Lyric Personhood: On the Aesthetics of Being Someone in the West (Opera Lab: Explorations in History, Technology, and Performance)

A new theory of personhood makes the case that a "person"&nbsp;has always been an&nbsp;aesthetic category, not just a&nbsp;legal, political, or moral one. &nbsp; What does it mean to be a person? One might think of the possession of certain rights, having the capacity for love, or being self-determined. But if words like "person" or "love" seem to carry an internal meaning, where does this meaningfulness come from? Lyric Personhood contends that to be encultured in the modern West is to learn, on top of everything else, an unspoken and mostly felt sense of what it would mean to be someone, a sense transmitted not only in language but also through encounters with aesthetic form. Through close readings that span nineteenth-century European opera, commercial cinema, and amateur YouTube proposal videos, Dan Wang shows that a "person" has become an aesthetic concept--and not just a legal, moral, political, or philosophical one--in the last two hundred years of European culture. It's hard to let go of the organizing promise of romantic love, the dream of therapeutic "health," and the aspiration to belong to national culture, Wang argues, because these longings have been shaped by an archive of sentimental and melodramatic works that trains people in what to expect from life, genre, and even the knowing promised in theory itself. Tracing a surprisingly continuous imagination of personhood through opera and film aesthetics, Lyric Personhood introduces modes of reading audiovisual works that allow a longer story to be told about the forms that make personhood sensible in the West.

Humor & Entertainment

Wang, Dan

Movies

University of Chicago Press

Discover China is specially designed for young adult and adult learners and employs a communicative approach to language learning. Emphasis is placed on pair work, group work and on a variety of speaking and listening activities to help students become confident Chinese language speakers. Discover China gives students a comprehensive, integrated and systematic introduction to language.

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History

Asia

Macmillan ELT

Discover China Workbook 3 is an accompanying workbook to Discover China Student Book 3, designed for low-intermediate teenage-adult learners of mandarin Chinese. Workbook 3 is suitable for both in-class and self-study use. Workbook 3 features clear language objectives which correspond with the Student's Book unit structure and activities. A wide variety of vocabulary and grammar exercises, as well as extra reading and listening activities, provide practice of the core language presented in Student's Book 3. Each unit of Discover China Workbook 3 contains a list of learning objectives which provide a clear outline of the language skills and knowledge which is practiced in each activity. Also contained in each unit is additional topic-related reading and listening material which provide extra practice of key grammar and vocabulary presented in the corresponding Student Book lesson and unit. Pinyin of characters learnt in the Student Book 3 is removed from the listening and reading passages in Workbook 3. Moreover a self-assessment section at the end of each unit using "I can - " descriptors enables students to reflect on their individual progress. The Workbook 3 pays attention to developing students' character writing skills beyond the number taught in Student Book 3. In Student Book 3, students learn to write 70 characters, and in Workbook 3 this number is increased to 370 characters.

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This unique text helps make sense of big data in engineering applications using tools and techniques from signal processing. It presents fundamental signal processing theories and software implementations, reviews current research trends and challenges, and describes the techniques used for analysis, design and optimization. Readers will learn about key theoretical issues such as data modelling and representation, scalable and low-complexity information processing and optimization, tensor and sublinear algorithms, and deep learning and software architecture, and their application to a wide range of engineering scenarios. Applications discussed in detail include wireless networking, smart grid systems, and sensor networks and cloud computing. This is the ideal text for researchers and practising engineers wanting to solve practical problems involving large amounts of data, and for students looking to grasp the fundamentals of big data analytics.

Signal Processing and Networking for Big Data Applications

Computers & Technology

Han, Zhu

Hong, Mingyi

Computer Science

Cambridge University Press

Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

Business & Money

Economics

W.W.Norton&Company

The brief focuses on applying sublinear algorithms to manage critical big data challenges. The text offers an essential introduction to sublinear algorithms, explaining why they are vital to large scale data systems. It also demonstrates how to apply sublinear algorithms to three familiar big data applications: wireless sensor networks, big data processing in Map Reduce and smart grids. These applications present common experiences, bridging the theoretical advances of sublinear algorithms and the application domain. Sublinear Algorithms for Big Data Applications is suitable for researchers, engineers and graduate students in the computer science, communications and signal processing communities.

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Networking & Cloud Computing

Springer

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办公室事务处理(高等职业教育十三五文秘专业规划教材)

机械工业出版社

Hippo Culture & Children's Mongolian traditional culture of open reading : idioms Solitaire (color phonetic version )(Chinese Edition)

Jilin Publishing Group

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Lyric Personhood: On the Aesthetics of Being Someone in the West (Opera Lab: Explorations in History, Technology, and Performance)

Lyric Personhood: On the Aesthetics of Being Someone in the West (Opera Lab: Explorations in History, Technology, and Performance)

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Signal Processing and Networking for Big Data Applications

Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

Sublinear Algorithms for Big Data Applications (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)

新ゼロからスタート中国語 文法編

办公室事务处理(高等职业教育十三五文秘专业规划教材)

Hippo Culture & Children's Mongolian traditional culture of open reading : idioms Solitaire (color phonetic version )(Chinese Edition)

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