1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910466829303321

Autore

Pike David L (David Lawrence), <1963->

Titolo

Passage through hell : modernist descents, medieval underworlds / / David L. Pike

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , 1997

ISBN

1-5017-2947-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 292 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

809/.93382

Soggetti

Hell in literature

Literature - History and criticism

Civilization, Medieval, in literature

Modernism (Literature)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-279) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface / Pike, David L. -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Persistence of the Universal: Critical Descents into Antiquity -- 2. "La Bataille du Styx": Céline's Allegory of Conversion -- 3. The Conversion of Dante -- 4. The Gender of Descent -- 5. The Representation of Hell: Benjamin's Descent into the City of Light -- 6. The Descent into History, or Beyond a Modernism of Reading: Heaney and Walcott -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Taking the culturally resonant motif of the descent to the underworld as his guiding thread, David L. Pike traces the interplay between myth and history in medieval and modernist literature. Passage through Hell suggests new approaches to the practice of comparative literature, and a possible escape from the current morass of competing critical schools and ideologies. Pike's readings of Louis Ferdinand Céline and Walter Benjamin reveal the tensions at work in the modern appropriation of structures derived from ancient and medieval descents. His book shows how these structures were redefined in modernism and persist in contemporary critical practice. In order to recover the historical corpus of modernism, he asserts, it is necessary to acknowledge the attraction that medieval forms and motifs held for



modernist literature and theory. By pairing the writings of the postwar German dramatist and novelist Peter Weiss with Dante's Commedia, and Christine de Pizan with Virginia Woolf, Pike argues for a new level of complexity in the relation between medieval and modern poetics. Pike's supple and persuasive reading of the Commedia resituates that text within the contradictions of medieval tradition. He contends that the Dantean allegory of conversion, altered to suit the exigencies of modernism, maintains its hold over current literature and theory. The postwar writers Pike treats-Weiss, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Walcott-exemplify alternate strategies for negotiating the legacy of modernism. The passage through hell emerges as a way of disentangling images of the past from their interpretation in the present.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991004134419707536

Titolo

Dissonanze : aspetti di cultura delle donne / a cura di Rita Calabrese

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palermo : Mazzone, [1990]

ISBN

8877040823

Descrizione fisica

123 p. ; 22 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Calabrese, Rita

Disciplina

301.142

Soggetti

Donne - Cultura

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910141151203321

Titolo

Power ultrasound in electrochemistry [[electronic resource] ] : from versatile laboratory tool to engineering solution sonoelectrochemistry / / edited by Bruno G. Pollet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, 2012

ISBN

1-119-96786-4

1-283-40980-1

9786613409805

1-119-96739-2

1-119-96738-4

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PolletBruno G

Disciplina

541/.370284

Soggetti

Sonochemistry

Sonic waves - Industrial applications

Electrochemistry

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

Power Ultrasound in Electrochemistry; Contents; Foreword; About the Editor; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction to Electrochemistry; I.1 Introduction; I.2 Principles of Electrochemistry; I.3 Electron-Transfer Kinetics; I.4 Determination of Overpotentials; I.4.1 Decomposition Voltages; I.4.2 Discharge Potentials; I.5 Electroanalytical Techniques; I.5.1 Voltammetry; I.5.2 Amperometry; References; 1 An Introduction to Sonoelectrochemistry; 1.1 Introduction to Ultrasound and Sonochemistry; 1.2 Applications of Power Ultrasound through Direct Vibrations; 1.2.1 Welding

1.3 Applications of Power Ultrasound through Cavitation1.3.1 Homogeneous Reactions; 1.3.2 Heterogeneous Reactions Involving a Solid/Liquid Interface; 1.3.3 Heterogeneous Liquid/Liquid Reactions; 1.4 Electrochemistry; 1.5 Sonoelectrochemistry - The Application of Ultrasound in Electrochemistry; 1.5.1 Ultrasonic Factors that Influence Sonoelectrochemistry; 1.6 Examples of the Effect of Ultrasound on Electrochemical Processes under Mass Transport Conditions; 1.7



Experimental Methods for Sonoelectrochemistry; 1.7.1 Cell Construction; 1.7.2 Stability of the Electrodes Under Sonication

1.7.3 Some Applications of SonoelectrochemistryReferences; 2 The Use of Electrochemistry as a Tool to Investigate Cavitation Bubble Dynamics; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 An Overview of Bubble Behaviour; 2.3 Mass Transfer Effects of Cavitation; 2.4 Isolating Single Mechanisms for Mass Transfer Enhancement; 2.5 Electrochemistry Next to a Tethered Permanent Gas Bubble; 2.6 Mass Transfer from Forced Permanent Gas Bubble Oscillation; 2.7 Mass Transfer Effects from Single Inertial Cavitation Bubbles; 2.8 Investigating Non-inertial Cavitation Under an Ultrasonic Horn

2.9 Measuring Individual Erosion Events from Inertial Cavitation2.10 Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 3 Sonoelectroanalysis: An Overview; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Analysis of Pesticides; 3.3 Quantifying Nitrite; 3.4 Biogeochemistry; 3.5 Quantifying Metal in 'Life or Death' Situations; 3.6 Analysis of Trace Metals in Clinical Samples; 3.7 Biphasic Sonoelectroanalysis; 3.8 Applying Ultrasound into the Field: The Sonotrode; 3.9 Conclusions; References; 4 Sonoelectrochemistry in Environmental Applications; 4.1 Introduction

4.2 Sonoelectrochemical Degradation of Persistent Organic Pollutants4.2.1 Sonoelectrochemical Applications; 4.2.2 Hybrid Sonoelectrochemical Techniques Applications; 4.3 Recovery of Metals and Treatment of Toxic Inorganic Compounds; 4.4 Disinfection of Water by Hypochlorite Generation; 4.5 Soil Remediation; 4.6 Conclusions; List of Symbols and Abbreviations; References; 5 Organic Sonoelectrosynthesis; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Scale-Up Considerations; 5.3 Early History of Organic Sonoelectrochemistry; 5.4 Electroorganic Syntheses; 5.4.1 Electroreductions; 5.4.2 Organochalcogenides

5.4.3 Synthetic Electrooxidations

Sommario/riassunto

The use of power ultrasound to promote industrial electrochemical processes, or sonoelectrochemistry, was first discovered over 70 years ago, but recently there has been a revived interest in this field. Sonoelectrochemistry is a technology that is safe, cost-effective, environmentally friendly and energy efficient compared to other conventional methods.? The book contains chapters on the following topics, contributed from leading researchers in academia and industry:?Use of electrochemistry as a tool to investigate Cavitation Bubble DynamicsSonoelectroanalysis</d