The Sentimental Mask

PMLA ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 78 (5) ◽  
pp. 529-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul E. Parnell
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Adequate Definition ◽  
Restoration Comedy

Fifty years after the modern study of sentimentalism was inaugurated by Ernest Bernbaum, the problem remains whether the term has ever been satisfactorily defined or described. Two recent developments reveal some of the difficulties: Arthur Sherbo in The English Sentimental Drama takes five basic criteria considered by most authorities as typical, and shows that they may all apply to plays demonstrably not sentimental. John Harrington Smith, in the preface to The Gay Couple in Restoration Comedy (1948), announces that he has completely avoided the term “sentimental” as too vague to be of much value. Yet Ronald Crane, writing fourteen years before, assumed the essential traits of sentimentalism to be fairly clear, and Norman Holland has implied that two criteria borrowed from Bernbaum and Krutch still supply an adequate definition. There is not even agreement whether sentimentality is a positive or negative quality. Krutch and Sherbo feel that it is false and dishonest, therefore bad. Crane concedes that it is somewhat limited intellectually, but emphasizes its humanitarianism and emotional warmth, especially the “self-approving joy” that makes virtue satisfying. Bernbaum vacillates between sympathy and contempt.

scholarly journals M-BRANE MODELS AND LOOP SPACES

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (20) ◽  
pp. 1230019 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTIAN SÄMANN
Keyword(s):  
Loop Space ◽  
The Self ◽  
String Equation ◽  
Loop Spaces ◽  
Brane Model ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Brane Models ◽  
Space Approach

I review an extension of the ADHMN construction of monopoles to M-brane models. This extended construction gives a map from solutions to the Basu–Harvey equation to solutions to the self-dual string equation transgressed to loop space. Loop spaces appear in fact quite naturally in M-brane models. This is demonstrated by translating a recently proposed M5-brane model to loop space. Finally, I comment on some recent developments related to the loop space approach to M-brane models.

Voluntary Societies and British Urban Elites, 1780–1850: An Analysis

1983 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
The Self ◽  
Urban Populations ◽  
Urban Elites ◽  
Recent Developments

Whilst it would be wrong to claim that voluntary societies in Britain were new in the period 1780 to 1850, the growth of large industrial and urban populations was accompanied by an increase in the foundation and prosperity of such societies. These societies were diverse in their purpose, form, size and membership. Edward Baines, junior, one of the self-appointed tribunes of the industrial middle class, in 1843 described recent developments as follows:

The person as co‐investigator in self‐research: Valuation theory

1991 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hubert J. M. Hermans
Keyword(s):  
Good Reason ◽  
The Self ◽  
Valuation Theory ◽  
Dynamic Phenomenon ◽  
Personality Psychology ◽  
Constructivist View ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Research Show

Recent developments in self‐research show the self to be increasingly conceived as an organized and highly dynamic phenomenon. In combination with the arguments presented in the preceding article, these developments are a good reason for adopting a method in which the psychologist and the subject work together in the study of the self: The self‐confrontation method and the theory on which it is based—valuation theory—are presented as an example of such an approach. This method construes the self as an organized process of valuations, a valuation being any unit of meaning that the person finds of importance in thinking about his or her life. Formulated in the language of the person him‐ or herself; these valuations and how they develop over time are considered in a dialogue between the psychologist and the subject. For the purposes of demonstration, two phenomena that are not easily observedare discussed here: (a) the existence of an imaginal figure not visibly present but functioning as a signifcant other in the person's daily life, and (b) the presence of a character in a recurring dream, which later gets included as an integral part of the self: Finally, the present approach is briefly discussed as representing a constructivist view of personality psychology.

Your Money and Your Life: Cash Transaction Reporting Legislation, Neo-Liberal Philosophy and the Governance of the Self

1994 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob McQueenf
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
The Self ◽  
New Right ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Cash Transaction ◽  
Proceeds Of Crime ◽  
Liberal Philosophy ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
Financial Transactions ◽  
Analytical Frameworks

Opponents of enactments such as the Financial Transactions Reports Act 1988 (Cth) and Proceeds of Crime Act 1987 (Cth) have principally based their opposition on the basis that such legislation and the regimes which it supports represent a fundamental attack on traditional domains of ‘privacy’. This paper questions the validity of such small T critiques and suggests that such analyses may play into the hands of ‘New Right’ agendas, rather than acting contrary to them. The assumptions lying behind the introduction of financial transaction reporting (FTR) are examined in the context of a variety of ‘New Right’ analytical frameworks. In particular the paper examines FTR in light of the assumption that commercial actors should be ‘free’ of government intervention to pursue their entrepreneurial activities. In this and other respects it is asserted that FTR acts contrary to, rather than as component of, a New Right agenda. The paper also explores the applicability of the Foucauldian notion of ‘governmentality’ in respect to recent developments in financial reporting and monitoring. The manner in which FTR legislation has influenced the ‘conduct’ of commercial actors is examined in some depth. So too is the question of the potential limits (if any) to the encroachment by the state into the previously ‘private’ conduct of both those who operate and those who use the banking and financial system.

Reading the Gothic and Gothic readers

Interventions ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Smith
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
The Self ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Relationship

In ‘Reading the Gothic and Gothic Readers’ Andrew Smith outlines how recent developments in Gothic studies have provided new ways of critically reflecting upon the nineteenth century. Smith then proceeds to explore how readers and reading, as images of self-reflection, are represented in the fin de siècle Gothic. The self-reflexive nature of the late nineteenth-century Gothic demonstrates a level of political and cultural scepticism at work in the period which, Smith argues, can be applied to recent developments in animal studies as a hitherto largely overlooked critical paradigm that can be applied to the Gothic. To that end this chapter examines representations of reading, readers, and implied readers in Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan (1894), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), and Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), focusing on how these representations explore the relationship between the human and the non-human. An extended account of Dracula identifies ways in which these images of self-reflection relate to the presence of the inner animal and more widely the chapter argues for a way of rethinking the period within the context of animal studies via these ostensibly Gothic constructions of human and animal identities.

scholarly journals PHASE STRING THEORY FOR DOPED ANTIFERROMAGNETS

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (06) ◽  
pp. 773-827 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZHENG-YU WENG
Keyword(s):  
Phase Diagram ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
String Theory ◽  
Physical Properties ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Self Consistent ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Global Phase Diagram

The recent developments of the phase string theory for doped antiferromagnets will be briefly reviewed. Such theory is built upon a singular phase string effect induced by the motion of holes in a doped antiferromagnet, which as a precise property of the t-J model dictates the novel competition between the charge and spin degrees of freedom. A global phase diagram including the antiferromagnetic, superconducting, lower and upper pseudogap, and high-temperature "normal" phases, as well as a series of anomalous physical properties of these phases will be presented as the self-consistent and systematic consequences of the phase string theory.

Tenth Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium: Recent developments in consolidation of natural clays

1988 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serge Leroueil
Keyword(s):  
Global Analysis ◽  
Strain Curve ◽  
The Self ◽  
Permeability Measurement ◽  
Stress Strain Curve ◽  
Consolidation Process ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Natural Clays ◽  
Excellent Tool

A global analysis of the consolidation of natural clays is realized considering the consolidation process to be a combination of the effects of compressibility and of permeability. The compressibility or stress–strain curve followed is strongly influenced, both in the laboratory and in situ, by the strain rate. The self-boring permeameter appears to be an excellent tool for permeability measurement; however, in homogeneous clays direct measurement in the laboratory also gives representive results. The coefficients of consolidation determined graphically strongly underestimate the in situ coefficient. The consolidation must thus be analysed by considering compressibility and permeability parameters measured separately. Key words: consolidation, clay, compressibility, permeability.

OFFSHORE RADIOPOSITIONING SYSTEMS

1972 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
A. William Marchai ◽  
R.L. Longton
Keyword(s):  
Long Range ◽  
Oil Recovery ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
The Self ◽  
Integrated Systems ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments

With the search for petroleum deposits in the world pushing farther offshore each year, the oil industry has answered the call with the development of dynamically positioned drill ships, hole re-entry techniques, and subsea completions. These developments are helping make deep water oil recovery a reality. Now, more than ever, there is a need for accurate, long-range radiopositioning systems so that deep water surveys and well locations can be conducted with the required accuracy.Radiopositioning systems of the past decade include land-based systems such as Shoran, Raydist, Decca and Toran and the self- contained Satellite and Integrated systems. Recent developments for work in deeper water further offshore include Loran-C in the Range-Range mode and Differential Omega.

Derrida's Error and Immunology

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eszter Timár
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Living Matter ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Way

While Derrida's work is often seen as removed from matter, influential arguments have also been made about deconstruction's capacity to capture some foundational logic of matter or life. I offer an example of the way Derrida's work may be read to suggest the latter, even in a case where Derrida may be wrong: based on Thomas Pradeu's Limits of the Self, I suggest that Derrida's arguably erroneous use of autoimmunity anticipated recent developments in immunology. However, instead of simply concluding that Derrida ‘anticipates’ immunology, I suggest that Pradeu's theory had earlier been prefigured in immunology around the term ‘allergy’ in agreement with the Derridean use of it in ‘Plato's Pharmacy’. Last, I will briefly consider what Derrida calls ‘life in general’, in order to demonstrate a resistance in his work to be simply proven right within what he understands as the organicist discourse of living matter.

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