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Record Nr.

UNINA9910144726403321

Titolo

The origins and development of high ability [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex ; ; New York, : Wiley, 1993

ISBN

1-282-34786-1

9786612347863

0-470-51449-3

0-470-51450-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 178

Disciplina

153.9

153.98

155.45

Soggetti

Gifted persons

Gifted children

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Proceedings of the Symposium on the Origins and Development of High Ability, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, Jan. 25, 1993.

"A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH ABILITY; Contents; Participants; Introducti on; The concept of 'giftedness':a pentagonal implicit theory; Giftedness and intelligence:one and the same?; Psychological profiles of the mathematically talented: some sex differences and evidence supporting their biological basis; Genetics and high cognitive ability; The early lives of child prodigies; Musical ability; Boys and girls who reason well mathematically; Scientific ability; Mechanical i nventiveness:a three-phase study; The relationship between early giftedness and later achievement

Family influences on the development of giftednessAccelerating language acquisition; Can we create gifted people?; Closing remarks; Index of contributors; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Written for psychologists, educational psychologists and developmental biologists, this volume explores the concept of giftedness, including its



definition, origins and development. The author offers a balanced view of the topic and presents optimal educational strategies for various kinds of high ability. The effects of both environmental and biological/genetic factors on a student's level of giftedness are also discussed, as is the question of whether gifted people can be created.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777710203321

Autore

Grabes Herbert

Titolo

Making strange : beauty, sublimity, and the (post)modern 'third aesthetic' / / Herbert Grabes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York : , : Rodopi, , 2008

ISBN

1-282-59412-5

9786612594120

90-420-2911-0

1-4356-7072-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource e (xiii, 172 pages, 16 pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Collana

Postmodern studies

Disciplina

809.9113

Soggetti

Postmodernism

Art, Modern - 20th century

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - History - 20th century

Art and literature - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"English translation by Marc Colavincenzo from Einführung in die Literatur und Kunst der Moderne und Postmoderne : die Ästhetik des Fremden (Tübingen & Basel: Francke, 2004), with further editing by Gordon Collier"--Title page verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-172).

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- The Aesthetic of the Strange -- The Strange Art and Literature of Modernism -- The Strange Art and Literature of Postmodernism -- The Aesthetic of the Strange as the Aesthetic of Modernism and Postmodernism -- Theoretical Foundations of the Aesthetic of the Strange -- Works Cited.

Sommario/riassunto

This compact, indispensable overview answers a vexed question: Why



do so many works of modern and postmodern literature and art seem designed to appear ‘strange’, and how can they still cause pleasure in the beholder? To help overcome the initial barrier caused by this ‘strangeness’, the general reader is given an initial, non-technical description of the ‘aesthetic of the strange’ as it is experienced in the reading or viewing process. There follows a broad survey of modern and postmodern trends, illustrating their staggering variety and making plain the manifold methods and strategies adopted by writers and artists to ‘make it strange’. The book closes with a systematic summary of the theoretical underpinnings of the ‘aesthetic of the strange’, focussing on the ways in which it differs from both the earlier ‘aesthetic of the beautiful’ and the ‘aesthetic of the sublime’. It is made amply clear that the strangeness characteristic of modern and postmodern art has ushered in an entirely new, ‘third’ kind of aesthetic – one that has undergone further transformation over the past two decades. Beyond its usefulness as a practical introduction to the ‘aesthetic of the strange’, the present study also takes up the most recent, cutting-edge aspects of scholarly debate, while initiates are offered an original approach to the theoretical implications of this seminal phenomenon.