Literary historians have tended to associate the eighteenth century with the rise of the tyranny of the clock—the notion of time as ruled by mechanical chronometry. The transition to standardized scheduling and time-discipline, the often-told story goes, inevitably results in modernity's time-keeper societies and the characterization of modern experience as qualitatively diminished. In Feeling Time, Amit Yahav challenges this narrative of the triumph of chronometry and the consequent impoverishment of individual experience. She explores the fascination eighteenth-century writers had with the mental and affective processes through which human beings come not only to know that time has passed but also to feel the durations they inhabit. Yahav begins by elucidating discussions by Locke and Hume that examine how humans come to know time, noting how these philosophers often consider not only knowledge but also experience. She then turns to novels by Richardson, Sterne, and Radcliffe, attending to the material dimensions of literary language to show how novelists shape the temporal experience of readers through their formal choices. Along the way, she considers a wide range of eighteenth-century aesthetic and moral treatises, finding that these identify the subjective experience of duration as the crux of pleasure and judgment, described more as patterned durational activity than as static state. Feeling Time highlights the temporal underpinnings of the eighteenth century's culture of sensibility, arguing that novelists have often drawn on the logic of musical composition to make their writing an especially effective tool for exploring time and for shaping durational experience.
Описание: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Автор: Chris George; Zhiming Liu; Jim Woodcock Название: Domain Modeling and the Duration Calculus ISBN: 3540749632 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540749639 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 8384.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Covers software security, domain modeling of software engineering, and duration calculus for real time systems. This book addresses development of real-time systems, domain engineering using abstract modeling, the area of duration calculus, and formal methods like language description using the operational semantics approach.
Описание: Explores human longevity. This book presents various studies on essential issues of human longevity such as the evolution of lifespan of species, the genetics of human longevity, reasons for improvements in survival of the elderly, medical and behavioral causes of death among very old people, and social factors of long survival in old age.
Автор: Robert Allan Mesler III Название: Searching for the Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitor ISBN: 3319381350 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319381350 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13059.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Nominated as an outstanding thesis by the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of New Mexico, this thesis seeks to identify the gamma-ray burst (GRB) progenitor.
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