1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002501199707536

Autore

Kawan, Christoph

Titolo

Invariance entropy for deterministic control systems [e-book] : an introduction / by Christoph Kawan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : Springer, 2013

ISBN

9783319012889

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 270 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 0075-8434 ; 2089

Classificazione

AMS 94A17

AMS 93C10

AMS 93C15

Disciplina

515

Soggetti

Mathematics

Differentiable dynamical systems

Systems theory

Dynamical systems and ergodic theory

Systems theory, control

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Risorsa elettronica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910765838603321

Autore

Rabin Jessica G. <1973->

Titolo

Surviving the crossing : (im)migration, ethnicity, and gender in Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen / / Jessica G. Rabin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2005

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2017

©2004

ISBN

9786610281794

9781135875503

1135875502

9781135875510

1135875510

9781280281792

1280281790

9780203501399

020350139X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Collana

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Classificazione

LIT000000LIT004290

Disciplina

813/.52093552

Soggetti

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Emigration and immigration in literature

Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century

American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Immigrants in literature

Ethnicity in literature

Sex role in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedications; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: A Sense of Selves; 2. "The Peculiar Combination of Elements Long Familiar": Willa Cather; 3. "Fiction Was Another Way of Telling the Truth": Gertrude Stein; 4. "The Mixedness of Things": Nella Larsen; Conclusion: Other Countries, Other Romances; Afterword: "A



Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven"; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

By examining the fiction of three women modernists--Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen--this book complicates binary paradigms of national, gender, and ethnic identities in the interwar period. In place of essentializing categories of identity, Jessica Rabin explores the liberating and dislocating ramifications of using multiple subject positions as a means of representing identity. While these three authors have been studied in non-intersecting categories (pioneer literature, high modernism, and the Harlem Renaissance, respectively), Jessica Rabin traces their similarities, showin