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Keyishian points out the obvious: the story has “no Armenian roots at all (.)ĢSaroyan’s Armenianness was often seen as a defining characteristic, the one that set him apart from his American contemporaries. 12 Keyishian writes that, though Saroyan’s Armenian descent is important in interpreting his work, the (.).Alice Barter identifies Howard Floan’s book as the first such study. 8 This tendency has been identified by at least one scholar.Far from taking diasporicity for granted, he struggled with its multiplicity of meanings, potentials, and limitations. 7 By flattening Armenianness as either a purely positive or negative influence on his outlook as expressed through his fiction, Saroyan’s critical engagement with Armenianness itself is left underappreciated or unrecognized. 6 In other cases, scholars have argued against the characterization of Saroyan as a writer who favors an unsophisticated optimism, pointing to his Armenianness as the principal source of his pessimism. 5 This is the dominant reading among Saroyan’s Armenian audience, as evinced by the frequent invocation of uncontextualized - or even, as we will see, fabricated - excerpts of his writing by diaspora nationalists. 4 On the one hand, these writings are read as celebrations of some resilient, unbreakable Armenian spirit. 3 Saroyan’s imaginativeness in his treatment of his subject matter have been mistaken for naiveté, and his writings on Armenian life have been studied as though they were one-dimensional representations of diasporic life devoid of critical thought. Often charged by contemporary critics with being overly saccharine, 2 his work has not been taken seriously outside of this contingent of Armenian scholars. 1 Since his death, Saroyan has been more or less ignored by the academy with the exception of a somewhat small number of studies written in large part by scholars of Armenian heritage. The child of migrants from Bitlis, he reached the peak of his popularity in the first fifteen or so years of his half-century-long career, falling into relative obscurity after World War II. 7 Bedrosian argued that some of Saroyan’s work can be understood as a stemming from the experience of (.)ġWilliam Saroyan (1908-1981) was the most recognizable Armenian name in twentieth-century American letters.6 On this phenomenon, see M. Mamigonian, 2017.5 Studies of Armenian-American literature dealing with the genocide’s aftermath, as Saroyan’s fiction (.).4 In her study of Armenian-American literature, Margaret Bedrosian branded his worldview “facile”, ad (.).3 Even scholars of Armenian heritage have characterized Saroyan’s work, or at least his early writing (.).2 On the critical reception of Saroyan’s work during his lifetime, see A. Barter 1995, pp. 1-31.

1 Saroyan won a Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics’ Award in 1940 for his play The Time of You (.).These compounds can be used as good 2D second-order NLO materials from the point of view of their large β values.

Thus, itsteered towards in-plane nonlinear anisotropy ( u = β zyy/ β zzz) along with a good 2D second-order NLO response. The electronic transitions to the crucial excited states indicated that the y polarized transition contributed to the off-diagonal second-order polarizabiliy tensor ( β zyy) and that the z polarized transition accounted for the diagonal second-order polarizabiliy tensor ( β zzz). This report demonstrates that various combinations of the acceptor(s) remarkably affect the second-order NLO response.

In addition, the greatest contributions to the β vec values are dervied from the charge transfer (CT) from the Mo≡N bond and the organoimido ligand to the terpyridine-substituted segments. The combination of trifluoromethyl (CF 3) and cyanide (CN) groups at the end of the terpyridine ligand strengthens the bridge conjugation, which is useful for the enhancement of the NLO response. The calculations showed that these compounds possess significantly large molecular second-order polarizabilities that range from approximately 1000 × 10 –30 to 4300 × 10 –30 esu. These compounds can be formulated as 2– (X = H, F, Cl, Br, I, CF 3, or CN), which has a wedge Λ-shaped acceptor––π-conjugated bridge––donor––π-conjugated bridge––acceptor (A-π-D-π-A) configuration.

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DFT calculations were carried out in order to study the second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) response of a series of proposed 2D polyoxometalate-based terpyridine-substituted compounds.

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