1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001900129707536

Autore

Franchi, Jacques

Titolo

Hyperbolic dynamics and brownian motion : an introduction / Jacques Franchi, Yves Le Jan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : Oxford University Press, 2012

ISBN

9780199654109

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 266 p. ; 23 cm

Collana

Oxford mathematical monographs

Classificazione

AMS 51M09

AMS 60J65

Altri autori (Persone)

Le Jan, Yvesauthor

Disciplina

530.162

Soggetti

Hyperbolic geometry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781336303321

Autore

Herman David <1962->

Titolo

Poverty of the imagination : nineteenth-century Russian literature about the poor / / David Herman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Evanston, Ill. : , : Northwestern University Press, , 2001

ISBN

0-8101-2130-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 304 pages)

Collana

Studies in Russian literature and theory

Disciplina

891.709/35206942

Soggetti

Russian literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Poor in literature

Poverty in literature

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 (p. 263-273) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: poverty and imagination Expelled from the garden of poverty: sympathy and literacy in "Poor Liza" The call of poverty: learning to love the low in "Egyptian nights" The meaning of poverty: Gogol's Petersburg tales Gogol against sympathy "The poverty of our literature" By his poverty: Dostoevsky and the imitations of Christ Conclusion: the wealth of the Russian imaginations

Sommario/riassunto

The primal scene of all nineteenth-century Western thought might well be the moment an observer gazed at someone poor, most commonly on the streets of a great metropolis, and wondered what the spectacle meant in human, moral, political, and metaphysical terms. In Russia, where so much of the population was impoverished, the moment held special significance. David Herman examines how Russian writers portrayed this poverty and what their portrayal reveals and articulates about core values of Russian culture.Focussing on specific texts but addressing the literary tradition as a whole, Herman begins with Karamzin's immensely popular story "Poor Liza", the first in a sequence of poverty narratives that self-consciously address one another. He then considers Pushkin's "Egyptian Nights"; Gogol's "Overcoat", Petersburg tales, and Selected Passages; and Dostoevsky's Idiot and 1880 "Pushkin speech".With a series of innovative readings, Poverty of the Imagination teases out a Russian discourse on lack which owes its peculiar richness to an insistence on solving simultaneously problems



of social justice, national identity, and the ethics of the human imagination. As prominently as poverty figures in Russian literature, this is the first sustained analysis of its literary, conceptual, and cultural implications. As such, it deepens our understanding and appreciation of some of the most widely read literature of all time.