Untimely beggar [[electronic resource] ] : poverty and power from Baudelaire to Benjamin / / Patrick Greaney

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778341003321
• Autore: Greaney Patrick
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2008
• ISBN: 0-8166-5391-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.933556
• Soggetti: Poverty in literature; Power (Social sciences) in literature; European literature - 19th century - History and criticism; European literature - 20th century - History and criticism
• 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: Contents; Introduction: The Beggar and the Promised Land of Cannibalism; 1. Impoverished Power; 2. Let's Get Beat Up by the Poor!; 3. Poetic Rebellion in Mallarmé; 4. The Transvaluation of Poverty; 5. Rilke and the Aestheticization of Poverty; 6. An Outcast Community; 7. Exposed Interiors and the Poverty of Experience; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Covering the period from the publication of Les Fleurs du Mal in 1857 to the composition of Benjamin's final texts in the 1930's, Untimely Beggar investigates the coincidence of two modern literary and philosophical interests: representing the poor and representing potential. In doing so, Patrick Greaney offers significant insights into modernity's intense philosophical and literary interest in socioeconomic poverty.

Contributions to Arabic Metrology. / by George C. Miles

• Record Nr.: UNIORUON00018927
• Autore: MILES, George C.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: 2 v. ; 20 cm
• Edizione: [New York : American Numismatic Society]
• Descrizione fisica: Cont. : v.1- Early Arabic Glass Weights and Measure Stamps Acquired by the American Numismatic Society 1951-1956 ; v.2- Early Arabic Glass Weight and Measure Stamps in the Benaki Museum, Athens, and the Peter Ruthven Collection, Ann Arbor
• Classificazione: VO XX B
• Soggetti: METROLOGIA - ISLAM
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Dynamics at solid state surfaces and interfaces . Volume 2 Fundamentals / / edited by Uwe Bovensiepen, Hrvoje Petek, Martin Wolf

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911019980303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Weinheim, : Wiley-VCH, c2012
• ISBN: 9781283644013; 1283644010; 9783527646494; 3527646493; 9783527646463; 3527646469; 9783527646487; 3527646485
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BovensiepenUwe; PetekHrvoje; WolfMartin
• Disciplina: 530.417
• Soggetti: Solids - Surfaces; Surfaces (Physics); Electrodynamics; Structural dynamics
• 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: Dynamics at Solid State Surfaces and Interfaces; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Colour Plates; 1 The Electronic Structure of Solids; 1.1 Single-Electron Approximation; 1.1.1 The Drude Model of the Free Electron Gas; 1.1.2 The Electronic Band Structure: Metals, Insulators, and Semiconductors; 1.2 From Bloch Theory to Band Structure Calculations; 1.2.1 Bloch Theory; 1.2.2 The Tight Binding Approach to the Solid; 1.2.3 Band Structure Calculations; 1.3 Beyond the Band Picture; 1.3.1 Mott's Hydrogen Solid; 1.3.2 Mott Insulators in Nature; 1.4 Electronic Structure of Correlated Materials; 1.4.1 The Hubbard Model1.4.2 Dynamical Mean Field Theory; 1.4.3 ; Electronic Structure Calculations; 1.4.4 Ordered States; 1.4.5 Cooperation Between Lattice Instabilities and Electronic Correlations: The Example of Vanadium Dioxide; References; 2 Quasi-Particles and Collective Excitations; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Quasi-Particles; 2.2.1 Electrons and Holes; 2.2.2 Phonons; 2.2.2.1 Adiabatic Approximation; 2.2.2.2 Harmonic Approximation; 2.2.2.3 Lattice Dynamics; 2.2.2.4 Phonons at Surfaces; 2.2.3 Electron-Phonon Coupling in Metals; 2.2.4 Excitons: Electron-Hole Pairs in Semiconductor Quantum Wells; 2.2.4.1 Microscopic Theory2.2.4.2 Excitonic Resonances and Populations; 2.2.4.3 Terahertz Spectroscopy of Exciton Populations; 2.2.4.4 Excitonic Signatures in the Photoluminescence; 2.2.5 Polarons: Electron-Phonon Coupling in Polar and Ionic Solids; 2.3 Collective Excitations; 2.3.1 Plasmons: Electron Density Oscillations; 2.3.1.1 Surface Plasmons; 2.3.1.2 Acoustic Surface Plasmons; 2.3.2 Magnons: Elementary Excitations in Ferromagnetic Materials; 2.3.2.1 Spin Waves in the Heisenberg Model; 2.3.2.2 Itinerant Electrons; 2.3.2.3 Conclusions; 2.4 Experimental Access to Quasi-Particle and Collective Excitations2.4.1 Coherent Phonons; 2.4.1.1 Coherent Optical Phonons; 2.4.1.2 Coherent Acoustic Phonons; 2.4.2 High-Resolution Angle-Resolved Photoemission; 2.4.2.1 Photoemission Spectral Function of Quasi-Particles; 2.4.2.2 Experimental Considerations for Photoelectron Spectroscopy; 2.4.2.3 Quasi-Particles from Electron-Phonon Interaction; 2.4.2.4 Quasi-Particles from Electron-Magnon Interaction; 2.4.2.5 Conclusions and Implications; 2.4.3 Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy; 2.4.3.1 Experiment; 2.4.3.2 Electron Lifetimes; 2.4.3.3 Electron-Phonon Coupling2.4.3.4 Surface Exciton Formation; 2.4.3.5 Magnon Emission; 2.4.3.6 Magnon-Phonon Interaction; 2.5 Summary; References; 3 Surface States and Adsorbate-Induced Electronic Structure; 3.1 Intrinsic Surface States; 3.1.1 Basic Concepts of Surface States; 3.1.2 Scattering Model of Surface States; 3.2 Crystal-Induced Surface States; 3.2.1 Tamm and Shockley Surface States; 3.2.2 Dangling Bond States; 3.3 Barrier-Induced Surface States; 3.3.1 Image Potential States; 3.3.2 Quantum Well States; 3.4 Experimental Methods; 3.4.1 Photoemission; 3.4.2 Two-Photon Photoemission; 3.4.3 Scanning Tunneling Methods
• Sommario/riassunto: This two-volume work covers ultrafast structural and electronic dynamics of elementary processes at solid surfaces and interfaces, presenting the current status of photoinduced processes. Providing valuable introductory information for newcomers to this booming field of research, it investigates concepts and experiments, femtosecond and attosecond time-resolved methods, as well as frequency domain techniques.The whole is rounded off by a look at future developments.