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Short Story Theories
Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective problematizes different aspects of the renewal and development of the short story. The aim of this collection is to explore the most recent theoretical issues raised by the short story as a genre and to offer theoretical and practical perspectives on the form. Centering as it does on specific authors and on the wider implications of short story poetics, this collection presents a new series of essays that both reinterpret canonical writers of the genre and advance new critical insights on the most recent trends and contemporary authors. Theorizations about genre reflect on different aspects of the short story from a multiplicity of per...
Achilles beyond Fury
The fury of Achilles serves as the central axis around which the ten insightful essays of this volume are organized. The critical approaches exhibit a commendable diversity, addressing themes related to the multifaceted nature of the Iliadic hero. This investigation is both relevant and refreshing, drawing on the expertise of researchers from different academic domains. The contributions collectively focus on the striking character of the wrathful warrior of the Iliad, uncovering new perspectives, concerning potential parallels with the biblical Samson, the destructive consequences of his actions, crucial aspects about his dead, and his lasting influence in the iconography of Roman Imperial Age, as well in contemporary cinema.
Engineering Identities, Epistemologies and Values
This second companion volume on engineering studies considers engineering practice including contextual analyses of engineering identity, epistemologies and values. Key overlapping questions examine such issues as an engineering identity, engineering self-understandings enacted in the professional world, distinctive characters of engineering knowledge and how engineering science and engineering design interact in practice. Authors bring with them perspectives from their institutional homes in Europe, North America, Australia\ and Asia. The volume includes 24 contributions by more than 30 authors from engineering, the social sciences and the humanities. Additional issues the chapters scrutinize include prominent norms of engineering, how they interact with the values of efficiency or environmental sustainability. A concluding set of articles considers the meaning of context more generally by asking if engineers create their own contexts or are they created by contexts. Taken as a whole, this collection of original scholarly work is unique in its broad, multidisciplinary consideration of the changing character of engineering practice.
The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925
The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular - the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - even the greatest writers followed strict generic conventions that were far from subtle. This expanded and updated translation of Florence Goyet's influential La Nouvelle, 1870-1925: Description d'un genre à son apogée (Paris, 1993) is the only study to focus exclusively on this classic period across different continents. Ranging through French, English, Italian, Russian and Japanese writing - p...
Hybrid Metaheuristics
The main goal of this book is to provide a state of the art of hybrid metaheuristics. The book provides a complete background that enables readers to design and implement hybrid metaheuristics to solve complex optimization problems (continuous/discrete, mono-objective/multi-objective, optimization under uncertainty) in a diverse range of application domains. Readers learn to solve large scale problems quickly and efficiently combining metaheuristics with complementary metaheuristics, mathematical programming, constraint programming and machine learning. Numerous real-world examples of problems and solutions demonstrate how hybrid metaheuristics are applied in such fields as networks, logistics and transportation, bio-medical, engineering design, scheduling.
How Peripheral is the Periphery? Translating Portugal Back and Forth
This volume is a result of the need to reflect upon Portugal’s position from the viewpoint of the literary assets imported and exported through translation. It brings together a number of scholars working in the field of Translation Studies directly concerned with the Portuguese cultural system in order to analyse this question from various theoretical perspectives and from case studies of translation flows and movements in Portuguese culture. By Translating Portugal Back and Forth, the articles discuss issues such as: how can one draw the borderline between a peripheral and a semi-peripheral system? Is this borderline useful or necessary? How peripheral is the Portuguese cultural system a...
Van fabrieksterrein tot Technologiecampus Gent
Het rijke verleden van de opleiding industrieel ingenieur aan de KU Leuven Technologiecampus Gent Op 1 oktober 2013 integreerde de KaHo Sint-Lieven in de KU Leuven. Met dit boek wordt het verhaal dat hieraan vooraf ging, verteld vanuit een breed historisch perspectief. Zowel de geschiedenis van de opleiding tot industrieel ingenieur en die van de instellingen K.I.H.O en KaHo Sint-Lieven als het rijke industriële verleden van de Gentse Technologiecampus komen aan bod. Tien thema’s vormen de structuur van het boek. De geschiedenis start met de oprichting van de Gentse katoenfabriek La Louisiane in de negentiende eeuw. Dit wordt gekaderd binnen de ontwikkeling van de Rabotwijk. Met mooie ill...
Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story
In Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story, editors Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein have assembled a collection of eighteen original essays written by literary critics from around the globe. Collectively, these critics argue that the reciprocal influence between Russian and American writers is integral to the development of the short story in each country as well as vital to the global status the contemporary short story has attained. This collection provides original analyses of both well-known Russian and American stories as well as some that might be more unfamiliar. Each essay is purposely crafted to display an appreciation of the techniques, subject matt...
Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English
This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century.
