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UNINA9910778096903321 |
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Buzard James |
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Disorienting fiction [[electronic resource] ] : the autoethnographic work of nineteenth-century British novels / / James Buzard |
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Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2005 |
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1-282-08782-7 |
1-282-93539-9 |
9786612935398 |
9786612087820 |
1-4008-2667-5 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (331 p.) |
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English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
National characteristics, British, in literature |
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature |
Difference (Psychology) in literature |
Social isolation in literature |
Outsiders in literature |
Culture in literature |
Self in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART ONE. Cultures and Autoethnography -- CHAPTER ONE. Uneven Developments: "Culture," circa 2000 and 1900 -- CHAPTER TWO. Ethnographic Locations and Dislocations -- CHAPTER THREE. The Fiction of Autoethnography -- PART TWO. British Fictions of Autoethnography, circa 1815 and 1851 -- CHAPTER FOUR. Translation and Tourism in Scott's Waverley -- CHAPTER FIVE. Anywhere's Nowhere: Bleak House as Metropolitan Autoethnography -- PART THREE. Charlotte Brontë's English Books -- CHAPTER SIX. Identities, Locations, and Media -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Wild English Girl: Jane Eyre -- CHAPTER NINE. National Pentecostalism: Shirley -- CHAPTER |
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TEN. Outlandish Nationalism: Villette -- PART FOUR. Around and After 1860 -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Eliot, Interrupted -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Ethnography as Interruption: Morris's News from Nowhere -- Index |
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This book gives an ambitious revisionist account of the nineteenth-century British novel and its role in the complex historical process that ultimately gave rise to modern anthropology's concept of culture and its accredited researcher, the Participant Observer. Buzard reads the great nineteenth-century novels of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and others as "metropolitan autoethnographies" that began to exercise and test the ethnographic imagination decades in advance of formal modern ethnography--and that did so while focusing on Western European rather than on distant Oriental subjects. Disorienting Fiction shows how English Victorian novels appropriated and anglicized an autoethnographic mode of fiction developed early in the nineteenth century by the Irish authors of the National Tale and, most influentially, by Walter Scott. Buzard demonstrates that whereas the fiction of these non-English British subjects devoted itself to describing and defending (but also inventing) the cultural autonomy of peripheral regions, the English novels that followed them worked to imagine limited and mappable versions of English or British culture in reaction against the potential evacuation of cultural distinctiveness threatened by Britain's own commercial and imperial expansion. These latter novels attempted to forestall the self-incurred liabilities of a nation whose unprecedented reach and power tempted it to universalize and export its own customs, to treat them as simply equivalent to a globally applicable civilization. For many Victorian novelists, a nation facing the prospect of being able to go and to exercise its influence just about anywhere in the world also faced the danger of turning itself into a cultural nowhere. The complex autoethnographic work of nineteenth-century British novels was thus a labor to disorient or de-globalize British national imaginings, and novelists mobilized and freighted with new significance some basic elements of prose narrative in their efforts to write British culture into being. Sure to provoke debate, this book offers a commanding reassessment of a major moment in the history of British literature. |
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UNINA9910298660403321 |
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Autore |
Hanamura Toshihiro |
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Titolo |
Analysis of Fracture Toughness Mechanism in Ultra-fine-grained Steels : The Effect of the Treatment Developed in NIMS / / by Toshihiro Hanamura, Hai Qiu |
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Tokyo : , : Springer Japan : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
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[1st ed. 2014.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (71 p.) |
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Collana |
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NIMS Monographs, , 2197-8891 |
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Metals |
Manufactures |
Building materials |
Materials science |
Metallic Materials |
Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes |
Structural Materials |
Characterization and Evaluation of Materials |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Introduction: Issues Concerning Environmental Problems and Related Advanced Steel Techniques -- Ultra-Fine Grained Steel: Relationship between grain size and tensile properties -- Ultra-Fine Grained Steel: Relationship between grain size and impact properties -- Fracture toughness (crack-tip-opening displacement) -- Summary. |
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In this book, advanced steel technologies mainly developed at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, for structure control, mechanical properties, and the related mechanisms are introduced and discussed. NIMS has long worked on developing advanced steel techniques, namely, producing advanced steels by using only simple alloying elements such as carbon, manganese, and silicon, and also by utilizing steel scrap. The hope is that this approach will lead to a technology of a so-called steel-to-steel recycling process, with the ultimate goal of a recycling process such as an automotive-steel-to-automotive-steel recycling process to take the place of the |
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current cascade-type recycling system. The main idea is to utilize ultra-grain refining structures and hetero structures as well as martensite structures. In particular, the focus of this book is on tensile strength and toughness of advanced steels from both the fundamental and engineering points of view. Fundamentally, a unique approach to analysis is taken, based on fracture surface energy as effective grain size is employed to better understand the mechanism of property improvement. From the engineering point of view, in fracture toughness such factors as crack tip opening displacement (CTOD) of advanced steels are evaluated in comparison with those of conventional steels. |
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UNINA9910556885303321 |
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Autore |
Poufinas Thomas |
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Titolo |
Fixed Income Investing : A Classic in a Time of Increased Uncertainty / / by Thomas Poufinas |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
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9783030879228 |
9783030879211 |
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[1st ed. 2022.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (748 pages) |
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Financial services industry |
Risk management |
Financial Services |
IT Risk Management |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1. Introduction -- 2. Bonds -- 3. Term Structure -- 4. Fixed Income Portfolio Management -- 5. Interest Rate Derivatives -- 6. Credit Derivatives -- 7. Bond Markets -- 8. Bond Funds -- 9. Risks and Risk Management -- 10. Bonds and Crises -- 11. Bonds and Debt -- 12. Bonds vs. Stocks -- 13. Hedging, Speculation and Arbitrage -- 14. Bonds and Regulation. |
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Fixed income investments have been a topic of broad interest, in particular for institutional investors such as insurance companies and pensions schemes. They were considered safe heavens in turbulent times by almost all other institutional and individual investors and are used for strategies such as portfolio immunization and asset liability matching (ALM). The latest crisis, however, revealed some of the weaknesses of fixed income instruments. They proved to be not as safe as originally thought with both credit and interest rate risks emerging. Consequently, fixed income investments have been in the spotlight once more. This book presents all aspects pertaining to fixed income investments, starting from the basics—i.e. the types of bonds, their valuation, the interest rate term structure—then moving to fixed income portfolio management and the interest rate and credit derivatives and their relevant markets, funds, risks and risk management. Finally, the book addresses contemporary issues such as their behavior in times of crisis, their relation to debt, their coexistence with equity and the current regulatory environment. This book, providing a look at the broader environment of fixed income alongside the current market structure, will be of interest to students, academics, researchers and practitioners in fixed income and investing strategies. Thomas Poufinas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics of the Democritus University of Thrace. He holds a Ph.D. in Financial Mathematics from the Ohio State University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from the University of Athens. His research focuses on finance, investments, risk management and actuarial science. |
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