1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910144113303321

Titolo

The language of literature : linguistic approaches to classical texts / / edited by Rutger J. Allan, Michel Buijs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, c2007

ISBN

1-281-92104-1

9786611921040

90-474-2180-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Collana

Brill eBook titles 2007

Amsterdam studies in classical philology, , 1380-6068 ; ; v. 13

Altri autori (Persone)

AllanRutger J

BuijsMichel

Disciplina

880.09

Soggetti

Greek literature - Criticism, Textual

Latin literature - Criticism, Textual

Greek literature - History and criticism

Latin literature - History and criticism

Greek language - Word order

Latin language - Word order

Greek language - Style

Latin language - Style

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 (p. [233]-241) and index.

Nota di contenuto

General introduction / Rutger J. Allan and Michel Buijs -- Sophocles Trachiniae 1-48, Euripidean prologues, and their audiences / Irene J.F. de Jong -- Mythical chronology in the Odes of Pindar : the cases of Pythian 10 and Olympian 3 / Lukas van den Berge -- Discourse modes and bases in Vergil's Aeneid / Suzanne M. Adema -- Discourse modes and the use of tenses in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Caroline H.M. Kroon -- Sense and sentence complexity : sentence structure, sentence connection, and tense-aspect as indicators of narrative mode in Thucydides' Histories / Rutger J. Allan -- Aspectual differences and narrative technique : Xenophon's Hellenica & Agesilaus / Michel Buijs -- L'opposition aspectuelle 'present' : aoriste dans la Grande loi de



Gortyne / Jean Lallot -- Intentions and future realisations in Herodotus / Gerry C. Wakker -- Adjective ordering in Herodotus : a pragmatic explanation / Stephanie J. Bakker -- From Demetrius to Dik : ancient and modern views on Greek and Latin word order / Casper C. de Jonge.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is a collection of papers revealing the largely unexplored boundary between linguistic and literary approaches to classical texts. Eleven contributions by various scholars discuss a wide range of linguistic and literary aspects of classical texts: the narratee in the prologues of Sophocles’ Trachiniae and of Euripides, the chronology in Pindar’s Odes, the relation between tense-aspect and Discourse Modes in Thucydides, Xenophon, Vergil and Ovid, the use of aspect in the Law Code of Gortyn, expressions of futurity and the word order of adjectives in Herodotus, and, finally, ancient and modern views on word order. Following an interdisciplinary approach, all contributions aim at bridging the gap between linguistic and literary study of classical texts.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154984003321

Titolo

Infrastructure and the architectures of modernity in Ireland 1916-2016 / / edited by Gary A. Boyd and John McLaughlin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-92749-3

1-138-57236-5

1-315-25225-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations, maps

Altri autori (Persone)

BoydGary A

McLaughlinJohn

Disciplina

720.9415

Soggetti

Architecture and society - Ireland - History - 20th century

Architecture and society - Ireland - History - 21st century

Infrastructure (Economics) - Ireland - History - 20th century

Infrastructure (Economics) - Ireland - History - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Negation : the General Post Office and a collapsing of time / Gary A. Boyd -- 2. Power : are you getting the light? Ardnacrusha, the rural electrification scheme and illuminating Ireland's peripheries / Gareth Doherty -- 3. Health : sanatoria and the search for an Irish Paimio / Ellen Rowley -- 4. Bus transportation - Córas Iompair Éireann  and Michael Scott / Sarah Lappin and Una Walker -- 5. Media : America at home - the RTÉ television centre / Kevin Donovan -- 6. Aviation : into the West - Rineanna and the jumbo jet / Anna Ryan -- 7. Education : 'my factor has got a tractor shed like this' - the Doyles, the concrete frame and the democratisation of education / Aoibheann í Mhearáin -- 8. Telecommunications : infrastructural adhocism / Brian Ward -- 9. Roads : 'we must have motorways'. Ireland, the highway and modernity / Denis Linehan -- 10. Precipitation : clouds, chips and the city / John McLaughlin.

Sommario/riassunto

At the formation of the new Republic of Ireland, the construction of new infrastructures was seen as an essential element in the building of the new nation, just as the adoption of international style modernism in architecture was perceived as a way to escape the colonial past. Accordingly, infrastructure became the physical manifestation, the concrete identity of these objectives and architecture formed an integral part of this narrative. Moving between scales and from artefact to context, Infrastructure and the Architectures of Modernity in Ireland 1916-2016 provides critical insights and narratives on what is a complex and hitherto overlooked landscape, one which is often as much international as it is Irish. In doing so, it explores the interaction between the universalising and globalising tendencies of modernisation on one hand and the textures of local architectures on the other. The book shows how the nature of technology and infrastructure is inherently cosmopolitan. Beginning with the building of the heroic Shannon hydro-electric facility at Ardnacrusha by the German firm of Siemens-Schuckert in the first decade of independence, Ireland became a point of varying types of intersection between imported international expertise and local need. Meanwhile, at the other end of the century, by the year 2000, Ireland had become one of the most globalized countries in the world, site of the European headquarters of multinationals such as Google and Microsoft. Climatically and economically expedient to the storing and harvesting of data, Ireland has subsequently become a repository of digital information farmed in large, single-storey sheds absorbed into anonymous suburbs. In 2013, it became the preferred site for Intel to design and develop its new microprocessor chip: the Galileo. The story of the decades in between, of shifts made manifest in architecture and infrastructure from the policies of economic protectionism, to the opening up of the country to direct foreign investment and the embracing of the EU, is one of the influx of technologies and cultural references into a small country on the edges of Europe as Ireland became both a launch-pad and testing ground for a series of aspects of designed modernity.