Review of The Voyage Perilous: Willa Cather's Romanticism

Willa Cather's O Pioneers!: Violence and Modernist Aesthetics

Willa Cather's 1913 novel, O Pioneers! concludes with an unexpected moment of extreme violence as two young lovers, Emil Bergson and Marie Shabata, are murdered by Marie's husband in a mulberry orchard. Cather's novel is almost wholly devoted to the psychological interior of the protagonist, Alexandra Bergson, thereby rendering this violent interruption more dynamic as it essentially undercuts ...

Optimizing Voyage Plan in way of Persian Gulf and Red Sea Using Meteorology and Oceanography Satellite Data

The weather forecast by satellite data is a good guideline for assessment of voyage planning route in order to have safe and economic voyage for shipping. ISO15016, "Guidelines for the assessment of speed and performance by analysis of speed trial data", has been developed by the working group ISO/TC 8/SC 9/WG 2. This paper presents the effects of wave speed & direction, wind speed and directio...

German Romanticism and Science. The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter (review)

Romanticism, Alexander von Humboldt and the distinction of “Natur” and “Geist” Philosophy of Science in a Forest, 23-25 May 2013 (Amersfoort)

Romanticism is an indefinable movement as F.R. de Toreinx pointed out as early as in 1829. However, Romanticism shares some characteristics with other historical movements such as Classicism or Enlightenment. Some experts claim that these two mentioned movements seem to totally opposed, even though Romanticism could also be seen as an extension of both. Following Arthur O. Lovejoy’s ideas (1948...

Essay review. Romantic life and science.

Romance has for some time been a term of dubious associations. In the seventeenth century, Thomas Burnet decried those critics who would call his Theory of the Earth a ‘Philosophik Romance’; in the eighteenth century, Buffon did just that, and before too long, his theory of the Earth was the subject of the same epithet. By 1780, the early days of the era of Romanticism (so early that it was not...