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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782983803321

Autore

Cohen William A

Titolo

Embodied [[electronic resource] ] : Victorian literature and the senses / / William A. Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8166-6652-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/008

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Senses and sensation in literature

Self in literature

Subjectivity in literature

Mind and body in literature

Human body in literature

Human body (Philosophy)

Psychology and literature - History - 19th century

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 (p. 137-173) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Subject: embodiment and the senses -- Self: material interiority in Dickens and Bronte -- Skin: surface and sensation in Trollope's "The banks of the Jordan" -- Senses: face and feeling in Hardy's The return of the native -- Soul: inside Hopkins.

Sommario/riassunto

What does it mean to be human? British writers in the Victorian period found a surprising answer to this question. What is human, they discovered, is nothing more or less than the human body itself. In literature of the period, as well as in scientific writing and journalism, the notion of an interior human essence came to be identified with the material existence of the body. The organs of sensory perception were understood as crucial routes of exchange between the interior and the external worlds. Anatomizing Victorian ideas of the human, William A. Cohen considers the meaning of sensory enc



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910144602103321

Autore

Ambrosio Luigi

Titolo

Optimal Transportation and Applications : Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Martina Franca, Italy, September 2–8, 2001 / / by Luigi Ambrosio, Luis A. Caffarelli, Yann Brenier, Giuseppe Buttazzo, Cédric Villani ; edited by Luis A. Caffarelli, Sandro Salsa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2003

ISBN

3-540-44857-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2003.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 169 p. 4 illus.)

Collana

C.I.M.E. Foundation Subseries ; ; 1813

Disciplina

519.72

Soggetti

Differential equations, Partial

Convex geometry

Discrete geometry

Geometry, Differential

Calculus of variations

Probabilities

Partial Differential Equations

Convex and Discrete Geometry

Differential Geometry

Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization

Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- L.A. Caffarelli: The Monge-Ampère equation and Optimal Transportation, an elementary view -- G. Buttazzo, L. De Pascale: Optimal Shapes and Masses, and Optimal Transportation Problems -- C. Villani: Optimal Transportation, dissipative PDE's and functional inequalities -- Y. Brenier: Extended Monge-Kantorowich Theory -- L. Ambrosio, A. Pratelli: Existence and Stability results in the L1 Theory of Optimal Transportation.

Sommario/riassunto

Leading researchers in the field of Optimal Transportation, with different views and perspectives, contribute to this Summer School



volume: Monge-Ampère and Monge-Kantorovich theory, shape optimization and mass transportation are linked, among others, to applications in fluid mechanics granular material physics and statistical mechanics, emphasizing the attractiveness of the subject from both a theoretical and applied point of view. The volume is designed to become a guide to researchers willing to enter into this challenging and useful theory.