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By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into nothing less than a household word. He remains the only seismologist whose name anyone outside of narrow scientific circles would likely recognize. Yet few understand the Richter scale itself, and even fewer have ever understood the man. Drawing on the wealth of papers Richter left behind, as well as dozens of interviews with his family and colleagues, Susan Hough takes the reader deep into Richter's complex life story, setting it in the context of his family and interpersonal attachments, his academic career, and the history of seismology. Among his colleagues Richter was known as intensely private, passionately interested in earthquakes, and iconoclastic. He was an avid nudist, seismologists tell each other with a grin; he dabbled in poetry. He was a publicity hound, some suggest, and more famous than he deserved to be. But even his closest associates were unaware that he struggled to reconcile an intense and abiding need for artistic expression with his scientific interests, or that his apparently strained relationship with his wife was more unconventional but also stronger than they knew. Moreover, they never realized that his well-known foibles might even have been the consequence of a profound neurological disorder. In this biography, Susan Hough artfully interweaves the stories of Richter's life with the history of earthquake exploration and seismology. In doing so, she illuminates the world of earth science for the lay reader, much as Sylvia Nasar brought the world of mathematics alive in A Beautiful Mind.
Richter scale. --- Seismologists --- Earthquakes. --- Richter, Charles, --- Quakes (Earthquakes) --- Scale, Richter --- Richter, Charles F. --- Richter, C. F. --- Richter, Charles Francis, --- Earth movements --- Natural disasters --- Seismology --- Earthquake magnitude --- Geophysicists --- Measurement --- 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes. --- 1952 Kern County earthquake. --- Active fault. --- Allen Say. --- American Association of Variable Star Observers. --- Another Woman. --- Asperger syndrome. --- Autism. --- Barbara McClintock. --- Benioff. --- Beno Gutenberg. --- Book. --- Boris Podolsky. --- Calculation. --- Career. --- Charles Francis Richter. --- Child abuse. --- Clarence Allen (geologist). --- Classic book. --- Disaster. --- Distrust. --- Dr. Seuss. --- Dysfunctional family. --- Earthquake insurance. --- Earthquake prediction. --- Electra complex. --- Emerging technologies. --- Emotional baggage. --- Ernest Rutherford. --- Female hysteria. --- Field Act. --- Foreshock. --- Freaks. --- Geologist. --- Graduate school. --- Grandparent. --- Hanks. --- Harold Jeffreys. --- Headline. --- Hiking. --- Hiroo Kanamori. --- His Family. --- Hugo Benioff. --- Hypothyroidism. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- IBM Selectric typewriter. --- In Death. --- Inception. --- Incest. --- Indication (medicine). --- Industrial Workers of the World. --- Inge Lehmann. --- Joan Baez. --- Keiiti Aki. --- Lord Byron. --- Luke Jackson (author). --- Margaret Atwood. --- Mark Storey. --- Meanness. --- Modern physics. --- Mount Wilson Observatory. --- Mrs. --- National security. --- Neurosis. --- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. --- Nobel Prize. --- Nuclear family. --- Nuclear winter. --- Obsessive–compulsive disorder. --- Plate tectonics. --- Political correctness. --- Popular Science. --- Prediction. --- Procrastination. --- Quantum mechanics. --- Racism. --- Rain Man. --- Ramapo Fault. --- Richter magnitude scale. --- San Andreas Fault. --- Scientist. --- Seismological Society of America. --- Seismology. --- Seismometer. --- Southern California. --- Supervisor. --- Sylvia Nasar. --- Symptom. --- T. S. Eliot. --- Testimonial. --- The Parliament of Man. --- The Tumor. --- Thomas Wolfe. --- To This Day. --- Total loss. --- Treasure trove. --- Tsunami. --- V. --- Virginia Woolf. --- Writing.
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When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary commemoration of the victims, Jewish martyrology followed. Beautiful Death examines the evolution of a long-neglected corpus of Hebrew poetry, the laments reflecting the specific conditions of Jewish life in northern France. The poems offer insight into everyday life and into the ways medieval French Jews responded to persecution. They also suggest that poetry was used to encourage resistance to intensifying pressures to convert. The educated Jewish elite in northern France was highly acculturated. Their poetry--particularly that emerging from the innovative Tosafist schools--reflects their engagement with the vernacular renaissance unfolding around them, as well as conscious and unconscious absorption of Christian popular beliefs and hagiographical conventions. At the same time, their extraordinary poems signal an increasingly harsh repudiation of Christianity's sacred symbols and beliefs. They reveal a complex relationship to Christian culture as Jews internalized elements of medieval culture even while expressing a powerful revulsion against the forms and beliefs of Christian life. This gracefully written study crosses traditional boundaries of history and literature and of Jewish and general medieval scholarship. Focusing on specific incidents of persecution and the literary commemorations they produced, it offers unique insights into the historical conditions in which these poems were written and performed.
Jews --- Judaism --- Martyrdom --- Martyrdom in literature. --- Hebrew literature, Medieval --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Religions --- Martyrdom (Judaism) --- Persecutions --- History --- Judaism. --- History and criticism. --- Religion --- Abraham ibn Ezra. --- Allusion. --- Apostasy. --- Ashkenaz. --- Blood libel. --- Book burning. --- Book of Ezekiel. --- Books of Kings. --- Christian literature. --- Christianity. --- Conversion to Christianity. --- Conversion to Judaism. --- Crusades. --- Defection. --- Desecration. --- Desperation (novel). --- Elohim. --- Emeritus. --- Exegesis. --- Ezekiel. --- First Crusade. --- Gershom. --- God. --- Hagigah. --- Hagiography. --- Halevi. --- Harassment. --- Hazzan. --- Hebrew Bible. --- Hebrew language. --- Heresy. --- High Middle Ages. --- Historian. --- Host desecration. --- Humiliation. --- Illustration. --- In Death. --- Incorruptibility. --- Israelites. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish studies. --- Jews. --- Kohen. --- Lament. --- Lamentations Rabbah. --- Laments (Kochanowski). --- Libation. --- Literature. --- Maimonides. --- Martyr. --- Martyrology. --- Medieval Hebrew. --- Meir of Rothenburg. --- Middle Ages. --- Mishnah. --- Nahmanides. --- Names of God in Judaism. --- Narrative. --- Old French. --- Penitential. --- Persecution. --- Piyyut. --- Poetry. --- Polemic. --- Princeton University. --- Prose. --- Psalms. --- Pyre. --- Quatrain. --- Rabbi. --- Rabbinic literature. --- Rashbam. --- Rashi. --- Relic. --- Religious text. --- Responsa. --- Righteousness. --- Second Crusade. --- Sefer (Hebrew). --- Sefer Hasidim. --- Simhah. --- Soloveitchik. --- Stanza. --- Suffering. --- Suggestion. --- Talmud. --- Tefillin. --- Ten Martyrs. --- The Other Hand. --- The Song of Roland. --- Torah scroll. --- Torah. --- Treatise. --- Troyes. --- V. --- Writer. --- Writing. --- Yechiel of Paris. --- Yom Tov of Joigny.
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In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must invent new ways to express the crisis of death, as well as the paradoxical coexistence of a declining body and an undiminished consciousness. In The Rock, Wallace Stevens writes simultaneous narratives of winter and spring; in Ariel, Sylvia Plath sustains melodrama in cool formality; and in Day by Day, Robert Lowell subtracts from plenitude. In Geography III, Elizabeth Bishop is both caught and freed, while James Merrill, in A Scattering of Salts, creates a series of self-portraits as he dies, representing himself by such things as a Christmas tree, human tissue on a laboratory slide, and the evening/morning star. The solution for one poet will not serve for another; each must invent a bridge from an old style to a new one. Casting a last look at life as they contemplate death, these modern writers enrich the resources of lyric poetry.
Death in literature. --- American poetry --- History and criticism. --- Stevens, Wallace --- Criticism and interpretation --- Plath, Sylvia --- Lowell, Robert Traill Spence, Jr. --- Bishop, Elizabeth --- Merrill, James Ingram --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Death in literature --- Adjective. --- After Apple-Picking. --- Allusion. --- Amputation. --- Ars Poetica (Horace). --- Asymmetry. --- Because I could not stop for Death. --- Bevel. --- Binocular vision. --- Bluebeard's Castle. --- Burial. --- Calcium carbonate. --- Carbon monoxide. --- Caspar David Friedrich. --- Coffin. --- Couplet. --- Death and Life. --- Death drive. --- Death. --- Deathbed. --- Desiccation. --- Diction. --- Disjecta membra. --- Dramatis Personae. --- Elizabeth Bishop. --- Emblem. --- Emily Dickinson. --- Emptiness. --- Executive director. --- Ezra Pound. --- Fairy tale. --- Fine art. --- Grandparent. --- Hexameter. --- Human extinction. --- Impermanence. --- In Death. --- In the Flesh (TV series). --- Incineration. --- Irony. --- James Merrill. --- John Donne. --- John Keats. --- Lady Lazarus. --- Lament. --- Last Poems. --- Lecture. --- Life Studies. --- Lycidas. --- Macabre. --- Melodrama. --- Metaphor. --- Microtome. --- Misery (novel). --- Mourning. --- Narcissism. --- Narrative. --- National Gallery of Art. --- National Humanities Center. --- Ottava rima. --- Otto Plath. --- Pentameter. --- Phone sex. --- Pity. --- Plath. --- Platitude. --- Poetry. --- Princeton University Press. --- Psychotherapy. --- Rhyme scheme. --- Rhyme. --- Rigor mortis. --- Robert Lowell. --- Sadness. --- Sestet. --- She Died. --- Skirt. --- Slowness (novel). --- Soliloquy. --- Sonnet. --- Stanza. --- Subtraction. --- Suffering. --- Suicide attempt. --- Sylvia Plath. --- Ted Hughes. --- Tercet. --- Terza rima. --- The Other Hand. --- The Snapper (novel). --- Trepanning. --- Tyvek. --- Villanelle. --- Vocation (poem). --- W. B. Yeats. --- W. H. Auden. --- Wallace Stevens. --- Wasting. --- William Shakespeare. --- Writing.
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An engaging and illuminating exploration of grief--and why, despite its intense pain, it can also help us grow. Experiencing grief at the death of a person we love or who matters to us--as universal as it is painful--is central to the human condition. Surprisingly, however, philosophers have rarely examined grief in any depth. In Grief, Michael Cholbi presents a groundbreaking philosophical exploration of this complex emotional event, offering valuable new insights about what grief is, whom we grieve, and how grief can ultimately lead us to a richer self-understanding and a fuller realization of our humanity. Drawing on psychology, social science, and literature as well as philosophy, Cholbi explains that we grieve for the loss of those in whom our identities are invested, including people we don't know personally but cherish anyway, such as public figures. Their deaths not only deprive us of worthwhile experiences; they also disrupt our commitments and values. Yet grief is something we should embrace rather than avoid, an important part of a good and meaningful life. The key to understanding this paradox, Cholbi says, is that grief offers us a unique and powerful opportunity to grow in self-knowledge by fashioning a new identity. Although grief can be tumultuous and disorienting, it also reflects our distinctly human capacity to rationally adapt as the relationships we depend on evolve. An original account of how grieving works and why it is so important, Grief shows how the pain of this experience gives us a chance to deepen our relationships with others and ourselves. --
Grief --- Mourning --- Sorrow --- Bereavement --- Emotions --- Loss (Psychology) --- Philosophy. --- Acculturation. --- Addiction. --- Adult. --- Apathy. --- Biology. --- British literature. --- Business partner. --- Christianity. --- Clothing. --- Coincidence. --- Compatible Partners. --- Consideration. --- Conspicuous consumption. --- Cosmetics. --- David Bowie. --- Decision-making. --- Depiction. --- Desertion. --- Deviance (sociology). --- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. --- Disability. --- Distraction (game show). --- Dual process theory (moral psychology). --- Dwelling. --- Embarrassment. --- Existence. --- Expecting (Angel). --- Flourishing. --- Furniture. --- Good and evil. --- Grave. --- Grief counseling. --- Grief. --- Half-truth. --- Health. --- Hinge. --- Human behavior. --- Humility. --- Imprisonment. --- In Death. --- Indulgence. --- Institution. --- Instrumental value. --- Interaction. --- John Rawls. --- Joy Davidman. --- Juncture. --- Just society. --- Limbic system. --- Medical classification. --- Medical diagnosis. --- Mental breakdown. --- Mental health professional. --- Mental health. --- Michel Foucault. --- Morality. --- Mourner. --- Mourning. --- Narrative. --- Negative affectivity. --- Obstacle. --- Odor. --- Organic unity. --- Our Choice. --- Oxymoron. --- Pathology. --- Payment. --- Person A. --- Person. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy of artificial intelligence. --- Prediction. --- Predictive analytics. --- Promiscuity. --- Psychology. --- Quantity. --- Republic (Plato). --- Requirement. --- Resentment. --- Role. --- Sanity. --- Scrutiny (journal). --- Self-help. --- Self-interest. --- Self-love. --- Sibling. --- Single parent. --- Social skills. --- Space exploration. --- Suggestion. --- Technology. --- The Chronicles of Narnia. --- The Screwtape Letters. --- Theory of mind. --- Thomas Szasz. --- Time. --- Trait theory. --- Uncertainty. --- Understanding. --- Zhuangzi (book).
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Novel Relations engages twentieth-century post-Freudian British psychoanalysis in an unprecedented way: as literary theory. Placing the writing of figures like D. W. Winnicott, W. R. Bion, Michael and Enid Balint, Joan Riviere, Paula Heimann, and Betty Joseph in conversation with canonical Victorian fiction, Alicia Christoff reveals just how much object relations can teach us about how and why we read. These thinkers illustrate the ever-shifting impact our relations with others have on the psyche, and help us see how literary figures-characters, narrators, authors, and other readers-shape and structure us too. For Christoff, novels are charged relational fields.Closely reading novels by George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, Christoff shows that traditional understandings of Victorian fiction change when we fully recognize the object relations of reading. It is not by chance that British psychoanalysis illuminates underappreciated aspects of Victorian fiction so vibrantly: Victorian novels shaped modern psychoanalytic theories of psyche and relationality-including the eclipsing of empire and race in the construction of subject. Relational reading opens up both Victorian fiction and psychoanalysis to wider political and postcolonial dimensions, while prompting a closer engagement with work in such areas as critical race theory and gender and sexuality studies.The first book to examine at length the connections between British psychoanalysis and Victorian fiction, Novel Relations describes the impact of literary form on readers and on twentieth- and twenty-first-century theories of the subject.
English fiction --- Psychoanalysis and literature. --- Interpersonal relations in literature. --- Psychoanalysis --- History and criticism. --- History. --- 1800-1899 --- Great Britain. --- Aberrant. --- Adam Phillips (psychologist). --- Aesthetics. --- Allusion. --- American Psychoanalytic Association. --- Analogy. --- Anna Freud. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Anxiety. --- Audre Lorde. --- Bildungsroman. --- Capacity to be alone. --- Career. --- Character (arts). --- Characterization. --- Christopher Bollas. --- Consciousness. --- Countertransference. --- Critical practice. --- Criticism. --- Daniel Deronda. --- Death drive. --- Death. --- Deed. --- Description. --- Duke University Press. --- Egdon Heath. --- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. --- Feeling. --- Femininity. --- Fiction. --- Genre. --- George Eliot. --- Idealization. --- Ideology. --- In Death. --- Infant. --- Introjection. --- Listening. --- Literary criticism. --- Literary theory. --- Literature. --- Loneliness. --- Masud Khan. --- Melanie Klein. --- Metaphor. --- Metaphorical language. --- Modernity. --- Mourning and Melancholia. --- Mourning. --- Narration. --- Narrative. --- Novel. --- Novelist. --- Object relations theory. --- Oedipus complex. --- Omnipotence. --- Omniscience. --- Oppression. --- Originality. --- Pathetic fallacy. --- Phenomenon. --- Poetry. --- Potentiality and actuality. --- Preface. --- Projective identification. --- Prose. --- Psychic. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Psychoanalytic theory. --- Psychology. --- Psychosis. --- Racism. --- Rhetoric. --- Sadness. --- Self-concept. --- Sensibility. --- Sigmund Freud. --- Simile. --- Simone de Beauvoir. --- Subjectivity. --- Suggestion. --- Sympathy. --- Tess of the d'Urbervilles. --- The Erotic. --- The Mill on the Floss. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- The Various. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thomas Ogden. --- Thought. --- Transference. --- Unconscious communication. --- Understanding. --- Virginia Woolf. --- Vocabulary. --- Wilfred Bion. --- Writing.
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A cultural history of the face in Western art, ranging from portraiture in painting and photography to film, theater, and mass mediaThis fascinating book presents the first cultural history and anthropology of the face across centuries, continents, and media. Ranging from funerary masks and masks in drama to the figural work of contemporary artists including Cindy Sherman and Nam June Paik, renowned art historian Hans Belting emphasizes that while the face plays a critical role in human communication, it defies attempts at visual representation.Belting divides his book into three parts: faces as masks of the self, portraiture as a constantly evolving mask in Western culture, and the fate of the face in the age of mass media. Referencing a vast array of sources, Belting's insights draw on art history, philosophy, theories of visual culture, and cognitive science. He demonstrates that Western efforts to portray the face have repeatedly failed, even with the developments of new media such as photography and film, which promise ever-greater degrees of verisimilitude. In spite of sitting at the heart of human expression, the face resists possession, and creative endeavors to capture it inevitably result in masks—hollow signifiers of the humanity they're meant to embody.From creations by Van Eyck and August Sander to works by Francis Bacon, Ingmar Bergman, and Chuck Close, Face and Mask takes a remarkable look at how, through the centuries, the physical visage has inspired and evaded artistic interpretation.
Facial expression in art. --- Facial expression. --- A Thousand Plateaus. --- Aby Warburg. --- Act of Violence. --- Alfred Stieglitz. --- Allegory. --- Ambiguity. --- Analogy. --- Andy Warhol. --- Anecdote. --- Anonymity. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Antonello da Messina. --- Arnulf Rainer. --- Bembo. --- Caput mortuum. --- Caravaggio. --- Cemetery. --- Christian Boltanski. --- Chuck Close. --- Cindy Sherman. --- Court painter. --- Creation myth. --- Cultural history. --- Death mask. --- Dictatorship. --- Distrust. --- Domenico Fetti. --- Edgar Allan Poe. --- Euripides. --- Facial expression. --- Facsimile. --- Family resemblance. --- Film theory. --- Fine art. --- Fine-art photography. --- First appearance. --- Francis Bacon (artist). --- Gertrude Stein. --- Giambattista della Porta. --- Giorgio Vasari. --- Good and evil. --- Hans Belting. --- Hans Memling. --- Homo duplex. --- Idealization. --- Illustration. --- In Death. --- Inception. --- Indication (medicine). --- Jacques Le Goff. --- Jan van Eyck. --- Judith Butler. --- Lucas Cranach the Elder. --- Ludwig Binswanger. --- Male privilege. --- Man Ray. --- Marcel Duchamp. --- Marilyn Monroe. --- Mask. --- Mathew Brady. --- Mirror writing. --- Modern sculpture. --- Modernity. --- Mummy. --- Museum. --- Obsolescence. --- Oil sketch. --- On the Eve. --- Oppression. --- Pablo Picasso. --- Paradigm shift. --- Paul Klee. --- Photography. --- Phrenology. --- Physiognomy. --- Plaster cast. --- Pop art. --- Primitivism. --- Printing. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Quintilian. --- Roland Barthes. --- Romanticism. --- Sebastiano del Piombo. --- Slavery. --- Sophistication. --- Stephen Greenblatt. --- Surrealism. --- Symbolic power. --- Tattoo. --- The Human Face. --- The Loved One. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- The Praise of Folly. --- Verism. --- Wallpaper. --- Walter Benjamin. --- William Hogarth. --- Yves Klein.
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