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James Joyce and the Act of Reception is the first detailed account
of Joyce's own engagement with the reception of his work. It shows
how Joyce's writing, from the earliest fiction to Finnegans Wake,
addresses the social conditions of reading (particularly in
Ireland). Most notably, it echoes and transforms the responses of
some of Joyce's actual readers, from family and friends to key
figures such as Eglinton and Yeats. This study argues that the
famous 'unreadable' quality of Joyce's writing is a crucial feature
of its historical significance. Not only does Joyce engage with the
cultural contexts in which he was read but, by inscribing versions
of his own contemporary reception within his writing, he determines
that his later readers read through the responses of earlier ones.
In its focus on the local and contemporary act of reception,
Joyce's work is seen to challenge critical accounts of both
modernism and deconstruction.
This collection shows the depth and range of James Joyce's
relationship with key literary, intellectual and cultural issues
that arose in the nineteenth century. Thirteen original essays
explore several new themes in Joyce studies, connecting Joyce's
writing to that of his predecessors, and linking Joyce's formal
innovations to his reading of, and immersion in, nineteenth-century
life. The volume begins by addressing Joyce's relationships with
fictional forms in nineteenth-century and turn-of-the-century
Ireland. Further sections explore the rise of new economies of
consumption and Joyce's formal adaptations of major intellectual
figures and issues. What emerges is a portrait of Joyce as he has
not previously been seen, giving scholars and students of
fin-de-siecle culture, literary modernism and English and Irish
literature fresh insight into one of the most important writers of
the past century.
Comedy / Characters: 3 male, 7 female, 4 extras (women)
Scenery: Interior
Orphaned as a child to be raised by his scientist uncle deep in
the Canadian woods, Romeo Montague has never set eyes upon a woman
in his over twenty-one years. That is all about to change when two
Americans - Larry McNeil and Rex Simons - stumble across him in the
woods and invite him to visit them in the States. He arrives to
find a house full of women, including Larry's two outgoing sisters,
Connie and Billie, and LaReina, the Spanish maid. Throw in Larry's
expected fiance Orpha, the vivacious Aunt Rachel, and a bevy of
Amazon furniture repossessors and poor Romeo faces a veritable
female overload. However, he handles it all with aplomb and even
manages to save Larry's inheritance, Rex's smashed car and the
family furniture. As befitting this gentle romantic comedy, the
play ends with kisses all around.
First published in 1998. This work contributes to the discussion of
Knight by showing that uncertainty broadens the conception of
economic welfare, and that a new cost analysis holds the key to
unlocking the Knightian corpus. It develops Knight's suggestion
that uncertainty-control costs can be reduced - arguing that the
large firm enjoys economic rent from utilizing its dominant vantage
point in the market. The author demonstrates that while Knight
provides the intellectual stimulus which propelled Chamberlin's
thesis of monopolistic competition, Chamberlin uses a very abstract
form of uncertainty in his analysis.
First published in 1998. This work contributes to the discussion of
Knight by showing that uncertainty broadens the conception of
economic welfare, and that a new cost analysis holds the key to
unlocking the Knightian corpus. It develops Knight's suggestion
that uncertainty-control costs can be reduced - arguing that the
large firm enjoys economic rent from utilizing its dominant vantage
point in the market. The author demonstrates that while Knight
provides the intellectual stimulus which propelled Chamberlin's
thesis of monopolistic competition, Chamberlin uses a very abstract
form of uncertainty in his analysis.
When John Nash won the Nobel prize in economics in 1994, many
people were surprised to learn that he was alive and well. Since
then, Sylvia Nasar's celebrated biography "A Beautiful Mind," the
basis of a new major motion picture, has revealed the man. "The
Essential John Nash" reveals his work--in his own words. This book
presents, for the first time, the full range of Nash's diverse
contributions not only to game theory, for which he received the
Nobel, but to pure mathematics--from Riemannian geometry and
partial differential equations--in which he commands even greater
acclaim among academics. Included are nine of Nash's most
influential papers, most of them written over the decade beginning
in 1949.
From 1959 until his astonishing remission three decades later,
the man behind the concepts "Nash equilibrium" and "Nash
bargaining"--concepts that today pervade not only economics but
nuclear strategy and contract talks in major league sports--had
lived in the shadow of a condition diagnosed as paranoid
schizophrenia. In the introduction to this book, Nasar recounts how
Nash had, by the age of thirty, gone from being a wunderkind at
Princeton and a rising mathematical star at MIT to the depths of
mental illness.
In his preface, Harold Kuhn offers personal insights on his
longtime friend and colleague; and in introductions to several of
Nash's papers, he provides scholarly context. In an afterword, Nash
describes his current work, and he discusses an error in one of his
papers. A photo essay chronicles Nash's career from his student
days in Princeton to the present. Also included are Nash's Nobel
citation and autobiography.
"The Essential John Nash" makes it plain why one of Nash's
colleagues termed his style of intellectual inquiry as "like
lightning striking." All those inspired by Nash's dazzling ideas
will welcome this unprecedented opportunity to trace these ideas
back to the exceptional mind they came from.
A crucial element in enhancing agricultural productivity growth in
Africa is improving the provision of productive investments through
more and better public spending in agriculture. Agricultural public
spending in Africa not only lags behind other developing regions by
several metrics of volume, it is also vitiated by misinvestment
such as input subsidies programs and transfers that tend to benefit
the better off, with insignificant gains for the poor. Shortcomings
of the budgeting process also reduce spending effectiveness.
Addressing the quality of public spending and the efficiency of
resource use is perhaps even more important than addressing the
level of spending. Investments in rural public goods combined with
better policies and institutions have driven agricultural
productivity growth around the world. The dividends from
investments to strengthen markets, expand irrigation, develop and
adopt improved technologies can be enormous. Despite high returns
on such investments, Sub-Saharan African countries grossly
underinvest in them. Rebalancing the composition of public
agricultural spending would reap massive payoffs. To realize these
benefits requires better choices about how to allocate public
agricultural spending and how to ensure that budget processes
support those allocations. And making those choices will require
overcoming the inertia in policymaking that favors continuing with
today s inefficient spending and that favors short-term visible
programs over much higher, if less visible, long-term gains.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for
quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in
an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the
digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books
may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading
experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have
elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for
quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in
an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the
digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books
may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading
experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have
elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
Brilliant physicist Alex Moor has created a device that will
revolutionise the world - technology that can observe and study any
point in space and time. This is a machine that can look into
history and the future. Man can now explore the universe without
leaving the earth. It is the greatest tool of learning man has ever
known. Alex Moor is a humanitarian and pacifist. He isn't prepared
for the treachery and greed that his brainchild causes. When
politicians and the military become involved the stakes are high.
An act of betrayal changes the course of history and plunges
civilisation towards oblivion. Alex Moor must survive an incredible
journey and conquer his own demons if humankind is to survive.
This collection shows the depth and range of James Joyce's
relationship with key literary, intellectual and cultural issues
that arose in the nineteenth century. Thirteen original essays
explore several new themes in Joyce studies, connecting Joyce's
writing to that of his predecessors, and linking Joyce's formal
innovations to his reading of, and immersion in, nineteenth-century
life. The volume begins by addressing Joyce's relationships with
fictional forms in nineteenth-century and turn-of-the-century
Ireland. Further sections explore the rise of new economies of
consumption and Joyce's formal adaptations of major intellectual
figures and issues. What emerges is a portrait of Joyce as he has
not previously been seen, giving scholars and students of
fin-de-siecle culture, literary modernism and English and Irish
literature fresh insight into one of the most important writers of
the past century.
James Joyce and the Act of Reception is a detailed account of
Joyce's own engagement with the reception of his work. It shows how
Joyce's writing, from the earliest fiction to Finnegans Wake,
addresses the social conditions of reading (particularly in
Ireland). Most notably, it echoes and transforms the responses of
some of Joyce's actual readers, from family and friends to key
figures such as Eglinton and Yeats. This study argues that the
famous 'unreadable' quality of Joyce's writing is a crucial feature
of its historical significance. Not only does Joyce engage with the
cultural contexts in which he was read but, by inscribing versions
of his own contemporary reception within his writing, he determines
that his later readers read through the responses of earlier ones.
In its focus on the local and contemporary act of reception,
Joyce's work is seen to challenge critical accounts of both
modernism and deconstruction.
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