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UNINA9910782983803321 |
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Cohen William A |
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Embodied [[electronic resource] ] : Victorian literature and the senses / / William A. Cohen |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2009 |
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1 online resource (200 p.) |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-173) and index. |
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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. |
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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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UNINA9910144602103321 |
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Ambrosio Luigi |
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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 |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2003 |
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[1st ed. 2003.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (VIII, 169 p. 4 illus.) |
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C.I.M.E. Foundation Subseries ; ; 1813 |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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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. |
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Leading researchers in the field of Optimal Transportation, with different views and perspectives, contribute to this Summer School |
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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. |
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