Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature / edited by Liisa Steinby and Aino Mäkikalli

• Record Nr.: UNISA996379044503316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2017; Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 pages) : digital file(s)
• Collana: Crossing boundaries: Turku medieval and early modern studies ; ; 7.
• Disciplina: 809/.033
• Soggetti: European prose literature - 18th century - History and criticism; European fiction - 18th century - History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 18th century; Anthologies; Anthologies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : the place of narratology in the historical study of eighteenth-century literature -- The eighteenth-century challenge to narrative theory -- Formalism and historicity reconciled in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones -- Perspective and focalization in eighteenth-century descriptions -- Temporality in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe -- Temporality, subjectivity and the representation of characters in the eighteenth-century novel: from Defoe's Moll Flanders to Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre -- Authorial narration reconsidered: Eliza Haywood's Betsy Thoughtless, Anonymous' Charlotte Summers, and the problem of authority in the mid-eighteenth-century novel -- Problems of tellability in German eighteenth-century criticism and novel-writing -- Immediacy: the function of embedded narratives in Wieland's Don Sylvio -- The tension between idea and narrative form: the example as a narrative structure in Enlightenment literature -- 'Speaking well of the dead': characterization in the early modern funeral sermon -- The use of paratext in popular eighteenth-century biography: the case of Edmund ; Curll -- Peritextual disposition in French eighteenth-century narratives.
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narrative and eighteenth-century literature from across Europe. At issue is the question of whether the theoretical concepts underpinning narratology are, despite their appearance of ahistorical generality, actually derived from the historical study of a particular period and type of literature. The essays take on aspects of eighteenth-century texts such as plot, genre, character, perspective, temporality, and more, coming at them from both a narratological and a historical perspective.

First-Principles Prediction of Structures and Properties in Crystals / Dominik Kurzydlowski, Andreas Hermann

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910367750203321
• Autore: Kurzydlowski Dominik
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019; Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2019
• ISBN: 9783039216710; 3039216716
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource (128 p.)
• Soggetti: Chemistry
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: The term "first-principles calculations" is a synonym for the numerical determination of the electronic structure of atoms, molecules, clusters, or materials from 'first principles', i.e., without any approximations to the underlying quantum-mechanical equations. Although numerous approximate approaches have been developed for small molecular systems since the late 1920s, it was not until the advent of the density functional theory (DFT) in the 1960s that accurate "first-principles" calculations could be conducted for crystalline materials. The rapid ; development of this method over the past two decades allowed it to evolve from an explanatory to a truly predictive tool. Yet, challenges remain: complex chemical compositions, variable external conditions (such as pressure), defects, or properties that rely on collective excitations-all represent computational and/or methodological bottlenecks. This Special Issue comprises a collection of papers that use DFT to tackle some of these challenges and thus highlight what can (and cannot yet) be achieved using first-principles calculations of crystals.