1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910826632603321

Autore

Cregan-Reid Vybarr

Titolo

Discovering Gilgamesh : geology, narrative and the historical sublime in Victorian culture / / Vybarr Cregan-Reid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015

©2013

ISBN

1-78170-646-8

1-5261-0237-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource ( xii, 238 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)

Disciplina

892.1

Soggetti

Assyro-Babylonian poetry - History and criticism

Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Literature

Social & Cultural History

HISTORY / Social History

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

DISCOVERING GILGAMESH: GEOLOGY, NARRATIVE AND THE HISTORICAL SUBLIME IN VICTORIAN CULTURE; Half Title Page; Title Page ; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Part I: Gilgamesh; Introduction; 1. Discovering Gilgamesh; Part II: Narrative and the historical sublime; 2. Capturing time: the iconography of water in painting and photography; 3. Forgetting the past and the future: Macaulay, Carlyle, and the 'shoreless chaos' of history; 4. Present endings: rethinking closure in the Victorian novel; Part III: Geology, Gilgamesh, and the historical sublime

5. Conclusion: Gilgamesh and the resublimation of deep timeSelect bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Details the discovery of The epic of Gilgamesh, and explores the broader tensions concerning history and time that it highlighted in Victorian culture



2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00119980

Autore

Banagaaya, Nicodemus

Titolo

Index-aware Model Order Reduction Methods : Applications to Differential-Algebraic Equations /  N. Banagaaya, G. Alì, W.H.A. Schilders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : Atlantis ; Springer, 2016

Descrizione fisica

xi, 86 p. ; 24 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Alì, Giuseppe

Schilders, Wilhelmus H. A.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00053332

Autore

Braccesi, Alessandro

Titolo

Alla scoperta del sistema solare / Alessandro Braccesi, Giovanni Caprara, Margherita Hack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : A. Mondadori, 1993

ISBN

978-88-04-35543-4

Descrizione fisica

263 p. : ill. ; 30 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Caprara, Giovanni

Hack, Margherita

Soggetti

85-XX - Astronomy and Astrophysics [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia