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UNINA9910778183003321 |
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Bramen Carrie Tirado <1964-> |
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The uses of variety [[electronic resource] ] : modern Americanism and the quest for national distinctiveness / / Carrie Tirado Bramen |
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Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2000 |
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1 online resource (380 p. ) : ill |
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American fiction - History and criticism |
Difference (Psychology) in literature |
Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century |
American fiction - Minority authors - History and criticism |
National characteristics, American, in literature |
Cultural pluralism in literature |
Multiculturalism in literature |
Ethnic relations in literature |
Minorities in literature |
United States Intellectual life 20th century |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-360) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Americanizing Variety -- I The Ideological Formation of Pluralism -- 1 William James and the Modern Federal Republic -- 2 Identity Culture and Cosmopolitanism -- II The Aesthetics of Diversity -- 3 The Uneven Development of American Regionalism -- 4 The Urban Picturesque and Americanization -- III Heterogeneous Unions -- 5 Biracial Fictions and the Mendelist Allegory -- 6 East Meets West at the World’s Parliament of Religions -- Afterword: In Defense of Partiality -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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The turn of the last century, amid the excesses of the Gilded Age, variety became a key notion for Americans'a sign of national progress and development, reassurance that the modern nation would not fall into monotonous dullness or disorderly chaos. Carrie Tirado Bramen |
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pursues this idea through the works of a wide range of regional and cosmopolitan writers, journalists, theologians, and politicians who rewrote the narrative of American exceptionalism through a celebration of variety. Exploring cultural and institutional spheres ranging from intra-urban walking tours in popular magazines to the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, she shows how the rhetoric of variety became naturalized and nationalized as quintessentially American and inherently democratic. By focusing on the uses of the term in the work of William James, Anna Julia Cooper, W. E. B. Du Bois, Hamlin Garland, and Wong Chin Foo, among many others, Bramen reveals how the perceived innocence and goodness of variety were used to construct contradictory and mutually exclusive visions of modern Americanism. Bramen's innovation is to look at the debates of a century ago that established diversity as the distinctive feature of U.S. culture. In the late-nineteenth-century conception, which emphasized the openness of variety while at the same time acknowledging its limits, she finds a useful corrective to the contemporary tendency to celebrate the United States as a postmodern melange or a carnivalesque utopia of hybridity and difference.Table of Contents: Introduction: Americanizing Variety I. The Ideological Formation of Pluralism 1. William James and the Modern Federal Republic 2. Identity Culture and Cosmopolitanism II. The Aesthetics of Diversity 3. The Uneven Development of American Regionalism 4. The Urban Picturesque and Americanization III. Heterogeneous Unions 5. Biracial Fictions and the Mendelist Allegory 6. East Meets West at the World's Parliament of Religions Afterword: In Defense of Partiality Notes Works Cited Acknowledgments IndexReviews of this book: [Bramen] brings dogged research and steady focus to [a] central ambiguity in the American ethos.Her study delivers several powerful messages even plain-talking people can understand. For one, Bramen shows that issues of ethnic diversity and variety, far from being epiphenomena of the last few decades, course through our history and spotlight the ambiguities in what it means to be an American.The Uses of Variety boasts gems.of past cultural history that remind us these are perennial issues.[Bramen's] penetrating expedition through the nuances of America's breast-beating about 'diversity within unity' concentrates the mind. Out of many examples comes an important book: a flinty challenge to intellectual complacency about ourselves.--Carlin Romano, Philadelphia InquirerThe Uses of Variety is a significant addition to and revision of a century of American pragmatist thinking about difference. Bramen brings new conceptual tools to bear on the history of multicultural thought and literature and thereby avoids the common pitfalls to produce an important survey and synthesis.--Tom Lutz, author of American Nervousness, 1903: An Anecdotal History and editor of These 'Colored' United States: African American Essays from the 1920sCarrie Bramen offers a compelling, intellectually rigorous history of the protean idea of pluralism, a concept that has been embraced heartily by both liberals and conservatives as essential in defining American identity. Situating pluralism in philosophical, psychological, aesthetic, and political contexts, Bramen brings a fresh perspective to illuminating the meaning of the term for late Victorian America and, significantly, its legacy for us today.--Linda Simon, author of Genuine Reality: A Life of William JamesTaking William James's 'pluralistic universe' as a starting point, The Uses of Variety takes us through regions, ghettos, religious congresses, and a range of theoretical, philosophical, and literary works to explore the multiple and often conflicting constructions of 'variety' in the context of turn-of-the-century U.S. nationalism and cosmopolitanism. Carrie Tirado Bramen brings together a broad |
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spectrum of historical events and cultural theories in which variety variously expressed, contained, and shaped an increasing diversity that was perceived as threatening national coherence. This insightful, thoroughly researched, and timely work will be indispensable for scholars interested in U.S. nationalism, modernism, cosmopolitanism, and multiculturalism.--Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form |
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UNINA9910822710503321 |
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Politische Utopien der Neuzeit : Thomas Morus, Tommaso Campanella, Francis Bacon / / herausgegeben von Otfried Hoffe |
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Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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3-11-045992-2 |
3-11-045996-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (246 p.) |
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Klassiker Auslegen, , 2192-4554 ; ; Band 61 |
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Utopias - History |
History - Philosophy |
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Livello bibliografico |
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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 indexes. |
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Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Zitierweise und Abkürzungen -- Vorwort -- 1. Einführung -- 2. Die Kulissen des Theaters: zwischen historischer Erfahrung und Fiktion -- 3. Thomas Morus: Der Philosoph als Fürstendiener oder Staatsmann? -- 4. Zwischen Reform und Satire -- 5. Die Moral der Utopier -- 6. Krieg, Religion und Frauen auf der Insel Utopia -- 7. Universalpartizipation und Differenzierungsphobie -- 8. Die Rolle des Militärs in Campanellas Civitas Solis -- 9. Soziale Organisation und enzyklopädisches Interesse -- 10. Die Legitimation der Fortschrittsgeschichte in Bacons Nova Atlantis -- 11. Die Insel des geheimen Wissens – Francis Bacons Nova Atlantis -- 12. Das Haus Salomons -- 13. Politische Utopie oder realistische Vision: Ein Ausblick -- Auswahlbibliographie -- Personenregister -- Sachregister -- |
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Hinweise zu den Autorinnen und Autoren |
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In der Zeit des Humanismus und der frühen Neuzeit blüht im politischen Denken eine neue Gattung, die der Utopie. Thomas Morus gibt ihr den Titel und die literarische Form vor. Tommaso Campanella mit dem Sonnenstaat und Francis Bacon mit Neu-Atlantis eifern ihm nach. Alle drei Werke werden hier kommentiert und in ihrer Bedeutung für das gegenwärtige politische Denken erläutert.Statt sich in politische Schwärmerei zu verirren, beginnt Morus die Utopia mit einer Kritik an den sozialen und politischen Missständen in England. Drei Generationen später setzt Tommaso Campanella die Tradition des utopischen Denkens fort und entwirft er, erneut in Form eines Reiseromans, die Utopie eines christlichen und sozialistischen Gemeinwesens. Francis Bacon wiederum entwirft in seinem Reiseroman Neu-Atlantis die Utopie einer wissenschaftlich-technischen Zivilisation.Im vorliegenden Band werden alle drei Utopien gemeinsam durchgängig und systematisch interpretiert, zugleich ihre Argumentationen kritisch beleuchtet. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die in den Werken verhandelten Themen, etwa religiöse Toleranz, die Rolle des Privateigentums, die Bedeutung wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts, für das gegenwärtige politische Denken von großem Interesse sind. |
In the era of humanism and early modernity, a new genre of political thought flourished, that of the utopia. Thomas More gave it a name and a literary form. Tomasso Campanella’s City of the Sun and Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis emulate his example. This volume offers commentaries on these three works and explains their importance for contemporary political thought. |
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UNINA9910820406303321 |
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Panazzolo Daniel <1970-> |
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Desingularization of nilpotent singularities in families of planar vector fields / / Daniel Panazzolo |
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Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2002] |
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©2002 |
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1 online resource (122 p.) |
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Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; number 753 |
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Vector fields |
Singularities (Mathematics) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-108) and index. |
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""Contents""; ""Chapter 1. Introduction""; ""Chapter 2. Background Material""; ""2.1. Monomial fields""; ""2.2. Blowing-up and Strict Transforms""; ""2.3. Appendix 1: Closure of a Leaf""; ""2.4. Appendix 2: Rectification""; ""2.5. Appendix 3: Strict Transform of a Vector Field""; ""Chapter 3. Nilpotent Families and Trivialization""; ""3.1. Elementary and Nilpotent singularities""; ""3.2. Versal Unfoldings""; ""3.3. Versal Nilpotent Families""; ""Chapter 4. Desingularization of Nilpotent Singularities""; ""4.1. Regular Coverings of Foliated Line Fields""; ""4.2. Local Desingularization Step"" |
""4.3. Global Desingularization""""Chapter 5. The Proof of the Desingularization Theorem""; ""5.1. Ideals of Coefficients and Division Theorem""; ""5.2. Case Studies""; ""Chapter 6. Applications""; ""6.1. Application 1: Limit Periodic Sets""; ""6.2. Application 2: Non-existence of Canard Solutions""; ""Bibliography"" |
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