Jacques Khalip
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804758406
- eISBN:
- 9780804779685
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804758406.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
Romanticism is often synonymous with models of identity and action that privilege individual empowerment and emotional autonomy, models that, in the last two decades, have been the focus of critiques ...
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Romanticism is often synonymous with models of identity and action that privilege individual empowerment and emotional autonomy, models that, in the last two decades, have been the focus of critiques of Romanticism's purported self-absorption and alienation from politics. While such critiques have proven useful, they often draw attention to the conceptual or material tensions of romantic subjectivity while accepting a conspicuous, autonomous subject as a given, thus failing to appreciate the possibility that Romanticism sustains an alternative model of being, one anonymous and dispossessed, whose authority is irreducible to that of an easily recognizable, psychologized persona. This book goes against the grain of these dominant critical stances by examining anonymity as a model of being that is provocative for writers of the era because it resists the Enlightenment emphasis on transparency and self-disclosure. The author explores how romantic subjectivity, even as it negotiates with others in the social sphere, frequently rejects the demands of self-assertion and fails to prove its authenticity and coherence.Less
Romanticism is often synonymous with models of identity and action that privilege individual empowerment and emotional autonomy, models that, in the last two decades, have been the focus of critiques of Romanticism's purported self-absorption and alienation from politics. While such critiques have proven useful, they often draw attention to the conceptual or material tensions of romantic subjectivity while accepting a conspicuous, autonomous subject as a given, thus failing to appreciate the possibility that Romanticism sustains an alternative model of being, one anonymous and dispossessed, whose authority is irreducible to that of an easily recognizable, psychologized persona. This book goes against the grain of these dominant critical stances by examining anonymity as a model of being that is provocative for writers of the era because it resists the Enlightenment emphasis on transparency and self-disclosure. The author explores how romantic subjectivity, even as it negotiates with others in the social sphere, frequently rejects the demands of self-assertion and fails to prove its authenticity and coherence.
Alan Corney
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199211456
- eISBN:
- 9780191705915
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199211456.003.0010
- Subject:
- Physics, Atomic, Laser, and Optical Physics
This chapter derives the equation of radiative transfer for an excited gas sample. The terms source function and optical thickness are also defined, and the effects of self absorption are considered. ...
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This chapter derives the equation of radiative transfer for an excited gas sample. The terms source function and optical thickness are also defined, and the effects of self absorption are considered. The formation of absorption lines is explained and measurements of the product of atomic density, oscillator strength, and sample length are discussed. Applications to the measurement of the abundance of chemical elements in stellar and terrestrial sources are outlined.Less
This chapter derives the equation of radiative transfer for an excited gas sample. The terms source function and optical thickness are also defined, and the effects of self absorption are considered. The formation of absorption lines is explained and measurements of the product of atomic density, oscillator strength, and sample length are discussed. Applications to the measurement of the abundance of chemical elements in stellar and terrestrial sources are outlined.
Aaron Baker
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252036057
- eISBN:
- 9780252093012
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252036057.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Steven Soderbergh's feature films present a diverse range of subject matter and formal styles: from the self-absorption of his breakthrough hit Sex, Lies, and Videotape to populist social problem ...
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Steven Soderbergh's feature films present a diverse range of subject matter and formal styles: from the self-absorption of his breakthrough hit Sex, Lies, and Videotape to populist social problem films such as Erin Brockovich, and from the modernist discontinuity of Full Frontal and filmed performance art of Gray's Anatomy to a glossy, star-studded action blockbuster such as Ocean's Eleven. Arguing that Soderbergh practices an eclectic type of moviemaking indebted both to the European art cinema and the Hollywood genre film, this book charts the common thematic and formal patterns present across Soderbergh's oeuvre. Almost every movie centers on an alienated main character, and he represents the unconventional thinking of his outsider protagonists through a discontinuous editing style. Including detailed analyses of major films as well as two interviews with the director, this volume illustrates Soderbergh's hybrid flexibility in bringing an independent aesthetic to wide audiences.Less
Steven Soderbergh's feature films present a diverse range of subject matter and formal styles: from the self-absorption of his breakthrough hit Sex, Lies, and Videotape to populist social problem films such as Erin Brockovich, and from the modernist discontinuity of Full Frontal and filmed performance art of Gray's Anatomy to a glossy, star-studded action blockbuster such as Ocean's Eleven. Arguing that Soderbergh practices an eclectic type of moviemaking indebted both to the European art cinema and the Hollywood genre film, this book charts the common thematic and formal patterns present across Soderbergh's oeuvre. Almost every movie centers on an alienated main character, and he represents the unconventional thinking of his outsider protagonists through a discontinuous editing style. Including detailed analyses of major films as well as two interviews with the director, this volume illustrates Soderbergh's hybrid flexibility in bringing an independent aesthetic to wide audiences.
Jack Martin and Ann-Marie McLellan
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199913671
- eISBN:
- 9780199315949
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199913671.003.0009
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter explores the idea of communal agency as a cooperative, coordinated, purposeful interaction of individuals embedded in community, social, and cultural life. A brief account is provided of ...
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This chapter explores the idea of communal agency as a cooperative, coordinated, purposeful interaction of individuals embedded in community, social, and cultural life. A brief account is provided of a growing concern about the educational and social consequences of self-absorption and self-interest. Central to several recent attempts to redirect the work of educational psychologists toward a more sociocultural orientation is the idea of a communal agent—a socially formed yet self-interpreting and self-regulating initiator of his or her own choices and actions in interaction with others. An example of educating for communal agency is given based on the ideas of George Herbert Mead, who emphasized the social nature of education and the critical role of teachers as mediators between student development and social processes.Less
This chapter explores the idea of communal agency as a cooperative, coordinated, purposeful interaction of individuals embedded in community, social, and cultural life. A brief account is provided of a growing concern about the educational and social consequences of self-absorption and self-interest. Central to several recent attempts to redirect the work of educational psychologists toward a more sociocultural orientation is the idea of a communal agent—a socially formed yet self-interpreting and self-regulating initiator of his or her own choices and actions in interaction with others. An example of educating for communal agency is given based on the ideas of George Herbert Mead, who emphasized the social nature of education and the critical role of teachers as mediators between student development and social processes.
Ian Patterson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- April 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199554591
- eISBN:
- 9780191808258
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199554591.003.0012
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
The use of translation, mythology, quotation, allusion, and other forms of encounter with earlier texts or other cultures are a familiar feature of Modernist writing, and they have been widely ...
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The use of translation, mythology, quotation, allusion, and other forms of encounter with earlier texts or other cultures are a familiar feature of Modernist writing, and they have been widely recognized as complicating the relations between texts and time, temporality and form, progress and reaction. This chapter examines the work of three writers — Ezra Pound, Mary Butts, and T. S. Eliot — in each of whom the fantasy of a destructively self-absorbed modern culture stimulated a conservative literary impulse, which nevertheless in each case took a radical literary form. Counter to that self-absorption they created something deliberately indigestible against which the organism of a culture could redefine itself in discomfort. In their work a version of the historical past haunts or constitutes or defines a dense and inadequate modernity through synchronic (poetic) re-presentation (Pound), by the pathos of lost moral and existential coherence (Eliot), and by the continuing but underestimated presence of powerful forces (Mary Butts).Less
The use of translation, mythology, quotation, allusion, and other forms of encounter with earlier texts or other cultures are a familiar feature of Modernist writing, and they have been widely recognized as complicating the relations between texts and time, temporality and form, progress and reaction. This chapter examines the work of three writers — Ezra Pound, Mary Butts, and T. S. Eliot — in each of whom the fantasy of a destructively self-absorbed modern culture stimulated a conservative literary impulse, which nevertheless in each case took a radical literary form. Counter to that self-absorption they created something deliberately indigestible against which the organism of a culture could redefine itself in discomfort. In their work a version of the historical past haunts or constitutes or defines a dense and inadequate modernity through synchronic (poetic) re-presentation (Pound), by the pathos of lost moral and existential coherence (Eliot), and by the continuing but underestimated presence of powerful forces (Mary Butts).
Kim Kirim
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824838218
- eISBN:
- 9780824871062
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824838218.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter discusses the account of Kim Kirim. He played a major role in the directions taken by modern Korean poetry from the 1930s onward. These included developments away from what Kim saw as ...
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This chapter discusses the account of Kim Kirim. He played a major role in the directions taken by modern Korean poetry from the 1930s onward. These included developments away from what Kim saw as the previous decade's vague sentimentalism and self-absorption and toward new constructivist and other avant-garde techniques, modernism's materialist belief in the objective structure of language, and dedication to the integration of feeling and progressive cultural critique. His theoretical works first appeared in periodicals beginning in 1930. Among these, the most important titles were Poetics and The Understanding of Poetry. The chapter reviews his Soliloquies of ‘Pierrot’: Fragmentary Notions Regarding ‘Poésie’, which predated his more systematic treatises.Less
This chapter discusses the account of Kim Kirim. He played a major role in the directions taken by modern Korean poetry from the 1930s onward. These included developments away from what Kim saw as the previous decade's vague sentimentalism and self-absorption and toward new constructivist and other avant-garde techniques, modernism's materialist belief in the objective structure of language, and dedication to the integration of feeling and progressive cultural critique. His theoretical works first appeared in periodicals beginning in 1930. Among these, the most important titles were Poetics and The Understanding of Poetry. The chapter reviews his Soliloquies of ‘Pierrot’: Fragmentary Notions Regarding ‘Poésie’, which predated his more systematic treatises.
Abraham Bers
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199295784
- eISBN:
- 9780191749063
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199295784.003.0032
- Subject:
- Physics, Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle Physics / Astrophysics / Cosmology
This chapter outlines the interaction of radiation with matter and plasmas. The interaction of radiation fields, in general, with material particles inside a plasma is treated in detail. For a ...
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This chapter outlines the interaction of radiation with matter and plasmas. The interaction of radiation fields, in general, with material particles inside a plasma is treated in detail. For a quantitative evaluation of the radiation emitted by a plasma, one needs to take account of its optical thickness for the radiation that it can emit. If the plasma is optically thick (fully-opaque), then it emits as a black body, and the resulting energy loss can be important. To evaluate the radiated power in an optically thin plasma on the other hand, one needs to proceed to a detailed analysis of processes responsible for the emission of radiation. In all the cases, coupling of radiation with matter must also be taken into account as the radiation emitted by some internal parts of the plasma can be absorbed in its external layers, and the resulting emission in the external vacuum depends upon these phenomena of self-absorption.Less
This chapter outlines the interaction of radiation with matter and plasmas. The interaction of radiation fields, in general, with material particles inside a plasma is treated in detail. For a quantitative evaluation of the radiation emitted by a plasma, one needs to take account of its optical thickness for the radiation that it can emit. If the plasma is optically thick (fully-opaque), then it emits as a black body, and the resulting energy loss can be important. To evaluate the radiated power in an optically thin plasma on the other hand, one needs to proceed to a detailed analysis of processes responsible for the emission of radiation. In all the cases, coupling of radiation with matter must also be taken into account as the radiation emitted by some internal parts of the plasma can be absorbed in its external layers, and the resulting emission in the external vacuum depends upon these phenomena of self-absorption.
Rebecca Stangl
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- November 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780197508459
- eISBN:
- 9780197508466
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197508459.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy
This chapter argues that self-cultivation, as a virtue, can be successfully distinguished from a morally problematic kind of self-absorption. Indeed, we need such a virtue in order to explain just ...
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This chapter argues that self-cultivation, as a virtue, can be successfully distinguished from a morally problematic kind of self-absorption. Indeed, we need such a virtue in order to explain just those situations in which agents really should think about their own character, and not merely the goods that the traditional virtues are directed toward, when deciding what particular actions to undertake. In particular, we need such a virtue to give a plausible account of how an imperfectly virtuous agent should act when confronted with what I shall call a situation of moral risk. But while imperfectly virtuous agents confronting such a situation should think about their own character, that is not all they should think about. Introducing concerns about the character of the self at the level of explicit deliberation as the target of one virtue among others rightly captures this fact.Less
This chapter argues that self-cultivation, as a virtue, can be successfully distinguished from a morally problematic kind of self-absorption. Indeed, we need such a virtue in order to explain just those situations in which agents really should think about their own character, and not merely the goods that the traditional virtues are directed toward, when deciding what particular actions to undertake. In particular, we need such a virtue to give a plausible account of how an imperfectly virtuous agent should act when confronted with what I shall call a situation of moral risk. But while imperfectly virtuous agents confronting such a situation should think about their own character, that is not all they should think about. Introducing concerns about the character of the self at the level of explicit deliberation as the target of one virtue among others rightly captures this fact.
