Daniel Wakelin
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199215881
- eISBN:
- 9780191706899
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199215881.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This chapter firstly traces how in his notebooks and marginalia, William Worcester evokes and almost invents an imagined community or interpretive community of humanist scholars. The chapter then ...
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This chapter firstly traces how in his notebooks and marginalia, William Worcester evokes and almost invents an imagined community or interpretive community of humanist scholars. The chapter then traces how Worcester gleans political ideas from his reading of Cicero, Alain Chartier, and John of Wales. Worcester's political writing in The Boke of Noblesse is evaluated in the light of his reading. His humanist studies are not the only source of his ideas about the commonweal or common good, but his imaginary readership of humanists is essential to his dream of good governance and the commonweal.Less
This chapter firstly traces how in his notebooks and marginalia, William Worcester evokes and almost invents an imagined community or interpretive community of humanist scholars. The chapter then traces how Worcester gleans political ideas from his reading of Cicero, Alain Chartier, and John of Wales. Worcester's political writing in The Boke of Noblesse is evaluated in the light of his reading. His humanist studies are not the only source of his ideas about the commonweal or common good, but his imaginary readership of humanists is essential to his dream of good governance and the commonweal.
Ann Hallamore Caesar
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198151760
- eISBN:
- 9780191672828
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198151760.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter discusses Luigi Pirandello's third person characters as narrators of the novel's main story. The chapter also introduces a remarkable novel by Pirandello entitled ‘The Notebooks of ...
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This chapter discusses Luigi Pirandello's third person characters as narrators of the novel's main story. The chapter also introduces a remarkable novel by Pirandello entitled ‘The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cameraman’ and its relevance in the author's works. Excerpts from this book are also presented in this chapter. This chapter discusses the roles that Pirandello's male characters play in his novel. It emphasizes Pirandello's male characters as narrators of the novels that represents human condition. The chapter also includes a comparative analysis between this novel and another literary masterpiece, ‘The Rite of Passage’ by Arnold van Gennep. The further parts of this chapter focus on Luigi Pirandello's approach to 19th century spiritualism and how he incorporated this principle into his writings. The chapter finally tackles the processes that Pirandello undertook to be able to attain enhanced authorship.Less
This chapter discusses Luigi Pirandello's third person characters as narrators of the novel's main story. The chapter also introduces a remarkable novel by Pirandello entitled ‘The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cameraman’ and its relevance in the author's works. Excerpts from this book are also presented in this chapter. This chapter discusses the roles that Pirandello's male characters play in his novel. It emphasizes Pirandello's male characters as narrators of the novels that represents human condition. The chapter also includes a comparative analysis between this novel and another literary masterpiece, ‘The Rite of Passage’ by Arnold van Gennep. The further parts of this chapter focus on Luigi Pirandello's approach to 19th century spiritualism and how he incorporated this principle into his writings. The chapter finally tackles the processes that Pirandello undertook to be able to attain enhanced authorship.
William R. Newman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691174877
- eISBN:
- 9780691185033
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691174877.003.0014
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter deals with Newton's experimental notebooks, containing dated chymical laboratory records from 1678 to 1696. Beyond the glassware and ceramic implements described in these experimental ...
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This chapter deals with Newton's experimental notebooks, containing dated chymical laboratory records from 1678 to 1696. Beyond the glassware and ceramic implements described in these experimental notebooks, the most obvious feature of his laboratory would have been the charcoal-burning furnace or furnaces located there. Like many contemporary chymists, Newton regularly performed his experiments at the high temperatures required for metallurgical operations. It is by means of these “Vulcanian implements” along with the apparatus referred to piecemeal in his experimental notebooks, that Newton managed to produce such exotic desiderata as “liquor of antimony,” “the net,” and “sophic sal ammoniac”. The chapter also considers Newton's instructions for making these and other material precursors to the philosophers' stone.Less
This chapter deals with Newton's experimental notebooks, containing dated chymical laboratory records from 1678 to 1696. Beyond the glassware and ceramic implements described in these experimental notebooks, the most obvious feature of his laboratory would have been the charcoal-burning furnace or furnaces located there. Like many contemporary chymists, Newton regularly performed his experiments at the high temperatures required for metallurgical operations. It is by means of these “Vulcanian implements” along with the apparatus referred to piecemeal in his experimental notebooks, that Newton managed to produce such exotic desiderata as “liquor of antimony,” “the net,” and “sophic sal ammoniac”. The chapter also considers Newton's instructions for making these and other material precursors to the philosophers' stone.
William R. Newman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691174877
- eISBN:
- 9780691185033
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691174877.003.0015
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter begins with a survey of the very early material in Newton's “master notebook,” CU Add. 3975 along with Boston Medical Library B MS c41 c. It then performs a systematic examination of CU ...
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This chapter begins with a survey of the very early material in Newton's “master notebook,” CU Add. 3975 along with Boston Medical Library B MS c41 c. It then performs a systematic examination of CU Add. 3973, Newton's set of chronologically ordered notes for the period from 1678 to at least 1696. These records detail three experimental programs. The first, called “the quest for sophic sal ammoniac,” runs from the beginning of December 1678 until midsummer 1680, when Newton actually discovers the material that he terms “Philosophicum”—philosophical or sophic sal ammoniac. The second begins in August 1682 and consists mostly of a series of tests to determine whether stibnite refined by fusion or the ore as it comes directly out of the mine should be used in preparing Newton's antimonial sublimates. The third program is described in detail in Chapter 16.Less
This chapter begins with a survey of the very early material in Newton's “master notebook,” CU Add. 3975 along with Boston Medical Library B MS c41 c. It then performs a systematic examination of CU Add. 3973, Newton's set of chronologically ordered notes for the period from 1678 to at least 1696. These records detail three experimental programs. The first, called “the quest for sophic sal ammoniac,” runs from the beginning of December 1678 until midsummer 1680, when Newton actually discovers the material that he terms “Philosophicum”—philosophical or sophic sal ammoniac. The second begins in August 1682 and consists mostly of a series of tests to determine whether stibnite refined by fusion or the ore as it comes directly out of the mine should be used in preparing Newton's antimonial sublimates. The third program is described in detail in Chapter 16.
William R. Newman
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691174877
- eISBN:
- 9780691185033
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691174877.003.0018
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter focuses on Newton's Praxis, which has been described as his most important alchemical text. A preliminary reading of the text quickly leads one to sympathize with Westfall's claim that ...
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This chapter focuses on Newton's Praxis, which has been described as his most important alchemical text. A preliminary reading of the text quickly leads one to sympathize with Westfall's claim that it reflects a disordered state of mind. It is not easy, at least initially, to make out the subjects described allusively in each of the first four chapters. Their disjointed snippets and quotations represent Newton's florilegium style at its densest and least approachable. But this is not the product of madness, however temporary. Rather, it is Newton's way of sifting through his sources and reassembling the disparate parts of a great puzzle distributed piecemeal among the diverse sons of art. The very materials that figured in Newton's laboratory notebooks, in his interpretations of Snyders (especially Keynes 58), and in his instructions to Fatio can be found in Praxis.Less
This chapter focuses on Newton's Praxis, which has been described as his most important alchemical text. A preliminary reading of the text quickly leads one to sympathize with Westfall's claim that it reflects a disordered state of mind. It is not easy, at least initially, to make out the subjects described allusively in each of the first four chapters. Their disjointed snippets and quotations represent Newton's florilegium style at its densest and least approachable. But this is not the product of madness, however temporary. Rather, it is Newton's way of sifting through his sources and reassembling the disparate parts of a great puzzle distributed piecemeal among the diverse sons of art. The very materials that figured in Newton's laboratory notebooks, in his interpretations of Snyders (especially Keynes 58), and in his instructions to Fatio can be found in Praxis.
Christopher Tolley
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198206514
- eISBN:
- 9780191677182
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206514.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Social History
This chapter discusses the life of William Wilberforce which was written by his children. It states that like other sources for the biography, certain passages in the notebooks seem to have been ...
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This chapter discusses the life of William Wilberforce which was written by his children. It states that like other sources for the biography, certain passages in the notebooks seem to have been dictated by Wilberforce himself, especially the accounts of his youth, early career, and religious change of heart. It notes that Robert's narrative of this period had been given to him by his father in the carriage on the way to Isaac Milner's funeral in Cambridge, and later during a walk at Kensingston Gore after Sunday church. It shows both father and son taking pains to set down an accurate record, and supplied a good deal of information for the initial part of the Life. The chapter also discusses the life of Samuel Wilberforce, compiled by more than one author, though the authorship was not entirely within the family.Less
This chapter discusses the life of William Wilberforce which was written by his children. It states that like other sources for the biography, certain passages in the notebooks seem to have been dictated by Wilberforce himself, especially the accounts of his youth, early career, and religious change of heart. It notes that Robert's narrative of this period had been given to him by his father in the carriage on the way to Isaac Milner's funeral in Cambridge, and later during a walk at Kensingston Gore after Sunday church. It shows both father and son taking pains to set down an accurate record, and supplied a good deal of information for the initial part of the Life. The chapter also discusses the life of Samuel Wilberforce, compiled by more than one author, though the authorship was not entirely within the family.
Jean-Luc Nancy
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780823275922
- eISBN:
- 9780823277056
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823275922.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Jean-Luc Nancy provides an analysis of the anti-Semitic aspects of Heidegger’s recently published Black Notebooks. Referring to Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil,” Nancy offers an ...
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Jean-Luc Nancy provides an analysis of the anti-Semitic aspects of Heidegger’s recently published Black Notebooks. Referring to Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil,” Nancy offers an analysis of the philosophical or “historial” anti-Semitism found in the Black Notebooks. He notes especially that this anti-Semitism is marked by the “banality” of ordinary anti-Semitism pervading Europe. He does this by linking Heidegger’s remarks to the well-known anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, whose terms are strikingly similar. Heidegger’s thought is also placed in the broader context of Western thought and culture, particularly in relation to the notion of a “decline” and to the sense of crisis pervading Europe in the first half of the twentieth century, to which anti-Semitism was a frequent response. Nancy critiques Heidegger’s continual evocation of a “beginning,” to be found solely in Greek thought, that has been covered over but whose destiny must be renewed in “another beginning,” and he links this to the impulse in European thought, and especially in Christianity, toward ever more initial foundations of “self.” The rejection of Judaism by Christianity, in its very foundation, is compared with Heidegger’s insistence on “another beginning.” Nancy finds in this complex ensemble a hatred of self at the heart of the West.Less
Jean-Luc Nancy provides an analysis of the anti-Semitic aspects of Heidegger’s recently published Black Notebooks. Referring to Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil,” Nancy offers an analysis of the philosophical or “historial” anti-Semitism found in the Black Notebooks. He notes especially that this anti-Semitism is marked by the “banality” of ordinary anti-Semitism pervading Europe. He does this by linking Heidegger’s remarks to the well-known anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, whose terms are strikingly similar. Heidegger’s thought is also placed in the broader context of Western thought and culture, particularly in relation to the notion of a “decline” and to the sense of crisis pervading Europe in the first half of the twentieth century, to which anti-Semitism was a frequent response. Nancy critiques Heidegger’s continual evocation of a “beginning,” to be found solely in Greek thought, that has been covered over but whose destiny must be renewed in “another beginning,” and he links this to the impulse in European thought, and especially in Christianity, toward ever more initial foundations of “self.” The rejection of Judaism by Christianity, in its very foundation, is compared with Heidegger’s insistence on “another beginning.” Nancy finds in this complex ensemble a hatred of self at the heart of the West.
Scarlett Baron
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199693788
- eISBN:
- 9780191732157
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199693788.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism, European Literature
Chapter 6 is divided into two main sections. The first examines Finnegans Wake notebook VI.B.8, in which Joyce made three Flaubert-related jottings. It relates these momentous notes to Joyce’s ...
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Chapter 6 is divided into two main sections. The first examines Finnegans Wake notebook VI.B.8, in which Joyce made three Flaubert-related jottings. It relates these momentous notes to Joyce’s travels through Normandy (home to Flaubert as well as Emma Bovary, Bouvard and Pécuchet) in the summer of 1925 and suggests that both the journey and the jottings reflect Joyce’s preoccupation with Flaubert and with issues of intertextuality during the early stages of his work on Finnegans Wake. The second section considers allusions to Flaubert in the Wake: these are read as knowing indications of a connection between the radical intertextuality deployed by Joyce in his final work and the precedent of Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet.Less
Chapter 6 is divided into two main sections. The first examines Finnegans Wake notebook VI.B.8, in which Joyce made three Flaubert-related jottings. It relates these momentous notes to Joyce’s travels through Normandy (home to Flaubert as well as Emma Bovary, Bouvard and Pécuchet) in the summer of 1925 and suggests that both the journey and the jottings reflect Joyce’s preoccupation with Flaubert and with issues of intertextuality during the early stages of his work on Finnegans Wake. The second section considers allusions to Flaubert in the Wake: these are read as knowing indications of a connection between the radical intertextuality deployed by Joyce in his final work and the precedent of Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet.
Mark Franko
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199777662
- eISBN:
- 9780199950119
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199777662.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, Dance, History, American
This chapter discusses Voyage (1953) as a forgotten Graham work that rejects myth for personal reasons and attempts to apply psycho-dramatic techniques to the creation of choreography. It discusses ...
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This chapter discusses Voyage (1953) as a forgotten Graham work that rejects myth for personal reasons and attempts to apply psycho-dramatic techniques to the creation of choreography. It discusses the development of this work in Graham’s correspondence with her psychoanalyst Frances Wickes, and the influence of Jungian psychoanalysis on the work. It studies Graham’s use of notes and notebooks in the choreography.Less
This chapter discusses Voyage (1953) as a forgotten Graham work that rejects myth for personal reasons and attempts to apply psycho-dramatic techniques to the creation of choreography. It discusses the development of this work in Graham’s correspondence with her psychoanalyst Frances Wickes, and the influence of Jungian psychoanalysis on the work. It studies Graham’s use of notes and notebooks in the choreography.
Yohei Igarashi
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781503610040
- eISBN:
- 9781503610736
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9781503610040.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
Although Coleridge is mostly known for being a copious talker who was impossible to transcribe, this chapter recovers Coleridge’s role as transcriber, theorist of transcription practices, and ...
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Although Coleridge is mostly known for being a copious talker who was impossible to transcribe, this chapter recovers Coleridge’s role as transcriber, theorist of transcription practices, and inventor of his own idiosyncratic shorthand. Considering Coleridge’s time as a parliamentary reporter, his self-reflexive notebook entries, and the history of stenography, this chapter posits that Coleridge pursued an efficient writing system to record not speech but the flow of his own silent thoughts. Also discussing today’s optical character recognition software and the shorthand effect (when letters or words uncannily become illegible shapes, and non-linguistic shapes come to look like linguistic signs), this chapter culminates in a reading of the “signs” in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”Less
Although Coleridge is mostly known for being a copious talker who was impossible to transcribe, this chapter recovers Coleridge’s role as transcriber, theorist of transcription practices, and inventor of his own idiosyncratic shorthand. Considering Coleridge’s time as a parliamentary reporter, his self-reflexive notebook entries, and the history of stenography, this chapter posits that Coleridge pursued an efficient writing system to record not speech but the flow of his own silent thoughts. Also discussing today’s optical character recognition software and the shorthand effect (when letters or words uncannily become illegible shapes, and non-linguistic shapes come to look like linguistic signs), this chapter culminates in a reading of the “signs” in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”
Amy Feinstein
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813066318
- eISBN:
- 9780813058450
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813066318.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
In contrast to the coded nomenclatures for modern Jewish identity in Stein’s first fictions, there is an explicit discussion of Jewish nature in the dozens of notebooks Stein filled when she resumed ...
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In contrast to the coded nomenclatures for modern Jewish identity in Stein’s first fictions, there is an explicit discussion of Jewish nature in the dozens of notebooks Stein filled when she resumed writing The Making of Americans. Chapter 3 examines Stein’s early training in philosophy, psychology, and medicine to excavate an ambiguously racial conception of Jewish nature in these unpublished notebooks. Arnold’s typology remains foundational for Stein between 1906 and 1911, when she writes the stories of Three Lives and also begins to codify characteristic behaviors of Jewish and Anglo-Saxon types of people in her notebooks. Amidst a menagerie of friends, family, artists, scientists, and literary and historical figures, Stein ranks herself as a Jewish type alongside Picasso, Cézanne, Matisse, Flaubert, Darwin, and Caliban. Rather than keeping the world at arm’s length and theorizing about it, Stein considered that these Jewish types shared an engagement with experience—a kind of disinterested empiricism—that she thought was the key to a modern aesthetics, what she called the ability to “unconventionalize.” In this characterization, the notebooks reveal Stein’s matter-of-fact association of Jewish nature with modernism.Less
In contrast to the coded nomenclatures for modern Jewish identity in Stein’s first fictions, there is an explicit discussion of Jewish nature in the dozens of notebooks Stein filled when she resumed writing The Making of Americans. Chapter 3 examines Stein’s early training in philosophy, psychology, and medicine to excavate an ambiguously racial conception of Jewish nature in these unpublished notebooks. Arnold’s typology remains foundational for Stein between 1906 and 1911, when she writes the stories of Three Lives and also begins to codify characteristic behaviors of Jewish and Anglo-Saxon types of people in her notebooks. Amidst a menagerie of friends, family, artists, scientists, and literary and historical figures, Stein ranks herself as a Jewish type alongside Picasso, Cézanne, Matisse, Flaubert, Darwin, and Caliban. Rather than keeping the world at arm’s length and theorizing about it, Stein considered that these Jewish types shared an engagement with experience—a kind of disinterested empiricism—that she thought was the key to a modern aesthetics, what she called the ability to “unconventionalize.” In this characterization, the notebooks reveal Stein’s matter-of-fact association of Jewish nature with modernism.
Jean-Luc Nancy and Jeff Fort
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780823275922
- eISBN:
- 9780823277056
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823275922.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Heidegger’s discourse in the Black Notebooks is banal in the sense of Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil.” This discourse absorbed the doxa of anti-Semitism circulating in Europe from ...
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Heidegger’s discourse in the Black Notebooks is banal in the sense of Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil.” This discourse absorbed the doxa of anti-Semitism circulating in Europe from 1920–1940. Heidegger thus transfers the banality of anti-Semitism into philosophical thinking.Less
Heidegger’s discourse in the Black Notebooks is banal in the sense of Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil.” This discourse absorbed the doxa of anti-Semitism circulating in Europe from 1920–1940. Heidegger thus transfers the banality of anti-Semitism into philosophical thinking.
