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Geared toward graduate students in physics, this text covers such important topics as the properties of the Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions; the interrelated subjects of fluctuations, thermal noise, and Brownian movement; and the thermodynamics of irreversible processes. Most sections include illustrative problems. 1958 edition.
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This textbook for graduate students and advanced undergraduates in physics and physical chemistry covers the major areas of statistical mechanics and concludes with a demonstration of applications of statistical mechanics at the level of current research. The presentation begins with the fundamental ideas of averages and ensembles, focusing on classical systems described by continuous variables such as position and momentum, and using the ideal gas as an example. It then turns to quantum systems, beginning with diatomic molecules and working up through blackbody radiation and chemical equilibria. The discussion of equilibrium properties of systems of interacting particles includes presents such techniques as cluster expansions and distribution functions and uses non-ideal gases, liquids, and solutions as examples. Dynamic behavior - treated more extensively than in other texts - is discussed from the point of view of correlation functions. The text concludes with a problem of current research, namely diffusion in a suspension of interacting hard spheres and what can be learned about such a system from scattered light. Intended for a one-semester course, the text includes several "asides" on topics that are usually omitted from introductory courses, as well as numerous problems at the ends of chapters.
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good intro book.......2005-03-02
i found this to be a really good intro to the subject. the chapters ( lectures) are clear and make the material, which is difficult very accesable. there are problems at the end of each chapter, about half of which have answers which makes it possible for the student to check his or her work. I took this course with little physics background ( my undergrad degree was in computer engineering) and found this book to be really helpful in understanding the material
A fresh book on the subject..........2004-01-25
Chapter one, contains some advice from the author that students should already know, but nobody has probably explicitly mentioned: "[Y]ou are unlikely to be a real academic success if you limit yourself to a single book." With this in mind, this book does very well. I find that reading a number of books in parallel helps getting to grips with a subject - and this is where I find that the author does well.
He takes the time to present existing material in new and creative ways. This is a godsend if you're stuck on something - because finding that all of the books you're reading make the same assumption, at the same point, is really frustrating.
Phillies also points out that sometimes there are a number of possible ways of presenting the material. For example, in Chapter 3 (a discussion, I find particularly enjoyable) he mentions that either the micro-canonical ensemble, or the canonical ensemble have been used as starting points. He discusses the consequences of the choice with some detail (and fervour). I find this sort of meta-level discussion very useful for mentally organising this material, something which other authors just don't do. Plus, if you're using other books - some of them will attempt to cover more content initially - then the perspective this book provides is useful. The gradual build of this book, with short lectures instead of chapter presentation, is also assistive.
So, maybe you've tried some other books on stat. mech, and lost interest? Or missed the plot along the way? Perhaps you should supplement them with this book.
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An early gem from the greatest American writer of the twentieth century
First published in 1926, The Torrents of Spring is a hilarious parody of the Chicago school of literature. Poking fun at that "great race" of writers, it depicts a vogue that Hemingway himself refused to follow. In style and substance, The Torrents of Spring is a burlesque of Sherwood Anderson's Dark Laughter, but in the course of the narrative, other literary tendencies associated with American and British writers akin to Anderson -- such as D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and John Dos Passos -- come in for satirical comment. A highly entertaining story, The Torrents of Spring offers a rare glimpse into Hemingway's early career as a storyteller and stylist.
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An early gem from the greatest American writer of the twentieth century First published in 1926, The Torrents of Spring is a hilarious parody of the Chicago school of literature. Poking fun at that "great race" of writers, it depicts a vogue that Hemingway himself refused to follow. In style and substance, The Torrents of Spring is a burlesque of Sherwood Anderson's Dark Laughter, but in the course of the narrative, other literary tendencies associated with American and British writers akin to Anderson - such as D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and John Dos Passos - come in for satirical comment. A highly entertaining story, The Torrents of Spring offers a rare glimpse into Hemingway's early career as a storyteller and stylist.
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to fully enjoy the parody, read the object of the joke first.......2006-06-11
This isn't a novel that would be very enjoyable to someone who doesn't have much experience with other literary works of the 1920s. Read alone it is pretty silly and vulgar. Read -after- you have finished Sherwood Anderson's _Dark Laughter_, however, this book is very funny. Hemingway spoofs both Anderson's style and his silly plot. And throughout, EH offers a treatise on the art of parody. The book is very short, and tightly controlled by Hemingway (something Anderson didn't get right with Dark Laughther). The book is also interesting for those invested in the perennial Hemingway was/was not a racist argument. Read alone, the bits about Indians would be highly offensive, but read in light of Anderson's horrifying primitivism and liberal use of the N-word in Dark Laughter, Hemingway's depiction of the Indians is really a chastisement of Anderson's silly racist story. Hemingway's complex sense of humor, visible in his other novels under the surface, is fully on display here. Too bad time has eradicated a fuller understanding of all the jokes. I recommend this book for Hemingway aficionados and for students of modernism who need a wake-up call about Hemingway's place (and his understanding of that place) in the modernist canon.
When the torrent is a gentle chinook.......2005-12-20
The only other Hemingway novel I have read is 'Fiesta'. There is something about Hemingway that seems to be illusion for me - the ease of the reading, the detail of the observation. As if, perhaps, his works are more like viewing a painting rather than reading a novel.
When I first read 'Fiesta' I was linked with the book by an early reference in it to W H Hudson - one of my favourite writers. When I read 'Fiesta' a second time (and reviewed it for Amazon) I was intruiged by another literary reference that had meant nothing to me on my first reading - Ivan Turgenev. What intruiged me even more was that Hemingway had written this novel - 'The Torrents of Spring' - and Turgenev had written a novel called (in English translation)'Spring Torrents'.
But Hemingway is nothing like Turgenev, although the penultimate chapter did bring me some reminders. And then the literary references grabbed me again as Hemingway refers to Huysmans whose 'Against Nature' appealed to me greatly.
As Spring approaches in 'The Torrents of Spring'(firstly with a false chinook) changes occur in a number of character's lives - recoveries, disappointments, brief pleasures, radical - if temporary - alterations. Sometimes the changes are slow and dreaded, sometimes they are abrupt and unexpected. Whatever the case, life does go on - dreamily it seems to me. Turgenev's idea of a torrent much more closely matched my understanding of the word than Hemingway's.
Hemingway is easy to read. You will probably enjoy this light and amusing novel. I am less sure that it will be memorable. Not in the way Turgenev's 'Spring Torrents' is.
Interesting Early Hemingway.......2005-08-01
Torrents of Spring is a slim work, a short story--I guess. This early, almost experimental (but for the fact that it is a) satire takes to task a number of more verbose, stylistically florid contemporaries. The plot, if you called it that, is linear enough, and the characters are based more on a medley of ideas and events than any real people--displaced from the current of American history swirling around them. It's a nice short read and a must for any Hemingway fan looking for something different.
One Cannot Always Sink The Philosopher.......2005-03-28
With Washington Irving's A Knickerbocker's History of New York (1809) and Dawn Powell's A Time To Be Born (1942), Ernest Hemingway's The Torrents of Spring (1926) is one of the funniest books in the annals of American literature. A parody of the "the Chicago school of literature" and especially of Sherwood Anderson's Dark Laughter (1925), the book is simultaneously a short story, a novella, and a false novel fragment that haphazardly exams the lives of Scripps O'Neill and his acquaintance Yogi Johnson, two rambling dreamers who timelessly represent the American everyman.
As a light-hearted attack on the sentimentality, humanistic philosophy, and conceptualization of the "American Dream" in the literature it parodies, the book presents Scripps as a reverie-addicted individual who is consistently but unknowingly his own worst enemy. Earnestly obsessed with self definition and struggling to grasp the larger picture in any given situation, no matter how inconsequential or obvious, Scripps lives in a constant rhetorical haze. Perceiving unbounded potential everywhere, irrepressible Scripps is actually able to concretize very little. Like Scripps, the more prosaic Yogi finds his illusory assumptions about life and other people flatly shot down at every turn.
In a hilarious series of fugue states, Scripps indulges in dramatic but false memories of being present while his ancestral home is burned to the ground during the Civil War, of his childhood as a starving urchin on the streets of Chicago, and of the ethnicity and social prominence of his forbears. Forgetting that it was Yogi, not himself, who visited Paris during the Great War, Scripps longs to make a return visit. Gloriously unsophisticated and uneducated, Scripps deduces that becoming a world-renowned composer is simply a matter of getting the job. Sensing the power and esteem attributed to words in the highest circles of society, Scripps adopts a cultish attitude towards famous writers and literature, and intermittently imagines himself to be a great novelist who has merely failed to commit pen to page.
Like Bruce Dudley and Sponge Martin, Anderson's Scripps and Yogi prototypes, the Hemingway protagonists anxiously but futilely fixate on questions concerning masculinity, sexual identity, physical prowess, and the threatening presence of the creative impulse in the psyche of the American male.
But Scripps and Yogi are also endearing, small town folk heroes clearly not to be despised, for almost every character in The Torrents of Spring lives in the same fog-bound world of desire-skewering contingency, misread signs, and naiveté. These include elderly British waitress Mrs. Scripps, who desperately subscribes to elitist literary journals in the hopes of "keeping her man," and the foreman of the pump plant where Scripps and Yogi are employed, who is unable to ascertain with absolute certainty whether "the chinook wind," the harbinger of spring, is genuinely blowing or not.
The title of Dark Laughter had several meanings, the most literal of which referred to the "high shrill laughter of the negroes," which, Anderson said "must always be imagined at the back of the story." Hemingway pushes Anderson's metaphor--and patronizing attitude towards blacks--as hard as he possibly can, and thus one of two black characters in The Torrents of Spring manifests as nothing but a disembodied voice almost continually in the throws of howling offstage laughter. Hemingway corrects Anderson by portraying both his black characters--a cook and a bartender--as the only two people who actually comprehend the absurdity of the events unfolding around them.
Hemingway's genius was to immediately perceive and respond to the multiple unintentionally amusing qualities in the Anderson novel, especially since Anderson was, at the time, the well respected author of Winesburg, Ohio (1919), and Hemingway, an unknown, was shortly to become the highly influential voice of American literature on the world stage. Through subtle recreation, Hemingway beautifully punctures such mawkish Dark Laughter passages as "Words flitting across the mind of Bruce Dudley, varnishing wheels in the factory of the Grey Wheel Company of Old Harbor, Indiana. Thoughts flitting across his mind. Drifting images. He had begun to get a little skill with his fingers. Could one in time get a little skill with thoughts, too? Could thoughts and images be laid on paper some day as Sponge Martin laid on varnish, never too thick, never too thin, never lumpy?" Few readers will be surprised to learn that Dark Laughter has been out of print for decades.
There's little doubt that Hemingway loved Scripps and Yogi; his playful appreciation of both is abundantly evident on every page, giving the text an ironic sentimental glow of its own. In fact, it is surprising that The Torrents of Spring isn't longer. At 87 brief, disciplined pages, readers may wish that the adventures of these two remarkable men, each of whom is perennially caught in the headlights of life, continued on and on.
A book as much about itself as about its characters.......2002-05-28
"The Torrents of Spring," by Ernest Hemingway, is a curious little book (90 pages) by one of the 20th century's most distinguished novelists. According to the back cover blurb, "Torrents" was first published in 1926. The short novel tells the story of the intertwined lives of World War I veteran Yogi Johnson and writer Scripps O'Neill, both of whom work at a pump factory.
I think of "Torrents" as a metafiction: a work of fiction that reflects on its own creation as a work of fiction. The story is interspersed with authorial asides to the reader in which the narrator comments on the process by which the story was written, and sometimes makes specific pleas to the reader. These asides are often ridiculous and funny. Example: "If any of the readers would care to send me anything they wrote, for criticism or advice, I am always at the Cafe du Dome any afternoon." This metafictional flavor is further enhanced by the frequent references to various American authors: Henry James, Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, etc.
The story itself contains some whimsical and surreal scenes. Hemingway offers a curious presentation of race and gender issues; in particular, there are a number of Native American characters. Recommended as companion texts: the also very metafictional "The Things They Carried," by Tim O'Brien, and "Breakfast of Champions," by Kurt Vonnegut.
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Russian Waters Run Deep.......2005-08-10
I liked the other reviews of the book except for the Australian's reference to Bonobo monkeys and Mike Nichol's comparison of it to 'High Fidelity' - Christ, why don't we bring up Harry Potter while we're at it? No, this is a masterwork from a Russian I had not previously known. The fervor of young love, the rigidities of custom, the fatal decisions that make us wonder about missed opportunities the rest of our lives - it's all here, in fine brushstrokes. The chase through the forest towards the end still sticks in my mind in a way all good novels should. Read it and wonder why we spend most of our reading hours on the garbage at airport gift shops. Turgenev gives us a wonder of the old school.
Sanin, do you know how to forget?.......2004-08-31
This challenging novel contrasts the two forms of love that the Russian Sanin is confronted with - his beloved Gemma and the 'free' woman, Maria Nikolaevna. Maria warns Sanin that he will have to be able to forget as she diverts him from Gemma for her own pleasure - the frenzy of physical love. For Turgenev this was clearly not an easy matter - he wanted the purity of untarnished love - apparently what the French call 'amities amoureuses'; erotic but not genital. But Sanin is a man - how can he resist the passion when the opportunity arises, the passion that all of nature calls to action? Having been sullied by his actions - in his own eyes - he flees his Gemma, fails to forget, and slips into an unsatisfactory existence. But Turgenev is kind to us - and Sanin, because at the end of the novel he allows Sanin to make contact again with Gemma (then living in America) and to be comforted by her mature forgiveness and learn that her life has been good despite the disaster of Sanin's abandonment. Perhaps the hardest of all human experiences is just not knowing .....
By chance I was reading D H Lawrence, 'Sons and Lovers', at the same time as I was reading 'Spring Torrents'. And here is another experience - the struggle between the maturing love of Paul for Miriam, and the inability of Paul's mother to approve of Miriam or to release Paul. It amazes me that great writers can point to the terrible traumas that initiating sexual activity causes, and yet it is the very cornerstone of survival of the species. But why does it have to be the way it is - why are humans not more like bonobo monkeys (another surviving species) and be promiscuous in a way that removes all these traumas and uncertainities - relieving men such as Turgenev from that set of troubles in their lives? But would we be the poorer for not then having such great novels as 'Spring Torrents'?
If you do read this novel - and I heartily recommend it despite some of its bleakness - you should also read the essay by the translator, Leonard Shapiro. It is very readable and gave me a lot to reflect on.
Other recommendations:
Turgenev - 'Fathers and Sons'
Wedekind - 'Springtime Awakening'
Lawrence - 'Sons and Lovers'
The "Torrent" Feelings That "Spring" From Love.......2004-05-13
I hope the amount of reviews posted here is not a reflection of how many people have actually read this novel. That would really be a shame.
I've always felt Turgenev doesn't get the wide audience he deserves. He's one of my all time favorite authors. My favorite piece of work has to be "First Love". An emotional recalling of what first love is all about. That novel captured so many sincere emotions, so many things I could connect with and here with "Spring Torrents" Turgenev is spinning the same magic. It's setting up characters and situations we can relate to. It then causes us to think back to our own memories.
Turgenev was a master. People need to become more familiar with his work. Those who don't not read his stories are missing out on tender, beautifully written, intelligent works of art.
If you enjoy this book buy "First Love", "A Month in the Country", and the extremely popular "Fathers and Son".
Bottom-line:A novel that causes us to relive our past (or maybe current) situations dealing with love. Resembles the genuis of his story "First Love". Well worth reading.
Turgenev ... take me away!.......2000-07-08
A marvelous tale of love's labors lost, this novella encapsulates the Russian spirit in a lighthearted and enjoyable fashion (despite its characteristic tragic outcome ... this is Russian literature, after all) that reads like a dream. One of the few books I forced myself to intentionally prolong the reading of (not wanting the pleasure to end), it is (at the same time) a book I hated to put down. Spirited like Lermontov, poetic like Pushkin, and wry like Bulgakov, this is a short tale of summer love that teaches volumes about the follies of (male) human nature. If the struggle of the main character portrayed by John Cusack in "High Fidelity" rang true with you, this is a book with a life lesson you should not miss.
Flaubert for Russians.......1998-08-03
'Spring Torrents', albeit a romantic tragedy, is infused withcomic elements at the will of an omnicient narrator, a style similarto yet distinct from Turgenev's friend Flaubert. What makes Turgenev's craft so brilliant is his ability to make us weep at the misfortunes of Dimitry Sanin yet not without reproval of Sanin's actions. Whereas Sanin is the protagonist of the novel, he also plays the antagonist of his own moral degeneration in the pursuit of love. 'Spring Torrents' is not as didactic as Turgenev's 'Fathers and Sons' which employs little subtlety in criticizing Russian gentry. This can be a welcome relief for the reader lacking familiarity with Russian Revolution; consequently, the book is very engaging and reads quicker than some of Turgenev's more political works, forgiving the moments that we are forced to pause, mulling over his beautifully ordinary prose, a graceful verse in German, or a breath-taking allusion to Virgil's Aeneid. If you are a man it will change you; if you are a woman it will change the way you look at men and their infinite vulnerabilities.
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The Torrents Of Spring
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IT was the summer of 1840. Sanin was in his twenty-second year, and he was in Frankfort on his way home from Italy to Russia. He was a man of small property, but independent, almost without family ties. By the death of a distant relative, he had come into a few thousand roubles, and he had decided to spend this sum abroad before entering the service, before finally putting on the government yoke, without which he could not obtain a secure livelihood.
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IT was the summer of 1840. Sanin was in his twenty-second year, and he was in Frankfort on his way home from Italy to Russia. He was a man of small property, but independent, almost without family ties. By the death of a distant relative, he had come into a few thousand roubles, and he had decided to spend this sum abroad before entering the service, before finally putting on the government yoke, without which he could not obtain a secure livelihood.
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Not the Best Translation.......2004-03-04
This may be the most accurate translation, but if you want to really read the Russians, especially Chekov and Turgenev, you've got to have the Constance Garnett. She may have victorianized (is that a word?) some things, but the sentiment she adds suits the Russian Soul to a tee. Some company needs to reprint her 15-volume Complete Novels of Turgenev--it's available in larger libraries. You'll love The Torrents of Spring (the subject of a string quartet by William Alwyn), also First Love, Home of the Gentry, The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Fathers and Sons.
Preferred "Torrents" Translation.......2000-04-03
This is the translation that I first read (years after it was published) and loved. The novel has been around a long time but its attraction can be won or lost according to the translation. Another, later translation irked me so much that I didn't want to finish reading it. Now that I've found my favorite translation -- which I think is more poetic and does better justice to the style and mood of the Russian original -- I'm buying a copy for myself and one for a gift to someone in high school.
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Book is orange cloth bound. Book of the month club edition. A wide ranging selection of writings from Ernest Hemmingway The Torrents of Spring, The Sun Also Rises, and selections from five other novels and from two works on Spain and Africa. Eleven short stories.
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IN OUR TIME marked the American debut of the young Ernest Hemingway. A selection of 14 short stories and 15 vignettes, it was praised for its simple use of language to convey complex emotions. Now recognized as one of the most orginal short story collections in 20th-century literature, it also provides a key to Hemingway's later work.
THE TORRENTS OF SPRING is a parody of the Chicago school of literature. Poking fun at the "great race" of writers, it depicts a vogue that Hemingway refused to follow. According to The New York Times, it "reveals Hemingway's gift for high-spirited nonsense...it contributes to that thoughtful gaiety which true wit should inspire."
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