In this target article, we argue that personality processes, personality structure, and personality development have to be understood and investigated in integrated ways in order to provide compreh...

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Integrating Personality Structure, Personality Process, and Personality Development:

Insurgent Remains disturbs the identification of the American Revolution with U.S. national beginnings by tracing it through its literary aftereffects in the period with which it is identified, 1770-1820. While the American Revolution is thought to have concluded with the Treaty of Paris (1783) and the “birth of the United States, Insurgent Remains reads texts produced in the decades following the peace for delineations of ongoing Revolutionary experiences characterized by loss and constraint that demand creative, collective responses without guarantee. In chapters organized around the re-use and re-circulation of “old” forms and formats—allegory, anthology, tragedy, and petition—I propose that the liminal affective states in the texts I examine are sites of insurgent potential in their own right whose politics are inscrutable when the Revolution is conceived as an oppositional conflict of sides whose descriptive vocabulary reduces to a binary formula (American/British, Loyalist/Patriot). Instead, they become legible as “remains”: pending works of grief, yearning, need, and love that offer vibrant possibilities for collective action and ethical commitment obscured by teleologies of national consolidation. Eschewing preconceived identitarian and partisan markers through which Revolutionary history has conventionally been organized, my approach stresses the roles of literary forms in mediating traumatic experiences of Revolutionary history that may otherwise elude representation. I argue that the itineraries along which these forms travel open up new ways of thinking about the cultural politics of the period and the politics of revolution itself. This project thus seeks to enrich our understanding of the Revolutionary period by expanding the narrow field in which politics seem to operate, attending to modes of historical experience debarred from political consideration by traditional Revolutionary histories bound to binary narratives of conflict and progress. Degree Type Dissertation Degree Name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Graduate Group English First Advisor Amy B. Kaplan

Insurgent Remains: Afterlives of the American Revolution, 1770-1820

This study of Robert d’Orbigny’s Old French ‘aristocratique’ Li Conte de Floire et Blancheflor (c. 1170) and its receptions in Guillaume de Lorris’ first part of Le Roman de la Rose (c. 1230), and Giovanni Boccaccio’s later Italian version of the story, Il Filocolo (1335 – 1336), seeks to reassess Floire et Blancheflor in the light of current scholarly discourses concerning, among other things, ekphrasis and medieval conceptions of nature, recognising it as a work of exceptional ekphrastic and self-reflexive richness interested above all else in its own artefactuality. An argument is presented that Robert d’Orbigny’s poem is chiefly concerned with presenting a vivid series of hyper-realistic artefacts, including (both actual and artificial) flowers, silks, and stones, that repeatedly blur the boundaries between art and nature and in doing so contribute to the construction of a sophisticated dialogue about poetic composition. Later chapters examine the reappearance and refashioning of many of the same ekphrastically treated artefacts that characterise and form the subject of Floire et Blancheflor within the Roman de la Rose and the Filocolo, where they become thresholds into other spaces – sites of intertextual exchange and transportation.

The Art of Flowers, Silks, and Stones: Ekphrastic Literary Fashioning in Floire et Blancheflor and its Receptions in Later French and Italian Medieval Literature

In our Introduction to the Conceiving the Social with Big Data Special Issue of Big Data & Society, we survey the 18 contributions from scholars in the humanities and social sciences, and highlight several questions and themes that emerge within and across them. These emergent issues reflect the challenges, problems, and promises of working with Big Data to access and assess the social. They include puzzles about the locus and nature of human life, the nature of interpretation, the categorical constructions of individual entities and agents, the nature and relevance of contexts and temporalities, and the determinations of causality. As such, the Introduction reflects on the contributions along a series of binaries that capture the dualities and dynamisms of these themes: Life/Data; Mind/Machine; and Induction/Deduction.

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